The Necrotic Wake Mythic+ Dungeon Guide

Before engaging the boss you’ll want to make sure you clear enough trash in the area, as the fight has quite a bit of area denial.

Heaving Retch targets a random player, doing a frontal after a short delay that they cannot avoid, applying a Disease DoT on them, and spawning 3 Carrion Worm adds. I recommend having your party be stacked, then when a player is targeted they can move the frontal behind the boss, use a defensive to survive the initial hit, and dispel the disease DoT off of them.

These Carrion Worms will fixate random players, attempting to use Blood Gorge on them. If successful they gain a stacking 30% damage increase, which causes them to explode at 5 stacks applying a lethal DoT to your group. Use slows and CCs to stop this from happening, slowly kiting as a group as needed, and cleave them down. On death these mobs will spawn a puddle of Fetid Gas for 2mins as area denial.

The boss itself will occasionally spawn a puddle of Fetid Gas underneath him as well, meaning positioning is quite important so you don’t run out of space. Outside of that, tanks just be aware of the Crunch tank buster and use defensives as needed.

Necrotic Bolt targets random players, keep an interrupt rotation on this to reduce your group's damage intake.

Occasionally the boss will gain Unholy Frenzy, if you have a soothe use it here to remove the enrage effect.

Land of the Dead will spawn 5 Reanimated minions that you’ll want to group up and cleave down. When the boss casts Final Harvest, it will deal heavy damage to the party for each living minion, or spawn an 8yd AoE around the body of a dead minion that you’ll want to avoid. For each dead minion or player after this cast the boss will gain stacks of Tortured Echoes, which deals group damage for 30s that you’ll need to heal through, using defensives as necessary.

On top of this, the boss will intermittently face a random player and use Necrotic Breath, a frontal attack that rotates from the initial position. Be aware of this rotation and dodge accordingly.

To start the encounter Stitchflesh is hiding on his work table, protected by Noxious Fog which players need to stay away from. While away from the fight he will continuously use Stitchneedle on random players, dealing physical damage and applying a 10s Bleed to them. He will also throw Embalming Ichor at random players, leaving behind puddles which should be avoided.

Instead of the boss you’ll initially be fighting a Creation mob, which you can use to bring Stitchflesh into the fight, thanks to its Meathook ability. This works a lot like the Throw Cleaver ability from the trash, so you need to have the targeted player point this at Stitchflesh before it locks into place, then make sure all players avoid the projectile as it stops on the first target hit. Outside of this, the mob also does constant ticking damage to the party through Festering Rot, which stacks up to 15 times, and will hit the tank with Mutilate, which can be especially dangerous when multiple Creations are alive.

After being hooked, Stitchflesh will continue to throw out Embalming Ichor puddles, but will no longer use Stitchneedle, instead hitting the tank with Sever Flesh which is fairly low damage and not something to worry about. He also will use Morbid Fixate on a random player, just like a previous mini boss, which you can again interrupt with the Creation’s Meathook ability. AFter roughly 30s of fighting the party, Stitchflesh will Escape back to his workstation and you’ll need to pull him down once again to continue damaging him. Right after doing this he will spawn an additional Creation mob you’ll need to deal with.

In terms of how you should aim your Meathooks, every odd hook should be aimed at the centre of Stitchflesh’s workstation to pull him down, as he will jump back up during the cast of these hooks. Every even hook should be aimed directly at the boss to interrupt the fixate. For damage, you want each creation to cast at least 2 hooks (or 3 for the first creation), but you do want to kill them shortly after the spawn of the next Creation so that you don’t get overwhelmed with group or tank damage.

Icy Shard is spam cast on the tank, don’t be fooled by the name though as this actually deals physical damage!

Frozen Binds targets a random player, make sure all players move out of the 16yd AoE before using a dispel or freedom effect to clear it. Note that you can pre-freedom this effect during the cast time and it will do nothing.

Occasionally the boss will gain Icebound Aegis, absorbing damage and dealing ramping frost damage to the party every 3s. It’s important to destroy these as quickly as you can, and on shields you don’t have damage be sure to use healing CDs and defensives to survive the additional damage.

When Comet Storm is cast, 3yd swirlies spawn under all players every 0.5s for 4s. Try not to cut other players off and stutter step every second to conserve space if possible. If you have multiple melee players you can opt to have them stack up and rotate in the same direction around the boss when this happens to maintain boss uptime.

Roughly every minute the boss will randomly target a DPS player with Dark Exile, sending them to a side platform where they must dodge swirlies and defeat a Zolramus Siphoner within 50s or they are killed. This mob has one important cast in Enfeeble which you’ll want to interrupt. Upon killing the mob you’ll be sent back to the boss platform and gain Champion’s Boon, increasing your Crit by 100% for 40s.

The longer it takes you to kill this mob the more stacks of Frigid Cold you’ll gain, which drops a puddle underneath you when it expires based on your stacks. This means when you return to the boss platform, you’ll want to move to one of the corners initially to drop this puddle off somewhere that doesn’t hinder the rest of your party.