Abilities - Heroic

• Sanity - N’Zoth assaults your Sanity throughout the encounter. When your Sanity reaches 0, N’Zoth invades your mind fully, granting Gift of N’Zoth.
  • Gift of N’Zoth - Blesses an insane player with 100% increased damage done and 100% healing done, but causes the players to become a Servant of N’Zoth after 20s.
    • Servant of N’Zoth - Severs a target’s connection to sanity, charming them permanently and causing them to do N’Zoth bidding, casting Mental Decay.
• Azeroth’s Radiance - Invoke the Heart of Azeroth, restoring 20 Sanity every 1s for 4s. Moving or attacking will break this effect.

Phase 1 - Dominant Mind

• Glimpse of Infinity - Opens players’ minds, showing them a glimpse into the infinite mind of N’Zoth.
• Psychus
• Mindwrack (Tank) - The caster’s mental torment manifests as physical pain in the body of its current threat target, inflicting 108k Physical damage and increasing Physical damage taken by 33% for 14s.
• Creeping Anguish - Psychus creates a zone of void energy at its location, which expands to cover 60 yards. Players entering the zone are afflicted by Anguish.
  • Anguish - N’Zoth inflicts terrible anguish upon the player, inflicting 180k Shadow damage, draining 10 Sanity every 2s, and reducing the player’s movement speed by 33% while within the area.
• Synaptic Shock - Slaying an Exposed Synapse while Psychus is within 8 yards weakens N’Zoth’s mind guardian, increasing damage dealt to Psychus by 50% for 20s, stacks.
• Shattered Ego - Slaying Psychus inside the Mind of N’Zoth takes a heavy toll on N’Zoth himself, stunning him and his tentacles for 30s.
• Manifest Madness - Upon reaching full energy, Psychus channels Manifest Madness. While channeling, Psychus appears in all phases and takes 99% reduced damage. It also inflicts 108k Shadow damage to and drains 20 Sanity from all players every 2s.
• Mind’s Eye
• Void Gaze - The Mind’s Eye opens, inflicting 36k Shadow damage and draining 5% Sanity from all players in the Mind of N’Zoth every 1s for 3s.
• Exposed Synapse
• Probe Mind - Probes the mind of a random player within 30 yards, inflicting 108k Shadow damage. The probe chains to players within 5 yards, also inflicting 108k Shadow damage as it chains.
• Resilient Synapses - Heals all Exposed Synapses to full health whenever another Exposed Synapse is slain.
• Severed Consciousness
• Restore Consciousness - Being drawn into the Mind of N’Zoth Severs the link between mind and body. When Psychus is slain, N’Zoth’s hold on the player is broken, allowing them to Restore Consciousness to their lifeless body. This returns the player to the Physical Realm.
• Collapsing Mindscape - Slaying Psychus inflicts significant damage to the Mind of N’Zoth, destabilizing the current Mindscape. Players within the Mind of N’Zoth when Collapsing Mindscape finishes casting are killed instantly.

Phase 2 - Writhing Onslaught - Begins on Psychus’ death

• N’Zoth
• Mindgrasp - N’Zoth worms his tendrils into the minds of all players, horrifying them into moving either toward or away from him.
• Corrupted Neuron - Spawns a set of Corrupted Neurons, which heal 1% of their maximum health every 2s. Corrupted Neurons project a Veil of Anguish from their location.
  • Veil of Anguish - Projects a Veil of Anguish around N’Zoth, the outer rim of the arena, and all Corrupted Neurons. Veils attack to Corrupted Neurons decrease in size as the Neurons’ health diminishes.
    • Anguish - N’Zoth inflicts terrible anguish upon the player, inflicting 180k Shadow damage, draining 10 Sanity every 2s, and reducing the player’s movement speed by 33% while within the area.
• Paranoia - N’Zoth selects pairs of players and fills their minds with all-consuming Paranoia for 15s. Paranoid players must be within 5 yards of their paired partner or suffer 11k Shadow damage every 1s. This damage increases over the duration of Paranoia. Affected players do not trust their allies while paranoid. Coming within 5 yards of an unpaired ally causes the player with Paranoia to be drained of 5 Sanity every 1s while they remain near their ally.
• Eternal Torment - Inflicts 47k Shadow damage to all players in the Physical realm every 1s for 2s.
• Mindgate - N’Zoth opens a gate to the inner recesses of his mind, inviting players to gaze upon a vision of his infinite power.
  • Fettered Mind - Using a Mindgate to enter a Vision of N’Zoth puts unimaginable strain upon a player’s mind, rendering them unable to enter a second Vision of N’Zoth.
• Basher Tentacle
• Evolving Might - Physical damage inflicted increased by 3% every time the Basher Tentacle strikes an enemy with a melee attack.
• Void Lash (Tank) - Lashes out rapidly at the current threat target, inflicting 161k Physical damage and 54k Shadow damage every 0.8s for 6s.
• Tumultuous Burst - Inflicts 54k Shadow damage to all players every 2s for 10s. Tumultuous Burst also reduces their Haste by 33% for 10s. Tumultuous Burst is only cast when no players are within melee range of a Basher Tentacle.
• Corrupted Viscera - Tentacles in the Physical realm explode into a show of Corrupted Viscera when slain, inflicting 215k Shadow damage and draining 5 Sanity from players struck by debris.
• Corruptor Tentacle
• Corrupted Mind (Interruptible Dispellable) - Corrupts a player’s mind, inflicting 54k Shadow damage every 2s for 10s. If corrupted Mind expires without being dispelled, it drains 15 Sanity from the player.
• Corrupted Viscera - Tentacles in the Physical realm explode into a shower of Corrupted Viscera when slain, inflicting 215k Shadow damage and draining 5 Sanity from players struck by debris.
• Spike Tentacle
• Pain Spike - Flings a spike of void energy, inflicting 54k Shadow damage.
• Corrupted Viscera - Tentacles in the Physical realm explode into a shower of Corrupted Viscera when slain, inflicting 215k Shadow damage and draining 5 Sanity from players struck by debris.

Through the Mindgate

• Players re-enter the mind of N’Zoth via a defeated Mindgate Tentacle, intent on wounding the Old God’s psyche and weakening his physical form. Players are subjected to N’Zoth’s mental reconstruction of fearsome creatures over whom he has held sway in Azeroth.
• Corruption of Deathwing - N’Zoth draws players into a vision of the shattering of the World Pillar, and the fearsome power of Deathwing corrupted by the Old God’s relentless whispers.
  • Cataclysmic Flames - The Vision of Deathwing breathes deeply into the space, inflicting 29k Fire damage to and draining 5 Sanity from all players within the Mind of N’Zoth every 3s for 9s.
    • Flames of Insanity (Dispellable) - The Flames of Insanity overwhelm players within 6 yards, inflicting 108k Fire damage and draining 20 Sanity on impact. The flames then burn the player for 43k Fire damage every 2s and disorient them for 6s.
• Treacherous Bargain - N’Zoth conjures a troubling vision which reveals the treacherous bargain agreed between Queen Azshara and Lady Sylvanas Windrunner.
  • Tread Lightly - The Vision of Queen Azshara decrees that all players within the Mind of N’Zoth shall Tread Lightly. Moving while under this effect will trigger Contempt.
    • Contempt - By moving, the player is in contempt of Queen Azshara. She inflicts 22k Frost damage every 2s until they come to a halt.
  • Black Volley - Inflicts 54k Shadow damage to and drains 5 Sanity from every player within the Mind of N’Zoth every 1s for 3s.
• Psychus - Same as P1
• Exposed Synapse - Same as P1
• Severed Consciousness - Same as P1

Phase 3 - Convergence - 2 More Psychus deaths

• N’Zoth
• Mindgrasp - Same as P2
• Paranoia - Same as P2
• Evoke Anguish - N’Zoth taps into players’ minds and evokes their darkest thoughts, inflicting 179k Shadow damage every 2s for 8s. Upon expiration, Evoke Anguish leaves behind a pool of Anguish, which grows briefly after spawning. Every time N’Zoth the Corruptor casts Evoke Anguish, all other pools of Anguish grow in size.
  • Anguish - N’Zoth inflicts terrible anguish upon the player, inflicting 180k Shadow damage, draining 10 Sanity every 2s and reducing the player’s movement speed by 33% while within the area.
• Stupefying Glare - Conjures an Eye of N’Zoth which fires a focused beam of Void energy. The beam inflicts 161k Shadow damage and fears all players within a line in front of the Eye for 4s.
• Thought Harvester
• Mindwrack (Tank) - The caster’s mental torment manifests as physical pain in the body of its current threat target, inflicting 108k Physical damage and increasing Physical damage taken by 33% for 14s.
• Harvest Thoughts - Harvests the thoughts of nearby players, inflicting 358k Shadow damage to all players within 15 yards. Harvest Thoughts also drains 100 Sanity divided evenly among all players caught in the blast. If Harvest Thought fails to hit at least 5 players, it will instead drain 50 Sanity from all players.