Mchimba the Embalmer
Kings' Rest · boss 2 of 4
There was once a caste of Zandalari whose purpose was to preserve and defend the remains of past rulers. But when a terrible plague of corrupted blood tore through the empire, it was too risky for mortals to handle the dead. Golems were summoned for the grim work of preservation and burial; they have been used ever since.
Someone gets sealed in a crypt and every wrong crypt opened releases a mummy. Listen for the struggling, that is them telling you which door.
A timed search. Entomb hides a player in one of the crypts and Mchimba opens the others one at a time, empty ones first, each opening faster than the last; every unoccupied crypt releases a Finished Mummy. Free the trapped player and the ritual ends on the spot.
The spells that matter
The handful you actually react to. Hover for Blizzard's own text; click through for the full tooltip.
Entomb
Open Coffin
Finished Mummy
Drain Fluids
Desiccation
Burn Corruption
Awakening Slam
Command Constructs
What actually kills you
Everything else is noise until these three are handled.
- Searching slowly. Open Coffin accelerates with each crypt, so the mummies arrive in a rush, not a trickle.
- Ignoring Desiccation. Drain Fluids ends in a debuff that cuts damage and movement speed and lasts until that player is healed above 90%; it does not time out.
- Standing in Burning Ground. Burn Corruption drops fire under a player and it lingers.
Your job
If you tank
- Every released mummy is another pickup while the group is scattered searching. Position where you can reach the whole chamber.
- Command Constructs is group damage plus Interment Constructs moving in to embalm; collect those too.
If you heal
- Desiccation is a hard-number heal: above 90% health, or that player stays crippled the rest of the fight.
- Explosive Acids fires during Drain Fluids and hits everyone near the target; the drained player should not be in the group.
If you DPS
- The trapped player can Struggle, which alerts you to their crypt. Someone has to be listening, not tunnelling.
- Free them and the ritual stops immediately; every second saved is one fewer mummy.
- Awakening Slam opens crypts on its own and releases Half-Finished Mummies, whose Wretched Discharge is a disease on everyone.
How the fight goes
| Part | What to do |
|---|---|
| Step 1 | He drains and burns while Interment Constructs work the room. |
| Step 2 | Entomb seals a player; Mchimba opens crypts, empty ones first, each faster than the last. |
| Step 3 | Find and free the trapped player to end the ritual, or fight everything the other crypts released. |
Higher keys
Heroic and Mythic
The journal marks only that Kings' Rest is Heroic and Mythic only (not available in Normal); it publishes no key-level-specific text. Higher keys scale health and damage. We would rather say that than invent a difference.
Loot
Everything Mchimba the Embalmer can drop, from the Midnight Season 2 item database.
| Slot | Item |
|---|---|
| Wrist | Embalmer's Steadying Bracers |
| Hands | Sepulchral Construct's Gloves |
| Hands | Desiccator's Blessed Gloves |
| Ring | Ritual Binder's Ring |
| Trinket | Mchimba's Ritual Bandages |
| Two-hand | Royal Purifier's Spade |
| Held in off-hand | Vessel of Last Rites |
Nothing matches that.
This boss drops a trinket. Trinket value varies enormously by spec — see the simulated trinket rankings.
Worth a bonus roll?
You cannot roll this boss on its own. A dungeon roll is against the whole instance, so this table is one part of a pool that includes every other boss in Kings' Rest — the bonus roll guide explains what that changes, and the planner works it out per spec.