Bonethrasher

[Masterkiller]

Location: Hutt Hospitality

The guild EBONELORE posted this video of the encounter.

[Axem]

Hey I know that guild - http://ebonlore.org

Here's Nightmare mode too! -

[Kypsta]

Is there even anything special about this guy? Does it have a short enrage timer or something? It seems to be a super simple tank and spank fight right now.

[Malak]

This Boss was extremely bugged during Beta. He didn't do, what he was supposed to

Should be fixed on live and i'm pretty excited to see what he's actually made of.

[Chamillion]

The boss is bugged now. We were in there Monday. When you fall into the pit it would place each member into an invisible box unable to move. We found that inquisitors could use speed boost to remove themselves from the box, then the rest of the raid has to /stuck to get placed above the pit to fall back in and die. At which point they can be rezzed from one of the inquis.

The boss spawns, comes out, and doesn't really adhere to any threat mechanics. He bounced from person to person, randomly smashing and swiping as he went. The swipe would hit DPS for around 7500, and the slam has a 10 yard radius to it's center point.

Worst part about this encounter is that when you wipe, you have to reset the instance in order to zone back in. So you have to reclear all the trash. This one is just not worth doing at the moment. Let's hope for a fix. Hope this saves some of you the clearing of trash to find this out.

[Petrus]

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The boss spawns, comes out, and doesn't really adhere to any threat mechanics. He bounced from person to person, randomly smashing and swiping as he went. The swipe would hit DPS for around 7500, and the slam has a 10 yard radius to it's center point.

While this part is still true, I believe it's 100% working as intended. Swipe damage got upped a bit, to 9,000. The rest of your post no longer applies though, as it seems to have been fixed.


PUG group on the 29th:

1 Juggy Tank - 18,400hp unbuffed
4 Melee DPS (2 Maurader, 2 Assassin)
1 Ranged DPS
2 Heals (Sorc/Op) - 500ish + healing

This whole instance was very easy, although the boss was by far the most complex, and required the most focus/coordination of any of the 6 bosses.

There are 4 trash pulls before the boss I think, they're all very easy.

Basics to this fight, as Chamillion said - is that the boss doesn't have any *traditional* threat mechanics. There is a threat table at work, as either the Ranged DPS sniper or myself as the Sorcerer healer had threat about 90% of the time, but we're not 100% sure what it is yet. He'd randomly target someone to swipe them.


Fight starts out by everyone getting dropped into a pit, and most likely taking a 9k swipe on everyone in the group. No big deal, spread out, and start healing up. Whoever has aggro just wants to kite this boss. Every now and again it'll stop and wind up for a swipe. It has a pretty large radius, and is almost in a 280degree cone, so GTFO when he does it. We found the best way to do this was run through him to his rear, but you'll want to be well behind him, not under his tail.

This repeats. A lot. From time to time he'll smash the ground and throw everyone in the air, dealing about 7k damage. (To everyone, not a 10m radius.) If someone is directly infront of him he may also smash them into the ground several times, stunning them, instead of smashing everyone. This does about 21k to that person over 5 seconds, so heals are a must.

That's the basics of the fight.

3 times adds will spawn, and if you don't burn them down before he eats them he gets a huge damage buff for 20 seconds. As a healer I could generally burst the adds down in about 3 seconds solo, so it shouldn't be a big deal.

2 Elite adds will also spawn, but just kill them quickly, there's no trick here.

He enrages at around 5 minutes. If he enrages he basically does 2x damage. Our first attempt we fought him for almost a minute and a half before his enrage was over, and we wiped with him at 4,000hp.


It took us 4 attempts (middle two bugged and we lost 2 people zoning in. For some reason whenever the tank went in first he'd die, but if I did we'd all live.) Fourth attempt we kept everyone up and killed him before enrage.

This fight was chaotic, hectic, requires no one to die, and was IMO the most fun fight out of any of the 6 so far. Can't wait to smash my face against it on Hard, because I think it'll be very challenging.

[Chamillion]

Yeah I think you're right. We've killed him now on 8 and 16, and plan on taking some HM shots tomorrow. That is his mechanic. Target of target is your friend. The rest of it was bugged, but his random target switching is not.

[Atlas]

We tried bonetrasher on nightmare for countless times. It's totally bugged. It's doable in normal mode since we killed it easily. I suggest waiting for a hotfix and then trying HM NM.

[Piree]

Normal mode is really easy, did it few days ago with no problems at all.
Hard mode requires some more tactics, only tried it once with everyone just doing whatever they want as that's how normal mode is. But the Swipe does a lot more damage.

[Antario]

HM and nightmare are technically possible but some elements of the fight are just far to random

you can avoid getting the squishies oneshotted, and the boss can be kited to avoid the swipes
but the backhand knockback and random kills on the melee are whats wiping us atm