Dominating the Depths: An Elite Guide to Throne of Tides

Throne of Tides is a captivating dungeon located in the underwater realm of Vashj’ir. The entrance is accessible through the Abyssal Maw in the whirlpool. Designed for level 80-82 players leveling. This dungeon offers both normal and heroic modes and features an underwater cave environment teeming with Nagas and minions of the Old Gods.

Lady Naz’jar

Lady Naz’jar is the first boss of the Throne of Tides dungeon. She presents a dynamic and tactical fight that requires careful management of movement, interrupts, and add control.

Shock Blast: This is a critical ability that Lady Naz’jar will cast throughout the fight. It inflicts substantial Nature damage to her primary target and must be interrupted consistently. Failure to interrupt this ability can result in severe or fatal damage to the tank, making it a top priority for any players assigned to interruption duties.

Summon Geyser: This ability targets a random player, marking the ground beneath them. After a short delay of about 5 seconds, a geyser erupts from the marked spot, dealing 23,750 to 26,250 points of Frost damage and knocking back all players within a 5-meter radius. It’s crucial for all players to quickly move out of the indicated area to avoid taking damage and suffering the disorienting effects of the knockback.

Fungal Spores: Lady Naz’jar launches spores at a random player, which slowly travel towards them and explode on impact. This explosion creates a cloud that deals 10,000 Nature damage every 3 seconds for 15 seconds to anyone within 5 meters. Players need to be vigilant and move away from the spores as they approach to avoid unnecessary damage.

The phase Transitions

At 66% and 33% of her health, Lady Naz’jar casts Waterspout. Waterspout creates a protective water vortex around her. During this time, she becomes immune to damage and summons two Sea Tempest Witches and a Naga Honor Guard. The witches are capable of dealing significant ranged damage and should be prioritized by DPS players. Meanwhile, the Naga Honor Guard can be controlled with stuns, roots, or other forms of crowd control, which can greatly reduce the pressure on the group.

Burn the adds right away. DPS should focus on quickly bringing down the Sea Tempest Witches due to their dangerous magic attacks. Tanks, keep the Naga Honor Guard away from the rest of the group. Utilizing crowd control can minimize the damage these adds do, allowing the group to focus on one target at a time.

Lady Naz’jar will re-emerge from her High Tide state after the adds are dead or after one minute has passed. It’s important to quickly refocus on her and resume the interrupt and dodge mechanics.

Heroic mode

Lady Naz’jar’s fight includes the additional challenge of water vortexes spawned during the Summon Geyser. These vortexes move around and require players avoid getting hit by them. The damage from Shock Blast is also considerably more lethal, necessitating flawless interrupts.

 Commander Ulthok

Commander Ulthok is the second boss in the Throne of Tides. offering a fight that tests the group’s ability to handle intense damage bursts and avoid area effects.

Dark Fissure: Commander Ulthok slams the ground in front of him, causing a massive burst of Shadow damage to all enemies within a 7-meter radius. Following the slam, a dark rift opens at the location, dealing 9,425 to 10,575 Shadow damage per second to all players within 5 meters of it. The rift remains active for one minute. Players must quickly move away from the rift to avoid significant damage over time.

Enrage: At certain health thresholds, Ulthok will enter an enraged state, increasing all physical damage dealt by 50% for 10 seconds. This ability significantly increases the pressure on the tank, who may need to use defensive cooldowns or require additional healing support during this time.

Squeeze: Ulthok targets a random player, grasping them in a deadly grip that inflicts 5,000 to 12,500 Shadow damage per second for 6 seconds. The targeted player will need immediate and substantial healing to survive this attack.

Curse of Fatigue: This curse is cast randomly on players, reducing their movement speed and haste by 50%. Lasting for 15 seconds, it can significantly impair a player’s ability to dodge other abilities or perform their role effectively. Healers or players with decurse abilities should prioritize removing this as quickly as possible to maintain group functionality.

Strategy

Commander Ulthok requires careful positioning due to the Dark Fissure ability. The tank should keep Ulthok facing away from the rest of the group to ensure that only they are in danger of the initial slam. Following the slam, both the tank and melee DPS will need to quickly move away from the rift that forms. When Ulthok enrages, the tank should be prepared to handle increased incoming damage. Using defensive cooldowns during Enrage can help mitigate some of the increased damage. If available, external defensive supports like shields or damage reduction abilities from other players can be beneficial.

Squeeze is a high-damage ability that can quickly kill a player if not adequately healed. Healers should be ready to quickly switch their focus to healing the squeezed player. If the player’s health allows, using personal defensive abilities can also help survive the duration of the grip.

Heroic mode

The challenge of the room becomes progressively difficult as Dark Fissure creates more rifts that fill up the fighting space. This forces the group to be more dynamic with their positioning. Safe spots will gradually become more scarce. Additionally, the damage from all of Ulthok’s abilities, including Squeeze and the rifts from Dark Fissure, is increased, demanding even quicker reactions and more robust healing.

 Erunak Stonespeaker & Mindbender Ghur’sha

This encounter in the Throne of Tides features two distinct phases, starting with Erunak Stonespeaker and transitioning to Mindbender Ghur’sha. It challenges the group’s ability to manage and adapt to changing boss mechanics and control effects.

Key Abilities of Erunak Stonespeaker

Magma Splash: Erunak spews molten lava in a cone in front of him, inflicting significant Fire damage and a subsequent burn that deals additional damage over time. It is crucial for the tank to keep Erunak facing away from the rest of the group to avoid widespread damage.

Lava Burst: Targets a random player, hurling molten lava that causes substantial Fire damage and a knockback. Players hit by this attack will also suffer a brief stun, disrupting spell casting and positioning.

Erunak summons a line of Ember Shards that shoot towards a targeted player, exploding into a wider area of spikes upon reaching their destination. This ability deals continuous damage to all enemies within 5 meters every 0.5 seconds. Rapid movement out of the affected area is essential to avoid significant damage.

Emberstrike: The tank will be hit with an attack that deals weapon damage as Fire damage and leaves a debuff causing additional Fire damage each time the affected player takes melee damage. Healers need to pay attention to quickly heal through or dispel this effect.

Key Abilities of Mindbender Ghur’sha

Absorb Magic: Mindbender Ghur’sha surrounds himself with a shield that absorbs all incoming spell damage and converts it into healing. This makes magical attacks counterproductive unless the shield can be dispelled or waited out.

Enslave: The Mindbender can jump onto a random player’s head, taking control of them while enhancing their health, damage, and healing abilities. The controlled player becomes hostile to the party, and this effect lasts until the player’s health drops below 50%.

Mind Fog: Summons a zone of fog that disables all attacks and spell casting for enemies within it, while also dealing continuous Shadow damage. Players caught in the fog must move out quickly to resume their abilities.

Unrelenting Agony: Causes intense Shadow damage to all nearby enemies over 10 seconds. This area-of-effect damage requires significant healing throughput to keep the group alive.

strategy

Phase 1 (Erunak): The tank should position Erunak away from the group due to Magma Splash. Players need to be vigilant and ready to move quickly when targeted by Lava Burst or Earth Shards to avoid damage and disruption. Managing Emberstrike on the tank is crucial, requiring attentive healing and dispelling.

Transition and Phase 2 (Ghur’sha): Once Erunak reaches 50% health, he is freed from Ghur’sha’s control, transitioning the fight to the second phase. The tank must quickly gain control of Ghur’sha, and the group must adjust to his new set of abilities.

Absorb Magic requires a pause or shift in DPS strategy, focusing on non-magical damage to prevent healing the boss. When a player is taken over by Enslave, the group needs to carefully bring their health below 50% without killing them. Avoiding Mental Fog and surviving Unrelenting Agony are pivotal, demanding high mobility and strong healing.

Ozumat

Ozumat, the final boss of the Throne of Tides, presents a multi-phase battle that tests the group’s ability to manage adds, spatial awareness, and time pressure due to the encounter’s escalating intensity.

 Initial Assault

Small Murlocs and Faceless Ones spawn and attempt to attack Neptulon in the center of the room. DPS should focus on quickly dispatching these adds, with priority given to any larger Faceless Ones due to their higher damage output. Occasionally, a Ruthless Behemoth will appear and needs to be tanked. This larger add has a powerful ground slam attack that deals substantial damage and requires the tank to move it around to avoid damaging other group members.

Phase 2

As Phase 1 ends, no new Murlocs or Behemoths spawn. Instead, several Blight Beasts and three Vicious Mindlashers will appear. The Vicious Lashers channel a debilitating effect on Neptulon, reducing his effectiveness and slowly dealing damage. The DPS should quickly kill these Lashers to prevent them from draining Neptulon.

The tank needs to handle the Blight Beasts, kiting them away from the group while dealing with any remaining Behemoths from Phase 1.

Phase 3

After the Vicious Lashers are defeated, Neptulon gains a surge of power, significantly increasing the size and damage output of all allies. This phase turns into a DPS race, as Ozumat begins to fill the room with damaging blight puddles.

Ozumat will cover the ground with blight that stacks a damage debuff on players who stand in it. These puddles increase in area and damage, pushing the group to finish the fight quickly before the environment becomes unmanageable.

Key Abilities

Blight Spray: Throughout all phases, Ozumat will sporadically spray blight at players, creating areas on the ground that deal damage and apply a stacking debuff, reducing healing received and increasing damage taken. Movement and spatial awareness are crucial to avoid these areas.

Tidal Surge: Neptulon uses this ability in Phase 3 to massively boost the damage and health of all party members, allowing them to quickly bring down Ozumat. Coordination and maximized DPS output are essential during this phase.