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Dark Animus

During his reign, Lei Shen labored to build a mechanical servant that would defend his citadel without fear. When his first attempt failed, rage took hold of the Thunder King. He poured this negative emotion into his next, and most successful, creation: the Dark Animus. To this day, the ornate construct observes its duty, empowered by the mysterious substance at the heart of all mogu flesh-shaping experiments.

Lead Encounter Designer, Ion “Watcher” Hazzikostas:

The mechanics of the Dark Animus encounter aren’t quite like any boss fight we’ve done before. It centers around a fixed quantity of the mysterious swirling liquid, known as Anima, that is at the heart of the mogu experiments in this wing. The vital fluid animates golems, escaping and moving on to larger and larger constructs as the initial vessels are destroyed, until it eventually amasses enough volume to empower the Dark Animus itself, largest of all the golems. The encounter has a certain puzzle-solving element to it, and players will need to carefully manage how they shift around this finite quantity of Anima or the fight will quickly get out of hand.

Official Blizzard article

Kommentar von efrainman

I love the design of the orb at the beginning, it reminds me of Ozma from FF9. Haven't seen if you fight it directly (seems to be just the robots), it'd be a shame if you don't.

Kommentar von EazyDemoN

I can't be really sure, but I think he has Blood of Ra-Den inside, which is making him even more awesome. :-)

Kommentar von Beranis

To win this fight is simply selective choosing, who gets killed and where. You may call the boss an "it" or a "he" depending on your preference.

There are multiple strategies to kill this boss, depending on what order of adds you raid wants killed. But you cannot kill all of them, otherwise the boss will cast VOLLE MACHT and wipe you. Why not all of the adds? The entire set of adds has 100 of a resource called "Anima" altogether, indicated by the boss' "Anima" meter where his mana should be. If you kill a smaller golem, it will transfer its Anima to a nearby Golem, activating it when it has enough Anima.

Animagolem: Small adds that only melee, has 4/8 Anima. Does relatively little damage in an organized raiding environment. The zerg strategy for this encounter is to kill one of this near the boss, and have the boss activate. Then, the raid zergs him without concern for adds before he gains 100 Anima. Cannot be tanked together due to Beschleunigungsverbindung, and Ausweichend.

Großer Animagolem: The medium adds of the bunch. Has about 8/16 Anima, casts Purpurwelle, which you should run away from when targeted. If you get this active, then your raid is not intending to zerg the fight and instead takes a more cautious approach.

Riesiger Animagolem: Large and in charge, they are the second largest mob in the room besides the boss at the moment. Carries 32/36 Anima. Your raid is really slow if these are active, as the boss will gain numerous abilities from using Anima entziehen on the Golems. Teleports players around with Materientausch, and initiates a tank debuff with Explosives Schmettern.

Once you have activated the boss, he will show you that he runs the stage and that he is in charge of the Anima around here.

You have to wait one minute before it activates because of Aktivierungssequenz, so even the fastest of zerg runs need at least a minute. After he is active, he will cast Anima entziehen to all adds currently alive in the room. You'd want the larger golems alive for a longer and more safe fight, as only 1 Anima is stolen from each Golem. If too many of the smaller golems are active, more Anima is gained and more abilities fly out and deal damage.

As he begins fighting, he as an arsenal of spells. Without any Anima, he can at least cast Berührung des Animus on random people for healer activity. At 25 Anima, he gains Animaring, which he will preferably use on melee players. When he gains 50 Anima, and it gets really bad by this point, he will gain Animaquell which enhances a Touch of the Animus debuff on a target to cause AOE damage if you stand in void zones. You know you have crossed the line when he gains Unterbrechender Schlag at 75 Anima and everyone takes a ton of damage. Finally, you wipe at 100 Anima, when the boss gains VOLLE MACHT and channels it.

Zerg runs will just want the boss activated, and then burst him down. Normal runs will go up the chain of golems until only 2-3 non-boss golems are activated, for minimal Anima gains by the boss. The difference between normal and heroic is Golem aufladen, which makes that golem a tank threat and must be tanked or killed.

This is one of the top fights for selected killing, much like how Windfürst Mel'jarak was for tanks and /or crowd control in MOP.

Kommentar von NadEFurY

Here's a step-by-step guide how to beat the boss on normal mode 10-man, sufficed you have enough dps to burn him down before Full Power(Boss wipe-mechanic at 100 anima).

Basics:

The goal and aim of the fight is to kill Dark Animus, the boss at the back of the room who will not be active at the start of the fight. There are many ways of doing it and less ways of doing it right.
The main mechanic in the fight is anima.

Anima is a resource(like mana) used throughout the fight to activate golems, how it works is simple. The fight starts with the orb in the middle of the room having 100 anima. Once you attack it, it disperses itself into all of the smaller golems, spreading the anima between all of them equally. The smallest golems have 4 anima, the Large ones carry 8 and massive ones carry 36.(This is what we saw)
When at any time in the given raid encounter a golem receives anima, it activates and becomes an active NPC. The way that anima is distributed after the initial pull is that when you kill any golem that has anima in it, the remaining anima will transfer to the nearest golem that has enough capacity to hold the anima. This is very important to understand because if you manage to kill a wrong golem at the wrong spot, you can have the wrong type of add become active. Also to note, you can fill a golem that is 16/36 anima with small ones that have 4 and large ones that carry 8 for example up to it's full capacity, after that any nearby killed adds will transfer to a different one furhter away but that are still the closest that can carry anything.
The way you do the fight is that you transfer anima from small ones into bigger golems to activate them and kill them.
Remember, at any given point in the fight, you will never have less than 100 anima, it doesn't go anywhere but you can kind of lock it up in bigger golems, explained below.

Group Layout:

You start the fight with the entire raid scattered out in the room and have all players, including healers pick atleast 1 anima golem and tank it for a little while at the start of the fight.
Tanks need to look for spots where there are 2 of them clustered together so that they can tank the 4 golems that would be left over by the 8 people who are taking the rest of them.
There are 12 small golems in the room at the start of the fight that will be active during the 10-man normal mode of the encounter that will be active. The rest of them will be "broken", inactive unable to move and do anything BUT will still provide the adjacency buff to nearby golems should you move any adds near them. Healers and dps need to be aware that if accidentaly brought close together with another golem they will start hitting you for around 250K blows every 0.5sec. It's pretty much a 1-shot, don't do it. You CAN however simply maneouver them around the room as you please as long as you don't meet up with someone elses golem. This doesn't apply to all of the other adds.

The initial pull should be positioned in a way that the tanks taking the 2 adds have atleast their healers in range so that they don't get gibbed. Rest of the raids composition doesn't matter as much because you can move around the rest of the encounter.

Encounter:

Once the fight has started it will progress very slowly, the berserk timer is so long that you can even go for a smoke and come back and continue the same fight. Point being, DON'T RUSH IT, take it easy, go slow on your first attempt. Rushing this fight leads to unexpected results that snowball out of hand very quickly. It's an easy fight, so take it easy.
You start off by killing the tank adds 1 by 1 near a large golem that is "broken"(These will have lightning sparks on them and a debuff that says so). You kill and fill the large golems with 8 anima from 2 smaller golems and leave them like that. Then you do the same with the other tanks 2 adds on the next broken golem and then the 3rd until you have 3 golems filled with 8 anima.
After the 3 golems are filled you start filling the massive one since they are the easiest to fight. Kiting the wave from an active large golem is a pain and can't always be outrun or kited, resulting in deaths.
You leave 1 moving/active small golem alive and keep him to activate the boss once the massive one is full.
You will be nuking the boss with the massive one alive and unharmed by moving him around near the small ones when he becomes active and killing the small broken ones 1 by 1 untill he is full. Be careful, killing 1 over the limit can result a nearby large golems activation and when that happens all hell will break loose really soon if you can't react in time.
Once this is done, you proceed with the last active small golem to the boss and kill him next to it to activate him. Once the boss is active you nuke the living hell out of it while tanking the massive golem and taking the boss.

The reason why you don't kill the big guy is to prevent that anima from flowing into the boss and the reason why you piled all the anima in to big ones like that is because of Siphon Anima. This ability drains 1 anima from all golems that have any every 5 seconds, meaning that the more you have them the more he gets every 5 sec. To reduce that amount you pile it into bigger golems like the massive one, he will hold 36 points, meaning 35 less points drained with the 1st siphon if you shouldn't have them in there.

We tried the zerg tactic of taking 1 small one straight to the boss and then nuking but 80+M no matter how small it is is still enough to wipe us because dependant of how much anima he has, he gets new abilities.

As Beranis wrote:
"As he begins fighting, he as an arsenal of spells. Without any Anima, he can at least cast Touch of the Animus on random people for healer activity. At 25 Anima, he gains Fixate, which he will preferably use on melee players. When he gains 50 Anima, and it gets really bad by this point, he will gain Anima Font which enhances a Touch of the Animus debuff on a target to cause AOE damage if you stand in void zones. You know you have crossed the line when he gains Interrupting Jolt and everyone takes a ton of damage. Finally, you wipe at 100 Anima, when the boss gains FULL POWER and channels it"

With this tactic there isn't much to worry about other than dispelling Matter Swap at around 6-7 seconds and do the fight properly and slowly. There is no real need to hurry on it, especially now during the normal mode week.

Kommentar von Tithanas

To kill trash more easily, you should know that three of them have long ranged attacks which can only shoot 30 yards or further, other three have short ranged attacks which can only shoot 30 yards or closer. What you should do is have one tank take the short ranged mobs to one side of the room and have a healer with him and have the other tank to the other side of the room with rest of the raid. This way only the tank tanking the short ranged mobs and the healer beside him should get some real damage making it a lot easier to heal.

As for which three are long ranged and which three are short ranged... ~~Furthest two at the left and closest one at the right are long ranged. Furthest two at the right and closest one at the left are short ranged.~~ I'll edit this when I get their names too.

I hope this saved you the trouble of wiping a few times on this trash.

Ok here is the edit: Every week, trash has different ritualists. So long ranged and short ranged are not decided on the positions of the trash but the names of them. If you know more of them, please let me know and I'll add them to the list.

Here are the ones I've found out so far:

Long:
Fendahl
Kroll
Sirian

Short:
Drahvin
Thal
Megara

Kommentar von NetherRayRider

He looks like a Dwemer Centurion from Skyrim don't ya think?

Kommentar von skorpek

This anima looks like slime from Ghostbusters 2 movie. Don't cross the streams!

Kommentar von lightclaw

LFR Strategy:
There aren't really phases to this fight, and it's incredibly chaotic, but it is doable, and much easier than Durumu, though you may wipe once or twice here as well.

There are 4 creatures to deal with in this fight:
Anima Golem - A weak mob that doesn't need tanked. They can be tanked and AoE-ed in LFR difficulty. When they die they send their power to a random target, such as...

Large Anima Golem - This mob does need to be tanked, and there can be a lot of them up at once. This causes the most problems in LFR, since they spam a Crimson Wake that causes a pool of red nastiness to chase players around the room. It does large amounts of damage. These need to be focused down fast. When they die, they send their power to a random target such as...

Massive Anima Golem - This mob needs to be tanked. Don't stand in front of it unless you're a tank. Focus at least one of these down ASAP if both activate. There is no real need to kill both. When they die, they send their power to a random target, such as...

Dark Animus - The boss. The encounter ends when it dies. It does a variety of abilities discussed below.

Beginning of the fight:
Everyone stacks up and someone starts the fight by killing the globe in the middle of the room, activating all of the little golems. AoE them down. This will power up all of the little golems, dps those down as well, ASAP. If you get Crimson Wake, get out of the raid.

Tanks:
Start the fight by killing the globe in the middle of the room, this will power up all of the little golems. Collect the little golems for AoE.

When large golems activate, pick them up as well. Avoid their Crimson Wake puddles by slowly kiting them around the room. When massive golems activate, one tank needs to pick them both up. The other tank is on the boss.

The Massive Anima Golem does a frontal smash, Explosive Slam, that can't be avoided. Face it away from the raid. Each time it hits you, you gain a debuff. Swap with the boss tank after 5-8 stacks of the debuff. If both Massive Golems are up, mark one as the kill target and get it down ASAP. The other can stay up for the remainder of the fight.

The boss gains Anima Ring at 25 power. Each bubble you pop getting out of the ring causes you to take 50% extra melee damage for 15 seconds. Ideally someone like a healer will be standing with you, waiting to pop the bubbles for you when they appear so that you can escape untouched. If not, run out ASAP and try to only pop a single bubble.

DPS:
Stack and AoE small golems. If you get Crimson Wake, kite the puddle until it stops chasing you, and never stand in front of the Massive Golems. If no healer is doing it, you can stand with the Dark Animus tank and pop the bubbles that appear when the boss uses Anima Ring.

Casters - At 75 power the boss gains the ability Interrupting Jolt. Don't cast when it hits or you'll be silenced for a while.

Kill order for our LFR was as follows (there may be a better choice, but this worked for us):
Large Golem > Small Golem > One of the Massive Golems > Boss

Healers:
The bulk of the damage in this fight occurred during the Large Golem phase, when there were red puddles everywhere and people stood in them like fools. After that it gets substantially easier, though tank and raid damage does go up again at the end of the fight.

While the Massive Golem(s) is active, players will get a debuff called Matter Swap. The debuff should neither be allowed to expire nor should it be dispelled immediately. Ideally it should be dispelled at half duration, but 3-5 seconds after it lands will do, assuming the affected player is at full health.

One healer should stand with the tank who is on the boss. When the boss uses Anima Ring and summons a bunch of brownish bubbles, the healer can run through them and sweep out a hole for the tank to escape through, saving them a nasty debuff.

At 75 power the boss uses Interrupting Jolt. If you are casting when it goes off, you will be silenced for a period of time.

tl;dr version:
Tanks:
Pick up Large and Massive Golems and the boss. While Massive Golems are up, tank them facing away from the raid. Boss and Massive golem tank should swap at 5 stacks of the Explosive Slam debuff.

Boss tank - When the boss uses Anima ring, let a healer or dps pop the bubbles and open a path for you to escape the ring. If nobody is doing this, run out as soon as the ring forms and pop as few bubbles as possible.

DPS:
Stay out of red puddles, get out of the raid if you've got Crimson Wake, and don't be in front of Massive golems.

Large > Small > One of the Massive > Boss

If you're on the ball, you can help the Dark Animus tank by standing nearby and popping the brown bubbles that form when the boss uses Anima Ring.

Stop casting when Interrupting Jolt goes off.

Healers:
Lots of damage during the Large Golem period and again at the end of the fight.

Pop bubbles for the tank when Anima Ring is used by the boss. Stop casting when Interrupting Jolt goes off.

Dispel Matter Swap 3-5 seconds after it is applied, not immediately, and don't let it fall off.

Macroable version:

/instance Tanks: Pick up Large, Massive & Boss. At 6 stacks swap Massive & Boss.
/instance DPS: Avoid red crap. Large > Small > 1 Massive > Boss
/instance Heals: Pop Anima Ring bubbles. Dispel Matter Swap after 3 seconds. Interrupting Jolt = Don't cast.

Kommentar von Nandu

Activation Sequence: Successfully dividing by zero

Seems like all calculators, computers and math professors have lied to us...

Kommentar von dcraftjr

To kill the ritualist adds: you want to pull the ritualists that have burning hands into your raid while the ones without burning hands has to be tanked away from raids (30 yards minimum).

Here are some of the information I gathered:

Long-Range Damage attack /Needs to be tanked in melee range/ Melee DPSers attack
Auton
Ogron
Fendahl
Kroll
Sirian

Short-Range Damage attack /Needs to be tanked far away/ Range DPSers attack
Xeron
Malus
Drashig
Drahvin
Thal
Megara

Kommentar von Eillesthis

Six named Dunkler Ritualists are part of the trash leading up to this guy. The ones with the glowing hands cast Langer Ritualblitz, the ones with normal hands cast Kurzer Ritualblitz. The cutoff between the two abilities seems to be 30 yards, despite the first tooltip. We dealt with them by grouping all 6 up, spreading out within 30 yards around them (to minimize Schattennova), ignoring the long-rangers, and interrupting and killing the short-rangers. Each one you kill makes it easier, and they stay dead even if you don't kill all 6 in one go.

Running back in if you die is not an option, because the long-rangers will kill you at the entrance. Also problematic is separating the two groups and having everyone stack on the long-ranged group - most of the raid takes no ritual lighting, but the short-range tank takes both kinds, and it's hard to keep her alive and/or interrupt all 6.

Whom you get is random, and if after several weeks you kill all 24, you earn Welcher Ritualist?.

Kommentar von PrairieChicken

Elaboration on Riesiger Animagolem's Materientausch

Dematrixes the target enemy's matter. When this effect is removed, the target swaps places with its most distant ally and Arcane damage equal to the target's maximum health is split between them. The portion of the total damage shifted to the target's ally increases each second.

The debuff lasts for 12 seconds, and if it's dispelled or expires, it deals arcane damage split between two targets.

As the buff is dispelled later, the initial target will take less damage while the other target being swapped will take more damage. The sum of two will always equal max hp of the target.

So if it's dispelled immediately, the debuffed target will take full damage and other ally will take none. On the other hand, if the debuff expires without being dispelled the other ally will take full damage and the initial target will take 0 damage. If it's dispelled in between, two will share damage depending on amount of time expired.

To make it simple, The proportion of damage being shared is something like this:

Dispelled Time	Target	Distant Ally
0 Sec	100%	0%
3 Sec	75%	25%
6 Sec	50%	50%
9 Sec	25%	75%
12 Sec	0%	100%

Therefore, it should be dispelled about midway (6~7 sec after being applied) so that no one is killed by huge damage. Otherwise it could be immediately dispelled in controlled situation with survival cooldown up(such as Göttlicher Schutz).

Kommentar von 902219

Fun fact: In Carl Jung's school of philosophy, the inner, unconscious female personality or energy in a male is Anima. While the inner, unconscious male personality or energy in a female is Animus.

Kommentar von ivnaugusto

Does Repentance (Paladin Level 45 Talent) works on Dark Animus' Anima Golens (the little ones)?

Kommentar von MABGamer6407

Note to self: Don't donate your blood to a army of Chinese statue warriors and there Thunder King.

Kommentar von Salculd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ is an appropriate soundtrack for this encounter, at least on LFR.

Kommentar von GoRozZo

Generally all raids kill Dunkler Animus before Lei Shen because its one of the hardest encounter in the ToT due to big amount of adds/abilities that demands all players to be attentive and skilled.
Video-kill in 25 Heroic, sight from Rogue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMnJSqbx984

Kommentar von Keldion

The differences between normal and heroic are a bit more involved.

1) On top of the 100 Anima normally found in the encounter, Heroic adds 52 Anima to Dark Animus, who is active from the beginning of the orb pull. He has significantly higher health as a result.

2) Dark Animus will not cast Siphon Anima until 2 minutes into the fight. Once 2 minutes have passed, Animus will siphon every 20 seconds.

3) Animus casts Empower Golem on the active golem with the lowest health. If you keep a small Golem alive with less percentage health than the Massive golems, he will draw Empower casts away from the Massives for up to 3 minutes into the encounter.

Kommentar von EmberDione

My guild recently went in to kill this guy for pets and guild achievements. On heroic, he seems to have some ability that wasn't squished properly.

We beat it by having the tank kite the boss like mad, and our pet classes used tanking pets on the small Animas. Our tank didn't stop moving, and used tanking CDs on cooldown.

Kommentar von duranox

Managed to finally get this bastard down solo. as a dk with no special bugs/glitches or exploits.

First within seconds you need to activate a big golem. and have your army distract the majority of the small ones while you pull a few small ones and the big one and make quick work out of them because the rest of them will be coming straight for you. Make sure to keep an eye on the big ones energy meter because when it reaches max you need to engage Dark Animus and completely ignore the rest of the adds and nuke him down quickly.

Roll your defensives starting out slowly and when you see the rest coming for you, pop icebound and Dancing Rune Weapon. Breath is golden here, not for the damage but for the healing and for the fact that it spends RP without using a global CD which you need for Death Strike.

Kommentar von Schadow

Just solo'd as an elemental shaman (looks like the first shaman, so claiming it here too!). Strategy for me was to pop every cooldown + Earth Elemental Totem. Use Sham Rage and Astral Shift when 3-4 are coming together. I had apart from Ancestral Guidance and Spiritwalker's grace). Nuke down the Anima Golems that are on full health that are close to the Large Anima Golems.

Use your Spiritwalker's Grace and AG here and keep moving away from the Crimson Wake, kill the Large Anima Golems (do not kill close to the Dark Animus) and spawn the Massive Anima Golem. Fill up the Massive Anima Golem (do not attack him) by killing the Anima Golems that are inactive. Then kill an Anima Golem to spawn Dark Animus. By that time, your Elemental Mastery, Ascendence and Ring are up again, use it and melt Dark Animus.

Don't worry about Matter Swap as it will not do anything when you are alone.

Kommentar von Elodeon

As of 6.2.3, a reasonable minimum for 10H is 2-3 people, one of whom should be tank; then depending on tank skill and gear, a healer and a DPS. Without tank, little golems one-shot you in 0.3 seconds. With tank, lots of kiting required until little golems are dead. It helps if other players soak Anima Rings on tank.

Kommentar von skyline33

Stack directly behind the Largest Animus, tank stays directly infront of animus, pop all aoes and all defensives and everyone AoE's
easy peasy, not one death on my run

Kommentar von Sethdarkus999

Is it me or do the golems hit for a tad bit to much on 10man normal?

50-60k to be exact

Kommentar von Benvyme

Just downed this guy solo as a blood dk. I tried a few times by trying to kill the small ones, or the larger ones, but i kept getting swarmed by the small adds and getting destroyed.
Here's how I downed him:
Start the encounter and run directly behind the boss.
Kill a few of the small adds while you wait for the boss to activate.
Once the boss is active, I popped all my DPS CDs, ring, vamp blood, and went to town with aoe/single target on the boss.
After Rune Weapon fell off I popped IBF and rune tapped and was able to finish him off without moving even once.

Kommentar von Seethe

Not to be 'that person', but has anyone had any success in solo-ing this fight with the release of the Legion Pre-patch? A friend and I have been trying ( not really a solo, I know ), but we just cannot handle the golems fast enough with a bit over 700ilvl as an aff-lock and a ww monk. Would I fare better with something more direct-damage-like such as destro?

Kommentar von Chucky2910

Have anyone an idea to beat this boss with pre patch skills? Solo or with three people?

Kommentar von aloosedog

Just solo'd as a guardian druid, only 840 ilvl, I imagine any tank could.

Start encounter by boss, poke the orb, then dps the boss. Once the little dudes start piling on the boss and your health starts falling pop some survival cds and just aoe them down. I used barkskin and my artifact trait Rage of the Sleeper, then thrashed and swiped until they were dead.

Continue dpsing, I think I used one healing potion, and he'll cast full power. Here I used mark of ursol (because magic damage) and survival instincts. Tanked through that and dps'ed him down, easy.

Kommentar von toppjubei

Solo'd HEROIC as 804 prot warrior. Started a couple times by getting nearly one-shot, then start kiting boss backwards and AOEing adds. Never went below 95% health the whole fight. Kiting seems to be the secret.

Kommentar von jamesmay

This %^&*! is impossible to kill in 25man Heroic without > 5 people @ ilvl 840.

Meanwhile Highmaul, BRF and Hellfire is a cakewalk.

Kommentar von lielrae

just soloed heroic 25 dark animus has a 843 Bear druid.

talents that I used that were useful were wild charge, resto affinity Surv. of the fittest and Soul of the forest. Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc would have been amazing when the adds stack in.

I also used Riesige Schmuckperle.

Strategy: Pull the blood orb with moonfire from a distance, as close to the boss as possible, as soon as the little adds in front of the boss begin to activate, moonfire as many as you can, they'll die in 1-2 ticks at worse. As they stack in, stack up survival instincts, barkskin and rage of the sleeper, popping frenzied if your health dips fast. While doing this, get thrashes up (using incarnation: guardian of Ursoc would make this easier but I didn't have any tomes on me), try to use trash as much as possible because the bleed isn't reduced by their AE reduction effect. Once you have only dark animus and the 2 large adds left, use stampeding roar and run to the entrance door of the fight room, once there, pop out and swift mend and rejuv.

While killing these 2 adds, you must strafe in the back half of the room away from dark animus, stampeding roar when possible and swapping to cat form to get some distance from dark animus' blasts while killing the adds. Kiting this far will negate almost all of the powered up spread damage. Shifting out is dangerous, but you can when SM is up to get rejuv and a heal up, but rotating cooldowns and frenzied regen was enough. Watch your health, you have plenty of time to get these 2 adds down.

After both adds die, you leave yourself in phase 3, which is just Dark animus, you can't just facestomp animus until he dies, you have to alternate between DPS and kiting. I would wait for both frenzied stacks, charge into dark animus and unload as much dps as possible, still using your cooldowns that you have in rotation (don't need more than 1 at a time, including the pearl). once you reach 30%~ health with no frenzied regen left, stamp roar (or cat dash) to the front door again, using Swiftmend and rejuv, swap to cat form and kite the blasts, and once your health is back to 90% or more move toward animus, shift to bear and charge in, allowing you to start doing damage while not taking any damage while you get back to the boss.

Continue this until you get loot. For now (until the lockout resets) this is the easiest way to explain how to do it, however, I'll be recording my next kill and will post. I still have Durumu H 25 to solo, but that seems near impossible due to the healing debuff wound. I'll try some other techniques with him but I'm not sure if I'll get him down during this tier.

Kommentar von hks2012

I just completed this today on 25H with a 3 person group consisting of a 110 Shaman (geared enhance, speced resto), a 110 Warlock (destro, void lord) and me a 100 Dk (blood, soulstoned).

We stood behind the animus and one of us aggroed the orb. I immediately started building up bone shield stacks and hitting blood boil to aggro the smaller mobs. I was constantly being healed by aoe and direct heals from the shaman. Our lock was casting cataclysm and changed incinerate to hit all targets.

Most of the smaller animi died without being able to melee me but as soon as they did I popped my defensive cd's (which might not have been used as early if I was 110) and once the boss started going full power I started using single target damage. I saved my death strikes for when i needed health. I ended up dying once but was able to revive and immediately taunted the boss and got aggro back.

tl:dr stand behind boss, aoe the adds, aoe heals and hots through full power.

Kommentar von higgsfield

Just solo'd this on my MM hunter ilevel 845 (although I don't think that matters for the strategy I used):

The problem with this fight is that the small golems do an insane amount of damage when they group up, so you have to down them quick.

Basically, I opened up by auto-attacking the orb and then while the boss was activating I stood to one side, targeted the small golem furthest from me (with as many small golems between me and it as possible) and shot it with Sidewinders. That killed all of them.

By then the boss was just starting to come towards me and a few small golems were getting close. I targeted the one furthest from me within range (which was really the first one I clicked because you have to be fast) and hit it with a second Sidewinders and that killed a bunch.

To clean up the rest of the small golems I Disengaged away from them and shot a Barrage in their direction. That cleaned up the rest (minus one or two) and left me with just the boss and a few of the bigger golems.

From there it was just a simple tank-and-spank on the boss. It might take a bit of practice but once you have the basic idea down it isn't so hard. Good idea to have Exhilaration and Aspect of the Turtle handy too.

I hope this helps at least some of you.

Kommentar von culex69

Just solo'd this on 25 man heroic with my 853 Bm hunter, so easy once I figured it out. I made my pet stand in the back by animus so when he activated my pet could tank him there and i stood by the entrance to lure the little ones, once most of the little guys were close i popped stampede and aspect of the turtle and bam all the little guys down, after that it was an easy tank and spank.

Kommentar von link428

I managed to solo this on 10H as a 110 Frost Magier (though Fire may have made this easier). Before starting, I used all eight raid markers, marking eight of the twelve Animagolems that did not have Schwer beschädigt. I used Spiegelbild, Eisige Adern, and Zeitkrümmung immediately after starting the encounter. I then killed the four unmarked Animagolems, and moved on the the marked ones. Once they got near me, I started running away and Flimmerning while spamming Eislanze. Once these were all dead, I moved on to the Großer Animagolems that were chasing me. After that, I was able to stand still and burn down the boss.

Kommentar von Hirokiri

Solo'd as 843 Outlaw Rogue. Was close but just blew all CDs, and nuked the boss while Riposte did its thing. Ignored the adds.

Kommentar von Nameplate

Just did this solo as a WW monk in patch 7.1 on 25m normal. Took me like 10 tries. The main thing here is to pop your karma on the massive anima golem, when most of the small animas get to you. Then pop everything (serenity) and FoF + Strike of the windlord. From there it was pretty easy. Enjoy!

Kommentar von IvikN

Seems imposiburu for Sub Rogue due to lack of AOE damage and survivability. I have 871 ilvl
I can't handle this crap not on heroic nor normal 25. Golems just melting me in two seconds after I coming from evasion.

Kommentar von zharshoul

Step one eat some bear tartare
Step 2 ?

Step 3 Profit

in all seriousness I was extremely disappointed in trying to solo this fight because I really wanted to finally see Raden. I mean its several expansions later, I think its about time I finally get to enjoy content that I paid for. 20 levels later and 2 expansions later I was getting murdered, hard.

I searched the google machine and was linked to a reddit comment. A guy named sebrius mentioned eating the steaks.

Tried it and killed animus on the first try.

Have fun.

Kommentar von LomaxGnome

It's stupid that they fixed Galakras but didn't fix this, considering taking 15 seconds to adjust the multiplier of the buff would be all that they'd have to change. But I guess since some classes can get by using a food buff and kiting abilities the rest of us just get ignored.

Kommentar von Healsbilly

Was able to finally complete on 10 normal as frost mage 110. Waited till they all got near me, cast blizzard and frozen orb then ice blocked. then mirror image as ice block expired and blinked with an unbending potion (don't know if i needed that or not). I wiped several times on normal 25 and got this on first try.

Kommentar von thobber

I struggled soloing him on 25m normal, as a WW monk
Trick is to just get as close to the main boss (Dark Animus), pull the blob, then kill the lesser mobs close to Dark Animus.
Then just AoE down the lesser ones, Touch of Karma on Dark Animus, and the rest was easy as pie.

So. Kill lesser ones close to boss, then AoE down everything. I wiped 5 times before doing this, then I killed him easily.

Good luck!

Kommentar von CronoLink

Solo'd this on 10N as 830 Outlaw Rogue. I tried 25N, applied the strategy of being behind boss at the beginning of the encounter but had issues mitigating his FULL POWER damage once my Adrenaline Rush/Dreadblade combo ended.

Kommentar von datazen

Soloed this, but not from the first time, as a ww monk. The crucial moment is at the beginning when the lesser golems are attacking all. Using artifact weapon ability and spinning crane kick to finish them quick. The angle must be good it is deadly to be catched by the golems.

Kommentar von ThetaSigma

Apparently this thing now has a root mechanic. Had no trouble with it last week, but now I'm just getting rooted and dazed left and right at 110.

Kommentar von Enina

I soloed this on Heroic 25 as an 867~ Protection warrior (fairly sure I didn't do this one as Fury or Arms). It took more attempts than any other boss due to how Deep Wounds can easily kill the wrong targets. I did not run this at current content, so I had to study the fight a little. If Dark Animus hits maximum anima too early you will be unable to push out enough DPS to kill him before he kills you. If too many adds group, you'll be overwhelmed or forced to kill to many of them to take the damage burden down.

Once you get down to the right set of final adds without hitting maximum anima it becomes very easy. I hope you have a way to reset the fight because the first 15-20 seconds of getting the right ones killed is everything. I started on the left side and had to carefully pick out which adds to kill and avoid any AoE that would bypass the anti-AoE damage reduction. It was mostly just a lot of resets dedicated to this in my H25 solo.

Kommentar von Tabbran

Okay, so I just solo'd this on 25H as a monk after being stuck on it for an hour or more. I switched between WW and BrM and was getting absolutely nowhere. Finally, I got it done (and I'm not super proud of this, but...) by standing in the room behind the giant golem, and pulling the orb. I dropped black ox statue to gather all the little ones up, and then popped 3x ironskin and fort brew, which gave me enough stagger redirect and dodge to avoid almost all the damage they can put out until they all died.

After all the small golems were down, I went and retreated to the corner in the room and killed the large golems until just the giant Dark Animus was alive. Since I was corner tanking it as soon as I dropped below 35% hp I'd jump up to 40-50 from elixir and orbs instantly collecting. I couldn't die and then spent a few boring minutes throwing kegs at the Dark Animus until it died.

I suspect I could just corner tank from the very beginning, but I wasn't about to die for the 20th time to re-do the fight from that angle.

Kommentar von Zillion2010

Beat 25n as a 862 Demo Lock. Ate Bear Tartare to help give me some breathing room during the fight.
Started in the back left corner, away from the boss, and burned the 3 nearest to me as quick as I could, using Grimoise: Felguard here. When the main mass reached me I used Felstorm on my Felguard and Summon Infernal, then started running around using Demonwrath, with an occasional Hand of Gul'dan if I was far enough.

Kommentar von ilostmahbucket

Soloed 25N as Ret 870 - hit orb, hid behind boss, lit him up, run out of orb circle that closes in around you.

Soloed 25H as Prot Paladin 870 Pretty simple one shot after you blow up all adds. Cooldowns fill in where Righteous Protector/Hand of the Protector can't self heal enough. without optimal talents. Hit orb, stood still all fight, killed all the little adds as fast as possible, killed the bigger adds, just boss and I. Once adds dead, used Avenging Wrath to heal, Ardent Defender, Guardian of Ancient Kings, Divine Shield, Lay on Hands, and Hand of the Protector (talented) - everything defensive I possibly had, as when it was just the boss and I, he was slightly out dpsing my ability to self heal with Hand of the Protector. So I really watched ALL defensive cooldowns, including Shield of the Righteous / Artifact Weapon ability, while flash of lighting right before hand of protector was coming off CD. Would've been easier with Blessing of Spellwarding/Judgment of Light/Righteous Protector talents, which I didn't have. With Righteous Protector/Hand of the Protector + standing in consecration, the self healing would have been a lot easier (confirmed second week one shot).

Kommentar von Berbe

Just soloed it on 25 HC as a Havoc Demon Hunter. Used a strategy Benvyme used as a Blood DK. Just went near the boss, claived the orb, went behind the boss (all CDs ready, drums, metamorphosis, nemesis) and nuked him single target with an add of AoE for the adds that kept comming. Killed him in 37 seconds.

Kommentar von Davester75

Just finished this as a 860 holy priest. Tried to spam holy nova but got crushed by the mass of little mobs. So I tried one thing, don't put your back to the mobs and just spam smite and holy fire. Stood in the corner and engaged the orb, then immediately smited the closest ones to me. Then once you get a few of them down, all while keeping them in front of you, they get under control. Just keep nuking down the closest adds till they are dead. Hit a few of the dormant guys to get the DA to spawn, then take him out normally. Don't worry about the ground AOE, it shouldn't hurt that much.

Good luck!

Kommentar von Phish

Managed to solo this as a Guardian druid, in Guard spec. I used Lunar Beam (lvl 100 talent) for the AOE on the small guys and to keep my healed, then just spammed Swipe and Trash, and used Iron Fur and Frenzied Regen to keep myself alive. After that the main boss was easy

Kommentar von jackblues

You must face All adds to survive and when the dark animus come to you, kill him

Kommentar von antoniofari

This video shows how to solo this and the other bosses on heroic... its not mine, a guy posted it yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SCGQa6oCgI

Kommentar von bio347

The trick to soloing this on 25H as a warlock: Fire and Brimstone. It doesn't trigger the AoE reduction on the little adds, and lets you rather casually kill them all.

Kommentar von Elfizm

I read this on the WoW forums so I tested it out and thought I'd share here because it works.

Soloing as a Hunter:

Stand slightly to the side of Animus

Pet attack the orb
Pet attack Animus

When the adds come at you, feign death and they will reset.

I stood behind Animus for the fight because I wasn't sure if the adds would re-agro. They disappear completely when he's dead.

A very simple and stress free way for hunters to solo it.

Edit: SL pre-patch 9.0.1 - It still works. Trying to do it the usual way by taking on the adds post-squish ended in a wipe.

Kommentar von Shaid

This fight was ROUGH, got killed at least 7 times attempting it. Had to come here just for tips, but the ones I found weren't that helpful, so maybe this will help someone. I have Prydaz, which gave me a few seconds of invulnerability at least, though this trick should work without it. As an Outlaw Rogue, I kept Blade Flurry on, engaged the boss, and tried to take out some of the smaller adds. When they swarmed around me and the shield from my necklace was about to break, I used Riposte to stay alive, then bombarded the area with Cannonball Barrage (Tier 6 Talent). Since they were all stacked up, it took out pretty much ALL of them, I just had to clean up one or two leftovers. Then the boss itself was a simple burn.

Blade Flurry, Riposte, Cannonball Barrage. You should be able to kill a couple before they swarm around you, then Barrage will tear through them. Hope this helps you Lone Wolf Rogues out there! Good luck!

Kommentar von Melilithia

"Activation Sequence: Setting doom level to 15,000 milli-dooms."

Jhonen Vasquez, is that you?

Kommentar von Hexatomon

This boss doesn't kid around, even on normal difficulty and at level 110.

Came back to ToT after months of absence, much stronger than last time I was there (with a friend that time). Feral drood, maxed-out artifact, item level 905+, Prydaz equipped, over 4 million health not counting the shield.

The small adds absolutely WRECKED me. Literally died so fast I didn't even have time to heal myself. Just....BOOM, dead.

Switched into tank mode, rofflestomped everything and the boss. I was like, lul wut?

So yeah. This boss can hurt, a lot, so be a tank. Then it is easy. (Unless your class can't be tank, then I suppose you need skill or something to take this guy out... ;))

Kommentar von Sivrok

Just Soloed as a Shadow priest on 10 man HC.

The trick is to get into a corner and spam Tab and SWP as FAST AS POSSIBLE to get thrown the adds

Kommentar von qwerty31

Managed to down 25H as frost mage, 920 ilvl. Zann'esu Journey was the key. Only took me two tries once I came up with the strat.

Flask/food/prepot. (Maybe optional depending on gear)

Precast Icy Veins/Lust. This is important to make sure you can squeeze in Flurry 5 times before you die to the little guys.

Start the fight. As soon as the little guys become active, Flurry 5 of them down. Hardcast -- none of this Brain Freeze stuff. Then cast Frozen Orb, instant-cast Blizzard, and Ice Block. By the time your block wears off, most of the little guys should be dead to your super-powered-up Blizzard. Blink away and Ice Lance down the rest of the little guys, you should have plenty of FoF procs to manage any stragglers. Then just tunnel the main boss.

Kommentar von fairchild

Soloed 25-man Heroic as a Fire mage.

1. Wait until all the adds are about to gather in one large blob.
2. Pop Living Bomb on anyone.
3. Immediately Ice Block
4. Wait until Living Bomb does it's thing, - most of the adds will be gone
5. Kill of remaining adds and the boss

Kommentar von SiliconX

I figured 25H might be impossible as a Warlock but its actually an extremely easy tank and spank as Affliction. I used the talent setup 1-2-2-1-1-1-2. Most of those can be changed out as you see fit but I highly suggest Siphon Life, Demon Skin and you absolutely MUST have Phantom Singularity. Use Infernal to tank.

Start by standing behind the Dark Animus and hit the orb to start the encounter. Dot him up and drop Phantom Singularity on him. PS hits really hard but best of all, deals damage to anything in a 15 yard radius of the target. The small adds will simply melt as they run up to you and get damaged by the PS ticks. You may have a couple left by the time PS wears off but your Infernal's immolation aura should take care of them. Keep your dots up on DA, preferably you have Reap Souls active and just drain tank him.

In Argus/ToS gear (900+), he really shouldn't be able to bust through your absorb shield/drain soul healing, even with the FULL POWER buff. Happy hunting!

Kommentar von BaronVonClop

Solo'd as a 927 Disc priest on 25 Normal. Took eight deaths, but I got it once I figured it out. There's some comments here saying that a priest can't solo it on 25 man, so I figured I would share my method. The key is picking off as many as possible from range, never letting them get behind you, and killing the small ones first.

Began the fight with my back to the wall in a corner on the far side away from the boss to give myself as much distance from the little adds as possible. Pre-shielded myself with PW:S. Soon as the fight started, I immediately started spamming Purge the Wicked on any of the small mobs before they reached me. I was able to kill more than a third of them before they ever made it to melee range; PtW was a one-shot on them.

Once they were in melee range, I popped all cooldowns. Absolutely ensure that you do not turn your back and that none get behind you. Power Word: Barrier was dropped on my location, Pain Suppression on myself, and refreshed PW:S. With so much damage reduction on myself I was easily able to Purge the Wicked on the rest of the small enemies, killing them all with nearly all of my health intact.

At that point, I topped myself off with Shadow Mend and another PW:S and moved to the boss. With all the small adds dead the damage from the big adds and the boss can easily be healed with Atonement via the damage you deal to him. From there you just nuke the boss down, moving slightly every few seconds in order to move out of the red damage dealing puddles on the ground.

Kommentar von rinbow

You can get this boss down if you're tank spec or know the tacts plus have skills. I couldn't do it with my mistweaver monk so had to change to brewmaster, pop all cooldowns as often as I could, deal both single and aoe dmg before finally getting him down. Not an easy boss but you can get him down

Kommentar von Jkpman

Just did this as a Havoc Demon Hunter.
This strat should work for other melee providing you have enough healing mechanics.

Run straight through the boss pulling him and starting the fight.
Get to the far wall directly behind the boss and turn around popping Metamorphosis.
Remember don't turn your back on the mobs.
Fel Barrage, Eye beam the adds who arrive first, use your defensive cooldowns, focus the Animus when he gets to you and cleave should take care of the rest of the mobs.
I had no buffs, and my gear was only 886, but he went down pretty easily on 25 Heroic.

Kommentar von ChibiSkittles

As a 929 Destro Warlock heres what I did:

Pet attack orb
Pet attack one animus
start casting cataclysm
Dark Pact
Eat a Heathstone/drink a potion.
Murder boss.

Loot :)

Kommentar von Apanthrope

This is soloable as Holy Priest (ilvl 929), but took me a dozen attempts. I highly recommend X'anshi, Schleier von Erzbischof Benedictus, as it will pop you back up after you die so you can try again. And obviously, Prydaz, Xavarics Magnum Opus is going to keep you alive. If you can spec into Woge des Lichts it might help.

I tried the stand-in-the-corner strategy, but it never worked. What worked for me:

1. Start off to one side, next to the closest mob to the entrance.
2. Have ready: Verzweifeltes Gebet, Licht von T'uure, and Schutzgeist
3. Buff: Fläschchen des geflüsterten Pakts, Besudelte Verstärkungsrune or Lichtgeschmiedete Verstärkungsrune, and most critical: Bärentatar
4. Pre-pot Trank der verlängerten Macht, Heilige Pein the orb to start the encounter, and immediately Licht von T'uure then Erneuerung.
5. Start spamming Heilige Nova but do not move until the mobs start taking damage.
6. Run to the back of the room while spamming Nova. Your goal here is to get as much damage in as you can on the little guys before the big guys start to move. When you hit the back, do not turn to cross the big mobs, which will now start moving. Instead, 180 and go back down the side wall toward the entrance.
7. Around the time you get to the front, you'll want to pause Nova to Prayer and maybe Renew again. Turn to cross along the entrance, starting a circuit of the outside of the room.
8. Keep an eye on your health and pause Nova to Segenswort: Epiphanie when you hit 50% again, and Guardian right after that.
9. If your Sprint buff isn't coming back, Engelsfeder to keep moving. By now, you've probably gone around the room once and most of the small mobs should be dead. The damage should be slowing and you can focus on Renew and maybe a Woge des Lichts proc if you're lucky.
10. Nova down everyone but the boss, then Heiliges Feuer and Segenswort: Züchtigung while still running circles until the boss dies.

Kommentar von wcrow

I'm pretty sure any mele class can solo this boss with a little help of Prydaz, Xavarics Magnum Opus. Just pull the boss, pop every cd and don't aoe the little mechs, just single target them. If you see them coming at you use defensives and kite until they die.

Kommentar von chippo88

The comments have been helpful; thanks for the tips guys! I figured I'd add what worked for me and my husband in case it helps someone else out.

We were able to kill Dark Animus as a feral druid/holy priest pair on 25 man heroic. We died probably 6 or 7 times before he went holy. We stayed in the back left corner of the room. I pulled with moonfire to keep the aggro off him to start with and as the little guys came to me, I killed them one at a time until there were too many. Then I popped Survival Instincts and Berserk and Brutal Slashed the group so that most of them died. At that point, we were able to control the fight and remaining adds well enough to get the boss down.

Kommentar von Richmond79

Died a few times to the crazy adds until I read comments here and figured it out! As a frost mage just hit the blob to begin, back into the corner AND FACE THE MOBS. Pop heroism, icy veins, frozen orb, blizzard, and then ice lance everything coming at you (talent to hit two targets). Murdered every add easily and took no damage. Then batter the boss

Kommentar von Binomeuh

Solo'd this weekend in 25HM with a ivl945 fire mage.

1. Go to the middle of the room, under the ball. Start the battle.
2. Use some Fire Blast on 2 or 3 mob in front of you to get an instant Flamestrike.
3. Before all mobs are packed on you, use Mirror Image, Combustion, your instant Flamestrike and Meteor on you then Ice Block. The Meteor should fall on the packed mobs. Let the AoE damage kill the mobs.
4. Once the Ice Block ends, use Dragon's Breath on the pack and Blink to move away in case of remaining mobs.
5. Kill the two or three survivors.
6. Kill the boss.

Kommentar von Chilcoot

I don't understand this fight at all. But here's what worked on 10 man normal for me as a 110 BM hunter in ivl 805 gear.

Stand behind Dark Animus, back to the wall, looking between her "legs" at the Orb.
Send pet to kill the orb, and then target Dark Animus.
When adds start hitting me in the face, whack them with stampede and barrage.
All-out DPS on Dark Animus FTW.

Not saying it's a good strat, not saying others will have success. But it kills the boss until she's dead, and works for me.

UPDATE FOR 25 MAN NORMAL:
Same as above, adding some other tips from my success at ilvl 808:

Make sure pet is on assist.
When the orb is down, try to attack the Dark Animus. That way pet will attack it even after you feign death.
When adds start arriving, hit stampede, then feign death.
While the adds will reset, Dark Animus will keep fighting the pet. Join the pet and down Dark Animus.

Worked for me, hope this helps others.

Kommentar von Aphrodiety

Easy way to do this as BM Hunter is to have your pet in defensive mode. Buff with Bear Tatare. Every time your pet kills an add, you get a speed boost and easily kite NPCs around room until all are dead except Dark Animus. Then just focus and burn him down. I haven't tried with my other specs but feel that the speed boost from bear tartare should easily let you use AOE abilities and kite until all adds are mowed down.

Kommentar von ak404

At level 110, just about any class should be able to dodge and parry most of the hits coming from the small adds, so a technique that usually works is to start behind Dark Animus before you pop the orb, then shove your back against the wall. Because the adds can't get behind you, they shouldn't be able to hurt you.

The catch is that if you cast a spell, you stop parrying and dodging during the cast, so don't use anything with a cast time.

Kommentar von Guldoran

For anyone looking to farm this on your new level 110 character, forget it. This boss is your road block for finishing the raid (25 heroic in my experience as a ret. paladin 881 ilvl). Even after killing most of the adds by popping divine shield early and back against the wall the boss still takes you out before you can finish it off. The best I was able to do was I think 49%. You just simply can't overpower the boss unless you get your ilvl up. So don't waste your time and just go get gear before coming back to this place. Oh I also found out the hard way that if your gear breaks and you're this far into the boss you can't mount to repair and you can't go back to a mountable spot either because I tried using the feather at the bird boss to go back to a mountable spot and it wouldn't let me go back any further because of an invisible wall that for some reason is there after that point. So unless you're an engineer or have some way to repair you'll have to hearth out. I suggest not wasting your time and just getting geared before going to this place. I was able to zoom through it with my ilvl 933 DH. For new 110s however, its a waste of time.

Kommentar von zatah

For any warriors having trouble. Just go into protection and spam shield slam. Easy mode :)

Kommentar von Malachi68

Solo'd this today as a 110 Demolock (iLvl 926) with a Felguard. I'll admit that I was insta-killed four times before reading the comments here (and killed twice after). Here's the strat that eventually succeeded:

Like everyone else has stated, stand under the animus and cast a Doom on the red blob.This will start the action. Back up quickly to the wall. Doom the DA and call in all the available demons (dreads, hand, doomguard). Cast Demonic Empowerment then spam Drain Life on Dark Animus. Use a Healthstone if under 60%. The battle should be over within 15 seconds.

Kommentar von Elysoun

Soloed this today as a Shadow Priest. Like others, I used the Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus, backed myself into a corner and spammed Shadow Word: Pain and my Power Word: Shield until only the boss was left.

Kommentar von subz

Post-BFA stat squish this is way harder than before. My moderately geared WW monk couldn't down him whereas last week it was a cakewalk.

Kommentar von Kimrae

So came here looking to see if anybody had a tip for him post 8.0.1. The little ones link up when they get close and just absolutely nuke you. You also can't just AOE because they take 90% reduced AOE damage. JOY. Came in as a feral druid with 205 ilvl and was getting nowhere. Went bear form (in feral spec) and as soon as I popped the orb I ran to the nearest small add and hit it. I was one shotting them for the most part, and just did my best to nuke the small adds as they came to me, ignoring everything else. Once the small adds were all gone, went back to cat form and mopped it up.

The key is to survive the littlest adds(duh). Once you do that, you can nuke the boss no issue. I'll admit, it takes a little luck. Also, would probably go easier if you are running a spec with instant single target attacks to just tab target and smash. Once I tried the above, killed him first try. Was on Heroic-10man, would be obviously tougher on 25.

Kommentar von Esalyn

110 prot pally
ilvl 212 after squish.

Popped the orb, ran behind him and just unloaded on him - ignored everything else. he was dead in maybe 15-20 seconds and I never went under 100% HP

Kommentar von Yetiuprising

Shadow Priest Guide
Very easy to solo now. Dark Animus is now active at the start of the fight.

For 10 H, you just have to be able to burst down the main boss before the small ones overwhelm you.

For 25 H, instead of bursting I used the talent Dark Ascension when all the little ones got really close and one shot everything while I spammed PW:S with body and soul talent to runaway quick. From there i just kept spamming SW:P on other mobs that were still alive and kiting wasn't sure how much they would hurt.

Kommentar von ItsJawn

Just completed this on my 225 ilvl BM Hunter in 8.0.1. Best method is still to get to the back of the room beneath DA itself, order your pet to attack the orb, then immediately order your pet to attack DA once it comes to life and disengage to get your back against the wall quickly. Then simply sit there for at least 3 or 4 seconds and soak the damage from the adds (should be easily doable if you have a decent ilvl, pop an Exhilaration or Aspect of the Turtle if need be) and then Feign Death. It should reset all of the adds if you did it right, but it won't reset DA itself since it was still in active combat with your pet. Then just go ahead and DPS him away, should take less than 30 seconds. If you attempt this and it resets the entire fight including DA, you need to attempt again and give your pet an extra second or two more to attack, just to ensure that it's properly logging combat against the boss.

Kommentar von Maulis425

After 8.0.1 patch this is nigh impossible as an enhancement shaman - sure it's nice being able to attack the boss right at the beginning but when you explode in a couple seconds from the adds it doesn't matter.

Kommentar von Zuckerguss

Tried doing this yesterday, but the adds killed me before the boss was even attackable.

ETA: Was able to kill him with another character on LFR. He wasn't attackable until after I'd killed all the adds.

Kommentar von Kurtosis

Hunters can brute force this with Barrage. Frontload all your burst into barrage, take out most of the little adds with it, then pet or face tank the big adds and boss till dead. If you're having trouble with the Feign Death strat resetting the boss, try this instead.

1. You need to frontload all your burst damage into Barrage'ing down the little adds at the start. Kill all or most of the little ones right away and you can pet or face tank all bigger adds and the boss without risk of dying. Use a burst macro like this:

#showtooltip
/use Primal Rage(Ferocity Ability) / Drums of Fury / Drums of the Mountain
/use Potion of Deadly Grace
/use Bestial Wrath

Cast that macro then Barrage right after.

2. Use Tar Trap in one corner of the room to delay about one quarter of the adds getting to you. Line up the other three quadrants of the adds into Barrage's cone and blast away. It has a 40 yard range but doesn't pierce, so the adds nearest you will body block the projectiles till they die, which is why you need to frontload all your burst damage into Barrage so it cuts through the adds nearest you quickly and then the ones behind them too. If you can Barrage down half or three quarters of the little adds before the Tar Trapped ones gets to you, makes it easier.

3. Don't forget to pre-buff and pre-pot. Whatever the strongest damage buffs of the moment are. For Legion/BfA pre-patch, that's Flask of the Seventh Demon, Defiled Augment Rune, and Bear Tartare or other food that gives you run speed after killing an enemy (you may still need to kite or reposition to get all the adds in Barrage's cone).

4. Finish off remaining little adds with Multishot or whatever works, then just pet tank the boss and the remaining big adds as usual.

I just one-shot 25H with Barrage with my ilvl 200 (patch 8.0) BM hunter after failing repeatedly at the Feign Death strat. Couldn't prevent the boss from resetting no matter what I tried.

Good luck, have fun!

Kommentar von asloversgo

Was able to do this unexpectedly easy on 25H as a 217 Windwalker Monk. I used the talents Gutes Karma and Gleichmut, popped Touch of Death and Touch of Karma, and used Fists of Fury and Rising Sun Kick as often as possible (Serenity allowed more frequent use). Managed to whittle him down in 26 seconds without going below 100% HP.

As a 210 Outlaw Rogue, I just popped Riposte when all the adds made their way to me and burned down the boss as usual.

As a 214 Guardian Druid, I had the Dornenranken, Erdenwächter and Beißen und Reißen talents and popped all survivability cooldowns. Adds went down really quickly without trouble and I could kill off the boss easily. I had no luck doing it in Feral, so Guardian is the safe bet.

Kommentar von lillicat

I soloed this as an enhancement shaman by "accident" after dying several times. I walked to the back of the room near the boss, hit the orb to activate everything, then popped hero and the spirit wolves. I put a crash lightning on the ground and spammed the heal on myself and then the encounter was over in about 7 seconds. I was 197 ilevel with no legendaries equipped.

Kommentar von penguinsane

Not sure if this is still difficult to solo for some classes now in BFA, but if it is, taking the treants talent as a boomkin makes it pretty trivial. Just pop it when they're mostly gathered and enjoy not tanking their zaps to the face.

Kommentar von Ehall671

My Disc Priest Strat.

I SWP the orb and ran to DA. When swarmed by the adds I popped Shield, Barrier and spammed the hell out of holy nova. Adds died then killed boss. Easy peasy.

Kommentar von Mydge

Just completed 25 H Dark Animus. I wasnt sure about the damage so I ran around the room spamming aoe and killed the boss. No damage taken, appears that as of BFA the insta-death from adds no longer exists.

Kommentar von oneeighthundred

This shouldn't be hard to solo any more unless you're underleveled or your gear is bad, but if you're still having trouble with it: Start on either the left or the right side and try to AoE down the mini-golems there while the others run at you instead of standing in the center.

The biggest issue is too many mini-golems stacked in one spot, clearing it from side to side will let you kill off about a third of them before the rest can get stacked up, making you take much less damage.

3D-Ansicht Links

Dunkler Animus

Dieser NPC befindet sich in Der Thron des Donners (2).

Bosskampfkompendium

Heroisch		Mythisch
Tödlich		Wichtig
Tank		DPS
Heiler		Unterbrechbar
Magie		Fluch
Gift		Krankheit
Berserker

Animabetrieben – Ohne Anima können Animagolems weder agieren noch Fähigkeiten benutzen. Das Animapotential wird von der Größe des Golems begrenzt, größere Golems haben mehr Speicherkapazität. Der dunkle Animus hat die größte Kapazität. Doch viele seiner Fähigkeiten können vor dem Überschreiten einer gewissen Animaschwelle nicht eingesetzt werden.
Durch das Bezwingen eines Animagolems jeglicher Größe wird seine Restanima in den nächsten Golem mit genügend Speicherkapazität übertragen.
Animabetrieben – Ohne Anima können Animagolems weder agieren noch Fähigkeiten benutzen. Das Animapotential wird von der Größe des Golems begrenzt, größere Golems haben mehr Speicherkapazität. Der dunkle Animus hat die größte Kapazität. Doch viele seiner Fähigkeiten können vor dem Überschreiten einer gewissen Animaschwelle nicht eingesetzt werden.
Durch das Bezwingen eines Animagolems jeglicher Größe wird seine Restanima in den nächsten Golem mit genügend Speicherkapazität übertragen.
Schwer beschädigt – Auf den Schwierigkeitsstufen für 10 Spieler sind einige der Animagolems schwer beschädigt. Diese Golems können weiterhin Anima absorbieren, jedoch weder agieren noch Fähigkeiten benutzen.
Animagolem
- Beschleunigungsverbindung – Animagolems, die nah beieinander sind, verbinden sich, wodurch das Angriffstempo jedes einzelnen Golems um 250% und dessen Schaden um 250% erhöht wird. Darüber hinaus erhöht sich die Bewegungsgeschwindigkeit verbundener Golems um 30% und sie werden immun gegen bewegungseinschränkende Effekte.
- Ausweichend – Für Animagolems wird der durch Flächeneffekte erlittene Schaden um 90% verringert.
Großer Animagolem
- Purpurwelle – Aus dem Boden bricht wiederholt Anima hervor und bewegt sich dabei immer schneller geradlinig auf einen zufälligen Spielercharakter zu. 'Purpurwelle' verfolgt dieses Ziel für bis zu 30 Sek. Gegnerische Ziele, die von den Ausbrüchen getroffen werden, erleiden 2831 Feuerschaden.
Riesiger Animagolem
- Materientausch – Destabilisiert die Materie des anvisierten Gegners. Wird dieser Effekt entfernt, tauscht das Ziel seinen Standort mit seinem am weitesten entfernten Verbündeten, und beide erleiden gleichmäßig zwischen ihnen verteilten Arkanschaden in Höhe der maximalen Gesundheit des Ziels. Der Anteil des Gesamtschadens, der auf den Verbündeten des Ziels übertragen wird, erhöht sich mit jeder Sekunde.
- Explosives Schmettern – Der Golem schmettert auf den Boden und fügt so allen Zielen im Umkreis von 9 Metern um sein Ziel 3893 Feuerschaden zu. Getroffene Gegner werden versengt, wodurch der durch folgende Angriffe mit 'Explosives Schmettern' erlittene Schaden 25 sec lang erhöht wird.
Dunkler Animus
- Aktivierungssequenz – Der dunkle Animus muss seine Aktivierungssequenz durchlaufen bevor er angreifen oder Fähigkeiten einsetzen kann. Dieser Prozess nimmt 1 min in Anspruch.
- Anima entziehen – Der dunkle Animus entzieht seinen Dienern regelmäßig Anima. Jedem Golem werden dabei 0 Anima entzogen.
- Berührung des Animus – Der dunkle Animus verderbt in regelmäßigen Abständen einen Spielercharakter. Für den Rest der Begegnung erleidet dieses Ziel alle 4 Sek. 425 Feuerschaden.
- Golem aufladen – Der dunkle Animus visiert den aktiven Golem mit der niedrigsten Gesundheit an, heilt ihn um 3% und erhöht für den Rest des Kampfes allen von ihm verursachten Schaden um 24%.
- Animaring – Beim Erreichen von 25 Anima gewinnt der dunkle Animus die Fähigkeit hinzu, kreisförmig mehrere Kugeln um das Ziel zu bilden. Die Kugeln bewegen sich auf die Mitte des Kreises zu. Berühren gegnerische Ziele eine Kugel, absorbieren sie sie und ihr erlittener Nahkampfschaden wird 15 sec lang um 200% erhöht. Dieser Effekt ist stapelbar.
  [Heroisch] Jede Kugel verursacht zusätzlich während dieser Zeit 29074 Feuerschaden.
- Animaquell – Beim Erreichen von 50 Anima gewinnt der dunkle Animus die Fähigkeit hinzu, ein Ziel, das bereits mit dem Effekt 'Berührung des Animus' belegt ist, weiter zu verderben. Der betroffene Spielercharakter speit alle 1 Sek. Animageschosse auf Positionen in der Nähe. Von den Geschossen getroffene Gegner erleiden 5308 Feuerschaden.
- Unterbrechender Schlag – Wenn er 75 Anima erreicht, erhält der Dunkle Animus die Fähigkeit einen Energiestoß auszulösen, der 1911 Naturschaden verursacht und die Zauber aller Spielercharaktere unterbricht.
- Unterbrechender Schlag – Beim Erreichen von 75 Anima gewinnt der dunkle Animus die Fähigkeit hinzu, eine Energiewelle zu entfesseln, die 4954 Naturschaden verursacht und aktuell gewirkte Zauber aller Spielercharaktere unterbricht.
- Unterbrechender Schlag – Wenn er 75 Anima erreicht, erhält der Dunkle Animus die Fähigkeit einen Energiestoß auszulösen, der 5662 Naturschaden verursacht und die Zauber aller Spielercharaktere unterbricht.
- VOLLE MACHT – Beim Erreichen von 100 Anima gewinnt der dunkle Animus die Fähigkeit hinzu, eine Salve von Animageschossen zu entfesseln, die zufällige Ziele treffen. Jedes Geschoss fügt Gegnern, die sich im Umkreis von 5 Metern um den Einschlagsort befinden, 7078 Feuerschaden zu.