DREAMBREATH

Vashnik the Malignant

The Venomous Abyss. Where the damage lands and what these runs pressed against it, stage by stage.

How to heal it

Reported as one stretch of a few minutes. Nothing in the logs marks a transition, so the useful planning unit is the single peak rather than a stage list.

Every logged run reports this as one stretch with no phase transitions. That is either a fight with one stage or a fight whose transitions go unreported, and the log cannot tell those apart. Treat the timing below as one peak in a long fight, and expect others it cannot see.

The first thing worth planning against lands 3m 33s in. Empowers and Stasis both want lead time, so a ramp that starts when you see a health bar move is already late. Begin it around 3m 13s, roughly 20 seconds out, and let it land into the spike rather than after it.

Most of what reaches the group here comes from Toxic Vapor, Caustic Explosion and Plague Froth, and those are totals for everybody who is not the tank, so they are what the raid took rather than a number you have to heal on your own.

All of this comes from 441 logged heroic runs, every one of them a kill, because the board these came from holds no wipes. Read the timings as the shape of the fight rather than as settled numbers: they will move as the raid goes on farm.

The stages that spike

Every run here reported one segment. That is either a single stage fight or a fight whose phase transitions are not reported, and those look identical from the log. Read it as unconfirmed rather than as a finding.

Each stage of Vashnik the Malignant, how long it runs and where its heaviest five seconds fall.
StageRunsMedian lengthWorst momentTaken in those five seconds
Vashnik the Malignant4416m 28s3m 33s16,561,191
Log-verifiedn=441 runs
Vashnik the Malignant on heroic is measured as one stretch, and its heaviest five seconds fall 3m 33s in.
The worst moment is the middle of the heaviest five seconds of damage that did not land on a tank, measured from the pull.
First week of the season, so gear is low and every timing here moves as it rises.Every run is a kill. The leaderboard holds no wipes, so nothing here shows what going wrong looks like.

What the ramp looks like

Taken from what these runs cast in the thirty seconds before the heaviest damage of each stage. Procs are left out, because a proc is not a decision: Twin Flame fires when Essence Burst is consumed, and Merithra's Blessing is a passive that upgrades your next Reversion.

Vashnik the Malignant

Press Echo about 5 times, Emerald Blossom about 5 times, Temporal Anomaly about 2 times, Dream Breath about 2 times and Fire Breath about 2 times inside that window, across 440 runs.

No two runs cast the same full sequence, so there is no single opener to copy. What repeats is which cast follows which:

  • Echo into Echo, in 80% (350 of 440) of the runs
  • Emerald Blossom into Echo, in 78% (341 of 440) of the runs
  • Emerald Blossom into Emerald Blossom, in 74% (326 of 440) of the runs
  • Temporal Anomaly into Echo, in 66% (291 of 440) of the runs
  • Echo into Emerald Blossom, in 66% (289 of 440) of the runs

440 runs with ramp casts · a typical ramp is 6 abilities

No ability reliably goes first here. The most common opener was Emerald Blossom, in 161 of 440 runs. Treat this as a set to get out, not an order.

Ramp abilities for Vashnik the Malignant, by how often each appeared and opened.
AbilityAppeared inOpened the rampTypical position
Echo99% (437 of 440)101 of 4402
Emerald Blossom99% (434 of 440)161 of 4402
Temporal Anomaly99% (437 of 440)70 of 4403
Dream Breath98% (433 of 440)46 of 4404

Stasis

Held time is how long the charges sat banked before release. A long hold means Stasis was filled during downtime and spent later; a short one means it was filled and released inside the same window, which is a different tool.

Log-verifiedn=1707 runs with Stasis recorded
Into Vashnik the Malignant, Stasis was banked with Dream Breath + Temporal Anomaly + Emerald Blossom and held 14s.

What they were playing

The loadout most of these runs shared. A real build somebody imported rather than an average: a build assembled from per-talent take rates can overspend the point budget or take both halves of a choice node, which is not a build anybody can play. The full spread by key level lives on the talents page.

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Class

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What is doing the damage

Per stage, the abilities that hit somebody other than a tank hardest, totalled across the whole stage and averaged per run. These are stage totals, so they are much larger than the five second figure in the table above and the two do not compare.

A raid total is not a healing requirement and neither is this. It is what the group took, with most of a tank's share deliberately left out.

Vashnik the Malignant

  • Toxic Vapor, 105,206,041
  • Caustic Explosion, 63,102,593
  • Plague Froth, 57,532,888
  • Caustic Surge, 38,218,134

Other bosses

How these numbers were measured

Runs come from Warcraft Logs. Preservation Evoker only, The Venomous Abyss only.

6242 logged runs across 9 bosses, cut into 22454 phase segments. Every one is a kill, because the ranking board these came from holds nothing else, so nothing here describes a fight going wrong.

Runs whose event stream was cut short are excluded, because their totals would be low by an amount nobody can measure. None have hit that yet.

An ability is called part of the ramp only if it appears in at least 60 percent of the runs with ramp casts for that pull. One player's habit on one key does not reach the page.

Casts are only collected from the 30 seconds before a damage spike. That is a setting, not a finding, so nothing here can tell you whether a ramp starts earlier than that. Where you see a window, it is the window we looked in.

Ramps are worked out one run at a time and then compared, rather than by taking each ability's average timing separately. Doing it the second way produced ramps of six casts inside four seconds, which is faster than the game allows anyone to press buttons.

Damage figures are the whole party added together. Nothing here records who took the damage, and most autoattack damage lands on the tank. Use these numbers to compare one pull against another. They are not an amount you have to heal.