Hello
I’ve beaten the Xylem challenge with my bfa DH and now it’s time to talk about some rly weird things on the last phase, the elemental one.
I got the kill with 945 dps but i wiped early with ~1100 dps, the reason is because i was moving too much and running when he starts to cast the seed, but i found that dpsing him for 3-4 seconds then run is way better.
The build for the last phase is 1131121, i was just testing this build and got on the first try with it, but momentum and first blood will work too if u have the glaives for the slow, in my case i used all eye beams on the boss and the trinket Ravaged Seed Pod for the adds, this trinket is the most important part of my gear. The other trinket is the mechagon laser that i used to dps and bring the elemental to the edge of the room, use on cooldown with eye beam haste buff, will not mess the use of the pod trinket if u use it on the start.
About my gear: i have a lot of gems, 11 of them, if u dont have a lot of slots, benthic gear is a option if u have the pearls.
Consumables: i used phantom fire potion but that was a mistake, phantom is really week in this fight, use prolonged power from legion (its cheap too). The best food for this fight that i tested is the Grimestone stew, its so good on single target u guys will not believe, but is hard to farm, since u have to drop it if u are horde. Use drums and oils too.
Enchants: i used SL enchants and mark of the satyr on the neck, my sugestion is to buy the legion legendary neck, it have a slot and low ilvl enough to accept the enchant. Also a pandaren enchant on the shoulder, must be ilvl50.
About the first phase just use the build 2121131 and farm soul fragments to survive, only use imprision 2 seconds after DBM tells u about the change to arcane or frost phase, seek for the little silver star about 180° he will be near there in the shadow phase, Xylem also will be imprisioned and easy to see (saw that on another DH video).
In conclusion, the fight is harder than Legion MT day 1, because back then the dh mt was kinda meme too and today is the at least top 5 hard MT. I think the boss need a 10% hp nerf or lets have fun and use ToS set!!!
I feel like the randomness of p1 could for sure be addressed. i guess he does thing on a % base…HATED p1, p2 isnt too bad. I’d say i killed it on my 8th p2 pull. took 50 or so failed p1 pulls to get those 8 p2 in though
xylem is too random
he ports too far, its over
get the right RNG and you can do competent DPS and control the adds and youll win
we need more leech like we had in Legion, hard fact
I would advise against using this neck chant and go with mark of claw (think thats the stat one). Satyr does absolute terrible damage.
Take demonic appetite for p1/p2. Then you don’t even need siphoning chant and health is no longer an issue.
I’ll add to this that its less leech being an issue and more frostbolt being overtuned. It didn’t used to hit for 18%-20% of our health back in the day, and thats the real problem.
Are you saying it was easy? Because when it first came people certainly struggled with it too and xlyem glitched out plenty then. I’ll agree its harder now then previously but if you did mt back when it was initially released it was still a pain.
I’ve had times where xlyem teleport but doesn’t move and stand in the middle of the razor ice
yea if it happens during his spell lockout from interrupting his frostbolt, atleast i think thats when it’s hapening! hard to tell p1 can be SOOOOO random
I’ve also had times where he teleports away and then runs back to the ice doesn’t even bother attacking me