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Horrific Hemorrhage
Carapace of N'Zoth - Ny'alotha, the Waking City
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Adventure Guide Entry
The in-game Adventure Guide text for the Carapace of N'Zoth encounter in Ny'alotha, the Waking City.
At the center of Ny'alotha stands a dread mountain of flesh, teeming with eyes and tendrils of unfettered corruption. Madness itself seeps from the writhing mass, eroding the sanity of all who approach it. This is the heart of the Black Empire, N'Zoth's seat of power, the body of a god.
Encounter Facts
Abilities & Strategy
What the in-game dungeon journal describes for this encounter. Every ability links to its spell page.
Abilities & Strategy
Overview
N'Zoth rallies his physical defenses, retreating deeper into his carapace at 50% and 40% health. Players' Sanity balances tenuously throughout the encounter. Wrathion allows players to utilize their Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve to recover from Wrathion's Anchor of Sanity. Losing all Sanity grants Gift of N'Zoth, then transforms a player into a Servant of N'Zoth. Players lose access to Wrathion's aid in the final stage.
Damage Dealers
- Move away from your allies when afflicted with Madness Bomb and Insanity Bomb.
- Adaptive Membrane transfers full damage to the wearer only if the absorb shield is broken before the duration expires.
- Utilize Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve during Stage 1 and Stage 2 to recover Sanity by Wrathion's side.
- Manage Gaze of Madness' Breed Madness.
- Utilize Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve during Stage 1 to recover Sanity by Wrathion's side.
Healers
- Move away from your allies when afflicted with Madness Bomb and Insanity Bomb.
- Eternal Darkness and Infinite Darkness inflict Sanity loss and high raid-wide damage, and upon losing all Sanity a player becomes a Servant of N'Zoth.
- Utilize Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve during Stage 1 and Stage 2 to recover Sanity by Wrathion's side.
- Utilize Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve during Stage 1 to recover Sanity by Wrathion's side.
- Be aware that Adaptive Membrane absorbs damage but reduces healing received.
Tanks
- Take turns tanking Fury of N'Zoth to avoid excessive Black Scar stacks from Mandible Slam.
- Targets afflicted with Adaptive Membrane are immune to crowd control and interrupts.
- Move away from your allies when afflicted with Madness Bomb and Insanity Bomb.
- Utilize Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve during Stage 1 and Stage 2 to recover Sanity by Wrathion's side.
- Targets afflicted with Adaptive Membrane are immune to crowd control and interrupts, and reduces healing received.
- Utilize Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve during Stage 1 to recover Sanity by Wrathion's side.
Stage One: Exterior Carapace
N'Zoth rallies his physical defenses, attacking enemies with massive growth-covered tentacles, eye stalks, and antibodies, retreating at 50% health.
Fury of N'Zoth
Madness Bomb
Adaptive Membrane
In Mythic difficulty, players can be targeted by Adaptive Membrane.
Mental Decay
Mandible Slam
Growth-Covered Tentacle
Gaze of Madness
Wrathion
Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve
Stage Two: Subcutaneous Tunnel
N'Zoth recovers within a subcutaneous layer of the carapace, healing from growths along the cavern walls and restricting players with regenerating cysts. While any Synthesis Growths remain, N'Zoth is immune to all damage. N'Zoth retreats again upon reaching 40% health. In Mythic difficulty, Wrathion no longer provides players with aid in Stage 2, and N'Zoth retreats immediately upon all Synthesis Growths being defeated.
Fury of N'Zoth
Madness Bomb
Adaptive Membrane
In Mythic difficulty, players can be targeted by Adaptive Membrane.
Mental Decay
Eternal Darkness
Occipital Blast
Mandible Slam
Mycelial Cyst
Synthesis Growth
In Mythic difficulty, Synthesis Growths expel Nightmare Antigens upon death.
Synthesis
Nightmare Antigen
Wrathion
Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve
Stage Three: Locus of Infinite Truths
N'Zoth assaults players with his full suite of remaining defenses while they no longer have Wrathion's aid.
Fury of N'Zoth
Insanity Bomb
Adaptive Membrane
In Mythic difficulty, players can be targeted by Adaptive Membrane.
Mental Decay
Eternal Darkness
Infinite Darkness
Mandible Slam
Thrashing Tentacle
Cyst Genesis
Mycelial Cyst
Ability Spells
Every ability the Adventure Guide lists for this encounter, with its spell's school, cast time and duration and the description the game gives it.
Gift of N'Zoth
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 20 sec
Servant of N'Zoth
Shadow · Instant
Mental Decay
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 12 sec
Madness Bomb
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 12 sec
Plants the seed of madness in targets. Non-targeted Players affected by the explosion lose Sanity.
Adaptive Membrane
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 12 sec
Shields a target, absorbing damage for 12 sec. While present the target is immune to Crowd Control and is unable to be slowed to below 100% of normal speed. If the shield is broken before the duration expires, all damage done to the shield is inflicted to the target.
Fragment of Sanity
Physical · Instant
Forms an orb of Sanity nearby for 15 sec. Restores Sanity to a player upon contact.
Shard of Sanity
Physical · Instant
Forms a large orb of Sanity nearby for 20 sec. Restores Sanity all players within upon contact.
Mandible Slam
Physical · 1 sec cast
Slams a target with a void-empowered attack, inflicting Physical damage.
Growth-Covered Tentacle
Physical · 7 sec cast · Lasts 1 min
A Growth-Covered Tentacle slams down knocking back and inflicting Nature damage to targets struck.
Horrific Gland
Shadow · Instant
Expunges a globule of fluid, inflicting Shadow damage to targets within 5 yards of the point of impact, forming a Nightmare Antigen.
Nightmare Antibody
Shadow · Instant · Lasts 4 sec
Successful melee attacks sap the target's potency, inflicting Shadow damage, decreasing haste by 5% and reducing their movement speed by 5% for 4 sec. This effect stacks.
Interconnectedness
Physical · Instant
When all Horrific Hemorrhages are defeated, the Growth-Covered Tentacle recedes and N'Zoth suffers.2% of total health for each Horrific Hemorrhage in damage.
Breed Madness
Shadow · 3 sec cast · Lasts 12 sec
Blasts several targets with cerebral force, inflicting increasing Shadow damage, up to, every 1 sec for 12 sec.
Maddening Eruption
Shadow · Instant
Explodes with otherworldly power, draining Sanity and inflicting Shadow damage to all players.
Anchor of Sanity
Physical · Instant · Lasts 10080 min
Grace of the Black Prince
Physical · Instant · Lasts 10 sec
Movement speed increased by 40% for 10 sec.
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Drops
Loot the dungeon journal lists for this encounter in Ny'alotha, the Waking City.
What is shown is the loot the game's own dungeon journal lists for this encounter.
What Each Drop Is
The Carapace of N'Zoth encounter lists 11 items in the dungeon journal, item level 95. Equip slots covered: Legs, Feet, Head, One-Hand, Hands, Shoulder, Chest and Waist. Every piece binds when picked up, so none of it reaches the Auction House.
- Corporeal Supplicant's Trousers Legs (Cloth), item level 95, requires level 50. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Versatility. A vendor pays 82g 51s for it.
- Corpuscular Leather Greaves Feet (Leather), item level 95, requires level 50. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 61g 10s for it.
- Helm of Actualized Visions Head (Mail), item level 95, requires level 50. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect and Stamina. A vendor pays 58g 28s for it.
- Lurker's Piercing Gaze One-Hand (One-Handed Mace), item level 95, requires level 50. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 107g 44s for it.
- Mirage-Weaver's Gauntlets Hands (Plate), item level 95, requires level 50. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 40g 16s for it.
- Pauldrons of Infinite Darkness Shoulder (Plate), item level 95, requires level 50. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect and Stamina. A vendor pays 57g 19s for it.
- Shard of the Black Empire One-Hand (Dagger), item level 95, requires level 50. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 107g 1s for it.
- Shgla'yos, Astral Malignity One-Hand (One-Handed Sword), item level 95, requires level 50. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 107g 4s for it.
- Spaulders of Miasmic Mycelia Shoulder (Cloth), item level 95, requires level 50. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect and Stamina. A vendor pays 59g 59s for it.
- Tortured Fleshbeast Cuirass Chest (Leather), item level 95, requires level 50. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect and Stamina. A vendor pays 79g 31s for it.
- Watcher's Scheming Girdle Waist (Mail), item level 95, requires level 50. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Versatility. A vendor pays 40g 16s for it.
Read from the current game build's item data. Listed prices come from our latest US Auction House scan; a drop that binds when picked up never has one.
Achievements for Defeating It
4 achievements list a victory over Horrific Hemorrhage among their criteria.