Yogg-Saron Boss Fight Strategy Guide

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Yogg-Saron Boss Fight Abilities and Tactics

Sara’s Abilities:

Sara’s Abilities (Phase One)

Sara is not attackable in Phase One and casts these spells randomly on the raid and on the Guardians of Yogg-Saron.

• Sara’s Fervor – Increases a friendly target’s damage by 20%, but also increases damage taken by the target by 100%. Lasts 15 sec.
• Sara’s Blessing – Heals a friendly target for 27000 to 33000, but causes 60000 Shadow damage over 20 sec.
• Sara’s Anger – Inflicts 12500 Shadow damage every 3 sec, but increases Physical damage done by 12000. Lasts 12 sec.

Keepers’ powers

Talking to the Keepers of Ulduar before the fight will cause them to aid you in the encounter. The less you have helping the harder the encounter will be but better loot will drop and special achievements can be earned. Specific Keeper abilities below:

• Speed of Invention – Increases all damage done by 10% and movement speed by 20%.
• Mimiron also slows the casting speed and attack speed of all mobs in the encounter by 300%/100% respectively.
• Resilience of Nature – Increases all damage done by 10% and healing received from all sources by 20%.
• Freya also conjures Sanity wells allowing you to regain sanity.
• Fury of the Storm – Increases all damage done by 10% and total health by 20%.
• Thorim also finishes off Faceless Ones you bring to 1% HP in Phase Three. Without Thorim the Faceless ones are unkillable.
• Fortitude of Frost – Increases damage done by 10% and reduces damage taken from all sources by 20%.
• Hodir’s Protective Gaze – Allows Hodir to save a friendly target who sustains fatal damage by encasing them in a nearly impenetrable block of ice for 10 seconds. Hodir must rest after performing this action.

Yogg-Saron’s Abilities:

• Dominate Mind – Dominates the mind of the target, temporarily placing them under Yogg-Saron’s control. Also reduces Sanity by 4%.
• Sanity Well – Standing in the well brings you back to your senses, regenerating 20% Sanity every 2 sec. Damage done is reduced by 50% while you remain in the well.
• Psychosis – Inflicts 7500 Shadow damage. Also reduces Sanity by 9%.
• Brain Link – Links the brains of two enemy targets. Afflicted targets suffer 3000 Shadow damage and lose 2% Sanity every 1 sec. whenever they are more than 20 yards apart.
• Malady of the Mind – Inflicts 5000 Shadow damage and causes the enemy target to run in horror for 4 sec, then attempts to jump to another enemy within 10 yds. Also reduces Sanity by 3%.
• Lunatic Gaze – Looking into the maw of madness unhinges your mind, inflicting 5700 to 6300 Shadow damage and reducing Sanity by 4% every 1 sec. for as long as you are facing the caster.
• Induce Madness – Drives all nearby targets insane, reducing Sanity by 100%

Phase One: Have tanks pick Guardians of Yogg-Saron and kite them around the room and make sure you tank then away from the clouds that spawn. Anyone touching the clouds on the ground will spawn a new Guardian of Yogg-Saron, meaning you will eventually get overrun.

Abilities of “Guardians of Yogg-Saron”

• Mind Control: Cast on random players in the raid. Players must be CC’d or else they will destroy your casters/healers.

The Key to this phase is HOW you kill the Guardians. Each Guardian must be killed right next to Sara. After Killing 9 Guardians next to Sara the phase will end Phase 1 bringing you into Phase 2.

• It can be helpful to spawn an extra Guardian intentionally early on to start phase 2 faster as the Guardian spawn rate picks up the longer you remain in phase one.

Phase Two: Make sure you go into this phase with little or no Gaurdians up because you will immediately be overrun by tentacles. If you are using Freya and your sanity gets low, the green beams on the sides of the room will restore your sanity. Make sure to make use of it.

Types of Tentacles:

1.      Crusher Tentacle: Melees hard, has a ton of HP and has an aura that reduces damage done by the raid by 20%, stacks with other crusher tentacles so these must go down fast. Melee-ing these will interrupt their aura but they gain a temporary buff that increases their damage and attack speed when they are hit so this is dangerous if they are being DPS’d.

2.      Corruptor Tentacle: Casts various debuffs, Curse of Doom, Apathy, Draining Poison and Plague. Dispellers will need to be on their A-Game. All of these abilities are interruptible.

3.      Constrictor Tentacle: These have very little HP and appear underneath random players, grab them and hoist them into the air doing damage every few seconds until killed. Healers must heal the player being constricted

Note: Sara will hover above Yogg-Saron’s main body casting various abilities such as Psychosis, Brain Link and Malady of the Mind as well as lasers on the ground much like Kologarn’s eye beam.

Every 90 seconds or so Portals will open into Yogg-Saron’s mind. All melee DPS must take the portals. Do not take the portal if your sanity is low you will lose sanity the longer you are below.

You will see one of three random illusion rooms along with some disguised tentacles and laughing skulls floating around the room.

• The skulls cast Lunatic Gaze so you must strafe around the room with your back to the skulls at all times.
  • The illusion will shatter once you kill all the tentacles in the room.

Melee must then run into the brain room and try to get some DPS on the brain before taking the portal back up. The Brain begins a 60 second induce madness cast when the portals open so the melee must complete their task and get whatever DPS they can on the brain within 60 seconds or they will emerge from Yogg-Saron’s mind insane.

• This Means… You have about 50 Seconds of DPS before you must take the portal, to be safe, or you loose your DPS.

Phase 2 ends when the Brain is killed.

Phase Three: This is burn phase with a 5 minute enrage timer.

• Yogg-Saron will have 16 million HP left on 25-man and 3 million HP on 10-man.

Adds:

• Tentacles: These will stop spawning, any up will remain. Make sure you kill them.
• Faceless Ones: These adds hit very hard will spawn very rapidly in this phase. You must pick up and kill the Faceless ones, while also keeping enough DPS on Yogg-Saron to kill him within 5 minutes.
• Alternate to this: Burn Yogg-Saron extremely fast if you are not using Thorim.

Sara’s abilities continue. Yogg-Saron will begin to cast Lunatic Gaze in this phase so DPS must be ready to avert their eyes. Yogg-Saron will also heal the faceless ones with empowering shadows. It is recommended to save Bloodlust for this phase if you are horde.

• Lunatic Gaze - Looking into the maw of madness unhinges your mind, inflicting 5700 to 6300 Shadow damage and reducing Sanity by 4% every 1 sec. for as long as you are facing the caster.

Yogg-Saron Video Guide

Huge thanks to Aphieleon of Twisting Nether, he sent me this strategy write up from his guild’s experiences…big thumbs up!

General Vezax Boss Strategy Guide

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General Vezax is the 12th boss encounter of Ulduar. General Vezax guards the prison holding Yogg-Saron.

General Vezax Abilities

• Health Points: 25,100,000 (heroic), 6,275,250 (normal)
• Shadow Crash – deals 11,310-12,690 shadow damage and knocking back all enemies near the impact point. Leaves a magical area at the impact point for 15 seconds that increases magic damage by 50%, reduces healing by 50%, and reduces mana cost by 30%.
• Searing Flames - deals 13,875-16,125 fire damage to all players within a 20 yard radius. Reduces armor by 75% for 10 seconds. 2 second casting time, can be interrupted.
• Surge of Darkness – increases physical damage by 100% and reduces movement speed by 55% for a 10 second duration. When the General buffs himself with this you  must kite him.
• Aura of Despair - prevents normal mana regeneration through out the fight. You can still gain mana via evocation, mana pots, etc. You can destroy the crystals flying around the room to get mana. These crystals drop a cloud on the ground, which will convert your health into mana.
• Profund of Darkness – deals 500 damage to all enemies and increases shadow damage by 10% per stack. Stacks on the raid (related to achievements)

General Vezax Boss Strategy

For the most part this is a pretty standard tank and spank fight…with a few slight variations. When you engage General Vezax simply start DPS like normal, have your DPS interrupt searing flames as often as possible. When General Vezax casts surge of darkness all DPS should stop, allowing your tank to kite General Vezax around the room. This is a great time for your casters to take advantage of the clouds for mana regeneration. Make sure you are rotating your casters appropriately, it’s important everyone maintains thier mana (particuarlly healers).

Continue to DPS General Vezax until he is about 35% health. Before reaching 35% you’ll want to make sure all your casters have enough mana, if not slow DPS and allow them to get some mana regeneration going. After you take Vezax to 35% he will summon Saronite Animus. Generally you want to simply off tank Saronite Animus and finish off the general. If you want to complete the achievement you need to kill Saronite Animus before Vezax. Continue burning down the General until he’s dead.

General Vezax Hard Mode Strategy

The hard mode is the same type of fight as I’ve detailed above, except you cannot use any of the mana-regeneration clouds for the duration of the fight.’

General Vezax Video Strategy (10 man)

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General Vezax Video Strategy (25 man)

Hodir Boss Strategy Guide

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Hodir is the 11th boss encounter of Ulduar. He’s located in the Halls of Winter.

Hodir Boss Abilities

• Health Points: 25,000,000 (heroic), 8,400,000 (normal)
• Melee hits on plate for up to 25,000
• Biting Cold – Aura that stacks up, dealing frost damage. Move to dispel the DoT.
• Freeze - Deals 5,550-6,450 frost damage, immobilizing them for 10 seconds. 10 yard radius, dispellable.
• Flash  Freeze – Freezes players in ice blocks, kill these ice blocks immediately. If a player is hit by a 2nd flash freeze they will die.
• Icicles - shards fall from the sky dealing a knockback and 12,000 frost damage to all players within the radius. These also create snowdrifts, which you can stand in to avoid being hit by flash freeze.
• Frozen Blows – self buff, adds 40,000 frost damage to all melee attacks and reduces physical damage by 70%.

Hodir Boss Strategy

Throughout the entire encounter you’ll need to constantly be moving to avoid biting cold. Periodically Hodir will randomly root a member of the raid, all players within a 10 yard radius will also be rooted. Stay spread out as much as possible to avoid large groups being rooted. Priests and paladins will need to be quick on their dispels here to avoid losing anyone.

Be watching for snowflakes pouring down from the ceiling, these indicate that icicles are about to fall. Anyone hit by these will take 12,000 frost damage and get knocked back.

Periodically Hodir will use frozen blows on himself. This essentially turns his damage from physical to frost. When this happens your frost resist tank needs to taunt. Healers should also be prepared to transition to the new tank. When frozen blows falls off the primary tank should taunt him back.

Finally, you’ll want to watch out for flash freeze. These are preceded by two icicles that create a snow mound. These mound of snow will protect the entire raid from being hit by the icicle. Anyone that doesn’t make it to the mound of snow should have their iceblock killed immediately to avoid death.

Hodir Hard Mode Boss Strategy

Defeat Hodir before he can shatter any of the chests in the room. The first chest is shattered at the 3 minute mark

Hodir Video Strategy (10 man)

Hodir Video Strategy (25 man)

Thorim Boss Strategy Guide

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Thorim is the 10th boss encounter of Ulduar. This boss is located in the Clash of Thunder.

Thorim Boss Abilities

• Health Points: 11,300,000 (heroic)
• Stormhammer – deals 2,451-2,551 damage, knocking down and stunning for 2 seconds. Causes deafening thunder to all nearby enemies.
  • Defeaning Thunder – inflicts 4,625-5,375 nature damage to enemies in close proximity of a stormhamer. Silences for 6 seconds
• Beserk – Increases damage by 500%, attack / cast speed by 200% and health by 300% of Thorim and his allies.
• Unbalancing Strike – Deals 250% weapon damage and leaves the target unbalanced, reducing defense by 200 for 15 seconds
• Lightning Charge – absorbs energy from a target, deals nature damage to all enemies in a frontal cone between caster and the targeted enemy. Increases the caster’s melee damage / attack speed by 20%.

Gauntlet Mobs and Abilities

• Jormungar Behemoth
  • Acid Breath – deals 12,000 nature damage and 1500 additional damage every 2 seconds.
  • Sweep – deals 6,000 damage and knockdown for 3 seconds.
• Captured Horde / Alliance Soldier
  • Barbed Shot – deals 4,513-4,987 physical damage and an additional 500 damage every 3 seconds for 12 seconds.
• Captured Horde / Alliance Soldier 2
  
  • Heroic Strike – strong melee attack that deals 5,088-5,912 with a high amount of threat
  • Devastate – sunders armor and causes 50%, sunder armor stacks up to 5 times
• Captured Horde / Alliance Healer
  • Heal – area of effect healing (details needed)
• Dark Rune Acolyte
  • Holy Smite – deals 7,500 holy damage
  • Greater Heal – heals an ally for 86,500 (confirmation needed on this number)
• Dark Rune Champion
  • Whirlwind – standard area of effect whirlwind damage plus an additional 100
  • Mortal Strike – deals 250% weapon damage and reduces healing by 50% for 5 seconds.
  • Charge – charges and enemy knocking them down and dealing normal weapon damage plus 120.
• Dark Rune Evoker
  • Runic lightning – deals 7.875-10,125 nature damage
  • Runic Mending – heals an ally for 18,500-21,500 then heals an additional 6,000 health every 1 second for 15 seconds.
• Dark Rune Commoner
  • Low Blow – standard attack and reduces the target’s damage dealt by 3% for 20 seconds.
  • Pummel – interrupts spell casting for 5 seconds.
• Dark Rune Warbringer
  • Runic Strike – deals nature damage equal to weapon damage with an additional 1000
  • Iron Honor Guard
  • Cleave – deals 150% of melee damage, standard cleave mechanic
  • Hamstring – Deals 50% of normal melee damage and reduces movement speed by 50% for 6 seconds
• Iron Ring Guard
  • Whirling Trip – 2 second knockdown, dealing weapon damage
  • Impale – causes target to bleed until healed past 90% of maximum health. Deals 1750 damage per second until removed.
• Ancient Rune Giant
  • Stomp – weapon damage plus a 2 second knock down.
• Runic Colossus
  • Smash – deals 13,875-16,125 damage, knocking them up
  • Charge – charges an enemy, deals normal damage with an additional 120 and a knock back
  • Runic Barrier – reduces physical damage taken by 50% and deals 2,000 arcane damage to attackers

Thorim Boss Strategy

Before the fight even begins you’ll want to split your raid into 2 groups. Group 1 will be the gauntlet group and should be composed of at least 2 tanks, 3 healers and caster DPS. Group 2 will be the Colosseum group and will fight the mobs in the arena area. This group should also have 2 tanks, 3 healers and your melee / hunter dps (due to the silence). The gauntlet group will work their way up to Thorim and the Colosseum group will simply fight the mobs and survive until group 1 makes it to Thorim.

After group 1 completes the gauntlet Thorim will jump down into the Colosseum, group 1 will follow him. At this point it’s a pretty standard tank and spank fight. When Thorim hits a tank with unbalancing strike another tank will need to taunt. Continue pumping out as much DPS as possible. Now it’s just a DPS race against lightning charge, which will 1 shot tanks.

Thorim Hard Mode Strategy

Most are saying the hard mode encounter includes Sif, Thorim’s dead wife. She won’t be tankable and will simply run around producing additional raid damage. Note that this has yet to be confirmed.

Thorim Video Strategy (10 man)

Thorim Video Strategy (25 man)

Mimiron Boss Strategy Guide

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Mimiron is the 8th boss encounter of Ulduar. He’s located in the Spark of Imagination. Mimiron is the builder of Flame Leviathan.

Mimiron Abilities

• Leviathan MKII
  • Health Points: 6,970,000 (heroic), 1,740,000 (normal)
  • Napalm Shell – Deals 9,425-10,575 fire damage to enemies within a 5 yard radius. Additionally, laves an aura that deals 6,000 fire damage per second for 8 seconds in that location. 2 second casting time
  • Plasma Blast – Deals 30,000 fire damage per second for a 6 second duration. 3 second cast time.
  • Proximity Mine – Deals 20,000 fire damage. Disarmable by rogues.
  • Shock Blast – Deals 100,000 nature damage to all enemy targets within 15 yards. 5 second casting time.
• VX-001 – Anti-personnel Assault Cannon
  • Health Points: 6,970,000 (heroic), 1,740,000 (normal)
  • Heat Wave – Deals 9,425-10,575 fire damage with an additional 3,000 fire damage per second DoT for 5 seconds to all targets within an 80 yard radius.
  • Rocket Strike – Deals 1,000,000 fire damage at a targeted location (indicated by circle on the ground)
  • Rapid Burst – Deals 3,299-3,701 damage to all targets in front of the anti-personnel assault cannon.
  • Spinning Up – starts spinning, charging up the laser barrage
  • P3Wx2 Laser Barrage – Deals 20,000 arcane damage to targets in front of VX-001, 80 yard range.
• V0-L7R-0N
  • Shock Blast – Deals 100,000 nature damage to all enemy targets within 15 yards. 5 second casting time.
  • Proximity Mine – Deals 20,000 fire damage. Disarmable by rogues.
  • Hand Pulse – Deals 7,000-8,000 damage to all targets in front of the mob.
  • Rocket Strike – Deals 1,000,000 fire damage at a targeted location (indicated by circle on the ground)
  • P3Wx2 Laser Barrage – Deals 20,000 arcane damage to targets in front of VX-001, 80 yard range.
  • Plasma Ball - Used on the highest threat target. Deals 14,1380-15,862 damage.
• Aerial Command Unit
  • Health Points: 4,600,000 (heroic)
  • Plasma Ball – Used on the highest threat target. Deals 14,1380-15,862 damage.
• Assault Bot
  • Health Points: 1,000,000 (heroic)
  • Special Note: Drops an item (magnet core) that allows you to force an Aerial Command Unit to the ground.
  • Summon Magnet Core – Temporarily forces an aerial command unit to the ground. While on the ground it takes an additional 50% damage.
  • Magnetic Field - Roots the target in places and increases the damage taken by 30%. 6 second duration, can be dispelled.
• Bomb Bot
  • Health Points:
  • Explosion – deals 9,425-10,575 fire damage to all targets within a 5 yard radius.
• Trash Bot
  • Health Points: 110,000 (heroic)
  • No special abilities

Mimiron Boss Strategy

Phase 1 – Leviathan MKII

This phase is a standard tank and spank fight. Tank the boss in the middle of the room and have your casters and other ranged classes spread out around the  room. Make sure your ranged is at least 15 yards away from the boss, so they don’t eat shock blast. Also, be aware of the mines that will be spawning. Don’t bother disarming them, simply avoid them as most of them will be concentrated between your melee and ranged classes.

Phase 2 – VX-001, Antipersonnel Assault Cannon

The most important thing during this phase is to simply stay spread out. The entire raid should spread out around the room, making sure you have healers equally dispersed. Furthermore, everyone needs to be very aware of the rockets. These rockets will target a section on the ground, so if you see them heading in your general direction simply move 5 yards in any direction to avoid being hit.

Occasionally the boss will begin the laser barrage. If he does start spinning you should move directly behind the boss. This will allow you to avoid taking any damage from the laser.

Phase 3 – Aerial Command Unit

For this phase you will need both a ranged tank and a kiter. As soon as your ranged tank has sufficient threat range can begin attacking the boss until the first assault bot spawns.

Adds spawn at various locations around the room. A spotlight will appear on the spawn location, indicating the type of add that is about to spawn. An orange light means it’s an assault bot and your kiter will need to be picking them up. These assault bots can and should be slowed / immobilized / etc to assist your kiter. Once the kiter has sufficient threat these mobs should be burned down. Make sure you give your kiter sufficient time to build threat.

If the spotlight is green it means a junk bot or bomb bot is about to spawn. Junk bots should be picked up by your tanks. Bomb bots do not need to be tanked, they will walk around a bit and then blow up, simply move away from them and don’t get hit by the explosion.

After the assault bot has been killed he will drop a magnetic core. Use this core underneath the boss. This will pull the boss to the ground, allowing melee to DPS him for a 6 second duration (damage is also increased during this phase).

Repeat the above steps until he’s dead.

Note: turn free for all loot on during this phase to allow cores to be picked up.

Phase 4 – V0-L7R-0N

This phase is essentially all 3 previous phases wrapped into one. There are no new abilities and each phase works exactly the same, however, adds do not spawn during this phase.

Things to look for…

• Ranged tank still must tank the Aerial Command Unit
• Melee tank still must tank Leviathan MKII
• Entire raid must avoid mines
• Melee should run out to avoid shock blast
• Laser Barrage will cast more often, be ready to run behind the boss
• Avoid rockets, move 5 yards in any direction if they are coming towards you

In order to defeat the boss you must kill all 3 sections at the same time, otherwise they will repair. Split your  melee and ranged DPS accordingly, keep heals up, and use the above list to make sure you don’t forget anything…do these things and you’ll have your first kill under your belt

Mimiron Hard Mode Strategy

To complete this encounter on hard mode simply press the large red button in the back of the room. When engaged the boss gains “emergency mode”, which increases damage and health by 25%. To defeat hard mode you must kill this boss in less than 8 minutes.

Mimiron Video Strategy (10-man)

Mimiron Video Strategy (25-man)

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Auriaya Boss Strategy Guide

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Auriaya is the seventh boss of Ulduar and is located within the Shattered Walkway.

Auriaya Boss Abilities

• Health Points: 16,730,00 (heroic), 3,200,000 (normal)
• Horrifying Screech – All nearby enemies flee in horror for 5 seconds
• Sentinel Blast – Deals 5,500 shadow damage and increases the shadow damage taken by 100% for 5 seconds, stacks up to 5 times.
• Sonic Screech – Shockwave like ability that deals 185,000-215,000 shadow damage to all enemies with the path. This damage is split amongst all the raid members hit.
• Summon Swarming Guardian – summons panthers adds.
• Sanctum Sentry
  • Health Points: 558,000
  • Savage Pounce – Deals 13,875-16,125 damage with an additional 7,400-8,600 bleed every second for 5 seconds.
  • Strength of the Pack – Increases  damage done by 50% when other sanctum sentries are within 20 yards.
• Feral Spirit
  • Health Points:
  • Feral Essence - Each essence buff increases the damage dealt by 50%. There are 9 total stacks of feral essence (…9 lives, lawl). The feral defender can revive himself at the cost of one of these essences.
  • Feral Pounce – 4 second stun and inflecting 602-698 shadow damage every second for 4 seconds.
  • Feral Rush – charge, deals 1,609-1,691 damage. Interrupts casting.
  • Seeping Feral Essence - Left behind upon the dead of a feral spirit, similar to a void zone. Deals 9,000 shadow damage every second to those standing within.

Auriaya Boss Strategy

When you pull Auriaya you’ll need 1 tank holding Auriaya and 1 tank managing the adds. The raid should be pilled up with the adds and killing them as quickly as possible. Your main tank who has Auriaya will want to be around 20 yards away with the boss facing the raid. This is due to the sonic screech ability.

After the raid has killed the adds they can begin attacking the boss, ensuring that they are always standing in front of the boss (melee specifically). When the feral spirit spawns you off tank needs to pick him up. After you’ve killed the feral spirit he will drop a seeping feral essence, similar to a void zone…so don’t stand in it.

After you’ve killed the add you can begin attacking the boss again. Shortly the feral sprit will be resurrected and you’ll need to repeat the above steps. Continue dragging the boss around to provide drop areas for the seeping feral essence until you’ve killed the boss.

Auriaya Video Strategy Guide (10 man)

Auriaya Video Strategy Guide (25 man)

Kologarn Boss Strategy Guide

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Kologarn is the 6th boss of Ulduar. He’s located along the Shattered Walkway.

Kologarn Abilities

• Health Points: 20,900,000 (heroic), 5,200,000 (normal)
• Overhead Smash – Decreases target’s armor by 25% for 30 seconds. Stackable up to 4 times.
• Petrifying Breath – Channeled cast that deals 18,750-21,250 nature damage per second, 4 second channel. Applies a debuff that increases damage taken by 20% for 8 seconds. This ability is used only when no players are within melee range.
• Focused Eyebeam - Launches beams into the raid from his eyes, deals 3,700-4,300 nature damage to players within a 3 yard radius.
• Left Arm:
  • Health Points: 5,200,000 (heroic), 1,200,000 (normal)
  • Shockwave - Hits the entire raid, dealing 11,563-13,437 nature damage.
• Right Arm:
  • Health Points: 5,200,000 (heroic), 1,200,000 (normal)
  • Stonegrip - Stuns a random player, deals 3,700-4,300 damage per second until that player dies or until 450,000 damage has been dealt to the arm.

Kologarn Boss Strategy

First and foremost, it’s important to know that Kologarn will remain completely stationary, you cannot turn him what-so-ever. If there are no melee players within his range Kologarn will cast petrifying breath (detailed above).

In order to tank Kologarn you’ll need 3 geared tanks. These tanks will stand on top of each other and participate in a taunt rotation. After one tank has 2 stacks overhead smash another tank should taunt, allowing this debuff to drop. Repeat as necessary. It’s of absolute most importance that all 3 tanks stay alive.

In addition to simply dealing with the main boss Kologarn also has 2 arms. These arms have special abilities that deal out damage to the raid. The left arm will hit the entire raid for 12,000 damage periodically. The right arm will periodicaly pick up a player and deal damage to them until that arm has taken 450,000 damage. Healers will need to focus heals on the player in the arm’s grasp.

If you kill an arm a set of earth elementals will spawn. These should be killed promptly. The left and right arms are both on a 60 second respawn timer. In respawning health is siphioned from the boss to regenerate the arms.

The Iron Council Boss Strategy Guide

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The Iron Council is the 5th boss encounter of Ulduar. This encounter includes 3 separate bosses: Steelbreaker, Runemaster Molgeim, and Stonecaller Brundir. After killing any of the 3 the other 2 will receive a +25% damage increase. Killing one of the remaining 2 bosses grants the final boss left alive additional abilities.

The Iron Council Abilities

• Health Points: 30,000,000 (total, heroic), 10,000,000 (total, normal)
• Enrage timer after 10 minutes
• Supercharge – after one of the other bosses die the remaining bosses gain a +25% damage increase and an additional ability.
• Elemental Adds:
  • Lightning Blast – When these adds get to their targets they deal 14,138-15,862 nature damage 30 yard radius explosion, killing the add. Spawned by Rune of Summoning (detailed below).
• Steelbreaker:
  • Health Points: 10,000,000 (heroic), 3,000,000 (normal)
  • Fusion Punch – Deals 100% weapon damage an an additional 8,000 nature damage per second.
  • High Voltage – An aura that deals 2,500 nature damage every 3 seconds.
  • Static Disruption – Steelbreaker gains this buff when one of the other bosses has been killed first. It deals 7,500 nature damage and increases nature damage taken by 50% for 20 seconds.
• Runemaster Molgeim:
  • Rune of Power – 5 yard radius group buff that deals more damage to anyone standing in it.
  • Rune of Death – Runemaster gains this buff when one of the other bosses has been killed first. Deals 6,000 damage per second to anyone standing in this 13 yard radius of this AoE on the ground.
  • Rune of Summoning – Runemaster gains this buff when two of the other bosses has been killed first. Summons elemental adds that explode when they touch players (detailed above).
• Stormcaller Brundir:
  • Chain Lightning – Deals nature damage that arcs up to 5 different targets. Can be interrupted.
  • Overload – Deals 25,000 nature damage to anyone within a 30 yard radius. Goes off after the emote “PEASANTS HAS CROSSED THE LINE”.
  • Lightning Whirl – Stormcaller gains this buff after one of the other bosses has been killed first. Hurls a lightning bolt at a random target, deals 6598-7402 nature damage, 5 second duration.
  • Lightning Tendrils – Stormcaller gains this buff after two of the other bosses have been killed first. Runs around the room very fast and deals 8,000 damage per second to anyone nearby. Should be taunted back to the floor, where you can DPS him.

The Iron Council Boss Strategy

Phase 1 – All 3 Bosses Up

Raid groups can kill the 3 bosses in any order you wish, however, the generally accepted easiest route is Steelbreaker –> Molegeim –> Brundir. Step one in this fight is simply setting up your tanking positions. Steelbreaker and Molgeim should be tanked in the front corners of the room. Due to the overload explosion you must tank Brundir away from the raid, generally towards the back of the room is the optimal position.

Boss Specific Notes

• The tank on Brundir needs to run away from the boss as Overload is going off, minimizing damage.
• Players attacking Brundir should always try to interrupt chain lightning casts.
• Molgeim will drop rune of power throughout the fight underneath Brundir and Steelbreaker. Tanks should reposition these bosses when this occurs to remove them from getting the buff and allow your DPS to get the buff.
• Steelbreaker will be fusion punching your tank. When this occurs he will need additional heals and a dispel.

Phase 2 – 2 Bosses Up

After your raid has killed the first boss the other two bosses will gain new abilities. If you are killing the bosses in the order suggested above then you’ll have Molgeim and Brundir up at this point.

Boss Specific Notes

• Molegeim now has Rune of Death. Massive green AoE rune on the ground, deals 6,000 damage per second to those players standing within it. Move out of it.
• Brundir now has lightning whirl. Randomly tosses lightning bolts at raid members, heal through it.

Phase 3 – 1 Boss Up

At this point only Brundir is left up, so let’s take him down! With Molegeim now dead Brundir gains a new ability, lightning tendrils. Using these tendrils he will lift up into the air. Anyone standing nearby will take massive amounts of nature damage…so, don’t stand near the boss if you’re not a tank.

You can keep Brundir in the same location by rotating taunts with 3 tanks. Thus allowing your range DPS to deal more damage. In addition, Brundir will occasionally drop to the ground, allowing melee DPS a chance to get some DPS in.

At this point it’s simply a matter of continuing to burn Brundir down and keeping heals flowing. Keep it up and you’ll have Brundir down in no time.

The Iron Council Hard Mode Strategy

To complete The Iron Council on hard mode you must kill Steelbreaker last.

Complete strategy for hard mode will be added in the coming days.

The Iron Council Video (10 man)

The Iron Council Video (25 man)

XT-002 Deconstructor Boss Strategy Guide

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XT-002 Deconstructor is the 4th boss of Ulduar. He’s located in the Ulduar scrap yard.

XT-002 Deconstructor Boss Abilities

• Health Points: 17,850,000 (heroic), 5,250,000 (normal)
• Gravity Bomb – Targets a random playing causing them to explode and pull in nearby players after 9 seconds. Creates a gravity well.
• Gravity Well – Created by the gravity bomb on the targeted player, which pulls players within a 10 yard radius into the well, dealing 19,000-21,000 damage.
• Tympanic Tantrum – Deals 10% damage every 1 second for a 12 second duration to the entire raid, dazing all enemies. Cast once per minute.
• Light Bomb – Causes targeted player to deal 2,000-3,000 damage to nearby players while they are attacking, last for 9 seconds.
• Enrages after 8 minutes

XT-002 Deconstructor Boss Strategy

This encounter is a standard tank and spank fight for the most part. The most important aspect of this fight is simply spreading out. After a player gets hit with a gravity bomb or a light bomb that player needs to immediately separate themselves from the group to minimize damage. Furthermore, healers should be on the lookout for tympanic tantrum. This will deal 120% damage to all raid members over 12 seconds, so every raid member will need to at least receive a decent amount of heals. It’s not a bad idea to assign healers to individual groups, as to ensure all players receive a heal.

At 75%, 50%, and 25% XT-002 Deconstructor will stop attacking and spawn adds. There are 3 different kinds of adds.

• XS-013 Scrapbots – these adds will heal XT-002 if they get to him, they must be killed immediately.
• XE-321 Boombots – these adds blow up, dealing damage to friend and foe alike, when they hit 50% health. These can be used to kill the other adds.
• XM-024 Pummelers – Basic mobs, nothing special, you can kill these after boombots and scrapbots have been killed.

After the adds have been killed the fight will continue like before.

XT-002 Deconstructor Hard Mode Strategy

During any of the ad phases XT-002 may be clicked on. Doing so will expose his heart, which may be destroyed. Destroying his heart will increase XT-002’s health and damage by 25% and return him to full health. Exposing and killing the heart at the lower add spawning levels does not increase the quality of loot or open up new achievements, this is a binary hard mode fight.

Razorscale Boss Strategy Guide

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Razorscale is the third boss of Ulduar and is located within Razorscale’s  Aerie, across from the Colossal forge.

Razorscale Boss Abilities

• Health Points: 12,600,000 (heroic), 3,900,000 (normal)
• Wing Buffet – Knocks back in a large radius around Razorscale. 1.5 second cast time.
• Flame Breath – Deals 17,500-22,500 fire damage in a frontal cone. 2.5 second cast time.
• Flame Buffet – Increases fire damage taken by 1500. Last for 60 second duration.
• Devouring Flame – Launches a lava bomb at a target, deals 8788-10,212 fire damage. In addition, deals 8788-10212 fire damage everyone second to anyone standing within a 6 yard radius of the explosion site.

Razorscale Boss Strategy

Phase 1 – Air Phase

To start phase 1 simply talk to the expedition commander. During this phase you are tasked with defending the dwarven crews while they repair the harpoon launchers. Your primary focus here is killing all of the adds and avoiding the devouring flames that Razorscale will be launching.

As each harpoon launcher is successfully repaired they may be clicked to fire a harpoon at Razorscale. After all 4 turrets have been fired Razorscale will come to the ground. Once on the ground Razorscale will be stunned temporarily, during this time your DPS will want to blow all cooldowns to do as much damage as possible.

After the stun ends Razorscale will fly up into the air again and you’ll repeat the firing process to bring her down.

Phase 2 – Ground Phase

Once you’ve got Razorscale below 50% she will land. During this phase you’ll want your tank to spin her face away from the main raid to avoid flame breaths. At this point the fiight becomes a standard tank and spank fight. Continue to avoid devouring flame and keep DPS up. As flame buffet stacks on your tank he will be taking some serious damage towards the end of the fight, so maximizing your DPS during this phase will be crucial.

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