Hobosaurus’ Guide to Catweaving M+ (Legion 7.3.5)

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Hello Friends, I’m Hobosaurus. What? Hobo? Aren’t you robo? No. We are 100% totally different people. Anyway, I am here to take over Robo’s site for now muahahaha. So, I have been receiving some questions regarding Resto’s catweaving so I will be breaking down the “mostly asked questions”. TAKE NOTE I’ve recently started playing resto druid more in mythic+ for 2 weeks now and achieved 4.3k raider score within that period so I’m still a work in progress.  I’ll add personal notes for dungeons (bosses mostly).

Black Rook Hold

Boss 1 – Amalgam of Souls, Chatoyants/Sephuz or Prydaz

  • If you get the Souls Echoes debuff, Cha-cha left/right with your Echo debuffs every 3 drops so you don’t cuck your melee dps while catweaving.
  • Add transition, Keep 1 add rooted up to proc your sephuz every time it’s up to maximize your sick dps and don’t forget to use your utilities such as Ursol’s Vortex/Typhoon to knockback adds from the boss. Keep it rooted until 15%.
  • At 15% boss hp, He will cast Soul Burst. Prepare to Barkskin(+Ironbark if no one on your group needs it for maximum mitigation) 2s before cast go off and bear form to survive the Soul Burst.

Boss 2 – Illysanna Ravencrest, Velen’s + Chatoyantss or Prydaz or Sephuz

  • On Tyrannical, I run Velen’s + Prydaz as the glaives actually really hurts a lot. (22+ onwards) and use Chats + Velen’s or Prydaz on Fortified(Up till like 23) depending on how tanky your comp is.
  • For the Fel rush, be sure to be in bear form just in case you can’t get out of the puddle in time. I recommend saving mitigations for glaives still. Just practice more on your reaction time to get out of that spicy damage.
  • If you are running sephuz, you can proc your sephuz with entangling roots on the adds would actually make me nut due to the haste buff FeelsGoodMan.
  • Last note for this boss, If you’re a Night Elf, save shadowmeld if RNG is about to wreck you with a second glaives debuff or if boss is about to die you could just shadowmeld the fel rush to stop it’s cast.

Boss 3 – Smashspite the Hateful, Latc or Prydaz + Chatoyants

  • Bear form for Earthshaking stomp. You could also top up your party with Hots like WG + rejuv on everyone before bear form. You should be able to survive every stomp just with bear form.

Boss 4 – Lord Kur’talos Ravencrest, Velen’s + prydaz on tyrannical / Chatoyant’s + Prydaz or Latc on Fortified.

  • Depending on how confident you are, you could run my recommended legendaries.
  • Phase 1 – Just smack him and top anyone up who get’s hit by the shadowbolt before he transitions. You shouldn’t need to heal much at all on this fights.
  • Phase 2 – 3s before first shadowbolt volley, Ironbark + Barkskin yourself into bearform to survive it or Ironbark your party mate if he actually needs it more than you.
  • When Stinging swarm is about to spawn, Hot + rejuv everyone and you could go into feral affinity if you are spec into it and don’t forget to save energy to swipe the crap out of the stinging swarm or heal the crap out of the person who gets the swarm.

Cathedral of Eternal Night

Boss 1 – Agronox, Latc + Chatoyants

  • Healing isn’t really required here unless your stacks somehow gets super high tbh. Whenever the tank add spawns, be sure to as much dps as possible to help out your tank.
  • If you position your Ursol’s Vortex correctly, you should be able to get them all into your vortex.
  • Save blink for Choking vines.

Boss 2 – Thrashbite the Scornful, Latc + Chatoyants

  • The only time you will be healing on this boss is the tank and when Pulverizing Cudgel is being casted.
  • Pool your energy for when the books spawn.

Boss 3 – Domatrax, Latc + Chatoyants

  • Pool your energy for when the adds comes up to help your dps kill it quick.

Boss 4 – Mephistroth, Velen’s + Prydaz

  • You want to go full healing on this boss while pumping out some dps via solar wrath. Try to conserve your mana as much as possible.

Court of Stars

I still prefer sticking to Feral Affinity instead of Guardian affinity to roflstomp the trash pulls

Boss 1 – Patrol Captain Gerdo, Latc + Chatoyants

  • Stay in Cat/Bear form when arcane lockdown is about to happen and dispel whoever in your group wants it. Don’t forget to ask!
  • Dodge every mechanic.

Boss 2 – Talixae Flamewreath, Velen’s + Sephuz or anything really.

  • Keep Hots up on everyone as the boss does damage constantly.
  • Save huge CDs such as Tranquility for really important moments. E.g. everyone is at like 40% health
  • Use Ursol’s Vortex’s + Typhoon combo to help your group if there is no cc available for the set of add spawns.

Boss 3 – Advisor Melandrus, Velen’s + Prydaz or Sephuz

  • Get some range dps to bait the ghost so you can focus on healing
  • When slicing maelstrom is about to happen, Pre-hot everyone with rejuv + WG + lifebloom whoever is paper as heck and start popping CDs on the 3rd maelstrom onwards. You should be able to survive along with your group after using your artifact ability or Velen’s on one of the maelstrom and going into bear form.
  • If possible, get your tank to get stun to dispel before maelstrom for sephuz procs.

Darkheart Thicket

I recommend that you talent into Guardian Affinity.

Boss 1 – Archdruid Glaidalis, Promise of Elune, the Moon Goddess + Latc

  • Make sure to bait every Grevious Leap while staying in bear form. Frenzy regen every grievous leap cast should be sufficient to keep you alive. How to bait it? Stay the furthest away from boss.
  • Keep MF + SF up while spamming solar wrath

Boss 2 – Oakheart, Promise of Elune, the Moon Goddess + Latc

  • Every time the root spawns, Shapeshift in and out into bear form to clear the roots.
  • Stay in bear form every shattered earth.

Boss 3 – Dresaron, Velen’s + Sephuz Secret

  • Pre-Hot everyone before down draft/earthshaking roar.
  • Bear form before earthshaking roar happens.
  • Save displacer beast to dodge mechanics or close the gap between you and the boss.

Boss 4 – Shade of Xavius. Prydaz + SoTA

This is a very tricky boss to heal.

  • Make sure you hot up everyone before every feed of the weak
  • If you’re a Night Elf, you can cheese Nightmare bolt, Feed the weak and Induced Paranoia but I recommend saving shadow meld for the mentioned excluding Induced Paranoia.
  • At 50% boss hp, Apocalyptic Nightmare will happen. Use whatever mitigation you have and go into bear form 2seconds before the cast happens.

Eye of Azshara

Guardian Affinity, Wild charge instead of Displacer beast and learning the boat skip.

Boss 1 – Warlord Parjesh, Sota + prydaz

  • Bear form into frenzy regen every time he casts Throw spear at you or get ready to spam heal your party member.
  • Use utilities when required to interrupt casts from the adds.
  • After Boss 1, you could zone out and talent into Feral affinity if you want to.

Boss 2 – Lady Hatecoil, Latc if Guardian Affinity or Chatoyants if feral affinity + Prydaz

  • On necrotic weeks, you would want to blow the adds up as soon as possible so your tank doesn’t take more necrotic stacks then he can handle.
  • Bear form every Focused lightning

Boss 3 – Serpentrix, Latc + Promise of Elune, the Moon Godess on Guardian aff, Latc + Chatoyants on Feral aff

  • Healing isn’t really demanding here unless adds live too long or no interrupt coordination.
  • Nuke 1 add if you can to minimize the damage coming from them.

Boss 4 – King Deepbeard, Chats + latc or Promise of Elune, the Moon Goddess + Latc

  • Pre-hot before every quake
  • Try stacking the quake together to make life way easier

Boss 5 – Wrath of Azshara, Velen’s + Prydaz

  • This boss isn’t as bad as the first boss imo.
  • When crushing depth happens, Barkskin + bear form while saving iron bark for whoever requires if not just chug it on yourself if you don’t think you will survive. DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT GO INTO BEAR FORM IF CRUSHING DEPTH TARGETS YOU. It deals % health.
  • Keep rejuvs up on your whole party at all times especially when boss reaches 10%.

Halls of Valor

Feral affinity is fine here but as always guardian affinity is much safer.

Boss 1 – Hymdall, Chatoyants + latc or Promise of Elune, the Moon Goddess + Latc

  • Bear form the Horn of valor. That’s pretty much it.

Boss 2 – Hyrja, SoTA or Velens + Prydaz

  • Save swiftmend if RNG decides to play tricks on you by putting double mechanic on a single player.
  • On the lightning storm phase, put down Efflorescence while healing your party with Hots. You should save tranquility if healing gets very rough here.

Boss 3 – Fenryr

  • Stack with your tank along with your party to soak Claw Frenzy since it splits damage.
  • You could shadowmeld the leap if you want to.

Boss 4 – God-sking skovald, Latc + Chatoyants or Latc + FoN

  • If you want to play it very safe, stand at a distance where you will have enough reaction time to blink away with Displacer beast or shadowmeld.

Boss 5 – Odyn, Chatoyants + latc or latc + FoN

  • Nuke the add. Dodge everything.

Lower Karazhan

Usually before first boss, I’ll just stealth pass every mob and mass rez my party at the small entrance to the first boss.

Boss 1 – Opera (Wikket) Latc + Chatoyants

  • Spam swipe cleaving the 2 bosses while maintaining your DOTs.

Beautiful Beast, Either bearweaving or catweaving works.

Westfall story , Latc + chatoyants

  • Keep every dot up while spamming swipe on the adds including the boss.

Boss 2 – Maiden of virtue, Latc + chatoyants or velen’s + another healing legendary

  • If you’re confident in keeping your party healthy, you could just catweaving the heck out of this boss.
  • Make sure you are spread reasonably for Holy shock.
  • Top up every party member with HOTs before Mass repentance happens so you don’t panic heal when you get stun for like 1second.

Boss 3 – Moroes, Full healing legendaries or FoN + Latc

Dodge every mechanic especially Will Breaker. Top everyone up and just spam mf in bear form. Save frenzy regen when you get garrote if you are running Guardian Affinity.

Boss 4 – Attumen

Be ready to dispel whoever has the ghost icon on them ASAP.

You could taunt swap when shared suffering happens to help your tanks if they require it. Make sure to stand at a reasonable distance for when it happens.

Upper Karazhan

Boss 1 – Curator, Latc + Chatoyants

  • The only time you should be healing intensively is when there are too many adds up or your party decides to make your life harder by standing in the lightning.
  • Shade of Medivh, Prydaz + Velen’s
  • Save Tranquility for when Mirror Image happens and Innervate to spam regrowth on flame wreaths. Be sure to HoT up everyone for each special ability.

Boss 3 – Mana Devourer, Latc + Chatoyants

  • You basically dps the boss 90% of the time while healing 10% when Energy Discharge happens.

Boss 4 – Viz’aduum

  • dispel Chaotic Shadows when it’s safe or Burning blast if you miss an interrupt cast.

 Maw of Souls

Boss 1 – Ymiron the Fallen King, Latc + Chatoyants.

  • Pool energy when adds about to spawn. Spam swipe when they are up.

Boss 2 – Harbaron, Latc or SotA or Prydaz + chatoyants

  • Pool energy when Fragment is about to happen. Spam swipe.
  • If dps is struggling to burn them, drop Ursol’s vortex to group them up again.

Boss 3 – Helya

  • Havent really found an Optimal way to play against this boss so I just go full healing trinkets.

Neltharion’s Lair

Boss 1 – Rokmora, Latc or prydaz + Chatoyants

  • Pool some energy for adds so they drop quick before Shatter happens so you heal less.

Boss 2 – Ularogg, Latc + Chatoyants

  • Keep everyone with HoTs when he’s plays the guessing game with you.
  • Refresh DOTs when he goes in the statue.

Boss 3 – Naraxas, Velen’s + Latc

  • Bear form and MF the adds when they spawn at the cliff. Dispel whoever is squishiest in your party

Boss 4 – Dargrul the Underking, Latc + Chatoyants.

  • Save typhoon to knockback the add into the rock to stun it.
  • Spam wipe while maintaining DOTs when boss + add is grouped together.
  • Bear form + MF behind the rock when magma wave happens.

Seat of the Triumvirate

  • Boss 1 – Zuraal the Ascended, Latc + Chatoyants
  • Typhoon/Vortex the adds to control them.
  • DPS the shit out of the boss when he get stuns.

Boss 2 – Saprish, FoN + Latc

  • Stay in bear form while spamming MF on the boss

Boss 3 – Viceroy Nezhar, Latc + Chayotants.

  • Nuke every add if possible, Swipe when there’s 2 or more.

Boss 4 – L’ura, Velen’s + Prydaz

  • Pretty much plan your mana well and heal through everything especially after the second backlash.

The Arcway

Boss 1 – General Xakal, Prydaz or Latc + Chatoyants

  • Bear form wicket slam.

Boss 2 – Nal’tira, Latc + Chatoyants.

  • Be ready to be in bear form and blink away when you get targeted by the blink strike.
  • Shape shift when the add decides to root you.

Boss 3 – Corstilax, Latc + Chatoyants

  • HoT up everyone before the missiles start flying

Boss 4 – Ivanyr, Latc or Prydaz + Chatoyants

  • Spread out with Volatile Magic while in bear form.
  • Coordinate where you want to drop Nether link. Save displacer beast for it
  • Boss 5 – Advisor Vandros, I prefer bearweaving this so Latc + FoN
  • In case you are cheesing the phase, just stay in bear form and spam mf.

Vault of the Wardens

Boss 1 – Tirathon Saltheril, Latc + Chatoyants or Velen’s + any healing trinket

  • Save blink for when hatred happens.

Nuke the adds asap with swipe.

Boss 2 – Inquisitor Tormentorum, Latc + Chatoyants

  • Sunfire/Moonfire when sap soul happens since it does not lock those casts or dispel.
  • Save utilities like typhoon for the adds if required.

Boss 3 – Glazer, Latc + Chatoyants

  • The only time healing is required is when people derp out and don’t dodge or during Glazer’s beam thingy.

Boss 4 – Ash’golem, Latc + Chatoyants

  • Get ready to nuke the boss when transition happens.
  • Smack any add when it spawns.

Boss 5 – Cordana Felsong, Latc + Chatoyants

  • If you want to be the nice guy, pick up the orb after your rake stealth opener and when she disappears save displacer beast to find her asap.

Gear

So some of you might be wondering, what gear do I go for? When? After to speaking to Voulk ( The one who made the catweaving guide thank you very much Voulk ), I’ve added some screenshots below for reference about the gear you should be running.

This is the end of the guide for now. Let me know in any way I can improve the guide and I’ll edit it. Still researching the best way to do stuff in m+.

Bless. :pray:

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