Raszageth, the Storm-Eater Raid Guide in Vault of the Incarnates

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• Move away from the raid with Static Charge to create Static Field puddles.
• Avoid Lightning Breath.
• Be spread out for Volatile Current any players hit (and players within 8 yards will create a Volatile Spark.
• Destroy Volatile Sparks by either dispelling Volatile or Interrupting Burst.
• Avoid Lightning Strikes. Standing in them will stun you and deal a large amount of damage.
• Tanks. Swap at 1 stack of Electrified Jaws.
• Position yourself in front of a Static Field puddle to avoid being pushed off the platform when Raszageth reaches 100 energy and casts Hurricane Wing.

• The raid will split in two. Know which side you are going to.
• Watch where Raszageth is flying and avoid Lightning Devastation.
• When the shield on the Surging Ruiner is removed, multiple Othsworn Vanguards and Stormseeker Acolytes spawn.
• Keep the Stormseeker Acolyte interrupted.
• Heroic/Mythic: Move away with Surging Blast.
• After you have killed all of the adds on your platform, teleport to the phase 2 platform.

• Run through the wave from Tempest Wing to avoid being pushed off.
• Mythic: Spread from other players during Tempest Wing.
• Do not be in Fulminating Charge when it expires.
• When Raszageth reaches 100 Energy stack with your correct Stormcharged team for a damage and healing boost.
• Heroic/Mythic: Avoid colliding with players that do not match your polarity as it will deal additional damage to players around you.

• Avoid Ball Lightning.
• Kill any Seeking Stormlings before they reach the Colossal Stormfiend(s).
• After you have killed the Colossal Stormfiend(s), Raszageth will land and knock the raid away. Use this knockback to get to the final platform.

• The platform is slowly getting smaller in this phase. Kill the boss before you run out of space!
• Tanks. Mitigate the channeled damage from Thunderous Blast to reduce the raid damage taken.

The goal of this phase is to get Razageth down to 65% Health.

• Static Charge will be applied on 3 in the raid, and they will have this debuff applied for 8 seconds. When the debuff expires, they will place a Static Field on the floor at their location. These Static Field's will slow you by 50% and also slow forced movement effects such as Hurricane Wing (Raszageth 100 energy ability). Place these not too far away from the raid, as you will want to get pushed into them.
• Raszageth will pick a random player in the raid and cast Lightning Breath on them. Utilize movement speed abilities for the raid to move away from it, such as Stampeding Roar and Wind Rush Totem.
• Volatile Current will create circles around players and spawn Volatile Sparks after it expires. They will explode if their casts are not stopped. The following effects will stop their casts;
  • Volatile is dispelled. Make use of purges to remove this. Arcane Torrent (Blood Elf Racial) or Mass Dispel will remove this buff from multiple enemies at once.
  • Interrupting Burst (or letting the cast go through) will also despawn the Volatile Spark. Ideally, people should interrupt their own Spark.
  • Displacing the Volatile Spark will interrupt the cast. This can be done with abilities such as Death Grip, Typhoon, Blinding Light, Leg Sweep.
• Healers. Raszageth will pulse damage on the raid with Electric Scales.
• Lightning Strikes will spawn in the room. Standing in them will stun you and deal a large amount of damage. Move away from them!
• Tanks. Swap at 1 stack of Electrified Jaws.
• When Raszageth reaches 100 energy, she will cast Hurricane Wing which will push back players and deal damage based on the distance you are pushed back. Utilize Static Field's to not be pushed off the platform.

Heroic changes:

• Volatile Charges have 2 stacks of Volatile. This means that 2 purges/interrupts are now required to remove it from the encounter.

Mythic changes:

• Static Charge no longer leaves a puddle on the ground. This means that you will need to run against Hurricane Wing and stay on the platform.
• Volatile Charges have 3 stacks of Volatile.This means that 3 purges/interrupts are now required to remove it from the encounter.

This intermission begins with Raszageth reaching 65% Health. She will summon adds on the left and right platforms and take 99% less damage from Ruinous Shroud. This phase will last a maximum of 75 seconds.

• Raszageth will remove 1% Vault Integrity every 1.5 seconds. This phase will end once you have defeated all the adds or have removed 50% Vault Integrity.
• The raid will need to split into two teams and jump to the platforms on either side of the room. Have an even raid split to ensure you can safely complete this phase.
• During this phase, Razageth will be sweeping over the platform with Lightning Devastation. Ensure you are not standing in this as you will take a large amount of damage and ticking damage every 2 seconds.
• When you reach your platform, you will see Surging Ruiner adds with shields on them. When this shield has been destroyed is removed multiple Oathsworn Vanguards, and Stormseeker Acolytes spawn.
• Surging Ruiner. This add will apply Surge to itself. This shield deals damage to the entire raid every 3 seconds. When Surge has been removed, it will Overload, which deals even more ticking damage and increases the damage of all other enemies by 100% until it dies. Evokers should use Unravel and Warriors should use Wrecking Throw on these.
• Oathsworn Vanguard. This add will gain a stack of Windforce Strikes each time it attacks. This buffs it with attack speed and movement speed per stack.
• Stormseeker Acolyte. These low kill priority adds will just cast Storm Bolt. This is an interruptable cast, which your raid needs to keep interrupting.

Heroic Changes

• Surging Ruiner. This add will now apply the Surging Blast debuff to several players. They will need to move away before their debuff expires, as they will deal damage to all players within 7 yards.
• Stormseeker Acolyte. Will gain an Enrageenrage style effect when they reach 30% health. They gain the buff Ascension, which increases their haste by 150%, making their casts much harder to interrupt!

Mythic changes:

• For Mythic, there are two new adds. The Frostforged Zealot and Flamesworn Herald. These are your highest priority adds to kill.
• Flamesworn Herald. This add will apply Flame Shield to itself, making it immune to interrupts while the shield holds. This is a priority to remove as it will also cast Blazing Roar, which deals a large amount of damage to the raid and buffs all of the adds by 150%! Evokers should use Unravel and Warriors should use Wrecking Throw on these.
• Frostforged Zealot. This add will cast Shattering Shroud, which deals damage to the entire raid and applies a healing absorb to them.

This phase ends when the Vault Integrity has reached 0%. The faster you complete the intermission, the more time you have in this phase.

• Raszageth maintains the abilities Volatile Current, Electrified Jaws Electric Scales and Lightning Strikes from Phase 1.
• Tempest Wing will push back the raid and deal ticking damage, the pushback is not as harsh as the pushback from Phase 1.
• Two new abilities are added for this phase Fulminating Charge and a new 100 energy ability Stormsurge.
• Fulminating Charge will be applied to several players. This debuff reduces the target's movement speed and deals damage when it expires after 6 seconds. It will also apply the Lingering Charge debuff to the player after it expires, which is a simple DoT. If any players are caught in the blast after the debuff times out; it will jump to the closest player!
• Stormsurge is the new 100 energy ability. Raszageth will apply a huge absorb shield and pulse damage on the raid, which increases in damage every tick. The raid will need to destroy this shield within 25 seconds or have a 1.5-minute DoT applied to them! Luckily we have buffs during this phase.
• Every player in the raid will be Stormcharged and marked with either a positive (lightning orb icon) or a negative charge (tornado icon).

• If you are within 5 yards of another player who shares the same type of charge as yourself, you will gain Focused Charge, which increases your damage and healing by 200%.
• If you are not within 5 yards of another player who shares the same type of charge, then you will have the Scattered Charge debuff applied which deals damage to you every second.

• Evokers should use Unravel and Warriors should use Wrecking Throw to break the shield faster.

Heroic Changes

• Scattered Charge will now deal damage to all nearby players that do not match your polarity.

Mythic changes:

• Raszageth will periodically change the polarities of some players by casting Inversion be mindful of when this is happening and be ready to move instantly.
• Players hit by the Storm Wave from Tempest Wing will pulse damage around them. Spread for the Tempest Wing.
• The target of Fulminating Charge is rooted.

When the vault integrity hits 0%, Raszageth will lift off and begin the second intermission.

• As with the first intermission, you will need to dodge Lightning Devastation.
• There is now only one type of add in this intermission; however, it does spawn its own adds.
• Colossal Stormfiend. This add will teleport to players in a similar way to the Lightning intermission add from Kurog Grimtotem and deal damage to the entire raid every time it does this.
• • When it teleports away it will create Seeking Stormlings from the location it teleported from.
  • If the Seeking Stormlings reach the Colossal Stormfiend, they will heal and increase its maximum health and damage for each Stormling that reached it.
  • You, unfortunately, cannot keep the Stormlings in CC as when they reach 100 Energy, they gain Indomitable Focus and become immune to CC. Focus on killing the Stormlings when they appear.
• Colossal Stormfiend. will also cast Ball Lightning which deals damage to all players in its path. Avoid this by moving out of the path.
• Healers. Crackling Energy is a pulsing aura from the Colossal Stormfiend, which deals damage every 2 seconds.

Heroic Changes

• There are now two Colossal Stormfiends.
• When a Colossal Stormfiend dies, any remaining Colossal Stormfiends will gain 30% increased attack speed and deal more damage with Crackling Energy.
• Aim to get them low and kill them at a similar time.

Mythic Changes

• In addition to the two Colossal Stormfiends there is now an Electrified Colossal Stormfiend.
• This Stormfiend does not require a tank and will pulse damage onto the raid and teleport at the same time as the Colossal Stormfiends.

The final phase of the encounter! This phase has a soft enrage where the platform will get smaller over time.

• Use Bloodlust / Heroism on this phase, as it is a DPS check.
• As the phase goes on, the edge of the room will slowly close in from Raging Storm. Standing in this will apply damage to you every second with Storm's Spite.
• Raszageth maintains the following abilities in this phase: Tempest Wing, Fulminating Charge, Lightning Breath, Lightning Strikes , and Electric Scales.
• There is one new ability in this phase, and its a new tank mechanic!
• Tanks. The new tank mechanic for this phase is Thunderous Blast. This mechanic works in two stages:
• • Step 1: Raszageth will channel a beam of Nature damage on the tank dealing damage every 0.3 seconds.
  • Step 2: You will replicate the damage you took from that beam on the raid 1.5 seconds later.
• This means that to reduce raid damage taken, you need to reduce your damage taken. Utilize your personal cooldowns and some external cooldowns to keep the raid alive. A good tank is essential here.
• Additionally, the tank is debuffed with Thunderstruck Armor which increases their damage taken by 100% for 40 seconds, so they cannot take two in a row.

Mythic Changes

• Storm's Spite tornadoes will now spawn from the edge of the room and float towards Raszageth. If any of these reach the boss she will heal for 5% and deal 20% more damage. These can be intercepted by players but they will have a permanent DoT applied to them.