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Lord Rhyolith
Race	Magma giant (Elemental)
Level	?? Boss
Location	Rhyolith Plateau, Firelands
Firelands Beth'tilac Lord Rhyolith Alysrazor Shannox Baleroc Majordomo Staghelm Ragnaros (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) (lore) Loot

"Heroes face a difficult challenge: attack this massive magma giant's bulk while forcing him to move against his will among volcanic eruptions that ultimately spell his doom... or yours."

Lord Rhyolith is one of the most ancient elementals in existence, born from the primordial fires that forged Azeroth itself. He is responsible for the creation of new elementals in the Firelands and still possesses a searing hatred of the titans for what he considers their monumental arrogance in relocating him.

He appears as one of the bosses in the Firelands raid instance.

Abilities

Stage One: Nuisances, Nuisances!

Lord Rhyolith ignores players while his armor is intact, but they can attack his feet to control his movement.

•  Obsidian Armor — Lord Rhyolith awakens encrusted in a thick coat of Obsidian Armor, which reduces all damage he takes by 80%. Lord Rhyolith's Obsidian Armor is reduced by 10% every time he steps on an active volcano. In Heroic Difficulty when Lord Rhyolith steps on an Active Volcano, 10 Liquid Obsidian creatures spawn around him.
  • Liquid Obsidian — The Liquid Obsidian moves towards Lord Rhyolith, and casts Fuse when it reaches him.
    •  Fuse — The Liquid Obsidian fuses with Lord Rhyolith, increasing his damage reduction by 1%.
•  Concussive Stomp — Lord Rhyolith smashes the ground, inflicting 35000 Fire damage to all players and knocking away targets within 20 yards. Each stomp creates two to three volcanoes.
• Volcano  — Lord Rhyolith ignites a Volcano, causing it to inflict 12000 Fire damage to 3 players every 2 sec. When struck, the player takes 10% additional Fire damage for 14 sec. This effect stacks up to 20 times. In 25 player raids, the Volcano inflicts damage on 6 players.
• Crater — Lord Rhyolith creates a crater when he steps on an active volcano. Occasionally, Lord Rhyolith causes streams of lava to flow from a crater. The moving stream of lava inflicts 75000 Fire damage to any player in its path. After 10 sec. the stream of lava erupts, inflicting 150000 Fire damage to any player standing within a lava stream.
• Thermal Ignition — Lord Rhyolith releases a jet of cinders, inflicting 15000 Fire damage to players within 7 yards and creates either 5 Fragments of Rhyolith or 1 Spark of Rhyolith. In Heroic Difficulty Lord Rhyolith creates 10 Fragments of Rhyolith instead of 5.
  • Fragment of Rhyolith  — Fragments of Rhyolith have low health. If not slain within 30 sec, they inflict damage equal to their current health to a random player. In 25 person raids, they deal damage equal to half their current health to a random player.
  • Spark of Rhyolith — Sparks of Rhyolith inflicts 8500 Fire damage to all players within 12 yards.
    •  Infernal Rage  — Sparks of Rhyolith increase their damage dealt by 10% and damage taken by 10% every 5 seconds. This effect stacks up to 20 times.
•  Drink Magma  — If Lord Rhyolith reaches the edge of his plateau, he drinks from the liquid magma and inflicts 35000 Fire damage every second on all players for 4 sec.

Stage Two: Now you will BURN!

When Lord Rhyolith reaches 25% remaining health, his Obsidian armor shatters. He becomes attackable and no longer ignores players.

•  Immolation — Lord Rhyolith's fiery presence inflicts 8000 Fire damage to all players every second.
•  Unleashed Flame  — Lord Rhyolith unleashes beams of fire which pursue random players, inflicting 10000 Fire damage to all players within 5 yards of the beam's impact location.

Strategy

Phase one: drive his feet

The goal of phase one is to ablate his obsidian armor and damage him enough to start phase two. Causing the boss to step on active volcanoes is critical to this process. However, most of the raid will be concentrating on staying alive by destroying adds and avoiding lava and other environmental damage.

Tanks are not on the boss during phase one. They are managing adds.

When the battle starts a UI element appears which illustrates how players are affecting Rhyolith's navigation. Causing damage to one of Rhyolith's feet causes him to turn toward that foot. A yellow bar, if present, indicates which direction he is turning. Typically only a few players are assigned foot duty.

The exact rules governing this foot-driving are poorly understood at this point. Some theories that have been proposed include:

• only affected by melee damage
• feet build up a resistance to damage and require periodic pauses to clear the resistance and re-enable control.

What is well-understood is that if he is not maneuvered correctly he will reach the lava at the edge of the platform and Drink Magma, causing massive damage to the raid. Also, you want to drive him over active volcanoes to ablate his Obsidian Armor. Another desirable result of volcano-stomping is that it ends that volcano's fire damage plaguing the raid.

While the foot team is managing Rhyolith's position the rest of the raid is dealing with the Fragments and Sparks that spawn periodically throughout the fight.

Fragments spawn in a swarm and should be destroyed before their explosions (30 second timer) damage the raid.

Sparks spawn one at a time and have a pulsing aura that damages nearby players. As long as they are alive they are stacking Infernal Rage which increases the damage they deal to the tank and other nearby players.

Phase two: burn

Once the boss has been kited through enough volcanoes he becomes tankable and it becomes practical to attack him directly.

? tank and spank QUICKLY ?

Loot

Normal Mode

Dreadfire Drape Item Level 378Disenchants into:  [Maelstrom Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Back 10 Armor +15 Agility +27 Stamina +8 Haste +2 Mastery   Prismatic Socket Prismatic Socket Socket Bonus: +4 Agility   Requires Level 85 Sell Price: 18 64 39 Flickering Cowl Item Level 378Disenchants into:  [Maelstrom Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Cloth Head 1130 Armor <Random Enchantment>   Meta Socket Prismatic Socket Socket Bonus: +30 Intellect   Durability 100 / 100 Requires Level 85 Sell Price: 10 91 99 Arbalest of Erupting Fury Item Level 378Disenchants into:  [Maelstrom Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Crossbow Ranged Speed 3.00 1785 – 2679 Damage (744 damage per second) +128 Agility +192 Stamina +91 Critical Strike +75 Mastery Durability 90 / 90 Requires Level 85 Sell Price: 44 30 81 Incendic Chestguard Item Level 378Disenchants into:  [Maelstrom Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Leather Chest 32 Armor +24 Agility or Intellect +48 Stamina +13 Haste +21 Versatility   Prismatic Socket Prismatic Socket Socket Bonus: +4 Haste   Durability 165 / 165 Requires Level 85 Sell Price: 19 19 57 Hood of Rampant Disdain Item Level 378Disenchants into:  [Maelstrom Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Leather Head 26 Armor +20 Agility +48 Stamina +6 Critical Strike +23 Haste   Meta Socket Prismatic Socket Socket Bonus: +6 Agility   Durability 100 / 100 Requires Level 85 Sell Price: 12 89 30 Flaming Core Chestguard Item Level 378Disenchants into:  [Maelstrom Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Mail Chest 46 Armor +24 Agility or Intellect +48 Stamina +17 Critical Strike +17 Haste   Prismatic Socket Prismatic Socket Socket Bonus: +4 Critical Strike   Durability 165 / 165 Requires Level 85 Sell Price: 18 33 95 Lava Line Wristbands Item Level 378Disenchants into:  [Maelstrom Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Mail Wrist 20 Armor +18 Agility or Intellect +27 Stamina +11 Haste +12 Versatility Durability 55 / 55 Requires Level 85 Sell Price: 9 36 34 Heartstone of Rhyolith Item Level 378Disenchants into:  [Maelstrom Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Neck +18 Intellect +27 Stamina +13 Versatility +10 Mastery Requires Level 85 Sell Price: 5 34 34 Cracked Obsidian Stompers Item Level 378Disenchants into:  [Maelstrom Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Plate Feet 56 Armor +14 Strength or Intellect +36 Stamina +20 Dodge +12 Critical Strike   Prismatic Socket Socket Bonus: +3 Stamina   Durability 80 / 80 Requires Level 85 Sell Price: 13 72 55 Fireskin Gauntlets Item Level 378Disenchants into:  [Maelstrom Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Plate Hands 51 Armor +20 Strength or Intellect +36 Stamina +17 Critical Strike +11 Mastery   Prismatic Socket Socket Bonus: +2 Critical Strike   Durability 55 / 55 Requires Level 85 Sell Price: 9 50 56 Grips of the Raging Giant Item Level 378Disenchants into:  [Maelstrom Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Plate Hands 51 Armor +20 Strength or Intellect +36 Stamina +12 Critical Strike +16 Versatility   Prismatic Socket Socket Bonus: +2 Intellect   Durability 55 / 55 Requires Level 85 Sell Price: 9 29 23 Earthcrack Bracers Item Level 378Disenchants into:  [Maelstrom Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when picked up Plate Wrist 1584 Armor +227 Strength +341 Stamina +158 Critical Strike +140 Haste Durability 55 / 55 Requires Level 85 Sell Price: 12 14 92 Volcanospike Item Level 378Disenchants into:  [Maelstrom Crystal]: 1-2 Binds when equipped Sword One-Hand Speed 2.60 43 – 73 Damage (22.3 damage per second) +188 Intellect +21 Stamina +8 Critical Strike +10 Haste Durability 110 / 110 Requires Level 85 Sell Price: 26 29 75

Heroic Mode

Dreadfire Drape (heroic) This item is not yet in Wowpedia. Contribute it using the Item Boilerplate. Look up in: ω þ Flickering Cowl (heroic) This item is not yet in Wowpedia. Contribute it using the Item Boilerplate. Look up in: ω þ Arbalest of Erupting Fury (heroic) This item is not yet in Wowpedia. Contribute it using the Item Boilerplate. Look up in: ω þ Incendic Chestguard (heroic) This item is not yet in Wowpedia. Contribute it using the Item Boilerplate. Look up in: ω þ Hood of Rampant Disdain (heroic) This item is not yet in Wowpedia. Contribute it using the Item Boilerplate. Look up in: ω þ Flaming Core Chestguard (heroic) This item is not yet in Wowpedia. Contribute it using the Item Boilerplate. Look up in: ω þ Lava Line Wristbands (heroic) This item is not yet in Wowpedia. Contribute it using the Item Boilerplate. Look up in: ω þ Heartstone of Rhyolith (heroic) This item is not yet in Wowpedia. Contribute it using the Item Boilerplate. Look up in: ω þ Cracked Obsidian Stompers (heroic) This item is not yet in Wowpedia. Contribute it using the Item Boilerplate. Look up in: ω þ Fireskin Gauntlets (heroic) This item is not yet in Wowpedia. Contribute it using the Item Boilerplate. Look up in: ω þ Grips of the Raging Giant (heroic) This item is not yet in Wowpedia. Contribute it using the Item Boilerplate. Look up in: ω þ Earthcrack Bracers (heroic) This item is not yet in Wowpedia. Contribute it using the Item Boilerplate. Look up in: ω þ Volcanospike (heroic) This item is not yet in Wowpedia. Contribute it using the Item Boilerplate. Look up in: ω þ Crystallized Firestone Binds when picked up Requires Level 32 Sell Price: 5

Quotes

Aggro

Hah? Hruumph? Soft little fleshy-things? Here? Nuisances, nuisances!

Killing A Player

• So soft!

Spawning Adds

• Sear the flesh from their tiny frames.
• Shatter the bones!

Stomp

• I'll crush you underfoot!
• Stomp now.

Activating Volcano

• Buuurrrnn!
• Succumb to living flame.

Armor Weakened

• Augh - smooshy little pests, look what you've done!
• Graaahh!
• Oh you little beasts...
• Oww now hey.
• Uurrghh now you... you infuriate me!

Armor Shattered

Eons I have slept undisturbed... Now this... Creatures of flesh, now you will BURN!

Death

Broken. Mnngghhh... broken...

Related Achievements

•  Heroic: Lord Rhyolith
•  Not an Ambi-Turner
•  Firelands (Achievement)

Videos

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Patches and hotfixes

• Hotfix (2011-07-14):
  • Concussive Stomp damage has been increased on Heroic difficulty.
  • Eruption now increases fire damage taken by 5% per stack, down from 10%.
  • The Eruption debuff is now cleared when transitioning into phase 2 of the fight.
    
• Hotfix (2011-07-08):
  • Multiple volcanoes casting Eruption will now create separate stacks. Crushing a volcano will cause its stacks of Eruption to fade shortly after.
  • Ranged pets can no longer damage Rhyolith’s legs without beginning the encounter.
    
• Hotfix (2011-07-06):
  • Lord Rhyolith can now be quickly snapped from left to right, or right to left, if the appropriate amount of damage is dealt to the opposite foot.
  • Lord Rhyolith now prefers to activate volcanoes that are in front of him over volcanoes that are behind him.
  • Lord Rhyolith now spawns slightly further back on his platform, allowing players to stand on the edge of the terrain and not aggro him.
  • Lord Rhyolith no longer despawns when reaching the end of the encounter area, and does not despawn when casting Drink Magma from any of the possible locations.
  • Lord Rhyolith now summons in volcanoes when intended, and it is no longer possible for the first set of volcanoes to be ignored.
    
• Hotfix (2011-07-01): Rhyolith is now slightly easier to turn in 10-player mode.
  
• Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28): Added.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB

25man.com Rhyolith Tactics & Strategy Guide

Icy Veins Comprehensive Lord Rhyolith strategy guide (includes perspective guides for tanks, healers, and DPS)