Last night Blizzard had us testing the encounter just beyond Ignis and Razorscale, The XT-002 Deconstructor! The fight is pretty simple, he will cast two abilities on raid members - “Light Bomb” and “Gravity Bomb” both of which will require the person to run away from the raid. Light Bomb will hit everyone for 2500 damage every second, and Gravity Bomb will detonate after 9 seconds, causing ~20k damage. XT-002 will also cast Tympanic Tantrum, an earthquake like effect that deals damage equal to 10% of your health every second for 12 seconds, everyone in the raid will need a heal in order to survive. Every 25%, the XT-002 will spawn three different types of adds - Scrapbots, Boombots and Pummeler. The Pummelers just need to be offtanked, they don’t hit very hard, but they do cleave, the Scrapbots will heal the boss if they reach him, and the Boombots…go boom, they explode for ~13k. For 20 seconds, you will be unable to target the XT-002 but instead you can target the “Heart of the Deconstructor” which is related to this encounter’s hard mode.

The hard mode for this encounter is enabled by killing the Heart of the Deconstructor, which has 5 million health (but takes 100% extra damage) and is up for 20 seconds. So within those 20 seconds your raid has to do the equivalent of 2.5 million damage over 20 seconds (125,000 RDPS) in order to enable the hard mode. The major bug with the heart was that melee could not attack it. I think we could have enabled the hard mode if we made some group changes but due to time limitations, we decide to kill him in easy mode once again and get more people familiar with the fight. Once hard mode is enabled, XT-002 is healed to full and gains 25% more health and damage, in addition, Light Bomb and Gravity Bomb gain new effects. Light Bomb now spawns an add that will cast Static Shock on the raid, on 25 man it will hit for 1500 damage every 3 seconds.

3.1 PTR - XT-002 Deconstructor Preview

The 3.1 PTR may be coming to a close soon, I believe there are only two bosses left to test, Mimiron and Auriaya, since Algalon and Yogg-Saron more than likely won’t be tested. A guildmate brought up a good point the other night, Patch 3.1 has to be out before April 12th, because of the Noblegarden changes. That gives us a few potential 3.1 release dates - March 24th, March 31st, April 7th. I’m gonna put my money on March 31st, mainly because the 24th seems too soon and April 7th is cutting it too close to Noblegarden. Either way, 3.1 is coming!