TankSpot's Guide to Kologarn

[szczoti91]

What's the name of the song ?

[merpcola]

Anybody else watch this for nastalga?

[c0mbineelite]

Oh, darn, kologarn.

[Imbanar]

I miss Wotlk 

[ayomyside]

They Took Our Jobs!

[Kristiannbg]

Cool story bro

[dirnol]

if he took like three steps back he would be a lot harder to kill

[SOULJAJOE010]

lol its true pally so OP the guide to it is 3mins long but warrior crappy tanking guide is a wopping 13mins however i must be honest cause i seen some great warrior MTs

[atalacus43]

Am i the only one who's noticed kologarn bares a striking resemblance to Andross?

[globogs]

@atalacus43

Everything huge with two hands attacking and that has a beard looks like Andross.

[snakeman1001]

@Tommitalian

Yes, when you destroy an arm, Kologarn loses health equal to the base health of the arm you killed. Ei: if an arm has 800k health an you kill it, kologarn will lose 800k health.

And it dosnt matter which arm you kill, he still loses health.

[heith9]

@snakeman1001 IE  not EI

[Tommitalian]

you say that dps-ing the right hand is the same as dps-ing kologarn...does that work for the left hand as well?

[CharlieAndHisGuitar]

They should have made him left handed.

That would have screwed people over.

[RandomCatapult]

Damn, He is HUGE for a Boss, should be a MEGABOSS... whatever

[Dustemikkeltullekopp]

-.- Look up Supremus from The Black Temple

[Cursemark007]

@Dustemikkeltullekopp look up Gruul frol the Gruul's lair lol :)

[tjenare1234567]

Question: If damage done to arms is done to Kologarn too, then why wouldn't you DPS both arms? It would make the encounter much easier, with the only thing to think about being a tank-switch.

[DaBananaboat]

There is no damage done to Kologarn while DPSing the arm. When the arm respawns, the health of the arm will be substracted from Kologarns remaining health, and the reason why they don't burn down the left hand is because of the Adds. Besides, the left hand does a AoE swipe attack that does insignifficant amount of damage and causes a stun, so it isn't needed to kill the left arm.

[mcgoo721]

@DaBananaboat The first part of your argument is semantics. bottomline, downing the arm damages him.

But yeah the damage is nothing big and it's better for the fight to go a bit longer and control the adds then risk them running loose just to down the other arm.

[123mistax]

you could just have one healer set aside for whom ever gets griped and that person gets heals the whole time, you need good dps for that strat though

[camfritz]

they said the song is called "Lips of the Sun" and you can buy it on neosounds(dot)com but it looks like it doesnt exist or either renamed because you cant find it on there nor anywhere for that matter theres not even one single article on it on teh internetz

[JustusMBowman]

Reminds me of Phantasy Star III.

[Rattja]

Hehe, first I was like... no way, but then I started thinking about it =p And yeah, I can see that hehe good game, still have it =)

[Soul0605]

My Guild would attack the right arm first then attack the left arm because when you done one arm it kills off like 20% of kologarns health so we only need to kill the right and left arm down twice and we would be done ( or almost)

[skogmann123]

All in all its free loot :-)

[DarkSaiyanVegeta]

No need to switch the tanks as the debuff only stays on MT for 6secs, and all melee dps should stack on top of the MT and DPS the right arm whilst the Range dps stands back by the door way, the reason to have the melle dps stack on top of the MT is so that the Eye beam the boss does won;t hit the melee dps and also the OT is able to pick up the adds easier when the right arm drops off.

[Blackhawkbul94]

When they made the video the debuff lasted long enough to get to 2 stacks. Now, it only stacks on 25 man.

[ebkkracerx]

what addons are u using?

[malakov5]

classtimer, elkhano buffbars, grid, bartender, omen, recount, custom UI, MiKscrolling battle text for the ones that i can see right off. also probably quartz (custom casting bar)

[Pwnzorsxx]

Most the dps is 3600-4700 in this video.. more 3600

and uh the video is kinda fast forwarded so yea it seems like theyre killing it uber fast

[Xxlittledude7]

is that 3600-4700 AP or Dmg?

[Siinwu]

Debuff on tank doesnt stack atm it just on main for 6 seconds and weares of. for that period MT loses 20% armor. no need for OT to help. :)

[Linkforlife199]

I like this guy's dying animation how he falls back and creates a bridge.

[Izaac7719]

your raids in these movies normally downs the boss really really fast. Whats your dps at, and whats the raid dps average at?

[PeterKarlKlaus]

isn't the debuff only on hc mode?

[baggeghfreak]

i think its only on hc but if im wrong in 10 you dont need 2 taunt...atleast my guild doesnt :)

[Kaudol]

You are right. On 10man, debuff have max 2 or 3 stack and after this he dissapeared. On HC you have to have 3 tank. One: add after killed arm, and two tanks to body. Tanks on the body have to change target after 2 stack of debuff.

[teath123]

Nobody gives a shit.

[EddyMcK]

Thats only because your a fat kid still under its spell

[Squill1988]

the addon at bottom left is pally power for paladin class

[iTzNightCrawler]

whats the addon on the left saying whos got what buffs?

[CruzIFixen]

love tankspot videos. Good, short and eassy to understand.

[EricRuss50]

I was watching my brother do this fight in 25 man he is a rogue. He stood under Kologarn's left armpit the whole fight and was still able to attack the right hand and never had to move the entire fight. Is there anything wrong with standing there?

[XxiNfamous24xX]

What is that buff add-on.

I see a lot of people use it.

Name of it would be appreciated thanks.

[igotnothingbetter]

people say you need to move out and let the debuff wear off, i'm my guilds main tank and i've never had to run out, the debuff always wears off before its stacked (armor reducing one for people that cant figure out what i'm talking about)

[ZaganothofArathor]

If your doing 10-man it will wear off, in 25-man you have to switch

[Lwenzlaff]

I still find it kind of ironic that when you aggro him he says something about you not being allowed to pass; but when you kill him, he makes the bridge that allows you to move on.

[madinno]

he also says "it's just a flesh wound" when you kill the right arm. a reference to Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail black knight scene, perhaps

[123ble]

lol, like if he just wasnt there, all the rest of the bosses wouldnt be possible, unless theres another way ")

[RetardedWildlife]

1:00 to 1:05 ish sounds like a rap lol

[Manofsult]

which floating combat text addon is he using?

[TheSilentTyger]

Parrot, i believe. It's what i use.

[egizm0]

parrot i believe

[sikibompa]

Yeah, could someone tell us what the song is?

[jetflee]

What's the song in the video guys? Please?

[fkinJR]

It's a balance druids treants u nubcake

[UberGusMage]

2 things, 1. its treants... 2. the only druid they have is balance, thats why there is only 1 druid unitframe and a boomkin in the back...

[brad0544]

LOL!

[DarkTankadin]

I lol'd at your fail.

[Afentagen]

@spartan739 Those were treants.

[kensabeast9]

Nice vid.

I really like the song, anyone know who it's by / what it's called?

[tomayto70]

that's hilarious, the boss becomes the bridge for u to pass over!

[mistyken]

they should make Kologarn to say "over my dead body" after he dies.

[hellshot8]

thats actually really funny

[DonFicoMontana]

@mistyken Than they should put a wizard with a white beard on Kolagarn's body who will say "YOU SHALL NOT PASS"

[Silphier]

mm... this fight has always confussed me..

as a tank.

when I tank him I get the debuff like so but

when OT tounts him its gone or about to go away in a few secs.

so when we do him we yust do it 1 tank on boss and 2'nd for adds.

dunno if its posible thru 25man tho since we only play 10man

[ZhakoT]

My guild, just has one tank for Kologarn and another for the adds. I am the add tank, Our healers are decent and heal through most things with relative ease.

[smmagic]

in 10 man, the debuff only stacks for 2-3 seconds. so one tank for adds and one tank for the boss requires no taunting. THIS IS 10 MAN ONLY!

[FlowFuzz]

nearly as cheap as FL in 10 man...

[SimpleReally]

can anyone pls tell me the name of the song in this video?

[lolondrir]

the combat text addon is MSBT (Mik's Scrolling Combat Text), go get it on curse if you want it

[kuknoob]

i have so lucky with drops in ulduar i have get 7 drops of 10 bosses ^^

[MastahMich]

This boss is piss easy on 10 man

[LOLroflXDimba]

i think the addon is SCT... but i'm not shure

[alesanalover337]

Can someone tell me the addon that makes your attacks damage show up to the side like that ? would be very helpfull thanks

[dashman79]

Its msbt (mikscrollingbattletext)

[RyuTheAwesome]

Other addons like that would work. I myself use parrot. And Scrolling Combat text (SCT) would work as well.

[stickyresin]

I noticed that the camera man and a couple other melee actually moved around to target different parts of Kologarn. After many kills i can safely say that the hitbox is exactly the same for all 3 parts of him.

When you want to attack an arm, target the arm, but just stand directly on front of him facing his body. The body hitbox covers all 3 parts of him and you never have to move.

[LEYEGHTZ3RO]

This boss was extremely intense and fun.

[Mik9805]

your doing a wonderful thing putting this vids up. your helping the world for pugs and guild runs everywhere, i salute you guys

[Sondheller]

I don't understand. Something must have been changed from when this video was made for the Adds that spawn after destroying the Right Arm deal an increasing amount of large damage to the off-tank.

Is there something I'm missing here? We're having to have all ranged DPS shift and AoE very quickly

[riggs2009]

in our guild, our pally ot and our main mage aoe the adds down alone on 10 and 25 man, and except for on 25 now in 10 man the armor debuff in not a concern since it no longer stacks and lasts 5 seconds so it is easy to have 1 tank on the boss for the whole fight

[RyuTheAwesome]

In 25, it's most likely different than the 10 man shown in the video.

[kungfoopandaa]

25m is basically the same, the differences are very minor - 2 ppl get targetted by eye beams each time and 3 ppl are grabbed by right arm instead of 1 person

[JapanForSale]

Haha, and you run over his recently deceased corpse to get across. Great success.

I love these well-narrated, informative, and most importantly of all, CLEAN videos. Doesn't even have to be HD-enabled. Just be relatively HQ at the source, WITHOUT ANY UNNECESSARY BULLSHIT FANCY EDITING. Fuck, those videos hurt my eyes and boggle my mind. I'm not gonna name names.

So yes, that means I think I luvs this video series.

[blingers321]

he is hard on 25

[TheJugement]

the first time i saw that guy i thought he was zeus

[blingers321]

lol yah but he is just an abnormaly vig dwarf

[alesanalover337]

This guy does ten man encounters dont know the name of this char. But ciderhelm does 25 man encounters

[Wasd11112]

they both do 10 and 25

[alesanalover337]

i meant for youtube. Ive nevver sseen this guy do 25man encounters

[spidy05]

thought u guys where alliance lol

[neomasterc]

it is possible to MT all the way thru, but its kinda hard as u would need to rotate CDs to survive multiple stacks of the debuff untill they wear off.

imo hardest part as a tank is OTing the adds when being focus eye beamed and the MT needs a taunt. then immediately switching to the boss with adds on u may cause the tank to take too much dmg.

[Adrenalinejunkie1096]

I MT this all the way through, no taunting.

[dbotroniclol1]

Either your tanks aren't geared enough and you guys shouldn't really be taunting of each other until the right hand adds are down.

[MinuteMaidPremium]

our tanks take an insane amount of damage from him and we cant figure out y, they are taunting off of each other but they still take large amounts of damage and the healers just cant heal through, are we doing something wrong?

[zomgbradsyyay]

if your taunting when the adds are up your probably getting there 2k instant atk and the 5% damage increase effect on your tank from each of the adds

[ZmanzWow]

thx man :)

[ZmanzWow]

we had 2 pally tanks tonight, usually a warrior and pally, but what he did was run up and shield pally throw ability in the middle and then run the rest of the way and start tanking

he said he was gettting hit by the eyebeams and the fuck u smash too

[zomgbradsyyay]

if he avenging shields and runs in he should be right :S the only reason the eybeam would hit im would be if someone ran towards him when they were on it

just make sure your tank stays at the chest and the fuck you smash should be fine

gl ^^

[ZmanzWow]

lol i'm melee dps trying to get info for guild

we don't know what is happening

we keep getting killed by the eyebeams, that are main probelm, yes we are runing away

and the thing about our tank getting WTFPWN within the first few seconds happens too

[zomgbradsyyay]

is he staying near the chest?

if he isn't like pretty much right in front of the chest then the boss will cast his holy shit move of death doing an instant kill to people every second

the way my group avoids eye beams is we have all our melee on the right arm on the first square closest to him (four squared in length) and our ranged on the second, with each person having their own square long ways

then if they get the beam they run to the 3rd and 4th squares at the back so noone gets hit nkite

[wosackslice]

L2 run faster?

[ZmanzWow]

hey dude we wiped 12 times on this guy tonight

i need help

we got the basic strategy right but what happens is those damn eyebeams

they usually will one shot our priest right at the beginning and sometimes are MT goes down real fast

it's the eyebeams, plz help us XD

[zomgbradsyyay]

the eyebeams will start of looking like their are two beams (because of two eyes ZOMG :O) when you see one on one side of you and one on the other (assuming your not stacked with someone (stakcing = bad)) it means the laz0r beam will be on you

RUN the SECOND you see it, don't finish the flash heal or w/e your doing, jsut run and make sure you don't run through anyone

laz0r is easy enough when you know it is on

[Dadymoo]

Damn fun fight, I want to be a warrior on this guy. Whirlwind, cleave and Bladestorm :D

[Zacke1818]

Nice guide, thanks.

[skyburns]

10 man tactics

[jetflee]

bump for the soundtrack. Anyone know?

[csecskristof]

wel it is surely a LOT of fun:) exspecialy when tour mt fell of the bridge......>.>

[dennis4102440]

What addon are you using for combatlog? (bottom-right corner, above the border)

[premo626]

eavesdrop

[Gerendra]

Does any one know the name of the song(s) in the background?

[RyuseiSan]

God of War anyone? XD

[donaldTfox]

Hate to disagree, but...I love Tankspot, and recently the music has been distracting. Maybe it was better without the dreamy soundtrack  =/

[ekehoo93]

WTF u talking? this music is ideal for concentrating to the video and the tactics. I love it!

[trudycouldeatyou]

dude.... that fight is like the fight in star fox 64.... roflmao

like with the master hands or whatever

[kalashnikov567]

eye-beams are a bitch!

[furywitch]

They even got nerfed.

[knals101]

Very Nice guide as usual :)

ps: love the music

[SplicedOne]

What addon is he using for his buffs?

[EhomeSnoy]

anyone know the name of the background music? if yes please reply

[Daginni1]

heh, I remeber doing it on my rogue, and walking too far forward and falling. -.-

[aikidoka20]

lol...

[filiprogue]

I did that too, what a shame :/

[mooseslake]

both of those shaman dps makes me cry

[Akira1422]

I saw about 3700-3600 dps, that makes you cry? That's what I pull in my offset gear.

[smokindank831]

You guys forgot to mention that when the hand is killed it does a percentage to Kologarn's health....

Something like 10-15%

[eathern]

Seems like they mentioned it to me lol

[nubfail]

no they didnt

[Nelogenazea]

he said it, the health from the arm is substracted from the bosses health immediately once its killed. Quote "So dpsing the arm is the same as dpsing the boss."

[z3248]

lol i tihnk he has like 20mill health on heroic and like 3mill on reg big diff

[wamuiruh]

15.34M (Heroic) / 5.2M (Normal)

[NLM5820]

gogo eredar

[NickyDahl]

10 man hes an easy bitch. 25....He's kind of hard 0_o

[VegasPoker]

ye u can go to kologarn before council and IMO he is easier

[hugh3242]

we just downed razorscale and xt should we go this guy or iron council (10 man) whats easier?

[apanst]

dont think you can do kologarn before iron dudes

[kaggeres]

this guy is way easier hes basiclly free epic loots dam push over imo

[Archimonde259]

It's funny how such a gigantic creature doesn't simply one-hit anyone attacking it, no?

[cemetery1]

Is that addon in the center with the scrolling combat text iceHUD?

[Evaseven]

hahaha! bongo bongo!!!!!

[Haseo190]

Ahh yes Evaseven, I loved the Ocarina of Time.

[compxlicated]

lies on the eyebeams "once in a while" on the melee....our raid, the melee were focused more than the ranged. just an FYI to those learning the fight

[jo452jo]

when my guild did it melee got 0 eyebeams, os its realy a random thing

[qppapasmurfqp]

Your melee were too far from the body. Both of the arms have the same exact hit box, so you can be in close to Kologarn and right next to the tank. If you stand there you will *never* get hit by a eye beam. I had a melee in my group once be too far to the left, because he thought that the arms had seperate hitboxes, If someone drags it into the melee it will obviously hit them. I hope this helps.

[kartoffelspane]

I like how you can tell he's reading the fight summary. Where'd Ciderhelm go? :P

[EuSouTu]

This boss reminds me of Power Stone an old Sega Dreamcast game, the last boss was almost the same thing as Kologarn.

[theripmon81]

haha this boss reminded me of Andross from the Star Fox series

[Evaseven]

me too!

[MurakamiTenshi]

omg... its Penance! (FFX international optional boss)

[blakliffy]

he likes to bug and grab u when his arm isn't there xD

i remember being like... it said he grabbed me... but im still standing here...

*Player* Has died.

[josh2alterak]

he is using pitbull for his player target and target or target frames and grid for the raid frames

[Fraddz]

Thx, that's what I wanted to know! :D

[mangomariel]

Love Tankspot videos

Good Music plus awesome male voice :D

[gratscott]

He die's awsome, you use his body as a bridge :P

[dragoro7]

His corpse forms a bridge? awsom.

[Zeldarulah]

Yeah and when you first encounter him he is already the bridge

[FearyFury]

cant wait to try this tonight (hopefully:S)

[DanTheeMan]

Afterwards you can dance on his decapitated head!

[Fraddz]

Does anyone know what unitframes mod he's useing? I'd really like to get my hands on that bad boy!

[Pelinal24]

Looks to me like its Grid

[p0int0f0rigin]

Wow, they got REALLY lucky with their eye beams in this vid. Eye beams are far more random in their sweeps than this vid would lead you to believe. Also fyi, the adds spawn specifically when you destroy the hand, and will spawn beneath where it was destroyed. Most vids, just as this, give no indication about where or when the adds spawn which led to a lot of early confusion in my raid and a few wipes. Adds are weak, but don't let them run rampant - they love to bee-line it for the healers.

[Ciderhelm]

This is absolutely correct. I'm recording a 25-man addendum to the encounter which will be flagged as a video reply and will have more information on this and a few other abilities.

[smirch]

While this fight isn't the hardest it is a lot harder than the very skilled members of that site make it look.

The debuff the tank gets really hurts...I mean REALLY hurts. Two stacks and they are neutered. The video mentions it as optional but dpsing the adds down quickly is going to be pretty critical for the majority of guilds.

[Usernamedshah]

We let our Main Tank get 3 debuffs then our offtank will taunt. Fairly simple.

I'll have to say though, when he popped up we shit ourselves the first time.

[WhiteHawk460]

damn that is tight the way he dies and makes a bridge

[INTERPK]

wow this boss looks easy comapred to XT and razorscale...

[Felixlol]

Well we are infront of it and after some times the raid intant wipes xD

[oOshockfreak]

OK, i dont mean to be an ass. i like the videos. but you are forgetting to emtion very important stuff. Like: When his right arm pick up someone and the dps cant do more than 15k within a few seconds the guy in his fist will die. IT can NOT be healed trough since he will do a total overkill blow on the player stuck in his fist. However You do need to kill it as he mentioned in the vid. But to slow dps equals loss of players.

[Chick6517]

haha!! I loved it! It was awesome! Wait is there a bigger word for awesome? How about the video was incredible!!! :)

[xshareex]

looks like parrot for the combat text

[logag1234]

mik's scrolling battle text is the addon he uses