Spires of ascension last boss spear2/12/2024 ![]() Throughout Spires of Ascension, there are two Spears of Destiny that Kyrian covenant players can pick up and use.This was the first time we saw this dungeon during the Cup, and we were blown away by the creative and efficient ways this team dealt with the third boss Oryphrion (and some of the trash around him), the three Forsworn mini-bosses Lakesis, Klotos, and Astronos, and finally a fun little trick they employed on the final boss of the dungeon, Devos! We’ve included all of this in one clip, so these are the things to look out for: Perplexed Shows Us How to Ascend in SoA Perplexed continued to show off their very big brains during the last half of their Spires of Ascension run. They use this combination to live through the second Plague Bomb explosion in order to get ahead enough on damage to ignore the final Plague Bomb on the last platform as well, thus committing their offensive cooldowns to Doctor Ickus and finishing the fight in a flash. Just as the Virulent Explosion was about to hit, the team made use of the Death Knight’s Anti-Magic Zone, and Power Word: Barrier from their Discipline Priest Rycn to survive the otherwise deadly damage. The Cup 1 Champions, Perplexed, had a risky but rewarding strategy where, instead of devoting 20-30 seconds of their damage to the Plague Bomb, they completely ignored it and instead focused on Doctor Ickus himself. This means that the Plague Bomb has a significant amount of health, and the Virulent Explosion hits extremely hard. During this Cup, the affixes we saw in Plaguefall included Tyrannical. This cast is 30 seconds long, and at the end of it, the Bomb will explode for what is essentially party-wide wipe damage. ![]() Periodically throughout the fight, Doctor Ickus will spawn a Plague Bomb, which casts Virulent Explosion. Plague Bombs? Not for Perplexed! In Plaguefall, the second boss encounter is Doctor Ickus. This strategy coming out from Golden Guardians making use of the snapping technology saves an incredible amount of time and definitely qualifies as Big Brain! Unable to find a logical path to Lightee, the mobs in the Necropolis then snap right on top of him. Due to the threat transference of Tricks and Yoda dying, the mobs are now in combat with Lightee, who is still below where the team initially fought Amarth. When he enters the Necropolis above, he engages the trash and then once he is in combat with it all, he lets the trash kill him. ![]() Right before activating his "AngelUber", Yoda puts Tricks of the Trade on the tank Lightee. Instead of the entirety of the team taking the Kyrian angels, only Yoda, playing Rogue, goes. After this boss dies, Kyrian angels descend to carry the team up to the Necropolis where you then fight a bunch of trash and the third boss, Surgeon Stitchflesh. In this clip, the Golden Guardians have just downed the second boss of the dungeon, Amarth. The Golden Guardians managed to find their way around this and develop a big time-saving pull in The Necrotic Wake using snapping. After we saw a mind-boggling number of ways to snap mobs in BFA dungeons, Blizzard made changes to how dungeon mobs behave in Shadowlands to essentially remove most snapping in the game. Yoda Snaps the Necropolis in Necrotic Wake Day 1 of the Cup gave us a couple of great strategies, including one which made use of mob “snapping” technology. Click here to see the brackets and re-watch the matches! Now that the first Cup of the first season of the Shadowlands MDI is over, we go back and explore some of these “Big Brain Strats”. This leads to some incredibly creative strategies for routes, mob pulls, and more. Unlike the Arena World Championship (AWC), or the majority of esports generally where you react to what the other team does, in the MDI the competitors work to determine the fastest route through the dungeon. One of the unique aspects of the MDI is that the players race against another team, but the encounters they are actually engaging are all scripted PVE content. As they battle to beat the other team to the finish line, these incredibly talented competitors showcase some of the most innovative strategies to be found in the World of Warcraft. The long-awaited Mythic Dungeon International (MDI) is back! The PVE arm of Blizzard’s WoW esports lineup, the MDI is an exciting competition where two teams of 5 players are pitted against each other, racing through the same dungeon simultaneously.
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