The Venomous Abyss · Wing 4 · The Tomb of Ula'tek · Boss 8
Ula'tek
Final boss · eggs, coils and a shrinking floor
Heroic4 phasesVerifiedProvisional
Egg control across three stages and a shattering platform. Anything green touching an egg or its carrier hatches a lethal Blightscale Viper; controlled hatches are harmless. The second platform break in Stage Three is the hardest moment: use everything.
Pull brief
Method: egg control is the fight. Bloodlust on the first Rage of the Shackled; Stage Three is the hardest, and the second platform break is where you use everything.
- Eggs touching venom: a Blightscale Viper.
- A tank leaving melee or the tail uncovered: Unchecked Rage or Rattler Slam on the raid.
- An unsoaked Serpent's Bite becoming a Calcified Corpse.
- Grasping Fangs snapped together, stacking the raid DoT.
- Holding tank cooldowns for the second break instead of using them proactively.
Phases · 4
- Stage One · Fury of the Serpent MotherPull. Three eggs spawn; grabbing them starts the fight. Ends with the first Rage of the Shackled burn.
- Stage Two · Children of the DoomscaleAfter the first Rage of the Shackled (Method). The raid splits into two groups.
- Intermission · The ShatteringAfter Stage Two's second damage amp. The platform breaks into four pieces.
- Stage Three · Ula'tek's AscensionRide the knock-up onto the platforms. Circling Prey breaks them one by one; then the race to the enrage.
Positioning
Healer plan
- Necrotic Vapors stacks all fight; Method runs five healers.
- Manage Stone Venom stacks on the tanks; pre-plan defensives and externals for Dread Roar's stun.
- Stage Three: one healer is always a Serpent's Bite target. Soak, then spread for Volatile Purge.
- Save cooldowns for the second platform break.
Verifiedchecked Sep 2, 2026Mechanics from the dungeon journal text on Warcraft Wiki; responses from Method's Heroic guide (Aug 30). Icy Veins' Ula'tek guide was still a placeholder on Sep 2 and is not used. Only two sources, so phase triggers follow Method's description of the fight's flow. Mythic-only journal entries are listed without strategy. No Holy-specific notes exist in either source. Sources: Paladin — Midnight 12.1 companion guide (author's own notes, verified Sep 1, 2026) · wow.gg — Venomous Abyss raid guide (raid encounter briefings, source 1) · Skycoach — Venomous Abyss raid guide (raid encounter briefings, source 2, cross-check) · Maxroll — Holy Paladin raid 12.1.0 · Warcraft Wiki — Ula'tek encounter (dungeon journal text, patch 12.1.0) · Method — Heroic Ula'tek boss guide (Aug 30, 2026) · Icy Veins — Holy Paladin gear & best in slot (updated Aug 25)