User:Serillian/Terrogon

Terrogon is the fourth boss encounter within the Palace of the Risen Emperor raid. His massive size has turned into his greatest weakness as he is incapable of moving anywhere as his body blocks further access into the disgusting catacombs. Pinned at the waist, Terrogon can only defend himself with attacks at close range or with the use of his nasty breath strikes. His hunger has grown to a great amount, to the point of him willing to consume any living creature.

Background
When Lei Shen's palace had been abandoned, no one knew of the horrors lurking throughout the catacombs beneath the fortress. These horrors fed on one another while sealed within the fortress. Terrogon, one enormous example of the horrors living within the catacombs, was one of few dominant beasts that mercilessly fed on everything it came into contact with that lived. Growing to extreme sizes, Terrogon became stuck within the cavern passageways halfway which rendered him immobile. This resulted in his descent into a mighty hunger that controls him. Tormented by his condition and grand hunger, Terrogon currently releases bone-chilling cries and roars that echoes through the catacombs and the palace halls above.

Encounter Abilities
Terrogon remains stationary throughout the entirety of the encounter, unable to attack enemies at range. After 7 minutes and 15 seconds, Terrogon will cast a Violent Inhalation that pulls players towards his maw at a massive speed that cannot be avoided.





Lost Cavern
Terrogon lies stuck within the Lost Cavern, where he has to reluctantly feed on rocks and boulders prior to the arrival of fleshy intruders.



Terrogon
The hungry one Terrogon releases echoing cries and roars that can be heard throughout the caverns and the palace halls above.









Breath Attacks
Terrogon will assault his enemies with his powerful breath strikes. He will use a random breath attack randomly whenever he reaches 25%, 50%, and 75% Starvation.







Strategy
While Terrogon is not a frustratingly difficult encounter, he can disrupt a solid attempt if the wrong things line up at the wrong time. With an enrage timer of 7 minutes and 15 seconds, he mainly serves as a Dps race encounter.

The central mechanic of this boss fight is the Starvation meter that constantly grows every minute that passes by. Every fifth of the meter will cause Terrogon to attack much faster over time (and it resets as the meter returns to 0). When Terrogon reaches a full Starvation meter, he attempts to wipe the raid with his Violent Inhalation attack. Stay away from the boss during this channel at all times by moving in the opposite direction which slows the speed at which Terrogon pulls players towards him. This can be helpful in buying time for designated raid members to knock the Cavern Boulders scattered around the area into Terrogon. Doing so stops him from channeling the Violent Inhalation and stuns him. The boulder will also apply a debuff that increases the damage taken which should be used to its fullest. Take note that only one boulder will have an effect on him at a time during the channel.

For melee heavy raids, take care to stay out of his 4 yard kill-zone which will trigger Voracious Devour that kills those unfortunate enough to find themselves too close. This is critical during Normal and Heroic mode attempts, as players killed in this way triggers Consumption Frenzy that grants Terrogon raid-wiping damage.

There must always be a player attacking Terrogon in melee range otherwise he will trigger Endless Hunger that dramatically increases the speed at which his Starvation meter grows. This will quickly result in a raid wipe if this effect persist for more than a brief moment.

Terrogon Breath Strikes
In addition to the effects related to his Starvation meter, Terrogon will also cast one out of three Breath attacks that are used at random for every quarter his Starvation meter grows.

Diseased Breath is unavoidable and deals high damage to all players. This attack must simply be healed through. HoTs and defensive cooldowns can be use right before it goes off to lower the damage overall.

Ancient Stone Breath is a much more deadlier breath attack which deals health based damage to all players. For Normal mode, all players take 75% of their total health in damage over 3 seconds. During the cast time before the channeling effect goes out, all players should stay above 80% health and have protective cooldowns in place to mitigate much of the damage as possible.

Forceful Breath is a slightly different breath that does more than just damage. While dealing damage that should be healed through (and lowered through cooldowns), this attack will blast players away from Terrogon swiftly for 30 seconds. Similiar to Lei Shi's Get Away ability, its damage and the speed at which players get pushed away can be halved by moving towards the boss. The channeling of this attack can be shortened by damaging Terrogon for 5% of his health which can occur quickly since ranged can constantly damage him (with DoTs and instant casts).

Terrogon's Abilities
In addition to the aforementioned attacks and effects involved in the encounter. His tank attack is Vicious Chomp which deals a great amount of damage to the tanking player (nothing too threatening provided he/she is constantly healed and actively tanking) but applies a stun to the player which turns this attack into a channel. That tanking player has to be freed by the offtank or else Terrogon will instantly kill them after a given amount of time channeling. The only way to counter this the ability tanks are given for this fight: Pry Jaws. While Terrogon is channeling Vicious Chomp on the tank, the other tank must use the extra ability on Terrogon three times to free the player before the 6-second channel (for Normal mode) completes which kills the stunned tank instantly.

Terrogon will also cast Fissure Stomp which deals damage based on distance from the boss and releases fissures from the foot used to cast this attack. All players on the same side of the foot that used this attack (Terrogon alternates between both feet when casting this attack) should take care to avoid touching the fissures as they deal high damage on contact and deal additional damage when standing in them. The same applies for Ground Crack when its fissure is sent out across the room.

Being a DPS race boss, Terrogon does not have that many mechanics that are unavoidable. The ones that are avoidable should be avoided throughout the encounter to ensure all players are up in order to successfully make the enrage timer.

Heroic Changes

 * Terrogon will deal additional damage as his Starvation meter grows in addition to the attack speed buff.


 * The player who completely frees the player under the Vicious Chomp effect falls victim to Wet Maw Filth that prevents the use of Pry Jaws for 15 seconds, most likely forcing a tank switch.


 * As Terrogon performs Fissure Stomp, he applies a stacking Vital Exhaustion effect to the raid that reduces max health by an increasing amount, effectively increasing the damage taken during the encounter.

Quotes

 * Intro
 * bossemote


 * Aggro
 * bossemote


 * Starvation grows
 * bossemote


 * Violent Inhalation
 * bossemote


 * Voracious Devour
 * bossemote


 * Fissure Stomp
 * bossemote


 * Endless Hunger
 * bossemote


 * Player killed
 * bossemote


 * Berserk (Violent Inhalation)
 * bossemote


 * Death
 * emote

Achievements