Health:

• Heroic:  32M
• Normal:  8.4M
• 8 minute enrage

Abilities:

• Biting Cold:  Deals increasing periodic damage to stationary enemies. Movement diminishes this effect. This aura uses the same mechanics as Intense Cold during the fight against Keristrasza in the Nexus, it stacks up and damage increases over time. Moving or staying near a Toasty Fire will lower the amount of stack.
• Flash Freeze:  Encases the target in a block of ice. This spell will freeze the entire raid in blocks of ice, you can avoid this spell by standing on Sspawned by Icicle. 9 sec cast, 30 sec cooldown
• Freeze:  Inflicts 5550 to 6450 Frost damage to nearby enemies, immobilizing them for up to 10 sec. 10 yd radius. The root effect of this spell is dispellable.
• Icicle:  Icicles will randomly drop on the ground during the fight. Move before they hit the ground, they will deal 12,000 damage on impact. After an Icicle crashed on the ground it will create a Snowdrift, standing on it will protect you from the effects of Flash Freeze.
• Frozen Blows- Reduces Hodir's physical damage by 70%, but grants each of his attacks 31,062 (Heroic: 40,000) additional Frost damage, for 20 seconds. Enemies take 4,000 additional Frost damage every 2 seconds for the duration of the spell.

NPCs:

There will be 8 friendly (4 in normal) NPCs that we can release to help with the fight.   They start off in ice blocks to attack to release.   Not absolutely neccessarly, but they do dps themselves and buffs, and help dispels too.    Also don't release them before Hodir is pulled or they despawn for the fight.

Moonkins:

• Starlight:  Envelops a location in starlight for 1 min, increasing the attack and casting speed of friendly units within it

Shamans:

• Storm Power:  Charges a nearby friendly target with lightning, increasing critical strike damage by 135% for 30 sec.

Priests:

• Dispel:  Dispell Priests will randomly dispell Freeze on the members of the raid.

Mages:

• Toasty Fire:  Warms nearby friendly creatures, preventing the effects of Freeze and Biting Cold, and increasing Spirit by 4. In addition, your Spells and Ranged attacks have a chance to singe enemies. Toasty fire can be extinguished by falling ice or Flash Freeze.
• Singed:  Singes the enemy, inflicting 3000 Fire damage and increasing damage taken from magical spells and effects by 2% for 25 sec. Stacks up to 30 times.

Hard Mode:

Kill him in 3 mins or less.

The Fight:

This is a fairly simple fight actually.   First note, only need 1 tank, and a Nuitbear in polar Frost Resist gear with 50K hp would be perfect tank for this.   Other tanks are doable too, don't need Frost Resist per se, with enough HP at least.   It's only that 40K frost damage blow which can probably be reduced with CDs like Sarth3D breath coordination type of thing.

Most of the raid damage is avoidable.  The better we're at avoiding, the less healers we need for the fight.

Jump/run all the time to avoid the dot from stacking, like Nexus.  Avoid the Icicles that fall from the sky, watch for the snowflakes, think Gruul rocks.   Turn on your projected textures, these icicles are the blue circles on the ground you have to stay away from.

For Flash Freeze, can completely avoid it by being where Icicles already landed, they form Snowdrifts.  During it's cast, 3 large icicles (2 in Normal) will start to drop.   Get near one of these, just outside of it until the snowdrift forms, then strafe on it.   If one should fail to avoid this, they will be encased in an Ice Block.   That's when we have to hit the Ice Block to release him, should they be hit with Flash Freeze again while in a block, they die.

As for the NPCs, if we choose to work with them, we gotta release em from the Ice Blocks.   They give us buffs, they help dispels, they even dps the boss.   They are also vulnerable to Flash Freeze and not as smart as some of us.  So we'd likely have to release them each time if we want to keep them around.

That's basically it, 8 minute enrage.    Use the lights, use the fires, dps boss, avoid icicles, never stop moving, get on snowdrifts, profit.  Loot wise, he has 2 chests.   He destroys one at hard mode, one at enrage.     So Hard Mode is just killing him very fast for more loots.

Achievements:

Cheese the Freeze:  Defeat Hodir without any raid member being hit by Flash Freeze on Normal/Heroic Difficulty

Just a raid wide check to avoid damage.

I Have the Coolest Friends: Defeat Hodir without any friendly NPC dying on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

This simply means we hit every single damn ice block to break everyone out after each Flash Freeze.   They won't die to anything else except the insta kill flash freeze while ice blocked.   Remember 8 in Heroic, 4 in Normal.

Getting Cold in Here:  Defeat Hodir without any raid member having more than 2 stacks of Biting Cold on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

Another raid check to keep moving.   And quick dispels when people get trapped by frost nova.

Staying Buffed All Winter:  Possess the effects of Toasty Fire, Storm Power and Starlight at the same time on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

This might take a bit of luck.   Got mine's purely by accident along with a few others.   You'd need a Starlight by a fire, and have the Shaman buff you.   Though I dunno how he chooses his targets to buff.

I Could Say this Cache was Rare:  Defeat Hodir before he shatters his rare cache on Normal/Heroic Difficulty

Hard Mode.   It's simply a defeat him within 3 mins.   On 10 man, we did this 2 healers, pretty much blind zerg of the boss.   Release the ice blocks of course, and take advantage of buffs whenever you can.  DPS!

Trash Info:

Champion of Hodir:  Single pulls, simply a big guy, has a targetted aoe breath where it freezes anyone it hits in an ice block.    Like that mage deep freeze kinda ice block though.    Think of it like those SSC bog lord that pick a member to spit poison at, and hits everyone inbetween.   Except it's ice, and it's too late if you're already hit.   Just spread out and circle around him, to mitigate the number of people hit each time.

Snowdrifts:  There'll be these steaming piles of snow.   When you approach em, Worms pop out.   Lots of them.  And one by one.   So yea, aggro can be touchy since they don't all appear at once to tank and build threat.

Elemental Packs:  There will be one big Revanant and 4 smaller Ice Rock Elementals.  The big guy puts a shield on everyone that reduces AoE damage by 90%.   What?  Is Blizz trying to say we can't aoe these?    Anyways, obviously, kill the big guy, then ezmode trash.

Videos:

10 man Hard Mode

25 Man Hard Mode

Sources:

• http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=848
• http://www.wowwiki.com/Hodir_(tactics)
• http://www.stratfu.com/strats/Hodir

Health:

• Heroic:  4.2M
• Normal:  1.4M

Abilities:

• Touch of Eonar:  The pressence of the Lifebinder heals Freya for 24000 health every 1 sec. Instant
• Attuned to Nature:  Increases healing received by 4%. She starts the fight with 150 stacks of this buff (for a total of 600% extra healing). Killing the adds spawned throughout the fight will lower the stack count.
• Killing the Ancient Conservator removes 25 Stacks
• Killing an Ancient Water Spirit, a Storm Lasher, or a Snaplasher removes 10 Stacks
• Killing a Detonating Lasher removes 2 Stacks
• Sunbeam:  Inflicts 7400 to 8600 Nature damage to enemies within 8 yards of the target. This effect will affect players. AND The rays of the sun heals the plant life for 10000 damage every 1 sec. This effect will affect monsters.
• Summon Lifebinder's Gift:  Somewhere within 60 yards of Freya, a Lifebinder's Gift is summoned, which is a non-mobile, non-attacking mob with ?k HP (37k on Normal). This mob emotes 'Lifebinder's Gift begins to grow!' as it is summoned. It continues growing for about 15 seconds. If it is not killed in that time, it performs a powerful heal
• Seedling Ability: After Freya summons six packs of adds and her stack of Attuned to Nature buffs dissipates, she will stop spawning them and instead use this ability. Seedlings are thrown on the ground which explode a few seconds later, dealing damage and knocking nearby characters up into the air.

Detonating Lashers:

• Flame Lash:  The Lasher inflicts Fire damage equal to 150% of their melee damage. 4% of base mana, 5 yd range, Instant cast
• Detonate:  The Detonate inflicts 6825 to 7175 Fire damage to enemies within 15 yards. Instant

Ancient Water Spirit, Storm Lasher, Snaplasher:

Ancient Water Spirit:

• Tidal Wave:  Surge through enemies in a line. Deals inflicts 5700 to 6300 Nature damage knocking them back.

Storm Lasher:

• Hardened Bark:  Attacks made against the Lasher trigger the protective bark to grow, increasing damage by 10% and slowing move speed by 5%. Lasts 4 sec, stacks up to 99.

Snaplasher:

• Stormbolt:  Inflicts 8788 to 10212 damage to an enemy. 40 yd range, 1.5 sec cast
• Lightning Lash:  Deals about 7500 (5500 on Normal) damage to a target and chains, increasing its damage, to 4 successive targets (2 on Normal). 2 second cast.

Ancient Conservator:

• Nature's Fury:  Infects an enemy for 10 sec, causing it to inflict 5550 to 6450 Nature damage to its nearby allies every 2 sec.
• Conservator's Grip:  The grip of the Protector prevents attacking and casting spells. This can be cancelled by staying under the mushrooms while the Conservator is here, this will also buff your damage by 25%

The Elders:

This fight has a similar mechanic to Sarth3D with 3 Elders now to kill before Freya if we want easy mode.  4.46M hp each in Heroic.

Elder Brightleaf:

• Unstable Sun Beam:  Increases damage and healing done by 5% until the energy of the beam collapses. Stacks up to 10 times.
• Unstable Energy:  Inflicts 16650 to 19350 Nature damage and cancels the effects of Unstable Sun Beam.
• Photosynthesis:  The rays of the sun heals the plant life for 10000 damage every 1 sec.
• Solar Flare:  Inflicts 12950 to 15050 Fire damage to a number of targets based on Brightleaf Flux.
• Brightleaf Flux - Positive:  Damage and healing from spells and effects is increased by 10%.
• Brightleaf Flux - Negative:  Damage and healing from spells and effects is reduced by 10%.

Elder Ironbranch:

• Impale:  Stuns and inflicts 32375 to 37625 Physical damage every 1 sec for 5 sec. 5 yd range
• Iron Roots:  The grip of the Iron Roots inflicts 7863 to 9137 Nature damage every 2 sec and roots the target until freed. If the Iron Roots surrounding the targets are killed, the target will be released. 50000 yd range, Instant
• Thorn Swarm:  Inflicts 12488 to 14512 Nature damage to enemies within 6 yards of the target

Elder Stonebark:

• Ground Tremor:  Deals 11400 to 12600 Physical damage to enemies within 100 yards, interrupting any spells being cast for 8 sec
• Fists of Stone:  The stone fists slow the caster's move speed by 20% and increase damage dealt by 250%. In addition the devastating attacks have a chance to break the bones of the target, reducing chance to block, dodge, or parry by 100% for 20 sec.
• Petrified Bark:  Melee attacks and abilities will be reflected for 30 sec. 220 charges. (80 in 10-Man)

Hard Mode:

Leaving all Elders up is hard mode, granting Freya and all adds buffs.

• Brightleaf's Essence:  The essence of Elder Brightleaf increases Magic damage dealt by Freya and her Allies of Nature by 50%. 50000 yd range, Instant; Grants Freya Unstable Sunbeam
• Stonebark's Essence:  The essence of Elder Stonebark increases physical damage dealt by Freya by 50%. 50000 yd range, Instant; Grants Freya Ground Tremor
• Ironbark's Essence:  The essence of Elder Ironbranch increases Physical damage dealt by Allies of Nature by 50%. 50000 yd range, Instant;  Grants Freya Iron Roots

The Fight:

This fight is pretty much all about adds.  First off, if we do easy mode, we clear all the Elders (and trash) around the Conservatory.  Similar to Sarth3D, each have their own little abilities, but should pose no problems on their own.

Brightleaf:  Lasers pew pew

Stonebark:  Heal the impaled, break people out of roots

Ironbark:  Don't cast during Ground Tremor or you get silenced.   Might need to switch tanks for Fists of Stone.   Kite taunt if neccessary.    Don't kill yourself during petrified bark, that reflects physical damage.

For Freya herself, adds.   First thing of note she has a self healing her for 24K per sec, which is outdps'able.   But she also has a stacked buff that increases her healing by 4% per stack, and she starts at 150 stacks, so 600% healing at the start.   Now that we can't dps through.

The trick is, she summons adds, and each add we kill, it reduces the stack by certain amounts.   So basically until we pass the first few waves of adds, we won't be able to do much damage to her.

First add of note is the Lifebinder's Gift, those must be killed within 15 seconds or it'll pull off a big heal on everything.    Stop em.

Next thing are the add waves.   They come in 3 flavors, Lashers, Elementals, and Conservators.    They spawn in a random order, but always appearing in one of the 3, but never 2 in a row if you get this meaning.      Think of it like the Mage boss in Occulus, 3 types of waves, and he will always summon 1 of each, random order.    But with Freya, after the 3rd one, it randomizes for the next set, but still never 2 of the same type in a row.

The first one comes about 15 seconds into the fight, then 60 seconds afterwards.   Adds are the priority.

Lashers:  12 of them spawn around Freya, they have random aggro, they'll be all over the raid, they also blow up on death.   So mass aoe is likely to get people killed.   Suggested courses of action are to do some aoe, then switch over to single target to handle the explosions one by one.

Elementals:  A set of 3 elementals spawn, and they must be killed simultaenously (within 10 sec).   2 of them can be tanked.   Water Spirit charges and knocks ppl back.   Storm Lasher can be kicked and all, do so cause his chain lightning has the usual pattern of doing more damage the more it chains through.  Stonelasher though is likely not tankable, well he is, but each hit done to him will buff him to do more damage.   But it also slows him down til he stops altogether.   Ranged kite him til that occurs, it is safe for melee to attack so long as threat is below the ranged tank.

Conservators:  Only 1 of these will spawn at a time.  Basically 2 things to be aware of, stay under the good mushrooms or you won't be able to do anything.   Run the fuck away if you have the bomb (Nature's Fury).

And that's pretty much the fight.    Adds come in, kill em all.   Kill Freya inbetween adds.  Oh and avoid lasers.

After about 6 waves, her stacks should be all taken care of, so no more of those adds at least.    She'll still summon the Lifebinder so kill that before it can heal her.   Also she gains new ability to sprinkle seed bombs, stay away from those.

Achievements:

Lumberjacked - Defeat Elder Brightleaf, Elder Ironbranch and Elder Stonebark within 15 seconds of each other on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

So this sounds like we gotta pull all 3 at once and kill em together, somewhat.   But they're on opposite ends of the Conservatory.   If we tank em all together, we'd have to watch for Healing Beams, break people out of roots, Impales, Ground Tremor silence, etc.    Or would it be a split the raid up thing and each deal with the bosses simultaneously.    This sounds harder to pull off in a 10 man.

Con-speed-atory - Defeat Freya within 20 minutes of the first creature you kill in the Conservatory of Life on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

Just a speed run.  With enough gear, knowledge, and probably easy mode, this should be easy.

Deforestation - Defeat 2 Ancient Water Spirits, 2 Storm Lashers and 2 Snaplashers within 10 seconds on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

This seems tricky, would have to offtank the 1st elemental pack until the 2nd one appears then kill em all together I believe.   Probably the snaplashers should be merely hit til rooted and left alone til the 2nd one.

Getting Back to Nature - Defeat Freya while she is affected by 25 stacks of Attuned to Nature on Normal/Heroic Difficulty

This could take luck.  It means leaving the last pack, possibly the last 2 packs up and kill Freya.    It might be 2 cause the Lasher packs only take down 20, so if they're last and we killed the rest, Freya would only have 20 left.   Then you'd be dealing with 45-50 stacks.   That'd be much harder.

Knock on Wood - Defeat Freya while leaving at least 1 Elder alive on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

Elder Ironbranch is probably easiest to leave up.   He grants 50% more physical damage to the adds, which is mostly nothing.   Snaplasher will hurt earlier but does that anyways.  Otherwise it's just conservators, the other adds are mostly magic or whimpy physical ones.

Anyways, Freya is also granted the Strengthened Iron Roots ability.   So call out who got it, everyone kill it.   In normal it seems to have 16K hp to take out.    You can also Cloak / Bubble / Block, and Blessing of Freedom, PvP Trinket, etc (moving impairing breakers) out of it now.

Leaving one Elder in 10 man grants you an [Emblem of Conquest] in replace of the Valor you would've gotten from the Elder himself.

Knock, Knock on Wood - Defeat Freya while leaving at least 2 Elders alive on Normal/Heroic Difficulty

We left up Stonebark for our 2nd Elder.   It gives Freya the Ground Tremor, if you have boss mods, you can perfectly prepare for it.   Most of the fight is relatively the same.    Killing 2 on 10 man grants you a [Runed Orb].

Knock, Knock, Knock on Wood - Defeat Freya while leaving all 3 Elders alive on Normal/Heroic Difficulty

Lastly we believe Brightleaf to be the hardest for us to leave up.   The lights were a bit lethal, and because we had to cautiously kill the exploding lashers, we started to fall behind whenever they came up.    

On our 10 man kill, we found the fight to be very tightly tuned.   It's a lot of damage, and dps has to be on the ball, so can't have many mistakes before it cascades into a wipe.   A bit of an adjustment was that if we did fall behind during Lashers, it was ok to leave them running around.   They aren't lethal til they explode, so we dealt with other wave if necessary first.

Trash Info:

4 Packs:  They consist of a green dragon, a dryad, a tree, and a lasher.   They are all probably CC'able.   We slept the dragon, hex/trapped the dryad.   Killed the tree, he heals, also does a Hurricane to not stand under.   Lasher has Thorns so watch for the damage.   Dragon can do a poison spit breath.

Flower Packs:  There's a big flower and a bunch of small ones.   You want to tank the small ones away from the big one, and dps it fast.   The small flowers that surround it will heal him.    And the big one is on a timer or something spawning more and more of them.  Kill him before he does.   If he does, OT the small ones and drag the big one away or vice versa and try again.

Big Guy + Dryads:  Here these dryads do a bubble that heals them and is dispellable or spellstealable.   But when that happens, it turns into a bomb blowing shit up.    So just out dps the heals.   The big one stomps or something I forget it's not much of a threat.

Sources:

• http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=846
• http://www.wowwiki.com/Freya_(tactics)
• http://www.stratfu.com/strats/Freya

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Health:

• Normal:  3.2M
• Heroic:  16.73M

Abilities:

• Sonic Screech:   A Sonic Shockwave that deals 231250 to 268750 Physical damage to all enemies in its path. The Shockwave damge is split between all targets in its path. 50000 yd range, 2.5 sec cast, 4 sec cooldown
• Sentinel Blast:  Inflicts 6000 Shadow damage and increases Shadow damage taken by 100% for 5 sec. Stacks. Instant
• Terrifying Screech:  The screech strikes fear into the hearts of all nearby enemies, causing them to flee in horror for 5 sec. 2 sec cast, 8 sec cooldown
• Summon Swarming Guardian:  Auriaya occasionally spawns a wave of panther adds (~20 mobs) with a low amount of health points. You can easily AoE them.

Sanctum Sentry:

• Starts with 4 adds in Heroic, 2 in Normal
• 558K HP in Heroic, 335K HP in Normal
• Savage Pounce:  A savage pounce that inflicts 13875 to 16125 Physical damage and an additional 7400 to 8600 Physical damage every second for 5 seconds.
• Strength of the Pack:  The presence of other members of the pack increases damage done by 50% to all members of the pack within 20 yards.

Feral Spirit:

• Spawns 1 min into the fight
• 835K HP in Heroic, 200K HP in Normal
• Starts off with 9 Feral Essences (his 9 lives)
• Feral Essence:  Each essence increases the damage dealt by the Feral Defender by 50%. The Feral Defender can revive itself at the cost of one of its Feral Essences.
• Feral Rush:  Charges an enemy, dealing Shadow damage and interrupting spell cast for 6 sec. 80 yd range
• Feral Pounce:  The Feral Defender pounces the target stunning them for 5 sec and inflicting Shadow damage every 1 sec. 5-45 yd range
• Seeping Feral Essence:  The Seeping Essence of the Feral Defender Inflicts 9000 Shadow damage every 1 sec. This is a void zone-like effect triggered where the Feral Defender spawns and dies.

The Fight:

First thing of note, the raid must ALWAYS be in the same LINE.   Not neccessarily stacked on top of each other, but along to the same line to take the Sonic Screech, damage is split among all hit, and you're fucked if it's not split several times over.   I estimate probably at least 15 people in Heroic have to split it to not fatally hit the raid.

This means, the melee have to either spend a the entire time attacking from the front, or be very good at rotating from back to front the whole fight.    The thing is a 2.5 sec cast, so there is time to move.     I found it quite easy to simply rotate back to front.   This is probably more for raid helping to mitigate damage, perhaps we don't need everyone to be hit, just enough.

Second thing of note is fears.   Tremor totems should handle it for us.   Just get back in position ASAP if you got moved in case of Sonic Screech.

The adds, have a stacking buff where they gain 50% more damage if they're within 20 yards of each other.    So for the pull, the OT stands 20 yards away from the MT.   The OT takes one add.   The MT takes the boss and the other add.    The raid itself must be between the 2, so you're all in that same line for Sonic Screech.

In 10 man, we did a zerg the adds thing, everyone just dogpiled in a corner above the stairs where she pats.    Used Deatth and Decay to pull them.  Zerg'd down both adds.  Then her.    This may or may not be doable in 25 man.   For 1, there's 4 adds, so they're gonna get super buffed and hit hard.   

Tank and spank.   The whole deal is mostly keep the raid together along the same line with occasion fears and damage here and there.    Also small shitty panther adds spawn to be quickly aoe'd down.

About 1 min into the fight, a Feral Defender will spawn.    Killable, but takes 9 tries, and each death drops a void zone.   OT is to just take it behind raid.    He will jump and run all over the place, so have fun with that.

Then the rest of the fight is burn down Auriaya again.    If we do kill Feral Spirit, move well away from the void zone, and the raid has to move too keeping the line dance.

For 25 man the pull was done via snake traps.   We dogpiled behind the same pillar, and the tanks MUST pop their CDs initially so the cats don't rape them.    Kill the cats, kill Auriaya.    One added "problem" in 25 man that with the additional aoe, the Feral Spirit was eventually taken down leaving a Void Zone.   

Achievements:

Crazy Cat Lady:  Defeat Auriaya without destroying her Sanctum Sentries on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

They have to be tanked away from all the aoe splash damage.    Also due to the stacking bleeds, the tanks must trade off in 10 mans.   Don't do it during aoe phases.   Otherwise, zerg her down.

Might be tricker to do in 25 man due to 4 adds.   Might need 1-2 extra tanks (on top of the 3 we bring) to rotate in to take the bleed.    Old School 4 Horsemen style?

Nine Lives:  Defeat the Feral Defender while defeating Auriaya on Normal/Heroic Difficulty

This involves killing the thing 9 times, each time of course drops a void zone, so better do it well away from the raid.   And making sure to not dps Auriaya too fast so the Defender can pop up again.

Trash Info:

Titan Packs:   They come in 2s, you only need to take the pair on either side of the walkway.   And must be tanked seperately, but not too far apart.    After I believe it was 40 yards, they gain "Seperation Anxiety" and fuck us up.   Anyways, the trick to this is that randomly, one of them will spawn a big ball of spark.    This spark will slowly travel towards the other one, and if it reaches, they get a power boost and starts aoe'ing.     The goal is, have the ranged and stuff inbetween, and fuck up those sparks before that happens.    Also, it is advisable for both adds to die relatively close to each other, not neccessary though.    You see, when one dies, the other gains a buff, hitting harder and faster.    You can heal through it if you choose so, or try to get em to die together to mitigate that berserk time.

Sources:

• http://www.wowwiki.com/Auriaya
• http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=844