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Comment by 6934

Here's a fun fight. Broggok is the second boss of Hellfire Citadel: Blood Furnace. The encounter begins after clearing his room when you pull the large lever infront of his cage. This will begin opening the cage on the sides of the room. There are 4 cells that open in all, each with one more elite than the previous. TIP: DO NOT STAND NEAR THE CAGES WHEN THEY OPEN. This will result in a bug that will stop you from being able to target these mobs and cause a wipe. On the final cage you may sheep the final mob to delay Broggok from being released and allow for mana regen. The other cages are timed so do not attempt this with them.

When Broggok is finally unleashed, it's a straight forward tank, heal, and dps fight. He does do an AE poison cloud which the tank needs to only move out of.

Comment by WildW

This fight reminds me of the Grobbulus fight in Naxxramas

Comment by 11398

The first two rooms have 3 mobs. The last have 4. You need cc. Sheeping is ideal. Keep the last one sheeped so you can regen mana.

The boss' is not aoe poison, but localised. You need to move out of it (think Scholo).

Comment by 11098

If you wipe on Broggok, you will not have to fight the orcs again in order to trigger the battle. The boss will despawn, and the door will unlock, allowing you to enter it after reentering the instance. Just make sure that the whole group gets into the room before you aggro Broggok, or you'll have some members locked out of the fight.

Comment by Lustral

This encounter was tricky before feral druids and prot palis took over and before heroics got nerfed.

Comment by 10128

Very hard fight, you can't even keep an mob sheeped for regen, as the packs will also come on a timer. CC's are hard to put in place, you can't even put symbols on the mobs before they come out of their cage so the whole thing can be quite hectic. The boss himself is a piece of cake.

Comment by 18504

Heroic mode: boss is as easy as on normal difficulty, just tank has to move with him all the time to avoid poison pools he does.
Main problem are thrash mobs: as they come on timer (i.e. you will have more groups of mobs if you dont have enough dps to burn one group fast enough down), you need to have very good and well focused DPS, as well as a lot of mana on healers (4 groups, no time to drink). Mind control / sheep-resheep last thrash mob for mana regen of the party.
As in all Blood Furnace, bosses on heroic are piece of cake, thrash mobs are much harder. Not well ballanced dungeon on heroic, dear Blizzard.

Comment by Nerissa

The orcs are the true test. If you can down the waves of orcs, Broggok is cake, Normal or Heroic mode.

Comment by WitherVoice

There is a bug with this boss: sometimes he attacks you through the door before you even start the event.

My group downed him once when this bug occurred, and encountered another problem. We did the cage event since that's how you open the door. However, since the boss was dead already, the outer door never opened again... so when we died a bit later, the door to his room was closed and we couldn't get back in.

Both these events occurred on Heroic difficulty. He's really not that difficult on Heroic, but the cages are BAD MOJO.

Comment by 97

HEROIC:

For heroic mode it is easiest to CC (Sheep, Trap, etc) the non-elites and kill off the elites first. Why? Because the non-elites cannot be kited, while the elites can. It's MUCH easier this way. Try it for yourself. =)

Comment by 44207

Great fun fighting this one.

Good tip indeed is fearbombing the last (2) cage(s). Gives u some extra time and saves ur healing some mana on 'panicheals' , ie when for example a rogue or shaman has to tank an elite.

Blizz seems to have made this fight less buggy, 20 runs and no bugs. Great fight, fun fight =)

Comment by 49463

Everyone who's got a problem with this fight should read this:

Heroic mode.
2 mages, 1 druidtank, 1 priest, 1 warlock.

Our priest died during the 4th group, released and started running back. He was in combat the second he entered, and the room to the boss was locked, but he stood outside anyway.
having only a druidtank, warlock and a mage left, we wiped on the boss pretty fast.
We thought the boss was gonna reset, leaving the priest outside unharmed, but nooo, the boss hoovers THROUGH the door and kills the priest.

We all ran back to the instance and into the bossroom, and all the cages were cleared and the boss was still floating in the middle of the room.

so... kill all the groups, make sure someone dies during last group, keep last mob cc'ed until the one who died has entered the instance and you won't have to do it all over again.

this is probably a bug and will most probably be fixed shortly after i post this lol.

Comment by Wizardwiz

I just did this boss, but it seemed diffrent from the last time i did this. I read the posts here and noticed that something was changed. All the mobs in the cages were elites instead of just one in the 1st one and so on. This made it bloody diffucult for our healing shaman to keep his mana up, since he was enchantment specced. We got all the packs down, i was dead (tanking) and the boss came. We died. The boss didn't restart the event. Nice ^^ just get the packs down and it's doable :)
Thanks

Comment by chanceadams

Neophyes are not seducable. Best bet is to fear or sheep them
all the mobs are Elite in the cages on Heroic mode

Comment by 64394

This encounter is quite nasty on Heroic mode. I did it last night with a party of a protection warrior, feral druid, moonkin druid, rogue and holy priest (me). The moonkin was going to offheal for me, but she died on the first wave. So basically what we did was having the warrior and druid tank the orcs as best as they could. And we survived all the waves and downed the boss! I was amazed, I must admit I had my doubts about the lack of CC. This proves this encounter can be done without any CC whatsoever :)

Comment by 60542

Confirmed: the mobs are on timer. The timer is quite long, so you WILL want to keep the last mob sheeped anyway for a moment while healers and casters regenerate mana.

Also - they're NOT immune to fear (Normal), which saves lives in nasty situations you might encounter with the Orcs before this boss.

Comment by 69178

Discovered something interesting whilst doing this for the fifth time:

I've never liked this fight. It's a huge challenge to undertake. Flawless crowd control is difficult to pull off in a quick situation, such as this.

My group: Two affliction warlocks, holy paladin, fire/arcane mage, feral druid.

We made our way through, slowly. On the final cage opening, we nearly had it, and Broggok was released. We died, quickly and all the orcs reset. However, Broggok, did not. He sat in the middle of the room, and the Orcs stayed in captive. We reset and killed Broggok easily. I think if you can take down the first three cages, and fear bomb the last until Broggok is out, and wipe...it's a lot easier. You can then take Broggok without the Orcs. Plus, it's free Reputation.

But at that point, you might as well kill them if you can.

Comment by 72954

The, level race for this ugly flying ball slime, is apparently true. after we did blood furnace we decided to do it again, then when we got to this guy he was lvl 72 we decided to give up cause he would own us all :( just to warn you guys! if you see this guy lvl 72 elite your " SC R E W ED "

Comment by 72780

I’m not sure if this only happens on heroic, or why it happens at all, but we had problems with respawns doing the event on heroic. Had a group with phenomenal DPS: druid tank (me), hunter, rogue, shadow priest, and paladin healer. We had the priest MC one of the mobs, the hunter trap one and me tank the other one or two. Our healer was on the ball, so despite one or two slipups, we got all four groups down without using up the timer. So Broggok comes floating in and we start taking him down. It looks like it’s going to be a total piece of cake when all of a sudden, the first group of 3 mobs respawns and comes running out of their cage, killing the healer and wiping us. We figured it was some stupid bug, so we came back in and pulled Broggok by himself, since he sits in the middle of the room if you wipe on him. Got him down to about 60% and ALL FOUR groups of mobs from the original event come running out and wipe us. Tried again, this time staying in the middle of the room, thinking we may have gotten too close to the cages and aggroed the groups. Nope, they came out almost immediately.

Finally we figured out that everyone but the hunter could sit outside the room, in the hallway, and the hunter could misdirect to me. Since the door locked, the hunter got stuck inside the room, but he was able to ranged DPS while we fought Broggok in the hallway. We took him down just fine this way, but it seems silly that this happened. Has anyone else had this problem? Did it have something to do with using MC? If not for this, we would have one-shotted him with no problems at all. It’s true that the trash in this instance (especially those double Annihilator pulls) are painful while the bosses are fairly easy, except for Broggok. And he’s only hard because of the event; the boss itself is fairly easy.

Comment by Slovak

There's actually a really nice way to use the bugs this fight has to your advantage. Without pulling the lever, If you go to the last cage that opens in the fight, and get close to it, the mobs wil agro. Kill them, then the boss will come, no more mobs to kill =D I've done this a few times with no wipes caused by other bugs.

Comment by 43090

Did this yesterday in normal, but all the mobs in the waves were elites. A bit weaker then normal elites though.

Comment by 55393

Watch out, fear can trigger the other cages.

Comment by sokercap

If you are the healer, or a clothie, or anyone that ISNT the tank, dont stand next to the EOgfihfosehn cages right before they open and rape you.

Comment by 101689

this guy was easy, but the fel orcs before him was hard. no breaks. we was 2 hunters, warlock. priest and a warrior. use traps and sheep and fear, all kind of that spells. but spare mana!

Comment by 53083

Just a tip, bring a Shaman. Everytime I've done this fight I've always run out of mana and had to use pots but the last time we had a Shaman in the group, they kept dropping mana spring totems and I actually finished the entire fight with nearly 100% mana. I healed everyone and no one died.

Comment by prupparna

All I have too say is that I think that he looks like Sleepy Willy.

To Quadrophenia:
I know, beholder.

Comment by 146819

Make sure you rest up before pulling the lever that releases the first wave of Orcs.
After that, try to burn down the waves as efficiently as possible (CCing as many as possible then killing the rest is the best choice); you count as being in-combat from the instant the first set of Orcs aggros to Broggok's death, so there's no mana breaks and no way to use CC like Sap.
Make sure you don't take too long to kill an entire wave; the cells are set to open either when all the mobs from the previous cells are opened or after a set amount of time (somwhere between 30 sec to a minute). Leaving some alive too long will just make the next set harder.
As for Broggok: Taking him down isn't too hard. He's pretty much a standard "tank-and-spank". Having the tank pull him around the edge of the room is one of the best ways to keep everyone alive; that way, no one will end up standing in the Poison rings he leaves behind him, and it's not as likely that many people will die to his Poison Bolt.

One thing that many people haven't seemed to notice (or was recently changed in a Patch): ALL of the mobs in each wave are Elites. The ordinary Fel Orcs in fact are Elites; they are just a bit easier to take out than the Fel Orc Neophytes.

Comment by 192057

For the fight on heroic: When 3rd wave starts (same goes for 4th) and if you have a Frost Spec. mage:
Before killing the last mob from 2nd pack, just release your water elemental. As you know, elemental has an ability to cast frost nova from a distance. Just freeze the 3rd pack of mobs and then mark, cc ....whatever You will get some time and it helps a lot in this fight. by the time, the 4th pack will be released you should use "Cold snap" if you have it in your talent tree and summon elemental again, just before mobs are released. Freeze them in the same way.

Believe me - when you have only one cc in this encounter - this strategy helps a lot.

BOSS - how should I say - Pussy :)))

Comment by kaze950

When he dies, step away from him! I nearly died from some poison cloud thing he left when he died.

Comment by 297837

Soloed on heroic as a level 80 feral druid tank. Before the fight, I cleared out the entire room so that nothing would aggro when the adds were released. This part was actually pretty hard, as the trash hit pretty hard on some pulls. Don't be afraid to use cooldowns on the trash, you might need some of them.

Once the room was clear, I pulled the lever. The first two waves have 3 orcs each. Try to save your cooldowns for later waves, but a low cooldown ability like barkskin can probably be used multiple times. As soon as the last orc is dead, shift out and heal (I prefer HT, Regrowth, then Nourish) and get back into bear before the adds get to you. When you get to the last two waves with 4 orcs each, you'll start to take a lot of damage. Use all your cooldowns on these last two waves, especially berserk if you don't heal up to full beforehand. Don't save any cooldowns for the boss.

When the last wave is dead, you have a little while before the boss starts attacking, so heal to full (don't worry about mana, just have enough to shift to bear). Walk backwards in a circle around the room to avoid the poison clouds. Other than that, tank and spank with mangle spam while keeping lacerate, FF, and demoralizing roar up.

Comment by Lmjkdd6

Surprisingly, the Blood Furnace wasn't hard for my party at all. There were no deaths, except if you count when I stood over Broggok's body and his poison killed me lol. But luckily, I was revived by a Druid.

Comment by 333970

Priests or warlocks aoe? mages blizzard does cc and more damage than any other aoe besides a locks seed of corruption

Comment by Akario

I was a 70 rogue helping out a lowbie group from my guild, and since I had never done this quest before and had the ability to, I walked up and used the lever.

I wasn't talked too for a while.

Comment by gamerunknown

Shirrak slept with Broggok's girlfriend, which explains their expressions. Oh and Moragg is Broggok's girlfriend, who has not heard from either of them since relocating to Northrend and had to put Sleepy Willy up for adoption.

Comment by 211183

ok lol xD i´m atm in BF with 2 of my IRL m8s and we´re all dk´s all in level 62, 2 blood, 1 dps and 1 tank, and 1 unholy dps, they r bunch of noobs and died on the grps before the boss but i survived and soloed the boss( LOL) i´m the blood dps btw, so lol, just use Dancing rune wep, Mark of blood and tune tap on cd and spamm Death strike and ur a legend ;P also, beeing a drainei with Gift of the naaru helps :P and updater, we cleared it :P just like ramps on lvl 60 :) DK POWER!

Comment by Hearthstone

Watch out!My group almost wiped from his dead body today.When he died we all went to him to loot but everybody but the shammy died because his body leaves a poison cloud that did about 600-700 damage a tick.Hope this prevents future wipes :)

Comment by sorsa

Gave him a crack solo as a lvl 64 BM hunter, with a full tanking specced Tenacity pet (Warp Stalker). Took out before that The Maker by unequiping all my weapons and basically letting my pet solo him, while staying at max range and running in to reapply Mend Pet when needed.

The first wave My pet was able to manage fine with by himself, Mend Pet was enough to keep him up while I carefully single target nuked the mobs. The second wave I focused on the Enraging elite, when my pet got stunned his health dropped dangerously fast, but still doable by just pet tanking.

From the third wave on it got interesting.. the damage from geting stunned by 2 of the Elites was too much for my pet to handle alone, so I set down a Frost Trap and kept 1 Elite trapped, while focusing on the other. Due to having to focus on trapping and kiting one of the Elites I lost some dps time.. on my best try I barely finished off the 3rd Wave when the 4th came in..

Needles to say my pet was pretty much dead by the time I managed to finnish trapping 1 of the 3 elites, while I think it could be doable but involves skilled kiting and trapping.

Comment by Protares

Aah that was easy boss but funn to kill

Comment by Merylyan

I think that demon spend a little too much time with Ogres at some point in his life, last time I met him he greeted me with:

'Raaar!!! Me smash troll!'