Algethar Academy – Dragonflight Season 4

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Algethar Academy – Dragonflight Season 4

MDT Route for S4 Algethar Academy

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As soon as you start the keystone, you’ll jump across to a starting area where you’ll find 5 Dragonkin Recruiters from different Dragonflights providing permanent buffs. Take the one that best suits your spec.

Bronze Dragonflight Recruiter

Bronze Dragonflight Pledge Pin

5% Haste

Blue Dragonflight Recruiter

Blue Dragonflight Pledge Pin

1109 Mastery

Green Dragonflight Recruiter

Green Dragonflight Pledge Pin

10% Healing taken

Red Dragonflight Recruiter

Red Dragonflight Pledge Pin

5% Versatility

Black Dragonflight Recruiter

Black Dragonflight Pledge Pin

5% Critical Strike

First Boss: Overgrown Ancient

Players can chose to either go left to Vexamus, or straight to Overgrown Ancient!

Notable Trash Mobs in this Area

Dodge the Vile Lasher‘s

Detonation Seeds. They do damage and disorient for 5 seconds.

Aggravated Skitterfly – Use as many CCs as you can while fighting these and pop CDs as well. Soothe

Agitation when they gain stacks. Use a defensive cooldown if you are at low health, you might get a one-shot due to their random charge spell –

Darting Sting.

Overgrown Ancient Notable Abilities

During Germinate, stack around the boss so that all the Hungry Lasher spawn clumped nearby.
Interrupt Healing Touch on the new Ancient Branch.

Ability & Strategy Overview

During Germinate, stack around the boss so that all the Hungry Lasher spawn clumped nearby. This allows you to AoE them before they Burst Forth and become active. Dodge swirls continuously until they stop spawning.
Help use AoE CCs to control the Hungry Lasher so your tank doesn’t get too many stacks of Lasher Toxin. If you have a poison dispel, use it on cooldown to help reduce damage!
Dodge the large brown swirl as Branch Out is casting.
Priority Kick! Healing Touch on the new Ancient Branch. It will cast immediately, and every 10 seconds until it dies.
Hard focus down Ancient Branch and stack close to it when it dies to remove the Splinterbark with Abundance. Otherwise, your healer will have a bad time. If needed, you can use a bleed removal such as Blessing of Protection or Cauterizing Flame to remove it.
Barkbreaker is a tankbuster that occurs approximately every 20-30 seconds. Make sure a defensive or external is up for this!

Second Boss: Crawth

Notable Trash Mobs in this Area

Sidestep Guardian Sentry‘s

Deadly Winds and out-range/line of sight the large AoE and knockback cast –

Expel Intruders. Your tank must pay extra attention to the

Storm Slash, and use active mitigation as appropriate.

Territorial Eagle will only be a threat to your tank with its

Peck ability and otherwise harmless to the group.

Beware of Alpha Eagle and its

Gust frontal cone, it is easier to dodge it if you stand closer to the melee. In addition, make sure to interrupt

Call of the Flock as it is the only interrupt you should be looking at in this area.

Crawth Notable Abilities

Each cast will apply a stack of Sonic Vulnerability, which permanently increases its damage.
You can only remove this by scoring goals during Play Ball!.

Ability & Strategy Overview

Always stay slightly spread out, but somewhat close to the boss if possible.
Each cast will apply a stack of Sonic Vulnerability, which permanently increases its damage. You can only remove this by scoring goals during Play Ball!. A common strategy here is to clear all Sonic Vulnerability debuffs with the fire at 3 stacks and do the same with wind 2 or 3 depending on the key level.
Overpowering Gust is a frontal cone aimed at a random player. It will damage and knock everyone hit by it off the platform.
Savage Peck tankbuster and DoT happens every ~15 seconds. It cannot be dodged and parried! Use defensives as needed.
Don’t get interrupted by Deafening Screech. Use a defensive when your stacks of Sonic Vulnerability get high.
Make sure your whole party is topped up before each Deafening Screech.

Third Boss: Vexamus

Notable Trash Mobs in this Area

Use your crowd-control spells to stop Spellbound Scepter‘s

Mystic Blast.

Interrupt Unruly Textbook‘s

Monotonous Lecture, 8-second sleep. Can also be dispelled by Magic Dispel. Alternative options: Warlock imp, Priest’s

Mass Dispel, Shaman

Tremor Totem, etc are among the most popular choices.

Interrupt Corrupted Manafiend‘s

Mana Void at all costs (use defensive if it goes on you). Any spare kicks should go on

Surge.

Spellbound Battleaxe is an extremely tough mob for your tank due to its

Severing Slash Bleed effect. This is one of the priority mobs to kill.

Although is a relatively harmless mob Arcane Forager, multiple casts of

Vicious Lunge random charges can be lethal, use a defensive if your health dips low!

At last, sidestep Arcane Ravager‘s

Riftbreath frontal channel and pay attention to

Vicious Ambush if it targets you. Important tip: you can bait the

Vicious Ambush charges as it most often prefers the furthest target, afterwards you can use any object to hide behind thus line of sighting the cast which Arcane Ravager will just “forget” about the spell. This way, you will completely neglect the mechanic and make it safer for your team.

Vexamus Notable Abilities

Arcane Orbs spawn all around the circle and must be soaked by different people.
Use a defensive during Mana Bombs

Ability & Strategy Overview

The boss is quite simple: it passively generates Energy, gaining more if it soaks any Arcane Orbs. Upon reaching 100 Energy, it will cast Arcane Fissure, a powerful mass group-wide AoE cast. Below you can find our detailed breakdown of how each member of your team should play it.

Arcane Orbs spawn all around the circle and must be soaked by different people. Don’t let them hit Vexamus! It will gain 20 energy and damage your whole party. Each orb soaked does damage and puts a magic-dispellable stacking debuff Oversurge that makes you take 100% more damage per orb soaked. Alternatively, have someone with magic immunity run around and soak all the orbs!
Arcane Fissure is cast approximately every 40 seconds at 100 energy if you handled the Arcane Orbs correctly. Every orb that hits the boss will reduce the timer by 8 seconds! You will get knocked back, take damage, and spawn multiple swirls over a few seconds which will explode. Don’t drop the swirls on your group!
Use a defensive during Mana Bombs (it will always go on 3 people – usually DPS/Healer) DoT duration. Make sure to avoid the lingering pool on the ground – Corrupted Mana appearing after the last tick of Mana Bombs.
Make sure to aim Vexamus‘s Arcane Expulsion frontal cone away from your group.
Dispel Oversurge when you can to allow people to soak more orbs.

Final Boss: Echo of Doragosa

Notable Trash Mobs in this Area

Sidestep the Algeth’ar Echoknight‘s

Astral Whirlwind or use stuns/CCs to disable it.

Interrupt Spectral Invoker‘s

Arcane Missiles as this is a priority interrupt. In addition, the mob will cast

Astral Bomb on a random target, and get close to melee as It will damage enemies so you can use it to help kill them.

At last, Ethereal Restorer will cast

Celestial Shield on a random enemy mob, it is uninterruptible so you can use a purge

Echo of Doragosa Notable Abilities

Every single non-melee ability applies one stack of Overwhelming Power. Arcane Rift are dropped where you stand when you receive 3 stacks
Use defensive if you get an Energy Bomb on you, this can be particularly dangerous if you already have 2 stacks of Overwhelming Power

Ability & Strategy Overview

Echo of Doragosa will have an Energy bar that will naturally regenerate, and upon reaching 100 Energy, the boss will cast Astral Breath. Beyond that, it is also important to understand how Overwhelming Power debuff works. Unlike many of the debuffs in this dungeon, this will give you 5% increased damage per stack up to a maximum of 3 stacks. Here is the catch: upon reaching
maximum stacks (4), you will automatically trigger Arcane Rift and remove all of your stacks. Arcane Rift will periodically spawn Uncontrolled Energy, making the fight more difficult. You want to try your best to avoid as many mechanics as you can to minimize the amount of Arcane Rift being spawned as they will make the fight a hell. At last, mostly all Echo of Doragosa‘s abilities will grant you a stack of the Overwhelming Power.

Every single non-melee ability applies one stack of Overwhelming Power. Each stack gives you a 5% damage buff. Some abilities are unavoidable.
Arcane Rift are dropped where you stand when you receive 3 stacks of Overwhelming Power. They last for 2 minutes from the time they are dropped. Dodge the Uncontrolled Energy coming from the Arcane Rift. Sidenote that Unleash Energy will spawn 2 Arcane Rift, making the already hard fight, harder.
Sidestep the Astral Breath frontal cone, this is easier if you’re standing relatively close, rather than max range.
Run away immediately after every Power Vacuum. It pulls you on top of her and then does an AoE. If you get hit by the AoE, you will likely die.
Periodically the boss will target a random member of your party with Arcane Missiles, granting them a stack of Overwhelming Power.
Use defensive if you get an Energy Bomb on you, this can be particularly dangerous if you already have 2 stacks of Overwhelming Power, use defensive and ask your healer for a dispel. Sidenote, just make sure you are away from your party members and spawn the Arcane Rift away from your group.