Remnant of Ner'zhul Mythic Boss Guide

At 80%, 60%, and 30% the boss will cast Shatter, dealing 33k shadow damage to the entire raid and shed a piece of armour, causing the boss to enter a new “phase”.

80%: Helm drops off the boss and casts duplicate Sufferings towards the tank.

60%: Gloves drop off the boss and cast duplicate Grasp of Malice.

30%: Chest drops off the boss and casts duplicate Malevolence on itself.

The key mechanic of the fight, on Mythic, Malevolence knocks you a lot further than heroic, so you need to position at the edge of the room.

You should aim to handle this with a rotation of Mass Dispel from 2 Priests, dispelling both debuffs at the same time resulting in the raid only being knocked once rather than twice. The important thing to note is that whichever player of the 2 who have the debuff is standing on the outside edge of the room (see positioning in image) will be knocked off the platform, and needs to use movement abilities such as Blink, Warlock Teleport, Disengage etc. to survive this.

Classes you should put low prio for being the “outside” player: Paladin, Shaman, Warrior (leap is a bit awkward)

Goblin jump works for this.

You need to be very wary of the Suffering timer when dispelling these as it will prevent the tanks being able to break Orbs and also could kill someone if they are knocked into the beam.

If you time the dispel as the pools are about to land from Aura of Spite, you will be knocked away from them as they spawn, this is a nice little min-max but is not vital.

Tank mechanic from heroic, needs to be used to break 3 orbs at the same time at certain points (see image for positioning on how to do this).

Raid Leader needs to make sure Malevolence is not dispelled during or just before this is cast.

The Suffering beam is a lot wider than it looks and you can generally use the logic that placing the bosses hitbox on an orb (or two later into the fight) will ensure that they are always hit regardless of which direction the beam is aimed.

The boss will spawn 3 cones that do 27k shadow damage and knockback if you are standing in them when they explode. Once past 60% the Gloves will cast more of these, cutting off more of the playspace when the mechanic occurs.

Aura of Spite is the mechanic that causes blue swirls to appear on the floor, more and more swirls appearing as you go further into the fight, each phase breakpoint causes this mechanic to spawn more swirls to dodge.

The swirls happen every 15 seconds on a fixed timer similar to Quaking in mythic +, however this timer is reset each time the boss casts Shatter and re-applies the aura on himself.

The raid-wide ticking damage portion of the mechanic ramps up, increasing by around 500 damage per tick each time the boss casts Shatter, and ticking every 3 seconds.

The Orbss are an important mechanic of the fight, however they have been severely nerfed in their HP values and are now far easier to kill quickly and throw them off the edge before they are able to start destroying the raid with Torment debuffs.

Whilst on the platform (alive or “dead”), the orbs apply debuffs to players called Torment which inflicts 8.2k shadow damage every 3 second for 15 seconds, and multiple applications of the debuff can be put on the same player.

This in combination with the ramping damage of Aura of Spite throughout the fight makes this boss quite healing intensive, hence the recommendation of 5 healers.

These orbs should be focused down immediately once broken by the tanks with Suffering, and carried off the edge.

Demon Hunters, Warriors and Tanks should carry the orbs off the platform (any class with good mobility can do this) as soon as possible, careful that they are not out of position for the Malevolence dispels as a result.