This week's affixes are Fortified, Raging, Explosive, and Encrypted!

It’s the 2nd to last Fortified week on the calendar, and the 3rd to last week overall of the season, so time is running out to finalize your Season 3 Mythic Plus score! This fortified week is going to be slightly better for most groups than the final one, which will feature Spiteful and Necrotic, so plan your pushing accordingly!

Fortified/Raging is still a very scary combination for your tank, however, and should be respected, especially if you're gaming without a Soothe effect! Kiting towards the end of pulls is a good idea if you're at all worried.

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 you may want to consider saving Night Fae urns for the end rather than the start of the pull to cover the Raging period. This is also one of the most vital Soothe dungeons for the Enraged Spirit - if you don’t have one, try to delay the 30% push until directly after a Rage cast.

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.

Raging Gargons are very dangerous - if they apply a Bleed to you while Raging it will update the entire DoT stack to be Raging, so you may want to kite to avoid that!

This is also the dungeon with the most dangerous Explosive section - Inquisitor Sigar and the adds require you to carefully split your damage - though it’s worth noting that you can reduce explosive spawns if you avoid getting in combat for a while with some sections of souls by not touching them!

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]

It’s definitely a better week for Plaguefall than the Spiteful Necrotic one that’s your other Fortified option, so if you have the choice and need the score we recommend choosing Plaguefall!

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!

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!

The angels at the end of the dungeon are particularly nasty while Raging, so if you don’t have a Soothe effect save defensives for that time.

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 - the Anima Exhaust actually provides a lot of free damage and 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!

We’ve updated our So’leah’s Gambit route to skip the first Adorned Starseer in the last room - this can be done simply by walking around to the side. In the Murloc area, you’ll need to get every pack while hugging left (including two of the patrols of the small murlocs) plus one other pull of either a giant or murlocs.

Watch out for far Explosives spawned by fleeing murlocs this week!

Tazavesh Dungeon Abilities.