Garrosh Hellscream 10 H

MoP Ends With a Bang!

Quick Facts

Introduction

Garrosh is by far the biggest challenge in Classic WoW so far. Back then, Paragon needed 600 attempts in 10-man, including a switch to solo-healing. The 25-man raid can really show its full strength here thanks to the many off-cooldowns, and can also plan for an extra tank whose sole purpose is to kite adds indefinitely so you don’t have to worry about them.

The fight is very long and has many phases with different abilities that test various disciplines. Solo-healing is indeed an option, and not just for Paragon, but it’s not recommended for your first attempts.

Garrosh's 227 million HP may not seem like much, but he heals himself several times, which ultimately results in 1.35 billion damage to Garrosh alone! The fight is straightforward to practice, as there is hardly any randomness involved, much like with the Klaxxi. Compared to Normal Mode mode, the transition phases occur in a fixed order.
During these transitions, Garrosh builds up energy. You must absolutely complete the first transition before he reaches 25 energy. His abilities get empowered based on his energy level, which is something you want to delay.

A Druid is invaluable because of Stampeding Roar and classes with AoE stuns and silences are also well-suited for this fight.

In Phase 1, you'll face adds and Iron Stars. Except for the thrown weapons, the other abilities and adds are exclusive to Phase 1.

Ability: Desecrate

Every 40 s | Void onto Ranged Players

Via Desecrate, Garrosh throws a weapon at a ranged player; it gets stuck in the ground and creates a void with a radius of about 20 yards around it.
As long as at least three players are at a distance, Garrosh will always throw his weapon at one of these players. Upon impact, the weapon deals 200 k damage and then deals the same amount of damage every second via Desecrated.

The weapon can be destroyed; it has approximately 8 million HP. The fewer health points it has, the smaller the void becomes.
This ability will be used several times during the fight. You will place the first void in the camp and destroy it immediately. You will place the others outside and slowly destroy them with DoTs so that they free up the space they are occupying.

Ability: Hellscream's Warsong

Every 42 s | Add Buff

Garrosh casts his Warsong only in Phase 1. This significantly buffs active adds. They then deal 150 % more damage and have 150 % more health (similar to a Warrior’s Rallying Cry). He casts it for the first time about 22 seconds into the fight.

Add: Kor'kron Warbringers

9,41 Mio. HP | Every 45 s

Six of these adds appear right at the start of the fight and then approximately every 45 seconds. You will face a total of two waves. They lock onto random players and switch targets every few seconds. They seem to focus on players in their vicinity. When empowered by the Warsong, they deal approximately 300 k damage and should be kited and killed in a controlled manner. Without the Warsong, they pose barely a threat.
They also use Hamstring, which slows you down by 50 %.

Add: Farseer Wolf Rider

20,9 Mio. HP | Every 50 s

The Farseer Wolf Rider has two abilities: Ancestral Chain Heal and Chain Lightning.
The Chain Heal heals multiple enemies for 60 % of their HP and must never be allowed to go through. The same goes for Chain Lightning, which otherwise deals 450 k damage to multiple targets. For every spell interrupted, the Farseer gains 25 % cast speed. So he must not be allowed to live too long, otherwise you’ll have trouble interrupting him or may even have to let a Chain Lightning go through so you can still interrupt the healing.
He must be tanked, but deals negligible damage.

Add: Siege Engineer

3,08 Mio. HP | Every 45 s | Activating Iron Stars

A Siege Engineer appears in the east and west of the boss room and channels an activation spell on one Iron Star each for 10 seconds. If the Engineers are not killed before the channelling ends, the respective Star is activated and rolls once across the arena. It likely kills any players in its path and crashes into the opposite wall. Through Exploding Iron Star they then deal 3.5 million damage raid-wide, though this damage decreases drastically with increasing distance from the point of impact. If you stand in the centre of the room, the explosion will deal just under 600 k damage to you. The rolling Stars each cover only half of the room, so you can dodge them.

Once the Engineers activate their Star, they no longer need to be killed and will disappear.

Position yourselves as shown in the following sketch.

Tank Garrosh roughly in the middle of the room. Right at the start of the fight, he’ll summon six Warbringers, which you’ll kill very quickly using your cooldowns and trinkets. You don’t need to be cautious here yet, and you can tank them when they lock onto you.
Group up directly behind Garrosh so that his thrown weapon lands on you, and gets killed by your cleave damage along with the adds. A Priest with Spirit Shell or a Paladin with pre-stacked Mastery are very well-suited for absorbing the incoming damage from the void and the adds.
It is important that the adds die before Garrosh casts Hellscream's Warsong.

The upcoming Siege Engineer can be taken down by a Warlock alone if they prepare accordingly. To do this, they must deal approximately 3 million damage in 10 seconds.
If you stand with your back to Garrosh’s throne as shown in the sketch above, you’ll kill the left Engineer both times. Place a Demonic Gateway in the direction of the Engineer for the outbound trip and a Warlock Portal for the return trip.
At the same time the Iron Star on your right, where you let the Engineer live, starts moving and a Farseer Wolf Rider will come running from the left. Make sure no one gets too close to him (especially the Warlock who just killed his Engineer and is running back to camp). If you pull aggro on him beforehand, he’ll stop and start casting. The Farseer Wolf Rider will run into the rolling Iron Star and lose 50 % of his HP, which saves you 10 million damage and a few interrupts. Interrupt all of his spells and focus on him. Normally, he only gets to cast twice.

Assign a cooldown for the Star's explosion. The explosion is also the cue for three of your ranged players to move towards the throne to place the next thrown weapon there. You don’t want it in the group this time. Passively destroy it with DoTs. At the same time the void appears, six new Warbringers join the fight, and new Siege Engineers also appear. Unfortunately, this time Garrosh casts his Warsong just a few seconds after the adds arrive, and you no longer have enough power to kill them beforehand. DPS must not let the adds hit them under any circumstances. You might be able to withstand one or two hits, but you’ll die if you simply tank them like in the previous wave.
Your goal is to briefly kite the adds and kill them with the help of the next Iron Star. To do this, you’ll need to work out a CC rotation. One option would be a kick into the Star’s path followed by a mass stun that ends in a root (like Frost Nova). In our kill video, that didn’t work. This shows it’s possible without it, but using the Star saves you a lot of damage from the adds. Before the next Farseer Wolf Rider appears, you should bring Garrosh down to 10 %, otherwise you’ll have to kill him as well. After that, the phase ends and all timers stop.
Use another healing cooldown for the upcoming explosion of the Star.

• 0:00 Six Warbringers spawn far out.
• 0:10 The Warbringers arrive in your group. Two seconds later, the weapon gets thrown inside you.
• 0:20 The Siege Engineers appear. Kill the western one (if you have the throne behind you, this is the left one).
• 0:22 Hellscream's Warsong is cast, but the adds should already be dead.
• 0:32 The Farseer Wolf Rider appears, and at the same time, the Iron Star sets off. Leave the Farseer Wolf Rider alone for now; he will then run through the Star and lose 50 % of his HP!
• 0:41 The Star explodes. Three ranged players head towards the throne to place the next Desecration (weapon) there.
• 0:52 The second Desecration is cast.
• 0:55 Six new Warbringers arrive at the camp.
• 1:04 The Warsong is cast, but the adds are far from dead. Don't let them hit you!
• 1:05 New Siege Engineers appear. Kill the one in the west again.
• 1:15 At this point, Garosh's health should be around 10 %, so that he triggers the next phase.
• 1:22 The Star rolls past the front of the camp. Either kick the adds in there or root them beforehand. If you haven't triggered Phase 2 yet, a Farseer Wolf Rider will appear. You should definitely avoid that.
• 1:26 The Star explodes.
• 1:45 After some role-playing and Garrosh's standard melee attacks on the tank, you're dragged into the transition phase.

Your strategy shouldn't differ much from the one above; otherwise, you'll run into problems later due to low damage or sloppy execution. This and all later phases are choreographed; each player can review them in detail beforehand and memorize them, so everyone knows exactly what to do and when.

You will be pulled into the Temple of the Jade Serpent and appear where the second last boss of the instance normally stands. Garrosh initially remains invulnerable in the final boss room and gains one energy point per second. Key objective of this phase: Garrosh must not exceed 24 energy, because once he reaches 25 energy, he gains the ability Empowered Whirling Corruption in the next phase, which would spell your doom.
To stop Garrosh from accumulating energy, you must kill all the adds, which are scattered throughout the temple in groups of three. After that, he becomes vulnerable and deals constant high AoE damage until the end of the phase. The phase lasts one minute. The adds are positioned as follows.

This phase required a lot of coordination on our part. Since you want to kill all the adds as quickly as possible so that Garrosh stops building up energy, you have to trust each other. There won’t be much time for spontaneous coordination. Use Stampeding Roar and Drums of Speed if you have a Leatherworker in the group (the effects stack!).

In our group, adds 1–3 and 4–6 were handled by the tanks and an additional DPS. The off-tank must taunt just before the transition to the Garrosh phase so that they have some vengeance.
The remaining ranged DPS can also cast a spell on the two camps as they pass by.
Adds 7-9 should go down very quickly, since there are seven of you there. After that, split up between the two remaining camps.
The adds are stationary and deal low melee damage. They also cast Embodied Doubt, which you must interrupt. It deals 150 k raid-wide damage and increases the damage from this ability by 75 % via a stackable debuff. You’ll be able to survive one or two spells getting through, but after that it becomes lethal very quickly. Ideally, no one should have to interrupt an add individually, as stuns and mass silences make this unnecessary. Nevertheless, assign each player an add to interrupt or re-stun in an emergency. Each of the adds has 3.08 million HP.

The dead adds spawn 2–3 small domes that land on the ground and can be triggered. If a player walks through a dome, it disappears and all players standing next to it receive the positive debuff Courage. This debuff reduces the damage you take by 50 % for the rest of the transition phase, which will become important shortly.
These domes cannot spawn from adds 1–6. In the worst-case scenario, only two domes appear in Camp 7–9 (in the hallway). However, since you need to move through the phase quickly, you can’t coordinate and wait until all players are standing next to a dome to get the debuff. Just chalk it up to bad luck; it happens very rarely.
The ideal scenario is for the domes to spawn only from the last two camps. Announce this in voice chat and just stand next to them for now. Once all the adds are dead, Garrosh will stop generating energy, pause briefly, and then unleash his first AoE strike. That is the moment when you run into the domes. You’re working together very well if Garrosh has less than 21 energy after the phase, meaning you’ve all killed the adds within 21 seconds.

Note that adds do not spawn domes if they were silenced before they died, so only use these effects on “fresh” adds.

For the rest of this phase, Garrosh will deal a massive amount of AoE damage with Annihilate. It is a cone-shaped attack that targets a random direction and is cast every 3.5 seconds. If you stand in it, you’ll take over a million damage. But even otherwise, the entire raid will inevitably take 700 k damage from it. That’s why it’s important that you’ve picked up the Courage debuff beforehand, so you can halve that 700 k damage.
If 1–3 players have not received the debuff, this is handable but requires close attention from the healers.

Tanks can repeatedly stand in the effect to gain a high amount of vengeance (650 k+).

After one minute (as indicated by the duration of your debuff), you will be pulled back into the previous room.

In this phase, Desecration (the thrown weapon) returns, along with three new abilities. It ends when the boss is at 10 % health. After 2:25 minutes, you’ll be pulled into the next transition phase. You can theoretically skip this if you bring Garrosh down to 10 % health before that. With enough gear, this is a realistic goal, but probably not on your first few kills.

Ability: Whirling Corruption

Every 50 s | AoE Damage

Whirling Corruption deals 160 k shadow damage to all players every half-second for 6 seconds. The farther away you are from it, the less damage you take.

Ability: Touch of Y'Shaarj

Every 45 s | Mind Control

Every 45 seconds, two players are mind controlled and must be brought down to 20 % HP to be freed. You shouldn’t have to target or interrupt the possessed players, as the active tank’s AoE abilities in particular will free them very quickly. Avoid applying strong DoTs, as these will not be removed once the players are friendly again.

Ability: Gripping Despair

Every 3,5 s | Tank Debuff

Gripping Despair stacks up relatively quickly on the tanks and deals 27,000 shadow damage per stack over 10 seconds (log-verified; Wowhead and the Compendium are incorrect with their 45,000, that appears to be the 25-man value). Taunts at 3 stacks.

During this phase, position yourselves as follows.

Immediately after the phase begins, pull Garrosh to the “MC Gathering Point.” It’s best to place a world marker there. For the first Whirling Corruption, pull Garrosh to the centre of the room so your ranged DPS can continue attacking and then pull him right back. You can find the exact sequence in the following plan.
It’s important that each weapon is placed outside next to the previous one, and that all players stand inside the boss during every Mind Control so the tanks can immediately get them out with their Revenge. To prevent the weapons from taking up too much space, you should apply DoTs to them in between.
After a few attempts, you should know whether you want to use cooldowns for Whirling Corruption or not, but the damage is manageable if the raid stays at a distance.

• 0:00 Immediately pull the boss to the MC Gathering Point. Three designated ranged players (ideally a Hunter with two healers) should move to the edge, as shown in the screenshot above, to bait the next weapon.
• 0:09 The weapon is thrown at the players. They then immediately run toward the boss.
• 0:14 Two players will be mind controlled. If any players are still standing outside, the DPS must target them immediately. After dealing with the targeted players, the boss is pulled to the centre of the room. The remaining players stay where they are. Melees who can withstand the Whirling Corruption even at close range (such as Rogues) can remain near him during his cast.
• 0:31 “Whirling Corruption” is cast. Afterwards, the boss is immediately pulled back to the MC Gathering Point. The three-person team moves to the edge of the first weapon to place the next one.
• 0:47 The next weapon is thrown. The three players run back to the boss.
• 1:00 Mind Control. After this, all ranged players move to the edge of the weapon to play the Whirling Corruption there.
• 1:22 Whirling Corruption.
• 1:29 Immediately after the Whirling Corruption, the weapon is thrown. All players run back to camp.
• 1:46 Mind Control. All ranged players then return to the edge of the weapon.
• 2:05 The weapon is thrown.
• 2:12 This time, players don't run towards the boss; instead, they move sideways to the edge of the weapon, since the boss immediately follows up with Whirling Corruption. Healers need to quickly heal the group back up, since running out of the weapon always deals some damage and the Whirling Corruption starts right after that.
• 2:25 Transition Phase 2 starts.

This sequence is the same for every fight. You’ll save yourself a few tries if every raider knows it ahead of time.

This phase plays out similarly to the previous transition phase. You can watch it starting at 5:22 in our kill video. This time, you’ll be running along a miniature version of the Terrace of Endless Spring. You start at Tsulong and run up the stairs to the Sha of Fear, where Garrosh is waiting for you again with his AoE attack after you’ve killed all the adds.
Along the way, 36 small Sha adds await you, which again drop domes/orbs upon their death. However, these are significantly smaller this time and only apply the Courage debuff to the player who runs through them. In this phase, it’s much easier to ensure that every player receives the debuff.

Use Stampeding Roar and Drums of Speed again and send your tank ahead. Run through. No one deals even a single point of damage except the tank, who pulls the small adds. As you move through the area, voids appear on the ground that deal 400,000 damage on contact and cause you to be feared away for three seconds. So use Tremor Totems and a Fear Ward on the tank, if available. If you have the Courage debuff, you are immune to the voids’ fear effect, but not to their damage.
Once you reach the top, pull all the adds together, stun them 2–3 times in a row, and blast them away. Use cooldowns on your tank; they will take a lot of damage. Make sure no player walks through more than one yellow orb. The effect is stackable, but you should prioritize ensuring every player gets an orb.
Once all the adds are dead, the voids disappear and Garrosh attacks you exactly as he did in the first phase.

If you were quick in Phase 1 (~21 energy) and Garrosh stays below 50 energy here, you won't face the Empowered Mind Control until Phase 3, rather than during the rest of Phase 2 when you're pulled back down. However, this is nowhere near as important as staying below 25 energy during the first transition phase.

You should now have Garrosh down to 30 % or lower. He will likely have more than 50 energy in your first few kills. This means that three of his abilities are now empowered: his Whirling Corruption, his Desecrate, and his Mind Control. First, pull him back to your usual Mind Control Gathering Spot and have the three players bait the first Empowered Weapon of the phase. With the Empowered Weapon, the only change is that you can no longer destroy it, and eventually you’ll run out of space because you can no longer reduce its size through damage. The three players must then immediately return to the boss, as the Empowered Mind Control is cast.

Ability: Touch of Y'Shaarj (Empowered)

Every 45 s | Mind Control

Players who are mint controlled from now on have approximately 4 million health points and will attempt to mind control other players using a spell (2.5-second cast time). This must be interrupted at all costs. Quickly coordinate who is responsible for which player. You must focus on them.

After the Mind Control, which you should deal with as quickly as possible, pull the boss to the centre of the room, just as you did at the start of Phase 2. The raid should spread out around the Mind Control Gathering Point, maintaining a distance of at least 8 yards to each other, so that healers can keep the entire raid within range. The first Empowered Whirling Corruption is about to begin.

Ability: Empowered Whirling Corruption

Every 50 s | AoE Damage | Adds

In addition to the already known whirling effect, another attack targeting 8 players is now added, which is cast at short intervals: Empowered Whirling Corruption. The player and all other players within an 8-yard radius take 450 k damage, and an add with 1.42 million HP appears. This add must be killed as quickly as possible and must not die within 8 yards of another add, otherwise Steel Corruption gets applied to it. This fully heals it, causes it to deal 500 % more damage, and grants it 200 % more HP. The add also applies this buff after successfully dealing melee damage ten times. This is likely intended to prevent a tank from grabbing the adds and you not killing them at all. That doesn’t stop 25-man raids from assigning a third tank just to gather the adds and kite them until the start of Phase 4, when they disappear. Unfortunately, you don’t have that luxury.

By default, the adds deal about 100 k damage every 1.5 seconds. Each player should kill the add that spawns on themthemselves if possible and then look to see where help is needed. Due to these circumstances, you can no longer group up for the Whirling Corruption; instead, you must spread out around the boss. Be sure to assign major healing cooldowns for that. The Tranquility of a Balance Druid is worth its weight in gold here.

Now the next weapon will get thrown, while the last few adds are likely still alive. But since you’re spread out, this shouldn’t be a problem. After that, deal with the Mind Controls and bring Garrosh down to 10 % before the next Empowered Whirling Corruption. If it does happen to come, you’ve got a problem, because that’s a sign you’re not dealing enough damage. According to the plan, you’ll only face two Empowered Whirling Corruption throughout the entire fight.
Once Garrosh is at 10 %, use Bloodlust and deal as much damage as possible, because you want Phase 3 to be as short as possible. The damage you deal to him during his transition to Phase 3 will remain in Phase 3, since he heals for a fixed 175 million HP and not by a specific percentage.

Garrosh mutates and now has 100 energy, regardless of how you performed in the previous phases. This means that the tank debuff is now also stronger. At the start of this phase, Garrosh is likely at around 25 %. This time, it’s not enough to bring him down to 10 %, instead, he won’t trigger Phase 4 until he’s at around 1.7 %. Garrosh deals massive damage to tanks in this phase; hits of 900 k before mitigation are nothing out of the ordinary. There’s no shame in tanks and healers needing a few attempts to adjust.

Ability: Empowered Gripping Despair

Every 3,5 s | Tank Debuff

The ability remains essentially the same (a stacking tank debuff that requires taunting), but now has an additional effect. Whenever the tank debuff expires, raid-wide shadow damage is dealt by Explosive Despair. The amount of damage depends on the number of stacks the ability had when it expired. If you have three stacks and the ability deals 3*27,000 = 81,000 damage, then the explosion upon expiration should also deal 81,000 damage. According to old logs, however, its damage is 67,500, which is inexplicable. The exact numbers are irrelevant, though, since you can’t do anything about it and must heal against it.

For each stack that expires, an additional debuff stack remains on all players that increases the damage of subsequent explosions by 30 % per stack. You can still taunt at 3 stacks each. It’s possible that the boss becomes taunt-immune during this phase; in that case, you’ll need to hold him a bit longer and inform the healers that the explosion will be more damaging.

If one tank dies here, the other tank (using cooldowns if necessary) can continue tanking alone for a very long time. Just be aware that when his debuff expires, the group will take a massive amount of damage due to the many stacks exploding at once.

💚 Attention, Healers! It's best to track your tanks' debuffs so you know when AoE damage will hit as the debuff expires. Note that during the transition to Phase 4, when no other damage is coming in, one more debuff will expire.

The following sequence begins with the first weapon in P3.

• 0:00 Garrosh is still standing in the middle and has just become active. Place the first weapon at the Mind Control Gathering Point, it’s no longer needed to keep it free from voids. Then run straight to the boss.
• 0:07 Mind Control. After that, pull Garrosh to the void-free side of the room before the next Whirling Corruption, to the opposite side of the Mind Control Gathering Point. The group stays in the centre.
• 0:23 Empowered Whirling Corruption.
• 0:34 The weapon gets thrown. However, you’ll still be dealing with your Corruption adds and will be standing away from the boss, so you won’t need to reposition yourself specifically for the weapon. Immediately after the weapon, run back to the boss to deal with the upcoming Mind Controls. You should have already killed your adds by this point.
• 0:43 Mind Control. After that, your team of three baits the next weapon. This time, they should move individually and not as a group, so only one person has to run out of the weapon.
• 1:02 Weapon.
• 1:13 Empowered Whirling Corruption. You should try to avoid getting this if possible. If you do, your tanks can kite the small Sha adds until the phase transition and your DPS can push the boss into the next phase. If you play this Whirling Corruption “correctly”, you’ll likely also get another Weapon or a Mind Control afterwards, and everything will be delayed significantly.

As soon as Garrosh starts his roleplay, you no longer need to deal damage. Save your trinket procs and use the following 30 seconds to catch your breath and prepare for the next phase.

In Phase 4, you will be teleported to Stormwind, and Garrosh will have reached his ultimate form. He retains his massive tank damage. This phase is only active in Heroic Mode. From your starting position, pull Garrosh to the right, towards the edge of the arena. Voids will soon appear there, at which point you should pull the boss to the other side of the arena.
Garrosh has healed himself up to 60 % HP (350 million) one last time and has completely new abilities. He gains one energy point per second by default. Mismanaging abilities adds more energy to him. At 100 energy, he casts “Manifest Rage” (see below).

Ability: Malice

Every 30 s | 14 Duration | Debuff

A random non-tank receives the Malice debuff for 14 seconds. A circle with a radius of approximately 10 yards appears around this player. Every two seconds, two random players within this circle take approximately 350 k damage from Malicious Blast. This explosion also functions as a three-second stackable debuff that increases the damage of the next ticks by a stackable 75 %. If fewer than two players take these ticks, the entire raid takes damage and Garrosh gains 5 energy. If no player other than the one affected by Malice is standing in the circle, the entire raid dies immediately.
To handle this ability, the player with the circle will not move, and all players will gather in the circle and stand at its edge. Players who get the Malicious Blast will immediately run out of the circle until their debuff expires and then re-enter it.

Immunities remove the debuff. However, while you have an immunity active, you do not count as a target!

Ability: Bombardement

Every 55 s | Voids

Garrosh will summon a large number of voids that explode after a short time, dealing approximately 350k  fire damage. During the Bombardment, “Clump Checks” are performed regularly to determine whether more than three players are standing within an 8-yard radius of each other. If this is the case, an Iron Star will appear. It deals heavy damage at its point of impact and, from that point on, locks onto the nearest player every ten seconds. If the star hits a player or Garrosh, it explodes for approx. 700 k damage and interrupts you for 8 seconds if you were about to cast a spell! If it hits Garrosh, it stuns him briefly and interrupts his spells.
The voids remain in place for some time.

Ability: Manifest Rage

At 100 Energy | Adds | Wipe

Garrosh will cast for two seconds and then begin a five-second channel. Once this channel is complete, the entire raid will die. During the channel, a massive number of adds will spawn that need to be tanked. To prevent this, you must create an Iron Star during the Bombardment and kite it until Garrosh has 100 energy. Ideally, the star will be pulled into Garrosh while the spell is still casting (i.e. before the channelling) and thus interrupt the entire ability. Garrosh will then drop back to 0 energy, and the process starts over. More on this in the walkthrough.

Your task during this phase is to continuously manage the Malice and, during each Bombardment, create an Iron Star to interrupt the next Manifest Rage. A Monk tank is best suited for kiting the Iron Star. Garrosh has no tank debuff in this phase and can be tanked by a single tank.
The following sequence begins with the casting of the first Malice after approximately 13 seconds into the phase.

• 0:00 Malice. You don't have anything else to do here yet, so you can take your time with it. Pull the boss to the right, to the edge of the arena. As a raid, you should always stay behind the boss, except during the brief moments when you switch sides of the arena due to the Bombardment.
• 0:31 Malice.
• 0:41 Bombardment. It may briefly overlap with the final ticks of the previous Malice. Have two players with cooldowns intercept the final ticks. Pull Garrosh to the other side of the arena to avoid the voids. Designate four players to create an Iron Star by standing together. The player affected by Malice, the two designated soakers, and one additional player are suitable for this. Immediately spread out again afterwards to prevent a second Star from appearing during the next Clump Check. Your Monk tank (or whoever is kiting) should position themselves next to the Star’s impact point and kite it across the arena. A large circle should suffice so that you arrive at the boss with good timing once he reaches 100 % energy.
• 1:01 Malice.
• 1:22 If you haven't made any mistakes and Garrosh hasn't gained 5 or more energy from Malice, the boss should reach 100 energy for the first time approximately 1:22 minutes after the first Malice and a total of 100 seconds after the phase begins. Kite the Star into him, preferably while he is still casting before the channeling begins. Have healer cooldowns ready for the impact. An Aura of Devotion prevents you from being unable to cast spells during the impact of the Iron Star.
• 1:32 Malice.
• 1:36 Bombardment. Here, Bombardment and Malice overlap significantly. This is the most critical part of the phase. Identify players who can intercept the final Malice ticks in succession. Players with immunities and major damage-reducing cooldowns like Dispersion are well-suited for this. Note that you should use the immunities only to remove the debuff and cancel them immediately afterwards; otherwise, you won’t count as an interceptor.
  Create another Star.
• 2:01 Malice.
• 2:17 Bombardment.

Following this sequence, the boss should die, so you probably won't need to let a second Star crash into Garrosh. The most critical part of this phase is when the Bombardment and the Malice run concurrently for a while.
Theoretically, you could also wait until the Bombardment at 2:17 to create a second Star, but then you won’t have one on hand if the boss gets some extra energy. He will then cast Manifest Rage before you can even create the second star.

Kill Video

This video is our first kill from March 31, 2014, as seen from our Brewmaster's perspective.

Class Tips: Rogue

As a Combat Rogue, it’s especially important to manage your cooldowns wisely, particularly in Phase 1. Adrenaline Rush is always paired with Shadow Blades. You’ll only target the Farseer directly; later, you’ll target the Empowered Mind Controls and your add during the Empowered Whirling Corruption. For the rest, Garrosh is your main target during Blade Flurry.
My sequence of abilities looks like this. It includes a few unusual choices, but the reason is that the cooldowns become available again faster, since otherwise, for example, Killing Spree isn’t always ready at the right moment. Assurance of Consequence is required as a trinket for this to work out.

Use Tricks of the Trade on the tank before the fight begins. Immediately after the start, use Shadowstep on Garrosh and Killing Spree (without Slice and Dice!). Then build up 4–5 combo points and activate Slice and Dice. The adds will spawn; use Blade Flurry + Adrenaline Rush to handle them.
Once the adds are dead, Killling Spree is ready again, just before the Iron Star rolls in from the right. Your tanks should position Garrosh so that you don’t have to dodge. Use Cloak of Shadows to immunize against the Star’s explosion. Then the Farseer will arrive. Focus on him, activate Blade Flurry, and interrupt your assigned spell.

Immediately after that, adds will spawn again and Adrenaline Rush will be ready once more. Activate Blade Flurry and use Killing Spree as soon as it’s ready, even if Adrenaline Rush and Shadow Blades are still active! Shortly before or after your Killing Spree, Garrosh will perform his Warsong and buff the adds. Keep an eye on them and activate Evasion. As a melee, it’s a dangerous place to be. Make sure no add attacks you from behind. Sometimes a knockback of one of your teammates goes wrong or an add chases the player killing the Engineer, so that adds might come back from diagonally behind.
Use Cloak of Shadows again during the Star's explosion. Garrosh should now be preparing for the first transition phase. Let the ranged DPS handle the remaining adds and use Blade Flurry if any are near the boss. Also use Preparation and Evasion again if necessary. Make sure to get Killing Spree ready again, as you’ll save that for the adds during the transition phase. It’s best to carry over a few combo points into the transition phase using Redirect and use them on an add in the hallway. Use Tricks of the Trade on one of the tanks. You’ll use Killing Spree on the group assigned to you in the back. During Garrosh’s AoE phase, you can use Cloak of Shadows at random to support your healers; then you’ll take no damage from either the direct AoE strike or the general AoE.

Phase 1 requires very precise execution of the sequence described above, and it will likely take a few attempts to optimize it. In the other phases, Garrosh is virtually the only target, and you should save either Killing Spree or Adrenaline Rush to kill your add during Empowered Whirling Corruption. If you ever forget this, keep at least 10 combo points ready-to-use with Redirect. From now on, you’ll use Cloak of Shadows to avoid taking damage during the Whirling Corruptions and to remove the Malice debuff in Phase 4. If you’re at the end of Phase 3 and Garrosh has already triggered Phase 4, only continue attacking Garrosh if Killing Spree or Adrenaline Rush wouldn’t be ready otherwise, so as not to trigger an unnecessary trinket proc.

If you happen to not receive a damage-reducing debuff during the transition phases, use Feint combined with Elusiveness.