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MobChimaeron
Image of Chimaeron
Race Hydra (Beast)
Level ?? Boss
Location Blackwing Descent
Chimera art

Art of Chimaeron

Chimaeron is a boss of Blackwing Descent raid instance.

Chimaeron is seemingly some kind of altered hydra. Its name is likely based on the real world usage of "Chimaera," and not the Warcraft creature.

The world first heroic kill was by Ensidia on 20 December 2010 on 10-person mode. Method had the first 25-person heroic kill on 22 December, followed closely by Paragon.

Abilities

Be sure to talk to Finkle before aggro-ing Chimaeron in order to gain the buff:

  • Achievement plagueworks Finkle's Mixture — Damage taken while above 10000 health cannot reduce your health below 1.

Chimaeron

Chimaeron melees for roughly 120,000 on 10-man normal.

Phase One - 100% to 20%
  • Ability creature poison 02 Caustic Slime — Deals 280000 Nature damage and briefly reduces chance to hit for all enemies in an area. Damage is split between all enemies within 6 yards of the impact crater.
  • Ability creature disease 02 Massacre — Inflicts maximum damage to all enemy players.
  • Achievement boss bazil akumai Feud — Chimaeron is unable to perform melee attacks while his heads are fighting each other. On Heroic, Nefarius interrupts Feud a few seconds in to the channel.
  • Ability physical taunt Break — Chimaeron attacks viciously, breaking through his target's defenses. Increases Physical damage taken by 25% and reduces healing done by 15% for 1 min. Stacks to 4.
  • Ability devour Double Attack — Chimaeron will strike twice on his next attack. Buff gained when Break is applied.


Phase Two - 20% to 0%
  • Ability warlock improveddemonictactics Mortality — Chimaeron goes into a rage, rendering him immune to Taunt effects but increasing the damage he takes by 10%. Reduces healing effects for all enemies by 99%.
  • Ability devour Double Attack — Chimaeron will strike twice on his next attack.

Heroic Mode Only

Lord Victor Nefarius

  • Ability warlock eradication Mocking Shadows — Inflicts 2,000 Shadow damage every second to all enemies.

Strategy

Simple in concept but more difficult in execution, Chimaeron is a gear check boss.

There are three basic phases to the fight.

When the Bile-o-Tron is online the raid will spread out. The buff will protect them from being one shot by Caustic Slime and Massacre. Healers need only heal people above 10,000 HP. Tanks will have to taunt off of each other after 2-3 stacks of Break.

When the Bile-o-Tron is knocked offline by Massacre, Chimaeron's heads will begin fighting each other but will still cast Caustic Slime. Thus the raid will stack up on top of eachother and will need to be healed as much as possible. When the Bile-o-Tron comes back online the raid should spread out again.

At 20% HP Chimaeron will become untauntable, take extra damage and apply a debuff to the raid reducing healing done by 99%. At this point it's a "simple" burn. He won't cast Caustic Slime or Massacre anymore, and you will still have the Bile-o-Tron.

Phase 2 details

Every few massacres, the Bile-O-Tron gets knocked offline and Chimaeron stats casting "Feud". This is the timing of the events:

  • -4s: Massacre starts casting
  • 0s: Bile-O-Tron offline, Chimaeron casting Feud
  • 0.1s: Massacre damage becomes visible to players ("it hits")
  • 15s: First AoE pulse
  • 20s: 2nd AoE pulse
  • 25s: Last AoE pulse
  • 26s: Feud finishes with 4 seconds remaining on the cast. Massacre starts casting again
  • 30.1s: Massacre damage becomes visible to players ("it hits")
  • 34.8s: First melee hit on tank (assuming 20% swing speed slow applied on top of his base 4s swing timer)

Loot

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Related achievements

Quotes

Aggro
  • Lord Victor Nefarius yells: Ah, Chimaeron! Truly a living testament to my scientific prowess. I reworked and twisted his form countless times over the years and the final result is truly something to behold.
Spellcast
  • Lord Victor Nefarius yells: Oh. You were expecting something else to happen just then, weren't you? Let's see how YOU adapt after a new set of adjustments, shall we?
Mocking Shadows
  • Lord Victor Nefarius yells: This fight has gone a bit stale. Allow me to spice things up!
Feud
  • Lord Victor Nefarius yells: Stop fighting yourself THIS INSTANT Chimaeron!
Death
  • Lord Victor Nefarius yells: A shame to lose that experiment...

Videos

10-Man Heroic Videos

Heroic: Chimaeron (1080p) by Vagrant Corps

10-Man Normal Videos

Chimaeron Boss Guide (complete) by OMFGCATA on YouTube
Chimaeron 10 Man Regular Strategy by TGN on YouTube


25-Man Heroic Videos

[GUIDE] HEROIC: Chimaeron (25H) by Sleepless Knights on YouTube

Patch changes

  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08):
    • Chimaeron shouldn't enter phase 2 prematurely.
    • Chimaeron thought he had 3 heads, resulting in 3 separate sleeping animations. He now knows he only has 2 heads.
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  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Added.

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