Rift Mob:Uruluuk  

Strategy

Uruluuk is a fairly complex encounter which will test every raider's raid awareness and coordination. We used one tank, three healers, one bard and five DPS. Though your composition may vary.

Throughout the encounter, Uruluuk will teleport between four locations throughout the lockout area. These locations are North, South, East and West. Uruluuk is generally immovable for the entire fight.

From the pull, ranged will want to remain spread out to mitigate boulders he will throw at a random raid member which will deal additional damage to each raider within 7 yards.

Uruluuk will occasionally turn a random raid member into a crystal. This is an emoted ability and the affected raider should run outside a 10 yard radius of the boss. If this fails, Uruluuk will be healed by the crystal. The crystal should become primary DPS target until down.

This will be made more difficult by another emoted ability which creates a bubble around Uruluuk. All raiders must get inside this bubble quickly to avoid a one-shot mechanic. For this reason, we told raiders not to go too far away from Uruluuk at any time. In the worst cast scenario, a raider can survive this mechanic while being a crystal.

Twice in each ground phase, Uruluuk will polymorph a random raid member into a crab. This can and should be cleansed.

Occasionally, Uruluuk enters an air phase. There will be a huge crystal thrown at a random raider. All raid members must stack on this huge crystal to keep safe from boulders that will be thrown. This is very high raid-wide damage and healers will want any AoE healing cooldowns up for this. If a raider is still a crystal from ground phase, the raid should stack up on this instead.

After throwing five boulders, Uruluuk will come back to the ground and will be exhausted for about 30 seconds. Twenty Seconds into this, three Motes of Earth will be spawned on the East, South and West. All DPS should focus fire these down.

From this point, the encounter is rinse-and-repeat until 30%. At this point, Uruluuk will return to the top of the stairs and will throw massive boulders every 10 seconds. Ranged and heals should be spread 10-yards apart on the stairs and melee should be similarly spread at maximum melee range. He will cast Fist of Laethys during this phase and must be interrupted as this ability will one-shot any raider. Adds will also spawn during this phase. We chose to have a melee DPS maintain threat on these and keep them away from the boss to avoid cross-buffing.

This phase becomes a DPS race, as the healers will quickly run out of mana and cooldowns.