User:GoldenYak/Shog'Kathak

One of the faceless ones who serve Yogg-Saron, this fiend has had plates of dread iron bolted to its alien flesh.

Dungeon Journal
One of the faceless ones who serve Yogg-Saron. The alien intelligence of the Old Gods expresses itself through their herald, who speaks to the dread iron dwarves and directs them in their efforts to shape the blood of Yogg-Saron into even more terrible weaponry. A lord of mechanisms and metal-working, Shog'Kathak has had plates of dread iron sealed to his own flesh.

Phase One - The Iron Faceless
Phase One will end when all four plates of Dread Iron Armor have been removed from Shog'Kathak. Each plate prevents Shog'Kathak's health from being reduced by 20%, so at best Shog'Kathak will be at 20% health when the fourth plate is removed.

Devoured by Shog'Kathak
Players devoured by Shog'Kathak lose control of their character, but gain access to special abilities. Devoured players continually take Shadowblight damage and can be afflicted with Digest. Devoured players can be targeted and healed, but 50% of the healing they receive is absorbed by Shog'Kathak. They cannot take damage from any source other than being in Shog'Kathak's stomach.

Faceless Hordeling
Faceless Hordelings will spawn periodically throughout the encounter, appearing at the far edges of the chamber and attacking random targets.

Saronite Sludgeling
If Shog'Kathak has below 40 stacks of Saronite Residue when a Vile Retch is triggered, he spawns up to eight Saronite Sludgelings. Each Sludgeling will have 1-5 stacks of Residual Power on it, affecting its size and strength. The number of Sludgelings and their level of Residual Power depends on the number of stacks of Saronite Residue that Shog'Kathak currently had.

Saronite Amalgam
If Shog'Kathak has 40 or more stacks of Saronite Residue when a Vile Retch is triggered, he spawns a Saronite Amalgam. The Amalgam will have stacks of Residual Power on it equal to the number of Saronite Residue stacks on Shog'Kathak, affecting its size and strength.

Phase Two
When all four of Shog'Kathak's armor plates have been removed, he will automatically use Vile Retch to expel anything he's currently Devoured and then begin phase two. Faceless Hordelings will stop spawning.

Dread Iron Fragment
Dread Iron Fragments will spawn whenever one of Shog'Kathak's armor plates is destroyed. They remain stationary and cannot be attacked or damaged.

Strategy
Shog'Kathak's Dread Iron Armor prevents his health being reduced by 20% for each plate that is still intact. For example, if all four plates are intact, Shog'Kahak's health cannot be reduced lower than 80%. If two plates are intact, his health cannot be reduced lower than 40%.

In order to remove Shog'Kathak's armor, he must be tricked by players into devouring the remains of his Faceless Hordeling minions. When slain, Hordelings leave behind pools of Polluted Saronite Residue. If these pools are affected by Shog'Kathak's Devour ability, Shog'Kathak will consume them and gain a stack of Saronite Residue. When Shog'Kathak consumes enough pools, he gains the Bloated with Saronite buff, which causes his body to swell so large that his armor plates split open and become vulnerable. He will also loose movement speed. Armor plates can be targeted and destroyed while he is afflicted with Bloated with Saronite. He will be dealing increasing shadowblight damage to all players periodically, so eventually a player must allow themselves to be Devoured so they may trigger a Vile Retch, which will remove the Bloated with Saronite buff from Shog'Kathak. This will return him to normal and allow players to recover.

When all of his armor plates have been destroyed, Shog'Kathak will become completely vulnerable. He will deal increasing shadowblight damage and there is no longer any way to prevent it, so he must be slain before he overwhelms the players.

Heroic Mode

 * Polluted Saronite Residue pools deal minor shadowblight damage to all players while present. This damage increases based on the number of active pools.
 * Shog'Kathak has a fifth armor plate, a Torso Plate. Each plate reduces the amount of health Shog'Kathak can lose by 15%. Destroying an armor plate spawns a Dread Iron Fragment add.
 * Shog'Kathak has a fifth armor plate, a Torso Plate. Each plate reduces the amount of health Shog'Kathak can lose by 15%. Destroying an armor plate spawns a Dread Iron Fragment add.

Achievement

 * Churlish - Cause Shog'Kathak to become Bloated with Saronite from a single use of Devour.
 * Skin Down - Destroy all of Shog'Kathak's armor plates before causing him to use Vile Retch and then defeat Shog'Kathak.

Quotes
All of Shog'Kathak's dialogue is in the indecipherable language of the faceless, but the meaning of his words burn themselves into the minds of players through insidious whispers.


 * Intro
 * whisper


 * Aggro
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 * Casting Devour
 * whisper
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 * Destroying a Dread Iron Plate
 * whisper
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 * Devouring a Player
 * whisper
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 * Vile Retch Triggered
 * whisper
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 * Phase Two Begin
 * whisper


 * Killing a Player
 * whisper
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 * Wipe
 * whisper


 * Death
 * whisper