Venomous Abyss Heroic Boss Guide: Midnight Season 2 PTR

Ability

Role

Tags

Effect

Soulcoil Rite

All

Important

Every soul the well eats grants Nek'zali 5 energy and blasts the raid for 76,972 + 19,243/1.5s (12s, stacks). Heroic adds Ritual Burn, a stacking +10% damage-taken debuff. This is the energy meter you're racing.

Soulcoil Well

All

Deadly

Standing in it ticks 15/sec Shadow. Touch the surface or die inside and you become Soulcoiled: instant death.

Soulcoil Ignition

Healer

Important

Triggers Soulcoil Rite every 1s for 4s and spawns Anguished Echoes, random-location knockback bombs. A burst healing check.

Essence Rend

All

Magic

Pulls several players in for 5s, then knocks them away for 30 dmg. Leaves a ghostly essence (5/1.5s for 15s); removing it spawns a Latent Cultist.

Latent Cultist

DPS

—

Adds that pulse 40 dmg/sec and 40% slow to anyone standing near the well. Kill or avoid.

Restless Amani → Raised Amani

DPS

—

Spirits burst from the well, run for outer sarcophagi, and animate. This is the add wave.

Gravebound Advance

DPS

Magic

Shields Raised Amani for 25% max HP, grants death immunity and a hard fixate on the well while it holds. Burn it down, don't just CC it.

Corpse Blight

DPS

—

Killing an Amani too close to the well erupts for 61,577 (15yd) plus 6/sec for 6s. Don't stack kills on the well's lip.

Possession Barrage

Tank

Heroic+

Echoes launch toward the tank's target, hitting the raid for 461,829 (reduced by travel distance). Heroic: each echo that connects also stacks Hollowed.

Sever

Tank

—

Melee autoattack applies Hollowed: 30,789/3s and -5% healing/absorbs received per stack, 15s duration. Swap tanks before it snowballs.

Residual Toll

All

—

Background pressure: random players tick 3/sec, becoming Hollowed after 16 seconds if ignored.

Ability

Role

Tags

Effect

Soul Transfer

All

Important

Summoner Jawae channels 15s into an Echo of Jawae, then detonates for 80 raid damage.

Echo of Jawae

DPS

Important

Protects Nek'zali via Tether of Awakening; kill every echo to sever the tethers and pull her back into the fight.

Hungering Pyre

All

Heroic+

On death, an echo erupts for 1,539,430 shared among players within 10yd; flames chase stragglers. Heroic adds Cremation, a follow-up 92,366 + 23,091/0.5s (3s) explosion.

Grasping Depths

All

Mythic only

The well pulls players into the Immortal Coil (7,697/sec) until a Drowned Echo add is killed. Not present on Heroic: enjoy it while it's not your problem.

Ability

Role

Tags

Effect

Uncoiled Rage

All

Enrage

+150% attack/movement speed, +500% damage, full taunt immunity. This is the wipe you get for feeding the well too much. Don't reach it.

Invoke

All

—

Re-triggers Soulcoil Rite and spawns Latent Cultists doing a repositioning dance (Entwined Step). Mythic version also interrupts casts and silences whoever dared interrupt it.

Ability

Source

Role

Tags

Effect

Living Venom

Breath

All

Heroic+

Ejected venom slime fires back at its source after 4s, hitting anyone struck for 45 Nature.

Toxic Droplets

Breath

All

—

Sprayed in front of Breath; step on them for 35 dmg or let them erupt into Noxious Blast (423,343 raid-wide) after 12s.

Empowering Slam

Breath

Tank

—

1,539,430 physical hit; each repeated slam on the same tank grants +15% physical damage until it slams someone else. Rotate.

Venom Coagulation

Breath

DPS

—

Vomits up a living slime that pulses Contaminate (92,366/2s raid-wide) until destroyed. Priority kill.

Blood Venom

Blood

All

Heroic+

On expiration, leaves a toxic pool (20/sec). Bigger applications mean bigger puddles.

Blighted Blood

Blood

Healer

Magic

Infects a player, 100,063/sec for 18s. Dispel it before it becomes a floor hazard.

Bloodvenom Injection

Blood

Tank

—

1,539,430 upfront physical plus 5/sec for 40s, stacking. Same rotate-tanks logic as Empowering Slam.

Unstable Miasma

Blood

All

—

Marks a player; after 8s it erupts for 500 Shadow split among anyone within 5yd. Spread out when marked.

Ula'tek's Dominance

Both

All

Important

Within 25 yards of each other, both golems take 99% less damage. Keep them separated, full stop.

Mark of Acid / Mark of Blood

Both

All

—

40-yard stacking auras applied every 6s. Standing in both at once is the real problem, not either alone.

Vitriolic Stasis

Both, at 100 energy

All

Important

Golems rush together, take 99% less damage, and the weaker one heals up to match the stronger. There's an achievement for punishing this cast.

Helical Toxins

Stasis follow-up

All

—

Infects everyone with an entangled venom (2/sec, 28s). Colliding with another victim combines strength; reach exactly 4 stacks to neutralize it harmlessly. Miss that window and it detonates via Cultivated Burst.

Ability

Role

Tags

Effect

Imbibe

All

Important

Vashnik draws from the two nearest fountains, erupting living venom forward and gaining a stack of Toxic Vapor. Mythic also pulls Malignant Tumors into the mix.

Malignant Burst

All

Deadly

If a fountain's venom reaches the Malignant Cavity: 153,943 raid-wide plus 230,915/3s for 30s. Kill the adds before they walk home.

Malignant Catalyst

All

Heroic+

Vashnik congeals venom above the Cavity and splashes it out for 538,801 raid-wide, launching Catalytic Bile that hits for 177,034 if it tags a player (or a token 40 to everyone if it whiffs).

Plague Froth

All

—

Coats a target for 20/sec (4s). On expiry, Plague Waves erupt in cardinal directions for 615,772 to anyone hit. Spread, don't hug.

Dripping Fangs

Tank

—

1,539,430 physical bite plus 22/2s, and +100% physical damage taken for 32s. Heavy tank cooldown trigger.

Adaptive Infection

Healer

—

Infects based on active fountain: Siphoning Infection (blood, absorbs healing + siphons nearby allies), Exploding Infection (fire, detonates on expiry for 615,772), or Stygian Infection (shadow, ground bursts underfoot).

Blood Fountain: Hemo Expulsion

All

—

146,246 raid-wide, spawns Clotting Venom. Immune to CC (Sanginous Fortitude) until dead, then splits into smaller clots on death.

Shadow Fountain: Gloom Expulsion

All

—

146,246 raid-wide, spawns Shrouded Venom that bursts on death firing missiles for 230,915 within 3yd.

Fire Fountain: Conflagrating Expulsion

All

—

146,246 raid-wide, spawns Burning Venom that explodes on death for 92,366 plus a burn tick, and pulses 38,486/3s while alive.

Ability

Source

Role

Tags

Effect

Dark Whispers / Binding Anguish

Mor'zahi

All

—

Mor'zahi controls a tortollan; if control breaks, he dumps all his energy into re-taking it, granting the victim extra abilities in the process.

Empower / Empowered Ascension

Mor'zahi

All

Deadly

The longer he's free, the more power he gathers. Full charge unleashes 384,858/0.5s raid-wide. Feed the fish before this finishes.

Malevolent Presence

Mor'zahi

All

—

Passive raid-wide pressure, 76,973/2s, just for having him in the room.

Blink Nova

Scrollsage Iku

Healer

—

923,658 Arcane to the primary target, reduced by distance for everyone else. Don't hug the caster.

Icebound Flames

Scrollsage Iku

Healer

Interruptible / Magic

538,801 plus 153,943/sec for 12s and a 50% slow if not interrupted. Kick it.

Frostfire Volley

Scrollsage Iku

DPS

—

Fire missiles (538,801) leave Fire Patches, frost missiles leave Frost Patches; opposite elements cancel each other's patches out.

Elemental Explosion

Scrollsage Iku

All

Deadly

692,744 raid-wide plus 153,943/sec (5s) when Frost and Fire effects collide. This is why the patches matter.

Cataclysmic Invocation

Scrollsage Iku

All

Important

Whenever an ally dies, she detonates for 615,772 raid-wide, scaling up with every subsequent death. Kill order matters.

Shell Spin

First Mate Nama

All

—

Three spinning shells in a frontal cone, each stunning for 4s on contact.

Mighty Thud

First Mate Nama

DPS

—

Marks three players and leaps to each in order; miss the leap and it hits everyone for massive damage instead.

Aura of Unity

First Mate Nama

All

Important

When Iku and Gebbo are both near Nama, all three get 99% reduced incoming damage. Keep them apart.

Steady Strikes

First Mate Nama

Tank

—

+4% physical damage on the tank per attack for 1 minute. Rotate before it gets silly.

Relentless Escalation

First Mate Nama

All

Deadly

When an ally dies, Nama gains +100% damage every second for 99 seconds. Same kill-order lesson as Iku.

Throw Junk / Splinters

Trader Gebbo

All

—

Boxes fly, hit for 120 on impact. Stomping one open bleeds you for 38,487/sec (30s, stacks) via Splinters: that's the fish hunt.

Disgusting Fish

Trader Gebbo's box

All

Important

Feed it to whichever tortollan Mor'zahi is controlling to break his concentration. This is the actual objective of the box hunt.

Mushroom Toss / Fungal Burst

Trader Gebbo

All

Deadly

Bouncy mushrooms launch anyone who touches them airborne; the mushroom then bursts for 384,858 nearby.

Explosive Surprise / Concussive Blast

Trader Gebbo

All

—

A bomb lands on a player, knocks back on impact, then a follow-up Blast Wave hits for 6,927,437 plus lingering fire. Get clear.

Smashing Shovel

Trader Gebbo

Tank

Deadly

When an ally dies, Gebbo switches to melee-with-a-shovel mode: extra physical damage and knockback on every swing.

Ability

Role

Tags

Effect

Apex Predator

All

—

Unleashes a combo of strikes: Ravage (420 frontal, +500% dmg taken from Ravage, stacking), Mutilate (2,694,003 frontal cone, split among targets), and Tempest (poison vortices, 60 + 25/sec, 30% slow, 6s).

Venomous Surge

All

—

7/0.5s for 10s on several players, then bursts for 60 on expiry and forms a Viscous Cyst that knocks everyone away and slows on contact. Drop these somewhere useless.

Raging Crosswinds

All

—

19,243/sec for 8s, then a 60-damage burst that blasts nearby players in the wind's direction and applies Turbulent Gusts (reduced fall speed until you bump another affected player).

Howling Maelstrom

All

Important

Gales sweep the altar, blowing players away while active. Sszorak digs in (immune to forced movement, +30% damage taken for 25s): your DPS window.

Corroding Venom

Tank

—

Every melee hit stacks +3% physical damage taken on the tank for 12s. Manage cooldowns as it climbs.

Ula'tek's Presence

Healer

—

Passive caustic mist, 84,669 raid-wide every 2 seconds. Constant chip damage, not a spike.

Serpent's Fury → Unbound Ferocity

All

Mythic only

Marks a target, builds rage; at 100 rage he gains +500% damage and +50% attack speed. Not on the Heroic testing menu: yet.

Ability

Source

Role

Tags

Effect

Eternal Venom

Both

All

Important

13,470/sec, stacking. 7 stacks = instant death. Mythic: dying under it spawns extra Caustic Globules.

Caustic Deluge

Vexhul

Tank

—

230,915/0.5s on the tank for 5s, ejecting globs that apply Eternal Venom and hit for 384,858 within 4yd, then coalesce into a Caustic Globule.

Venomous Emergence

Vexhul

All

—

Summons Spawn of Vexhul adds and applies Eternal Venom raid-wide. Adds spit Corrosive Spit at random players.

Stir the Depths

Vexhul

All

—

96,214/2s for 6s plus traveling waves that hit for 50 on impact and apply Eternal Venom to anyone caught.

Vile Flood

Vexhul, 100 energy

All

Deadly

14-second gout of venom, 50/0.5s, applying Eternal Venom on every tick struck.

Ravenous Feast

Ithraz

All

Important

Three quick consumption attempts, 100 physical split among players within 14yd, consuming 1 Eternal Venom stack per hit. Heroic+: consumed venom mixes into a Bloodcurdled Mass add.

Stone Breaker

Ithraz

Tank

—

Roars back, then slams repeatedly for 1,539,430 within 3.5yd, applying Fractured (+33% damage taken from this ability, stacking). If nobody's hit, the platform itself reverberates for 40 raid-wide instead: always have a tank in range.

Sanguine Storm

Ithraz

All

—

Continuous gore fountain, 461,829 per impact within 4yd; Heroic version leaves Congealed Gore pools that slow 60% and tick damage.

Coiling Ichor

Ithraz

All

—

Infuses several players for 12s, tightening area and rising damage over time, then leaves Congealed Gore on expiry.

Submerge

Both, transition

All

—

At roughly 66% (percentage-gated), both snakes dive, showering the area for 461,829 within 6yd and leaving a slowing Noxious Slick.

Toxic Fumes

Both

Healer

—

Ambient 12 dmg every 2s to everyone, all fight. Death by a thousand cuts.

Uncoiled Wrath

Survivor

DPS

—

When one snake dies, the survivor gains +25% damage every 4 seconds, stacking. Kill order and burn planning matter here.

Ability

Role

Tags

Effect

Ritual of the Fang

All

—

Zul'jan channels snake-head beams into himself for 10s, gaining Fang Empowered (8 raid-wide per second, stacking) unless players intercept the beams, which reduces it to a flat 4/sec instead.

Bloodletting

All

Important

His physical hits cause hemorrhaging, stripping Ritual Venom stacks and leaving 11/sec blood pools on the ground. Mythic-only Ritual Venom itself bursts for 40 on expiry if left alone.

Boneslicer

All

—

Hurls an axe at a player; 18 to everyone caught in its flight path, plus 4/sec for 9s. Treat the flight line like a frontal.

Axegrinder

All

—

Spinning axes ricochet through the arena, eviscerating for 10/0.25s on contact. Keep moving, don't stand in the ricochet lanes.

Chop Down

Tank

—

Two hacks at the current tank, 50 physical each. Standard threat/mitigation, nothing exotic.

Boss

Tier Slot

Entombed Sentinels

Gloves

Vashnik the Malignant

Chest

The Lost Explorers

Shoulders

Sszorak

Legs

The Twin Fangs

Helm