Algeth'ar Academy Mythic Dungeon Guide

In this guide, I will teach you everything you need to know about Algeth'ar Academy for Mythic Plus in Dragonflight. I've been testing all the dungeons on Beta and wanted to make a quick and easy-to-understand guide.

Remember that this guide covers Mythic mechanics, so some of this may be missing if you run the dungeon in normal or heroic mode.

Also, I'm covering only some spells and abilities, but only those you need to take care of. This will save a significant amount of your time, and you will still be able to go through all the dungeon mechanics.

Dragonflight Buff at The Start

The first thing about this dungeon you need to know is that you can choose to align with a Dragonflight at the start of the dungeon giving you a 5% stat buff depending on which you pick.

Dragonflight	Buff	Effect
Bronze Dragonflight Recruiter	Bronze Dragonflight Pledge Pin	5% Haste
Blue Dragonflight Recruiter	Blue Dragonflight Pledge Pin	8 Mastery points(584 rating)
Green Dragonflight Recruiter	Green Dragonflight Pledge Pin	10% Healing taken
Red Dragonflight Recruiter	Red Dragonflight Pledge Pin	5% Versatility
Black Dragonflight Recruiter	Black Dragonflight Pledge Pin	5% Critical Strike

This stat buff, alongside some pretty big pulls, means you can blast damage and brag to your friends about your overall DPS. Just hope they don't ask which dungeon it was in.

Which Route to Go?

After you choose your buff, you can choose to go left or right, as the first part of the dungeon is somewhat circular.

You will return at the start with the gate open to the final boss once you've killed the first three bosses.

Overgrown Ancient

• Overgrown Ancient Notable Trash

Overgrown ancient's room is filled with many easy flower mobs that mainly damage the tank. However, there are also aggressive Aggravated Skitterflies that patrol the room as well. These bugs do considerable damage to players with Darting Sting at random and also have a stacking enrage: Agitation. Using big offensive and defensive cooldowns to burst them down was a good idea.

• Overgrown Ancient Boss Fight

Once you clear the room of flowers, the boss becomes active. Overgrown ancient is an incredible fight that's one of my favorites in the expansion.

The boss will spawn adds with swirlies using Germinate under your feet, so you want to try and stack them close together to the boss without getting hit by the swirlies and then cleave them down.

The boss also summons one ancient Branch mob using Branch Out that puts a permanent bleed on your entire party and occasionally casts a heel that needs to be kicked.

Once you kill it, it will spawn a circle on the ground that your party has to stand in to remove the bleed. Don't get tricked and run away from the circle. If you don't clear your bleed and then another one spawns, you'll get a second stack of it, taking double damage.

Lastly, when the boss reaches 100 energy, it will cast Burst Forth, which does heavy party damage, and you should pressure defensives during this.

Crawth

• Crawth Notable Trash

After the tree is dead, you should move to the next platform that has a guardian Century mini boss. This guy doesn't do much other than spawn tornadoes and beat the crap out of your tank. We would usually keep him by the wall and use the wall to line up sight the mechanics, so our melee didn't have to run out as far.

The next platform going this way is the boss Crawth which first summons a bunch of waves of bird adds and then eventually becomes active.

The big eagles have an enrage ability: Call of the Flock that needs to be kicked and a frontal, but otherwise, they're pretty straightforward.

• Crawth Boss Fight

Once all the birds are dead, you need to throw three orbs into the golden ring on the ground to activate the boss. Crawth is a pretty straightforward bullet hell-style dodging boss. It has a Deafening Screech that does party damage and interrupts your casting. Also, there is a tank bleed: Savage Peck.

Each Screech does more and more damage until you shoot three balls into the goal, resetting the boss to zero stacks. Each goal gives you a buff but also makes the fight harder in some way.

The right side goal stuns the boss making him take increased damage, but then the fire starts to rain on the platform for the rest of the fight;

The left goal spawns orbs that increase your haste but also put deadly, slightly moving tornadoes in the boss room.

The best strategy was to wait as long as possible before scoring the goals so that the fight was less lethal and we had damage cooldowns to use with the Buffs.

Vexamus

• Vexamus Notable Trash

The trash between Crawth and Vexamus is pretty dangerous, so I'd recommend skipping what you can and taking it slow until you have some experience.

The flying Arcane Forager worm guys charge at players, and then the big one does a frontal cone after that charge.

Spellbound Scepter casts Mystic Blast, dealing heavy damage to your entire party so that should be interrupted.

Spellbound Battleaxes put a stacking bleed on your tank that hurts pretty bad too.

The boss room contains Elementals that deal magic damage similar to some of the boss's mechanics. Surge is an upfront hit, and Mana Void is a DOT that explodes at the end.

The last mob in the area is the textbooks with a long sleep channel that must be stopped or dispelled.

• Vexamus Boss Fight

Once you clear the boss room, a short RP starts, and then Vexamus spawns. This boss spawns orbs around the room that travel towards the boss, and if they hit it, they explode, dealing heavy party damage. Players can soak them, but each orb soaked deals damage to you and then gives you a debuff Oversurge that increases the damage of the next orb that you'll soak. DPS and healers can easily take one or two stacks at a time, while tanks can take up to four.

The boss will put out three Mana Bombs on three players dealing damage, so when you see these, it's a good idea to use a defensive.

Finally, the boss will knock everyone back and create a series of swirlies under their feet. This can be pretty tough to see and caused most of the deaths we've seen on that boss while we were learning.

Echo of Doragosa - Final Boss

• Echo of Doragosa Notable Trash

After all three bosses are dead, you can return to the tree boss, and the gate should be open to the final area. It'll be brief because the mobs are underwhelming. Here you can do a giant pull with 25 percent of the mobs in the dungeon up to the top. Some mobs spin around doing a whirlwind, so try and stay away from those.

Other Caster mobs put out Astral Bomb. These bombs are debuffs that blow up after a short period, but they also damage the enemies, so dragging the bombs on top of the packs makes them die even quicker. Once you make work of those, you could move on to the final boss.

• Echo of Doragosa Boss Fight

Echo of Doragosa has several avoidable and unavoidable magic abilities, most of which are easily telegraphed like missiles that target players and a frontal cone in a big circle.

Whenever you are hit by an ability, you'll gain a stack of Overwhelming Power. Alongside taking damage, this gives you a five percent increase per stack. However, once you reach four stacks, you lose them all, creating a portal on the ground.

Each portal shoots out orbs in every direction, and these orbs also deal damage and cause stacks. This means the fight can go downhill quickly if people get hit by lots of stuff. However, the boss attacks are generally slow and predictable enough that few of these portals should be lying around. A good strategy was to get everyone to two stacks or so early just for that big damage boost, but after that, played pretty conservatively so that you don't fill up the room with too many portals. Just DPS the boss down, and then you win.

Final Thoughts

That covers my quick rundown of Algeth'ar Academy for Dragonflight in Mythic+ mode. I hope it was helpful. You can also check out the short video guide below.