Carapace of N'Zoth Mythic Encounter Journal

Last updated on Jan 17, 2020 at 13:44 by Damien 1 comment

Welcome to the Mythic difficulty Encounter Journal for Carapace of N'Zoth in Ny'alotha, the Waking City.

1.

More Carapace of N'Zoth Content

If you are interested in more information about this encounter, we are please to tell you that we have more content. First of all, we have the encounter journal for the other difficulties.

For our strategy guide for Carapace of N'Zoth, please use the following link.

Please refer to our loot page for all the loot from the Carapace of N'Zoth encounter.

2.

Overview

N'Zoth rallies his physical defenses, retreating deeper into his carapace at 50% and 40% health.

Players' Sanity balances tenuously throughout the encounter. Wrathion allows players to utilize their Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve Icon Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve to recover from Wrathion's Anchor of Sanity Icon Anchor of Sanity. Losing all Sanity grants Gift of N'Zoth Icon Gift of N'Zoth, then transforms a player into a Servant of N'Zoth Icon Servant of N'Zoth. Players lose access to Wrathion's aid in the final stage.

Damage Dealers
  • Manage Gaze of Madness' Breed Madness Icon Breed Madness.
  • Move away from your allies when afflicted with Madness Bomb Icon Madness Bomb and Insanity Bomb Icon Insanity Bomb.
  • Adaptive Membrane Icon Adaptive Membrane transfers full damage to the wearer only if the absorb shield is broken before the duration expires.
  • Utilize Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve Icon Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve during Stage 1 to recover Sanity by Wrathion's side.
Healers
  • Move away from your allies when afflicted with Madness Bomb Icon Madness Bomb and Insanity Bomb Icon Insanity Bomb.
  • Eternal Darkness Icon Eternal Darkness and Infinite Darkness Icon Infinite Darkness inflict Sanity loss and high raid-wide damage, and upon losing all Sanity a player becomes a Servant of N'Zoth Icon Servant of N'Zoth.
  • Utilize Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve Icon Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve during Stage 1 to recover Sanity by Wrathion's side.
  • Be aware that Adaptive Membrane Icon Adaptive Membrane absorbs damage but reduces healing received.
Tanks
  • Take turns tanking Fury of N'Zoth to avoid excessive Black Scar Icon Black Scar stacks from Mandible Slam Icon Mandible Slam .
  • Targets afflicted with Adaptive Membrane Icon Adaptive Membrane are immune to crowd control and interrupts, and reduces healing received.
  • Move away from your allies when afflicted with Madness Bomb Icon Madness Bomb and Insanity Bomb Icon Insanity Bomb.
  • Utilize Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve Icon Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve during Stage 1 to recover Sanity by Wrathion's side.
Sanity Icon Sanity

N'Zoth assaults players' Sanity throughout the encounter. When your Sanity reaches 0, N'Zoth invades your mind fully, granting Gift of N'Zoth Icon Gift of N'Zoth.

Gift of N'Zoth Icon Gift of N'Zoth

Blesses an insane player with 100% increased damage done and 100% healing done, but causes the player to become a Servant of N'Zoth Icon Servant of N'Zoth after 20 sec.

Servant of N'Zoth Icon Servant of N'Zoth

Severs a target's connection to Sanity, increasing their health by 100%, charming them permanently, and causing them to do N'Zoth's bidding, casting Mental Decay Icon Mental Decay.

Mental Decay Icon Mental Decay

Deteriorates targeted players' minds, immediately draining 15 Sanity and additionally inflicting 34,356 Shadow damage every second for 12 sec.

3.

Stage One: Exterior Carapace

N'Zoth rallies his physical defenses, attacking enemies with massive growth-covered tentacles, eye stalks, and antibodies, retreating at 50% health.

Fury of N'Zoth
Madness Bomb Icon Madness Bomb

Plants the seed of madness in targets. After 12 sec this seed explodes inflicting 220,864 Shadow damage and fearing enemies within 10 yards for 2 sec.

Non-targeted Players affected by the explosion lose 30 Sanity.

Adaptive Membrane Icon Adaptive Membrane

Shields a target, absorbing damage for 12 sec. While present the target's healing effects received are reduced by 75%, is immune to Sanity draining effects, is immune to Crowd Control and Interrupt effects, and is unable to be slowed to below 100% of normal speed.

If the shield is broken before the duration expires, all damage done to the shield is inflicted to the target. Additionally, this triggers Fragment of Sanity Icon Fragment of Sanity or Shard of Sanity Icon Shard of Sanity.

Warning In Mythic difficulty, players can be targeted by Adaptive Membrane.

Fragment of Sanity Icon Fragment of Sanity

Forms an orb of Sanity nearby for 15 sec. Restores 5 Sanity to a player upon contact.

Shard of Sanity Icon Shard of Sanity

Forms a large orb of Sanity nearby for 20 sec. Restores 10 Sanity all players within 20 upon contact.

Mental Decay Icon Mental Decay

Deteriorates targeted players' minds, immediately draining 15 Sanity and additionally inflicting 34,356 Shadow damage every second for 12 sec.

Mandible Slam Icon Mandible Slam

Slams a target with a void-empowered attack, inflicting 392,648 Physical damage.

Additionally, this triggers Black Scar Icon Black Scar.

Black Scar Icon Black Scar

Chars the target with void magic, inflicting 196,324 Shadow damage and increases the damage the target takes from Black Scar Icon Black Scar by 100%.

This effect stacks.

Growth-Covered Tentacle Icon Growth-Covered Tentacle

A Growth-Covered Tentacle slams down knocking back and inflicting 1.5 million Nature damage to targets struck.

After 60 sec, each remaining Horrific Hemorrhage Icon Horrific Hemorrhage bursts, inflicting 736,215 Shadow damage to all players.

Horrific Hemorrhage Icon Horrific Hemorrhage

Expunges a globule of fluid, inflicting 196,324 Shadow damage to targets within 5 yards of the point of impact, forming a Adaptive Antigen Icon Adaptive Antigen.

Nightmare Antigen
Nightmare Antibody Icon Nightmare Antibody

Successful melee attacks sap the target's potency, inflicting 73,621 Shadow damage, decreasing haste by 5% and reducing their movement speed by 5% for 4 sec. This effect stacks.

Adaptive Antigen Icon Adaptive Antigen

The Nightmare Antigen gains Adaptive Antigen periodically, increasing damage done by 10% and preventing them from being slowed below 10% of normal speed. This effect stacks.

Interconnectedness Icon Interconnectedness

When all Horrific Hemorrhages are defeated, the Growth-Covered Tentacle recedes and N'Zoth suffers 1.25% of total health for each Horrific Hemorrhage in damage.

Gaze of Madness
Breed Madness Icon Breed Madness

Blasts several targets with cerebral force, inflicting increasing Shadow damage, up to 196,324, every 1 sec for 9 sec.

Invokes Maddening Eruption Icon Maddening Eruption and Deepening Madness Icon Deepening Madness when interrupted or when the channel completes.

Maddening Eruption Icon Maddening Eruption

Explodes with otherworldly power, draining 5 Sanity and inflicting 49,081 Shadow damage to all players.

Deepening Madness Icon Deepening Madness

Increases Breed Madness Icon Breed Madness and Maddening Eruption Icon Maddening Eruption damage by 5%. This effect stacks.

Interconnectedness Icon Interconnectedness

When a Gaze of Madness is defeated, N'Zoth suffers 3.0% of total health in damage.

Wrathion
Anchor of Sanity Icon Anchor of Sanity

Channels a field of willpower, periodically restoring the Sanity of players within 5 yards.

Grace of the Black Prince Icon Grace of the Black Prince

Movement speed increased by 40% for 10 sec.

Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve Icon Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve

Wrathion's presence empowers players to utilize their Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve.

When activated Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve heals a player for 100%, protects the player from Sanity loss, and returns them to Wrathion's side.

4.

Stage Two: Subcutaneous Tunnel

N'Zoth recovers within a subcutaneous layer of the carapace, healing from growths along the cavern walls and restricting players with regenerating cysts. While any Synthesis Growths remain, N'Zoth is immune to all damage. N'Zoth retreats again upon reaching 40% health.

Warning In Mythic difficulty, Wrathion no longer provides players with aid in Stage 2, and N'Zoth retreats immediately upon all Synthesis Growths being defeated.

Fury of N'Zoth
Madness Bomb Icon Madness Bomb

Plants the seed of madness in targets. After 12 sec this seed explodes inflicting 220,864 Shadow damage and fearing enemies within 10 yards for 2 sec.

Non-targeted Players affected by the explosion lose 30 Sanity.

Adaptive Membrane Icon Adaptive Membrane

Shields a target, absorbing damage for 12 sec. While present the target's healing effects received are reduced by 75%, is immune to Sanity draining effects, is immune to Crowd Control and Interrupt effects, and is unable to be slowed to below 100% of normal speed.

If the shield is broken before the duration expires, all damage done to the shield is inflicted to the target. Additionally, this triggers Fragment of Sanity Icon Fragment of Sanity or Shard of Sanity Icon Shard of Sanity.

Warning In Mythic difficulty, players can be targeted by Adaptive Membrane.

Fragment of Sanity Icon Fragment of Sanity

Forms an orb of Sanity nearby for 15 sec. Restores 5 Sanity to a player upon contact.

Shard of Sanity Icon Shard of Sanity

Forms a large orb of Sanity nearby for 20 sec. Restores 10 Sanity all players within 20 upon contact.

Mental Decay Icon Mental Decay

Deteriorates targeted players' minds, immediately draining 15 Sanity and additionally inflicting 34,356 Shadow damage every second for 12 sec.

Eternal Darkness Icon Eternal Darkness

Rips a hole in the fabric of reality draining 5 Sanity and inflicting 196,324 Shadow damage to all enemies.

Mycelial Cyst
Mycelial Growth Icon Mycelial Growth

A web of branching fibers spreads over the environment, reducing the movement speed of targets by 75% and inflicting 19,632 Nature damage every 1 sec.

The web of fibers is reduced in size as the Mycelial Cyst's health is diminished.

Mycelial Infusion Icon Mycelial Infusion

Fury of N'Zoth gains 100% increased damage done while standing on the Mycelial Growth Icon Mycelial Growth.

Reactive Mass Icon Reactive Mass

Covers the Mycelial Cyst in a protective layer, preventing targeting for 18 sec.

Once this protective layer is removed, the Mycelial Cyst casts Regenerative Expulsion Icon Regenerative Expulsion.

Regenerative Expulsion Icon Regenerative Expulsion

Releases an expulsion of viscous fluid, healing by 100% and inflicting 343,567 Shadow damage to enemies within 15 yards.

Synthesis Growth

Warning In Mythic difficulty, Synthesis Growths expel 9,816 Nightmare Antigens upon death.

Synthesis Icon Synthesis

Each Synthesis Growth rejuvinate N'Zoth's health, restoring 41,262 health every 2 sec., absorbs all damage, and grants immunity to healing reduction effects. This effect stacks.

Nightmare Antigen
Nightmare Antibody Icon Nightmare Antibody

Successful melee attacks sap the target's potency, inflicting 73,621 Shadow damage, decreasing haste by 5% and reducing their movement speed by 5% for 4 sec. This effect stacks.

Adaptive Antigen Icon Adaptive Antigen

The Nightmare Antigen gains Adaptive Antigen periodically, increasing damage done by 10% and preventing them from being slowed below 10% of normal speed. This effect stacks.

5.

Stage Three: Locus of Infinite Truths

N'Zoth assaults players with his full suite of remaining defenses while they no longer have Wrathion's aid.

Fury of N'Zoth
Insanity Bomb Icon Insanity Bomb

Plants the seed of insanity in targets. After 12 sec this seed explodes inflicting 220,864 Shadow damage and fearing enemies within 10 yards for 12 sec.

Non-targeted Players affected by the explosion lose 30 Sanity.

This summons 1 |4Nightmare Antigen:Nightmare Antigens; nearby.

Nightmare Antigen
Nightmare Antibody Icon Nightmare Antibody

Successful melee attacks sap the target's potency, inflicting 73,621 Shadow damage, decreasing haste by 5% and reducing their movement speed by 5% for 4 sec. This effect stacks.

Adaptive Antigen Icon Adaptive Antigen

The Nightmare Antigen gains Adaptive Antigen periodically, increasing damage done by 10% and preventing them from being slowed below 10% of normal speed. This effect stacks.

Adaptive Membrane Icon Adaptive Membrane

Shields a target, absorbing damage for 12 sec. While present the target's healing effects received are reduced by 75%, is immune to Sanity draining effects, is immune to Crowd Control and Interrupt effects, and is unable to be slowed to below 100% of normal speed.

If the shield is broken before the duration expires, all damage done to the shield is inflicted to the target. Additionally, this triggers Fragment of Sanity Icon Fragment of Sanity or Shard of Sanity Icon Shard of Sanity.

Warning In Mythic difficulty, players can be targeted by Adaptive Membrane.

Fragment of Sanity Icon Fragment of Sanity

Forms an orb of Sanity nearby for 15 sec. Restores 5 Sanity to a player upon contact.

Shard of Sanity Icon Shard of Sanity

Forms a large orb of Sanity nearby for 20 sec. Restores 10 Sanity all players within 20 upon contact.

Mental Decay Icon Mental Decay

Deteriorates targeted players' minds, immediately draining 15 Sanity and additionally inflicting 34,356 Shadow damage every second for 12 sec.

Infinite Darkness Icon Infinite Darkness

Rips a hole in the fabric of reality draining 10 Sanity and inflicting 294,486 Shadow damage to all enemies.

This hole creates |5 Infinite Void Icon Infinite Void for 120 sec.

Infinite Void Icon Infinite Void

A sphere of collapsing reality inflicts 49,080 Shadow damage every 1 sec to enemies within it. This effect stacks.

Mandible Slam Icon Mandible Slam

Slams a target with a void-empowered attack, inflicting 392,648 Physical damage.

Additionally, this triggers Black Scar Icon Black Scar.

Black Scar Icon Black Scar

Chars the target with void magic, inflicting 196,324 Shadow damage and increases the damage the target takes from Black Scar Icon Black Scar by 100%.

This effect stacks.

Thrashing Tentacle Icon Thrashing Tentacle

A Thrashing Tentacle slams down knocking back and inflicting 1.5 million Nature damage to targets struck.

Mycelial Cyst
Mycelial Growth Icon Mycelial Growth

A web of branching fibers spreads over the environment, reducing the movement speed of targets by 75% and inflicting 19,632 Nature damage every 1 sec.

The web of fibers is reduced in size as the Mycelial Cyst's health is diminished.

Mycelial Infusion Icon Mycelial Infusion

Fury of N'Zoth gains 100% increased damage done while standing on the Mycelial Growth Icon Mycelial Growth.

Reactive Mass Icon Reactive Mass

Covers the Mycelial Cyst in a protective layer, preventing targeting for 18 sec.

Once this protective layer is removed, the Mycelial Cyst casts Regenerative Expulsion Icon Regenerative Expulsion.

Regenerative Expulsion Icon Regenerative Expulsion

Releases an expulsion of viscous fluid, healing by 100% and inflicting 343,567 Shadow damage to enemies within 15 yards.

6.

Changelog

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