King Dred

King Dred is an optional devilsaur boss in Drak'Tharon Keep, found in the Raptor Pens. Kurzel refers to him as a "raptor king" and says that he is immune to the Plague of Undeath.

Adventure Guide
''King Dred is a legend amongst the Drakkari. Stories tell of a troll hunting party locating a mighty beast that thrived in a habitat saturated with Scourge plague. The trolls tamed the devilsaur, believing that he alone held an antidote for the savage disease devastating their people.''

Attacks & abilities

 * Drakkari Gutripper
 * Drakkari Scytheclaw
 * Drakkari Gutripper
 * Drakkari Scytheclaw
 * Drakkari Gutripper
 * Drakkari Scytheclaw
 * Drakkari Gutripper
 * Drakkari Scytheclaw
 * Drakkari Scytheclaw

Tactics
This is an easy tank and spank fight. The healer needs to be careful of Grievous Bite. Lay on Hands is an excellent way to remove the debuff. The armor debuff combined with heavy bleed damage can be stressful on the healer. Another important factor is to either pull the adds before King Dred or to dps them once they are called by Raptor Call.

Bellowing Roar is a 35 yard range which enables healers to out range the fear altogether. Shamans can use Tremor Totem, Priests can use Fear Ward to help the tank from moving. Warrior tanks can use Berserker Rage to break the fear, and Feral druids that have specced that far can use Berserk. Having the healer stand at maximum range from the tank (with the tank facing the mob towards the healer) will ensure the healer never gets feared.

An alternative tactic is to have a heavy-armor dpser taunt King Dred when he emotes "King Dred raises his claws menacingly", indicating that he is about to cast his three strikes in quick succession. Often a plate-wearer (or druid in bear form) can survive these attacks so long as the boss is quickly taunted back off of them. This will spread out the damage and greatly reduce the effect of the armor reduction debuff from Piercing Slash.

Objective of
He drops King Dred's Tooth for What the Scourge Dred.

Related Achievements

 * Drak'Tharon Keep (achievement)
 * Heroic: Drak'Tharon Keep
 * Better Off Dred: is achieved during Heroic mode by killing 6 raptors (Drakkari Gutrippers, Drakkari Scytheclaws) while King Dred is engaged.  The raptors need not be engaged all at the same time, and recall the power mentioned above, where King Dred summons a nearby raptor to his side.

Notes and trivia

 * Dred is skinnable, yielding around 7-8 pieces of Borean Leather.
 * Like most devilsaurs, Dred is tamable by Beast Mastery hunters.
 * "Swamp King Dred" appears as a legendary card for the Hunter class in the Journey to Un'Goro expansion for Hearthstone. His flavor text reads: "Swamp King Dred, more like Swamp King Dead, amiright?"