N'Zoth Tactics and Strategy guide — Ny'alotha (BfA 8.3) (2024)

Last updated on Feb 01, 2020 at 10:12by Blainie3 comments

Welcome to our strategy and tactics guide for N'Zoth in Ny'alotha.Here, we tell you all you need to know to defeat this boss. We also include arole by role breakdown of the strategy, so that you can quickly see what youneed to do depending on your role: DPS, tanks, or healers.

Before you start reading the strategy, we advise you to look at theabilities of N'Zoth, in our encounter journal pages.

• Players will have to manage their Sanity, just as they did in the previousencounter.
• The fight takes place in multiple phases, with Phase 1 taking place in avision created by N'Zoth.
• You will first fight Psychus and your raid willneed to destroy the Exposed Synapses while cleaving down the boss.
• After killing Psychus, you will have to escape the vision before being killedby N'Zoth's cast. This will start Phase 2 of the fight.
• Phase 2 brings players back to the physical realm, in which they will fightN'Zoth. Your raid will then be split between the physical realm and portals thatN'Zoth opens.
• The portal will force half of your raid to complete the first phase again, inwhich you must kill Psychus again.
• On the first opening of the portal, the first half of the raid will have to deal withDeathwing's Vision, while the second half of the raid will have to deal withSylvanas and Azshara's vision on the second.
• The half of the raid that is not in the portal will have to deal with N'Zothin the meantime.
• The final phase of the fight functions extremely similarly to the others, butcombined. A Thought Harvester is summoned, which essentially works similarlyto Psychus and N'Zoth has mostly the same abilities.

• In Phases 1 and 2, move Psychus between the Exposed Synapses to ensure your DPS canget additional cleave damage on the boss while killing the tentacles.
• Do not move Psychus too often to avoid spreading the Creeping Anguishtoo much.
• Taunt on 1 stack of Mindwrack and then taunt back as soon as it fallsoff.
• Make sure you get in range of the Basher Tentacle adds as soon as possible.

• Dispel Corrupted Mind in Phase 2.
• If you have Mana to do so, dispel the DoT from Deathwing's attacks, but thedamage is not overwhelming if you just want to heal through it.

• In Phases 1 and 2, you will need to ensure that you cleave Psychus while killing thetentacles.
• When called for, focus down Psychus to take advantage of the debuff stacks hereceives.
• If you are not in the portal in Phase 2, prioritise the Basher Tentacles.
• Kill the Thought Harvester as soon as possible in Phase 3.

• You should use your extra action button as much as possible to regenerate yourSanity. Do not reach 0 Sanity unless you are about to kill the boss and requirea boost of damage for the final push.
• This fight has a huge number of mechanics to dodge, so make sure that youavoid everything as much as possible to reduce your amount of Sanity lost.
• Remember where your body is when you are pulled into the Vision phase, to ensurethat you can get back out as soon as possible.
• Move to the other Paranoia target ASAP if you are targeted by it, to reduceits effects as swiftly as possible.

The first phase sees the raid fight against Psychus for the first time.

For a full list of the abilities usedin this phase, check out our dedicated N'Zoth Encounter Journal page.

There is a maximum range on the beams that the tentacles target players with,so anyone that can should try to outrange as many as possible to avoid unnecessarydamage. Avoid the centre of the room unless necessary.

This phase is a DPS check and if your raid cannot beat it, it will never beable to get past Phase 2. You must be able to clear Psychus before he reaches fullenergy, otherwise he will wipe the raid.

As soon as you get pulled into the portal, your tanks should get Psychus intoposition on the first tentacle and your DPS will need to cleave it down ASAP.

Keep moving through the tentacles, killing them until Psychus has enough stacksof the debuff for your raid to finish him off. There is no specific number for this,as it relies entirely on the DPS of your players. The higher your DPS, the lessstacks you will need, due to better passive DPS on Psychus, as well as better burstwith the stacks.

As soon as Psychus is killed, get back to your body to go back to the physicalrealm for Phase 2.

After Psychus dies, you will engage N'Zoth in the physical realm. He will eventuallysummon a portal to fight Psychus again, and your raid will have to split into 2to deal with it.

Once Psychus has been killed again, another portal will open and, due to a debuffpreventing re-entry, the other half of your raid will have to go into the portaland kill him.

For a full list of the abilities usedin this phase, check out our dedicated N'Zoth Encounter Journal page.

Adds will spawn throughout this phase, with the Bashers being the highest priorityto be killed.

Your tanks will need to pick up the Basher ASAP, to avoid it dealing huge damageto the raid, and stay in range of it.

When the first portal is opened, half of your raid will need to enter and essentiallycomplete Phase 1 again. Once Psychus is defeated, the other half will have to dothe same thing.

The main difference is that, in Phase 2, Psychus will have the aid of a formerboss, depending on which portal he is currently being fought in.

For the first portal, Deathwing's vision helps him, but he just adds somepassive damage and Sanity drain to the fight. You should also make sure that youdodge the fiery attacks on the ground.

For the second portal, Azshara and Sylvanas' visions appear, which can causeslightly more issues. Azshara will cause any player that moves to take damage untilthey stop moving, while Sylvanas will deal raid-wide damage and drain Sanity fromplayers. Just make sure that you do not move unnecessarily and this will be noproblem to deal with.

For the half of the raid that is fighting N'Zoth, the fight is actually somewhatrelaxed. The main issue is the Mindgrasp and Neurons combo, which spawns poolsof damaging zones on the ground before pulling your raid forwards or backwards.You will have to position yourselves so that you do not get pulled into one ofthe damaging zones.

N'Zoth also casts Paranoia, which will link two players together. Theywill need to move together ASAP to stop themselves taking damage from it, butthey must also make sure not to touch anyone but their linked partner. If they do,they will lose Sanity every second.

After both halves of your raid have killed Psychus in the portal realm, youwill start Phase 3.

After Psychus has been defeated by both sides of the raid, N'Zoth will spawna Thought Harvester, which functions almost identically to Psychus.

For a full list of the abilities usedin this phase, check out our dedicated N'Zoth Encounter Journal page.

This phase functions very similarly to a combination of the first two, witha few added abilities.

Your raid should focus down the Thought Harvester as soon as possible, makingsure to soak the Harvest Thoughts ability by stacking the raid together.

When N'Zoth uses Evoke Anguish, try to drop the pools as close to eachother as possible to save space in the room.

Dodge the Stupefying Glare from the eyeball adds and, other than thetactics you have already perfected from Phases 1 and 2, there is little else todo in this fight.

Simply DPS down the Harvester and finish off N'Zoth.