Akh Morn is indicated by a stack marker, encouraging players to group up and absorb upcoming damage.To avoid this attack, players must be standing underneath Nidhogg. Hot Wing is the inverse of Hot Tail - an AoE attack that covers the outer-sides of the arena.To avoid this attack, players must move from underneath Nidhogg and stand at either edge of the arena. Hot Tail is a straight AoE attack from one end of the arena to the other that passes through Nidhogg's centre, inflicting moderate damage and a Burns debuff to anyone it hits.Cauterize causes Nidhogg to appear at one of the edges of the arena before diving across in straight line, dealing massive damage to any players caught in its wake.Multiple puddles can be stacked on top of each other for ease of avoidance. After 3 seconds, the puddles will explode, dealing high damage to anyone caught in the blast and inflict Hysteria for 6 seconds. The other version spawns non-telegraphed AoE puddles beneath random players. One will target random players with overhead markers which, after 6 seconds, will hit victims for moderate AoE damage. Horrid Roar is actually two mechanics with the same name.Due to this, the tank and off-tank will need to rotate in order to wipe their stacks and prevent an instant death. Bitter Hate is a stacking debuff that will inflict lethal damage on reaching 8 stacks.This will only be used during the transition from the add phase (3) to phase 4. Mortal Chorus is an arena-wide AoE that deals moderate damage and knockback.Deafening Bellow is an arena-wide attack that deals moderate damage to the entire group.Scarlet Whisper is a magic-based tank-buster with no cast-time that will cleave the main target for high damage.Should the battle go on for 11 minutes, Nidhogg will spend 10 seconds to cast a Deafening Bellow that will wipe the entire raid. Nidhogg will utilize many different abilities across a total of 6 phases, some of which are dealt in his standard Dragon Form, while others are exclusive to his Human Form later in the battle.

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