Secrets of Shadowbolting

The trickiest thing about Kologarn is thinking you have more space than you really have. One person steps into the room to bring him up and as he rises you will see his right and left arms. His left arm does a sweeping smash that can not be avoided while the right arm will grab people and squeeze them until 150k on 10 man, 450k on 25 is done to the arm. The room is very narrow and you do not have a lot of space.

It is important for ranged DPS to spread out in case the focused eyebeam is on you. Melee dps stacks on the tanks by the right arm. The tank will go in and engage Kologarn, melee stacks up on him as well. There is a stacking debuff applied to the tank that reduces armor – this is felt very hard by druid tanks who can usually only take 2 stacks before they get smushed. Make sure to watch the stacks and taunt as needed.

We’ve found it easiest to focus on the right arm and burn that down first. While burning the right arm, he will still sweep with his left causing raid wide damage, grab people with his right until damage is done, and focus his eye on a player. If the player is focused, they need to run out of the room towards the steps. this gives the rest of the ranged a heads up to know where the beam is going and to get out of the way. All damage done to the arm’s will come off Kologarn’s total health.

Once the right arm is down, he summons rumblers. The tank can pick them up and these can be AOEd down by ranged dps. When the rumblers are down, DPS can focus on Kologarn until the arm respawns. Eye beams will continually go off on the raid and it is up to the ranged to stay out of the way and avoid damage.

The rest of the fight is a rinse and repeat – burn the arm, stay out of the eyebeams, if someone is grabbed dps the arm hard, when adds spawn, aoe them down then focus back on kologarn.

NOTE: You CAN fall off the back of the ledge where Kologarn is. do NOT stand too close to the edge!!!

XT s a nasty little robot with a severe temper. (this picture was taken before a disconnect during the first week of Ulduar when the zone would freeze up. Do not attempt this if the zone is not frozen. It won’t end well).

Since the nerf, XT has gotten less devastating in the amount of damage dealt to the raid. Once engaged and facing away from the raid – we usually take him at the bottom of the steps – the raid focuses on burning XT down to 75% which will activate the heart phase. While burning XT a memeber of the raid will either get Gravity well – glowing purple shadowy – and they need to get away from the rest of the raid of they will suck others into their radius and after a short time explode and deal damage to anyone who was sucked in. 10 yards or so distance is enough to avoid this effect. Lightwells will cause a player to glow white and emit damage to everyone in range of them – again, 10 yards or so. If your raid is spread out enough at the start these people can stay still and not damage anyone. Every 25% XT enters the heart phase in which adds spwn, XT goes immune and exposes his heart.

During this phase, adds will pawn from the corners – scrapbots and boombots are the main ones to watch out for. Pummelers need to be picked up by the OT. The best tactics we used was to have melee concentrate on the heart – ranged AOE were assigned to corners to destroy the scrapbots and boombots that spawned. Any scrapbots that get to XT help him regain health. If you kill the heart – you activate hard mode. Do as much damage to the heart as possible without killing it. This will also detract from XTs overall health and if you burn enough off, you will have a short time on the dps burn before he’s back in a heart phase.

Ensure the adds are down before continuing to DPS XT, stay away from raid members with lightwell and gravity bomb and the fight tends to be fairly simple.

We marked our healers with raid icons so we knew where to stand so that we were in range of heals while being spread out.

Just past Flame Leviathan to the right is razorscale. This is a pretty easy fight if you remember one thing… STAY OUT OF THE FIRE!
The fight starts by talking to the Expedition leader. At this point, mole turrets pop up at the far side of the circle on the ground. There can be anywhere from 1-3 mole turrets so 2 tanks are needed to pick up the adds and group them up for AOEing. Dark Rune watchers have a nasty whirlwind and should be tanked away from the raid to avoid melee damage. Occasionally you will see a message pop up about a harpoon launcher being ready. One member of the raid needs to move to the back of the room to click and activate the turret. This will put a harpoon in razorscale.

While this is ongoing there is 2 types of fire damage to attempt to avoid. Blue fire will land and put an AOE effect on the ground. This must be avoided. Red and blue fire will single target one person but will not cause the AOE on teh ground. The bl;ue fire aoe will kill a player in under 3 seconds if they do not get out in time.
After (2 harpoons in 10 man, 4 harpoons in 25) the harpoons have been launched, razorscale will land. The tanks should bring the adds close to razor scale and DPS her down as much as possible before she launches again. Adds should be dead by the time she launches.

The adds will spawn again from the turrets and this is rinse and repeat until razorscale lands again. Once she is at 50% she will no longer launch in the air. After she has landed, the tanks need to immediately taunt her and drag her around the edges of the circle.

She will occasionally breathe fire which is a conal attack in front of her. Avoid the flames and burn her down.