Discipline Priest Healing Crucible of Storms Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.5

As Crucible of Storms is a new raid, the current information is based on theorycrafting using Warcraft Logs, information present in the dungeon journal, as well as personal experience within the raid itself.

For information on how to figure out the boss damage patterns like shown below, please read the Discipline Priest Log Analysis: The Next Crucial Step to Improvement section.

Storm of Annihilation, Witness the End, and Crushing Doubt will be your primary targets for cooldowns. Depending on the strategy your guild uses, you can abuse Rapture to assist in keeping players alive with nine stacks of Promises of Power through the damage from Crushing Doubt. This allows your group to achieve a much higher uptime on Promises of Power compared to a group that does not have this option. As seen above, Crushing Doubt is 45 seconds apart, which means you will have Rapture available for every other cast. The first cast, however, no raid member will have high enough stacks of Promises of Power to warrant using Rapture. Aim to use Rapture on Crushing Doubt casts 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, etc. Where exactly you use Evangelism and Shadowfiend is going to depend on your specific guild's strategy, but try to ensure you have them both available for the Crushing Doubt, Witness the End, Storm of Annihilation overlap, as it is the most deadly point of the fight.

• Run away from the raid with Crushing Doubt.
• Stay away from the player that has aggro on Zaxasj.
• Soak Void Crash after it lands and reduces in size twice.
• Avoid Cerebral Assault.

• In this encounter, there are three relics of power that the bosses will activate upon reaching 75%, 50%, and 25% health.
• The debuff Embrace of the Void does not affect absorbs.
• Ensure no raid members are low health when Witness the End is about to finish casting.
• Promises of Power does grant extra damage and this is a buff that should not be immediately dispelled from all raid members. Coordinate dispelling of this debuff with your raid team to ensure appropriate uptime without risking any deaths. Dispelling it will also deal damage to the player dispelling it, so make sure you are healthy before dispelling it.
• Tempest Caller creates Storm of Annihilation, which will deal ticking Nature damage for 15 seconds to the entire raid, and kills anyone who drops below 25% with Annihilate. You should be trying to use Evangelism and Shadowfiend during this ability.

Piercing Gaze of N'Zoth and Storm of Annihilation are by far the primary sources of damage in this fight. Ensure you have Evangelism or Rapture for as many of these casts as possible.

• Do not come into contact with Oblivion Tears until the Void Stone relic is used.
• Attempt to spawn Oblivion Tears near the edges of the play area by standing out of the center.
• When Piercing Gaze of N'Zoth appears, allow one beam to hit you, wait for the debuff this applies to expire, and then let the other beam hit you.
• Stay inside the safe area when Gift of N'Zoth: Obscurity occurs.
• During Phase Two, attempt to kill all of the adds with the Tempest Caller relic before Gift of N'Zoth: Hysteria occurs.
• During Phase Two, beware of Unknowable Terror. The danger zone for this ability is very large.
• During Phase Three, stand near players with Insatiable Torment to allow them to heal from Feed on the Unworthy.

• Tempest Caller creates Storm of Annihilation, which will deal ticking Nature damage for 15 seconds to the entire raid, and kills anyone who drops below 25% with Annihilate. You should be trying to use Evangelism and Shadowfiend during this ability.
• During Phase 3, Uu'nat will cast Gift of N'Zoth: Lunacy at 100 energy. This prevents healing done to allies for the duration and you should aim to have your raid healthy before it happens. Keep in mind that the healing reduction does not affect shields. If you find yourself losing players during this event often, consider saving rapture for this period.