Morchok – Dragon Soul Raid Boss #1

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Morchok – Dragon Soul Raid Boss #1

The first boss located at Wyrmrest Temple is Morchok, an earth elemental made out of gems, found at the base of the temple. He is attempting to destroy the foundation of Wyrmrest Temple in order to collapse it.
Morchock Abilities - Dragon Soul Raid Boss #1 Abilities

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Morchok has several abilities but three main abilities that you need to worry about the most

Stomp – Does huge damage and is split to all players near by (roughly 30 yards). Players need to group up to split the damage and so that healers can AOE heal through it.

Resonating Crystals – Summons crystals that explode after 12 seconds. Does damage split to 3 nearby players (7 in 25 player raids). It does increased damage the further away from it you are when it explodes. Beams show up to show that you are one of the closest and change colour to show damage, orange = high, red = medium, blue = low. Pretty much everyone will die from an orange hit.

Black Blood of the Earth – This is made up of a few different abilities and things going on all at once. First he will summon all players to him, and then shards will erupt from the ground around him inflicting damage to anyone nearby and remaining in play as obstacles. He also starts releasing the black blood of the earth which shows up as a cloud effect that seeps out from him causing damage to everyone in it.

The object of this phase is to get away from him, get behind the spires that are left in play as obstacles, as the blood flows out around the spires and directly behind them will be safe.
Morchock Strategy – Dragon Soul Raid Boss #1 Strategy

The fight is fairly simple as it is the first boss in a new raid. It is essentially a two phase fight. In the first phase players need to group up around Morchok to share the stomp damage. In addition have a set crystal team and healer for them that goes out to split the damage from them. They should get close enough to each crystal to turn the beam blue to take low damage that is easily healed through.

Phase two is the Black blood phase. Here you need to avoid the Black Blood of the Earth as quickly as possible. Stay behind cover until he resets to phase one.

Rinse and repeat these steps and you should get through him fairly easily.

It should be noted that Morchok does have a crush armour ability that stacks up to 10 and each stack reduces armour by 10%. However because of everything going on in the fight it generally does not force a tank swap as it should fade during the Blood phases.

He also enrages at 20% upping his attack speed by 30% and damage by 20%.