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Comment by Vintus

The gist of this fight is to swap from melee range to...ranged range, then back again every once in a while.

If you are in melee range, he will melee you. If you are at ranged, he will fire rockets randomly about the room. The longer he is in either one, the faster and stronger his attacks will be - he'll get a stacking buff to show this. At about 15 stacks this will start to get overwhelming for most classes. To clear his stacks you have to switch your range so he changes his mode. When he switches he does a burst for what seemed to be about 40k health.

If you're a melee class, you can stun him or use speed boosts to get far away enough for him to swap to ranged mode.

If you decide to do it entirely ranged or entirely melee, you have to eat two of those bursts consecutively as he will switch modes twice in a row and thus do the burst twice in a row. If you can mitigate/immune the damage and/or heal it up, great! If you're a rogue like me, you'll have to swap to Shuriken Toss and then stay at ranged while you recuperate before walking back in and eating the AoE.

Comment by Umbranox

The short version tactics of the fight:
Boss has 2 modes melee and ranged. He will enter each mode depending on where you are positioned (he can still be dpsed as he switches). The longer he stays in each mode however the more damage he does (stacking buff which gets dangerous at around 15 stacks). This means that during the fight you will need to move and force him to change modes and reset his stacks.

Managed to do this as 509 Frost DK with not too much trouble. Here is how I did it, shouldn't be much different to other melee classes.

Frost DK/Melee Tactics:
Start off I pop army as soon as I enter the arena, pop potion straight after or 1:56 on dbm timers if you dont have army.

Nuke the boss until he gets close to 15 stacks, at this point he will start to really hurt. As a melee you will need to slow or stun in order to move out and force him into his ranged mode.
He will do alot of damage as he transitions so if your ghoul is still up, death pact or anti magic shell.

As soon as he enters ranged mode run back into melee while trying to avoid his attacks on the ground (try to howling blast to minimize downtime). He will switch back into melee mode again and start stacking.

Rinse and repeat. When he gets low you will have to make a call whether to run out when his stacks get high or nuke through it and pray you can kill him before he kills you. Good luck! :)

Comment by wowSaeth

Hunter tips!

BM spec with spirit beast to help with , and be sure to activate .
Talents:
: this allows you to use Deterrence more often. Almost required to mitigate Electric Shock.
helped me better than the rest, but maybe Exhilaration works as well.
Use Disengage to change to ranged phase. Electric Shock might not work right away if you try to move away running.
Pet issues: although my pet had Growl disabled, it constantly had the lead on aggro on the melee phase (maybe due to ). This, however, is how I was able to survive the melee phases. Charred Glyph and Charred Glyph would keep the pet alive, and when it was about to die, I used Distracting Shot to delay changing phase a bit more.
I changed from melee to ranged phase with ~18 stacks and from ranged to melee with 10 stacks.

And remember, if you were able to kill Battletron, this guy is piece of cake!

Edit: I modified the Deterrence part, we no longer have Readiness. :'(

Comment by croana

It's worth noting that the damage from this boss is pretty minimal, even at 20 stacks. If you can self heal, there is no reason to mess around with changing between ranged and melee mode.

A DK's best bet is to do this in blood spec wearing dps gear. I barely had to heal myself, and just focused on doing more than 100k dps.

Edit: Seriously with the downvotes? Obviously if you're wearing non-plate gear or can't cast absorb bubbles on yourself, you're going to run into healing problems. There are plenty of people doing these bosses while in a tank spec. This comment was meant for them.

Comment by GoRozZo

Tactic is easy: waiting for 10 stacks and run out from melee to range (or on the contrary), waiting for cast and return to the 1st position. Killed by Rogue, video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fRvqE3zzHg

Comment by Dayis

------Elemental Shaman Guide------

This fight is a little harder than tyson, but still fairly easy. He accrues stacks with every cast(Interruptable) or melee attack. At 8 stacks I would move out or in, depending. You don't want him to 'alternate' more than 3 times, as that's too much time spent healing and not enough time spent dpsing.

Whenever I moved into melee I would drop my capacitor at 8 stacks, which meant at 10-12 he would be stunned for 5 secs, so I could let him get up to what would have otherwise been 15-17(A one shot-ish). Once capacitor is about to tick off, I thunderstorm'd him away from me, popped ascendence and blew him up to about 10%. Ran back in, popped ancestral guidance(Free heals lmaoz) and standard rotation'd him down.

Good luck, and may the sovereign wisdom of the earthmother guide you to victory!

Comment by 1135605

Completed as i502 Frost DK, although I do have T15 2 piece (LFR)

A few things to keep in mind:

1. Pop AMS, IBF, or AMZ BEFORE rooting the boss with Chains of Ice, this way you won't be scrambling to use defensive cooldowns and maintain dps during transition
2. All you need to do is get ~10 yards away from boss, so just CoI, jump away, then jump back - you'll force transition with minimal DPS time lost
3. Pre-pot, then don't forget your second potion, second Pillar of Ice, and keeping Blood Plague on the boss

Bring health stones to heal if necessary, or use 2nd pot to heal (use health potion, which is 2x more effective than brawler version).

This one is such a breeze after Hexos...

Comment by maxchum

Thanks for info about blood dk with full dps gear ilvl530, did it on a first try, never had to reset stacks. Just froze him twice and were able to finish it right on berserk with 99k dps.
Still high on adrenaline after hexos, everything is so easy now :D

Comment by Dramfiolz

No trouble here on my enhancement shaman. Hold Ascendance for when you have to move out of melee range, and you can keep up the damage on him.

Comment by 806894

Just did this guy at 516 as a Fury Warrior.

Had to pre-pot and pot again in fight with STR, use a Winter's Bite flask, and have a couple of the group buffs to do this in time but it worked.

I found that depending on what abilities proc off of the initial attacks, you can hit Die By The Sword to get some more uptime on the boss even at >12 stacks. You'll want to be off the guy by 15-20 stacks as more than 5-10 seconds of this will probably kill you.

The biggest help of all things I found here was that he is Snarable so make sure to hit him with that and run away. He'll do his 80K hit for being out of range, then another 80K hit once he's completed switching modes so healing or Second Wind is very helpful.

I found that to fight him right to the enrage timer, you'll probably have to do 3 stack swaps or maybe 4. I probably lost a couple seconds each time as I let his cast bar fill to do a full ability change before Charging back in (was never sure if it'd drop and continue building melee stacks).

By the second set of melee buffs (or right into the third), your 1m cooldowns and pot should be ready. Toward the end, depending on how Raging Blow and Wild Strike want to activate for you, you can unload those and build up some rage.

If you're starved for time, of course doing Colossus Smash and Execute (or that and pot) combined will help make that last 20% go down a little faster..

Comment by rocneasta

As a warrior remember to do
Storm bolt, charge after heroic leap, if you are tauren do war stomp - die by the sword, rallying cry, demoralizing banner, shield wall and have second wind...

Only switched from melee to ranged once, kept him as much as possible stunned and bursted until I did everything to keep myself alive.

If needed pop a potion and you're done.

GL!

Comment by Shadowwhelp

For rogues that just ain't tough enough and end up dying:

Use Leeching Poison, Charred Glyph and, of all things, Dirty Tricks! You know, that useless talent that was only meant for PvP? Gouge him at 10 stacks and run away, prepping Feint or Cloak for the burst of lightning, then immediately get back to smacking him. Just don't stun him when he's charging his ranged mode, and make sure Feint's up for his second stun.

Comment by Silvansaria

For this fight - here's what I did:

I misdirected to my pet who had GROWL on and I dps'ed him to death. I didn't really move, I never did any real melee damage, and I didn't break a sweat.

Attack.
DPS.
He died.

The end.

NEXT!

Comment by MardekaiTV

Here is my videoguide for this boss by shadowpriest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_NAxoBBHZU

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