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A pack of Core Hounds

General information

Background

Core hounds are the vicious but faithful servants of Ragnaros and his minions. The beast appears to be a massive bulldog with two heads. EAch mouth is filled with rows of flaming teeth. Its body is covered with armored hide and small boney spikes. A streak of flames runs down its spine from head to stubby tail. The oldest and most powerful of the core hounds is Magmadar, the alpha male and sire of the entire current pack. Core hounds understand Kalimag but cannot speak. Core hounds use simple tactics. They attack the most obviously threatening target first, attempting an imporved grab or bull rush to push the victim into lava. A core hound with flaming breath takes hold of a victim before using its flaming breath, thus preventing the victim from escaping the effect.Template:Cite

The packs are only found inside Magmadar's cavern. There are approximately five packs in Molten Core. They are much different than their older brethren, the Ancient Core Hounds. Each hound in a pack must be defeated within ten seconds of each other or their corpse will be reignited by the living hounds and they will come back to life.

Abilities

  • They will come back to life, with full health, if they are dead for over 10 seconds and there is still a member of their pack alive.
  • Hits most tanks for about 300-400.
  • They also have a special frontal attack. It puts a DoT on the target that does 50 damage every second for 30 seconds. However, this can stack and it appears to be a limitless stack.

Strategies

We assign warriors a number from one to five. One hound is then marked. Warrior one then takes that as his target and each warrior after that takes a target in sequence going clockwise. This way we can get pretargets very quickly and without much hassle. As of 1.11 patch, it is a lot easier to simply assign 5 raid markers, and tell each tank which marker he is responsible for. We then pull and have the warriors all bunch them up. Then they try to turn so that the dog's head is facing outwards. This way, as few tanks as possible will likely be hit by the melee dot.

After every dog has a suitable number of sunders (2 minimum, but 5 is ideal), you can call in the AoE attacks. This will help get all the dogs dead at the same time. Any person that does single target damage is also constantly looking for the dog with the highest HP to target. This is very important, if a single hound dies too soon then it will be reignited by the living hounds and in turn will reignite the others when they die. If the Core Hounds do revive, it is still possible to recover with quick thinking and coordinated dps. It is also Important for the healers to remeber to continue healing the tanks after all the Core Hounds are dead, those stackable DoT's continue doing alot of damage after the battle.

Reward

Loot: No loot, as they despawn as soon as they are killed.

Reputation, until revered : 20 reputation with the Hydraxian Waterlords

Notes

  • They respawn in 60 minutes.
  • Be warned: If you pull too fast, i.e. having an dead pack on the ground while the next pull is coming in, the dead bodies can ignite hounds from the current pack back to life !

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