Tonight, we’re working on a brand new Ulduar boss: Kologarn on Heroic mode. He’s a large titan that stands at the top of the stairs in the Antechamber. And by large, he’s a bloody huge one! However, we only ever see above his waist and interestingly enough, his hands are also targettable to be DPS’d as well. His hands grip 2 people at a time for a lot of damage, similar to Encapsulate from Felmyst, and to break out of them, the hand has to suffer 450,000 damage. His other abilities he has includes a Nature damage based Shockwave, a targetted Eyebeam, and a Petrifying Breath on random people as well. It’s also interesting to note that when you kill an arm, he spawns a number of adds that do about 7500 AoE damage when you kill them (similar to the adds from Garr in Molten Core). Lastly, he hits the tank with a stackable armor debuff for 25% each application.

So, after getting everyone in the raid and buffed up, we engage Kologarn and try to damage his right arm first. We end up killing it, but because we didn’t know about the adds and the AoE damage they did, we (of course) AoE’d the adds and our raid just gets smoked in the end. Second attempt, we try DPSing the left arm first this time, but we found that the people gripped in the right arm weren’t being freed and, as such, those people ended up dying.

After those 2 attempts, people started crashing and, of course, couldn’t get past the blue bar boss. After nearly half an hour of trying to get the rest of the raid together, Daelo ends up punting everyone out of Ulduar and back to the login screen.

However, that doesn’t stop us from continuing. No sir. We get everyone back together in front of Kologarn and ready to go, even after Daelo announces a shutdown, and proceed to kill him within 2 attempts after the reset. All in all, it’s a very fun fight, though perhaps there could be a few tweaks needed here and there.

Our videos of the fight can be found at here:

Streaming Video: http://blog.forlornlegacy.net/videos…ideo-kologarn/
HD Video: http://media.forlornlegacy.net/fl-kologarn-ptr.avi

Next up, Flame Leviathan Round 2!

So tonight Blizzard had us do another round of testing on Hodir. The only notable change was his HP, he went down from ~35 Million to around 25 Million, easy fight becomes even easier! My guess is that they did this in order to make the hard mode possible. It’s already been discovered that Hodir’s hard mode requires you to kill him within 3 minutes, before he shatters the rare cache of Hodir. In order to accomplish this, the raid must put out a minium of 138,888 DPS. With the help of some Ulduar gear and the buffs we get from the adds, this achievement should be doable once it’s on farm status.

Hodir Preview - 3.1 PTR

Since the previous Hodir video was buggy, and was recorded in 10 man, I decided to create a new one! Again, please let me know what you think of the quality.

The hardest part of this encounter was getting everyone in the instance. After about an hour of fighting the blue bar boss, we were able to get 25 inside the instance, three attempts later, Hodir was dead. Easy boss, slightly more challenging than Flame Leviathan & Ignis, definately looking forward to doing the achievement.