Operator Thogar is the 2nd encounter in the Iron Assembly wing of BRF.

This fight is fairly simplistic in terms of abilities, and is primarily an add fight, but the room/area mechanics of the fight are going to test your patience if you are bad at 'raid awareness'.

For a more detailed view of his abilities or loot, please view the in-game dungeon journal or click HERE to view at WoWHEAD.

Overview/Abilities

This fight takes place on a set of 4 train tracks.  Trains will periodically either ride straight through the room, or stop and drop off adds (supposedly in a pattern).  If you are run over by the train, either when it goes straight through, or even when it stops to drop off adds, you will die.  DONT GET HIT BY THE TRAIN.  When a train drops off adds, it will remain in the room until ALL the adds that were/are on that train are killed.  Adds will take absolute priority over the boss when they are up.

Operator Thogar

1. Enkindle - Sets the target on fire, applying a fire DoT, increasing dmg by additonal Enkindle by 35% for 25 sec.  Stacks.
2. Prototype Pulse Grenade - This grenade targets a random players location, pulling in those in the effect, dealing mild nature dmg every sec until either out of the animation or it despawns.  The longer you are in the animation, the more you will be slowed.  GTFO as soon as you see you are in it, this means stop casting and GTFO.
3. Berated - Berates allies, increasing their dmg done by 10%, haste by 5%, movement speed by 10% and reduces casting time by 3%.  This effect stacks.

Kromog is the final encounter in The Black Forge wing in BRF.

For a more detailed view of his abilities or loot, please view the in-game dungeon journal or click HERE to view at WoWHEAD.

This encounter is a single phase encounter, with all this abilities pretty much on a timer.  Managing your range from the boss to dodge mechanics and properly DPS-ing extra crap during his primary ability of Rune of Grasping Earth/Thundering Blows is key.

Abilities/Overview

Warped Armor - Reduces movement speed by 15% and increases phys dmg taken by 20%.  Stacks up to 5. Tank swap mechanic.

Stone Breath - Mild nature dmg breath, deals dmg every second for the duration.  Also casts on the raid if there are no targets in melee.

Fists of Stone - deals heavy phys dmg to the tank.  The dmg is split evenly between players (up to 2) within 15 yards.  In other words, tank and OT stack.

Slam - Long cast ability, slams fists on the ground, deals "massive" phys dmg to the raid.  Amount of dmg decreases the further away you are from boss.

Rippling Smash - Cascading eruption that deals heavy nature dmg to those it hits.  Targets ranged only, stay at/close to max range to dodge this.

Rune of Crushing Earth - Large red rune will spawn under random ranged player, and 2 large hands will spawn on either side of it.  Either over time or when a player "trips" the rune, the hands will slam together dealing heavy dmg and stunning for 5 seconds.  In Beta, the hands only triggered when there were 2 of these Runes/Hands up and they both triggered at the same time.

Reverberations - Any time his fists slam the ground, or certain abilities are triggered, yellow sound reverberations will spawn from him towards the back of the room, dealing moderate dmg to those they come into contact with.  Think MUCH smaller rings from Atramedes from BRD.  Advised to dodge these.  However, they can be soaked if a player has an immunity, etc.  But should be easier to dodge.

Shattered Earth - mild nature dmg dealt to 4 random players.  Just deal with it.

Rune of Grasping Earth - Yellow runes will spawn from the middle to the back of the room.  Standing in these runes will allow hands to grab the players.  This will deal very light nature dmg every sec, but will increase in dmg over time, but you will also be completely immune from all Physical dmg and will be rooted to the ground.  It is necessary to stand in these to counter Thundering Blows.  You need to slowly dps your way out of these and ONLY break them once Thundering Blows is over.

Thundering Blows - For the duration of RoGE, Kromog will repeatedly slam the ground, knocking anyone who isnt grabbed by a hand far up into the air, dealing moderate/heavy dmg to them every sec.  This is a wipe mechanic.  As if you dont die from the damage while you are up in the air, you will die from the fall damage.

Summary

Tanks stack, face boss either left or right, melee stack on opposite side.  Tank swap when appropriate, probably 3-4 stacks of Warped Armor.  melee MIGHT need to run out for Slam due to their proximity to the boss.  Ranged stay grouped (loosely) at/near max range to dodge Rippling Smash and also to be able to move out of Rune of Crushing Earth and dodge RS.  Everyone do your best to dodge Reverberations.  When yellow runes spawn for Rune of Grasphing Earth, everyone stand in a rune (1 per person), let tanks get in those closest to boss.  Slowly kill your and others Hands they are trapped in, healers should help dps this too early on as the nature dmg shouldnt be too severe at the start.  ONLY break out of these hands RIGHT when Thundering Blows ends.  Rinse-repeat.

TLDR/Saedo's Cliffs Notes

Most of this is just avoid the damage, watch the vid to recognize the stuff.

One twist is the Rune of Grasping Earth, get in those, 1 player each, they do some nature damage to you, but make you immune to physical damage.  That lets you avoid the Thundering Blows, massive damage that throws you up into the air.   But, you also have to kill the hands to release you afterward, and help release the tanks and healers asap.

Hans'gar and Franzok is the first encounter of The Black Forge wing in BRF.

For a more detailed view of his abilities or loot, please view the in-game dungeon journal or click HERE to view at WoWHEAD.

This fight is an single-phase encounter.  These bosses have a shared health pool, and can utilize their abilities to tag-team the tanks.  Primary focus on this encounter is their use of the conveyor belts and dodge the primary damage from the belts.  They also gain rage as they take damage, which allows them to increase the frequency of their ability usage.

Conveyor Belts

Searing Plates - This occurs when Hans'gar does his Pumped Up ability.  These plates roll across the belts from one side of the room to the other, dealing heavy fire dmg every 1 sec you are on the plate.  Just dodge them as they roll across.

Scorching Burns - Occasionally at the beginning/end of the belts, the walls will ignite on fire, dealng mild/moderate damage to those it touches.  This is to prevent players from just stacking against the wall when the belt is going and sidstepping the Plates or Presses (from Pulverized).

Pulverized - This occurs when Franzok does his Pumped Up ability. Stamping presses come down from the roof, smashing onto the belts in the identified/lit up squares.  Deals heavy phys dmg.  These appear in various patterns, so once you see the first few stamps go off during that pulverize, you can memorize which plates will get stamped for the duration of that Pulverized 'phase'.  Some are set patterns that go around the room, others are a set pattern that just goes down along the belt from side to side.  Watch the attached video and it explains it.  Very simple.   *NOTE* - give these Presses a little grace room (3 yards) as the damage tends to hit outside of the marked area.

Boss abilities

These bosses share 3 primary abilities, and Franzok has 2 additional abilities that he will use.

Hans'gar & Franzok

-Body Slam - Leaps towards an enemy - prefers ranged, possibly the furthest person, then will run back to the tank.  As their rage bar increases, they will start jumping to multiple targets. The targeted player(s), all players within 12 yards AND the tank with threat on that boss will receive Shattered Vertebrae which increases phys dmg taken by 30% for a set amount of time (old beta had the debuff lasting 40 seconds, where recent PTR had it lasting 8 sec).  Targeted person should be marked by a large circle around them, so there should be time to get away from them.  Each time the boss lands from Body Slam or also from jumping down after activating a Conveyor Belt he will cast Aftershock, which is just minor raid wide dmg every 2 seconds for 4 sec.

-Crippling Suplex - Whenever either Hans'gar or Franzok leave the room to activate the Conveyor Belts, the one that leaves the arena will pick up his tank, and throw it to the other boss and smash the 2 tanks together.  Dealing physical damage to both tanks equal to the MAXIMUM health of the picked up player.  Tanks use personal CDs for this, or external if personals are on CD.

-Pumped Up - The lower the health pools, the more their rage bar will increase.  As they gain rage, they will deal more melee dmg, increase the # of hammers thrown by Skullcracker, reduce casting time of Disrupting Shout and increase the number of jumps performed during Body Slam.

Franzok only

-Disrupting Roar - interrupts all spellcasting within 100 yards (think Twin Ogron)

-Skullcracker - Throws a hammer to a nearby enemy (favoring melee), dealing moderate phys dmg to them.

Summary

Overall the fight isnt too "complex", the dungeon journal doesnt give a great explanation of abilities really IMO.

Each tank takes a boss, there shouldnt be any tank swapping.  Whenever a tank gets picked up for Crippling Suplex use a personal CD to mitigate damage to each other.  Thats the extent of the tanks job.  When either of the bosses do Body Slam just be sure to either have people aware to run away from the targeted player or have the targeted player run away from others.  Healers be aware of those who were affected by the Body Slam as they will take a little more damage from Aftershock due to the Shattered Vertebrae debuff.  Also stop-casting when Disrupting Roar goes out.  Nothing you can really do about Skullcracker except heal though, maybe use a minor personal CD.  Pay attention to which belt is spawning based on which boss goes up so you know to run around either the Searing Plates as they roll across the room, or dodge where the Presses are going to come down.  Try to memorize the patterns.

TLDR/Saedo's Cliffs Notes

First boss of The Black Forge (2nd wing).

Essentially, the fight is 2 bosses, and through the stages, one of them jumps away, activates a conveyer belt mechanic, we fight one boss for a while during that, then he returns, we damage both bosses at the same time again, then other boss jumps away activating his conveyor belt mechanic, then later jumps back into the fight, repeat.

First conveyer belts bring the flaming pop tarts, don't be hit by them.

The boss jumping back to raid also means aoe damage, don't be near the guy with the arrow on his head.

Second conveyer belt ability is the dance of not being stamped by the machinery.

Live Vid

PTR Vid - Start vid at 10:34

Oregorger is the 2nd boss in the Slag Works (1st wing) of BRF.

This fight is fairly unique as its probably one of the only fights where you are supposed to face the boss TOWARDS the raid for marjority of the encounter.

Oregorger is a repeating 'phase' encounter like Gruul, but its not time based, its "blackrock energy" based.  He has a "blackrock ore" energy bar that slowly depletes as he uses his abilities.  Once he reaches 0 energy, he will roll around the room to try to collect/eat more ore to fill up his bar again.  Your goal is to keep him in phase 1 as long as possible and get him out of phase 2 (his 'rolling' phase) as quickly as possible.

For a more detailed view of his abilities or loot, please view the in-game dungeon journal or click HERE to view at WoWHEAD.

Abilities

Phase 1 - Satiated Slaughter

Acid Torrent - Fires a cone of acid at ranged targets, dealing HEAVY phys damage to the person closest to the boss within that cone (aka the Tank) and increases the damage that person takes by the next AT for 20 seconds.  All other targets in the cone take "heavy" damage, but that damage is reduced based on the closest (tank) targets total damage mitigation.  IE, the tank will take the heaviest hit on this, his mitigation will make the ranged players take reduced damage from the ability.  If the tank is not in the cone for this, ranged will take the full hit.

Retched Blackrock - Vomits pools of Blackrock Ore ooze at you (should always be ranged players), deals nature dmg every 1.5 sec. "dont stand in fire"

Explosive Shard - Throws a Shard, typically at melee, dealing mild/moderate dmg and knocking back players in the area.  Detonates after 3 seconds, dealing additional fire damage and stunning nearby enemies.  Explosive/fire dmg can be ranged, unsure of range limit.

Blackrock Barrage - INTERRUPTABLE AND NEEDS TO BE INTERRUPTED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!  Throws blackrock spines at the raid, dealing mild/moderate raid-wide damage.

Acid Maw - Nature damage DoT, deals dmg every 2 sec for 8 secs.

Phase 2 - Feeding Frenzy

Rolling Fury - Rolls around, dealing heavy phys dmg and knocks down anyone he hits.

Earthshaking Collision - Deals mild/moderate raid-wide damage WHEN he is rolling.  This dmg increases due to Hunger Drive

Hunger Drive - The longer the boss remains in Feeding Frenzy, he gains stacks of this.  Increases dmg of Earthshaking Collision by 5% per stack, stacks up to 100.

Summary

P1 - Melee stacks behind the boss and moves from the back of the boss to the side of the boss each time Explosive Shard goes out to prevent additional fire/exposive damage.  Ranged players stay stacked at max range, and move to the edge of Retched Blackrock pools to keep them overlapped and save space.  Off-tank should stack with/near Melee so they dont take uneccessary Acid Torrent damage or the debuff.  Primary Tank faces the boss towards the ranged group so he takes the major hit of the AC, using personal mitigation to lessen the damage the ranged group takes.  Tank swap when appropriate.  INTERRUPT ROTATION FOR Blackrock Barrage!  This is crucial, interrupting BB will keep him in P1 much longer as he wont be burning through his blackrock energy as fast, and will save healer mana by reducing raid-wide damage.

P2 - The boss will start rolling around the room and crashing into random walls.  There will several crates of Ore around the room that the boss will roll through.  You need to spread around the room when he enters this phase and break open the crates so the ore is available for him to eat to replenish his bar, otherwise he wont eat it. Pay attention to which way he is rolling around so he doesnt roll through you. Once he crashes into a wall, he will only roll 2 directions (left or right *note that he CAN roll around corners*), he will never roll backwards. So if you are concerned about being hit once your crates are broken, just be sure to be "behind" him or in the area he just rolled from.  The longer he is in this phase, the more his rolling AoE damage will ramp up over time.  Quickly break the boxes open as fast as possible to get him out of this phase and back into P1.

Rinse and repeat.

TLDR/Saedo's Cliffs Notes

Short version, tanks have to be the closest players, and they'll do their classic tank swap dance. Avoid puddles (mostly ranged), avoid exploding shards (mostly melee), and interrupt the Blackrock Barrage (raid wide damage) as much as possible.

That's phase 1, until he runs out of "mana"/energy, his main abilities consume it. Phase 2 he rolls around damaging players, avoid that. But the goal is to start attacking crates to reveal the ore inside for him to gorge on to refill his "mana"/energy to restart Phase 1. Try to get out of this phase ASAP.

LIVE vid

PTR Vid - Start this vid at the 5-min mark.