Aberrus Raid Encounter First Impressions from PTR - Patch 10.1
With Aberrus coming out soon on live servers, here is some first impressions of the encounters from the PTR! Find out more about the encounters in our strategy guides:
First Impressions of Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible RaidAberrus is a 9-boss raid, and the theme this tier seems to be single-target encounters! This is not meant to be an in-depth boss guide, but instead a first-look at how some of the encounters played during PTR testing, what you might look forward to in this tier, and some quick pros/cons of each fight using both PTR data as well as hotfixes done after testing to form these opinions. In addition to the bosses themselves, Kazzara, the Hellforged will drop a rare Trinket, Rashok will drop a rare Polearm, Neltharion will drop rare and unique class-specific Trinkets, and finally Scalecommander Sarkareth will drop a rare Cloak. Below you can find the layout of the new raid.
KazzaraKazzara is the first boss we'll encounter in the new raid! The fight is pretty straightforward, and is entirely single-target, which seems to be a theme this tier. The key mechanics here are Dread Rifts which will spawn a rift under the player when the debuff expires, and Rays of Anguish which are beams that players will need to kite over the Dread Rifts in order to make them disappear. These leave a trail behind where they were kited, similar to the Storm Fissure from Broodkeeper Diurna, and, on Mythic, if another Ray of Anguish crosses over these Molten Scar then it will erupt for heavy raid damage. There's a knockback, a frontal beam, and some tank swaps of course, but the fight had good pacing and was a great first boss for the tier. On Mythic, the Rays of Anguish will continue to chase players until they are consumed by
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