The Council of Blood
Videos/Links
General Strat
- There are 3 bosses in the fight that we will kill one at a time. When a boss dies, the remaining bosses gain an additional ability and heal to full. Dead bosses continue to cast one of their abilities.
- Whenever a boss reaches 50%, you go into the dance phase. As the boss is reaching 50%, look for a beam of white light as that is where you need to be at the start of the dance. Move in the same direction as the npc dancers from tile to tile until they run off.
- Healers - Towards the end of each boss, the raid will be taking more and more passive damage from Oppressive Atmosphere until it dies and stacks reset.
- The boss abilities and empowerments are as follows:
Castellan Niklaus
- 0 Dead - Dutiful Attendant - Summons an add that makes the lowest hp boss immune. Kill it.
- 1 Dead - Dredger Servants - Summons adds that throw food at players.
- 2 Dead - Castellan’s Fury - When an enemy dies, all enemies within 12 yards are buffed by 100%.
Castellan’s Cadre - Spawns gargoyles that fixate players and gain a damage buff if they reach them.
- Self Dead - Dutiful Attendant
Baroness Frieda
- 0 Dead - Dreadbolt Volley - Interruptible shadow volley. If it goes off it can be dispelled.
- 1 Dead - Prideful Eruption - Players debuffed hit anyone else in 6 yards for 24k shadow damage.
- 2 Dead - Twisted Pain - You drop puddles whenever you take damage from Frieda.
Soul Spikes - Frieda hits her current target with 4 spikes over 4.5s. Each hit deals phys damage and increases damage taken from the spikes. Each spike hits the raid for shadow damage based on how hard it hit the main target.
- Self Dead - Dreadbolt Volley
Lord Stavros
- 0 Dead - Dark Recital - Pairs players together. You have to stay within 8 yards of your buddy. Swirls will spawn under you that you both need to avoid by sidestepping them.
- 1 Dead - Waltz of Blood - The wall adds cross the room and stun players hit.
- 2 Dead - Two Left Feet - moving or jumping gives you a slow debuff that stacks. Standing still removes stacks.
Waltzing Venthyr - Swirls will spawn that must be dodged.
- Self Dead - Dark Recital
Mythic
- Dancing Fever - ~5 Players get 3 stacks of Dancing Fever for 30s. Jumping removes a stack and hits the raid for 12k Shadow damage. All stacks must be removed or they die.
- Killing a boss causes it to continue casting it's Self Dead ability for the remainder of the fight.
Links
- This fight was changed a bunch of times and many videos are outdated.
- The Council of Blood - Heroic/Normal - Official Guide - Castle Nathria
Ready Check Pull - seems up to date
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU6P1i77Wpc
- Shadowlands - Mythic Castle Nathria The Council of Blood Testing! New Kyrian Warlock Build w/ Logs!
Kalamazi Mythic Beta - outdated but can see some stuff
https://youtu.be/VkW5iLQ-Phs?t=323