The Butcher (Highmaul Raid) Strategy Guide

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Der SchlächterHochfelsDer SchlächterWarcraft LogsLoot and RewardsSeal of Tempered Fate Bonus RollsDer Schlächter

LFR (640)

Cloth: Sterilisierte Handlappen
Leather: Wirbelreißerarmschienen
Mail: Knochenbrecherstiefel
Plate: Ogerfressertreter
Neck: none
Cape: Fleischerhakenumhang
Ring: Blutsteinsiegel
Trinket: Emblem der klaffenden Wunden
Weapons: Herzloses Hackmesser des Schlächters

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

Cloth: Blutiger Handschutz des Fleischhändlers, Schlachthausschiftung
Leather: Gürtel der blutigen Innereien, Armschienen der Ersatzhaut
Mail: Kapuze der leidenschaftslosen Hinrichtung
Plate: Eingeweidequetscher, Stulpen der schweren Hand
Neck: none
Cape: Umhang der rasenden Wut
Ring: Darmschlitzerring, Flensers Hakenring
Trinket: Schuppen der Verdammnis
Weapons: Blutiges Spaltbeil des Schlächters, Schrecklicher Fleischklopfer des Schlächters

Dominanzsteinlegendary questlineVermächtnis der ZaubererkönigeHochfelsSchwarzfelsgießereiRuhm des DraenorschlachtzüglersBlutschreitergronnlingDer SchlächterBewegt Euch, Made!HochfelsSchwarzfelsgießereiMythischer DraenorschlachtzüglerReturn to Table of ContentsNotable Trash MobsKnackRausch des EbersKnirschReturn to Table of ContentsThe Butcher Tips & StrategySpaltenKlaffende WundenSpaltenKlaffende WundenSpaltenKlaffende WundenSpaltenKlaffende WundenSpalten

The best strategy is to assign two groups of at least two players each to stand in melee range - one at the right leg, one at the left - and to have a ranged player step in and trigger a group when it is that group's designated time to soak Spalten. This ensures that the tanks will never be targeted by Spalten, while also moderating the amount of Klaffende Wunden damage healers must heal through.

The "trigger" player should stand in their melee pile long enough to draw three Spaltens in a row, reaching 3 stacks of Klaffende Wunden, and then move out; the other group's "trigger" player should then step in in order to start triggering Spalten on the other group of players.

This cycle of 3 Spaltens per group is repeated for the entire encounter.

Weites Spalten

This attack also leaves a stack of Klaffende Wunden.

A clump of two or three players is enough to bait the Weites Spalten without dying to its damage; ranged DPS or healers who are not assigned to triggering Spalten in the melee stacks should be tasked with stacking up in a designated location for Weites Spalten.

GrobschlächtigDer FleischklopferDer SpalterRaserei

He attacks more frequently - including using Spalten and Weites Spalten more frequently - and deals increased damage.

This is the most dangerous part of the encounter, and players should use their strongest personal and raid-wide cooldowns (damage, damage reduction, and healing) to survive and shorten this segment of the fight as much as possible.

SpaltenKlaffende WundenReturn to Table of ContentsTank Responsibilities

Tanks must stand together to split the Grobschlächtig damage

Tanks should swap at 3 or 4 stacks of Der Spalter/Der Fleischklopfer

Use powerful survival cooldowns to survive Der Fleischklopfer when you have several stacks, particularly after The Butcher's Raserei

Attempt to minimise Der Spalter stacks by using avoidance abilities

Position The Butcher quickly after each Weites Spalten, to avoid Fleischerhaken, and so that your Spalten-soaking groups can get into place and prevent The Butcher from using Spalten on tanks

Return to Table of ContentsDamage-Dealer Responsibilities

Players assigned to soak Spalten must stay tightly grouped with their party and monitor their debuffs closely

Use a damage-reduction cooldown for the third application of Klaffende Wunden

Players assigned to trigger Spalten must move quickly into their group when the other group reaches 3 stacks of Klaffende Wunden, and must move out quickly upon reaching 3 stacks of Klaffende Wunden themselves

Players not assigned to the Spalten groups must quickly stack after the knock-back ability, to bait the Weites Spalten

Save Kampfrausch/Heldentum/Zeitkrümmung for the Raserei phase when The Butcher reaches 30% health, as this is the most challenging part of the encounter.

Return to Table of ContentsHealer Responsibilities

Tanks take very heavy damage, especially as their stacks of Der Spalter and Der Fleischklopfer build up

Use tank CDs for Der Fleischklopfer on tanks with 2+ stacks of Der Fleischklopfer debuff during The Butcher's Raserei phase

Players soaking Spalten must be topped up between each Spalten attack to prevent deaths

Once players are no longer soaking Spalten, use HoTs and other passive effects to heal players with Klaffende Wunden, and focus on healing up the new Spalten team

Use healing cooldowns to manage tank and Spalten-soaker damage

Quickly stack after the knock-back ability to bait the Weites Spalten

Return to Table of ContentsWhen to Use Kampfrausch/Heldentum/ZeitkrümmungKampfrauschHeldentumZeitkrümmungLooking For Raid DifficultyKlaffende Wunden

It is almost impossible to exceed 8 stacks of Klaffende Wunden until The Butcher reaches 30% health and enters a Raserei, and begins to attack more quickly.

It is still best for the raid to assign two equally-sized groups for Spalten soaking, but there is no need for additional players to step in and out to trigger the Spalten - The Butcher will choose randomly between the two groups and it is extremely unlikely that any one group will exceed 9 stacks of Klaffende Wunden.

Two groups of four or five players each should be sufficient to split the damage and still allow Klaffende Wunden to be healable.

Klaffende WundenKlaffende WundenReturn to Table of ContentsMythic DifficultySpaltenKlaffende Wunden

This necessitates a tighter rotation involving more players in each soak group. Ideally the raid will have two groups to soak Spalten, consisting of 4-5 permanent members and one "triggering" member.

The soak groups should take 2 stacks of Klaffende Wunden before The Butcher gains Raserei, and 3 stacks thereafter.

Healers must focus on ensuring the group that is soaking the next Spalten is at or near full health, and on ensuring tanks stay alive, and provide minimal healing to players at range.

Raid CDs are useful for the final Raserei phase. Damage reduction CDs should be used so that they cover the third Spalten that each group must soak.

All players not assigned to tank or to soak Spalten should assist in splitting the Weites Spalten damage.

Nachtentstellter Kadaver

These adds spawn from the opposite side of the room to the Butcher's current location, and will move slowly toward him.

The Cadavers cast Fahlhängnis upon reaching the Butcher or when intercepted by any player.

The explosion leaves behind a pool of Vitriol der Fahlen, which will deal heavy periodic damage to players standing within it, and causes them to take additional damage from Spalten.

For the first minute of the encounter, there is only one stream of Cadavers, but each Weites Spalten adds another stream of Cadavers.

SpaltenFahlhängnisVitriol der FahlenSpaltenWeites SpaltenWeites SpaltenVitriol der FahlenFleischerhakenMethod's Mythic Butcher guideReturn to Table of ContentsHighmaul Raid Guides

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Kommentare

Kommentar von Menardis

This guy must have really liked PvP and finished off his Nemesis quest in no time! Nemesis: Der Fleischer

Anyways, fellow Dwarf players - Steingestalt will be your friend in this fight. Wait for a few stacks to build up but not before you need to use a personal cooldown.

Kommentar von knightxwolf

Ah fresh meat!

Kommentar von Zeraveth

Great guide Dayani, easy to read, light on the eyes with the text and abilities highlighted. The break rows makes it easy to skim through, or skip segments to easily come back where you left off. Great stuff!

Kommentar von Lovestorybro

I would not recommend skipping trash as BoE purple drop rate seems crazy high right now.

Kommentar von 435308

I Have a question for the guide maker about the mechanics. What if the same amount of people were standing in both groups. would he just target the groups randomly?

Kommentar von 448857

He shouts some LOTR references when he kills players:

Uruk: "I'm starving. We ain't had nothing but maggoty bread for three stinking days!"

Snaga: "Yeah! Why can't we have some meat?"

Snaga: "What about them? They're fresh!"

Uglúk: "They are not for eating!"

Grishnák: "What about their legs? They don't need those. Ooh! They look tasty!"

Uglúk: "Get back, scum! The prisoners go to Saruman. Alive and unspoiled."

Grishnakh: "Alive? Why alive? Do they give good sport?"

Uglúk: "They have something. An Elvish weapon. The master wants it for the war."

Pippin: "They think we have the Ring."

Merry: "Shhh! As soon as they find out we don't, we're dead."

Snaga: "Just a mouthful. A bit off the flank."

Uglúk: "Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY4V3UUY95A

Kommentar von mudman171

Awesome job on Highmaul Guides

Kommentar von PriestVirikas

Some thoughts about the "right" size of the soaking groups

Spalten is split amongst the soaking group. So its total amount of damage done won't increase when more people take it.
Klaffende Wunden is not split amongst players, so the total amount of damage done will increase when more people soak Spalten
Although Klaffende Wunden details page states some max target numbers these do not seem to be totally correct or this max target numbers scale with the size of your raidgroup. As logs being shown on warcraftlogs show that max target cap increases to at least 11 targets in a 30man group on heroic

Healing thoughts

TL:DR
Based on your available healer setup and their gearing level it might be better to accept more total incoming damage from Klaffende Wunden by using a larger group of affected players than lowering the amount of damage taken by minimizing the amount of soaking raidmembers.

On the other hand you might have to use more dps players to kill Der Schlächter before enrage timers are hit. In that case your goal will be to minimize the total amount of damage taken by using smaller groups of soaking players (maybe even with big personal CDs like greater invis or dispersion), whilst needing a healing style which is concentrating on quickly topping that people.

Kommentar von kampfzwergratte

The Boss has 120 Mio HP

400k Raiddps

with x DD´s --> x DPS needed

12 --> 33,33 k
13 --> 30,77 k
14 --> 28,57 k
15 --> 26,66 k

Kommentar von 1403120

The Butcher Heroic Notes, by Stackoverflo-Perenolde:

Here are the notes from our successful PUG kill:

Fight Overview:
We placed three markers on the field. One marker at the back of the field to designate the ranged DPS/caster position, and a marker placed on either side of Butcher, within his melee range. We placed the markers directly across from each other on each side of the Butcher, on the edge of Butcher’s red target reticle on the ground, roughly a yard behind the center-line. On our initial pull, we situated a group of four on the left side, and a group of three on the right of the Butcher (we had 14 players). The fight mechanics for Butcher were really simple. The Butcher will cast CLEAVE on the largest group in Melee range and apply Gushing Wounds to all players in that group. He does this even while facing the tanks. At 5 stacks of Gushing Wounds, players in that “largest clump of players in melee range group” would instantly die.

The Butcher applies that Gushing Wounds DOT in an oblique cone approximately 90-degrees wide in the direction of the largest clump. There's NO margin for error, and tanks must face Butcher and keep him directly perpendicular to the two melee clumps at all times or wipe.

Two Runners:
In the larger group on four on the left, we had a single runner. This is a caster DPS who is in constant communication with another caster DPS that is on the backfield ranged marker. The two runners focus each other so that they can track eachother’s stacks. On 3 stacks of Gushing Wounds, we had the runner in melee range announce on Vent: “3 stacks”. At this point, the runner on the ranged marker ran to the smaller stack on the right, evening the clumps of players out at 4 and 4 players. On arriving in position, the second runner called “I’m in.” On hearing this, the runner with 3 stacks (maybe 4 by then) runs out of melee range and stands on the backfield marker, continuing to DPS. At this point with the larger group now on the other side and holding ZERO stacks, Butcher begins to apply Gushing Wounds in that direction. The runner that was originally in the larger clump stands on the backfield ranged marker, and monitors the other runner’s stacks while he or she DPS's the boss. At 3 stacks, the runner that ran in, runs back out. To put it cleanly: The runners run in and out of their respective clump at three stacks. A runner on the left side will never end up on the right side - they just run back and forth from their clump to the backfield marker, swapping on 3 stacks.

Ranged DPS and BOUNDING CLEAVE:
Every minute, the Butcher does BOUNDING CLEAVE, and knocks everyone back - effectively disrupting the clumps of players in melee range near him. He then charges at the largest clump in the field. With our setup - this was the backfield marker with the ranged dps/casters on it. We had 5 DPS players there, including 2 healers to help AoE Hots the damage from the Gushing Wounds debuff that BOUNDING CLEAVE applies to that group. It’s a lot of bleed damage to deal with.

Factors for Success:
Butcher has a soft-enrage timer that triggers at 30% health. We HERO'd at 30% following his first BOUNDING CLEAVE. He starts to deal more damage and BOUNDING CLEAVE's every 30 seconds. We found it was best to situate 2 healers on the backfield marker in order to keep that group alive through multiple repeated hits from BOUNDING CLEAVE and the Gushing Wounds bleed damage it applies.

We also found the Butcher to be a DPS race against his hard enrage timer of 5 minutes. For this reason, we placed our two hunters on the backfield marker as well, to allow them to gain the +5% damage allowed by not moving. This translated to 600K hp off the bosses’ hit points, so it is not insignificant. We placed our strongest two healers overall in the two melee groups, and had each focus on a specific tank, and we had the tanks focus on optimizing their DPS output as well as mitigating. Tanks can often push their DPS numbers up by 1.5-2K just by working their rotations harder. 3K amounts to 900K HP over a 300 second fight, so the tank damage can actually be the deciding factor.

Fight Positioning:
We had 14 players (2 tanks, 4 healers and 8 DPS). On the backfield marker we had:
2 healers, 2 hunters, and 1 runner
On the left-side marker we had:
1 healer, 2 melee dps, and 1 caster/runner dps
On the right-side marker we had:
1 healer, 1 melee dps, and 1 caster

Tank: As tank I engaged with Heroic Leap, and thereafter Charge'd back into melee range following the Butcher’s knock back attack. Both of these actions were designed to ensure that the Butcher does not ever move from his initial starting position (between the melee clumps' markers). Note that when he BOUNDING CLEAVEs to the ranged clump, he returns right back to where he was being tanked. Tanks must stand ON TOP of each other or take double damage.

DPS in Melee Range: It’s super important for the clumped players to stack on each other and be 90-degrees away from the tanks at all times (e.g. in clump groups to always be looking directly at Butcher’s shoulder, and preferably be aligned a step behind him as you do so. When you get knocked back before BOUNDING CLEAVE, run back and stack on your marker.

Healers in Melee Range: You will be healing through Gushing Wounds, which is a flat bleed. That means that the healers in Melee Range need to understand that when their group has the “runner” in it, that they now have 4 to heal instead of 3. So a) they need to focus more on keeping their group of four alive, and b) the healer in the other Melee group needs to focus more on the tanks. This focus bounces back and forth as the runners move - this is why we had the runners verbally announcing as they hit three stacks and swapped.

DPS in Ranged: This is where your hunters should be. Focus on optimizing damage output. One of you needs to be prepared to step in if someone from the melee groups drop - because those clump sizes must remain fixed as the runners move in an out, or it disrupts the distribution of the Gushing Wounds stacks. Additionally, casters with Active Mitigation should pop it right before BOUNDING CLEAVE.

Healers in Ranged: You will need to heal through Gushing Wounds following BOUNDING CLEAVE - but the rest of the time you’ll will be supporting the melee-bound Healers in keeping the tanks alive. They will have their hands full with the constant Gushing Wounds bleed on their clumps.

Other Thoughts:
You need your DPS to be pulling 19K on this fight, and tanks pulling 12.5K. Before too long, people will be so geared that it won’t be a problem. Heroic Butcher will be _easy_ at iL660. However, for now - you’re looking for DPS’s in the iL643 range, minimum. Healer requirements are a little more forgiving at ~iL640.

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