Disclaimer:
This guide is written from the perspective of playing an echo build, as i personally believe it has many advantages over blossom on this
fight, however both builds should work fine with different strengths and weaknesses.
Phase One: The Dream Render
Before you even start pulling the boss there is a couple of very important things that are recommended to have ready before hand. The first of these are how do you plan to spread your cooldowns across phase one as this is by far the part of the fight in which you will have more wipes due to lack of healing.
The main damage mechanics of phase one are
This means that during the first two minutes of the fight you have four big damage events that you can cover, and you get two
It's really important that you coordinate with your co-healers in order to spread the cooldowns across the phase as best as possible, but in a worse case scenario you
can have something up for every big event as long as you execute properly, even tho this means that you will have to do an
On an
The first phase of the fight is a coordinated dance around the room as your raid strategically drops the fire in specific spots in order to have enough room to dps the boss down to 70% so you can move into phase two. If the fire touches the roots at the back of the room you wipe instantly, and trying to stack the circles will just make the fire spread on its own
Once you have your cooldowns set up properly the difficulty of the fight is executing properly while dodging
Intermission
The intermission is very simple but it's also very easy to wipe here. The only difference from heroic to mythic is the fact that the raid will be spread between red
and purple debuffs called
There are weakauras that can help organize and spread the group across the room to soak all the orbs, and the most common strategy involves using several inmunities
to grab all the orbs from the 3rd set and any sane raid leader will let you position near the center so you are decently in range of most of the raid. If you didn't
use your second
Phase Two: Children of the Stars
The gimmick of phase two is the waves of friendly adds that constantly spawn and move across the room, the change from heroic to mythic is a second type of add that spawns along side the night elf ghosts. The Ancient is a single target that requires 5 million healing in order to reach full hp, and at some point in the fight three of them spawn together
The interesting part about this is that in an ideal comp of Mistweaver, Paladin, Discipline Priest and Preservation you are the best choice to focus on solely healing the raid while the others do the job of focusing on the adds. And so you don't really have to do anything different or special to deal with the mechanic besides being ready to pick up the extra healing needed to keep the raid alive while everyone else does.
In case you do need to contribue healing on the spirits,
However Preservation is really not good when it comes to doing single target healing to the ancient. What we can do in that scenario really doesn't come close to what a Mistweaver can do, and in any case a holy Priest can do the job way easier than us. We don't have the tools to do constant single target and won't be able to apropiately deal with the ancients. You are better off keeping the raid alive and letting a healer with a more single-target oriented kit do this part of the phase
What we can do to assist the raid with healing Amirdrassil during phase two, is using
Keeping an eye out for the health percentage of the tree, and
Phase two itself doesn't have a lot of damage hitting on the raid to account for the healers having to pay extra atention to all the adds, the only big hits the raid will
take come from
Phase Three: Shadowflame Incarnate
After the recent set of nerfs the final phase of the fight goes by relatively quickly and there is not much damage on it. The hardest part for a guild progresing on it
currently would be the danger of constant wipes from any kind of damage touching a
The big damage events from this phase come from
Ideally, you should keep extra atention on the people carrying the