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Mycelial Cyst
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 Mycelial Cyst, with its spell's school, cast time and duration and the description the game gives it.
Mycelial Growth
Nature · Instant
A web of branching fibers spreads over the environment, reducing the movement speed of targets by 75% and inflicting Nature damage every 1 sec. The web of fibers is reduced in size as the Mycelial Cyst's health is diminished.
Mycelial Infusion
Nature · Instant
Regenerative Mass
Physical · Instant
Regenerates the caster's health by 1% of maximum health every 0.5 sec.
Reactive Mass
Physical · 10 sec cast · Lasts 20 sec
Covers the Mycelial Cyst in a protective layer, preventing targeting for 20 sec.
Regenerative Expulsion
Shadow · 5 sec cast · Lasts 0.5 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 Mycelial Cyst among their criteria.