Blackrock Foundry

Oregorger

Oregorger draws upon his reserves of Blackrock Ore to attack his enemies. When he has spent all his Blackrock Ore, he begins rampaging around in search of new Blackrock Ore to replenish himself. Once Oregorger is sated, he stops rolling and returns to fighting.

• Damage Dealers: Interrupt [Blackrock Barrage] to prevent raidwide damage and slow Oregorger's consumption of Blackrock Ore.
• Damage Dealers: Breaking open Ore Crates during Feeding Frenzy will leave Blackrock Ore on the ground for Oregorger to consume.
• Healers: Shielding and using damage mitigating abilities on the closest target of [Acid Torrent] can decrease the damage dealt to rest of the targets.
• Tanks: Position yourself to be closest in the [Acid Torrent] cone and use damage mitigating abilities to decrease the damage dealt to others.
• Tanks: Quickly regain threat after Oregorger leaves his Feeding Frenzy.

Hans'gar and Franzok

• Franzok
• Hans'gar

The battle against Hans'gar and Franzok takes place amidst an operational Blackrock assembly line. At fixed health thresholds, one of the twin orcs jumps out of the fight space to activate the factory machinery, enabling the conveyor belts that bear plates of molten Blackrock ore, or massive presses that stamp down from overhead.

• Damage Dealers: Franzok's [Disrupting Roar] interrupts spellcasting, and is performed more quickly as he gains Rage.
• Damage Dealers: Hans'gar and Franzok are [Bound by Blood] and share a single effective health pool.
• Healers: When either Hans'gar or Franzok land they cause [Aftershocks] that deal raid-wide damage.
• Healers: Franzok's [Disrupting Roar] interrupts casting, and is performed more quickly as he gains Rage.
• Healers: When either Hans'gar or Franzok leaves the fight space, they will pick up both tanks and [Crippling Suplex] them together for high Physical damage.
• Tanks: When either Hans'gar or Franzok leaves the fight space, they will pick up both tanks and [Crippling Suplex] them together for high Physical damage.
• Tanks: When Hans'gar and Franzok land from jumping they will inflict [Shattered Vertebrae], which increases damage taken with each application in an area around them.

Beastlord Darmac

• Beastlord Darmac
• Cruelfang
• Dreadwing
• Pack Beast

At the start, Darmac fights on foot amidst the fiercest war beasts of the Iron Horde. Upon reaching 85% health, Beastlord Darmac leaps onto the back of the nearest Prime Beast to continue the fight. When that Beast is killed, Darmac absorbs its essence, gaining new abilities. With each additional 20% health lost, Darmac seeks out a new Beast to ride.

• Damage Dealers: Free players from [Pin Down] if they are struck.
• Damage Dealers: Kill Pack Beasts when Beastlord Darmac uses [Call the Pack].
• Healers: Players struck by [Pin Down] require significant healing.
• Healers: While Dreadwing is active, dispel [Conflagration] as quickly as possible.
• Healers: Dispel [Inferno Breath] and [Superheated Shrapnel] if they stack up.
• Tanks: Beastlord Darmac leaps atop the nearest chained beast at 85% health remaining, and then every 20% thereafter.
• Tanks: Quickly gain threat on the rampaging Pack Beasts when Beastlord Darmac uses [Call the Pack].

Gruul

Gruul attacks with massive sweeping blows that require the coordinated efforts of multiple players to withstand, and periodically enters a [Destructive Rampage], ignoring all targets and continually performing [Overhead Smash].

• Damage Dealers: If afflicted by [Petrifying Slam], stay away from allies to avoid collateral damage when [Shatter] occurs.
• Damage Dealers: Players must stand in close proximity to one another in order to share the damage from [Inferno Slice].
• Healers: If afflicted by [Petrifying Slam], stay away from allies to avoid collateral damage when [Shatter] occurs.
• Healers: Players must stand in close proximity to one another in order to share the damage from [Inferno Slice].
• Tanks: Taunt Gruul into a cluster of players in order to share the damage from [Inferno Slice].
• Tanks: During [Destructive Rampage], Gruul will continually use [Overhead Smash], ignoring his threat on all targets.
• Tanks: In every difficulty except Raid Finder, quickly taunt Gruul away from players after [Inferno Slice] to stop [Overwhelming Blows] from hitting unintended targets.

Flamebender Ka'graz

• Flamebender Ka'graz
• Aknor Steelbringer
• Cinder Wolf
• Flambender Ka'graz

Flamebender Ka'graz gains energy over time, unlocking new abilities at given thresholds. At 100 energy, Ka'graz channels a Firestorm, fully consuming her energy and beginning the cycle anew.

• Damage Dealers: Ranged damage-dealers should beware [Lava Slash], which chains to nearby allies.
• Damage Dealers: When Ka'graz reaches 25 Molten Energy, help split the damage of [Molten Torrent].
• Damage Dealers: If afflicted with [Blazing Radiance], move away from other players.
• Damage Dealers: Destroy Cinder Wolves before Ka'graz reaches 100 Molten Energy.
• Healers: Spread out to avoid [Lava Slash], which chains to nearby allies.
• Healers: When Ka'graz reaches 25 Molten Energy, help split the damage of [Molten Torrent].
• Healers: If afflicted with [Blazing Radiance], move away from other players.
• Healers: At 100 Molten Energy, [Firestorm] will inflict heavy raidwide damage.
• Tanks: When Ka'graz reaches 25 Molten Energy, help split the damage of [Molten Torrent].
• Tanks: When the Cinder Wolves spawn, one will become [Overheated] and must be tanked.
• Tanks: The Overheated Cinder Wolf's [Charring Breath] increases the damage of the next [Charring Breath].
• Tanks: The Overheated Cinder Wolf cools off after 20 sec and a new Cinder Wolf becomes [Overheated].

Operator Thogar

• Operator Thogar
• Iron Crack-Shot
• Iron Raider
• Grom'kar Firemender
• Grom'kar Man-at-Arms

Trains periodically pass through the encounter area, dropping off troops or providing support for Operator Thogar.

• Damage Dealers: Move away when [Siege Bombs] are fired at you.
• Damage Dealers: Interrupt Grom'kar Firemenders' [Cauterizing Bolt].
• Healers: Grom'kar Man-at-Arms' [Iron Bellow] inflicts raid-wide damage.
• Healers: Tanks with high stacks of [Enkindle] take significant damage.
• Tanks: Be ready to grab the attention of any reinforcement troops.
• Tanks: Take turns tanking Thogar to avoid excessive [Enkindle] stacks.

The Blast Furnace

• Foreman Feldspar
• Security Guard
• Furnace Engineer
• Bellows Operator

The objective of this encounter is to destroy the Foundry's massive furnace. Players must first disable the Blast Furnace's Heat Regulators, which will release the Heart of the Mountain, a blazing fire Fury that powers the furnace. Primal Elementalists then join the fight and channel beams to control the raging Fury. Once the Primal Elementalists have fallen, the Heart of the Mountain is unleashed and must be dealt with directly.

• Damage Dealers: Furnace Engineers attach bombs to random targets. Detonate these bombs near a Heat Regulator to damage them.
• Damage Dealers: Defeat Slag Elementals near Primal Elementalists to temporarily disrupt their protective shield.
• Damage Dealers: Interrupt Firecallers' [Cauterize Wounds].
• Healers: Players in the vicinity of Foreman Feldspar suffer Fire damage as long as they are close to him.
• Healers: Foreman Feldspar targets random players with his [Pyroclasm] ability.
• Healers: Every time the Heart of the Mountain reaches 100 Energy, he will cast [Blast].
• Healers: Slag Elementals pick targets at random to fixate on and attack.
• Tanks: Position enemies so that they are not protected by Security Guards' [Defense] ability.
• Tanks: Slag Elementals fixate on random players, and cannot be taunted.
• Tanks: When facing the Heart of the Mountain, take turns tanking in order to manage your stacks of [Tempered] and [Heat].

Kromog

The massive magnaron Kromog stands immobile overlooking a ledge as he assaults players with his fists and the very stone beneath them. Many of Kromog's mighty attacks create [Reverberations], and at 30% remaining health, Kromog gains the effect of [Frenzy].

• Tanks: Allow yourself to be gripped by a hand created by [Rune of Grasping Earth] in order to avoid critical damage from [Thundering Blows].
• Tanks: Kromog's [Slam] ability deals less damage the farther away players are from his fists when they slam onto the ground.
• Tanks: Kromog's normal attacks cause [Fists of Stone], inflicting heavy damage which may be shared by up to 2 targets.
• Tanks: If Kromog is not being tanked, he will continually cast [Stone Breath].
• Healers: Allow yourself to be gripped by a hand created by [Rune of Grasping Earth] in order to avoid critical damage from [Thundering Blows].
• Healers: Players gripped by [Rune of Grasping Earth] eventually become crushed to death, due to increasing damage over time.
• Damage Dealers: Allow yourself to be gripped by a hand created by [Rune of Grasping Earth] in order to avoid critical damage from [Thundering Blows].
• Damage Dealers: Free yourself from [Rune of Grasping Earth] once [Thundering Blows] is complete, then help free other players who are still grasped.

The Iron Maidens

• Admiral Gar'an
• Enforcer Sorka
• Marak the Blooded
• Uktar, Deckhand of Admiral Gar'an

The Iron Maidens continuously gain Iron Fury, progressively unlocking new abilities. Periodically, one of the Maidens moves to the Dreadnaught to bombard players with its cannon. A team of players must use loading chains to get to the deck of the boat, defeat the Deckhand stationed there, and sabotage the ammunition of the main cannon before it finishes [Warming Up]. When any one of the Maidens reaches 20% health, all three activate [Iron Will] for the remainder of the fight.

• Damage Dealers: [Blade Dash] can be deadly - avoid standing close to other players if you are battling Sorka.
• Damage Dealers: Intercept Garan's [Penetrating Shot] to save the targeted player.
• Healers: Players who fail to avoid the [Detonation Sequence] from bombs fired by the Dreadnaught's main cannon will take heavy damage.
• Healers: While [Sanguine Strikes], is active, the raid while take heavy Shadow damage.
• Healers: Ensure players targeted by [Dark Hunt] are not low on health when it expires.
• Tanks: Move between Marak and the target of her [Blood Ritual] to intercept the effect of [Crystalized Blood].
• Tanks: Minimize damage taken by Marak's melee strikes while [Sanguine Strikes] is active.
• Tanks: Pursue Sorka or Marak when they board the Dreadnaught to bombard the docks.

Blackhand

• Blackhand
• Siegemaker
• Iron Soldier

Upon reaching 70% and 30% health, Blackhand causes the floor beneath the players to give out, falling to a lower level of the tower and changing the environmental hazards that he brings to bear to destroy his foes.

• Damage Dealers: During the initial phase, stay far from [Massive Demolition]'s impact point, and take shelter behind Debris Piles if you are [Marked for Death].
• Damage Dealers: Once falling to the second level, defeat Siegemakers and Iron Soldiers.
• Damage Dealers: On the third level, avoid being knocked off by [Impaling Throw].
• Healers: During the initial phase, stay far from [Massive Demolition]'s impact point, and take shelter behind Debris Piles if you are [Marked for Death].
• Healers: Once falling to the second level, Iron Soldiers will fire at players, inflicting raid damage.
• Healers: On the third level players hit with [Impaling Throw] and Slag Bombs require significant healing.
• Tanks: During the initial phase, Blackhand will knock his primary target into the Molten Slag.
• Tanks: On the second level, Iron Soldiers spawn on the balcony above and must be killed.
• Tanks: On the third level, [Massive Shattering Smash] causes large Slag Craters that must be avoided.