Quick Tips for Melee DPS in Hellfire Citadel

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Hellfire CitadelhereHellfire Citadel Hellfire AssaultDetailed guideKey Mechanics

Interrupt Contracted Engineer's Shock Pulse when possible. Grips, interrupts and aoe stuns are useful on these adds.

Kill adds in the following priority: Gorebound Terror>Hulking Berserker>Contracted Engineer.

Kill Felfire-Imbued Siege Vehicles before they start damaging friendly cannons.

Do not stand in front of or on the sides of Felfire Crushers.

Do not stand in front of Felfire Flamebelchers

Do not stand in Artillery Blast while Felfire Artillery vehicles are out.

Iron Reaver Detailed guideKey MechanicsPhase 1

Spread as much as you can around the boss for Unstable Orb.

Watch out for Immolation patches of fire on the ground.

Do not stand in front of the boss when she does Barrage or Blitz.

If you are low on HP, use a personal defensive cooldown or healing tonic during Pounding.

Phase 2

Do not stand in Fuel Streaks, they will become lit up with fire.

If you are targeted with Artillery, get 40 yards from other players.

Stay away from Artillery targets.

Kill Firebombs.

Do not stand in Falling Slam, a large circle graphic indicating where the boss will be landing.

Kormrok Detailed guideKey Mechanics

Stand in Explosive Runes until they disappear. If they are empowered, another rune will spawn in front of you. “Herd” them ontop of eachother by moving toward an assigned marker. Once they all reach this central marker they will stop spawning.

Avoid Fel Outpouring, a wave that moves out from the purple pool. If Fel Outpouring is empowered, waves will spawn from all 3 pools.

Loosely stack for Grasping Hands. If they are empowered they will be drawn toward the green pool.

Break out the tanks when they are affected by Grasping Hands. One will be targeted shortly after the raid is put in Grasping Hands.

Move 40 yards from tanks when they grow in size indicating they have been targeted by Explosive Burst.

Environmental Hazards:

Spread out during Pound.

Avoid the purple slime waves.

Gorefiend Detailed guideKey Mechanics

Run to the edges of the room if you are affected by Touch of Doom. This debuff will drop a pool at your feet when it expires.

Run towards the rooted target if you get Shared Fate. A line will form between you and them. If you are rooted, you must wait for the other Shared Fate targets to stack on you for this debuff to be removed.

If you die or are targeted by Shadow of Death, you will be transported to another realm. In this realm it is important to kill as many adds as possible before your debuff expires. Do not stand in front of Enraged Spirits in this realm. Exit the room by running to the middle before your debuff expires or you will die permanently.

Adds that reach the center of the other realm will be ported back to the bosses main room. Their remaining health pool is determined by how much they were damaged by players who were transported to the other realm.

Focus and interrupt Gorebound Spirits.

Save offensive cooldowns for Feast of Souls. Gorefiend takes an additional 100% damage in this phase. This phase lasts up to 1 minute and phase occurs 2 minutes into the fight then 2 minutes after the last phase has ended. (usually at 2 minutes and 5 minutes).

Environmental Hazards:

Avoid purple pools.

Hellfire High Council Detailed guideKey MechanicsGurtogg Bloodboil

If you are targeted by Fel Rage, Bloodboil will start attacking you. Remain still. You will get both a damage buff and a buff to your defensive capabilities. This is a good time to use offensive cooldowns.

At 30% Bloodboil will reach his Final Hour. Save offensive cooldowns for this phase as he applies a stacking debuff that reduces the raids maximum health pool.

Blademaster Jubei'thos

Do not stand near the arrow coming out from the boss. He will hurl his weapon which will damage you on the way out and as it comes back to the boss.

Use a defensive personal cooldown or healing tonic if you are low on hp during Felstorm.

The boss will split into copies of himself. Each copy will do the same mechanics as the main boss.

At 30% Blademaster enters his Final Hour. Use offensive cooldowns as Blademaster's copies will deal increasing raid damage. This effect continues after his death.

Dia Darkwhisper

Do not stand in the path of Wailing Horrors.

If you have Mark of the Necromancer, you will drop a pool on the ground during Reap. Move out of the group until a pool drops under your feet.

At 30% Darkwhisper will reach her Final Hour. She will apply the debuff Mark of the Necromancer but will no longer do Reap. It is important to finish killing her quickly before your raid is overrun by the mark.

Kilrogg Deadeye Key Mechanics

Kill and interrupt Hulking Terrors.

Do not stand in front of Hulking Terrors.

If you are chosen to soak Visions of Death, stand in a green rune the boss spawns in front of him. You will be transported to another realm where you will have to kill adds. If you die in this realm you will be transported, alive, back to the main boss room. Save cooldowns for when you come back to the boss room as you will have an increased damage buff.

Shadow-Lord Iskar Key Mechanics

Run out to a designated area when targeted by Fel Chakram.

During add phases kill adds in the following priority: Fel Raven>Fel Warden>Corrupted Priest of Terokk>Illusionary Outcast

Stand in the line of fire of Focused Blast to split the damage it deals with other raid members.

If you have the Eye of Anzu, pass it to players affected by Phantasmal Winds. If there are no Phantasmal Winds, it may be a safe option to throw it to a tank or healer.

Using an addon like Iskar Assist can make this fight much easier to deal with.

Socrethar the Eternal Detailed guideKey Mechanics

In phase one, you may be assigned to help your tanks soak Reverberating Blow. If you are, stand in front of the boss until you gain the debuff Shattered Defenses. Do not soak again until your debuff has dropped.

Do not stand in the radius of Fel Prison, a large green circle placed on the ground.

Do not stand in front of the boss when he does Felblaze Charge.

Do not stand in fire left by Felblaze Charge.

Once the construct is killed, Socrethar will enter the fight.

Be sure to interrupt Exert Dominance.

Kill Sargerei Dominators as quickly as possible.

If you have the debuff Ghastly Fixation, do not let the Haunting Spirit reach you.

Tyrant Velhari Detailed guideKey MechanicsPhase 1 – Oppression

Stay stationary when possible. Moving will cause you to suffer shadow damage.

Move out of the group when targeted by Annihilating Strike to avoid hitting the raid with her frontal cleave.

Move out of Searing Blaze, a small red reticle on the ground.

Kill Ancient Enforcers

Phase 2 – Contempt

You may move freely again.

Move to an assigned spot with Font of Corruption. If a safe place is not designated, make sure you are out of the group as you will pulse damage in a 5 yard radius.

Kill and interrupt Ancient Harbinger.

Phase 3 – Malice

Kill Ancient Sovereign as quickly as possible. This add will shield Tyrant Velhari.

When not shielded, Tyrant Velhari takes additional damage during this stage.

Keep moving as the boss will spawn pools, which at the moment are very hard to see, under the raids feet.

Fel Lord Zakuun Detailed guideKey Mechanics

Stop Wake of Destruction from hitting any Fel Crystals. Wake of Destruction are waves that spawn out from the boss, a debuffed tank, or targets with Seed of Destruction.

If assigned to, soak Rumbling Fissures. Rumbling Fissures appear as green swirls on the floor.

If you have soaked Rumbling Fissures or Wake of Destruction, you will gain the debuff Latent Energy. Be sure to not get hit by Wake of Destruction or soak a Rumbling Fissure while you have this debuff.

If you are targeted by Seed of Destruction, run to the edges of the room away from other players affected by Seed of Destruction.

Xhul'horac Detailed guideKey Mechanics

“Mixing” Fel and Void causes Shadowfel Annihilation which damages the entire raid. If you take fire damage you will become Fel Touched. do not take shadow damage while this debuff is active. If you take shadow damage you will become Void Touched, do not take fire damage while this debuff is active.

You will take fire damage if you stand in felfire.

You will take shadow damage if you stand in Creeping Void or stand in a Black Hole.

Save offensive cooldowns for 30%. The boss will start switching between Fel and Void phases.

Fel Phase

If you are targeted with Chaotic Felblaze, run to the edge of the room (away from any purple fire).

Interrupt Wild Pyromaniacs when possible to decrease the spread of felfire.

Kill Vanguard Akkelion and cleave down Wild Pyromaniacs.

Void Phase

Soak Black Holes if you are assigned to.

Kill Omnus and continue cleaving down any Wild Pyromaniacs in melee range.

Environmental Hazards:

Avoid green and purple patches on the ground.

Avoid green orbs unless you're assigned to intercept them.

Avoid purple swirls.

Mannoroth Detailed guideKey MechanicsMannorothPhase 1: Add phase

Kill Fel Iron Summoners.

Kill and interrupt Doom Lords

Kill Fel Imps. Interrupt them when possible.

Stay away from Dread Infernals as they pulse damage. Green swirls on the ground will indicate where they will jump to periodically.

Phase 2: Resurrection

Continue killing Fel Imps. There are no longer Doom Lords.

Run from Felseeker, a large green circle on the ground that grows three times before dissipating.

Split damage with targets of Mannoroth's Gaze. This will require you to follow the feared target.

Phase 3 – Same phase 2, plus a spell, Shadowforce, that repels random targets away from Mannoroth.

There are no longer Fel Imps spawning.

Continue running from Felseeker and soaking Mannoroth's Gaze.

If you are targeted by Shadowforce, you will be pushed off the platform. Be careful not to stand near the edges of the room. If done properly, you can outrun this debuff without a speed increase.

Phase 4: EMPOWERMENT!

Continue running from Felseeker.

Mannoroth's Gaze will now drop a pool that slows when its duration has expired.

The whole raid will be targeted by Shadowforce. Handle this mechanic the same as in Stage Three.

Mannoroth will send waves from his front half. These waves will likely kill you and come out from the front half of his hitbox.

Environmental Hazards

Infernals and their pulsing AoE.

Felseeker concentric, consecutive green telegraphs that you should be out of before they land.

Avoid the dark black circles that telegraph Fel Hellstorm.

Archimonde Detailed guideKey MechanicsPhase 1: The Defiler

Kill off Doomfire Spirits as top priority.

Kill Hellfire Deathcallers if there is no Doomfire Spirit up.

Phase 2: Hand of the Legion

Continue to deal with Phase One mechanics.

If you are affected by Shackled Torment move out 30 yards from your current location. Try not to do this at the same time as another raid member as you will deal damage to the raid upon breaking your shackle.

Move out of the group with Wrought Chaos or Focused Chaos.

Kill and interrupt Felborne Overfiend.

When the Felborne Overfiend is dead, kill Dreadstalkers.

Archimonde will no longer use Death Brand or summon Overfiends.

Continue dealing with all previous mechanics.

If assigned to do so, stand ontop of the tank during Nether Banish. When the tanks debuff expires you will be transported to the Twisting Nether.

If you are targeted by the Void Star in the Twisting Nether, do not let it hit you.

Kill the Shadowed Netherwalker to be transported back to the bosses room.

If you are not transported to the Twisting Nether, Kill Living Shadow. Do not let them hit their target.

You must also single target focus Infernal Doombringers if you remain in the bosses room.

Environmental Hazards:

Doomfire.

Quick Tips for Melee DPS in Hellfire Citadel

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