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Gruul the Dragonkiller is, as his name implies, a famous dragon-slaying Gronn as well as the final boss of the raid dungeon Gruul's Lair in the Blade's Edge Mountains. He drops the Tier 4 Leggings tokens. He is the father of 7 Gronn, including Goc, Gorgrom the Dragon-Eater, Grulloc, Maggoc, and Durn the Hungerer. He has about 3,300,000 Hitpoints (Patch 2.0.12).
This boss is also part of the Serpentshrine Cavern attunement quest [70] The Cudgel of Kar'desh. This quest requires two signets. One of which, the [Earthen Signet] drops from Gruul. The other, the [Blazing Signet], drops from Nightbane in Karazhan.
Abilities
- Growth: Increases damage done by 15% every 30 seconds, size increased by 10%, can stack up to 30 times.
- Hurtful Strike: Occasionally hits the 2nd highest aggro in melee range. A second tank is needed to mitigate this, 12350-13650 physical damage.
- Note: If no other character is in range Hurtful Strike will hit the Main Tank
- Reverberation: Occasional zone-wide silence for 3 seconds.
- Cave In: Random AoE which causes ~3000 damage every 3 seconds in the area. This occurs more frequently in later stages. This counts as melee damage and can be mitigated by armor. Growth also affects Cave In.
- Ground Slam: Zone-wide knockback into a random direction, then triggers the Gronn Lord's Grasp.
- Gronn Lord's Grasp: Stacking debuff after a Ground slam that reduced movement speed by 20%. stacks 5 times after 5 secs then causes Stoned. Players must space out between each other during this time to avoid the effects of Shatter.
- (Rogues seem to be able to remove the Gronn Lord's Grasp with Cloak of Shadow and will not get stoned or be affected by shatter.)
- Stoned: Stunned.
- Shatter: After being Stoned, Gruul will shatter everyone, the damage dealt increasing if players are closer to each other. If players are 0yds between each other, the damage dealt will be around 5000. The more apart players are, the less damage is taken - no damage will be taken if players are 15yds(changed in recent patch from 20yds) away or more.
Tactics
Players will have ~10 minutes to defeat Gruul (He has roughly 3.2 mil. HP), otherwise the buff stacks will annihilate the tank. A high-stamina/high-DPS raid is favored for this encounter. Gruul can't do any magical attacks, so it's advised to use amplify magic.
Note: Be sure when you begin the encounter everybody follows the Main Tank from the initial hallway. The doors close when Gruul is engaged and anybody who did not enter the room will be locked out of the encounter.
If a Paladin in your raid has Improved Concentration Aura, it may help to place that person in a group comprised of healers; the Silence resist can save your raid on Reverberation at a high Growth stack (when HoTs may not be enough to keep the tank alive).
Note: At 16+ grows, Hurtful Strike can theoretically one shot your OT, making it vital to keep them topped off after every strike.
If your tank dies a lot during the AOE silence..
If your group consists of 3 tanks (which it should because of High King), you designate a main tank (tanking Gruul of course), a Hurtful Strike tank, and a third tank that is also building up aggro (just in case one of the other tanks die. This third tank should intervene the main tank to take a hit once during the aoe silence so the healers dont have to worry about the main tank dying due to lack of heals.
Gruul the Dragonkiller Loot
Tier 4 legging tokens:
Leggings of the Fallen Champion is a tier 4 armor token. It can be exchanged at Asuur at Shattrath's Aldor Rise or Arodis Sunblade on the Scryer's Tier for the following items:
It can also be exchanged at Karynna at the Isle of Quel'Danas for the following Season 1 PvP items:
SourceThis item drops from Gruul the Dragonkiller in Gruul's Lair. Patch changes
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Leggings of the Fallen Defender is a tier 4 armor token. It can be exchanged at Asuur at Shattrath's Aldor Rise or Arodis Sunblade on the Scryer's Tier for the following items:
It can also be exchanged at Karynna at the Isle of Quel'Danas for the following Season 1 PvP items:
SourceThis item drops from Gruul the Dragonkiller in Gruul's Lair. Patch changes
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Leggings of the Fallen Hero is a tier 4 armor token. It can be exchanged at Asuur at Shattrath's Aldor Rise or Arodis Sunblade on the Scryer's Tier for the following items: It can also be exchanged at Karynna at the Isle of Quel'Danas for the following Season 1 PvP items:
SourceThis item drops from Gruul the Dragonkiller in Gruul's Lair. Patch changes
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Other drops:
Aldori Legacy Defender is an epic shield for tanks. SourceThis item drops from Gruul the Dragonkiller in Gruul's Lair. NotesIt was highly prized not only for it's defensive stats, but equally the fact it had Hit Rating, something which for a long time was lacking on plate tanking gear. Gallery
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Axe of the Gronn Lords is an epic two-handed axe, semi-famous for having a ridiculously small graphic for a two handed weapon. SourceThis item drops from Gruul the Dragonkiller in Gruul's Lair. External links<includeonly></includeonly> |
Bloodmaw Magus-Blade is an epic one-handed sword for casters. SourceThis item drops from Gruul the Dragonkiller in Gruul's Lair. External links |
Collar of Cho'gall is an epic cloth helm for casters. SourceThis item drops from Gruul the Dragonkiller in Gruul's Lair. External links |
SourceThis item drops from Gruul the Dragonkiller in Gruul's Lair. External links |
Dragonspine Trophy is an epic trinket for physical DPS classes. The trinket grants the user +40 Attack Power and has a Chance on Hit to grant 325 haste rating (30.91%) for 10 seconds, and has a fairly high chance to proc. This item is best fitted for rogues, hunters, fury warriors and enhancement shamans. The haste rating also speeds physical skills, slam for example has its delay and cooldown reduced to 0.35 after haste is added. SourceThis item drops from Gruul the Dragonkiller in Gruul's Lair. NotesThis item has a 20 second hidden cooldown. The proc rate is 1ppm. Uptime averages around 25%. External links |
Eye of Gruul is an epic trinket for healers. SourceThis item drops from Gruul the Dragonkiller in Gruul's Lair. External links |
Gauntlets of the Dragonslayer are epic mail gloves. SourceThis item drops from Gruul the Dragonkiller in Gruul's Lair. External links<includeonly></includeonly> |
Gauntlets of Martial Perfection are epic plate gloves. SourceThis item drops from Gruul the Dragonkiller in Gruul's Lair. External links
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Gronn-Stitched Girdle is an epic leather belt. SourceThis item drops from Gruul the Dragonkiller in Gruul's Lair. Patch changes
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Shuriken of Negation is an epic throwing weapon. SourceThis item drops from Gruul the Dragonkiller in Gruul's Lair. GalleryPatch changes
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Teeth of Gruul is an epic necklace for healers. SourceThis item drops from Gruul the Dragonkiller in Gruul's Lair. External links |
Windshear Boots are epic mail boots that drop from Gruul the Dragonkiller in Gruul's Lair. External links |
Notes
- One tactic to minimize deaths after ground slam, although unecessary, is to drink any type of Dreamless Sleep Potion while in the air to maximize distance between other raid members. (This is ineffective if the whole raid does so.)
- See The Burning Crusade: Guild Progression for the world first kills
- Gruul bugs and the gate stays closed after a wipe where someone has hearthed while the encounter was occuring.
- Pets are not affected by hurtful strike or shatter, but do receive stoned and remain stunned for 30 seconds.
Videos
- [Kill Movie] by Buena of Windrunner, Forlorn Legacy.
- Gruul Kill, Unbugged Hexed - Undermine
- Gruul Kill (Hunter PoV) POST-Changes - Fist of Entropy, Wildhammer-US (High quality)
- Gruul the Dragonkiller kill movie dated 10-03-07(pre-Nerf) from ImmoPanic raid.
- Kill movie (Hunter PoV) from Eternal Keggers of Norganon (US)
- http://www.affenjungs.de/downloads.php?cat_id=9&download_id=53
- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6410117972691960151&q=gruul&hl=en
- http://www.lrguild.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3190
- NA vs. Gruul, by Furaa: http://files.filefront.com/na_vs_gruulwmv/;6761149;;/fileinfo.html
- Momentum of Destromath: http://files.filefront.com/Gruulwmv/;6878325;;/fileinfo.html
- Melee vid from WarCry.com
- Veritas vs. Gruul from a Paladin Perspective on Vek'nilash US
External Links
- German Gruul Strategy Guide wow-tactics.de
- Gruul the Dragonkiller Strategy GuideBosskillers.com
- Gruul Raid Strategy MMO-Champion.com