Hey guys I’m Mezzy and welcome to this warlords of draenor raiding guide. Today we’ll be taking a look at Flamebender Kagraz in Heroic Blackrock Foundry. These tactics also apply to the normal version.
Ka’graz starts out with 2 abilities and gains energy over time. At 25, 50, 75 and 100 energy she gains new abilities and the energy will reset at 100.
The first ability is Lava Slash, she will target a random ranged raid member and it will create a fire line between the boss and where the player was standing when it was cast. When the line reaches the player’s original location it will deal damage to anyone within 7 yards. If any players get hit, fire lines will also be created between the boss and them.
She also uses Summon Enchanted Armament, which are weapons that you need to stay away from as they will randomly deal damage to anyone within 6 yards of the weapon.
At 25 energy the flamebender will gain the ability Molten Torrent, this targets a random raid member and after 6 seconds a meteor will fall on that player for a huge amount of damage. This damage can be shared with anyone within 8 yards, meaning this player should run in to melee and share the damage with the melee players. You can also use immunities such as deterrence to completely negate the effect. If you do use an ability like that though, be sure that noone else is within the circle of the torrent so that noone dies.
At 50 energy she summons 2 cinder wolves. These will need to be killed. One will be overheated and will need to be tanked and the other will fixate random players, which will need to kite the wolf around. The wolves will alternate in being overheated. When overheated the wolf will have Charring Breath, which is a fire cone attack with a stacking debuff that increases damage taken by it by 200%. This means that tanks take turns tanking overheated wolves. Whichever tank is not tanking an overheated wolf needs to tank the boss.
These wolves are linked with a fire line called Fiery Link, if players stand in it they’ll get a stacking dot. You should of course not be standing in this link. This is also the mechanic that makes the kiting the fixating wolf harder. You do not want to be running the fire line through the entire raid.
The final ability the wolves have is called Rekindle which simply put means you have to kill the wolves at the same time. If it takes longer than 8 seconds to kill the second wolf, the first wolf will revive to 100% health.
At 75 energy the boss puts Blazing Radiance on random raid members, dealing fire damage every 2 seconds to all allies within 10 yards. This means that the player that is debuffed needs to move away from the rest of the raid.
At 100 energy a couple of things will happen. First off Firestorm will deal damage to the entire raid for 12 seconds. If the wolves are still up, these will also deal fire damage to the raid. The wolves should be dead well before this though. Secondly after it ends and the boss’ energy resets she gains Magma Monsoon for 30 seconds. She will throw magma orbs around, which need to be dodged. There are clear circles on the floor that indicate where it will hit. If you do get hit you’ll receive a large amount of damage.
And then finally for 50 seconds she will gain Flamefury, giving her melee attacks a stacking dot, requiring a tank swap at 5 to 6 stacks of the debuff.
Other than the flamebender, Aknor Steelbringer is part of the fight. This is an orc with 2 abilities:
Devastating slam, which is a cone that needs to be faced away from the raid by the tank. And Drop the hammer, he leaps towards a random player and anyone within 10 yards needs to move away from where that player was standing.
What you want to do in this fight is:
– Stay spread
– Kill Aknor
– Watch out for the weapons that spawn, move away from them
– If you get Molten Torrent, move it to the melee to share the damage with them
– When the wolves spawn, non flamebender tank tanks the overheated wolf, tankswap when the other wolf gets overheated
– Kill the wolves at the same time
– At 75+ energy, if you get the Blazing Radiance debuff, move it away from the rest of the group
– After she goes back to 0 energy, dodge the magma orbs
– Tank swap after 5-6 stacks of Rising Flames
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