Lord Denathrius is the current final boss in WoW: Shadowlands. But he is being weakened. A deadly ability is now much weaker.
Although the relevance of the current raid “Castle Nathria” is slowly coming to an end with the onset of Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination, Blizzard is changing the final boss once again. A significant nerf ensures that Denathrius will likely be defeated by even more players soon.
What will be changed? After players are affected by the ability “Hand of Destruction”, they are immune to the effects of Crescendo for a brief moment. They cannot be knocked back by the spell.
Crescendo is an ability triggered in heroic and mythic mode when players kill one of Denathrius’ servants in phase 2. After a brief delay, an impact occurs for each player. Those who do not dodge take damage and are knocked back far.
What does this mean? Some impact. In heroic and mythic difficulty, Crescendo in combination with Hand of Destruction has been one of the main reasons for players leaving early. Players not only had to dodge Crescendo, but also perfectly time the killing of the Cabalists so it did not overlap with Hand of Destruction.
An overlap could lead to all players being pulled by Hand of Destruction to a spot where a projectile from Crescendo hits at the exact same time. This, in turn, knocks players in random directions – often sending them off the fight platform to their immediate death.
As this threat has now been drastically reduced, more players should experience this phase of the encounter and have more combat resurrections available for the later parts.
Or simply put: With one deadly combination of abilities less, the encounter should become significantly easier for many groups.
What does this mean for players? For many guilds currently working on heroic or mythic Denathrius, this could provide the decisive impetus to finally take down the boss of Revendreth. This should encourage some guilds to put in a strong effort before Patch 9.1 to achieve the corresponding success.
Do you think the nerf is good and sensible? Or was the encounter already far too easy?
