GRONG, THE JUNGLE LORD

• Targets: Grong (BOSS), Apetagonizer 3000
• Played Faction: Horde

Grong

The boss has no pre-determined phases and is considered to be the patchwerk of this tier. Grong will slowly gain Rage as the fights progresses, increasing the amount of Rage he gains per second as his health lowers (70% and 40%). Managing Grong’s Rage is the key to overcoming this encounter.

• Bestial Combo: Random combination of Bestial Smash and Rending Bite attacks onto active tank. Combo is always finished off with Bestial Throw.
• Bestial Smash: Smashes the active tank for large Physical damage, also increasing damage of the next Bestial Smash by 500% for 2.5secs, stacking.
• Rending Bite: Bites the active tank, applying a moderate Physical damage bleed, ticking every second for 10 seconds.
• Reverberating Slam: Slams a random melee player within range in a 10yard area, dealing considerable Physical damage, spawning a Reverberating Echo zone within the radius. This echo zone will detonate shortly after, dealing massive Physical damage and knocking back anyone within it.
• Tantrum: Upon reaching 100 Rage, Grong will begin smashing the ground violently, dealing ramping raid-wide damage every second over 4 seconds, applying a stack of Shattered (increases Tantrum damage by 30% for 40secs) with each smash, for a maximum of 4 stacks. (120% increased Tantrum damage).

Apetagonizer 3000

• Periodically spawn throughout the encounter. Cannot be moved or tanked.
• Apetagonize: Focused shock onto Grong, if completed will grant him 10 Rage.
• Lightning Detonation: Upon death, explodes in a 15 yard zone. If Grong is within the blast zone, he gains 50 Rage.
• Apetagonizer Core: Item dropped by the corpse of the Apetagonizer. Retrievable by player and grants them an extra action button and a ticking Nature damage DoT.
• Megatomic Seeker Missile: A Gnome flyer will randomly launch a missile at a random ranged member, placing a fire patch on the ground.

Strategy:

• Melee spread around Grong evenly, 10 yards apart to make sure Reverberating Slam hits as little melee as possible.
  Tanks stack on each other and taunt switch according to the upcoming ability of his Bestial Combo – never take same ability twice.
  Ranged and healers will stack on a point away from Grong to keep Seeker Missiles away.
• An Apetagonizer will spawn in a randomly location of the arena. All DPS MUST BURN THIS ADD ASAP and loot the core it drops upon death. Whoever picks up the core must INSTANTLY fire it at Grong if he is ABOVE 25 RAGE to trigger an early Tantrum.
• Triggering early Tantrums are the key to reducing and almost nullifying the damage from this raid-wide AoE, which is deadly if triggered at high Rage levels.
• Grong will ramp his Rage gaining rate as his health decays, at 70% and 40% health respectively. This rage gain serves as soft enrage to kill the boss before you cannot manage the Tantrums any longer.