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The Weekly Route: Tyrannical, Spiteful, Necrotic, and Tormented



This week’s affixes are Tyrannical, Spiteful, Necrotic, and Tormented.

This is one of the tougher weeks, especially for your tanks and melee players. A massively useful rule of thumb for this week is to heavily prioritize the end of the pull rather than the start for AoE crowd control effects - these can help your tank drop their stacks and also help to control Spiteful Shades as they begin to spawn. Melee players should generally use their effects first, as they may be forced out of melee range by Spiteful Shades and be unable to help later.



The Weekly Routes





De Other Side [back to top]


With Tyrannical active, it’s worth considering picking up a few copies of the Dagger of Necrotic Wounding anima power to just melt the challenging bosses - though the Volcanic alternative can be useful against the Necrotic/Spiteful affixes.

Read more on De Other Side Dungeon Abilities.





Halls of Atonement [back to top]


Echelon tends to be the toughest boss here, and it’s a great idea to save bloodlust for it. If you can get through that fight on Tyrannical, you should be golden for the rest of the dungeon.

Read more on Halls of Atonement Dungeon Abilities.





Mists of Tirna Scithe [back to top]


Spiteful shades add a lot of invisible seconds to your dungeon as you wait to open each room of the maze - but you can claw some of this time back by carefully timing it so that you run into the wall right as the mobs have died in that brief moment where you drop combat before Spitefuls spawn - this requires mobs to die very close to the same time as each other, however.

Read more on Mists of Tirna Scithe Dungeon Abilities.





Plaguefall [back to top]


For a lot of groups on Tyrannical weeks, the first boss can be a big challenge point in the dungeon. Later in the dungeon, it helps to grab the anima power from after Doctor Ickus before fighting the boss, as it’s one of the damage increasing powers.

Read more on Plaguefall Dungeon Abilities.





Sanguine Depths [back to top]


Tight quarters in this dungeon can make you worried about pulling extra enemies, but remember that Tormented enemies do NOT socially aggro other enemies, so carefully tag them with a ranged ability and then fight them in a clear area and you won’t have to worry about other enemies pulling with them. These bosses are all tough with Tyrannical active, but you can make things easier if by using Spiteful Shades to trigger the Venthyr lanterns and get yourself a nice buff rolling.

Read more on Sanguine Depths Dungeon Abilities.




Spires of Ascension [back to top]


Spiteful Shade combat can prevent you from taking the flights to next platforms - though in a few spots you can run and jump off with a movement effect and then get picked up to the next platform more quickly than it would take to drop combat - experiment with this for your class in a low pressure environment before trying it in a high level keystone though!

Read more on Spires of Ascension Dungeon Abilities.





The Necrotic Wake [back to top]


Be very careful as packs are dying that you have a plan of escape - it’s very easy to get cornered by Spiteful Shades such that the only way out would pull other enemies if you’re not careful.
Read more on The Necrotic Wake Dungeon Abilities.





Theater of Pain [back to top]


Dagger of Necrotic Wounding is a fantastic choice for Tyrannical Theater as the bosses represent so much of the difficulty - especially with Necrotic itself active this week. Single target builds can be considered for many specs that otherwise wouldn’t use them in Mythic Plus since this dungeon is so boss and miniboss oriented.

Read more on Theater of Pain Dungeon Abilities.






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About the Author


Dratnos hosts the The Titanforge WoW Podcast. He’s also an Officer in the World 59th guild poptart corndoG, and a commentator for events such as the MDI and the Race to World First! He streams on Twitch, where he likes to review his friends’ logs.




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