Nythendra Guide for The Emerald Nightmare

Table of Contents

• ×Introduction
  • 1. Contents
  • 2. Lore
  • 3. Outline
  • 4. TLDR
    • 4.1. Tanks
    • 4.2. Healers
    • 4.3. DPS
    • 4.4. Everyone
  • 5. Changelog
• +Abilities
  • 1. Phase One: The Plagued Dreamer
    • 1.1. Infested Ground
    • 1.2. Raid Abilities
    • 1.3. Tank Abilities
    • 1.4. Infested
  • 2. Stage Two: Heart of the Swarm
  • 3. Enrage Timer
  • 4. Changelog
• +Normal/Heroic Strategy/Tactics
  • 1. Overview
  • 2. Phase One
    • 2.1. Positioning
    • 2.2. Strategy
    • 2.3. Tanking
    • 2.4. Healing
    • 2.5. On The Importance of Properly Dropping Infested Ground Void Zones
  • 3. Phase Two
    • 3.1. Positioning
    • 3.2. Strategy
    • 3.3. Healing
  • 4. Bloodlust/Heroism
  • 5. Changelog
• +Mythic Strategy
  • 1. Mythic Changes
    • 1.1. Phase One: The Plagued Dreamer
    • 1.2. Phase Two: Heart of the Swarm
  • 2. Mythic Strategy
  • 3. Changelog
• +Loot
  • 1. Relics
  • 2. Rings and Trinkets
  • 3. Armor

General Information

Welcome to our World of Warcraft encounter guide for Nythendra in The Emerald Nightmare. We will teach you everything you need to know to defeat the boss in every difficulty.

On this particular page, we will give you a short overview of the fight as well as a list of things to watch out for (include LFR tips when applicable).

The other pages of our Nythendra guide can be accessed from the table of contents on the right.

About our Reviewer

This guide has been reviewed and approved by Pottm from Serenity.

To make it easy to navigate the guide, we have split it into 4 pages:

• Abilities: read about the encounter abilities;
• Normal/Heroic Strategy/Tactics: find out how to defeat the encounter in Normal and Heroic modes;
• Mythic Strategy: learn how to handle the new mechanics and increased difficulty of Mythic mode;
• Loot: shiny loot, neatly organized.

Nythendra is one of the first bosses in the Emerald Nightmare Raid Instance.

Nythendra was once a member of the Green Dragonflight charged with guarding the world tree, Shaladrassil. When Xavius' corruption of the Nightmare consumed Shaladrassil, it consumed the sleeping guardian as well. Nythendra is now nothing more than a skeletal version of herself, swarming in pestilence, ready to devour anyone or anything foolish enough to enter her lair.

Nythendra is a simple and straightforward alternating two-phase fight, with very few abilities to worry about. Here is a preview of the fight from the Legion Alpha/Beta.

Below is a TL;DR of how to handle Nythendra's abilities, this should be used to familiarize yourself with the boss's abilities, and not as a blueprint for success.

• Move away from others, towards the edges of the room, while afflicted with Volatile Rot.

• In Heroic mode, expect damage to ramp up at the end of Phase One, because of Infested stacking up.
  • In Mythic mode, the stacks no longer reset in Phase Two, resulting in even more damage.
• Expect damage to ramp up as well at the end of Phase Two, because of the increasing damage of Burst of Corruption.

• Save your cooldowns for Phase Two.

• When targeted by Rot, place your poison zones next to the edge of the room, preferably in a way that lines are drawn with poison zones from the edge to the boss. You should aim to leave 1/4 of the room free of poison zones, making for an easier Phase Two.
• In the last beta test, Rot was dealing its damage instantly, making it impossible to stack (especially on Mythic difficulty).
• Find a spot where there are no Infested Ground poison zones behind you. This way you will not have to move during Phase Two.
• Do not stand near insects during Heart of the Swarm.
  • In Normal and Heroic modes, it is ok to get hit once or twice.
  • In Mythic mode, damage taken from insects must absolutely be minimised. The encounter is not a DPS race, so it is ok to lose out on damage.
• When transitioning into Phase Two, find a place to plant, clear of Infested Ground, so that you can focus solely on boss damage or healing before the insects start dealing damage.
• In Mythic mode, make sure that everyone with over 10 stacks of Infested run into the melee group when Infested Mind is about to be cast. This will make it easy to DPS them down.

• 04 Oct. 2016 (mythic page): Added Mythic strategy from pottm.
• 04 Oct. 2016 (strategy page): Added a tip about standing on non-bursting insects during Phase Two.
• 04 Oct. 2016 (this page): Added Mythic tips.
• 23 Sep. 2016 (strategy page): Removed mention about the last beta test behaviour for Rot (it does indeed instantly deal damage now) and slightly updated strategy in that regard.
• 23 Sep. 2016 (abilities page): Removed all mentions of Tail Lash as it was entirely removed from the Dungeon Journal. Added enrage information. Added timing information for RoT.
• 15 Sep. 2016 (mythic page): Added more details following pottm's review.
• 15 Sep. 2016 (strategy page): Added more details following pottm's review.
• 15 Sep. 2016 (abilities page): Added more details following pottm's review.
• 15 Sep. 2016 (this page): Added more details following pottm's review.
• 08 Sep. 2016 (this page): Guide added.

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