Maisara Caverns Mythic+ Dungeon Guide

For this duo boss fight you’ll want to make sure to split your damage evenly between Muro’jin and Nekraxx as they do not share health and will cause your group problems if only one is alive for even just a short period of time.

If Muro’jin is the only boss left he will attempt to cast Revive Pet, giving you 10s to defeat him before he resurrects Nekraxx at 35% health. If Nekraxx is the last alive they instead begin to gain a stacking 20% damage increase every 4s until defeated. Either way you’ll want to minimize the time spent with only a single boss alive.

As for their actual abilities, starting with Muro’jin he will occasionally disengage away and cast Flanking Spear at the tank, knocking them back and applying a 10s Bleed, so be ready with a defensive as well as with movement abilities to either cancel the knockback or close the gap. You’ll also want to make sure you position yourself to avoid being knocked into any of the Freezing Traps the boss drops underneath all players, as touching one will incapacitate you for 8s.

A couple important notes on these traps, first they will automatically detonate after 40s, leaving behind a sizable frost puddle for 3mins, so you’ll need to rotate around the room as your space gets filled up. Second is that they are spawned near player locations, so you’ll want your party to play relatively close together and move as a group in order to maximize your space and prevent any puddles from spawning in places that block your movement.

Muro’jin’s final ability is Barrage, which channels a frontal at a random player and stacks up a Magic debuff that slows with each hit. This frontal will follow the target, so I recommend loosely spreading out to minimize cleaving, then have the target stand still while anyone who may be in the effect quickly moves out of it. You also don’t necessarily need to dispel this Magic debuff as there’s no damage tied to it, allowing you to either leave it until it expires or remove it with a freedom effect instead.

A major reason to leave it is because there’s another dispel to handle on this encounter, which comes from Nekraxx’s Infected Pinions cast. This applies a 30s Disease to the entire group and acts as the main form of party damage, so the more disease dispels you have in your party the more you’re able to mitigate the damage intake.

The other important ability from Nekraxx is Carrion Swoop, a random target line attack and charge that deals massive damage and knocks anyone hit extremely high up into the air. While the target isn’t able to dodge this attack, they are able to block it by stepping into a Freezing Trap before it goes off, causing Nekraxx to instead charge into the ice and be stunned for 5s. It’s important you step into the trap yourself as Nekraxx needs to hit the ice block and will not activate a trap by charging over it.

Outside of that, Nekraxx will occasionally leap towards a random player and do an AoE hit in Fetid Quillstorm which also spawns several circles to dodge, so make sure you’re ready to dodge. This is another reason to have your group play relatively close together, to ensure the boss charge is fairly close in order to reduce the amount of time spent unable to cleave.

This encounter is a tough healing check, with multiple different forms of AoE damage that sometimes overlap. To start, the boss has the Withering Miasma passive, which pulse for group damage every couple seconds for the entire fight, meaning there’s always something for your healer to do.

To compound on that passive damage intake, the boss will intermittently use Wrest Phantoms to spawn 4 adds near the pillars on the outside of the arena, which have a 99% damage reduction and fixate a random player. If they touch any player they will explode in a lethal 3yd AoE that also applies a stacking 3s DoT to your entire group and leaves behind a large puddle for 20s, so you want to make sure you stay away from them, using CCs as needed. Instead, to safely remove these mobs you’ll want to kite phantoms such that they hit each other, as they’ll trigger the same effect if coming into contact with other adds.

Remember that each time you do this your group will get 2 stacks of that previously mentioned DoT, so your healer will need to be ready to handle this. It also means that you should give your healer some time between detonations to top your group, so try not to explode all 4 too close together. In a pinch you can also have a player with an immunity run through them to manually explode them, which may make things easier on your healer.

If that weren't enough group damage, shortly after every even cast of Wrest Phantoms, the boss will run to the centre of the room, gain a shield that prevents interrupts, and begin channeling Necrotic Convergence which deals increasing AoE damage the longer the cast goes on. You’ll want to make sure your group has damage ready to burst this shield down as quickly as possible and interrupt the cast before your healer gets overwhelmed.

A couple things to note that will make the Wrest Phantoms into Necrotic Convergence combo easier. First, make sure you aren’t colliding the phantoms near the centre of the room, as that could potentially hurt uptime for melee DPS. Second, if you’re not able to detonate the phantoms quickly enough, don’t be afraid to use long term CCs or kite the phantoms if you’re on a mobile class, in order to prevent their detonation DoT from overlapping with the heavy group damage from Necrotic Convergence.

Outside of these various AoE damage abilities, there’s also a tank targeted channel in Drain Soul which you’ll want to make sure you have a defensive ready for, as well as a random target line attack in Unmake that sweeps slowly across the room which you’ll want to be ready to avoid.

Once you’ve made your way safely across the bridge you’ll be able to take on the final boss, where you’ll alternate between fighting the boss himself and an intermission where you have to run through a short gauntlet.

To start with the boss himself, similar to Vordaza he also does damage passively to your group with Deathgorged Vessel, though this also spawns additional circles to avoid for some added difficulty.

The main mechanic of this encounter is Crush Souls, which marks 3 players that the boss jumps to one-by-one, doing a 5yd AoE hit on impact which also spawns a Soulbind Totem. I recommend trying to place these totems as close together as possible, as that will allow you to cleave them down quickly to reduce the amount of damage players take from their random target Soulbind channel. On top of dealing damage, this channel also pulls the target in slightly, which you’ll want to make sure you fight as the totems deal heavy damage to anyone within 3yds of them.

At the same time, tanks will want to watch out for the Spiritbreaker combo attack, being sure to use a defensive for the channel itself while also moving away from their group as it drops a large puddle underneath the tank once completed. This final hit also does a large knock up and knockback on the tank, so you either need to be ready with mobility tools to cancel that effect, or position your back against one of the braziers near the entrance to prevent it entirely.

Following every even numbered cast of Crush Souls the boss will use Soulrending Roar, sending the souls of your group down to the bridge below where you must make your way back to the boss. This ability also shatters any remaining totems for heavy damage so you need to make sure you’ve destroyed them before it goes off, plus it leaves the boss stunned for 45s, giving you some free time to damage him when you get back.

As for what you’ll have to deal with on the bridge, to start, everyone will be taking increasing damage from Withering Soul, so the longer it takes you to get back to the boss the more dangerous it’ll be. It’s not just a straight shot back though, as Lost Souls randomly patrol around and use their Cries of the Fallen cast on anyone who touches them, plus larger Malignant Souls channel Eternal Suffering to create zones that slow anyone inside.

These Malignant Souls are quite important, as using an interrupt or CC on their cast destroys them entirely, removing the slowing area while applying a stacking 25% damage, healing, and move speed increase to your entire group, so you really want to make sure that you are stopping all 6 of these mobs in every intermission.

To min/max this buff duration further, you can destroy the first 5 souls and then leave behind your tank (or healer if you’re feeling brave) at the 6th, having them wait to destroy it until your group is just outside the boss arena so that you can refresh the buff just before re-engaging the boss. Just make sure that you don’t cross into the boss arena before your buff refreshes, as it only applies to players still in the spirit realm.