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Sinestra

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FIGHT OVERVIEW
  • This fight has 3 phases and is an Heroic only encounter available after defeating all the previous on Heroic difficulty.

  • This encounter doesn't have many mechanics or much complexity but requires high DPS and healing to win the fight.

  • Phase 1 and Phase 3 are very similar, while Phase 2 focuses on managing adds.

Thanks to Kats & Layria for her careful work as copy editor for the English texts.

Phase 1

During Phase 1, Sinestra is weakened.


She starts at 60% health and deal 40% less damage.


Learn to handle her abilities in Phase 1, as they become more deadly in Phase 3.

EVERYONE

STACK UP AND

USE DEFENSIVE

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Flame Breath
Raid-wide Damage

Sinestra breathes, dealing damage to the entire raid. Despite the cone animation, it affects all players.


Stack up to make healing easier and use cooldowns to survive.

IF TARGETED

KITE AWAY THE BEAM

FROM THE RAID

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Twilight Slicer
Raid Mechanic

Two shadow orbs spawn and fixate on two random players, following them.


The two orbs pulse damage in a small radius and are linked by a beam between them. The beam does massive damage to anyone it passes through.


The fixated players should move together away from the raid.

TANK

DRAG THE ADDS

FAR AWAY BEFORE

THEY ARE KILLED

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Twilight Essence
Tank Mechanic

Sinestra summons Whelps from the eggs around the room. They cast bolts of shadow damage, applying a shadow vulnerability debuff.


When a Whelp dies, it drops a puddle that slowly grows throughout the fight.


If a puddle touches another dead Whelp's body, that Whelp will resurrect, but it won't drop a new puddle.


Drag the Whelps to the back of the room before killing them.

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Wrack
Debuff

Sinestra debuffs a random player, the dot deals damage every 2 seconds ramping up for a minute.


When dispelled, it jumps to 2 nearby players.


Manage this by keeping it on the first target as long as possible, spot heal and use defensive!

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Twilight Blast
Tank Mechanic

If the tank is out of melee range, Sinestra casts Twilight Blast instead, dealing massive damage to the tank.

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Wrack
Debuff

Sinestra debuffs a random player, the dot deals damage every 2 seconds ramping up for a minute.


When dispelled, it jumps to 2 nearby players.


Manage this by keeping it on the first target as long as possible, spot heal and use defensive!

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Twilight Blast
Tank Mechanic

If the tank is out of melee range, Sinestra casts Twilight Blast instead, dealing massive damage to the tank.

Phase 2

Phase 2 begins when the boss reaches 30% HP.


Sinestra protects herself with a mana barrier, preventing all damage, and begins casting a deadly raid-wide ability.


Move to the back of the room where an NPC named Calen shields your raid from Sinestra's attacks.


During Phase 2, Calen battles against Sinestra but loses health as he channels his ability. Ensure you have healers focusing on him!


The raid should attack Sinestra to drop her mana Barrier to 40%, at which point she will drop her shield protecting the eggs on her sides.


Adds spawns to help the boss, send your casters to destroy the eggs while your melees take care of the adds.

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DESTROY

THE EGGS

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Twilight Carapace
Prio Target

Once the mana barrier drops to 40%, the eggs are no longer protected by the shield for 30s.


Destroy them to end the phase. If you fail to do this in time, you'll need to bring down the barrier to 40% again.


Send your ranged on the eggs!

TANK

FACE THE ADD AWAY

FROM THE RAID

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Twilight Breath
Frontal Cone

While the mana barrier drops, adds spawns to help Sinestra.


The Twilight Drake deals high melee damage and breath on his target, dealing heavy damage to anyone in front of him.


Tank him close to the other add to maximise DPS but face him away from the raid

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Unleash Essence
Soft Control

The other type of add spawning to help Sinestra is the Twilight Spitecaller.


He has a very specific interrupt mechanic, he cast a massive damaging ability, dealing 10% of maximum HP for 10s to the entire raid.


To interrupt this ability you need to use "Soft Control" such as Disorient or Incapacitate.


Any Hard Control (Stun, Fear, Silence) enrages him, dealing damage, knockingback playersand becomes immune to all form of controls for 8s.

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Soft Control

The other type of add spawning to help Sinestra is the Twilight Spitecaller.


He has a very specific interrupt mechanic, he cast a massive damaging ability, dealing 10% of maximum HP for 10s to the entire raid.


To interrupt this ability you need to use "Soft Control" such as Disorient or Incapacitate.


Any Hard Control (Stun, Fear, Silence) enrages him, dealing damage, knockingback playersand becomes immune to all form of controls for 8s.

Phase 3

Phase 3 is the same as Phase 1 but Sinestra deals now full damage.


Quickly defeat Sinestra before you run out of space.

EVERYONE

STACK UP AND

USE DEFENSIVE

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Flame Breath
Raid-wide Damage

Sinestra breathes, dealing damage to the entire raid. Despite the cone animation, it affects all players.


Stack up to make healing easier and use cooldowns to survive.

IF TARGETED

KITE AWAY THE BEAM

FROM THE RAID

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Twilight Slicer
Raid Mechanic

Two shadow orbs spawn and fixate on two random players, following them.


The two orbs pulse damage in a small radius and are linked by a beam between them. The beam does massive damage to anyone it passes through.


The fixated players should move together away from the raid.

TANK

DRAG THE ADDS CLOSE

TO A PUDDLE BEFORE

THEY ARE KILLED

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Twilight Essence
Tank Mechanic

Sinestra summons Whelps from the eggs around the room. They cast bolts of shadow damage, applying a shadow vulnerability debuff.


When a Whelp dies, it drops a puddle that slowly grows throughout the fight.


If a puddle touches another dead Whelp's body, that Whelp will resurrect, but it won't drop a new puddle.


In phase 3, the puddle should start to take a decent amount of place, try to stack up the new puddles close to the older to manage some space.

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Wrack
Debuff

Sinestra debuffs a random player, the dot deals damage every 2 seconds ramping up for a minute.


When dispelled, it jumps to 2 nearby players.


Manage this by keeping it on the first target as long as possible, spot heal and use defensive!

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Twilight Blast
Tank Mechanic

If the tank is out of melee range, Sinestra casts Twilight Blast instead, dealing massive damage to the tank.

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Wrack
Debuff

Sinestra debuffs a random player, the dot deals damage every 2 seconds ramping up for a minute.


When dispelled, it jumps to 2 nearby players.


Manage this by keeping it on the first target as long as possible, spot heal and use defensive!

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Twilight Blast
Tank Mechanic

If the tank is out of melee range, Sinestra casts Twilight Blast instead, dealing massive damage to the tank.

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- Twilight Slicer
- Wrack
- Twilight Essence
- Unleash Essence
- Flame Breath