Ko'ragh (Highmaul Raid) Strategy Guide

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LFR (640)

Cloth: Fel-Flame Coronet
Leather: Alloy-Inlaid Cap
Mail: Crackle-Proof Chestguard
Plate: Legplates of Arcanic Absorbtion
Neck: Necklace of Volatile Anomalies
Cape: Cloak of Overflowing Energies
Ring: none
Trinket: Idol of Suppression
Weapons: Shield-Shatter Longbow, Polearm of Expulsion, Magic-Breaker Greatsword

Normal, Heroic, Mythic (655, 670, 685)

Cloth: Destablized Sandals
Leather: Rune-Enscribed Hood
Mail: Leggings of Broken Magic
Plate: Bracers of Mirrored Flame
Neck: Ko'ragh's Family Locket
Cape: Cloak of Searing Shadows
Ring: Seal of Unbound Frost, Spell-Sink Signet
Trinket: Emblem of Caustic Healing
Weapons: Ko'ragh's Boot Knife, Gar'tash, Hammer of the Breakers, Rod of Fel Nullification

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Physical damage dealt to Ko'ragh during this time will remove health from his health bar; magical damage will simply deplete the shield.

While Ko'ragh is protected by the Barrier, he also gains Breaker's Strength, causing his damage to ramp up slowly.

When players deal enough magical damage to fully deplete the shield, Ko'ragh will leap to the center of the room and summon a Rune of Nullification, charging a new Nullification Barrier.

Once the new Nullification Barrier is fully charged, Ko'ragh will resume using his other abilities.

While inside the Rune of Nullification, the player will be affected by Caustic Energy, taking very heavy damage and requiring significant healer focus. This damage ignores damage-reduction abilities and immunities.

The longer a player stands inside the Rune, the larger their Nullification Barrier will be, but players should move out if they are in danger of dying. (Once you have gained a Nullification Barrier from a Rune, you can re-enter that Rune freely, so stepping out to benefit from a large heal or a mechanic such as Spirit Link Totem, then stepping back in to finish charging up your Barrier, can help you survive.)

Players who have gained a Nullification Barrier must stand underneath Overflowing Energy orbs to nullify their raid damage; unsoaked Overflowing Energy orbs will detonate upon hitting the ground and deal heavy damage to the raid, and a player who stands under an orb without having a Nullification Barrier will take fatal damage.

Overflowing EnergyNullification Barrier

While initially only one orb spawns at a time, every 90 seconds Ko'ragh will be able to summon an additional orb, so it is important to have a team of players assigned to the soaking task.

Because the Overflowing Energy orbs can spawn anywhere within the room, ranged DPS are the best choice for this task.

Before beginning the raid encounter, the raid should decide which players will be in charge of this task, and set an order for them to gain a Nullification Barrier.

Volatile Anomaly

Since Ko'ragh does not need to be tanked during this time, tanks should pick up the Volatile Anomalies and drag them to Suppression Fields to silence the adds and prevent them from casting Destabilize when they die.

Expel Magic: Arcane affects only the tank, causing the tank to leave a trail of Arcane bombs that will explode every 1.5 seconds. The other tank should taunt, and the affected tank should run away from the raid.

Expel Magic: Fire debuffs the entire raid, causing them to detonate after several seconds or when dispelled. Players should spread out to avoid damaging each other. Healers can dispel strategically.

Expel Magic: Frost summons a frost orb that slows and damages players near it. The raid should move away.

Expel Magic: Shadow places a heal-absorbing shield on the entire raid. Healers should use throughput cooldowns to remove the shield quickly.

Return to Table of ContentsTank Responsibilities

Taunt the boss whenever the other tank is affected by Expel Magic: Arcane

When affected by Expel Magic: Arcane, run away from the raid

Move Ko'ragh away from Expel Magic: Frost orbs and the Suppression Field

When Ko'ragh leaps to the center of the room, do not follow him - tanks should not charge up a barrier

Taunt and gather the Volatile Anomalies, then position them inside a Suppression Field

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Spread out slightly for Expel Magic: Fire (especially melee DPS)

Move away from Expel Magic: Frost; abilities like Stampeding Roar, Windwalk Totem, or personal movement speed-increasing effects are useful here

While Ko'ragh is charging, do not enter the Rune of Nullification unless you are assigned to do so

Do not kill Volatile Anomalies until they are within a Suppression Field

Avoid standing in Suppression Fields, and move away if Ko'ragh targets you or someone near you for Suppression Field

Return to Table of ContentsHealer Responsibilities

The Ko'ragh tank will take heavy damage, and may require external tank CDs

Use raid CDs to mitigate Expel Magic: Shadow and any orbs-that-you-have-to-soak detonations that occur

Players affected by Caustic Energy will take extremely heavy damage; all healers should help heal these targets

The shield charging damage penetrates all immunities and damage reduction abilities, so do not use external CDs on these players

Do not dispel Expel Magic: Fire from melee players or any players stacked up with one another (there is little reason to dispel if the raid spreads out)

Avoid standing in Suppresion Field and move away from Expel Magic: Frost orbs

Return to Table of ContentsNullification Barrier Team Responsibilities

Be the first player(s) to enter the Rune of Nullification when it is your turn to soak

Do not use damage-reduction cooldowns while in the Rune, as the damage from Caustic Energy ignores them

Do use a Healthstone or Healing Tonic to assist healers in keeping you alive

Stay in the Rune of Nullification as long as possible to get a large Nullification Barrier, but leave if you fear you are going to die

Nullification Barrier is an alternate power bar, not a debuff; be sure you can track it appropriately

Once you have soaked your assigned Rune of Nullification, you should never enter a later Rune of Nullification - the goal is to have several players with Nullification Barriers by the end of the fight!

Look for Overflowing Energy locations and stand underneath them as they are about to hit the ground

Be sure not to soak the same Overflowing Energy orb as another player

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Early in progression, when players do not have enough damage to break through the Nullification Barrier in under ~66 seconds, the raid will have to deal with two unsoaked Overflowing Energy orbs at the same time, shortly after Ko'ragh casts Expel Magic: Shadow.

Raids will need to coordinate healing throughput CDs (e.g. Revival, ) to quickly clear the Expel Magic: Shadow debuff from the raid, and follow it with damage-reduction CDs (e.g. Aura Mastery, Rallying Cry) to prevent player deaths from the Overflowing Energy damage.

The raid should use Bloodlust/Heroism/Time Warp at the start of the encounter to make it more likely that Ko'ragh's Nullification Barrier will be broken through before the Expel Magic: Shadow/double Overflowing Energy confluence; once your raid is able to do so, the fight will become much easier.

Overflowing Energytwo

This will cause heavy demands on healers, and the healing team must coordinate their powerful single-target healing to keep both of the affected players alive.

If players can break Nullification Barrier quickly enough, they can stay apace with the increase in Overflowing Energy spawns; otherwise, healers will need to cope with occasional unsoaked Overflowing Energy explosions throughout the encounter.

Overflowing Energy

Only every second set of Overflowing Energy orbs will cause ; these sets of orbs have purple, rather than yellow-green, ground indicators.

Players who are under the effect of will spam cast Forfeit Power, which restores some of Ko'ragh's health and must be interrupted.

Because the orb-soaking players have a Nullification Barrier, magical damage is not effective in breaking these players out of the MC. Physical damage is required.

Because the number of Overflowing Energy orbs continues to increase throughout the fight, and because more and more players will be gaining their own Nullification Barrier, the raid will have to deal with an increasing number of these mind-control effects.

Near the end of the fight, the MCs can be ignored if players do not plan to break through Ko'ragh's Nullification Barrier again. This allows physical-damage DPS to focus on killing the boss, since they are the only ones who can do so.

Expel Magic: Fel

The debuff marks the target's location at the time it is applied, and when it falls off 12 seconds later, it will draw a line of flames from that location to the player's current location.

Standing in or passing through the Fel flames deals heavy damage, and these flames will persist for 90 seconds.

Players debuffed by Expel Magic: Fel should attempt to move as little as possible, and if they must move, should move in such a way as to minimize the amount of ground their Fel flames will cover (e.g. in a small circle, or just a few steps to one side).

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Comments

Comment by piehead

How many should be on the Nullification Barrier team? For 10, 20, and 30 man teams respectively. Or does raid team size matter? I know it should be ranged and you can only send one in at a time but you said team so I assume you can have multiple people with the barrier up absorbing the damage. What would be optimal?

Comment by Redband

A quick tip for rogues, as soon as he starts casting expel magic fire, cloak and you won't get the debuff or the aoe.

Comment by Gull

For those fellow Paladins, the explosions from Expel Magic: Arcane go through Divine Shield.

Comment by Darthvixen

LFR three weeks in a row, always getting cheap instagibbed by someone running over me with the expel arcane magic.

Comment by mvp967

I tried some heroic attempts and this guy was saying you should have a tank be the first soaker, and then he could "carry" the whole raid.

Is this even viable? Or a way to cheese the mechanics?

Comment by lankybrit

"Physical damage dealt to Ko'ragh during this time will remove health from his health bar; magical damage will simply deplete the shield."

Don't you mean 'will not remove health from his health bar'?

Comment by 785719

If Ko'ragh has Nullification Barrier can you pull him under Overflowing Energy to absorb it?

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