Il’gynoth is a two phase encounter. Phase one you fight Il’gynoth’s body, phase 2 you destroy organs. You will need to cycle through 3 times total to defeat his 3 organs and complete the encounter.
Phase 1
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Eye of N’zoth
- Beam shoots out from Il’gynoth’s chest, dealing 446k Shadow directly in front of him, and increases damage taken by subsequent Eye of N’zoth by 75%
- Debuff lasts 43 seconds
- Cast at 0:06 into each Phase 1, then every 18 seconds
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Touch of the Corruptor
- MC’s random players, and causes them to run around
- If an MC’d player gets too close to another player, they will also become MC’d
- Broken when the MC’d player reaches 30% HP
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Corruptor’s Gaze
- Standard Eye Beam type ability, cast at several random players
- Starts as a swirlie, then turns into a beam
- Beam chases the selected players for 5 seconds
- The Beam leaves pools anywhere it went over, called Morass of Corruption
- Standing in the pools deals 89k Shadow damage every second, and pacifies and silences you
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Blood of Ny’alotha
- During your second and third Phase 1, blood goop adds will spawn
- These fixate on random targets and chase them
- Each time you’re melee’d by one of these blood adds, you’ll gain a stack of Recurring Nightmare
- Deals 18k Shadow damage every 2s for 40s
- Stacks
- Dispellable
- When a blood add dies, it explodes and deals 86k Shadow to the entire raid
- Spawn every 30s in your 2nd and 3rd Phase 1s
- These are slowable, rootable, etc
- When Il’gynoth’s HP reaches 0, you enter Phase 2
Phase 2
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Cursed Blood
- Infects 8 random players with a debuff, dealing 18k Shadow every 2s for 8s
- When it ends, players explode for 143k Shadow to everyone within 11 yards
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Organ of Corruption
- 3 Organs spawn around the room
- Killing any Organ ends Phase 2, and moves you back to Phase 1
- That Organ stays dead the rest of the fight
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Blood of Ny’alotha
- Created by living Organs in this phase, as a cast
- Cast is interruptible
- If one spawns, it has all the same abilities as listed above
Strategy
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Phase 1
- Tanks need to swap every 2 stacks of Eye of N’zoth
- Nobody else should be standing near the tanks, and the tanks should be slightly spread so they don’t both get hit by the same Eye of N’zoth beam
- You may find it helpful to have markers on your tanks, or a world marker down at the location tanks will be, to help people avoid being hit
- Everyone else should be spread throughout the room
- When Touch of the Corruptor goes out, hard swap to the MC’d people and break them ASAP
- You do not want them reaching other players and spreading this, do everything you can to prevent it
- Tanks need to swap every 2 stacks of Eye of N’zoth
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- If targeted by Corruptor’s Gaze, move away from the beam. Try to drop your puddles in a neat little circle near where you are. This’ll help reduce the area covered by puddles, and help prevent the puddles from blocking parts of the room. Here’s an example of a good goop drop:
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- In your 2nd and 3rd Phase 1s, the Blood adds become priority, behind only the MC’s.
- These come from the location of the Organ/Organs you’ve killed up until that point
- Slow them, root them, stun them, whatever
- If you’re targeted, make sure you’re running away and don’t let the Blood reach you
- If you do get melee’d by the Blood, call for a healer to dispel you
- Once Il’gynoth’s HP reaches 0, you enter Phase 2
- In your 2nd and 3rd Phase 1s, the Blood adds become priority, behind only the MC’s.
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Phase 2
- This phase lasts until you kill off an Organ. You may only kill off 1 per phase, so you’ll repeat this phase 3 times to defeat the encounter
- Once you kill an Organ, Il’gynoth respawns with full HP and you enter a Phase 1 again
- Have a set order to kill the Organs each time, so the raid moves together to the proper Organ
- Organs cast Pumping Blood frequently to spawn Blood adds. Interrupt as many casts as possible
- The first cast of Pumping Blood happens as soon as the adds become targetable
- Subsequent casts occur every roughly 7 seconds
- Assign ranged DPS to each Organ not being focused down to interrupt
- Just get as many interrupts as you can. The more Bloods that spawn, the more dangerous this phase is
- Players affected by Cursed Blood need to move away from the raid to prevent exploding on people
- Priority for DPS in this phase is Slowing/CCing adds, then nuking Organs. You want to kill off your targeted Organ as fast as possible
- When you re-enter Phase 1, clean up any Blood adds
- This phase lasts until you kill off an Organ. You may only kill off 1 per phase, so you’ll repeat this phase 3 times to defeat the encounter
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After cycling through killing the 3 Organs, you’ll go into a 4th and final Phase 1
- There’ll be a large amount of Blood adds, so we recommend using Bloodlust and raid healing CDs here