Nightmare Title Runs

[Kaedis]

Quote:Thanks for the tips! The only KP boss we have trouble with on HM is Bonetrasher. Do you guys just eat the swipe? We have found that running through his legs causes more harm than good as he often rotates and swipes the melee behind him.

Our general strat for Nightmare is to split up ranged around the outside ring (we generally have 2-3 ranged dps and 2 healers). If Bonethrasher targets any of them, they wait until he reaches them, then rotate him approximately 60 degrees counter-clockwise (another other ranged in that direction made need to reposition slightly to avoid his cleave). The reason for this is to prevent his knockback from knocking them off. The counter-clockwise is important, as his knockback moves you about 10 yards backwards and about 4 yards to your right (if you're facing him). If you rotate him clockwise, you need to rotate closer to 90 degrees, which can cause issues with the melee. Ranged move back to their original position after he cleaves or knocks back.

Melee stay behind him as much as they can. If they get targeted by him, they run to the center of the room while the rest of the melee stack behind him. Anyone targeted by the ground pound (the one that slows you and puts a significant damage taken increase debuff on you) move away from the boss toward the outer edge until the debuff falls off.

If done properly, particularly if you have a Sorc healer to shield his targets, it's not really that bad of a fight. One thing we do do that helps ensure we get in under the enrage timer is to simply CC the cats that spawn at 50% and continue refreshing the CC on them for the remainder of the fight. This saves us a solid minute or so of dps time on the boss.

Once you get past him, everything becomes easier. Jarg and Sorno can have a bit of a tight enrage, if you're not careful, and Sorno can one-shot raiders if your healers aren't on the ball (again, Sorc shield help immensely here), but it's relatively easy (we one-shot it the first time we saw it, though with only 2 alive at the end, 10 seconds past the enrage).

Foreman Crusher's rock chuck will nearly one-shot people, and you need to move immediately to avoid it, but the only other mechanic of note is his frenzy. Just make sure you have a tank CD up for each one (if necessary, have an offtank or a durable dps like a Juggernaut pop defensive CDs and taunt him off during one of them). Oneshot him as well.

Fabricator is slightly more difficult, but if you've got people good at the puzzle, it's pretty easy. I recommend the all-north-nozzle strat (you can find it on the last couple of pages of the Fabrictor thread out here).

Karagga is the exact same as hardmode, just hits a bit harder, and the mouse droids are quite a bit more dangerous. If your dps is on the ball with AoE (a BH's Death From Above can trivialize this, btw), it's an easy fight.