Quick Tips for Melee DPS in Highmaul

By Wowhead Updated: 2018/05/12

Melee DPS Quick Guide to Highmaul

Quick Tips for Tanks

Quick Tips for Melee DPS

Quick Tips for Healers

Quick Tips for Ranged DPS

Kargath Bladefist

Don't fall into the pits.

Don't stand in Fire Pillars.

Kargath will pick a ranged target to rush towards. Do not be in-front of him as he cleaves all targets in his path.

If you are one of the 5 closest players during Chain Hurl, you will be thrown into the stands.
Don't stand infront of any mobs.

Don't stand in bombs or poison.

Focus Bombers

Click here for the in-depth Kargath Bladefist strategy guideThe Butcher

The Butcher cleave the group of players closest to him debuffing them with Gushing Wounds. If you reach 4 stacks of Gushing Wounds, be sure to back away from the closest group of melee as reaching 5 stacks means instant death.

When The Butcher does Bounding Cleave, be sure to not to join the ranged cluster as you will gain additional Gushing Wounds stacks.

Click here for the in-depth Butcher strategy guide.

Tectus

The only time you can kill or shatter any form of Tectus is during Tectonic Upheaval.

Don't stand between any form of Tectus and his Crystalline Barrage ability.

Don't stand infront of Night-Twisted Earthwarpers.

Click here for the in-depth Tectus strategy guide.

Brackenspore

Don't stand in the Creeping Moss that spreads through the room.

Don't stand infront of the boss.

DO stand near full health Living Mushrooms to be healed.

Interrupt Fungal Flesh-Eater's Decay ability and kill them as soon as possible.

If you have a Flamethrower, use it to burn away Creeping Moss from around the boss.

Click here for the in-depth Brackenspore strategy guide.

Twin Ogron

Focus Pol if possible, he is much more melee friendly.

Don't stand between Pol and his Shield Charge target.

Move out of as much fire as possible.

Stay away from Phemos when he casts Whirlwind.

Don't stand in the big rocky graphic during Pulverize.

Click here for the in-depth Twin Ogron strategy guide.

Ko'ragh

Kill Volatile Anomalies while the boss is Charging.

Do not stand in Suppression Field a swirling graphic at range.

Expel Magic: Fire Don't stand near allies when this debuff expires or is dispelled.

Expel Magic: Arcane Run away from the raid making sure to not run through other players as you leave a trail of exploding energy behind you for the duration of the debuff.

Expel Magic: Frost Don't stand near the frost orb.

If you are assigned to soak Overflowing Energy, enter the ring around Ko'ragh while he is Charging. You will gain Nullification Barrier which will allow you to soak Overflowing Energy by standing in small yellow runes around the room.

Click here for the in-depth Ko'ragh strategy guide

Imperator Mar'gok

Kill Arcane Aberrations as a priority.

Do not run through the runes on the ground at range.

Phase 2
Killing the Arcane Aberration knocks all players back.

Force nova will push all players back.

Transition 1

Kill Volatile Anomalys and Gorian Warmages.

Phase 3

Arcane Aberrations have more health.

Transition 2

Kill Volatile Anomolies, Gorian Warmages and Gorian Reavers.

Do not stand infront of Gorian Reavers.

Phase 4

Killing an Arcane Aberration will spawn several Arcane Remnants. Kill these as well.

Spread loosely during Force Nova as it chains damage to all nearby enemies in addition to it's normal damage.

Contact Information

Twitter: @Rebdul

Comments

Comment by idiotix

Handy guide~
Thanks a lot~

Comment by DjZajcev

Looking forward to delete Kargath :3

Comment by FernVerm

Loving it!

Thanxxx

Comment by NoMetal

Nice guide. Just wanted to add some tips for Tectus:
1) melees should try to spread out a bit if possible, so that they don't have to move every time the boss(es) casts Fracture.
2) If you have a nice, compact group of ranged people, try not to stand between the boss and them, as the crystalline barrage will starts more likely towards them.
3) crystalline barrage starts with some tiny marks on the ground, similar to the ones for fracture and earthen pillar, but smaller. Keeping your eyes open to spot them will let you prevent otherwise unexpected damage.

Comment by tarcioman

Just perfect *-*

Comment by 1400235

Really usefull

Comment by EvilMonkeyByte

Nice guide for normal/heroic encounters. I would consider removing the "LFR" part in the name of the guide, though. A lot of these mechanics are different. For example, the tiger pits are not open in LFR (so you don't have to worry about falling in them), and chain hurl pulls five random players (it does not matter who is closest to Kargath when the ability is cast).

Comment by VovaGa

интересно

Comment by 1192249

Quick Tips for Melee DPS in Highmaul

Comment by Geonat

Quick Tips for Melee DPS in Highmaul

Has taught me a lot already and the basics of the raid so I can dive right into the raid.

Comment by 1266948

Awesome guide as always keep up the great work !

Comment by nshorekev

Thanks guys. Looking forward to trying the LFR this evening (just hit 100).

Comment by 1354227

Nice guide, thanks mate!

Comment by Shimbear

Solid guide. I hope that they increase LFR difficulty though, I just finished running the first wing and it's literally just free loot. Your whole raid can stand in one spot on The Butcher and never even get close to dying. On Bracken, Creeping Moss doesn't even really come into play and either does any of the adds really. Decay from the big add doesn't do enough to warrant focusing it down. I understand that Blizz wants to give more casual players a taste of raiding, but if they ever do explore raiding and start doing even normal they will have major issues.

Comment by ThunderJo

Well done and easy to digest, but isn't this about the fights in normal rather then LFR? While I plan on doing it in normal, a quick guide on the LFR version would have been a more accurate guide.

Comment by Tsuchiya

thank you for this ! :-)

Comment by 1342938

Awesome guide!

Comment by 1412916

Are you sure about melee dpsing adds during ko'ragh and not boss? Especially as ret paly!
A lot of kill videos on heroic ive seen had melee on boss during charging phase. Seems a LOT more efficient than melee going back to dps adds as they have to go through/around zones to go dps adds that results in a bit of a downtime, or if adds are not positioned perfectly, melee cant do anything, while ranged can just dps boss till adds enter zone with no dps wasting... while if ranged and healers sit behind zone with tank between them and boss, adds will directly run to them, so tank can easily pick them up and ranged have 0 downtime while doing so, as they can switch from boss to adds at will without moving or anything, and can actually do both if needed... while melee would be stuck "far" from boss not dpsing running to add position and back to boss once adds are dead...

That would result in melee having minimal downtime and ranged having 0 downtime... and that would seem much more efficient...
only thing to be careful about is not stepping inside zone and "stealing" the shield... as melee can easily dps from outside of shield! Oh and not pulling adds, but that is easy to do as healers grab aggro on them the moment they spawn... and they die very fast anyway... so having all melee run there just to kill them in 2-3s is a bit of a waste... as downtime will be even longer than that

edit: talking about normal/heroic here

Comment by choklad

So neat. Thank you for this!

Quick Tips for Melee DPS in Highmaul

Contribute