Instances in WotLK Expansion: The Nexus

The Nexus is a level 70-72 (recommended) instance located on the island of Coldarra in the Borean Tundra area of Northrend. The instance has 4 bosses, and the it's themed around Malygos and his Blue Dragonflight.

The fastest route is to take the left path from the start. None of the mobs feel especially hard, and there's little challenge beyond aoe-tank & spank style. It will probably be somewhat more difficult at retail when classes and instances are properly balanced.

The first boss on this route will be Grand Magus Telestra. This boss could prove quite tough for an inexperienced multiboxer, and will require alot of individual character control. The boss will occationally use physics against the group and bounce everybody around, similar to what Omor the Unscarred (final boss of Hellfire Ramparts) will do with the tank. Organizing your group after this spell will reduce dpstime on the boss somewhat. When the boss is at 50% health it will despawn and spawn 3 clones of itself. They are easily focus-dps'ed down (or you could go for option 2 and just aoe them down together) and grounding totems will probably be very valuable in this phase, since all are mage-types. When the adds are killed the boss respawns and it's the same as phase1.

Second boss is Anomalus. He is set in an area of primarily magical elementals and the boss itself is similar to Vexallus in The Magisters Terrace. The fight has 2 phases, when the boss is at 75%, 50% and 25% it will spawn an add you will have to kill, while the boss itself is invulnerable. The encounter is trivial in the beta on normal difficulty, and the boss feels very weak and is easily killed.

Third boss is Omorok the Tree-shaper. An ice/stone giant similar to the second boss in Mana Tomb. It's a tank & spank encounter. The boss hits fairly hard and enrages around 20%, your tank will need steady healing at that point. He has one ability to watch out for. Ice spikes will form on the ground and shoot up in the air. If your group doesn't move away from the shards, you will most likely wipe. Feels like a well balanced boss.

Keristrasza, the final boss of The Nexus, is a dragon who has been captured by Malygos to be his new consort. She is quite happy with your arrival, and even taunts you into "Finishing her" when she's close to death. This is by far the hardest encounter in the instance, and feels well balanced to me. First off the tank will take decent damage, so it will need quite alot of healing. The boss also enrages towards the end and does additional damage. The catch with this fight is that everyone have to keep moving. If you stand still you will get a debuff on you that stacks higher and higher until you die. You'll take damage from this debuff which is applied every second, and a stack beyond 5-6 will spell major problems for your healer. Jumping or moving in any direction will remove the debuff. A priest with circle of healing and hots on tank is the optimal healer, but it's quite doable with a paladin as well, if he knows the encounter. After a few wipes 2-3 days ago with a pug, I just spelled out to our paladin "Heal, heal, move. Heal, heal, move." and the next try was an instant success. The boss will randomly do an ice-breath type of ability with aoe damage in a cone in front of it, it can target random party members for this, so spreading out is advicable. You can spread out before the fight starts and just macro dps and heals while doing the occational jump to remove the debuff. An easy encounter if you know what you're doing, and have good enough healing to keep the tank up, with some gcd's lost due to jumping.

Overall multiboxing rating: Medium.