Guide
Scalecommander Sarkareth
Shardflame's leader, Scale Commander Sarkareth, left the other Dracthyr to forge a new future. Since then, he has led his forces to Aberrus to reclaim the legacy he believes rightfully belongs to his kind, at any cost.
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Summary
Tank
Burning Claws mitigate and tank swap.
Void Claws tank swap and explode far.
Healer
Glittering Surge heal through.
DPS
Oppressing Howl clear debuff.
Searing Breath get hit by breath or dodge.
Mass Disintegrate get hit by beam or dodge.
Scorching Bomb bait & move out.
Dimensional Puncture do not fall.
Drifting Embers dodge.
Oblivion play safe.
Astral Flare gather the orbs.
Void Bomb soak bombs asap.
Abyssal Breath dodge the breath.
Desolate Blossom use the bombs to stack oblivion.
Infinite Duress dispel when raid is positioned.
Ebon Might kill the adds quickly.
Void Bomb soak bombs asap.
Cosmic Ascension dodge.
Scouring Eternity break los quickly.
Embrace of Nothingness soak the bomb then move out.
Infinite Duress dispel when raid is positioned.
Hurtling Barrage dodge.
Motes of Oblivion dodge.
Void Slash tank goes in the void to explode - tank swap.
Void Might kill the boss.
Heroic Changes
In P1, projectiles constantly fall on the platform, players hit take damage and are knocked back.
In P2 and P3, the adds summoned by Sarkareth heal themselves. In P2, drag them in Desolate Blossoms pools to stop it.
In P2 and P3, the boss regularly applies a DoT on a player. When it expires or is dispelled, the whole raid is knocked back. Pre-position yourselves.
Mythic Changes
In P1, Oppresing Howl applies 2 stacks. All players need to get hit by the breath AND the beam to clear both stacks.
In P1, P2 and P3, some bombs leave a black hole in the ground for 3min. If you fall into it, you die.
Stacks of Oblivion last 20min. When a player enters the Emptiness, they also leave a black hole in the ground, and the raid gets a stackable DoT and slow.
In P2, Sarkareth summons additional adds after his Deep Breath. They must also be interrupted, tanked and killed.
Abilities
Burning Claws
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=401325 - Tank stomp attack, inflicting heavy physical damage and a 27s DoT. Upon DoT expiration, 15% of the DoT damage are inflicted to the raid. Try to mitigate them as much as possible.
mitigate and tank swap
Ebon Might
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=404269 - Each ability casts by the boss grants any add alive a stackable 15% damage done and movement speed buff.Upon reaching 5 stacks, adds are immune to CC and interrupts.
kill the adds quickly
Void Slash
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=408422 - Tank buster ability CLEAVE, heavy on hit damage with a stackable 21s DoT and a 25% healing reduction. If anyone else but the current tank is also hit, it will most likely kill the raid.Upon expiration, the tank explode, inflicting 40% of the damage taken from the DoT. The tank must explode in the Void Between Stars.
tank goes in the void to explode - tank swap
Void Claws
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=411236 - Tank buster ability, heavy on hit damage with a stackable 18s DoT and a 25% healing reduction. Upon expiration, the tank explode in a 20y radius inflicting 40% of the damage taken from the DoT.
tank swap and explode far
Void Might
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=413106 - After each Cosmic Ascension, the boss gains a stackable 10% damage done buff.
kill the boss
Scalecommander Sarkareth
1. Burning Claws
2. Ebon Might
3. Void Slash
4. Void Claws
5. Void Might
Mechanics
Oppressing Howl
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=401383 - At the start of P1, Sarkareth casts a howl, deals damage and slightly knocks players back.It also applies the Echoing Howl debuff to everyone. Players need to be hit by either Mass Disintegrate or Searing Breath to remove it.Dispelling Echoing Howl deals a small burst of damage to the raid. Don't get dispelled all at the same time.If players still have the debuff when the boss casts Glittering Surge, they die.
raid is pushbacked and everyone is debuffed. clear debuff by getting hit by breath or beam.
Scorching Bomb
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=401500 - Regularly, Sarkareth spawns 2 bombs near players. They deal heavy pulsing damage to nearby players.After 12s they explode, dealing heavy damage and applying a DoT to the raid. They also leave fire patches that grow and only disappear in P2.Stay grouped up to bait the bombs at the same location, ideally starting with the sides of the platform.
bait the bombs and quickly move out. heavy raid damage.
Mass Disintegrate
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=401642 - Regularly, the boss summons a ghost that casts beams towards a player that hits everyone in their trajectories.Getting hit by a beam dispells Echoing Howl. Players who get dispelled are slowed and get a DoT for the rest of P1.If you don't need to dispel Echoing Howl, dodge.
get hit by beam to remove echoing howl debuff. otherwise dodge.
Glittering Surge
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=401810 - At the beginning and the end of P1, Sarkareth casts casts a 8s channel on the raid. It deals heavy damage.Any player who still has the Howl debuff at the end of P1 gets stunned for 12s and takes lethal damage.
heavy raid damage. players still with howl debuff will die.
Oblivion
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=401951 - In P2 and P3, getting hit by most shadow abilities gives you a 25s stacking DoT. If you reach 10 stacks, you're sent into the Emptiness, a different dimension, and you have 20s to collect your soul and return to the fight, or you die.You can also collect orbs to stack a haste and speed buff, up to 10 stacks.
getting hit by abilities gives you stacks. if you reach 10, quickly soak the circles!
Searing Breath
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=402050 - Regularly, the boss casts a breath in a cone towards a random player that applies a stackable but dispellable DoT. The breath hits 3 times.Getting hit by a tick of the breath dispells Echoing Howl. Players who get dispelled take a DoT until the end of P1.If you don't need to dispel Echoing Howl, dodge.
get hit by breath to remove echoing howl debuff. otherwise dodge
Drifting Embers
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=402746 - Projectiles fall on the platform. Players hit take heavy damages and are knocked back.
dodge the swirlies
Embrace of Nothingness
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=403517 - The boss puts a bomb on a player that explodes after 8s. Players must help soak it to split the damage. Also applies Oblivion stacks.The explosion leaves a blackhole that destroys nearby asteroids. Try to destroy as many as possible while keeping a few to hide from the supernova.Then the blackhole explodes and kills nearby players.
help soak the bomb on the player. place bomb near asteroids. move away after soaking.
Scouring Eternity
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=403625 - The boss casts a massive explosion that kills anyone within line of sight of a summoned portal.Hide behind an asteroid left by Cosmic Ascension to survive. Each active asteroid then deals a burst of damage to the raid. Too many asteroids will wipe you.There are lines behind asteroids that show where it's safe. Don't stand in the puddles surrounding them.
hide behind a rock to break line of sight with the portal and survive.
Cosmic Ascension
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=403771 - The boss disappears and comes crashing on the platform. Players hit take lethal damages and are knocked back.Causes several asteroids to fall on the platform near players. Also summons similar adds than in P2.Asteroids deal damage to nearby players and apply Oblivion stacks. Hide behind them to survive the supernova presented just below.
when the boss disappears, get ready to dodge a massive aoe and kill the adds.
Void Bomb
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=404027 - Similar to P2Regularly, Sarkareth spawns a few bombs near players, they deal constant raid damage and apply stacks of Oblivion to everyone very quickly.Each bomb must be soaked by a player ASAP. After 20s, the bombs explode and kill the raid.Players who soaked the bombs must reach 10 stacks of Oblivion to be sent to the Emptiness and explode there. Quickly accumulate stacks of Oblivion by standing in Desolate Blossom pools.
players soak the bombs asap and then get sent to the emptiness to explode there.
Infinite Duress
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=404288 - Similar to P2The boss applies a dispellable heavy hitting DoT on a random player.Upon removal, the raids takes moderate damage and is knocked back.
when dispelling players with this dot, the raid takes damage and a knock back.
Desolate Blossom
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=404403 - After each breath, Sarkareth drops a few shadow pools that apply an healing absorb shield and very quickly apply Oblivion stacks to players in them.Move away from them, unless you want to get sent to the Emptiness with a bomb.
go in a blossom if you have the void bomb. otherwise stay away, they stack oblivion.
Abyssal Breath
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=404456 - The boss flies to a targeted location with a big dragon breath, knocking back and inflicting heavy damage to players hit. Also applies Oblivion stack. Leaves behind Null Glimmer adds that must be interrupted and killed. Feel free to use CCs (stun, silences, etc) here.
evoker like breath. dodge it and kill the adds that spawn.
Hurtling Barrage
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=405022 - Sarkareth targets a few players, a few seconds later, flying ghosts cross the platform towards them, dealing heavy damage on their path and applying Oblivion stacks.Players targetted need to move away from the group. Ghosts spawn from portals on the edges with an arrow to show their direction.
if targetted, move away from the groups. don't stand in ghost's paths.
Motes of Oblivion
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=406428 - Projectiles fall on the platform. Players hit gain 5 stacks of Oblivion.Get hit by them If you need to go to the Emptiness to explode a bomb there.
dodge the swirlies
Astral Flare
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=407576 - While gathering your soul, you can gather nearby orbs to gain a stackable 5% haste and 10% movement buff for 23 seconds.You can only have 10 stacks at max.
while in the emptiness try to gather the orbs to gain haste and speed.
Dimensional Puncture
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=409927 - Some bombs leave a (big?) hole in the ground for 3min. If you fall into it you die.Maybe adds real space management to this phase ?
don't fall in the transdimentional hole.
Scalecommander Sarkareth
1. Oppressing Howl
2. Scorching Bomb
3. Mass Disintegrate
4. Glittering Surge
5. Oblivion
6. Searing Breath
7. Drifting Embers
8. Embrace of Nothingness
9. Scouring Eternity
10. Cosmic Ascension
11. Void Bomb
12. Infinite Duress
13. Desolate Blossom
14. Abyssal Breath
15. Hurtling Barrage
16. Motes of Oblivion
17. Astral Flare
18. Dimensional Puncture
Video
Summary
Tank
Burning Claws mitigate and tank swap.
Void Claws tank swap and explode far.
Healer
Glittering Surge heal through.
DPS
Oppressing Howl clear debuff.
Searing Breath get hit by breath or dodge.
Mass Disintegrate get hit by beam or dodge.
Scorching Bomb bait & move out.
Dimensional Puncture do not fall.
Drifting Embers dodge.
Oblivion play safe.
Astral Flare gather the orbs.
Void Bomb soak bombs asap.
Abyssal Breath dodge the breath.
Desolate Blossom use the bombs to stack oblivion.
Infinite Duress dispel when raid is positioned.
Ebon Might kill the adds quickly.
Void Bomb soak bombs asap.
Cosmic Ascension dodge.
Scouring Eternity break los quickly.
Embrace of Nothingness soak the bomb then move out.
Infinite Duress dispel when raid is positioned.
Hurtling Barrage dodge.
Motes of Oblivion dodge.
Void Slash tank goes in the void to explode - tank swap.
Void Might kill the boss.
Heroic Changes
In P1, projectiles constantly fall on the platform, players hit take damage and are knocked back.
In P2 and P3, the adds summoned by Sarkareth heal themselves. In P2, drag them in Desolate Blossoms pools to stop it.
In P2 and P3, the boss regularly applies a DoT on a player. When it expires or is dispelled, the whole raid is knocked back. Pre-position yourselves.
Mythic Changes
In P1, Oppresing Howl applies 2 stacks. All players need to get hit by the breath AND the beam to clear both stacks.
In P1, P2 and P3, some bombs leave a black hole in the ground for 3min. If you fall into it, you die.
Stacks of Oblivion last 20min. When a player enters the Emptiness, they also leave a black hole in the ground, and the raid gets a stackable DoT and slow.
In P2, Sarkareth summons additional adds after his Deep Breath. They must also be interrupted, tanked and killed.
Abilities
Burning Claws
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=401325 - Tank stomp attack, inflicting heavy physical damage and a 27s DoT. Upon DoT expiration, 15% of the DoT damage are inflicted to the raid. Try to mitigate them as much as possible.
mitigate and tank swap
Ebon Might
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=404269 - Each ability casts by the boss grants any add alive a stackable 15% damage done and movement speed buff.Upon reaching 5 stacks, adds are immune to CC and interrupts.
kill the adds quickly
Void Slash
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=408422 - Tank buster ability CLEAVE, heavy on hit damage with a stackable 21s DoT and a 25% healing reduction. If anyone else but the current tank is also hit, it will most likely kill the raid.Upon expiration, the tank explode, inflicting 40% of the damage taken from the DoT. The tank must explode in the Void Between Stars.
tank goes in the void to explode - tank swap
Void Claws
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=411236 - Tank buster ability, heavy on hit damage with a stackable 18s DoT and a 25% healing reduction. Upon expiration, the tank explode in a 20y radius inflicting 40% of the damage taken from the DoT.
tank swap and explode far
Void Might
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=413106 - After each Cosmic Ascension, the boss gains a stackable 10% damage done buff.
kill the boss
Scalecommander Sarkareth
1. Burning Claws
2. Ebon Might
3. Void Slash
4. Void Claws
5. Void Might
Mechanics
Oppressing Howl
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=401383 - At the start of P1, Sarkareth casts a howl, deals damage and slightly knocks players back.It also applies the Echoing Howl debuff to everyone. Players need to be hit by either Mass Disintegrate or Searing Breath to remove it.Dispelling Echoing Howl deals a small burst of damage to the raid. Don't get dispelled all at the same time.If players still have the debuff when the boss casts Glittering Surge, they die.
raid is pushbacked and everyone is debuffed. clear debuff by getting hit by breath or beam.
Scorching Bomb
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=401500 - Regularly, Sarkareth spawns 2 bombs near players. They deal heavy pulsing damage to nearby players.After 12s they explode, dealing heavy damage and applying a DoT to the raid. They also leave fire patches that grow and only disappear in P2.Stay grouped up to bait the bombs at the same location, ideally starting with the sides of the platform.
bait the bombs and quickly move out. heavy raid damage.
Mass Disintegrate
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=401642 - Regularly, the boss summons a ghost that casts beams towards a player that hits everyone in their trajectories.Getting hit by a beam dispells Echoing Howl. Players who get dispelled are slowed and get a DoT for the rest of P1.If you don't need to dispel Echoing Howl, dodge.
get hit by beam to remove echoing howl debuff. otherwise dodge.
Glittering Surge
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=401810 - At the beginning and the end of P1, Sarkareth casts casts a 8s channel on the raid. It deals heavy damage.Any player who still has the Howl debuff at the end of P1 gets stunned for 12s and takes lethal damage.
heavy raid damage. players still with howl debuff will die.
Oblivion
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=401951 - In P2 and P3, getting hit by most shadow abilities gives you a 25s stacking DoT. If you reach 10 stacks, you're sent into the Emptiness, a different dimension, and you have 20s to collect your soul and return to the fight, or you die.You can also collect orbs to stack a haste and speed buff, up to 10 stacks.
getting hit by abilities gives you stacks. if you reach 10, quickly soak the circles!
Searing Breath
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=402050 - Regularly, the boss casts a breath in a cone towards a random player that applies a stackable but dispellable DoT. The breath hits 3 times.Getting hit by a tick of the breath dispells Echoing Howl. Players who get dispelled take a DoT until the end of P1.If you don't need to dispel Echoing Howl, dodge.
get hit by breath to remove echoing howl debuff. otherwise dodge
Drifting Embers
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=402746 - Projectiles fall on the platform. Players hit take heavy damages and are knocked back.
dodge the swirlies
Embrace of Nothingness
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=403517 - The boss puts a bomb on a player that explodes after 8s. Players must help soak it to split the damage. Also applies Oblivion stacks.The explosion leaves a blackhole that destroys nearby asteroids. Try to destroy as many as possible while keeping a few to hide from the supernova.Then the blackhole explodes and kills nearby players.
help soak the bomb on the player. place bomb near asteroids. move away after soaking.
Scouring Eternity
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=403625 - The boss casts a massive explosion that kills anyone within line of sight of a summoned portal.Hide behind an asteroid left by Cosmic Ascension to survive. Each active asteroid then deals a burst of damage to the raid. Too many asteroids will wipe you.There are lines behind asteroids that show where it's safe. Don't stand in the puddles surrounding them.
hide behind a rock to break line of sight with the portal and survive.
Cosmic Ascension
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=403771 - The boss disappears and comes crashing on the platform. Players hit take lethal damages and are knocked back.Causes several asteroids to fall on the platform near players. Also summons similar adds than in P2.Asteroids deal damage to nearby players and apply Oblivion stacks. Hide behind them to survive the supernova presented just below.
when the boss disappears, get ready to dodge a massive aoe and kill the adds.
Void Bomb
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=404027 - Similar to P2Regularly, Sarkareth spawns a few bombs near players, they deal constant raid damage and apply stacks of Oblivion to everyone very quickly.Each bomb must be soaked by a player ASAP. After 20s, the bombs explode and kill the raid.Players who soaked the bombs must reach 10 stacks of Oblivion to be sent to the Emptiness and explode there. Quickly accumulate stacks of Oblivion by standing in Desolate Blossom pools.
players soak the bombs asap and then get sent to the emptiness to explode there.
Infinite Duress
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=404288 - Similar to P2The boss applies a dispellable heavy hitting DoT on a random player.Upon removal, the raids takes moderate damage and is knocked back.
when dispelling players with this dot, the raid takes damage and a knock back.
Desolate Blossom
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=404403 - After each breath, Sarkareth drops a few shadow pools that apply an healing absorb shield and very quickly apply Oblivion stacks to players in them.Move away from them, unless you want to get sent to the Emptiness with a bomb.
go in a blossom if you have the void bomb. otherwise stay away, they stack oblivion.
Abyssal Breath
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=404456 - The boss flies to a targeted location with a big dragon breath, knocking back and inflicting heavy damage to players hit. Also applies Oblivion stack. Leaves behind Null Glimmer adds that must be interrupted and killed. Feel free to use CCs (stun, silences, etc) here.
evoker like breath. dodge it and kill the adds that spawn.
Hurtling Barrage
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=405022 - Sarkareth targets a few players, a few seconds later, flying ghosts cross the platform towards them, dealing heavy damage on their path and applying Oblivion stacks.Players targetted need to move away from the group. Ghosts spawn from portals on the edges with an arrow to show their direction.
if targetted, move away from the groups. don't stand in ghost's paths.
Motes of Oblivion
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=406428 - Projectiles fall on the platform. Players hit gain 5 stacks of Oblivion.Get hit by them If you need to go to the Emptiness to explode a bomb there.
dodge the swirlies
Astral Flare
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=407576 - While gathering your soul, you can gather nearby orbs to gain a stackable 5% haste and 10% movement buff for 23 seconds.You can only have 10 stacks at max.
while in the emptiness try to gather the orbs to gain haste and speed.
Dimensional Puncture
https://www.wowhead.com/en/spell=409927 - Some bombs leave a (big?) hole in the ground for 3min. If you fall into it you die.Maybe adds real space management to this phase ?
don't fall in the transdimentional hole.
Scalecommander Sarkareth
1. Oppressing Howl
2. Scorching Bomb
3. Mass Disintegrate
4. Glittering Surge
5. Oblivion
6. Searing Breath
7. Drifting Embers
8. Embrace of Nothingness
9. Scouring Eternity
10. Cosmic Ascension
11. Void Bomb
12. Infinite Duress
13. Desolate Blossom
14. Abyssal Breath
15. Hurtling Barrage
16. Motes of Oblivion
17. Astral Flare
18. Dimensional Puncture
