Halfus Wyrmbreaker

Halfus Wyrmbreaker
Race	Ettin (Elemental)
Level	?? Boss
Location	Wyrmbreaker's Rookery, Bastion of Twilight
Status	Killable
Bastion of Twilight
Halfus Wyrmbreaker; Valiona and Theralion; Ascendant Council; Cho'gall; Sinestra (heroic)	(lore); (lore); (lore); (lore); (lore)
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Halfus Wyrmbreaker is the first boss encounter in Bastion of Twilight.

Abilities

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Strategy

Wyrmbreaker comes with a protodrake that will throw fireballs at multiple raid members throughout the fight. It is best to ignore this drake, and concentrate on the boss, as fireballs can be dodged easily or healed through.

Halfus Wyrmbreaker is also accompanied by several drakes which you can choose to free throughout the fight, which have different effects. They appear to be allies, but will be mind controlled after a few seconds of their release. In the 10 man instance, there are only three (recent beta build) available

Some of the drakes apply specific buffs to Halfus Wyrmbreaker before the fight starts. Every drake being activated and killed by the raid applies a +50% damage taken debuff on Halfus Wyrmbreaker.

Drakes

The Nether Scion

Pre-fight: Applies a frenzy buff to Halfus Wyrmbreaker (+100% attack speed). When involved in combat: Reduces raid damage dealt, but will also cancel out Wyrmbreaker's frenzy attack.

The Time Warden

Casts a rooting debuff on players and slows down the speed of the fireballs of the protodrake, making it easier to dodge them on the floor.

The Slate Dragon

Periodically stuns the whole raid for 15 seconds, but puts a debuff on Halfus Wyrmbreaker to periodically stun him as well. The raidwide stun is only active when the Slate Dragon is activated and alive. The debuff on Halfus Wyrmbreaker lasts throughout the remainder of the encounter.

The Orphaned Emerald Whelps

Before activating these: Causes the protodrake to cast a big fire breath on the raid. This cannot be avoided and must be healed through. While involved in combat: Reduces raid damage dealt by 50%.

The Storm Rider

effect unknown

It is recommended to have two tanks for Halfus Wyrmbreaker, as he applies a debuff on his primary target when his hits land. This debuff reduces healing by 5% and stacks up rather quickly. Halfus Wyrmbreaker is tauntable until his whirlwind phase starts at 30% health.

Halfus Wyrmbreaker has a 6-minute(?) beserk timer.

10 man:

The most recommended way to do it is to free the Time Warden as soon as the fight starts, and nuke it down whilst it is mind controlled. Healers will need to keep members alive through fireballs, as players will be unable to dodge them. Once it has died, however, this debuff will disappear, but the protodrake's fireballs will still move slower.

From then on, it is a simple tank and spank encounter until roughly 25%, when he whirlwinds constantly, switching his target between members of the raid. He is untankable at this point. Players must still dodge fireballs and also try and dodge the whirlwind whilst attacking him.

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Drops

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