The MOTHERLODE!! Dungeon Ability Guide - Battle for Azeroth

By FatbossTV Updated: 2025/02/07

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Electro-Arm Bludgeoner

Linked Pummeler Grips

Rowdy Reveler's Legwraps

Power-Assisted Vicegrips

Footbomb Championship Ring

Servo-Arm Bindings

G0-4W4Y Crowd Repeller

Mine Rat's Handwarmers

Excavator's Safety Belt

Mercenary Miner's Boots

Bindings of Enraged Earth

Stonefury Vambraces

Sabatons of Rampaging Elements

Shalebiter Interlinked Chain

Unscrupulous Geologist's Belt

Azerokk's Resonating Heart

P.A.C.I.F.I.S.T. Mk7

Deranged Alchemist's Slippers

Rixxa's Sweat-Wicking Cuffs

Leadplate Legguards

Chemical Blaster's Legguards

Corrosive Handler's Gloves

Cloak of Questionable Intent

Schematic: Mecha-Mogul Mk2

Venture Co. Plenipotentiary Vest

High Altitude Turban

Crashguard Spaulders

Shrapnel-Dampening Chestguard

Exquisitely Aerodynamic Shoulderpads

Petticoat of the Self-Stylized Azerite Baron

G3T-00t

Razdunk's Big Red Button

Skyscorcher Pauldrons

Mythic+ Loot and Timer

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VideoFatbossTVCoin-Operated Crowd PummelerNotable Trash MobsIced Spritzer

The group should stick to a single path and follow it, as all paths eventually lead to the first boss.

Off-Duty LaborerThrow Wrench

Although this cast could be interrupted by stuns or other crowd control effects, it isn't necessary due to the low damage of the ability

Refreshment Vendor

They will channel Iced Spritzer into a random target, dealing ticking damage and reducing movement speed by 15% over the 6 second channel.
The final tick of Iced Spritzer will apply Brain Freeze to the target, a magic debuff which stuns the player for 6 seconds.

Iced Spritzer should be interrupted to prevent Brain Freeze applications. If a channel does complete, the target should be dispelled as soon as possible.

Refreshment VendorKaja'Cola Refresher

Players should interrupt this cast as a high priority. This buff cannot be removed by players once it is applied.

Concussion ChargeRowdy Reveler

The revelers will cast Penny For Your Thoughts, dealing low damage to a random target. The Rowdy Reveler can be largely ignored due to their low health and damage output.

Mech JockeyGrease Gun

They will also cast throw a Concussion Charge at the location of a random player. Once the charge lands 2 or 3 seconds later, it will deal damage and knock back any players within its landing zone.
The zones can easily be identified, as they appear as red swirly circles. Players should ensure that they move from the zones to avoid the ability.

Activate MechMech JockeyMechanized PeacekeeperActivate Mech

This uninterruptible 5 second long cast will cause the Mech Jockey to go inside the Mechanized Peacekeeper and fight players. After the Mechanized Peacekeeper has died, the Mech Jockey will reappear.

Although this spell cannot be interrupted by kicks, it can be interrupted by crowd control spells such as stuns, displacements and hard crowd control effects such as polymorph. Players should use these to ensure that the Activate Mech cast does not go through!

Mechanized PeacekeeperMech JockeyEnergy ShieldMechanized Peacekeeper

The Mechanized Peacekeepers will channel Energy Shield. This creates a large shield that will block all incoming damage from that direction over the 6 second channel.
DPS players must move around the peacekeeper so that they can continue to damage it whilst the Energy Shield is active.

Charged Shield

The target of this spell doesn't need to do anything on standard mythic difficulty and below. However on high mythic keystone difficulties, they may wish to use the cast time to move away from the group so the damage can not bounce around.

Mechanized PeacekeeperTear Gas

Players should avoid standing within the orange Tear Gas clouds as much as possible.

Hired AssassinFan of Knives

This channeled AoE damage cannot be kicked, however it can be interrupted via stuns and other crowd control effects.

Hired Assassins will attempt to apply poisons to their blades with a Toxic Blades cast.
If this goes uninterrupted, all damage dealt by the Hired Assassins will apply a Widowmaker Toxin poison debuff, which deals ticking damage over 6 seconds.

The Widowmaker Toxin is also applied to players when Fan of Knives is cast, quickly dealing a huge amount of damage to the group.

To prevent this from happening, players must make sure they save an interrupt for the Toxic Blades cast.

Addled ThugClothesline

This is completely unavoidable. The group may wish to limit the amount of Addled Thugs they engage at any given time to keep stun up time to a minimum.

The thugs will also cast Inhale Vapors. This 2.5 second interruptible cast will buff the thug with an enrage, increasing their physical damage done by 50% for 15 seconds.
Inhale Vapors should be interrupted whenever possible. If the cast goes through, the thug in question should be quickly soothed to remove the enrage buff.

Coin-Operated Crowd Pummeler Abilities & StrategyCoin-Operated Crowd PummelerCoin-Operated Crowd PummelerFootbomb Launcher

Each footbomb will go off with a Timed Detonation after 15 seconds, dealing damage to the entire group and applying Blazing Azerite to the party, a 50% damage taken increase that lasts for 15 seconds.

To prevent the Timed Detonation, players can right click the footbombs to punt them forward. If they punt them into the boss, it will take the damage and gain the damage taken increase instead!

As soon as the footbombs spawn, the entire group wants to start punting them back at the Coin-Operated Crowd Pummeler whilst the tank keeps it still to help out with aiming!

Shocking Claw

The group should stay behind the boss at all times and as soon as the cast begins the tank should move around the boss to avoid getting hit by this ability.

Static Pulse

Although the damage from this ability is rather unremarkable, the group must exercise extreme caution if they have any stacks of Blazing Azerite at the time this is cast.

Heroic and MythicThrow Coins

The boss will cast Coin Magnet a few moments after the coins have spawned which will suck in and absorb any piles within 15 yards.

Each pile will grant the boss a stack of Pay to Win, increasing its damage dealt by 10%. This buff is permanent.

As soon as the Throw Coins piles spawn, the tank should move the boss at least 15 yards away from any coin piles. The quicker this is done the better, as the boss frequently stands still when casting its other abilities.

Drag the boss away from the piles of coins!

AzerokkNotable Trash MobsCoin-Operated Crowd PummelerAzerokkMining ChargeWanton SapperMining Charge

Players near to the Mining Charges need to simply move away from it before it explodes! Upon death several Mining Charges will be placed around the corpse of the sapper.

When the Sapper is brought to 10%, they will begin to cast Final Blast.
After this 4 second cast they will explode, dealing heavy fire damage to all players within 8 yards.

The fixated player should attempt to kite the sapper away from the group whilst everyone else moves away from the incoming damage of Final Blast!

Mine RatThrow RockVenture Co. Earthshaper

The Venture Co. Earthshapers will cast Earth Shield on a damaged ally a 4 second interruptible cast will apply a 10 second magic buff to the target.
This buff reduces the damage they take by 10% whilst causing the target to be healed for 10% of their maximum health whenever they receive damage.

This cast should be interrupted as a high priority, as it slows down the groups progress substantially. If the cast goes through, the target should have the buff purged from the as soon as possible.

Rock Lance

Although this cast is interruptible, the group should instead save their interrupts for the more irritating Earth Shield cast

Azerite ExtractorPower ThroughAzerite Extractor

The tank should ensure that the Azerite Extractor is faced away from the group during Power Through to keep incoming group damage to a minimum.

Furious QuakeFanatical DrillerGrease Gun

When fighting Fanatical Drillers, the tank should be aware that they will take slightly more physical damage than usual.

StonefuryFurious Quake

This cast should be interrupted as a high priority, as the damage it deals is high and the movement speed may make dodging other trash abilities more difficult.

Stonefury enemies will also cast Tectonic Barrier. This 2.5 second interruptible cast will apply a 12 second magic buff to the Stonefury, absorbing a set amount of incoming damage and making it immune to interrupts.
This buff is very dangerous, as it will prevent the group for interrupting the Furious Quake cast. Either interrupt the Tectonic Barrier or purge it after it has been applied.

Taskmaster AskariCoverShalebiterStonefuryShale Spit

Although the 2.5 second Shale Spit cast is interruptible, the group should save their interrupts for the Stonefury elementals instead, as their casts are far more powerful.

AzerokkTaskmaster AskariVenture Co. EarthshaperWanton Sapper

The tank also will want to drag away nearby trash mobs when the Taskmaster casts Cover.
This 6 second channel will redirect 50% of damage taken by nearby allies to the Taskmaster. This buff also reduces all damage taken by 75%.

Taskmaster Askari will stand still during this channel, allowing the tank to drag away the nearby trash with relative ease. You cannot interrupt the Cover channel by any means.

Taskmaster AskariDesperate Measures

During these last moments in the Taskmasters life, he will now longer cast Cover and will melee attack more frequently.

The tank should either use a damage reduction for this period, or simply kite the Taskmaster until the DPS kill him off.

Venture Co. EarthshaperWanton SapperTaskmaster AskariAzerokk Abilities & StrategyAzerokkEarthragerAzerokkEarthragerRaging Gaze

When the Earthrager reaches a player, it will melee swing them with each swing applying Jagged Cut, a stacking 10 sec physical damage dot.

Players need to kite the Earthragers to keep Jagged Cut stacks to a minimum.

Earthrager

We recommend that the group use these crowd control spells to keep the adds under control whilst they are being killed off.

Alternatively, the group can permanently crowd control the adds and focus on the boss instead.

However, the boss will occasionally buff an add with Azerite Infusion. freeing it from crowd control and increasing its damage taken by 150% and its damage done by 50%.

Any Azerite Infusion afflicted adds should be killed off as soon as possible as they cannot be crowd controlled again whilst the buff is active.

Interacting with a totem will give the player an extra action button that incapacitate the add for 1 minute. This effect brakes when the add takes any damage.

Call Earthrager

This add should be killed or crowd controlled as soon as possible, depending on your groups preferred strategy.

AzerokkResonant QuakeEarthragerResonant Aftershock

The adds must be kept under control to keep the Resonant Quake as meager as possible, either by crowd controlling all Earthragers or by simply killing them off.

Heroic and MythicAzerokkTectonic Smash

As this is initially faced towards the tank, the group should make sure they do not stand in front of the boss. The tank can move out of this cone, as the boss will not change the direction he is facing once the cast begins.

Rixxa Fluxflame Notable Trash MobsAzerokkRixxa FluxflameFeckless AssistantBlowtorch

This cast should be interrupted whenever possible. The tank should face the assistants away from the group at all times, just incase a Blowtorch cast goes through.

The Feckless Assistants will attempt to transform themselves with Transfiguration Serum. After a 5 second cast, the Feckless Assistant will transform into a Feckless Assistant.
This cast should be interrupted as a high priority, as the Feckless Assistants are dangerous enemies and will always spawn on full health.

Transfiguration SerumFeckless Assistant

They will Festering Bite a random nearby player, applying a 10 second disease dot. This cast is uninterruptible and the disease debuff should be dispelled if possible.

Force CannonWeapons TesterForce Cannon

After the 3 sec uninterruptible cast ends, all players within a 40 yard cone will take a burst of damage and be knocked back.
Players are able to side step around this Force Cannon cast, as the Weapon Tester will not change direction once the cast begins.

Players must be aware of their surroundings as they do not want to be knocked back into more trash packs!

Echo BladeWeapons Tester

This cannot be side stepped out of as the Weapons Tester will rotate to match the tanks movements. The tank should make sure that this is faced away so that they are the only player hit.

The healer should quickly dispel the silence applied by this ability, as it is a magic debuff. This will free up the tank and give them a greater chance of survival.

Venture Co. Alchemist

Caustic Compound is a 2.5 sec cast that will deal a burst of nature damage to a target and apply a 6 second magic dot on them.
The damage from this ability is rather low, so players should only interrupt it if nothing else is going on.

Mind LashTransmute: Enemy to Goo

This cast should be interrupted as a high priority. If the cast goes through you should dispel the afflicted player as soon as possible.

Leech GlobuleVenture Co. Mastermind

Mind Lash will deal high ticking damage to a randomly selected player over 6 seconds. The healer should spot heal this player to keep them healthy throughout the channel.

Azerite Injection will apply a magic buff to a trash mob. This buff heals them every 2 seconds and increases their damage dealt by 15%. Purge this buff whenever possible.

Leech Globule sends out a dark orb in a straight line. Players within 6 yards of the orb will take ticking damage as it passes. This damage heals the Mastermind. Avoid the orbs path as much as possible!

Test Subject

These rats only melee hit the tank, however they gain a stacking 20% physical damage increase every 2 seconds due to their Azerite-Enriched Blood passive.

The rats have low health, and will generally cleaved down before the damage increase matters.

On high mythic keystone difficulties, the group may need to focus on the Test Subjects to ensure the passive doesn't get out of control.

Rixxa Fluxflame Abilities & StrategyRixxa FluxflamePropellant BlastSearing Reagent

Rixxa must be within melee range to hit the tank with this spell and can therefore be positioned like any other enemy.

Chemical Burn

This debuff deals moderate ticking damage. The healer should dispel one player whilst healing the other.

Ranged players should stand towards the edges of the room to place the patches of Azerite Catalyst away from the group and high traffic areas.

As the ability has a short cast time, it is unlikely melee players will be able to move quick enough to place their patches towards the edges of the platform.

Propellant Blast

This propellant deals damage to that player and pushes them away. This also pushes the Azerite Catalyst patches away.

Players should position themselves so that Propellant Blast will hit a large amount of Azerite Catalyst patches, as to push them off the platform and remove them from the encounter.

The areas in which the Azerite Catalyst will land is clearly marked by swirly circles. Players need to identify these areas and quickly move out of the way and avoid the incoming damage.

The group will now have a larger amount of Azerite Catalyst on the platform. Using the Propellant Blast efficiently on heroic is a much more important part of the fight because of this.

Mogul Razdunk Notable Trash MobsRixxa FluxflameMogul RazdunkCrawler Mine

Moving close to these Crawler Mines will cause them to activate, popping out of the ground before fixating on a random player with Seek & Destroy!

If they reach their target, they will explode, dealing significant damage to all players nearby and applying an 8 second damage over time debuff.

The group should avoid triggering as many Crawler Mines as possible. Whenever the group has to trigger a mine, it should be bursted down before it has a chance to explode.


The Crawler Mine in its deactivated state.	The Crawler Mine in its activated state,

Artillery BarrageOrdnance SpecialistArtillery Barrage

After a moment these locations will be hit by artillery, dealing damage and applying a 6 second fire damage dot to all players within the zone.

This cast should be interrupted whenever possible. If the cast goes through, the group must move out of the artillery zones in order to survive.

Venture Co. SkyscorcherBuster Shot

Concussion Charge is an interruptible cast which will mark the location underneath a random player. The add will throw a grenade at that location once the cast ends.
This deals moderate fire damage and knocks back anyone within its 4 yard landing zone. Players should either interrupt the casts, or simply move from the landing zones.

Azerite Heartseeker

The first person to be hit by the projectile will absorb it, taking a burst of physical damage and receiving a 33% healing reduction debuff for 8 seconds.

This generally doesn't need to be soaked by the tank. However, if the target is already on low health, or if the instance is on high mythic keystone difficulties, the tank may need to step into the beam and take the hit.

Azerite HeartseekerVenture Co. War MachineCharged Shot

The tank should aim to have active mitigation or a damage reduction cooldown available for each Charged Shot, especially if the group is engaging other enemies at the same time.

Expert TechnicianVenture Co. War Machine

The Expert Technicians have a 3 second interruptible cast: Overcharge. This buffs a war machine, increasing its haste by 60% for 15 seconds.
This cast should be interrupted when possible. If the cast goes through, the Overcharge buff on the Exploding Rocket should be purged as soon as possible.

RepairRepairVenture Co. War Machine

Neither the cast or the channel is interruptible via kicks. Instead the group must use crowd control abilities to cancel the ability, such as stuns or hard crowd control effects.

Mogul Razdunk Abilities & StrategyMogul RazdunkGatling GunHoming MissileRixxa FluxflameMogul RazdunkAlpha Cannon

Mogul Razdunk will need to be within melee range to cast this, and can therefor be positioned like any normal enemy.

Mogul Razdunk

The boss will send out a Homing Missile which will fixate and chase a random non-tank player, prioritising ranged players. The rocket gains speed over time.

Upon reaching the target, or after 10 seconds, the missile explodes. This deals a burst of damage and applies a 6 second fire damage dot to all players within 20 yards of the missile.

The fixated target should kite the Homing Missile away from the rest of the group. The rocket will only explode upon reaching the player, it will harmlessly pass through non-fixated targets.

It is unlikely that the player will be able to avoid the rocket which fixates them, so they should just take the hit when they are sure nobody else will be within the 20 yard explosion range.

Gatling GunGatling Gun

Players should quickly identify which direction Razdunk is facing so that they can avoid this Gatling Gun by moving around the boss.

The Gatling Gun cast will end once the boss has turned a full 360 degrees.

Configuration: Drill

Players should ensure that they move from these locations to avoid taking this damage.

As soon as the Big Red Rockets have landed, players should stand near them to bait the incoming Drill Smash

Drill SmashDrill Smash

This will mark a player with a little red arrow, and at the end of the cast the boss will fly above the players location and slam into the ground.

This deals a burst of damage to all players within 8 yards, whilst also dealing half that amount to players who are beyond 8 yards away. If the boss hits a Big Red Rocket, he will lose a stack of Configuration: Drill.

The player targeted by the Drill Smash should move within 8 yards of a Big Red Rocket to remove the Configuration: Drill stacks. After losing 3 stacks he will return to phase one.

Venture Co. Skyscorcher

These adds are identical to the trash enemies encountered before this boss. They cannot be moved by players, instead moving when they like by using their Jump Jets to move near to a randomly selected player.

The adds do not melee hit, instead choosing to attack the highest threat player from afar with their Buster Shot. The tank should aim to maintain threat on all adds whilst the DPS nuke them down.

Venture Co. Skyscorcher

Azerite HeartseekerAzerite Heartseeker

The first person to be hit by the projectile will absorb it, taking a burst of physical damage and receiving a 33% healing reduction debuff for 8 seconds.

Micro MissilesVenture Co. SkyscorcherMogul RazdunkMicro Missiles

This will coat a large amount of the encounter space in small red swirly circles. These circles will each be hit by a missile, dealing damage to all players within the zone.

Players need to be attentive and dodge the incoming Micro Missiles. Players can look up at the B.O.O.M.B.A adds and track their casts so that they will be ready to move once the cast completes!

Mythic+ Dungeon Advice

Blood DKFrost DKUnholy DK

Havoc DHVengeance DH

Guardian DruidFeral DruidBalance DruidRestoration Druid

Augmentation EvokerDevastation EvokerPreservation Evoker

BM HunterMM HunterSurvival Hunter

Arcane MageFire MageFrost Mage

Brewmaster MonkMistweaver MonkWindwalker Monk

Holy PaladinProtection PaladinRetribution Paladin

Discipline PriestHoly PriestShadow Priest

Assassination RogueOutlaw RogueSubtlety Rogue

Elemental ShamanEnhancement ShamanRestoration Shaman

Affliction WarlockDemonology WarlockDestruction Warlock

Arms WarriorFury WarriorProtection Warrior

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Comments

Comment by Hirotoro

Some of the ability links point to the wrong thing, but it's pretty obvious what they're meant to be referring to. Also, in my last run I noticed that the technicians repair and overcharge casts can indeed be interrupted, so this has changed since the guide was written.

Comment by pikapril25

All underlined should be "Grotesque Experiment."

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