This week's affixes are Fortified, Bursting, Storming, and Encrypted!

This is a pretty dangerous week for melee DPS players during scary trash pulls, as Storming combines with many naturally dangerous Fortified-enhanced ground targeted effects or frontals, which can combine with Bursting to cause a lot of damage in a short time.

It’s also the first week of Patch 9.2.5 which means that you can now do Mythic Plus with players of the other faction! For players interested in pushing the very highest keys, if losing your guild tag isn’t a deal breaker, it could be worth considering swapping to Alliance if you’re currently Horde to gain access to Stoneform, which is effective against several effects in dungeons but among the most notable is this week’s Bursting affix.

De Other Side [back to top]

De Other Side is a fantastic dungeon to use the Wo Cypher in to zoom around the dungeon. The Route with Encrypted Skips offered below will require you to target the Wo several times throughout the dungeon, but it’s a very fun strategy that can also save a lot of time so try it out if you’re able to!

If you want to execute big pulls in the Ardenweald area of the dungeon this week make sure that you’re ready for the big Bursting stacks at the end - defensives from DPS players are great for this if you don’t have other answers like Mass Dispel.

Read more on De Other Side Dungeon Abilities.

Halls of Atonement [back to top]

The traditional skip from the first to second boss in this dungeon can be done with a Wo Cypher now, which our route uses! If you want to modify the plan, you can of course still use other methods to do this skip such as Shroud or Invis pot or indeed kill mobs along the way instead.

Storming can be dangerous near the start of this dungeon because there are a few nasty ground effects and a very dangerous frontal from the Darkblades, so Melee DPS should play especially safely here.

Read more on Halls of Atonement Dungeon Abilities.

Mists of Tirna Scithe [back to top]

Mists begins with a new pull that hasn’t been done in previous seasons to get access to a Wo Cypher and zoom to the first boss. You’ll need to be extra cautious and hug the wall while executing this in order to avoid the true sight mobs! After that first skip, the remaining Encrypted mobs are all up to your preference, though it’s very valuable to line up a damage cypher with the burn phase on the first boss.

Read more on Mists of Tirna Scithe Dungeon Abilities.

Plaguefall [back to top]

Remember that the slimes in the first boss rooms DO burst, so either stagger their deaths, pull the room in smaller parts, or plan to use defensives and immunities against the 20-stack!

Read more on Plaguefall Dungeon Abilities.

Sanguine Depths [back to top]

We’re offering two Sanguine Depths routes - one with no skips and the other with a few skips to make the dungeon faster and/or less lethal - importantly, these are not Wo Cypher skips but old-fashioned Shroud, death, or invis pot skips, so do not use that route if you aren’t equipped to execute those!

Storming can be very dangerous in these narrow corridors, so this is another dungeon where melee DPS should be hyper vigilant, especially whenever you’re pulling enemies with other packs nearby that you’re trying to avoid!

Read more on Sanguine Depths Dungeon Abilities.

Spires of Ascension [back to top]

The traditional skip past the nasty enemies before Oryphrion is now possible with a Wo Cypher, so you don’t need to hop around the walls and use two-seater mounts or anything any more!

Read more on Spires of Ascension Dungeon Abilities.

The Necrotic Wake [back to top]

A Wo cypher in this dungeon also facilitates the traditional skip to the second boss, so we’re including that plan in our route. It’s also worth noting that the Spear weapon available in this dungeon does increase the boss’ damage taken from your abilities while it’s active, so it’s great to combine with either the Vy or Urh Cyphers for even more damage on bosses that you’re spearing.

Pulling trash onto the first boss with the Kyrian Anima Exhaust from the downed goliath is a great strategy even with Bursting active - the Anima Exhaust actually provides a lot of group-wide healing as long as you’re fairly close together.

Read more on The Necrotic Wake Dungeon Abilities.

Theater of Pain [back to top]

There are no required uses of any Cyphers in our route for this dungeon, though if you’re looking to experiment you could try using the first Wo cypher in Gorechop’s wing to skip down to the bridge!

The Ancient Captain is a great candidate for Control Undead if you’re playing with a Death Knight - if you don’t have one, you can also consider skipping that pack and making up the count elsewhere!

Read more on Theater of Pain Dungeon Abilities.

Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder [back to top]

We’ve updated our Streets of Wonder route - it now uses one Wo cypher skip near the start of the dungeon to get past two overseers after the first boss. If you’d prefer, you can just kill these mobs though they are annoying and then cut something from later in the dungeon.

Read more on Tazavesh Dungeon Abilities.

Tazavesh: So’leah’s Gambit [back to top]

Check out our quick-start guide to Tazavesh to learn the most important abilities to look out for in this dungeon! The important numbers to know for this dungeon are that you need 35% of your count from the Murloc area or 48% of your count before you pull the first boss (the four mobs before the first boss give that 13% difference between the two numbers, so you’ll need multiple extra murloc pulls if you want to skip them)

As with most weeks, the Murloc area is already scary and is the most enhanced by the affixes, with Storming potentially disrupting your plans to stop Scalebinders on their Fish Stick cast (which, if you’re not already doing, you should try to!) as well as fairly high amount of Bursting stacks to deal with as there are a lot of enemies in most of the pulls here.

Tazavesh Dungeon Abilities.