Kings' Rest Guide: Midnight Season 2 Mythic+ Bosses, Route, Loot

Quick summary

• What it is: a four-boss Battle for Azeroth dungeon in western Zuldazar, back in the Midnight Season 2 Mythic+ pool. The bosses are The Golden Serpent, Mchimba the Embalmer, The Council of Tribes, and Dazar, The First King (Wowhead).
• Timer: 33:00.
• The real danger is trash casters: kick every Hex Volley, Unholy Mending, Bind Soul, Wretched Discharge, and Poison Nova (Method).
• Three bosses with a twist: blobs of gold must not reach the Serpent, the entombed player must be found fast on Mchimba, and the Council's totems die in a fixed order (Method, Icy Veins).
• Since the August 25 hotfix, both mummy types are elites and the Risen Hexer casts Shadow Bolt instead of Shadowfrost Bolt (Blizzard). Older guides still show the old trash.

Get there and plan the run

Fact	Value	Source
Location	Western Zuldazar, entrance near 37.6, 39.4	Wowhead (TheWoWDB lists 37.3, 39.5)
Fast travel	Timeways portal in Silvermoon City (42.4, 58.3), the left-most portal	Wowhead
Teleport	Path of the Slumbering Conqueror, after timing a +10	Wowhead, Icy Veins
Level	90	Wowhead
Difficulties	Heroic, Mythic, Mythic+	Wowhead
Bosses	4	Wowhead, Method
Timer	33:00	Wowhead

Wowhead says you need to pull every mob to make the trash count. New to keys? Start with our first key checklist.

Handle the opening trash

Mob	Key ability	What to do	Source
Minion of Zul	Bound by Shadow shield; Pit of Despair fear on melee	Purge the shield and it dies instantly; kite if fixated	Method, Wowhead
Animated Guardian	Heavy Slams (worse below 50%), Suppression Slam frontal	CC-immune; play close so the frontal is easy to dodge	Method
Umbral Warrior	Shadow Slash	Tank defensive for the instant hit	Method
Risen Hexer	Hex Volley	Kick every cast	Method
Shadow-Borne Champion	Ancestral Fury, Shadow Whirlwind, Vigilant Defense	CC-immune; soothe the enrage; move behind the shield	Method, Icy Veins

Blizzard's August 25 hotfix changed the Risen Hexer's random-target bolt to Shadow Bolt (was Shadowfrost Bolt). Check the debuff in your own run before you plan around it.

Beat The Golden Serpent

• Spit Gold: hits 2 random players. Each leaves a pool of Molten Gold. Drop your pool next to the others so the blobs spawn together (Method, TheWoWDB).
• Lucre's Call: turns every pool into Animated Gold that crawls toward the boss. Slow, stun, and cleave the blobs. Each one that arrives gives the boss a stack of Luster, a shield worth 10% of its health and +25% damage, and the stacks add up (Wowhead). Icy Veins warns that the group damage from Luster "will likely be lethal."
• Serpentine Gust: a 5-second group channel with knockback. Healers plan a cooldown.
• Tail Thrash: a tank hit that "isn't particularly dangerous" (Method). Drag the boss away from blobs.

Survive the kings gauntlet

After the Serpent, Method says "a gauntlet of various troll Kings and Queens" engages "in a random order." Icy Veins describes it as 4 packs that spawn one after another. Prepare for each:

Enemy	Watch for	Answer	Source
King Rahu'ai	Forked Lightning, Overload	Run out of Overload	Method, Icy Veins
Seneschal M'bara	Captain's Bulwark, Unholy Mending	Purge the Bulwark; kick every Mending	Method
King Timaji	Erupting Slam, Bladestorm	Move away from allies; kite if fixated	Method
Queen Wasi	Bind Soul, Soul Bolt	Kick every Bind Soul (shares health with Timaji)	Method, Icy Veins
Queen Patlaa + Skeletal Hunting Raptor	Serpent Strike, Bestial Berserk, Hunting Leap	Poison dispel; soothe; dodge the frontal	Method
King A'akul	Mortal Bleed, Blood Drain	Bleed cleanse before Blood Drain	Method
Bloodsworn Assassin	Sudden Rupture	Defensives; since Aug 25 it prefers a new target each time	Method, Blizzard

Nearly all of them are CC-immune, so TheWoWDB says to plan defensives and bleed cleanses "rather than stuns."

Beat Mchimba the Embalmer

Before the boss, Purification Constructs hit hard with Heavy Slams and Purification Strike, and Interment Constructs Entomb a player in a sarcophagus. Wowhead says you can pull this room in two pulls, one per side. Dodge the Embalming Fluid circles left by dying mobs (Method).

• Entomb: seals a random player in one of 4 sarcophagi. The trapped player presses the extra action button to shake their coffin, and the group spreads out to find it. If you're slow, Mchimba opens the empty coffins and a Finished Mummy comes out of each (Method, Wowhead). Wowhead adds that each opened coffin makes the next one open faster.
• Drain Fluids: a channel on a random player. Stop it with a combat drop or a defensive. If it finishes, the target gets Desiccation, -50% damage and -50% movement speed, until healed above 90% (Wowhead, Method).
• Burn Corruption: drop the fire at the walls, away from the sarcophagi (Method, TheWoWDB).
• Awakening Slam: top everyone off. Two Half-Finished Mummies spawn. Kick their Wretched Discharge and cleave them on the boss.

Since August 25, both mummy types are elites (Blizzard), so every extra mummy costs more time than it used to.

Beat The Council of Tribes

The hallway first: kill each Healing Tide Totem the moment it drops (Wowhead, Icy Veins), kick or curse-dispel every Hex from the Phantom Hex Priests, and run from the Ghostly Brute's Seismic Upheaval (Icy Veins).

You fight one councilor at a time. A defeated councilor still comes back to use one ability (Wowhead).

Councilor	Ability	What to do	Source
Kula the Butcher	Whirling Axes, Severing Axe	Tank her in the center; axes keep coming from her body after she dies	Method
Aka'ali the Conqueror	Barrel Through, Debilitating Backhand	Stack to split the charge; tank kites or uses a big defensive after Backhand	Method, Wowhead
Zanazal the Wise	Arc Lightning, Poison Nova, Call of the Elements	Kick every Poison Nova; kill totems in order	Method, Icy Veins

Totem order: Explosive, then Thundering, then Torrent (Method). Icy Veins says an Explosive Totem that finishes its cast "will likely result in a wipe," and suggests moving Zanazal next to it so you can cleave both.

Two hotfixes help. Since August 18, the encounter ends the moment Zanazal dies. Since August 25, Aka'ali and Zanazal wait briefly before attacking (Blizzard).

Beat Shadow of Zul and Dazar

Shadow of Zul blocks the path. Stand in both Pool of Darkness soaks. If you get Dark Revelation, leave the group, then purge or kill the Minions of Zul it spawns (Method, Wowhead). Since August 18, Dark Revelation prefers non-tanks, and on August 25 Blizzard increased the cooldown of one of its abilities without naming it.

Dazar, The First King:

1. Kill Reban first. He's summoned on pull. Dodge his Hunting Leap frontal and kick Deathly Roar (Method, TheWoWDB).
2. Spread for Aerial Smash (2 players). At 80%, Dazar mounts T'zala and it becomes Quaking Leap on 4 players with extra group damage. Method says the farthest target can cancel it with a combat drop.
3. Tank: Blade Combo ramps up during a short channel. After the mount, T'zala's Savage Maul lands right before it. Save your biggest defensive for that pair.
4. Gilded Destruction: heavy group damage, and Dazar's melee swings become frontals. Face him away (Method). Wowhead says spears also spawn on your position, so keep moving.
5. Impaling Spear: dodge the circles; bleed cleanses help.

Compare the routes

Route	Key choice	Strength	Source
Method pug route	Full clear in boss order	MDT import https://wago.io/U22_Bys16	Method
Wowhead tips	Pull every mob; Mchimba's room in two pulls	Easy count	Wowhead

Assign kicks

Cast	Mob	Priority	Source
Hex Volley	Risen Hexer	Every cast	Method
Unholy Mending	Seneschal M'bara	Every cast (purge if missed)	Method
Bind Soul	Queen Wasi	Every cast	Method
Wretched Discharge	Half-Finished Mummy	Every cast	Method, Icy Veins
Hex	Phantom Hex Priest	Every cast or curse dispel	Method
Poison Nova	Zanazal the Wise	Every cast	Method, TheWoWDB
Deathly Roar	Reban	Every cast	Method

For setting up a rotation, see our interrupt coordination guide.

Know the hotfixes and loot

Date	Change	Source
Aug 18	Season 2 Mythic lockouts reset daily; Council ends when Zanazal dies; clearer Impaling Spear, Seismic Upheaval, and Hunting Leap visuals; Dark Revelation prefers non-tanks	Blizzard
Aug 25	Finished and Half-Finished Mummies are elites; Risen Hexer casts Shadow Bolt; Phantom Hex Priest uses Shadow magic (was Nature); a Shadow of Zul ability cooldown increased; Sudden Rupture prefers new targets; Aka'ali and Zanazal wait before attacking	Blizzard

Loot (Wowhead): three trinkets: Lustrous Golden Plumage (Serpent), Mchimba's Ritual Bandages (Mchimba), and Stormbound Emblem of Dazar (Dazar). Weapons include Gilded Serpent's Tooth, Geti'ikku, Cut of Death, and the Crossbow of Forgotten Majesty. End-of-run item levels by key are in our Season 2 Mythic+ guide.

Mount: the Mummified Raptor Skull teaches the Tomb Stalker and drops from Dazar on Mythic (TheWoWDB, Wowhead). Because Mythic lockouts reset daily since August 18 (Blizzard), you can try once a day. See our mounts guide for other Season 2 mounts.

Achievements (Icy Veins): Kings' Rest (Dazar on Mythic) and Keystone Hero: Kings' Rest (time a +10, which gives the teleport). Track them on our achievements page.

Avoid the common mistakes

• No stun saved for Lucre's Call. One blob reaching the Serpent means a shield and a damage buff.
• Opening the wrong coffin. Find the shaking sarcophagus first.
• Forgetting dead councilors. Kula's axes and Aka'ali's charge keep coming.
• Killing totems out of order. Explosive first.
• Ignoring Reban. His leaps and roars overlap the mounted half if he's alive.
• Tank saving nothing for Savage Maul into Blade Combo. That pair kills tanks (TheWoWDB).

Run it on alts or after a break

• Returning for 12.1.5: the mummies and Risen Hexer changed on August 25, so routes and videos from before then show weaker trash. From October 20, +10 runs drop Venomstones (Blizzard, via our Season 2 Mythic+ guide).
• Alts: each character needs its own +10 time for the teleport (Icy Veins). Mount farmers can run Mythic daily on every character.
• Pushing: see our push guide. Our Voidscar Arena guide covers another dungeon in the pool.

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FAQ

What is the Kings' Rest timer? 33:00 (Wowhead).

How do I get to Kings' Rest quickly? Use the left-most Timeways portal in Silvermoon City, or the +10 teleport.

How do I stop Animated Gold? Slow, stun, and cleave the blobs before they reach The Golden Serpent (Method, Icy Veins).

What happens if I open the wrong coffin on Mchimba? Mchimba opens the empty coffins and a Finished Mummy comes out of each. Since August 25 they're elites (Wowhead, Blizzard).

What order do I kill the Council totems in? Explosive, Thundering, then Torrent (Method).

Does the Council end when Zanazal dies? Yes, since Blizzard's August 18 hotfix.

Where does the Tomb Stalker mount drop? From Dazar on Mythic difficulty (TheWoWDB, Wowhead).