Emerald Nightmare: Quick Tips for Tanks

By Sunnier Last Updated: 2018/05/12 Changelog Patch: 7.0.3

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Tank near the center of the room, so that the raid can more easily avoid her dragon breath.

When afflicted with Volatile Rot, run as far away from your raid as you can.

Ideally, run to a wall or designated Infested Ground dropping area. It deals less raid damage the further other people are to the afflicted tank, and the pools need to be out of everyone's way.

Use a cooldown or active mitigation before Volatile Rot expires.

Infested Breath

Distance yourself from insects before they explode with Burst of Corruption.

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Tank near the edge of the platforms, so that the raid has more space to manage their mechanics.

Avoid eggs on the edge of the platforms, the small purple tornadoes, Twisting Shadows, and the green circles, Venomous Pool.

Web of Pain reflects the damage between the two tanks. Stay within 20 yards of your co-tank to keep the damage manageable.

When the boss retreats out of range, pick up Venomous Spiderlings. Upon death, each Venomous Spiderling drops a Venomous Pool. The add tank will need to drag the spiders away from the raid so that the pools are out of the way, and if they go beyond 20 yards from the boss tank, both will need to use cooldowns.

Before the boss returns, run out of the giant green circle, Vile Ambush. It does less damage the further you are from it.

During Gathering Clouds, you'll be pushed toward the edge of the platform. Avoid any of the present environmental dangers (pools, tornadoes).

Follow the boss as she flies to the next platform.

The boss tank should walk through a Shimmering Feather and use it to jump to the boss ASAP. When the rest of the raid arrives, use the Extra Action Button to stomp on the spiders and kill them.

If not tanking the boss, pick up Venomous Spiderlings, which spawn as your raid traverses the web bridge between platforms. Remember to position them out of the way before they die.

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Tank Dominator Tentacles.

They channel Nightmarish Fury onto the tank, which deals heavy physical damage.

Avoid Ground Slam (brown earthy projection).

Face them toward a wall so your raid doesn't get hit by Eye of Fate.

Tank swap at 3 stacks of Eye of Fate.

Shift the adds when pools of Nightmare Corruption form under its feet.

There is nothing to tank. Pop your damage dealing cooldowns (if you have them) and go to town.

If you are targeted with Cursed Blood, run to the edge of the chamber, spread apart from others, before the debuff ends.

Leave the chamber before Dark Reconstitution ends.

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Tank by the wall so that your raid has room to manage their mechanics.

Taunt swap such that one tank gets a max of 2 stacks of Overwhelm and the other tank gets Rend Flesh. These abilities are alternated.

Taunt when your cotank gains Overwhelm or Rend Flesh.

Taunt when your Overwhelm or Rend Flesh expires.

You should never have both debuffs at the same time.

Roaring CacophonyBarreling ImpactBlood FrenzyDragons of Nightmare

This fight includes Ysondre, one dragon on the ground, and one dragon inactive in the air. Besides Ysondre, the dragons change every week. Ysondre is always grounded, but the other two swap partway through the fight.

One tank will be on Ysondre, and one will be on the other dragon, and position on opposite sides of the room.

When each tank reaches about 6-8 stacks of Slumbering Nightmare, they must quickly trade targets. The tanks should stay with their half of the raid, only the dragons should change.

You will need to perform a similar tank swap maneuver when a new dragon lands.

Corrupted BreathShades of TaerarNightmare BloomCenarius

One tank will handle Cenarius and the other will handle adds.

Tank Cenarius to the side of the room to give your raid the most area to work with.

When tanking Cenarius, be aware of Aura of Dread Thorns, and keep the damage you deal to a minimum during that time so that you don't suffer much reflected damage.

Various adds will spawn in each of the four corners of the room, though not all at once.

The add tank must stay more than 20 yards away from Cenarius to avoid adds getting buffed by Aura of Dread Thorns.

Wisps don't need to be tanked. However, if affected by Ancient Dream, you can taunt them to help your raid.

Dragons breath in a random direction.

Twisted Sisters' Twisted Touch of Life must be interrupted.

Nightmare Ancients must be tanked near the rest of the raid to help soak Desiccating Stomp.

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Swap after each Spear of Nightmares. Use your strongest damage reduction tools for Spear of Nightmares.

Spear of Nightmares also drops a pool of Nightmares, the size of which is depends on how much you reduced Spear of Nightmares.

Shift the boss over to get out of the pool of Nightmares, but be conservative with space.

Continue to reset Cleansed Ground by stepping on Cleansed Ground when not tanking.

Xavius

This encounter can have two or three tanks. If you are using two tanks, taunt swaps will happen less frequently and each tank will have to survive more stacking damage.

Distance yourself from the giant pink swirls, Corruption: Crushing Shadows. Run out of small pink swirls, Corruption: Unfathomable Reality.

One tank will be randomly selected into the Dream.

Phase 1: Taunt the Corruption Horror. Tank it near the boss, but be careful not to face it toward others.

Phase 2: Taunt Xavius when he gains the Nightmare Infusion buff.

Use cooldowns freely, as they will reset when you leave the Dream.

Taunt at 3 to 4 stacks of Darkening Soul. When not tanking, distance yourself from the raid and call for a dispel, and use some sort of damage reduction tool.

If you are using two tanks, the dream tank need to prioritize their tasks, and the non-dreaming tank will probably need bigger cooldowns to survive higher stacks of Darkening Soul.

If you are using three tanks, two will handle Xavius most of the time, and the third will be in the dream.

Drag the boss away from Inconceivable Horror adds.

Swap after 3 to 4 stacks of Blackening Soul. This debuff must be dispelled by a healer, and leaves Blackened once it's removed.

Drag Xavius onto tentacles (which can't be tanked) so your raid can cleave onto them.

Emerald Nightmare: Quick Tips for Tanks

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