Foreman Crusher

[geshtar]

We just beat him last night on 16m hard mode. The damage on everything is scaled up quite a bit but otherwise the same fight as normal mode. (I find the difference between normal and HM isn't quite as great in the new HH bosses than for EV bosses).

A few tips to guilds trying on HM:
1. When you first pull your raid can stack in the NE corner of the room (before the pull) and wait until after he does his first ground slam (the ability that damages and tosses you back, he does the first right at the start of the pull). This saves a lot of raid damage right off the bat and makes the fight more manage-able.

2. The rocks are much harder to avoid in HM, if you aren't already moving or don't move instantly you'll get hit - and they hit for a lot. This normally isn't an issue unless he does this right after a ground slam or right before. We had our raid members use health pots after getting hit by a rock or after ground slam in order to try to avoid the deaths from this.

3. He can be single tanked, we used an assassin tank for it and just sat through the frenzy. Tank should rotate defensive cooldowns with others (we had our snipers use their defensive bubble next to the tank when his cooldowns were down). Also, a BH healer is a must here to use super charged gas kolto missile on the tank during the frenzy (+10% healing taken, -10% damage taken). There is no other damage going on during this phase, so all your healers should be spam healing the tank and not doing anything else until frenzy is over.

4. At the end of frenzy he knocks back his current target and drops agro and must be taunted back, he normally gets a hit in on someone else/a couple people. It seems like this hit places a bleed on the target - people that get this bleed need to say something so they get healed and not get too low so that a stone will kill them.