Ulduar Boss Info and Strats

[Stompbox]

Items that have been recently added or changed are in bold.

Ulduar Interactive Map - StratFu


Flame Leviathan (Vehicle Boss Fight)
Hard Mode: Leave some or all towers up.
Project Marmot - Flame Leviathan Hard Mode Video Guide

Flame Leviathan - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft
FlameLeviathan - StratFu
Flame Leviathan | Instance | Guides
Patch 3.1 - Ulduar - Flame Leviathan
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Ignis the Furnace Master
Hard Mode: None.
Project Marmot - Ignis the Furnace Master Video Guide

Ignis the Furnace Master - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft
Ignis - StratFu
Ignis the Furnace Master | Instance | Guides
Patch 3.1 - Ulduar - Ignis the Furnace Master
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Razorscale
Hard Mode: None.
Project Marmot - Razorscale Video Guide

Razorscale - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft
Razorscale - StratFu
Razorscale | Instance | Guides
Patch 3.1 - Ulduar - Razorscale
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XT-002 Deconstructor
Hard Mode: Destroy XT-002 Deconstructor's Heart before defeating the encounter.
Project Marmot - XT-002 Deconstructor Video Guide
Project Marmot - XT-002 Hard Mode Video Guide

XT-002 Deconstructor - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft
XT002 - StratFu
XT-002 Deconstructor | Instance | Guides
Patch 3.1 - Ulduar - XT-002 Deconstructor
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The Iron Council
Hard Mode: Kill Steelbreaker last.
Project Marmot - The Iron Council Video Guide

Assembly of Iron - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft
IronCouncil - StratFu
The Iron Council | Instance | Guides
Patch 3.1 - Ulduar - The Iron Council
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Kologarn
Hard Mode: None.
Project Marmot - Kologarn Video Guide

Kologarn - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft
Kologarn - StratFu
Kologarn | Instance | Guides
Patch 3.1 - Ulduar - Kologarn
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Auriaya
Hard Mode: None.
Project Marmot - Auriaya Video Guide

Auriaya - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft
Auriaya | Instance | Guides
Patch 3.1 - Ulduar - Auriaya
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Hodir
Hard Mode: Defeat Hodir before he shatters any of the chests in the room.
Project Marmot - Hodir Video Guide
Project Marmot - Hodir Hard Mode

Hodir (tactics - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft)
Hodir - StratFu
Hodir | Instance | Guides
Patch 3.1 - Ulduar - Hodir
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Freya
Hard Mode: Defeat Freya with some or all 3 Elders alive.
Project Marmot - Freya Video Guide

Freya (tactics - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft)
Freya | Instance | Guides
Patch 3.1 - Ulduar - Freya
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Thorim
Hard Mode: Engage Thorim within 3 minutes to prevent Sif from despawning, then defeat Thorim.
Project Marmot - Thorim Video Guide

Thorim (tactics - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft)
Thorim - StratFu
Thorim | Instance | Guides
Patch 3.1 - Ulduar - Thorim
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Mimiron
Hard Mode: Activate Mimiron's self-destruct sequence and defeat him within 8 minutes.
Project Marmot - Mimiron Video Guide

Mimiron - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft
Mimiron - StratFu
Mimiron | Instance | Guides
Patch 3.1 - Ulduar - Mimiron
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General Vezax
Hard Mode: Do not use any Saronite Vapors during the encounter.
Project Marmot - General Vezax Video Guide

General Vezax - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft
General Vezax | Instance | Guides
Patch 3.1 - Ulduar - General Vezax
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Algalon the Observer

Access to this encounter requires a member of your raid obtain a quest item from the Iron Council on hard mode. The person with the quest must then defeat Hodir, Thorim, Freya and Mimiron on Hard Mode.

Algalon the Observer - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft
Patch 3.1 - Ulduar - Algalon the Observer
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Video of a brief encounter with Algalon - Underground Kosmonavts




Yogg-Saron
Hard Mode: Defeat Yogg-Saron without the aid of the Watchers.
Project Marmot - Yogg-Saron Video Guide

Yogg-Saron - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft
Yogg-Saron | Instance | Guides
Patch 3.1 - Ulduar - Yogg-Saron
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[Stompbox]

Reserved.

[Amabar]

I believe for flame leviathan you destroy the towers to access the hard mode, not leave them up.

For Freya, the elders also have to survive the fight to qualify for hard mode.

[Lakotamani]

Ive heard both Amabar. This from Stratfu

"The last iteration on the PTR had destroying towers making him EASIER. Meaning, you could do him "really hard" and decide you couldn't do it and back off to "Easier"."

[Stompbox]

I believe for flame leviathan you destroy the towers to access the hard mode, not leave them up.

For Freya, the elders also have to survive the fight to qualify for hard mode.

Ive heard both Amabar. This from Stratfu

"The last iteration on the PTR had destroying towers making him EASIER. Meaning, you could do him "really hard" and decide you couldn't do it and back off to "Easier"."

I also heard both, and opted to include the latest information. If blizzard changed this I'll be sure and update this thread ASAP.

Amabar, thanks for the note about Freya, I have edited the hard mode description.

[Hit Me]

So the hard mode, really isn't a mode at all? It's just the achievement system from wotlk with a new name?

[Squashed]

Its not like switching between heroic and normal, no.

Hardmore is defeating an encounter with specific strategies (ie kill order on Iron Council) or pre-fight conditions (ie Sarth w/darkes, Flame Leviathan towers). Depending on the conditions in which the boss is defeated you're awarded with different loot tables and/or achievements.

[Rennadrel]

Well the orbital defense towers on Flame Leviathan spawn enemies, which is why I believe leaving them up makes it harder, plus he gets the buffs for each one.

[Tailsz]

I was very suprised yesterday when digging through all the strats i could get ahold of concerning the amount of misinformation on this hard mode and how to activate it. Needless to say the idea that if destroying the towers was the path to the hard mode (and its not), it could lead to some high frustrations if you were assuming that was how you got to easy mode (and it is).

After downing Leviathan(25) I can confirm that:

Destroying the towers leads to Normal mode and makes the encounter easier.

While,

Leaving the towers up leads to Hard mode and makes the encounter tougher depending on how many of the four towers you leave up.

This fight is exceptionally easy and its a lot of fun. I found the learning curve to be very minimal when compared with Malygos drakes.

[Ciderhelm]

Stompbox, you've got a lot of people bookmarking this thread. Do you mind if I directly edit your post when we make new movies and add the Project Marmot link to the top?

[Stompbox]

Stompbox, you've got a lot of people bookmarking this thread. Do you mind if I directly edit your post when we make new movies and add the Project Marmot link to the top?

I don't mind at all Cider, feel free to make any changes you'd like.

[Erichilles]

I believe for flame leviathan you destroy the towers to access the hard mode, not leave them up.

For Freya, the elders also have to survive the fight to qualify for hard mode.

http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/...chievement.jpg

"Defeat the Flame Leviathan with 4 orbital defense systems active on heroic difficulty"

i think that means leave them up, but on stratfu, they clame depending on which npc you talk to to initiate the event is which difficulty you're choosing (brann for easy-mode, other guy for hard mode)

[Heladys]

I was very suprised yesterday when digging through all the strats i could get ahold of concerning the amount of misinformation on this hard mode and how to activate it. Needless to say the idea that if destroying the towers was the path to the hard mode (and its not), it could lead to some high frustrations if you were assuming that was how you got to easy mode (and it is).

After downing Leviathan(25) I can confirm that:

Destroying the towers leads to Normal mode and makes the encounter easier.

While,

Leaving the towers up leads to Hard mode and makes the encounter tougher depending on how many of the four towers you leave up.

This fight is exceptionally easy and its a lot of fun. I found the learning curve to be very minimal when compared with Malygos drakes.

You're entirely correct, downing towers leads to easy mode.

So yes there's a lot of misinformation but it wasn't always inaccurate... there were builds on PTR where you downed the towers to activate hard mode. Folks just didn't adjust their documentation when Blizz changed things back.

Lesson to be learned there is if people are depending upon other folks' strategies... check the date stamps and ensure they're still current/correct.

[Krashtork]

We left towers up and it did easy mode.

[Erichilles]

We left towers up and it did easy mode.

The trash portion of the fight begins when you tell either Brann Bronzebeard or the Lore-Keeper of Norgannon that you're ready. This makes the vehicles usable, although no mobs will attack you until you leave the starting area. If you speak to Brann Bronzebeard, the fight is automatically set to "easy mode." If you talk to the Lore-Keeper of Norgannon, the fight is set to hard mode by default, and destroying individual towers will remove those powers/benefits from the Flame Leviathan fight. At any time, you can see which powers/benefits Flame Leviathan has by looking at the gemstones in his fight area; those that are lit are activated, with green representing Freya, blue Hodir, yellow Thorim, and red Mimiron.

^^^^^ then perhaps this is true ^^^^^

[Norik]

Is this the order of the encounters? I refrained form the PTR as I wanted some surprise when going in the first time. But dont want to fly completely blind hence my reason for being here

[Stompbox]

Is this the order of the encounters? I refrained form the PTR as I wanted some surprise when going in the first time. But dont want to fly completely blind hence my reason for being here

Once you defeat Flame Leviathan, you can defeat Razorscale, Ignis and XT-002 in any order, but you must defeat XT-002 to move further into Ulduar.

As far as I know, once you defeat the first four bosses, the order I have them listed in is the true progression up to Algalon and Yogg-Saron. You could in theory defeat Algalon before ever defeating Yogg, so I just listed Yogg last as he is the true "final boss" of the dungeon.

[wtwolf6]

This site

Ladderdueling.com » Boss Strats

Has every encounter in detail except yogg and algalon, found a few with some good information but this has everything in one place, helped us last night when we did razorscale.

[Stompbox]

This site

Ladderdueling.com » Boss Strats

Has every encounter in detail except yogg and algalon, found a few with some good information but this has everything in one place, helped us last night when we did razorscale.

Nice find; I added their links.

[Stompbox]

Removed the links to severancegaming.com guides; their site is down and there doesn't seem to be any indication as to when they'll be back online.

I've also added Hard Mode information to all the bosses I'm sure about. I'm adding links to the Project Marmot videos as soon as they are made available.

EDIT: Added a link to new Yogg-Saron encounter information.
EDIT2: Added a link to an interactive map of Ulduar over at StratFu