Kith'ix

Kith'ix opens void portals for 6 seconds, pulsing shadow damage every 2 seconds, and summons a Venomous Hulk, a Voidweaver and Bomber Beetles.

Cleave the Hulk and the Voidweaver together. Kite the beetles. Anything still alive when Suffocating Darkness starts becomes much more dangerous.

Aqir near Kith'ix take 50% less damage. Eggs are not protected.

Tank the boss on the south edge. Tank the Hulk and the Voidweaver on the north side.

The Venomous Hulk breathes a cone of nature and physical damage and knocks players back.

The off-tank faces that cone off the north edge, away from the raid and away from Kith'ix. Stack the Hulk on the Voidweaver so melee cleave hits both.

The Voidweaver channels a sphere of void onto random players, dealing shadow damage every second for 8 seconds.

Kick it. Do not let the channel finish.

The Voidweaver lashes the raid with shadow damage every 2 seconds. Each hit increases damage taken from Nightfall by 20%. This effect stacks.

Kill the Voidweaver before the stacks get away from the healers.

Bomber Beetles chase a random player and ignore everything else.

Kite them along the east side of the platform. Do not run them through the raid or into Kith'ix.

A Bomber Beetle explodes after 30 seconds or when it touches a player. The explosion kills the beetle and coats the raid in Digestive Juices: nature damage every second for 4 seconds, stacking.

Pop the beetles a few seconds apart so the DoTs do not overlap. Roots and slows work until Suffocating Darkness makes the adds immune.

On Heroic and Mythic the Hulk and the Voidweaver burst Mindstinger eggs on death.

On Mythic the Bomber Beetles do too. Do not kill every beetle in the same moment or the flies overwhelm the raid.

On Heroic and Mythic the Venomous Hulk and the Voidweaver are full of Mindstinger eggs that burst out when they die.

A Mindstinger flies to a player, stuns them, and deals nature damage every second for 5 seconds.

Kill the flies before they land. A stunned player cannot dodge the next mechanic.

Kith'ix floods random players for 6 seconds. When that ends they cower in Overwhelming Fear for up to 6 seconds.

You have those first 6 seconds to run out of the group. When the fear ends or is dispelled, a scream hits the raid for shadow damage that falls off with distance. Dispel only once the player is away from everyone.

Liadrin scatters motes of light. Touching one reduces all shadow damage you take by 90% for up to 8 seconds.

Every player needs their own mote before Extinguish. A healer cannot make up for one you missed. Later in the fight Exhausted makes this reduction weaker, so do not skip it.

Kith'ix releases a shockwave that deals heavy shadow damage to the whole raid and removes Light's Embrace.

Be inside a mote before it lands. Heal the hit harder once Liadrin is Exhausted and the motes protect less.

Shadow tentacles appear and slap the ground after about 3 seconds. A circle shows each slam. Anyone hit takes heavy shadow damage.

Step out of the circles. Do not stand in one to finish a cast.

Kith'ix hurls a mass of darkness at his current target. Players within 15 yards take shadow and physical damage, and the tank is left Devastated for 25 seconds.

On Heroic and Mythic the impact also leaves a Voidscar. The scar damages and knocks back anyone who touches it. During Suffocating Darkness it releases Eclipse Fragments.

Swap at one stack and drop the scar on the south edge, not in the middle of the raid.

Kith'ix hurls a mass of darkness at his current target. Players within 15 yards take shadow and physical damage, and the tank is left Devastated: 150% more physical and shadow damage taken for 25 seconds, stacking.

Swap at one stack. The active tank runs the circle to the south edge, off the raid. During the intermission keep that circle on the edge of Liadrin's light without stepping outside it.

At 100 energy a storm of darkness closes on the room and deals shadow damage every second. Any aqir still alive gain Dark Frenzy.

Players caught in the storm are pacified, slowed by 30%, and take heavy shadow damage every second. Do not start this with adds up.

Liadrin raises a barrier of Light around herself and greatly slows the closing darkness.

The whole raid stands inside it and keeps doing the phase 1 mechanics. The tank's Dark Devastation circle stays on the rim of the light, not outside it.

Void tendrils grab random players, drag them toward the darkness, and absorb a large amount of the next healing they receive.

If the absorb is still up after 8 seconds, that player is pulled into the dark. Heal it off immediately.

Aqir that survive into Suffocating Darkness gain 100% attack speed and movement speed, become immune to crowd control, and pulse shadow damage on the whole raid every second.

This is why the wave has to be dead first. A frenzied beetle cannot be rooted.

During Suffocating Darkness each Voidscar releases fragments that drift toward Liadrin.

Touching a fragment destroys it and puts a small stacking shadow DoT on players within 3 yards. If a fragment reaches Liadrin, Lost Refulgence damages the whole raid and shrinks Refulgent Bulwark. That effect stacks.

Stand between the scars and Liadrin and catch them. Do not let them stack on the same player.

At 100 energy Liadrin burns the darkness away and stuns Kith'ix for 8 seconds.

Each cast leaves her Exhausted. Light's Embrace and Refulgent Bulwark get weaker, and Suffocating Darkness hits 10% harder. This effect stacks. It is the soft enrage: even a clean raid cannot drag the fight out forever.

Use the stun. Do not hold the boss for another full cycle if you can push.

At 25% health Kith'ix howls and stuns every player. He absorbs his minions and his phase 1 abilities, then starts Eightfold Eclipse.

There is nothing to do during the stun except be ready to spread when it ends.

Liadrin fully heals the raid and grants Luminous Grace: 100% more damage done and 100% more healing done.

This is the burn. Bloodlust, Heroism or Time Warp goes here, with the major damage cooldowns.

Kith'ix manifests eclipses that deal shadow damage to the raid. When the eighth eclipse converges on Liadrin, her light goes out and the raid dies instantly.

There is no third phase. He has to die before that last eclipse.

Kith'ix focuses random players for 5 seconds, then tears open a Null Gate under them. Other players within 5 yards take shadow damage and gain Nullify.

Nullshards fly out of the gate. Touching one deals shadow damage and applies Nullify. Nullify ticks, and the fourth stack kills you.

Run out as your gate drops, away from other players, and sidestep the shards. Leave at least one gate standing for the tank.

Kith'ix floods his current target with shadow damage every second. Touching a Null Gate removes the effect and destroys that gate.

On Mythic Negation applies several stacks. The explosion when it ends deals more damage for each stack still on the tank.

Clear it in a gate before the stacks get high, and keep the blast off the raid.

Kith'ix floods his current target with shadow damage every second. Touching a Null Gate removes the effect and destroys that gate. When Negation expires or is removed it explodes, dealing shadow and physical damage to players within 15 yards. That explosion is Explosive Restabilization.

Swap, and have the debuffed tank cross a gate that was dropped on the edge. The raid stays out of the 15 yard blast.