Method's Mythic Tectus Guide: Video and Written Strategy

posted 2015/01/26 at 12:05 PM by perculia

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TectusTectus Strategy GuideVideoAbilities and ExplanationTectus (31.3mil HP)An ancient embodiment of the chaotic forces that shaped the terrain of Draenor, Tectus has been twisted and enslaved by the maddened Pale Orcs --- who themselves barely maintain control over this imposing force of nature. Tectus begins the battle fully formed able to inflict full damage.The Living Mountain:

Tectus is unkillable as long as he is under the affects of The Living Mountain.

He will periodically gain energy, with the rate of gain increasing as he loses health.

The power of The Living Mountain is consumed whenever Tectus channels Tectonic Upheaval, leaving him vulnerable to shattering.

Accretion:

Tectus periodically absorbs nearby earth into his body, increasing his damage inflicted by 5%. This effect stacks. Damaging Tectus removes stacks of Accretion.

On Mythic difficulty, if any other Shards or Motes of Tectus are within 10 yards of Tectus when he gains Accretion, they will also gain Accretion.

Earthen Pillar:

Tectus raises an Earthen Pillar from the ground. After several seconds of rumbling, the pillar will erupt from the targeted location, killing any players still standing on it.

Tectus uses this ability when he reaches 25 Energy.

On Mythic difficulty, Tectus also uses this ability at 50 Energy.

Crystalline Barrage:

Tectus creates a cloud of crystalline blades that move towards a targeted player. Players who enter the cloud of crystalline blades suffer 162,240 Physical damage each second they remain in the cloud.

Fracture:

Tectus causes a short-lived spike of earth to shoot from the ground, inflicting 170,859 Nature damage to players standing where the spike erupts, and knocking them back.

Tectonic Upheaval:

Tectus unleashes his built up seismic instability into the earth, creating a massive series of earthquakes that each inflict 40,560 Nature damage to all players.

If Tectus's health is depleted during Tectonic Upheaval, he will Shatter.

Hollowed Heart of the Mountain:

After being shattered, Tectus's hollowed core stands again, with a fraction of his health. Hollowed cores do not gain additional energy as their health percentage decreases.

Shard of Tectus (19mil HP)Tectus

Shards of Tectus share Tectus' abilities, but individually deal less damage.

The two Shards of Tectus have the same abilities that Tectus does. Accretion, Crystalline Barrage, Fracture, Earthen Pillar, Tectonic Upheaval, Hollowed Shard of the Mountain (same as Hollowed Heart of the Mountain) and Shard of the Mountain (same as The Living Mountain)

Mote of Tectus (4.75mil HP)Shard of TectusTectusMote of Tectus:

The Motes of Tectus can be killed outright. However they still gain energy and will cast Tectonic Upheaval upon reaching 100 energy.

The eight Motes of Tectus have the following abilities being exactly the same as the ones Tectus / Shards of Tectus have: Crystalline Barrage, Fracture, Earthen Pillar, Tectonic Upheaval. The only difference is at the Accretion ability. The Mythic part of it does not apply for the Motes of Tectus, meaning that they won't give energy to each other when they are within 10yds.

Night-Twisted PaleNight-Twisted PaleTectusTectusNight-Twisted Earthwarper (2.23mil HP)Gift of Earth

Creates a swirling vortex of earth in an attempt to empower Tectus.

If the vortex reaches Tectus, he will gain 10 stacks of Accretion.

Players may intercept the vortex - if they do, they suffer 235875 to 274125 Physical damage and are afflicted with Petrification.

Petrification:

A player's skin begins to turn to stone after intercepting the Gift of Earth.

A petrified player's movement speed is reduced by 2%, and Tectus will absorb their petrification whenever he makes a melee attack against them, granting him stacks of Accretion and healing him.

Earthen Flechettes

Raises Earthen Flechettes from the ground, inflicting 239,811 Nature damage to all enemies within a cone in front of the caster.

Night-Twisted Berserker (2.23mil HP)Raving Assault:

The Berserker is afflicted with temporary insanity, forgetting their current target, clearing all threat, and dashing towards a random player.

The Berserker inflicts 100,386 Physical damage to targets caught in the path of the dash.

ExecutionTectusTectus

You can theoretically say that the fight has three phases. Phase 1 is when only Tectus is alive until you kill him. Phase 2 is when you fight the two Shards of Tectus and the original Tectus in his ‘Hollowed Heart of the Mountain' form. Phase 3 is the last phase where you kill the eight Motes of Tectus and the two Shards of Tectus in their ‘Hollowed Shard of the Mountain' form.

The most important element of this fight is room management (where you spawn the pillars) and overall raid dps in order to kill off Tectus and his Shards within their first cast of Tectonic Upheaval.

SetupTanks: 2

You only need 2 tanks for this fight. It doesn't really matter which classes, but you should have a Death Knight in the raid, so unless you have a dps Death Knight, make sure you have one of your tanks be one.

The reason is because you want to kill the Night-Twisted Earthwarpers before they get any casts of Gift of Earth or Earthen Flechettes off, so using a grip to bring them fast in the melee camp is crucial.

Healers: 3-4

Depending on your dps, you can go with either 3 or 4 healers for this fight.

The reason why you need so few healers is because there should only be need for tank healing if you have enough dps (will explain later in this guide).

In terms of classes, Holy Paladins and Resto Druids are pretty good for the third Phase of the fight, which is the most hectic one.

Paladins can use Divine Shield / Blessing of Protection, and Druids can do decent healing while moving, which is what you do all the time in that phase. Also Druids can do decent dps in phase 1 and 2 if needed.

DPS: 14-15

Dps is very important for the execution of this fight. You need to make sure you have enough to kill Tectus and the Shards of Tectus while they cast Tectonic Upheaval for the first time, preferably kill them without them casting it for more than 1-2sec to minimize raid damage.

You also need some good cleave / AoE damage for the last phase, since there will be 10 targets to kill within ~30sec.

In order to achieve that you need to make sure to have both good single target and AoE dps.

Phase 1

The reason why you want them all grouped up is because the Earthen Pillars spawn underneath a random ranged dps or healer and since they don't despawn in Mythic difficulty, you want to control where they spawn in order to have enough space for the whole fight.

As you can see in the picture, the boss should be tanked at the Skull Marker and the ranged camp starts at the Diamond Marker. Once the first Earthen Pillar spawns, the ranged camp moves to the Circle Marker (right next to the previous Pillar. The ranged camp will keep moving clockwise every time an Earthen Pillar spawns for the whole fight.

Crystalline Barrage

It is important to move fast in order to not have the red lines come in the ranged camp, as they can kill someone in less than a second.

If you have any blink or speed buff, make sure to use it (and don't finish your cast before moving!!! :D).

Because of the fact that the Crystalline Barrages start spawning from the Boss, it is vital that Tectus is being tanked facing towards the ranged camp. That way, the melee dps will never get hit from it. Of course, the tanks need to watch out themselves to not get hit, but it is always easier to have one person being careful than 5+.

Earthen FlechettesTectusTectonic UpheavalPhase 2TectusEarthen Pillar

For the Earthen Pillars the ranged camp now needs to split in two groups, half being at the Diamond Marker and the rest at the Square Marker.

If the dps on the two Shards of Tectus is relatively equal (it should be), then the two Earthen Pillars will spawn around the same time and they should spawn on top of each Marker. As soon as they do, the ranged camps move to the Circle and Triangle Marker and repeat the same process for the second wave of Pillars.

If you are limited in terms of room due to Crystalline Barrages, then you can always just have the whole ranged camp be grouped up at one spot and when the Pillars spawn use a Stampeding Roar and just outrun them clockwise.

Crystalline Barrage

Just be careful because now that there are two Tectuses, it means that there will be two Crystalline Barrages, and it is possible that they target the same player.

Because of the fact that the debuff timer isn't really accurate for some reason, be alarmed to not assume it is over before it actually is (trust your eyes, not your debuff tracker addon!).

Tectonic Upheaval

If one of them heals up, it will make Phase 3 much more hectic and it most likely means a wipe.

Try to always keep an eye on both of the Shards of Tectus' hp and balance it out throughout the whole Phase.

Use any raid cooldowns you have to survive the double Tectonic Upheavals, as you won't need any raid healing for Phase 3.

Phase 3

At this point you want them gathered up ASAP from the tanks so that the raid can start aoeing them down.

Use Bloodlust/Heroism as soon as the Motes have spawned.

The tanks will take a lot of damage in this phase, so they need to make sure that they have a good rotation of cooldowns in order to survive (ask for external cooldowns from the healers / warriors / ret paladins).

Crystalline Barrage

This means that the ranged can't be gathered up anymore, so they should spread out clockwise, without going too far away. Think of it as an arc spread, but the arc doesn't go all the way behind the Bosses, because then the Crystalline Barrages will be all over the melee camp, making it impossible to hit the Bosses and probably dying.

Now in order to limit how much the Crystalline Barrage spreads around, if a player gets it that has some sort of immunity, then they should use it (Deterrence, Divine Shield, etc) and stand still. This will help the rest of the raid have more room to move around. It is also important to give Blessing of Protections to at least a couple of healers so that they can stand still and keep the tanks alive while all of this movement is happening.

Earthen Pillar

It is crucial that the ranged players are all spread but also close to the edges of the room, making the initial Pillars spawn away from the middle.

Once the first wave of them has spawned, they can move slightly more towards the middle and spawn the second wave there.

To be honest, it will never be perfect, and you will probably have someone spawn a bad Pillar, but as long as the general idea of spawning them outside is followed, the one or two bad Pillars shouldn't cause a wipe.

The only thing that could cause a wipe is the raid getting cut off due to a series of bad Pillar spawns.

Hopefully they can get Death Gripped on top of the Motes of Tectus and AoEd down fast enough, but regardless you should be targeting them and making sure they are killed and stunned just like in Phase 1 and 2.

To help yourself target them in the whole mess, you can use this macro: /tar Night-Twisted Earthwarper.

Earthen PillarClass TipsWindwalker Monk

Both Rushing Jade Wind and are worth using because this fight is all about killing the boss fast in the last phase!

DPS Warrior

Save rage to Execute adds with active.

Rogue

Try to time your Red Phase to start when Phase 3 starts. You can delay it by using s.

Hunter

Use Aspect of the Fox when the Earthen Pillars spawn to avoid your casters interrupting their casts.

Warlock

Warlock only has two viable specs on this fight: demo with Cataclysm, or destro with .

Make sure to save everything for the last phase, including both charges.

Remember you can use your Demonic Circle: Teleport when you have the Crystalline to move out quicker.

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Comments

Comment by noz1992why no one comments here ?Comment by WarrieurGood info! :) Our guild is almost ready for Tectus Mythic (got Brackenspore to 10% last try). Almost....!Comment by spaten96the first screenshoot is changed with the third.Comment by lankybritwhy no one comments here ?Comment by perculiaThe guides are also detailed and high quality, so there's not a lot to say in the way of critique/improvements. Some other Mythic raiders may be unwilling to share their strats as well.Comment by Rogerbrownthe first screenshoot is changed with the third.Comment by mmehlhopeI'm the author of BossBlueprint and I'm glad you're using the pictures here. Awesome stuff!Comment by RogerbrownI'm the author of BossBlueprint and I'm glad you're using the pictures here. Awesome stuff!

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