Meathook

Meathook
Gender	Male
Race	Abomination (Undead)
Level	25-30 Elite
Reaction	Alliance Horde
Location	Culling of Stratholme
Status	Killable
Culling of Stratholme Meathook Salramm the Fleshcrafter Chrono-Lord Epoch Infinite Corruptor (heroic) Mal'Ganis (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) NPCs Arthas Chromie Other Caverns of Time instances Escape from Durnholde Keep (5) Opening the Dark Portal (5) Battle for Mount Hyjal (25)

Meathook

Meathook is an abomination and the first boss of the Culling of Stratholme, a wing of the Caverns of Time. He demands the party play with him.

In Warcraft III: Reforged, he was added into The Culling, hiding within one of Stratholme's houses and ambushing Arthas's forces once the house is destroyed.

Adventure Guide

Since Prince Arthas first encountered the Scourge abominations, they have become even more menacing. Meathook has grown stronger, more toxic and more agile than the others. Smarter was never the goal of the necromancers who created Meathook, but it only takes a base cunning to do what he does best.

Abilities

•  Constricting Chains — Meathook encases a player in chains, inflicting Physical damage every 1 sec. and stunning the target for 5 sec.
• Disease Explusion — Meathook belches out a cloud of disease, inflicting Nature damage and interrupting the spell casting of all players within 0 yards for 4 sec.
•  Frenzy  — Meathook goes into a frenzy, increasing Physical damage done by 10% for 30 sec. This effect stacks up to 10 times.

Strategies

On both Normal and Heroic, the boss is a simple Tank and Spank. The zombies that surround it may trouble the healer, but should be easily tanked. Healing consumables for the DPS or use of a backup healer may be necessary in case the healer cannot keep up with the damage output of the boss, although this is far from certain. The DPS and tank must be aware of the possibility that the healer will be hit by constricting chains, and thusly unable to heal. The encounter may be simplified by tanking the boss against the wall, with the healer out of line of sight, and thus unable to be hit by the chains.

Rogue anesthetic poison will not remove Meathook's Frenzy.

Constricting Chains

It has been confirmed that the Constricting Chains on Heroic Mode will hit the party member with the least amount of aggro on the boss. If your healer is light on threat then they will always be hit and thus makes the fight extremely difficult. Hunters and Rogues can misdirect threat onto the healer when it is safe and will not cause them to pass the tank, or various DPS can use a cooldown to wipe aggro and take the bottom to soak the chains.

Constricting Chains seems to be linked to both threat and distance. Threat alone does not seem to dictate who he will chain.

Loot

Meathook's Slicer Item Level 89 Binds when picked up Sword One-Hand Speed 2.60 15 – 25 Damage (7.7 damage per second) +7 Agility +12 Stamina +8 Critical Strike Durability 90 / 90 Requires Level 29 Sell Price: 2 26 11 Slaughterhouse Sabatons Item Level 89 Binds when picked up Plate Feet 28 Armor +10 Strength or Intellect +15 Stamina +10 Dodge +10 Parry Durability 65 / 65 Requires Level 29 Sell Price: 1 18 91 Enchanted Wire Stitching Item Level 89 Binds when picked up Unique-Equipped Finger +8 Intellect +11 Stamina +11 Versatility Requires Level 29 Sell Price: 96 15 Kilt of Sewn Flesh Item Level 89 Binds when picked up Leather Legs 18 Armor +14 Agility or Intellect +20 Stamina +15 Critical Strike Durability 100 / 100 Requires Level 29 Sell Price: 1 59 44

Heroic Loot

Belt of Unified Souls Item Level 89 Binds when picked up Cloth Waist 7 Armor +10 Intellect +15 Stamina +11 Critical Strike Durability 50 / 50 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 77 82 Legplates of Steel Implants Item Level 89 Binds when picked up Plate Legs 39 Armor +14 Strength or Intellect +20 Stamina +16 Haste   Prismatic Socket Prismatic Socket Socket Bonus: +1 Stamina   Durability 100 / 100 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 1 51 88 Spaulders of the Abomination Item Level 89 Binds when picked up Mail Shoulder 21 Armor +10 Agility or Intellect +15 Stamina +13 Critical Strike +8 Haste   Prismatic Socket Socket Bonus: +1 Stamina   Durability 80 / 80 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 1 15 42 Bile-Cured Gloves Item Level 89 Binds when picked up Leather Hands 11 Armor +10 Agility or Intellect +15 Stamina +9 Critical Strike Durability 45 / 45 Requires Level 30 Sell Price: 77 25

Related achievements

•  [The Culling of Stratholme]
•  [Heroic: The Culling of Stratholme]

Quotes

Spawn

Play time!

Aggro

New toys!

Killing a player

• Boring...
• Why you stop moving?
• Get up! Me not done!

Death

This not fun...

Trivia

• Meathook is voiced by Dave Mallow.

Patch changes

• Patch 7.2.0 (2017-03-28): Model updated.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
  

See also

• Data Anomaly (Meathook)

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB