Echo of Neltharion Raid Guide in Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible

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• Dodge Shattered Rock when a wall is broken.
• When any wall is broken, Shatter is applied to the raid.
• If you are targeted by Rushing Darkness, run towards a wall to break it.
• If you are not targeted by Rushing Darkness, do not stand between the boss and those players.
• Move away from other players when you have Volcanic Heart.
• Tanks: Swap tanking after Calamitous Strike. The tank targeted by Calamitous Strike should get knocked into a wall to break it.
• Move to a new area when Echoing Fissure is cast.

• 3 adds will appear in the room, and the phase will end once all 3 adds have died.
• Heroic/Mythic: The adds have a shield that can only be broken by players with Corruption. After the shield is broken , the entire raid can hit the add.
• Once you have killed an add, move to the next one.
• Tanks: Sunder Shadow will push you away from the boss and through walls. It will then hit a second time and break any walls between where you were and where you came from.
• Kill all 3 adds before you wipe from Umbral Annihilation.

• Use Bloodlust here.
• Sunder Reality will destroy walls and create portals.
• Adds spawn from these portals. AoE them down.
• Stand in a portal to survive Ebon Destruction.

The goal of this phase is to get Neltharion to 60% HP and not break more walls than you need to.

• At the start of the phase, Neltharion will spawn walls with Twisted Earth. Ensure you are in the area with the boss.
• Breaking any wall segment will trigger Shattered Rock debris to fall in the room. Avoid these.
• When any wall segment is broken, Shatter will trigger , dealing damage to the player who broke the wall and a small amount to the entire raid. Try not to break more walls than you need to.
• Breaking a point of the wall where multiple connections will count as multiple walls being broken. Avoid this if you can.
• Players targeted by Rushing Darkness will be knocked away. This knockback can destroy walls. Additionally, any players between the boss and this player will take damage and get silenced.
• Players with Volcanic Heart will have a circle placed around them and explode. These players should be avoided to prevent additional unnecessary damage. A simple rule to follow is that the location of the boss should always be a safe spot.
• Tanks: Calamitous Strike will knock you away. Try to get knocked into a wall to break it. This is the tank swap.
• Shortly after Calamitous Strike Neltharion will cast Echoing Fissure. This will be your indicator to move to a new area.

Mythic changes:

• Breaking walls will make you take more damage from breaking walls for 3 seconds. Avoid breaking multiple at once.

The goal of this phase is to kill all 3 spawned adds before you wipe from increasing amounts of raid damage.

• All walls will be destroyed, and new ones will appear. Move as a raid to the side of the room with the boss.
• 3 adds will appear in the room, and the phase will end once all 3 adds have died.
• Move the boss near these adds to cleave them down. You want to maximize the amount of damage you are dealing to Neltharion to make Phase 3 shorter.
• When Neltharion reaches 35% HP, he will gain a 99% damage reduction shield. This shield persists until all 3 adds are dead.
• Tanks: Sunder Shadow will push you away from the boss and through walls. It will then hit a second time and break any walls between where you were and where you came from.
• Healers: Umbral Annihilation deals twice as much damage every cast. Commit cooldowns to later casts to help the raid survive.

Heroic changes:

• All 3 adds will have shields on them and cannot be damaged until the shield has been broken.
• Players with Corruption can damage the shield.
• Players with Corruption are hostile. Try not to kill them..

Mythic changes:

• Breaking walls will make you take more damage from breaking walls for 3 seconds. Avoid breaking multiple at once.

The final phase of the encounter. Defeat Neltharion before you run out of portals to stay safe from Ebon Destruction.

• This phase is where you will want to commit Bloodlust.
• Once again, all walls are destroyed and rebuilt.
• Neltharion will cast Sunder Reality and destroy a large amount of the walls. The walls will not respawn and convert into portals.
• These portals have two functions. First, they will spawn Twisted Aberration adds. These adds melee to whoever their threat target is and are otherwise not too threatening. Let the tank grab these and cleave them down.
• The second function of the portal is to provide a 99% damage reduction to Ebon Destruction.
• When Ebon Destruction is cast, move into a portal and survive the cast. Any portal that was used will be consumed. It is important to make use of multiple portals to lower the amount of adds that spawn.

Heroic changes:

• The adds that spawn from the portals gain stacks of Unstable Mutation. This increases the damage they deal the longer they are alive.

Mythic changes:

• Portals are now personal. Every player needs to get their own portal to survive Ebon Destruction.