Nitrogg Thundertower
 Nitrogg Thundertower | |||||||
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| Title | <Assault Commander> | ||||||
| Gender | Male | ||||||
| Race | Orc (Humanoid) | ||||||
| Level | 37-42 Elite | ||||||
| Reaction | Alliance Horde | ||||||
| Affiliation(s) | Iron Horde | ||||||
| Occupation | Commander | ||||||
| Location | Grimrail Depot | ||||||
| Status | Killable | ||||||
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Nitrogg Thundertower is the second boss of Grimrail Depot. The encounter is an Add fight which requires dealing with the boss, his adds and the turrets on the train.
Adventure Guide
With a zeal for flame and explosives, Nitrogg was a natural fit in the mechanized and weaponized army that Garrosh's plans brought to Draenor, and he has risen quickly through the Iron Horde. He oversees the artillery on the Grimrail, and is eager to break through the defenses around Shattrath and conquer the enemies of the Iron Horde within.
Overview
At 60% health, Nitrogg Thundertower retreats to his Assault Cannon at the far end of the train car. Players must reclaim Blackrock Munitions from soldiers that pour into the area, and use them destroy Nitrogg's cannon, after which they may dispatch Nitrogg directly.
Damage Dealers
- Defeat Grom'kar Boomers to loot Blackrock Mortar Shells, then enter a Blackrock Turret to heavily damage Nitrogg's Assault Cannon.
- Take shelter behind an obstacle when targeted by Nitrogg's Suppressive Fire.
Healers
- Take shelter behind an obstacle when targeted by Nitrogg's Suppressive Fire.
- The platform has many tight turns; be aware of your lines of sight to other party members.
Tanks
- Reinforcements continually enter the encounter area and must be tanked.
- Take shelter behind an obstacle when targeted by Nitrogg's Suppressive Fire.
Abilities
Nitrogg Thundertower
Blackrock Mortar — Throws a series of Blackrock Mortar shells towards a target's location, inflicting Fire damage to enemies within 4 yards of the impact.
Blackrock Grenade — Throws a Blackrock Grenade at a target, inflicting Fire damage to enemies within 3 yards.
Assault Cannon
Suppressive Fire — Readies a salvo of Suppressive Fire, interrupting casts for 1 sec and inflicting rapid Physical damage. Suppressive Fire lasts 10 sec. Targets may hide behind cover to mitigate the damage from this ability.
Slag Blast 
— Fires a concentrated salvo of molten slag at a targeted location, engulfing the area in flames. These flames increase Fire damage taken by 30% and inflict 2000 Fire damage every second for 6 sec. This effect stacks.
Blackrock Munitions
Defeated Blackrock weapons specialists will leave behind munitions, which players may picked up and use against Nitrogg and his soldiers.
Blackrock Shrapnel — Carrying Shrapnel, allowing the use of a Blackrock Turret's Shrapnel Cannon ability.
Shrapnel Cannon
Blasts enemies in a frontal cone, inflicting 55000 Fire damage every second to nearby enemies.
- Shrapnel Cannon — Blasts enemies in a frontal cone, inflicting 55000 Fire damage every second to nearby enemies.
- Blackrock Mortar Shells — Carrying Mortar Shells, allowing the use of a Blackrock Turret's Homing Shell ability.
Homing Shell
Shoots an homing shell, inflicting 1000000 Fire damage to the Assault Cannon.
- Artillery Shell — Shoots an homing shell, inflicting 1000000 Fire damage to the Assault Cannon.
- Blackrock Grenades — Carrying Grenades, allowing the use of Blackrock Grenade.
Blackrock Grenade
Throws a Blackrock Grenade at a targeted location, inflicting 114000 to 126000 Fire damage to enemies within 3 yards and knocking them back.
- Blackrock Grenade — Throws a Blackrock Grenade at a targeted location, inflicting 114000 to 126000 Fire damage to enemies within 3 yards and knocking them back.
Reinforcements
- Iron Infantry — The Iron Infantry stand as the backbone of the Iron Horde, combating foes with their sharpened axes.
- Grom'kar Gunner — Defeated Grom'kar Gunner will drop Blackrock Shrapnel.
- Shrapnel Blast — Blasts enemies in a 13 yard frontal cone, inflicting 11875 to 13125 Fire damage every half-second to enemies.
- Grom'kar Boomer — Defeated Grom'kar Boomer will drop Blackrock Mortar Shells.
- Blackrock Mortar — Throws a Blackrock Mortar shell, inflicting Fire damage to enemies within 4 yards of the impact.
- Grom'kar Grenadier — Defeated Grom'kar Grenadier will drop Blackrock Grenades.
- Blackrock Grenade — Throws a grenade at a target's location, inflicting Fire damage to enemies within 3 yards.
Strategy
Nitrogg Thundertower is arguably the hardest encounter in Grimrail Depot.
Phase 1 is relatively simple. Thundertower hits the tank hard and throws mortars at random party members. Move away from where he throws the mortars.
Phase 2 begins as Thundertower rides to the front of the train cart, blasts away the walls and begins sending Grom'kar Gunners, Grom'kar Grenadiers, and Grom'kar Boomers at the party. His turret will shoot Suppressing Fire at a random party member, the shots will hurt both the target and those around him/her. Getting behind the various boxes and pillars will block the shots. The turret's health is too high to destroy normally, so the party must loot the dead Boomers, take their mortars, and use the turrets on the side of the train to destroy Thundertower's turret. Use the dead Grenadier's grenades to kill the adds faster and keep the pressure off the tank.
Phase 3 begins after Thundertower's turret is destroyed by the party's mortars. Thundertower will attack the party once again, this time with more adds spawning. Use your cooldowns and the grenades to finish off the boss.
Loot
Related Achievements
Quotes
- Gauntlet
- They're here... GET UP!
- Formation, NOW!
- Come on, swines! Move like you signed up for this.
- Intro
- Readdyyyyyyyy!!!
- Aggro
- Who dares challenge me?
- Reinforcements
- Let 'em have it, boys!
- Give 'em all ya got.
- Suppressive Fire
- I've got my sights on you.
- RAPID FIRE!!!
- Phase 3
- Hah! Let's take this down to your level.
- Killed a player
- Another contender down!
- So weak!
- Wipe
- None can compete!
- Death
- I didn't... even... try...
Objective of
Trivia
Nitrogg is voiced by Paul Nakauchi.
Patch changes
Hotfix (2015-01-05):
- [Requires a realm restart] Nitrogg Thundertower: Assault Cannon's Suppressive Fire now deals less damage.
- [Requires a realm restart] Nitrogg Thundertower: Grom'kar Gunner's Shrapnel Blast now deals less damage.
- [Requires a realm restart] Nitrogg Thundertower: Iron Infantry now has less health.
- Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Added.