This week's affixes are Fortified, Inspiring, Grievous, and Shrouded!

Inspiring and Grievous are tricky affixes to combine with Fortified, and with Grievous active even the boss encounters can feel as hard as they do on Tyrannical weeks. Though the difficulty is high, if you take a quick look at each dungeon and identify the Inspiring enemies first (you can do this through MDT by setting the week to any week with Inspiring active) you can plan out how you want to deal with each pack and still get through the dungeons quickly!

These routes have 0-1 skips that require invis pots (or shroud, or in many cases other possibilities exist too!).

Grimrail Depot [back to top]

Skip past the pack with the Inspiring Laborer to avoid uninterruptible casts from the Technician in that pull. Beyond that you’ll just hold the W key and grab every single other pack in the dungeon!

Iron Docks [back to top]

A few nicely hidden Shrouded mobs are off to the side and noted in this route! MDT now also features the ability to plan out the Iron Stars and what they’ll hit - use this as a guideline but note that you can miss a few mobs and it’ll be fine!

Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder [back to top]

Lots of extra Shrouded neutral mobs have been added to this dungeon - grab these during RP for stats and profit! We’re now recommending the left path instead of the right one after first boss - this is a great way to get a ton of Shrouded buffs very quickly, and to focus on a few dangerous enemies at once instead of a bunch of them!

Tazavesh: So’leah’s Gambit [back to top]

There’s now a shrouded neutral pirate in the cave just after you kill the first boss!We’re now offering two routes, one of which skips Zul’gamux and the annoying Guardians. Zul’gamux’s stats are definitely valuable for the later bosses, so if you’re pushing high keys you’ll likely wish to mix and match and fight Zul’gamux but not the Guardians, but at lower levels the lethality of Zul’gamux in this dungeon in particular is often not worth worrying about!

Inspiring is most annoying when Scalebinders are involved - these pulls you should either CC the Inspiring mob until the Scalebinder is killed or simply brute force through and kill the Fish Stick quickly.

Mechagon: Junkyard [back to top]

Junkyard has a weird mechanic where the Hard Mode robot will fly over one of the three bosses and move around after you kill a boss. The annoying part is that this rotates weekly but is different in different regions.

If our predictions of the Hard Mode’s weekly flight paths are correct, NA players should be able to use the Gunker First route, while EU players will have to use the Trixie First route.

Mechagon: Workshop [back to top]

The last pack of this dungeon is now skippable with Shroud or Invis pots, so we’ve adjusted our route to suggest this. You should still feel free to skip earlier in the dungeon if you’d prefer, such as Zul’gamux or the packs in the sewer, or of course simply pull the whole dungeon and avoid worrying about skipping anything at all!

Lower Karazhan [back to top]

After several nerfs to this dungeon we’ve come back in and re-tooled down to a single route. This route doesn’t use any skips aside from dying after Zul’gamux to get back to the start of the dungeon and head to Moroes.

There are a lot of options in this dungeon, and you can very profitably make use of Shrouds or Invis pots! If you’re playing with a consistent group, we’d recommend adding some trash elsewhere and skipping the Maiden hallway entirely. You can also consider if you’re interested in areas like the Kitchens or the spider area! Our route, however, is an attempt to avoid going super far over count while also only using Shrouds or Invis pots when the upside is tremendous, and we’ve found that in Lower Karazhan in particular, groups are often looking for a relatively straightforward plan. The death skip after Zul’gamux avoids going way over 100% count but otherwise we’re just grabbing packs that are directly in our way, while also doing Moroes -> Attumen -> Maiden to optimize Shrouded stacks for Maiden, traditionally the boss that groups prefer being most powerful for.

Upper Karazhan [back to top]

It’s a good idea to skip the two Damaged Golems near the start of the dungeon - you’ll almost never need the count from them and you can walk through the middle of the carpet to avoid both of them, or use a gateway to be sure nobody accidentally pulls one. We also recommend using Invis pots to skip to the chess event at the end of the dungeon and avoid some very dangerous enemies that also aren’t needed for Enemy Forces count.