Glory of the Draenor Hero

The Dungeons and their Achievements Explained (in order)Draenor Dungeon HeroStrategy:Savage HeroStrategy:Magmolatus"By Fire Be..!! oh..wait.."The ogre geomancers of Frostfire pride themselves on harnessing the elements, but sometimes they overreach. Gog'duh has stoked the flames of his forge to new heights, driving Magmolatus into such a fury that it requires Gog'duh's full concentration to keep the raging slag elemental under control.Strategy: Forgemaster Gog'duhCalamityRuination and Time WarpHeroismBloodlustMoves to watch out for:Rough SmashFirestormDancing Flames MUST Withering FlamesSlag SmashMolten ImpactMapGug'rokk and Croman and Roltall"Daagh..!!"Strategy:Is Draenor on Fire?A Gift of Earth and FireKeeping Croman aliveWithering FlamesFiery BoulderScorching AuraHeat WaveBurning SlagMagma EruptionSummon Unstable SlagFlame BuffetMoves to watch out for:Withering FlamesSlag SmashMolten ImpactFiery BoulderScorching AuraBurning SlagMagma EruptionMolten BlastMolten CoreMolten BarrageSummon Unstable SlagFlame BuffetMapGug'rokk"Back to the Kiln!" Born in the capital of Highmaul, Gug'rokk was at first disdainful of his assignment as the governor of the Bloodmaul mines deep within Frostfire. Over time, however, he has come to appreciate the merits of operating on the outskirts of the Gorian Empire, with absolute control and minimal oversight.Strategy:Empowered FlamesUnleashed FlamesMoves to watch out for:Magma EruptionMolten BlastMolten CoreMolten BarrageSummon Unstable SlagFlame BuffetMap Fleshrender Nok'gar This fierce Warsong warleader has risen rapidly through the ranks of the Iron Horde, and now commands a battalion of orcish soldiers. From atop his wolf Dreadfang, he surveys their drilling and preparation as they ready themselves to lead a naval assault on Shattrath.Strategy:CauncakeShroud of ConcealmentMoves to watch out for:Reckless ProvocationBloodletting HowlMapNo specific bossEnemies to watch for: Ogron LaborerStrategy:Map Skulloc "Skulloc Smash!!"The mighty gronn Skulloc represents one of the great successes of the Iron Horde's subjugation of the giants of Gorgrond. Towering over the Grom'kar forces, and fitted with a pair of cannons that would feel at home on any ironclad warship, Skulloc stands ready to unleash destruction at the behest of his new masters.Strategy:Cannon BarrageBackdraftTime Warp everyone BackdraftMoves to watch out for:Cannon BarrageBackdraftCannon BarrageMapSoulbinder Nyami "Ashes, Ashes..." Nyami is a draenei priestess, entrusted as a soultender with access to the holiest grounds within Auchindoun. However, her true loyalties lie with the Shadow Council, and she plots to bring down the barrier that protects the mausoleum from invaders.Strategy:Torn SpiritsMoves to watch out for:Shadow Word: PainMapAzzakelOn Argus - the former homeworld of the draenei, now the stronghold of the Burning Legion - Azzakel waits, poised for a servant of the Legion to open a portal to one of the countless worlds they seek to invade. As Soulbinder Nyami lowers the defenses of Auchindoun, Azzakel senses that his moment is nigh.Strategy:Claws of Argus Do not kill them FelguardFel Stomp incredibly Moves to watch out for:Curtain of FlameFelblastFel StompFel SparkMap Teron'gor Working alongside the Sargerei, Gul'dan's agent Teron'gor plots to feast upon the bounty of souls contained within the barriers of the holy mausoleum of Auchindoun.Strategy:AzzakelCurtain of FlameMoves to watch out for:Summon AbyssalSeed of MalevolenceChaos BoltDemonic LeapChaos WaveMapRanjit"Move, move, move, MOVE!!"Ranjit has spent a lifetime honing his skill with the bladed chakram, and found that as his mastery of the traditional arakkoa weapon grew, he could shape the wind itself and wield it against his enemies. He now guards access to the inner sanctum of Skyreach, willing to die to protect the seat of arakkoa power atop the Spires.Spinning BladeWindwallChakram VortexBlazing GroundStrategy:Spinning BladeWindwallChakram VortexGeneral Pa'valakBlade RushChakram VortexImperial Vizier Zor'lokAttenuationBlazing GroundKologarnFocused EyebeamMoves to watch out for:Chakram VortexMapEmpowered ConstructStrategy:Blazing GroundZichiMoves to watch out for:MapRukhran"Dust to Dust"This majestic bird, rumored to be the progeny of the arakkoa sun-god Rukhmar, soars through the skies above the Spires of Arak. Rukhran has an affinity for solar energy, and can absorb the sun's power and unleash it to incinerate any prey.Strategy:Summon Solar FlareMoves to watch out for:Summon Solar FlareSunstrikeSearing QuillsScreechMapHigh Sage Viryx"..That Tickles!"High Sage Viryx has dedicated her rule wholly to harnessing Apexis artifacts in service of Rukhmar's will. At last, thanks to the completion of the massive crystal superweapon that focuses the sun's energy to destroy their enemies, it is time for the arakkoa to claim their rightful place as rulers of Draenor.Strategy:Time WarpHeroismBloodlustShieldingShieldingMoves to watch out for:Cast DownThe Lich KingSummon Val'kyrSolar BlastMapRailmaster Rocketspark and Borka the Brute"Not What I Meant By, 'Using Your Head'.."Railmaster Pauli Rocketspark, chief foreman of the Grimrail Depot, has been enlisted by Garrosh Hellscream to build the technology required for the Iron Horde's infrastructure. Given the dim-witted assistant Borka to do the heavy lifting, Rocketspark set about building the Grimrail.Strategy:Mad Dash Do not kill Borca until all 4 are smash Moves to watch out for:X21-01A Missile BarrageMad DashMad DashMapNitrogg ThundertowerWith a zeal for flame and explosives, Nitrogg was a natural fit in the mechanized and weaponized army that Garrosh's plans brought to Draenor, and he has risen quickly through the Iron Horde. He oversees the artillery on the Grimrail, and is eager to break through the defenses around Shattrath and conquer the enemies of the Iron Horde within.Strategy:Grom'kar BoomerBlackrock MortarGrom'kar GrenadierBlackrock GrenadeTyphoonSuppressive FireMoves to watch out for:Suppressive FireMapWitherbark"This is what happens when you pollute.."Deep within the lush forests of Gorgrond, Witherbark has seen countless cycles of life and death, decay and rebirth. The upstart "Iron Horde" and the strange beings that seem to have arrived in their wake are just a new skin on an old snake. They will be gone soon. And Witherbark will endure.Strategy:Moves to watch out for:Unchecked GrowthParched GaspMapYalnuAncient and inscrutable, the genesaur Yalnu was drawn to the Kirin Tor outpost in Gorgrond by strange energies radiating from the bluff. For ages the genesaur have battled their eternal foes - the magnaron, the gronn, children of stone - to a stalemate across the world of Draenor. But in these emanations, Yalnu sensed a new world, where his kind could flourish and spread unchecked.Strategy:EntanglementGenesisTrampleColossal BlowVicious MandragoraNoxious BreathFont of LifeMoves to watch out for:MapArchmage Sol"..Over the Ring of Fire"Archmage Sol was among the last holdouts of the Kirin Tor expedition at Violet Bluff, but ultimately succumbed to spores that took root in her brain. Perhaps a portion of her humanity remains buried deep within, but she now lives as a prisoner in her own body.Strategy:Parasitic GrowthFirebloomFirebloomMoves to watch out for:FirebloomFrozen RainArcane BlossomMapSadana Bloodfury"Don't stare into the sun..."Sadana Bloodfury is a powerful acolyte of the Shadowmoon clan, deeply connected to the lunar cycles. When the whispers of the dark star worked their way into the hearts of the Shadowmoon, Sadana followed her chieftain Ner'zhul into their clan's burial grounds, using her powers to lure the spirits of the dead for a twisted purpose.Strategy:Dark Eclipseyou repeat this with all other runes (they come back after each phase) until the bosses death, so try to kill her asap. Use time-warp or similar spells if you have to. just be sure to kill the adds so she doesn't heal.Moves to watch out for:DaggerfallDark CommunionDark EclipseMapBonemaw"i.. I shall consume.. consume everything!"Deep within the subterranean caverns under Shadowmoon Valley, the carrion worm Bonemaw has a symbiotic relationship with Ner'zhul's followers: The creature feasts upon the dead left in the wake of the Shadowmoon cult's dark rituals, and in return it serves as a formidable guardian of Ner'zhul's inner sanctum.Strategy:Shroud of ConcealmentTry not to use a single AOE during any of thisInhaleMoves to watch out for:InhaleMapNer'zhul"The Original Lich King"Ner'zhul, chieftain and elder shaman of the Shadowmoon clan, sacrificed the heart and soul of his tribe in an attempt to join the Iron Horde. He has now retreated to his clan's ancient burial grounds as he ventures ever further along a dark path, embracing the power of the Void and the necromantic arts.Strategy:Ritual of BonesTime WarpMoves to watch out for:Ritual of BonesEcho of SylvanasCalling of the HighborneMalevolenceMapOrebender Gor'ashan"Shocking..."A powerful elementalist with a natural affinity for shaping and channeling his powers through metal, Gor'ashan was part of the Iron Horde vanguard in their initial invasion of Azeroth. He bides his time waiting for further orders by attempting to unravel the secrets of the Dark Iron runes left behind by the Spire's creators.Strategy:Power ConduitThunder CacophonyPower ConduitMoves to watch out for:Thunder CacophonyMapLeeroy Jenkins"God Dangit, Leeroy!"Strategy:MapRagewing the Untamed Ragewing is a gargantuan proto-drake raised in the Twilight Highlands by the Dragonmaw clan. Her indomitable spirit has kept her from being broken and used as a mount, although she has formed a close bond with Warlord Zaela herself, following her to Blackrock Spire and roosting in its cavernous halls.Strategy:Ragewing WhelpTime WarpHeroismBloodlustMoves to watch out for:Engulfing FireMagma SpitFire StormBurning RageHeroismBloodlustMapWarlord ZaelaWhen Garrosh instructed the Ironmarch vanguard as to their mission in Azeroth, he urged them to rendezvous with an old ally whom he knew would be fierce, loyal, and thirsting for revenge: Zaela, Warlord of the Dragonmaw clan. Now, as she readies a doomsday weapon in the heart of Blackrock Mountain, her moment of vengeance draws near.Strategy:Burning BreathEmberscale IronflightTime WarpMoves to watch out for:Destructive SmiteBlack Iron CycloneBurning BreathMap Conclusion Frostplains BattleboarGlory of the Draenor HeroAbout the Author Updates Tab

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Comment by SoCalWoWGal

Amazing work here on this guide! Your formatting and organization of all of the relevant information is excellent. I appreciate the time and effort that you spent in creating and researching this guide.

Comment by Zichi

For Magnify... Enhance

To do this you have to reach the last boss.

Before you start the boss, you go to the right of the boss (Looking towards the boss) and you'll see a small platform.
On that platform there's a small construct that is inactive, which you have to activate by running over it.

So before engaging the boss, send one guy down on the platform. The other 4 people go ahead and do the boss, as soon as the guy on the platform gets the it's going to activate the add and spawn the Empowered Construct.

Then just kill the boss, ress the guy and kill the add.

To clarify:

Get to Last boss
Get one guy on the small platform
Kill the boss slowly while making sure the add gets activated
Spawn add
Kill boss
Jump down, kill add
Done

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Comment by 1399073

Can confirm the theoretical strategy for Militaristic, Expansionist

In my group we started clearing as normal until we only had Champion Druma's pack left before the boss "room". Then we used my AoE stealth and went to the far right side where there is a technician standing. We killed him and between the patrols we also cleared the trash in the middle.

After all the clearing, all we had left was Druma and her two adds, the patrolling mini-boss guy and the last mini-boss with his 3 adds. So what we decided to do was pull the boss somewhere safe and far away from the rest of them. We brought him down to almost 25% and then we brought in the guys for the achievement. Killed the boss and got the achieve. Have no screenshots of it though and my explaination might be poor but it is confirmed!

I guess that you can bring them in to the fight much earlier or even later than us!

Comment by Birckin

In Magnets, How Do They Work? it's no DPS race, the boss activates the Rune Conduits every 25%, so, at 75% he will activate 2 conduits, at 50% he will activate 4, and at 25% he will activate 6.

Assign players for every conduit, so they just go down and fast to them when the boss is about to hit one of those percentages.

Comment by 380942

Firstly - terrible, extremely terrible measurements. Then... advising to have dps as tank, really? Do you know that tanks generally have to deal damage to sustain mitigation? Having two people need to damage won't help.

Bloodmaul Slag Mines:
A Gift of Earth and Fire - 1
One of the easiest possible achievements there is. Just have one ranged person interrupt fire add, and make sure tank knows how to move out of stuff. And refrain from passive AoE. Done. Earth add only does slam, boss only does AoE slam. The only issue is not to kill adds with passive AoE.

Come with Me if you want to live - 1
There is one way you can fail it - if you wipe on 3rd boss' rocks. Otherwise Croman practically DOESN'T take damage at all, and the only thing you have to do is clear trash and not wipe.

Iron Docks:
Militaristic, Expansionist - 1/5
If you are using the 10% strategy, it's pretty much same as Croman - you clear trash and then have somebody pull the adds on demand under a couple of cooldowns. No problem at all, except for time consumption.
If you are doing it all together, it's like 5+++++++.

Expert Timing - 3-5
First of all, it's an achievement that can be completed once a day, unless you get lucky with random dungeon. Second - it's a random achievement that can be hard. If you are kissed by the mooning mother, perhaps it is 1, but for average person, I'd say hitting 3 gronns is already tough.

Auchindoun:
They all fall down - For easymodo dudus, lolliors and pelodines - sure, just stand and let your rage-dodge and shields do the job. For monks and DKs? reroll. Aint no chi or runes brought to you by the stork - you have to sustain a rotation. Maybe monks could more or less manage it, but for a DK who is unable to blood boil or use plague leech with diseases - that's hard, unbelievably.

Skyreach:
RFRIV - whoever gets 2 on this achievement might as well be kicked from the dungeon for slacking. There is no normal reflex that allows you to maintain your role in the fight, while genuinely avoiding every possible source of damage. NO. If a selected person is allowed to stay somewhere in the corner and dodge everything - sure, it's 2. Otherwise it's 5+++, because kiss your achievement goodbye if you are a tank, and 99% likely - if you are a melee.

Everbloom:
Weed Whacker - the only true "1" achievement there is. I've seen people get it on their first run unaware, and so did myself. I can't imagine NPCs dying there.
Water Management - most likely requires 5 dps, with taunt\CD\subhealing until he enters the phase. Or... maybe it requires healer to go dps and a blood DK. But I think the currently broken gladiator warrior would better do the trick.

SMBG:
Icky Ichor - there is no way it is 2, unless your tank is once again, a passive noob class. Because these spiders may be three times critters, that doesn't stop each of them hitting for ~3-5k. Now imagine 25. Now make them be moved across the whole dungeon by a tank, who is forbidden to do ANYTHING. If anything, I'll feel sorry for the healer. Maybe if you reaaaaly chain stuff like Remorseless Winter or use some AoE slows to recuperate - it's not so hard, but this is NOT 2, it's 4-5++++, depending on group setup. It's over two times harder than any Cromans/Leroys and it's once a day achievement.

UBRS:
Bridge over troubled fires - At least both in Auch and UBRS hard classes can attack single target and try not to aoe. The only way it can be below 4 - is if you, once again, have full party dedicated to CC. Otherwise I feel sorry for your healer, again.

Nonetheless, thanks for the guide, 4/5.(##RESPBREAK##)524##DELIM##thaia##DELIM##Edited out some ranting/foul language.

Comment by Typhoneus

Fantastic guide, keep up the good work! :)

Comment by Valkyrieqt

First of all, thank your for the guide :)
Just did some of those achievements with my guild and found some improvements.

For Take Cover! we used Bloodlust and every cooldown right from the start, ignored the small adds and just nuked the big mob. We got 1 knockback when he had about 30% left, didn't even get a second one before he died. Note though that you have to kill both small adds afterwards for the achievement to appear as they are part of the encounter.

To get ...They All Fall Down we had our paladin tank get aggro and kite them while our dps warrior slowed them with his shout, was really easy this way (but it took ages to get enough adds.. expect about 8 minutes of waiting).

Demon's Souls was probably the easiest achievement so far, we just let our healer spec dps as well and killed the boss before he summoned any adds. This requires quite a lot of dps though, so not every group can pull it off.

Comment by 1132894

One comment, Leeroy's looting the devout shoulders isn't random - he runs to the original spawn point of the Son of the Beast in the room full of ogres and caged drake whelps. You can actually clear the entire zone up to that point of trash, including the Son of the Beast, and just let him run through the instance to reach it. He'll loot it from that spot no matter where the Son's corpse is, though. He's level 60, so if anything so much as looks at him funny, expect it to kill him instantly.

Comment by sorkijan

For Take Cover (Last boss of Iron Docks) we just popped all of our cd's and killed the boss. If you have a well-geared dps team (we were doing about 100-110k overall) you can just burn the boss down and call it a day.

Comment by improvedai

Awesome guide! I am planning on using this to springboard getting a few friends back into playing WoW this expansion. Should be fun.

Good luck with your Astronomy studies.

Comment by pide

It would seem that the "they burn, burn, burn" is no longer part of the meta for the achievement in game. other then that great guide and was very helpfull in doing this achievement.

Comment by Felfaadaern

Is it just me or have heroic dungeons become cakewalk easy? I just started playing again; I tanked everything during Lich King and Cataclysm but skipped the pandas. I remember wiping in heroic dungeons. Halls of Reflection anyone? Zul?

I was nervous about tanking heroics when I started playing again recently, but the only challenge has been pulling fast enough that the party doesn't get impatient and race ahead! And I've stayed around to solo trash and mini-bosses after the others left. Rarely have to pop cooldowns, let alone fear for my life.

Comment by Zandjil

Good guide, helpful that you've categorised everything by dungeon :) Only reason I didn't give it 5 stars, is that a few places the information needs updating or maybe slightly more elaboration. But it was extremely useful, so thank you very much!

Comment by Mokossha

the best video i see . it´s not my video :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOqMs-QoVU4
all achiv and all solo

Comment by SiegmundFretzgau

For I Saw Solis, maybe it changed in a recent patch, but now you get the achievement when you kill the boss, not when the requirement is met, confused me for a minute.

Comment by piper

Hi Midouri!
How's school, and did you/are you majoring in Astronomy as you hoped?

Comment by Staroth

If your having issues with the Leeroy achievement, do this:
I teamed with my daughter (her Druid and I'm on a hunter alt) and she suggested that we skip Ragewing and Zaela. So we cleared all the way to the Furnace, hung out there and let the timer run out, Leeroy came in looted the beast and a couple of seconds later we got the title and the Leeroy achievement! The trick is to clear everything all the way to Ragewing, BUT do not kill Ragewing or Zaela. Also we did not loot anything in the Furnace room and the Beast did not disappear, even after Leeroy looted it.

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