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Cho'gall

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FIGHT OVERVIEW
  • This phase has 2 phases.

  • On this boss, players have a new ressource: Corruption. Being hit by avoidable abilities increase your corruption level.

  • Every 25 Corruption, up to 100, adds a debuff to the player.

Heroic Changes
  • In phase 1, Flame's Orders and Shadow's Orders summon respectively a Fire and Shadow Elemental.

  • Cho'gall absorbs the remaining health of those adds, increasing his damage with Flaming Destruction and Empowered Shadows.

  • Cho'gall summons 2 Corrupting Adherents instead of one, and more frequently.

  • In phase 2, a giant Spiked Tentacle spawns underneath the boss, attacking and knocking back all players in range.

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Phase 1

In the first phase, you fight against Cho'gall and some adds.


Assign a tank to handle Corrupting Adherents, keep them away.


Ranged DPS should focus on killing them quickly, far from the raid.


Avoid getting hit by avoidable abilities to keep your Corruption low.


It's crucial to have low Corruption before the second phase starts at 25% HP.

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DON'T STAY

IN THE FIRE

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Flame's Orders
Ground Effect

Cho'gall buffs himself, dealing additional fire damage on his attacks.


In heroic, he summons a Fire Elemental and aborbs it shortly after, gaining 1 stacks for every 10% of his health remaining.


It increases the power of his fire buff, requiring even more healing on your tank.


His melee swings also create fire patches around him that last for 25s on the ground.

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USE DEFENSIVE

TO SURVIVE

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Shadow's Orders
Raid-Wide Damage

Cho'gall buffs himself, unleashing waves of shadow damage on the entire raid.


In heroic, he summons a Shadow Elemental and aborbs it shortly after, gaining 1 stacks for every 10% of his health remaining.


It increases the power of his shadow buff, requiring even more healing to keep the raid alive.

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FOCUS THE ADD

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Spilled Blood of the Old God
Ground Effect

Cho'gall summons Corrupting Adherent, which has several abilities increasing corruption level if it hits a players.


When they die they leave a pool of blood around their corpses, dealing ticking damage and increasing Corruption level.


Bring them into melee range to cleave them down, then drag them away when they reach around 20% HP to ensure they die far away from the raid.

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KILL ADHERENT BEFORE

FESTER BLOOD OCCURS

KITE AND CC THE OOZES

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Fester Blood
Adds

About 40s after summoning the Corrupting Adherent, Cho'gall uses Fester Blood.


It causes the add to deal AoE damage and increase Corruption to players within 20 yards.


They must be killed before this ability occurs!


Additionnaly, Fester Blood creates small Oozes from the pools of Spilled Blood.


CC, kite and AoE them down before they reach anyone, or they will further increase Corruption.

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Conversion
Mind Control

Cho'gall frequently mind controls some players.


While under his control, they channel to him, increasing his damage.


Quickly interrupt the cast to break free from the mind control!

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Depravity
Interrupt

After they spawn, Corrupting Adherents cast Depravity, dealing AoE damage and increasing Corruption within 10 yards.


This has to be interrupted!

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Corrupting Crash
AoE Damage

Periodically, Corrupting Adherents fire a shadow missile at a random player, dealing damage and increasing Corruption upon impact.


It might be hard to see when they are getting cleaved in melee! Be vigilant!

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Fury of Cho'Gall
Tank Mechanic

Cho'gall strikes the tank, dealing damage and applying a stackable debuff that increases physical and shadow damage taken.


Swap tanks every 1 or 2 stacks.

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Conversion
Mind Control

Cho'gall frequently mind controls some players.


While under his control, they channel to him, increasing his damage.


Quickly interrupt the cast to break free from the mind control!

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Corrupting Crash
AoE Damage

Periodically, Corrupting Adherents fire a shadow missile at a random player, dealing damage and increasing Corruption upon impact.


It might be hard to see when they are getting cleaved in melee! Be vigilant!

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Depravity
Interrupt

After they spawn, Corrupting Adherents cast Depravity, dealing AoE damage and increasing Corruption within 10 yards.


This has to be interrupted!

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Fury of Cho'Gall
Tank Mechanic

Cho'gall strikes the tank, dealing damage and applying a stackable debuff that increases physical and shadow damage taken.


Swap tanks every 1 or 2 stacks.

Corruption

Corruption is a resource gained when hit by different abilities.


Every 25 Corruption adds a debuff, making the fight harder for everyone.


The goal is to keep Corruption levels as low as possible before the 2nd phase, during which Corruption will inevitably increase.

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Corruption: Accelerated
25 Corruption

When a player reaches 25 Corruption, they get a debuff that adds more Corruption every second.


This debuff is dispellable, so make sure to dispel affected players

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Corruption: Malformation
75 Corruption

When a player reaches 75 Corruption, a tentacle grows on their back, casting shadow bolts at players every 3s.

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Corruption: Sickness
50 Corruption

When a player reaches 50 Corruption, they get sick and vomit, inflicting high damage in a 5 yard cone.


This also applies Corruption to players hit. You can turn your character before it triggers to avoid hitting other players.

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Corruption: Absolute
100 Corruption

When a player reaches 100 Corruption, they transform into a Faceless Horror.


They can no longer receive healing, but their damage is increased by 100% and spells are cast instantly.

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Corruption: Accelerated
25 Corruption

When a player reaches 25 Corruption, they get a debuff that adds more Corruption every second.


This debuff is dispellable, so make sure to dispel affected players

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Corruption: Sickness
50 Corruption

When a player reaches 50 Corruption, they get sick and vomit, inflicting high damage in a 5 yard cone.


This also applies Corruption to players hit. You can turn your character before it triggers to avoid hitting other players.

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Corruption: Malformation
75 Corruption

When a player reaches 75 Corruption, a tentacle grows on their back, casting shadow bolts at players every 3s.

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Corruption: Absolute
100 Corruption

When a player reaches 100 Corruption, they transform into a Faceless Horror.


They can no longer receive healing, but their damage is increased by 100% and spells are cast instantly.

Phase 2

Phase 2 begins at 25% HP, initiating a race against the Corruption level.


Cho'gall deals raid-wide damage and continuously increases Corruption throughout the phase.

DPS

INTERRUPT AND

KILL THE ADDS

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Darkened Creations
Adds

Tentacles spawn around Cho'gall, channeling beams on random players.


These beams deal damage, reduce healing received, and increase Corruption levels.


 Interrupt all of them and cleave them down!


In heroic, a giant Spiked Tentacle also spawns, dealing damage and knocking back every player within its range.


It has too much HP to be dealt with directly, so quickly cleave the smaller tentacles and then move away.

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Corruption of the Old God
Soft-Enrage

Cho'gall repeatedly pulses raid-wide damage and increases Corruption for the entire raid with each tick.


At some point, all players will reach 100 Corruption, at which point you will have only a few seconds to kill Cho'gall before being defeated.

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Fury of Cho'gall
Tank Mechanic

Cho'gall strikes the tank, dealing damage and applying a stackable debuff that increases physical and shadow damage taken.


Swap tanks every 1 or 2 stacks.

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Corruption of the Old God
Soft-Enrage

Cho'gall repeatedly pulses raid-wide damage and increases Corruption for the entire raid with each tick.


At some point, all players will reach 100 Corruption, at which point you will have only a few seconds to kill Cho'gall before being defeated.

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Fury of Cho'gall
Tank Mechanic

Cho'gall strikes the tank, dealing damage and applying a stackable debuff that increases physical and shadow damage taken.


Swap tanks every 1 or 2 stacks.

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Cho'gall
AVAILABLE ANALYSIS
- Corruption
- Flaming Destruction
- Corrupting Crash
- Twisted Devotion
- Depravity