The Weekly Route Series showcases Mythic+ strategies that are tailored towards Beginner and Intermediate levels of Mythic+ with the following criteria in mind:

• Easy to execute - particularly in pick-up-groups (PUGs)
  
• Good tradeoffs between skipping the most difficult enemy forces while not requiring overly complicated strategies or “tech” to do so

This week, the affixes are Fortified, Storming, and Bursting.

This is one of the best Fortified weeks on the calendar! Gather your friends because it's a great time to push that last little bit of Mythic+ score before the end of the expansion.

Fortified + Bursting is a more difficult affix combination for 4-10 key levels than it is at higher levels; mobs with lower health pools are more easily defeated, which can lead to an unintentional refreshing of Bursting stacks and, as a result, dangerously high stacks across the team. Conversely, as your key scales, so do the health pools of Fortified trash mobs, meaning trash lives longer and mobs are less likely to refresh Bursting stacks with early deaths.

DPS players have complete control over Bursting stacks, and everyone must have a way to monitor the group’s damage taken. There are an abundance of WeakAuras available to help in tracking Bursting stacks. 1-3 stacks are manageable for most healers; a surprise stack of 6-8 will almost certainly cause a death if your group doesn't plan properly.

If you are low on health when a trash pack dies, try to wait a moment or eat to heal yourself up before you mount up and run away, especially with Bursting stacks still ticking!

Having a Priest this week with Mass Dispel will be immensely helpful, particularly if you plan big pulls around the 2 minute Mass Dispel cooldown. Mistweaver Monks can also clear high stacks with Revival every 3 minutes.

If you need a refresher on the affixes, be sure to check out our affixes guide!

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Table of Contents

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ALGETH’AR ACADEMY

Keep Storming in mind when positioning for the following boss abilities: Overgrown Ancient’s Germinate, Crawth’s Roving Cyclones, Vexamus’ Arcane Fissure, and Echo of Doragosa’s Power Vacuum.

Be aware of the size of your trash pulls in this dungeon, or you may quickly find yourself with too many Bursting stacks! Tanks, remember and respect healing aggro if you are engaging new trash packs while your healer is still working to heal up the group.

Pay special attention to the Unruly Textbook’s Monotonous Lecture, as this can stun your healer and quickly cause a wipe!

The Arcane Forager and Arcane Ravager mobs on the way to Vexamus can be both unruly and a little scary, especially on Fortified. Learn how to handle these slippery eels with this quick and easy Raider.IO Snapshot:

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THE AZURE VAULT

Keep Storming in mind when positioning for the following boss abilities: Leymor’s Erupting Fissure, Azureblade’s Ancient Orb, Telash Greywing’s Absolute Zero, and Umbrelskul’s Crackling Vortex. Try to fight as much trash as you can in the middle of the rings so Storming doesn’t catch you off guard and throw you off the edge or into dangerous knockbacks like Arcane Construct’s Arcane Bash.

Interrupt Conjured Lasher’s Mystic Vapors and Arcane Elemental’s Waking Bane so that your healer can save their single-target dispel for Bursting stacks.

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BRACKENHIDE HOLLOW

Keep Storming in mind when positioning for the following notable trash abilities: Stinkbreath’s Violent Whirlwind, Bonebolt Hunter’s Toxic Trap, Bracken Warscourge’s Ragestorm, and Wilted Oak’s Stomp. Try to fight as much trash as you can in open spaces so Storming doesn’t catch you off guard and knock you off the bridges after Treemouth or Gutshot.

Be aware of the size of your trash pulls in this dungeon, or you may quickly find yourself with too many Bursting stacks! Tanks, remember and respect healing aggro if you are engaging new trash packs while your healer is still working to heal up the group.

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HALLS OF INFUSION

Keep Storming in mind when positioning for the following notable trash abilities: Primalist Geomancer’s Seismic Slam, Flamecaller Aymi’s Molten Subduction, and Squallbringer Cyraz’s Gale Force Charge. Try to move in advance for boss mechanics so Storming doesn’t catch you off guard in dangerous ground effects like Khajin the Unyielding’s Glacial Surge, Infuser Sariya’s Flash Floods, and Primal Tsunami’s Crashing Tsunami.

Interrupt Nullification Device’s Purifying Blast to prevent additional debuffs across the group, and focus damage into Glacial Proto Dragon to prevent multiple casts of Deep Chill, allowing your healer to save their single-target dispel for Bursting stacks.

If you find yourself struggling with dodging the waves through the gauntlet up to Infuser Sariya, try this handy line of sight trick:

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NELTHARUS

Keep Storming in mind when positioning for the following boss abilities: Magmatusk’s Lava Spray, Chargath’s Magma Wave, Forgemaster Gorek’s Blazing Aegis, and Warlord Sargha’s The Dragon’s Kiln.

Interrupt Qalashi Irontorch’s Mote of Combustion, allowing your healer to save their single-target dispel for Bursting stacks. Remember that there will be no available Bursting dispel while Overseer Lahar is engaged due to Imbued Magma on the tank, which needs to be dispelled quickly.

On the way to Chargath, you’ll find several interactable Burning Chains. You can learn how to utilize these chains to speed up your run in our RIO Snapshot below:



When fighting Forgemaster Gorek, positioning for the Blazing Aegis is key, as shown here in our RIO Snapshot:

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THE NOKHUD OFFENSIVE

Keep Storming in mind when positioning for the following boss abilities: Granyth’s Tectonic Stomp, The Raging Tempest’s Electrical Overload, Teera and Maruuk’s Earthsplitter/Gale Arrow, and Balakar Khan’s Iron Spear/Iron Stampede.

Interrupt Nokhud Lancemaster’s Disruptive Shout, Primalist Stormspeaker’s Tempest, Desecrated Ohuna’s Rotting Wind, each mini bosses’ Death Bolt Volley, and stun Nokhud Hornsounder’s Rally the Clan, because these are super scary for your healer even without Bursting.

If you run with a more coordinated group who prefers to go straight to Balakar Khan and skip the mini bosses, Balara and Batak, invest some time into learning the handy skip detailed in our RIO Snapshot video:

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RUBY LIFE POOLS

Keep Storming in mind when positioning for the following notable trash abilities: Primal Juggernaut’s Crushing Smash, Defier Draghar’s Blazing Rush, and Blazebound Destroyer’s Inferno. Try to fight as much trash as you can in open spaces so Storming doesn’t catch you off guard and knock you over the edge between Kokia Blazehoof and Kyrakka.

Be aware of the size of your trash pulls in this dungeon, or you may quickly find yourself with too many Bursting stacks! Tanks, remember and respect healing aggro if you are engaging new trash packs while your healer is still working to heal up the group. Stun Infused Whelp’s Primal Chill and interrupt High Channeler Ryvati’s Shock Blast so the healer can save their single-target dispel for Bursting stacks.

Some groups utilize an invisibility potion as a pre-potion before they start the key in order to skip the first Primal Juggernaut. The idea is to do a larger and riskier first pull with Bloodlust. Similarly to Dragonflight Season 1, this strategy may become more popular as the season progresses. The downside of skipping this first Primal Juggernaut is that if anyone dies, players must use another invisibility potion to rejoin the group.

Here is an excellent Kyrakka weakaura to help you visualize the way the Flaming Embers move during the fight. If you are looking at the boss with the room’s entrance behind you, the arrows indicate which way the puddles will move with the next cast of Winds of Change. Try it out and let me know what you think!

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ULDAMAN

To find Uldaman, take the portal to The Badlands in Valdrakken, shown on the map below:



Keep Storming in mind when positioning for the following boss abilities: The Lost Dwarves’ Longboat Raid, Bromach’s Thundering Slam, Sentinel Talondras’ Resonating Orb, Emberon’s intermission, and Chrono-Lord Deios’ Sand Breath.

Be aware of the size of your trash pulls in this dungeon, or you may quickly find yourself with too many Bursting stacks! Tanks, remember and respect healing aggro if you are engaging new trash packs while your healer is still working to heal up the group. Use personal defensives if Runic Protector’s Earthquake or Ebonstone Golem’s Thunderous Clap go out while you still have Bursting stacks.

After Emberon, you can utilize a wall hug skip to avoid a painful Ebonstone Golem. No special tricks or abilities are required – all you need to do is walk your character into the wall and slowly inch your way towards the other side of the room. This skip is marked with a gold exclamation point (!) on our route. Check out this clip to see the skip in action:



Given this week’s brutal trash affixes, you may not want to pull the double Infinite Timereaver pack in the room right before the final boss. There are a few ways to skip this pack without needing to use an invisibility potion, which we discuss in a quick R.IO Snapshot:

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