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Kommentar von Ixtab

If you're looking for the Megaera loot table and so on, try this npc id: Flaming Head <Head of Megaera>.

Edit: The drops have now been re-assigned to this page. Flagging comment "out of date".

Kommentar von aostang

Despite all the rage he's still just a hydra in a cave.

Kommentar von lightclaw

LFR Strategy:
This is a fairly easy fight, enjoy.

The boss spawns two out of three possible heads at any one time. We never see the body of the boss, but each time one of the heads is killed, its entire amount of health (~75M) is subtracted from the boss's body, in much the same way Garalon's legs work. After killing seven heads, the body dies.

Update - For some reason I can't figure out, LFR groups are killing the Venom and Fire heads and ignoring the frost entirely. Tanks are swapping so that one always tanks the left head and the other always tanks the right. Aside from that, there is really no change to the stuff below.

Tanks:
Your job is harder to explain than it is to actually do.

There will always be two heads active. Each head needs to be tanked. There are three possible heads: Fire, Ice, and Venom. Those heads always spawn in the same pools at the edge of the fighting area.

While tanking you should keep the head pointed to the right by putting yourself hard against the rocks to the right of its spawn point. Each head does a breath attack that will debuff you. Venom reduces armor, Ice freezes you for 20s at 5 stacks, and Fire is a stacking DoT. Hopefully the Ice debuff never becomes a problem - we were getting the heads down with between 2 and 4 stacks of the various debuffs.

From left to right as you face the boss, the pools spawn Fire, Ice, and Venom. Let's suppose that the fight starts with Ice and Venom up. Tank 1 takes Ice, Tank 2 takes Venom. The raid kills Venom and both heads despawn. Two new heads pop up. Since we just killed Venom, it won't return immediately, and the new heads are Ice and Fire. Tank 1 is carrying stacks of the Ice debuff already, so he or she must switch to Fire. Tank 2 is carrying stacks of the Venom debuff, so he or she can take Ice. The raid kills Ice, and two new heads pop up, Fire and Venom. Tank 1 takes Venom (still has stacks of Fire debuff, remember) and Tank 2 takes Fire. The fight proceeds in this fashion until the end, with each tank switching after a head is killed: Venom --> Ice --> Fire --> Venom --> Ice --> Fire.

Again, it's very easy to actually do this, but explaining it and making the reason for the swap clear take a lot of writing. :-)

DPS:
Focus on a single head at a time, as they regain full health each time one dies. From left to right the heads are Fire, Ice, and Venom. Supposing you start with Venom, you would kill Venom --> Ice --> Fire and repeat.

If you are lit on fire (Cinders) then you should try to run onto a patch of ice to put the fire out. If there is no patch of ice, try to get away from the raid, because a pool of fire will form at your location when it is dispelled. (Don't run so far away that you can't be cleansed...) If you are the focus of Torrent of Ice, you should run the beam into a patch of fire. If there is no fire, kite the beam out of the raid. Try to stay spread out whenever possible, but collapse after a head is killed for heals.

Healers:
Tank damage is reasonable on this fight. It helps to assign at least one healer to the tank who is on the head that is not the raid's target, as he or she will likely be out of range of the raid for portions of the fight (when Fire and Venom are up.) Raid damage gets worse as the fight goes on. It's very light for the first three heads, but heads four through six do progressively more damage, and you might need to stagger cooldowns to survive. There is no damage after the seventh head dies.

Dispel Cinders, preferably when the target is not in the middle of the raid.

tl;dr version:
The raid focuses on one head at a time. Each time a head is killed the others are healed to full. After killing seven heads the boss dies.

Tanks:
Two heads spawn at a time, each tank takes one. After a head dies, the tank whose head was killed takes the head that was alive in the previous phase and the tank whose head was not killed picks up the new head. In effect, the tanks cycle from head to head to head so that their debuff stacks never get too high. Venom --> Ice --> Fire, repeat. Turn the boss to the side by standing right against the rocks.

DPS:
Single target the heads. Each time one dies, target the head that was not attacked during the last phase, cycling through all heads before repeating any one. Venom --> Ice --> Fire, repeat.

Stay spread out, but stack up when a head dies. If you get Cinders, try to run over a patch of ice. If you get Torrent of Ice, try to run it into a patch of fire. If neither is possible, take your fire or ice out of the raid.

Healers:
Damage is fairly reasonable, but mounts toward the end of the fight. The last few times a head dies cooldowns will be needed to keep the raid alive, so try to stagger them with the other healers.

Dispel Cinders.

Macroable Version:

/raid Tanks, both switch heads when one dies. Face to the side.
/raid DPS single target only. Spread out, stack when head dies. Take Ice debuff to fire, Fire debuff to ice.
/raid Healers, lots of damage when the last heads are killed. Dispel Cinders.

Kommentar von 780729

10-man Normal Mode Strategy

After the nerf, the fight is a joke now.

You want 3 healer, 2 tanks and 5 DPS.

This is mainly a heal fight.

The Heads

You need to kill 7 heads. When 1 die, 2 new of the same color will spawn. You can only attack 2, the others stay in the Concealing Fog.

An example: you start with Blue and Green. Red in the Concealing Fog. You kill Blue, 2 Blue will spawn in the Concealing Fog and Red is now attackable. Now you kill Red, 2 Red spawn in the Concealing Fog and 1 Blue is now attackable, so you have 2 Red and 1 Blue in the Concealing Fog.

It's useless to attack the 2 heads. When one die, the other will restore his HP, and gain a stacking haste buff.

With the death of a head, Megaera will cast a heavy raid damage spell (Rampage) for 20 seconds. Stack your raid and heal. This damage increase with more heads alive.

Attackable Heads

They have 2 abilities:
-1 breath
-1 stacking debuff

Heads in the Concealing Fog

Red
Glut will be cast in random players (tanks can't be affected). The affected player need to run to a safe place to be dispelled. After dispelled, a void zone (pool of flame) will spawn in the ground. Walking with this debuff in the ice on the ground will erase the ice.

Blue
Eisige Sturzflut will be cast in random ranged players. Just run to the back of the room. This spell can erase pools of flame.

Green
Saurer Regen is the simpler one, but do a lot of raid damage. Just stay away from the impact zone.

Strategy

You want to kill Blue - Red - Blue - Red - Green - Red - Blue.

Tanks

Your job is easy. Get your head, and face it away from the raid.

When one head die, the tank with the head still alive get the new head, and the other tank get the old head.

Example: Blue - Green. Blue die. Blue's tank will tank Green now. Green's tank will tank Red now.

DPS

DPS the assigned head and kill it.

Your main concern is the heads in the Concealing Fog. Keep this in mind: with more heads in the Concealing Fog, more spells will hit you.

Run with the Red's debuff through the Ice to a safe place and ask for a dispel.
Run from the Ice Beam to the back of the room.
Avoid the impact zone of Green's spell.

The room is very large, so use it. Don't stay near the heads and spread.

You can attack heads during the Rampage (when you stack for heals).

Healers

Keep the tanks in range. Green's tank can receive a lot of damage with Hydrenraserei stacking on Green. But, for me as a healer, the Red is the dangerous one.

When one head die, stack near the next one to kill and heal. Rotate strong healing CDs here. The first Rampage is easy and a single Spirit Shell can hold it, but the last one can overwhelm you. So, for the last Rampage you need at least 2 strong healing CDs (we used Power Word: Barrier, Spirit Link Totem, and a Shadow Priest's Tranquility plus Time Warp).

With more heads, the things start to get out of control. It's normal to have 2 healers running from Torrent of Ice, reducing the raid's heal. Or the same guy getting Cinders over and over.

Don't dispel Cinders fast. Wait the affected player to run to a safe place. Disc Priests with Body and Soul shiny here.

Don't let players with low health or Cinders can kill them, and Green ones will add more raid damage.

TL;DR

You want to kill Blue - Red - Blue - Red - Green - Red - Blue.

Tanks face heads away from the raid. Swap heads when a new one spawn.

DPS focus their assigned head and avoid the abilities from the Heads in the Concealing Fog.
Run to the back of the room when target by Torrent of Ice.
Run to a safe place and ask for a dispel when affected by Cinder.
Avoid Acid Rain's impact zone.

Healers need to dispel Cinders, heal the raid damage, keep tanks alive (remember the stacking debuff on them), and rotate strong healing CDs for Rampage.

With more Heads in the Concealing Fog, more chaotic the fight becomes.

Blood Lust for the last Rampage.

Kommentar von Hsilia

This boss reminds me of Gleeok from Zelda..

Kommentar von bobisadrummer

You know, I don't want to be the kind of person that says something is a reference to some obscure thing, but this boss and the raid zone it resides in is clearly based off the level "Cave of Hydra" from the SNES game "King of Dragons" as shown in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEVMlICCQis

Not only are the colors and abilities a perfect match, but the fights mechanics are similar.

Kommentar von Kittay

I don't know if it's because of the horrid looks of its heads, or just because of its enthralling mythology; but I think this boss is both awesome and badass and... fetch.

Kommentar von Elfeaterdk

Start by killing Green - dont use cd's.
Kill Red - pop all cd's except BL.
Kill Green - no cd's.
Kill Red - use whatever cooldowns are back up.
Kill Green - no cd's.
Kill Red - use all cd's including BL.
Kill Blue - making sure to use any cooldowns that come back up.
(simply because it will attack harder now -> more tank vengeance -> faster kill)

For healers:
Make sure to have a pre-assigned order for your cooldowns, so you have something to use during/after each rampage. You should save major defensive cooldowns for the last2 rampages, as they tend to be the showstopper.
Very importantly: Cinders will just kill you fast. Best way to deal with it is simply to dispel asap, and let people move from the fire, as a tick from that is about a third of the debuff's tick :)

Kommentar von sidelsky18

I'm not sure why no one else has said it, but for my 10 man normal group the only way we were able to do this fight was to ignore the blue head. We started on the green head and just alternated between it and the red head, stacking up during each rampage of course.

While you don't have to deal with the ice beams with this strategy, know that:

On the last 2-3 heads, there will be frequent green bombs and cinders cast on the raid.
On the last 1-2 rampages, your healers will most likely OOM. It's really just luck, some attempts our healers would be oom on the 3rd to last rampage while other attempts they would have 15% left after killing the boss.
You MUST use a raid cooldown during rampages and single target cooldowns on whoever is tanking the blue head during the last few rampages.

Kommentar von MABGamer6407

Reminds me of the one from God of War as it was also fought in the Water with its true body never actually seen.
Plus the fact that it grows more heads as it is killed stays more true to the Tales more so then the Old WoW models which were just 3 headed powerful beasts.
I also like the mysterious feel of the creature an that it was in fact a Dragon before it became what form we see now. Although i'd of liked it to of been 3 dragons merged into one but stil...pretty decent and a unique boss fight.

Kommentar von Igpolaris

I know it's stupid but spying Megaera's "water" with Kilrogg shows that she's nothing but heads

No flesh abomination underwater, just heads. :(

Kommentar von Autrei

Kinda reminds me of this episode from the cartoon show Courage the Cowardly Dog, not sure why. Here's the link, sorry I couldn't find it in english.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR5m89NzTKY

Kommentar von GoRozZo

Finally we killed her. There are alot of wipes. Rotation of heads: blue-red-violet (without green).
Rogue, 25 Heroic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nde4IxiQ34w

Kommentar von Arcinde

If anyone's wondering how to summon the boss/get it to appear, you have to kill the Eternal Guardians and ring the bells behind them. There is no need to kill any other trash.

Kommentar von bluudbath

I solo 10N on my 690 BM hunter by alternating between killing the green and blue heads, ignore the red one. It is quite easy, I'm sure it could be done at lower ilevels and by other classes.

Kommentar von 153089

You might wanna get that burning sensation checked, Megs.

Kommentar von Kaiservash

I dont know why but anytime i engage it, trying solo it, it resets... never mind wich head i engage, keeps resetting... so frustrating :(

Kommentar von Menjina

Demon Hunter - Vengeance (708)

(You have to kill the 3 Eternal Guardian and use the bells behind them to summon the Boss. Position of the 3 NPCs: Ewiger Wächter)

- Hit Venomous Head (green) until he disappers.
- Hit Frozen Head (blue) until he disappers.
- Rinse and repeat (ignore red completely).

Kommentar von toppjubei

Boss is bugged when trying to solo. Keeps resetting on engage. Submit bug report please!

EDIT 13 Sep, 16: This appears to have been hotfixed. Solo'd today no problem.

Kommentar von GreySage

For overgeared 110's, don't dps too hard. Wait for the rampage to end before killing a head, and don't kill 2 at once, or it could bug out.

Kommentar von Ethna

You have to kill the three Ewiger Wächter on the way and ring the bells that spawn when they die or this boss won't spawn. If you goof up like I did and forget to ring a bell, leave the instance for a while and when you go back the Eternal Guardians will have respawned.

Hit the green head til it disappears, then do the same on the blue one. Ignore the red one. Repeat. After the third or fourth time of this rotation the boss is defeated. Loot the chest. If you find that you are being knocked back and can’t hit the heads, just run past and attack from the other side.

Kommentar von 1525589

If you get stuck at the end without having hit the bells you can click on the air geyser behind you to launch you back up to the level with the eternal guardians.

Kommentar von Eido

Megaera is a 4-headed snake beast boss within the Der Thron des Donners:
Related achievement: Kopfsache.

Kommentar von Relderf

Map of route to kill this boss:
https://i.ibb.co/tqcRmrJ/map-To-T-guardians.png

Do not go straight to the boss because you have to summon it first, by killing the three guardians and destroying the bells behind them.

Kommentar von ZeldaDragon

I've discovered a method to kill the boss faster than the 7 or 8 rounds of heads. You need to have a ranged ability that is instant class and leaves a DoT on the target.

When the next set of heads spawn (after defeating one), you will, for about a half of a second, see that head appear in the back and be targetable. It is possible to attack this head. However, you have to be instant on that tab & cast. I can hit Venomous and Frozen heads, but Arcane and Fire aren't as easy. If the DoT is strong enough, that head dies, and then you have 3 heads active at once in the normal way.

However, the trick is not that simple. You have to be able to target the head, but you also need a DoT that spreads. My UH DK using their main disease ability can hit the head, and then it spreads to the body. I've had the boss drop to 2% on round 1 before the DoT wore off.

This saves SIGNIFICANT time if you can execute this.

In theory, this should work on a boomkin with Sunfire or whatever it's called. Serpent Sting on my SV Hunter did not do the trick. I know more than one class/spec can do this, but it's hard to remember as I'm just trying to get to the end and move on.

Hopefully, this helps with someone who's tired of this lengthy fight and wants a quicker way out.

Kommentar von OneMoreBook1268

Finding the bells to Ring:
1> down the hill after Tortos at bottom of hill look to the left (pull up map) go the first small 'bump' on the map.
2> have the first bell at your back and spot the lonely stalactite. (pull map up) it's in the water. Run past it on the right. The Guardian is in the dark.
3> last on is (pull up map last time) Run between the diamond shape and the ledge down. This one is also in the water.
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I use a macro that just helps to show where they are if you have a dark screen. It is:
/target Eternal Guardian

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