Windrunner Spire Mythic+ Dungeon Guide

Once you’ve fought your way through the beasts you’ll reach Emberdawn herself, which alternates between a main boss phase and an intermission with a lot of dodging.

Starting off with the boss, for tanks there’s just the Searing Beak cast, so try and time your defensive such that it covers the initial hit and the DoT that follows. For everyone else, she’ll occasionally debuff 2 players with Flaming Updraft, which explodes after 6s and leaves behind a patch of fire, so targeted players will want to drop these off towards the outer edges of the room and potentially use a defensive in the process.

This is very important as whenever the boss gets to 100 energy she starts the Burning Gale intermission, which not only deals heavy fire damage over the 16s duration, but also causes those Flaming Updraft puddles to shoot out Flaming Twisters every 4s that will deal fire damage to and knockback anyone they hit.

On top of that, the boss will also shoot out 4 Fire Breath frontals over the course of the intermission, with the first always aiming towards the tank and the others rotating to cover different parts of the room.

All these mechanics combined make it very important that you play close to the boss during this intermission, as it’ll reduce the amount of movement required to dodge while also maximizing the time you have to do so, which is especially good for healers who need to balance dodging with keeping the team alive during this dangerous phase.

Eventually you’ll reach a balcony with Kalis and Latch, a duo boss encounter where they do not share health and will gain a stacking buff from Broken Bond if one of them dies, so try to cleave them down evenly.

Starting with the abilities Kalis has, the most frequent is the random target Shadow Bolt cast which ideally you keep an interrupt rotation on so that it never goes off. Next is Curse of Darkness, which debuffs 2 players and forms a Dark Entity that fixates each player for 12s or until the curse is removed. If you have dispels then you should use them ASAP to prevent any excess damage, otherwise you’ll need to be ready with CCs and to kite if needed to avoid these mobs.

Her last ability is Debilitating Shriek, which she begins to channel at 100 energy after teleporting a short distance, dealing shadow damage every 2s that ramps up in damage the longer it ticks. While this cast can’t be interrupted by players, you are able to stop it with Latch’s Heaving Yank attack, which aims a line at a random player shortly after the shriek channel begins. This throws out a hook that will pull in the first thing it hits, including Kalis, and stun them for 6s, so it’s important that you clear a path and have the target stand behind her to interrupt the group damage ASAP. On top of this, healers will want to make sure they have cooldowns or are otherwise prepared for this boost in damage intake.

As for Latch’s other abilities, he has a tank channel in Bone Hack which you’ll want to make sure you use a defensive on, and more importantly he has the Splattering Spew ability which serves as the most frequent form of group damage as well as heavy area denial. This ability creates a circle around all players that applies a nature DoT and leaves behind a growing puddle, so players will want to loosely spread, overlapping their circles to prevent cleaving while conserving space.

If there’s already puddles on the ground you can also overlap with them, however be careful with dropping anything directly on top of existing puddles as you will take double damage from the initial hit if doing so, meaning you should only do it if you’re a tank or have a defensive running.

After making your way into the spire and clearing out the boss arena you’ll be able to challenge Commander Kroluk, a spectral orc that occasionally calls some of the previously encountered trash mobs to his aid.

Starting with the boss himself, his main source of damage comes from Reckless Leap, which is always cast back-to-back and does a large AoE hit and DoT to the furthest target while spawning several circles to dodge. Because the targeting here is controllable, I recommend having the bulk of your group stacked in melee, with a single player that has an available defensive slightly further away to bait the first leap. If done right, this means the 2nd leap will always go on your tank, heavily reducing the danger of this mechanic.

Following these leaps the boss will begin to cast Intimidating Shout, which will fear anyone not near an ally for 6s on completion. The movement here can be a bit difficult as there are still circles to dodge from the 2nd leap, so I recommend saving movespeed abilities while also having 2 designated stack points - one for ranged and one for melee - allowing all players to maintain uptime while also minimizing movement. Outside of these 2 abilities, there’s also a tank channel in Rampage which you’ll just want to make sure you have a defensive ready for.

As for the add portion of the fight, at 66% and 33% health the boss will use Rallying Bellow, dealing a moderate hit of damage to your group while also spawning 4 Haunting Grunts, 1 Spectral Axethrower, and 1 Phantasmal Mystic. At the same time the boss gains 99% damage reduction and begins to Bladestorm, fixating random players until all the mobs are defeated.

In terms of how to handle them, tanks should pick up the grunts and then look to group everything together. If you have a death knight you can just grip the Axethrower towards the Mystic, otherwise you’ll need to interrupt the Mystic and drag it over towards the immobile Axethrower.

Once all of the adds are dead the boss will return to his regular phase and the fight repeats from there.

Once Commander Kroluk is defeated you’ll see one last Soul Conduit appear, which takes you straight to the final boss encounter at the top of the spire.

This fight is all about managing your stacks of Squall Leap, a DoT you gain occasionally after the boss repositions to a new location. This DoT has no duration, and instead is only removed when a player steps onto a Turbulent Arrow, small circles on the ground spawned by the Arrow Rain channel, which shoots anyone who touches them into the air and turns into a puddle in the process.

This area denial isn’t permanent though, as the Gust Shot AoE hit that debuffs your non-tank players will remove any of them it overlaps with, so I recommend loosely spreading to both prevent cleaving your allies and to remove as many puddles as possible. Healers beware this also applies a DoT to everyone hit, so you may need to be ready with some extra healing, especially if players have multiple stacks of the previously mentioned DoT.

Outside of clearing your debuff stacks, these arrows are also important for the Bullseye Windblast cast which the boss does at full energy. When this happens the boss leaps to the edge of the arena, applying a stack of Squall Leap to the party and creating a shockwave on the opposite side of the room that sweeps across it, applying a dangerous DoT and 5s stun to anyone it touches. Luckily this shockwave does not affect players above it, so you can step on an arrow just before it reaches you to safely get over it. Alternatively, if you have a blink or teleport ability you can use this as well.

In general it seems the damage taken by the Squall Leap DoT is more important to worry about than losing out on some space temporarily, plus there are more than enough arrows to handle multiple players clearing stacks before using another arrow to hop over the windblast, so don’t be afraid to clear your stacks early if you’re feeling in danger.

Beyond these mechanics there’s 2 other abilities to worry about. First is the Tempest Slash tank hit which also does a large knockback and applies a physical damage taken increase, so be ready to cancel the knockback or position such that you aren’t knocked into any puddles, plus have a defensive running to deal with the hit and amp that follows. If needed you can also aim yourself to be knocked into an arrow, which will cancel the knockback while also clearing any Squall Leap stacks you may have.

The second ability is Bolt Gale, which channels a frontal into a random player. I recommend standing still and using a defensive if you’re the target, allowing other players to move out of the way if needed.