Hungering Destroyer

The tactics here are concerned with mythic difficulty. Please note that these are based on our ongoing raiding, and these will be updated as we progress.

Before the fight

As with all fights:

• check the dungeon journal
• check tactic videos, such as on FatBoss
• read up on tactics, such as at the Wowhead guide

Hungering Destroyer is a one phase encounter whose aim is to manage boss healing, raid healing immunity and damage in general.

A single target spec is required.

Overview

There are 4 main mechanics for the entire raid to be aware of, in terms of priority:

• gluttonous miasma which makes the player immune to healing, but makes them leech health from nearby players
• helping soak gluttonous miasma also applies essence sap
• desolate, which causes raid wide damage
• consume which pulls people to the boss, causing distance dependant damage that heals the boss
• volatile-ejection which targets 4 raid members with large damage in an unavoidable line. This causes a 24s debuff causing 500% increased damage from the next cast.
• expunge, an aoe effect that explodes under every player after 5 seconds

Tanks also will be affected by:

• growing hunger
• overwhelm

Approach

• The boss will mainly be tanked in the centre of the zone
• The group will be split into 4. Melee will stand at orange and yellow, ranged at blue and purple.
• The main mechanic to consider are the volatile-ejection lines which must not be overlapped, as it will one-shot.
• gluttonous miasma is survivable 2 players and optimal with 3-4 in a bubble. When affected by this, ranged step backwards out of the group, while melee should step to the side toward the tanks. These are the white circles on the diagram. Do not move too far - only enough to keep the soak group out of the circle. Remain still as others will rely on your position.
• Players should soak gluttonous miasma until essence sap reaches 12-14 stacks. After this, move back to your original position.
• To balance these and to keep the lines clear, ranged will be one side of the boss, melee on the other. Players should be loosely spread and collapse into groups of 3-4 when needed.
• Players should spread as far away from the raid to drop/explode expunge, then return to position
• When convenient, people with immunities should attempt to absorb/destroy the orbs left by the expunge. However this is optional, and should not be done unless it is safe to do so.
• When at full energy, the boss will cast consume. Just before this cast, the raid moves as one to the skull, helping with absorbs.

Tanks should

• Mitigate overwhelm with a cooldown
• Try to tankswap to drop growing hunger as much as possible, but be careful to not have the boss become taunt immune

Healers should:

• Beware of desolate as it tends to stack with other mechanics and combo people
• Beware of overwhelm in case the tank cooldown is not sufficient
• Have a cooldown ready for consume

Key mechanics to master:

• Quick collapsing for gluttonous miasma while managing essence sap and respreading for volatile-ejection
• Run to the edges with expunge, returning quickly after it is complete

TL;DR

• Quickly collapse for gluttonous miasma. Move out when you have 12-14 stacks of essence sap and respread for volatile-ejection
• Run to the edges with expunge, returning quickly after it is complete
• Move away from the boss for consume, returning quickly after it is complete