The Eye of Eternity

The Eye of Eternity will be the third wing of the Nexus, a raid located in the Coldarra region of the Borean Tundra.

The encounter requires a key to begin, dropped from Sapphiron. Entering the instance does not have a requirement, and only one person in your raid needs the key.

10 man: Key to the Focusing Iris 25 man: Heroic Key to the Focusing Iris

The instance has no trash, and the only boss is Malygos.

Phase One

During Phase One, Malygos is tanked in the center of the room by one tank.

His attacks hit hard, but the attack speed is slow. He does arcane breaths for X damage.

Throughout the fight, power sparks come out of portals outside of the platform, they slowly move to Malygos, and if they hit him his next arcane breath does a VERY HIGH amount of damage, most likely one-shotting your tank. It's important that they are killed before they hit him. When the power sparks are killed, they drop a small aura on the ground that increases your damage done. The aura stacks, so if they all die in that same location, you can get very high hits off.

Trick: The sparks can be "pulled" to your DPS with Death Grip, so it advisable to have a pre-assigned stack location for your raid, and have a Death Knight pull the sparks to that spot. Once pulled they are rootable to keep them in place while you kill them.

Malygos also uses a cyclone ability that will pull the entire raid into the air and spin them around. He will not attack your tank during this ability, however power sparks will continue to move toward him, make sure you kill them if they are going to get too close to him. Once this ability ends, Malygos will be facing in a random direction and your tank will also be in a random location, so it is vital to move intelligently at this point before he is once again facing your tank, as his breath will one-shot any dps or healers unlucky enough to be in the wrong place.

Note: Once Malygos reaches 50%, he will slowly take off, however he remains targetable until he reaches his max height, so burn him as best you can while he is taking off.

Phase Two

Phase Two begins at 50%.

Malygos himself is not targetable during this phase, it will end when the adds he spawns are all killed. However, he does continue to play a part in the encounter.

During this phase he drops anti-magic zones onto the ground the raid MUST stand inside of, it reduces magical damage taken by 50%. They shrink over time, so it's important that your raid moves to each new one he drops.

Throughout the phase, he will deep breath doing ~4k damage per second, unless you are standing inside of the anti-magic zone.

The way the fight works during this phase is there are NPCs riding around on disks in the room. There are two types of mobs, Lords and Scions. The Lords will move down onto the group, and need to be tanked (They will one-shot a non-tank). After they die, they drop a disk that a raid member can mount onto, which allows them to fly, to attack the Scions that do not come down to the ground. It is recommended to let melee take the first disks, then ranged. As those mobs die, they also drop disks, which allows the rest of your dps to get onto them. The Scions will continually cast Arcane Blast on random targets on the floor, which is mitigated by the anti-magic zones. While mounted on a disk, you will not take damage.

After all of the NPCs riding on the disks die, the players on the disks need to dismount as Phase 3 is about to begin.

Note: After all the Scions are dead, you will get a short burn period on Malygos before he breaks the floor. Use any DPS increase cooldowns that are available at this time, as you will not be able to use them once you mount your dragon. If executed well you can take an extra 5%-10% off his HP before you enter phase 3.

Phase Three

Phase Three begins when all of the Scions die (the Lords should be killed first, so they must be killed as well). Malygos destroys the floor of the room, and the raid falls onto dragons.

The dragons use combo points and energy sort of like a rogue. The combo points are used for special finishing moves.

During this phase Malygos does - In Melee Range...
Heavy Melee Attacks and Cleaves Ranged
A high damage ranged ability (The focusing mentioned below)

The dragons have 6 abilities:

Flame Spike
Damaging fire attack causing 943-1057 fire damage and awarding 1 combo point at the cost of 10 energy.

Engulf in Flames
Finishing move which launches a blast of flame igniting target for 1500 fire damage every 3 seconds. The effect can stack and will last longer per combo point up to 22 seconds. Costs 50 energy.

Revivify
A HoT that lasts for 10 seconds healing 500 per second and awarding 1 combo point at the cost of 10 energy.

Life Burst
Huge healing finishing move which increases the casters healing done by 50% and lasts longer per combo point. Max combo points award a 15k heal over 25 seconds. Costs 50 energy.

Blazing Speed
Increases your drake's flight speed by 500%.

Flame Shield
Finishing move to protect your drake. Shield surrounds you reducing all damage taken by 80% and lasting up to 6 seconds for max combo points. Costs 25 energy with a 30 second cooldown.

The healers in the fight should continue healing with Revivify and Life Burst. The DPS should use Flame Spike and keep Engulf in Flames up. When Malygos focuses on you, you must use Flame Shield to protect yourself.

Keeping everyone topped off, and people surviving the focusing will lead to the death of Malygos.

Note: Remember to save 25 energy at all times to use your shield, if you are at 0 energy and targeted, you may be killed before you regen enough to use your shield. This is important as threat seems strange for this portion of the encounter and you may be targeted at any time.

The End

Then you just burn him until the end of the fight, where Alexstraza enters and gives you loot. The loot for the fight comes from Alexstaraza's Gift, the fight rewards two badges.

The exit portal respawns, and you can fly over to it. But the floor of the instance does not respawn.

10-Man Loot

	Name	Type	iLvl
	Barricade of Eternity	Shield (Tank)	213
	Black Ice	Polearm	213
	Greatstaff of the Nexus	Staff (Spell)	213
	Hailstorm	1H Sword (Physical)	213
	Ice Spire Scepter	MH Mace (Spell)	213
	Necklace of the Glittering Chamber	Neck (Spell)	213
	Surge Needle Ring	Ring (Physical)	213

Kill Quest Rewards

	Name	Type	iLvl
	Chain of the Ancient Wyrm	Neck (Spell)	213
	Drakescale Collar	Neck (Tank)	213
	Pendant of the Dragonsworn	Neck (Physical)	213
	Torque of the Red Dragonflight	Neck (Spell)	213

25-Man Loot

	Name	Type	iLvl
	Boots of the Renewed Flight	Mail (Physical)	226
	Elevated Lair Pauldrons	Plate (Spell)	226
	Frosted Adroit Handguards	Leather (Physical)	226
	Leggings of the Wanton Spellcaster	Cloth	226
	Mantle of Dissemination	Cloth	226
	Spaulders of Catatonia	Leather (Spell)	226
	Tunic of the Artifact Guardian	Mail (Spell)	226
	Winter Spectacle Gloves	Mail (Spell)	226

Kill Quest Rewards

	Name	Type	iLvl
	Favor of the Dragon Queen	Neck (Physical)	226
	Life-Binder's Locket	Neck (Spell)	226
	Nexus War Champion Beads	Neck (Tank)	226
	Wyrmrest Necklace of Power	Neck (Spell)	226

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