Health:

• Normal:  3.3M each
• Heroic:  10M each

Abilities:

• Supercharge:  Unleashes one last burst of energy as the caster dies, increasing all allies damage by 25% and granting them an additional ability

Steelbreaker (the Giant):

• High Voltage:  Inflicts 3000 Nature damage every 3 sec. Instant
• Fusion Punch:  An attack infused with energy that inflicts 18850 to 21150 Nature damage and an additional 15000 Nature damage per second. 3 sec cast (dispellable)
• Static Disruption (1st Bonus):  Deals 7000 Nature damage to enemies in an area and increases Nature damage taken by 75% for 20 sec. 50000 yd range, Instant
• Overwhelming Power (2nd Bonus):  The target becomes overwhelmed with power increasing damage done by 200% and causes a Meltdown after 1 min - The target melts down killing themself and dealing 29250 to 30750 Nature damage to friendly units within 15 yards.
• Electrical Charge (2nd Bonus):  Every time a player dies, Steelbreaker's damage increases by 25% permanently.

Stormcaller Brundir (the Dwarf):

• Can be taunted / stunned, becomes immune to stun when he is the last boss alive.
• Chain Lightning:  Strikes an enemy with a blast of lightning that inflicts 7400 to 8600 Nature damage. The bolt will arc to additional nearby enemies, inflicting 20% more Nature damage to each successive target. 1 sec cast (5 targets, interruptable + cast slowable)
• Overload:  Focuses all the caster's energy into a single ball of lightning. This ball grows for 6 sec until it finally explodes, dealing 25000 Nature damage to all enemies within 30 yards and knocking them down. (not interruptable!)  (not cloak of shadows resistable!)
• Lightning Whirl (1st Bonus):  Spins around throwing off bolts of lightning at random enemy targets. Each bolt deals 7069 to 7931 Nature damage. Lasts 5 sec. Channeled
• Lightning Tendrils (2nd Bonus):  Tendrils of lightning shoot out of the caster's chest, lifting them into the air. These lightning tendrils deal 5000 Nature damage to all enemies around the caster every second. (He will follow a player as he flies over the raid, aggro resets)
• Stormshield (2nd Bonus): deals 250 damage to attackers and makes him immune to stuns.

Runemaster Molgeim (the Vykrul):

• Runic Barrier:  A shield of runic power surrounds the caster, reducing all damage taken by 50% and inflicting 2000 Arcane damage to attackers. Instant
• Rune of Power:  Summons a Rune of Power under a random friendly target. This rune increases damage by 50% of all friendly and enemy targets within 5 yards. Lasts 1 min.
• Rune of Death (1st Bonus):  Summons a Rune of Death at a random enemy target's location. This rune deals 5000 Shadow damage every half-second to anyone within 13 yards of that location. 50000 yd range, Instant
• Rune of Summoning (2nd Bonus):  Creates a Rune of Summoning near a random enemy. This rune will periodically summon Lightning Elementals, which will rush towards random enemies and explode.   (Lightning Blast:  Unleashes a large blast of lightning, dealing 14138 to 15862 Nature damage to all enemies within 30 yards of the caster but killing the caster in the process. Instant)

Hard Mode:

Hard mode here is just leaving Steelbreaker for last.

The Fight:

This will likely be the first real challenge in Ulduar.   A 3 in 1 boss, each with their own HP and abilities, and similar to Karathress fight, they gain abilties as each one dies.    Unlike Karathress, it's a brand new abiltity rather than taking one from the dead ones.    The above ability list indicates the 1st bonus as the 1st ability they get after any of the others die.   The 2nd bonus would be their 2nd ability when the 2nd dies, or in other words, when we save him for last.

I will list probably the 3 orders to kill this boss, based on achievements and hard modes.  Yes, technically more are possible, but only the last boss alive counts, so easiest route for each.

Note:  We've found that using a Pally tank to tank Steelbreaker is quite nice.   Ability to self cleanse takes the whole healer must help cleanse at the right moment or the tank dies to Fusion Punch ticks out of the equation.

Steelbreaker (Big) -> Runemaster (Medium) -> Stormcaller (Small):

This is likely the easiest route to kill.    Each one will basically just tanked away from each other while dividing the raid a bit to handle each boss.

Steelbreaker:   Due to the nature aura, everyone should be clumped up to benefit from group healing.  He can hit very hard on the tank, and CDs are recommended, thus DKs are recommended as a result.   For us, it's likely have to be Nuitbear, probably.  This guy does do a lot of nature damage, so maybe nature resist set time!  Well when hard mode arrives.   Everyone else burn him.

Stormcaller:  Probable tank should be Orky, this boss is stunnable, interruptable, cast slowable.   So with him, and maybe 1 or 2 others to help out, this guy should be locked down most of the fight.   A DK has an advantage with a "short" CD, ranged interrupt incase of rune placements.

Runemaster:  Last one left to tank is Pudo.   No real tricks at this point, except maybe the ranged can watch to see if a convenient Rune of Power spawns to sit in for extra dps.   Definitely don't take risks or go out of your way for it.

STEELBREAKER DIES!

Now the 2 other bosses gain new abilities.

Stormcaller:  Does a whirlwind lightning too now, but still stunnable / interruptable, so the guys in his corner should still keep it under lockdown.

Runemaster:  Everyone else move on to this guy.  The new trick he has is a Rune of Death, basically new variation on the Void Zone.   The problem is, it's friggin huge area, it ticks every 0.5 sec, very fast, so you're likely gonna take 6-12K damage before moving out of it.   And with lack of Unholy Aura in 3.1 for the raid, run speed enchants might be in style again.

RUNEMASTER DIES!

Stormcaller left, but no longer stunnable, so spread out to avoid chaining the lightning, and the melee run out of the whirlwinds.  The new ability he has is floating in the air, chasing some random guy down while firing off lighting aoe all around under him.    Think of it as a fancy new whirlwind to run from.   It's like Sartura in AQ40, run away!      Aggro resets so wait for a tank.

Steelbreaker (Big) -> Stormcaller (Small) -> Runemaster (Medium):

Everything's the same up to Steelbreaker dying, so take that part of the above and throw it down here, then kill Stormcaller while avoiding the Rune of Deaths and don't stop the interrupt/stuns on him.

STORMCALLER DIES!

Runemaster left, and his new trick is summoning a rune, that summons 10ish kamikaze lightning elemental adds.   They come out, chase someone down, and blow up for 15K damage (10K in normal) to everyone 30 yards around.

The adds can be slowed and should be killed before they reach anyone.   They have 12K hp in normal.    Frost Novas, earthbinds, frost traps should all be used to help with that.   They kind of have and aggro table but seems to be a bit random, perhaps global threat sometimes.

That's the new trick, bunch of bomb bots to kill/survive from.

What we did is use a Frost Mage to blizzard em down.   Definitely far easier and just one shot the thing with one.

Stormcaller (Small) -> Runemaster (Medium) -> Steelbreaker (Hard Mode):

This is the hard mode order we went with   The nature aura will be with us the whole fight, so likely keep clumped up for group healing the entire time.    If you have a Pally tanking Steelbreaker, he can self cleanse taking the Fusion Punch cleasning for the healers out of the equation for most of the fight.   If you have a DK tank, the Anti-Magic Shield can prevent a magic effect, which means the dot, from applying, so that is able to take every 3rd (?) cleanse out of the equation.

Stormcaller should go down easy, should be locked down the entire fight (since he won't go interrupt/stun immune this version).    Then kill Runemaster watch for Runes of Death.

Anyways, first ability to watch for after Stormcaller dies would be a Static Disruption, he targets a person to hit with it and the debuff spread around who he hits.   So try to stay spread out a bit if possible to avoid chaining it.

After Stormcaller dies, the 2nd ability would be Overwhelming Power, it actually buffs your tank's damage by 100% for 1 min, before you explode.   Think Vael, your tank will blow up and you have to change it.   The death will heal him for 15% so got to just have enough dps to burn though all that before all your tanks die.     Brez tanks to rotate back in if necessary.

Runemaster (Medium) -> Stormcaller (Small) -> Steelbreaker (Hard Mode):

This might be easier for some raids.   Similar to above, but kill the Runemaster to eliminate the need to run around the Death Runes.   The second guy then has to be locked down with kicks and stuns so the Lightning doesn't kill you.   Do the rest like above.

Achievements:

I Choose You, Runemaster Molgeim:  Defeat the Assembly of Iron with Runemaster Molgeim as the last member alive on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

The medium difficulty kill

I Choose You, Stormcaller Brundir:  Defeat the Assembly of Iron with Stormcaller Brundir as the last member alive on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

The easy mode kill

 I Choose You, Stormbreaker:  Defeat the Assembly of Iron with Steelbreaker as the last member alive on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

The hard mode kill

But I'm on Your Side:  Defeat the Assembly of Iron while under the effect of an Iron Boot Flask on Normal/Heroic Difficulty

Personal achivement, get your boot flask from Frosthold.  Use it, don't die, kill boss.   Don't be a druid either.   Well, can use it at the last seconds of the fight to get this.

You Can't Do That While Stunned:  Defeat the Assembly of Iron without allowing Stormcaller Brundir to damage anyone with Chain Lightning or Lightning Whirl on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

We did this while doing our Hard Mode order.   The problem is that on pull he starts shooting lightning, so you have to have ranged interrupts quickly and on the ball.    Or a rogue stealthed up near by and get that first kick off before he finishes casting.    The hard part is the pull interrupt, after that you should be able to lock it down.

Trash Info:

See /Kologarn trash info.

Videos:

10 Man Hard Mode:

25 Man Runemaster Last:

Sources:

• http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=842
• http://www.stratfu.com/strats/IronCouncil
• http://www.wowwiki.com/The_Iron_Council

Health:

• Normal:  15,550,000
• Heroic:  62,766,000

Abilities:

• Flame Jets:  Inflicts 3000 Fire damage each second to enemies around the caster. Lasts 10 seconds. 50 yd range (interruptable)
• Battering Ram:  Rams the target, dealing damage and knocking it forward. Deals 100% Weapon damage and causes the target to take 50% more damage for 20 seconds.
• Gathering Speed:  Rams the target, dealing damage and knocking it forward. Deals 100% Weapon damage and causes the target to take 50% more damage for 20 seconds.
• Missile Barrage: All machines and players not in one will take 700 damage every 1-2 seconds.
• Turrets:  The Flame Leviathan has 4 turrets. Passengers in the demolisher can be launched at him where they can destroy the turrets and then hit the Overload Circuit: stuns Flame Leviathan and causes him to take 50% more damage for 10 seconds.

Vehicles:

• The health points and attacks of your vehicle depends on the ilvl of your gear.  
• Shirt, tabard, offhand, and ranged/relic slots do not affect vehicle scaling. 
• Take the average ilvl of your gear (subtract 13 for each blue, 26 for each green) and dividing by 15 (total number of applicable slots), then subtracting 170 will give you the percent increase of the health points of your vehicle compared to base - it cannot be decreased though (naked is a 0% increase).

Salvaged Siege Engine:

• "Tanks/Kiters" of the encounter
• 1 driver + 1 turret controller + 2 passengers
• Ram:  Rams any enemies in front of the demolisher, dealing 22501 to 27501 Damage and knocking them back. Also deals 2850 to 3150 siege damage to buildings. 40 Energy.
• Electoshock:  Shocks all targets within a 25 yard cone in front of the caster. It also interrupts spellcasting and prevents any spell in that school from being cast for 4 sec. 20 Energy, Instant cast, 10 sec cooldown
• Steam Rush:  Put the steam engine into overdrive for a short duration, rushing forward, dealing siege damage and knocking back enemies. 40 Energy, 70 yd range, Instant, 15 sec cooldown (Do not steam rush on ramps, you will fall through the world atm)

Passenger Abilities:

• Anti-Air Rockets:  Fires an explosive missile directly forward, detonating when it has travelled 100 yards, hitting any enemies within 10 yards. 0.25 sec cooldown
• Fire Cannon:  Fires a cannon blast. 20 Energy, 10-70 yd range, Instant
• Shield Generator:  Activates the shield generator on the Siege Engine, absorbing a limited amount of Physical, Fire, Frost and Arcane damage taken for 5 sec. 1 min cooldown

Salavaged Demolisher:

• Slow ranged dps
• 1 driver + 2 passenger, passengers help grab ammo from the ground and can be launched onto the Flame Leviathan
• Hurl Boulder:  Hurls a massive boulder into the distance, dealing 27000 to 33000 damage to enemies within 8 yards of the explosion. 10-70 yd range
• Hurl Pyrite Barrel:  Hurls an orb of blue pyrite into the distance, dealing damage, but consumes ammo. 10-70 yd range
• Ram:  Rams any enemies in front of the demolisher, dealing 19000 to 21000 Damage and knocking them back. Also deals 2160 to 2640 siege damage to buildings. 4 sec cooldown
• Launch Passenger:  Launches the Demolisher's passenger into the air

Passenger Abilities:

• Mortar:  Fires a miniature explosive blast, dealing Fire damage to all enemies in the target area. 1 sec cooldown
• Anti-Air Rocket:  Fires an explosive missile directly forward, detonating when it has travelled 90 yards, hitting any enemies within 10 yards.
• Grab Crate:  Use your hook and chain to grab the targetted crate.
• Increased Speed:  Injects liquid pyrite into the engines, increasing movement speed by 100%. Lasts 20 sec.
• Load into Catapult:  Load yourself into the catapult arm, using yourself as ammunition. 30 sec cooldown

Salvaged Chopper:

• Speedy support type vehicle, "debuffs" and heals passengers
• 1 driver + 1 passenger
• Speed Boost:  Fires the fuel injectors on the bike, increasing its speed by 100% for 5 sec.
• Sonic Horn:  Sends a wave of force in front of the motorcycle, causing 6300 to 7700 damage to all enemy targets within 35 yards in a frontal cone.
• Tar:  Drops a pool of tar for 45 sec that slows the movement speed of enemies within 10 yards. Tar can be ignited. Lasts for 45 sec. 15 sec cooldown
• First Aid Kit:  Heals your passenger fully over 4 sec. 1 min cooldown

Encounter:

Gauntlet:

The encounter is activated by talking to the npcs, though the mobs won't aggro til we move out.     Trash is easy, should be able to aoe everything down with the vehicles.   Iron Colossus' Ground Slam should be avoided or interrupted by the Seige Engines.

Towers should be destroyed along the way if Hard Mode is not the goal.   No need to clear everything though, they should not add during the boss.

If Brann is the one to activate it, the towers are automatically off, so can go straight to ez mode.

We can repair at the end of the Gauntlet, do so if not going for that achievement, and stock up on all the pyrite (ammo) you can before the last packs of the boss.

Boss:

Every vehicle must stay out of melee range of Flame Leviathan.

Seige Engines:    Flame Leviathan will immediately target somone close to him, the best option is the Seige Engine so make sure they're closest.  The goal is to kite him around, coordinate a path for the raid to follow.   The trick is that Flame Leviathan will get faster as the fight goes on, a system shutdown will reset his speed.    Also use its Electroshock to interrupt flame wave

Demolishers:  Besides being the ranged dps and tar igniter, this one can also launch passengers onto Flame Leviathan to take out its Turrets.   This might not be needed at all in easy mode.  

Coordinate a dps and a healer to be launched simultaneously to take them out.    Also coordinate  choppers to pick them up quickly and take them to safety (or demonlisher to be launched again).

Note:  A healer is not necessary on 10 man.  It appears Flame Leviathan only shoots you to death on the 25 man.

In 10 man, 2 turrets (4 in 25 man) must be destroyed before a System Shutdown occurs.   This stuns Flame Leviathan and launches the people on him off of it, parachute style.  This is when they need to be picked up, look to the sky.

Note:  Turrets instantly respawn after the Shutdown is over, so passengers can be launched yet again.   Only issue is that means Demolishers are without turret passengers to help dps or pick up pyrite.

Choppers:   They will be used to shit tar all in front of Flame Leviathan.  It'll slow him down and it can be ignited by Demolishers for more damage.    They will also be used to pick up stranded people and take em to where they need to go.

Hard Mode:

To access hard mode, along the way before Flame Leviathan, we don't destroy the towers.  Here's what each tower does:   

• Thorim's Hammer (purple, back left):  Deals Stormstrike damage to all enemies nearby. Additional damage is taken if directly under the impact location.   Flame Leviathan gains 25% more HP and does 25% more Physical damage.
• Mimiron's Inferno (red, front left):  Deals 150000 Fire damage to all nearby enemies and leaves a flaming blaze behind.  Flame Leviathan gains 25% more HP and does 50% more Fire damage.
• Hodir's Fury (blue, back right):  Deals 150000 Frost damage to all nearby enemies, entombing them in ice.  (only freeable via tar fire)  Flame Leviathan gains 25% more HP and slows vehicle movement by 20%
• Freya's Ward (green, front right):  Deals 13500 to 16500 Natures damage to all nearby enemies and summons guardians of nature to surround the enemy.  Flame Leviathan gains 25% more HP and decreases his fire damage taken by 10%.

In 10 mans, we made a slight adjustment to the above strat for hard(er) modes.    We send 1 ranged dps up, to handle both turrets, non hunters.   Also, one of the choppers is abandoned at the beginning to ride with the launcher Demolisher, that way both Demolishers will always have passengers, doing the Pyrite thing and dps.

Read /flame-leviathan#comment-38620 for details

Achievements:

Dwarfegeddon:  Destroy 100/200 Steelforged Defenders in 10 seconds on the Ulduar gauntlet on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

What we did was just make a b-line towards the repair pads.   Avoid killing towers, take out the big buys mainly, which does splash down the small guys.   But anyways, clearing the path of any major threat, then use the repairs.    Then we went back towards the front pulling along all the small guys we can find, when we saw enough, on cue, blow em up.   Easy shit.

Unbroken:  Defeat Flame Leviathan on the first try without anyone repairing their vehicle on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

Likely easiest on Easy Mode of course.   Just don't repair don't wipe.    Though, I could see this being "easy" on Hard Mode too, since we'd skip the towers, skipping chunks of trash, our vehicles should be less damaged.    Though that means only after we have Hard Mode on farm to kill it the first try.

Three Car Garage:  Defeat Flame Leviathan while in each of the following vehicles on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

Personal achievement, just ride something different each week.   It only counts if you're in the vehicle upon Flame Leviathan's death.   Not dead, not on the turret, not anywhere else.

Take Out Those Turrets:  Destroy a Flame Leviathan Defense Turret on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

Personal achievement, the new Denyin the Scion.   So guess after farm mode starts up we'd have to launch specific people.   (after we learned to launch people ;p)

Shutout:  Defeat Flame Leviathan without causing a System Shutdown on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

Well we stumbled upon this in our zerg the boss fashion.  lol   Probably only possible on Easy Mode for now.    Simply, don't launch anyone, zerg away.

Orbital Bombardment:  Defeat Flame Leviathan with 1 Orbital Defense System active on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

We chose Thorim's tower to leave up (purple).    It's quite simple really, avoid the big blue beams coming from the sky.   We liberally launched 2 dps on to the Turrets everytime to cause the System Shutdown as much as possible.  This mode currently makes him drop 2 [Emblem of Conquest] instead of 1 emblem in either mode.

Orbital Devastation:  Defeat Flame Leviathan with 2 Orbital Defense Systems active on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

We chose to leave Mimiron's tower along with Thorim.   Mimiron leaves a big red moving laser and leaves a pile of fire (like Ignis scorch) that you don't want to stand in.   The trick is that the moving laser can cut you off while kiting and stuff around the room.    But if you can stay away and a little luck, this isn't so bad.   This mode drops a [Runed Orb] in addition to the above.    In 25 man, an extra stack of 2 orbs are dropped.

Nuked From Orbit:  Defeat Flame Leviathan with 3 Orbital Defense Systems active on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

Hodir is a next possibility, he ice blocks people which can be melted by fire attacks (pyrite, flame jets, chopper tar fire, Mimiron's laser).    The beams are pretty fast moving light blue beams that follow people.    It's dangerous when it stops, then a few seconds later you get entombed in ice.    Avoid that at all costs, you take heavy damage and require quick fire attention to release you, so it'd likely hurt your vehicle way badly.     Make use of quick manuevering and Steam Rush to avoid those.

Orbit-uary:  Defeat Flame Leviathan with 4 Orbital Defense Systems active on NormalHeroic Difficulty.

Freya is likely next hardest to deal with.   Her beam will be at the 4 corners and spawn adds that the Demolishers should be able to take care of.    It's an added complication to constantly shift dps from FL to adds, to stocking pyrite.

Videos:

25 Man EZ Mode

Sources:

• http://www.mmo-champion.com/?page=838
• http://www.stratfu.com/strats/FlameLeviathan
• http://www.wowwiki.com/Flame_Leviathan

I have had a lot of people asking me if I would ever get a 25 going...  The short answer is not right now. 

I'm putting this up because I am curious to see if there are enough people willing and able to be on Friday/Monday to put a 25 man together.  This would NOT be the place to come if your only interested in achievements, but if you like to raid with people who play to have fun then it might be a good fit. 

All loot gets ML'd out to your spec at that time first or to an off spec that you actually will use when coming to my raid.  I don't listen to complaining about loot (except for paks horrible rolls) and I can't stand being talked over in vent when I'm trying to go over a strat or answer someones question in vent.  Either of these could get you kicked from raid or not invited the next week.  I deal with enough children at home so I will not put up with adults acting like children in a game. 

When I started up my 10 man there was 6 of us that wanted to do stuff together since we all hang out together outside of WoW.  I filled the last 4 slots with some people that I have hung out w/ in Downfall for awhile now.  We play for fun, and to see some content that half of the raid wouldn't get to see otherwise.  Many of us still fail at things that might seem easy to many of you (dancing, minding the gap, spores?, and more), but we have gotten through it all.  Even if its been a 2 man finishing of Heigan, or a ghoul and tank finishing off the last of Lotheb we are having fun and laughing at the dead gnomes on the floor =D

If after reading this you're still interested in getting a 25 man going for these two nights post here.  There is no time table for this and I'm hoping that we can talk about stuff here instead of in tells.

EDIT*

And to clearify I'm 100% content is just running my 10 man as it is.  This is just to gauge the actual intrest in another set 25 man for these nights.

If you are on Vent...  You should do this!

Vent Normalization makes every bodies voice the exact same volume. In essence, you won't blow your ear's out or have difficulty hearing people.

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Here's how:

- Go to Setup

- Enable Direct Sound

- Select the SFX Button

- Select Compressor and click Add.

- Under Compressor Properties use the following settings

- Gain = Adjust for how loud you want people to be. (I use 15)

- Attack = 0.01

- Release = Around 500

- Threshold = Around -30

- Ratio = 100

- Pre delay = 4.0

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What the settings do - Copied and pasted from page 8

Gain
How much volume you feed into the compressor. Not really relevant unless everyone is too quiet, then you can turn this up a little; turning it up too much will sound EXTREMELY *%*%ty.

Attack
How fast volume change will happen. example: setting this to 500 means that any-
thing coming in will only be dropped in volume after a half a second. for vent this should
be set as low as possible.

Release
how fast the compressor stops changing things. not really that relevant with vent, setting it around 500 is good for voice material.

Threshold
This sets the point where we actually start changing what?s coming in. Whereas 0 is the absolute loudest you can have for an input, -60 is super quiet. Average users will probably come in somewhere around -25 to -15, with the occaisional few being really quiet, which is why I have this set so low.

Ratio
How much any sound below the set threshold gets compressed and/or modified in the volume department.
If you still want to hear SOME volume variation then set this lower (2-4)... the higher you set it the closer in volume everyone will be.

Pre delay
Mostly just deals with processing; with computer and digital processors they can look ahead a few milliseconds to see what needs to be dropped in volume or changed before it actually comes through the speakers. Highest is ideal.

~Thanx to Ardea for going through the trouble of writing this up!