User:GoldenYak/Shog'Kathak
 Shog'Kathak | |
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| Title | <The Iron Faceless> |
| Race | Faceless one |
| Level | ?? Boss |
| Location | The Armory, The Dreadforge |
| Status | Killable |
| The Dreadforge | |
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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.
The Encounter
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.
Shog'Kathak's Abilities
Dread Iron Armor — Four plates of Dread Iron Armor guard Shog'Kathak's body - the plates are on his left arm, right arm, left leg, and right leg. Each plate prevents 20% of Shog'Kathak's health from being lost - .i.e with all four plates intact Shog'Kathak's health cannot be reduced below 80%. Dread Iron Armor Plates become vulnerable to damage when Shog'Kathak has the Bloated with Saronite buff.
Dread Iron Lash — Lashes Shog'Kathak's current target, rending armor and flesh and increasing the damage they take from Dread Iron Lash by 100%.
Focus — Shog'Kathak targets a random player. After a short time, Shog'Kathak will attempt to cast Devour at the target's location.
Devour — Shog'Kathak casts Devour on everything within 6 yards at a the location of the target of Focus.
- Devour Saronite Residue — Devouring a glob of Polluted Saronite Residue causes Shog'Kathak's power to increase. Every glob devoured grants a stack of the buff Saronite Residue, which increases his size and damage by a small amount.
- Devour Saronite Sludgeling — Devouring a Saronite Sludgeling will cause Shog'Kathak to gain stacks of Saronite Residue equal to the amount of Residual Power the Sludgeling had.
- Devour Faceless One — Devouring a Faceless Hordeling restors 5% of Shog'Kathak's total health and gives him 4 stacks of Saronite Residue.
- Devour Player — Devouring a player will deposit them in Shog'Kathak's belly, causing them to take periodic shadowblight damage. Players can be healed, but 50% of the healing they receive will be absorbed by Shog'Kathak. Players must trigger a Vile Retch within Shog'Kathak to free themselves.
Bloated with Saronite — When Shog'Kathak has over 40 stacks of Saronite Residue, he becomes Bloated with Saronite. His armor splits apart, becoming vulnerable, and dark energy spills out of his body. All players take periodic shadowblight damage as long as this debuff is active, with the damage increasing over time. Shog'Kathak also gains a tremendous boost to his melee damage and suffers from greatly reduced movement speed. Further stacks of Saronite Residue increase the power of Bloated with Saronite.
Vile Retch — Shog'Kathak vomits a burst of vile secretions in a cone-shaped blast. Any players caught in the cone take periodic bursts of shadowblight damage. Depletes all of Shog'Kathak's Saronite Residue. Any devoured players will be expelled. This ability spawns various adds, based on the number of Saronite Residue stacks Shog'Kathak currently has.
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.
Digest — Shog'Kathak will attempt to use Digest on devoured players. Digest deals a burst of shadowblight damage and drains all of the player's energy.
Shudder — Players can use Shudder to build up energy.
Spasm — Players can use Spasm to interrupt Digest. Spasm costs a small amount of energy.- Vile Retch — At 100 energy, players can use Vile Retch. This triggers the Vile Retch ability on Shog'Kathak, as described above.
Faceless Hordeling
Faceless Hordelings will spawn periodically throughout the encounter, appearing at the far edges of the chamber and attacking random targets.
- Polluted Saronite Residue — Upon death, Faceless Hordelings leave behind a pool of Polluted Saronite Residue, which deals shadowblight damage to anyone standing in it.
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.
- Residual Power — Affects the size and strength of the Saronite Sludgeling. Stacks up to 5.
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.
- Residual Power — Affects the size and strength of the Saronite Amalgam. Stacks up to 99.
- Shed Saronite — As the Amalgam loses health, it will shed saronite slime on nearby targets, dealing a burst of shadowblight damage to random targets and anyone nearby. Each use of Shed Saronite will remove one stack of Residual Power.
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.
Shog'Kathak's Abilities
- Dread Iron Lash — Lashes Shog'Kathak's current target, rending armor and flesh and increasing the damage they take from Dread Iron Lash by 100%.
Unbridled Power — Without the dread iron armor holding his body together, Shog'Kathak's power is spilling out at an increasing rate. All players take periodic bursts of Shadowblight damage. Each burst will deal more and more damage over time.- Focus — Shog'Kathak targets a random player. After a short time, Shog'Kathak will attempt to cast Lethal Devour at the target's location.
Lethal Devour — Shog'Kathak casts Lethal Devour on everything within 6 yards at a random location. Any player hit by Lethal Devour is instantly slain and Shog'Kathak regains 5% of his total health.
Heroic Mode Only
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.
- Iron Fragment — Strikes a random target with a fragment of dread iron soaked in dark energy, dealing a moderate amount of shadow damage.
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
Digestive Juices — Players that have been devoured by Shog'Kathak are drenched in digestive juices, which produce an aura of dark energy around them, dealing damage to anyone within 10 yards. If they are hit by Devour while afflicted with Digestive Juices, they are instantly slain.- 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.
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
- Behold the industry of chaos! The power that will smother the world in eternal darkness!
- Aggro
- Feed the Great Maw!
- Casting Devour
- I am a lord of hunger!
- The Great Maw feeds through me!
- Nourish my malice!
- Destroying a Dread Iron Plate
- A wasted effort!
- Your struggle is futile!
- Your actions will avail you nothing!
- Hnnrgh! I will devour you!
- Devouring a Player
- A juicy morsel... filled with fear!
- Be still now, and digest!
- Vile Retch Triggered
- Rraggh! The taste of... hope...!
- Valor! Far too bitter...!
- Phase Two Begin
- My power is unleashed!
- Killing a Player
- The weak will be food. It is their way.
- They are as old as life and death. Older.
- The spheres sing a song of your demise. It is forgettable.
- Wipe
- Your flesh will be fuel. Your souls will be refuse.
- Death
- We all exist... to feed him...