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Nightmare Antigen
Carapace of N'Zoth - Ny'alotha, the Waking City
Nightmare Antigen is a boss of the Carapace of N'Zoth encounter in Ny'alotha, the Waking City.
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Encounter Facts
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Model
Background
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.
Sanity
Spell details
Gift of N'Zoth
Spell details
Servant of N'Zoth
Spell detailsStage 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
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Adaptive Membrane
Spell detailsIn Mythic difficulty, players can be targeted by Adaptive Membrane.
Mental Decay
Spell details
Mandible Slam
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Growth-Covered Tentacle
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Horrific Hemorrhage
Spell details
Interconnectedness
Spell detailsGaze of Madness
Breed Madness
Spell detailsInterconnectedness
Spell detailsWrathion
Anchor of Sanity
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Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve
Spell detailsStage 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
Spell detailsAdaptive Membrane
Spell detailsIn Mythic difficulty, players can be targeted by Adaptive Membrane.
Mental Decay
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Eternal Darkness
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Occipital Blast
Spell detailsMandible Slam
Spell detailsMycelial Cyst
Regenerative MassSynthesis Growth
In Mythic difficulty, Synthesis Growths expel Nightmare Antigens upon death.
Synthesis
Spell detailsNightmare Antigen
Wrathion
Anchor of Sanity
Spell detailsAshjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve
Spell detailsStage 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
Spell detailsAdaptive Membrane
Spell detailsIn Mythic difficulty, players can be targeted by Adaptive Membrane.
Mental Decay
Spell detailsEternal Darkness
Spell detailsInfinite Darkness
Spell detailsMandible Slam
Spell detailsThrashing Tentacle
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Cyst Genesis
Spell detailsMycelial Cyst
Ability Spells
Every ability the Adventure Guide lists for Nightmare Antigen, with its spell's school, cast time and duration and the description the game gives it.
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.
Adaptive Antigen
Shadow · Instant
The Nightmare Antigen gains Adaptive Antigen periodically, increasing damage done by 10% and preventing them from being slowed below 10% of normal speed. This effect stacks.
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.
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.
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 82 gold51 silver 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 61 gold10 silver 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 58 gold28 silver 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 107 gold44 silver 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 40 gold16 silver 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 57 gold19 silver 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 107 gold1 silver 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 107 gold4 silver for it.
- Spaulders of Miasmic Mycelia Shoulder (Cloth), item level 95, requires level 50. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect and Stamina. A vendor pays 59 gold59 silver 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 79 gold31 silver 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 40 gold16 silver 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 Nightmare Antigen among their criteria.
