Epoch Hunter Abilities & Strategy

Epoch Hunter is a drake boss of the Infinite Dragonflight that attacks the young Thrall and his rescuers during his Escape from Durnholde Keep inside the Caverns of Time.

The Epoch Hunter appears after you have escorted Thrall to Tarren Mill and found Taretha inside the inn.

Attacks and Abilities

This fight starts with the Epoch Hunter coming from above. He keeps flying over Tarren Mill, but he is not attackable at first. He will send 3 waves of adds.

Wave 1: trash, west

Infinite Defiler x1 - Infinite Slayer/Infinite Saboteur x2

Wave 2: trash, south

Infinite Defiler x1 - Infinite Slayer/Infinite Saboteur x2

Wave 3: trash, west

Infinite Defiler x1 - Infinite Slayer/Infinite Saboteur x3

Intermission

Now there will be a small pause. Use it to get your health and mana back up. You can use regular food at this moment so save your potions!

Wave 4: Epoch Hunter, west

Sand Breath: Cone-shaped Arcane damage.
Impending Doom: Non-dispellable DoT which does 750 Shadow damage every 3 seconds. Removed by the Rogue ability Cloak of Shadows.
Knockback
Disrupt Magic: An aura that dispels 1 buff from each player within 45 yards every 3 seconds. Can be stolen and prevented by Spellsteal, but it is recast every 10 seconds.

Strategies

This is a longer fight than any of the other bosses in this encounter, so healing and mana users be ready. (Be sure Evocation, Innervate, and Shadowfiend are off cooldown.)

Defeat the three waves of adds as you did in the barn, church, and inn. They are affected by all forms of CC that work on Dragonkin. The Defilers, which love to hang back and spam Shadowbolt, are an excellent target for Hibernate.

Boss

Seeing as he has a nasty knockback, he's best to be tanked near the northwestern small house of Tarren Mill, under the outside roof of it. This way, the tank can grab aggro quickly again. Watch out for his breath, and healers should watch out for his DoT. After he is dead, Old Hillsbrad Foothills will do its last little cinematic.

For the entire instance Thrall can die nineteen times, and the encounter can be reset from the Keep, outside Tarren Mill, or beside Taretha depending on how far through you are. (Prior to Patch 2.2.0, Thrall could only die twice.)

Important note! If Thrall does die the last time and you have reached the last boss, the boss will be found hovering in the center of town. Thrall is dead. You can engage the boss and fight as normal, but since Thrall must strike the killing blow, the boss will persist indefinitely at 1% health. He will also taunt you, saying that Thrall is dead and 'you lose'. Save your strength (and your repair bill) and reset the instance after your twentieth failure. (This is unconfirmed since Patch 2.2.0.)

When Thrall dies you can walk back in to the Inn and you will find him upstairs. Talk to him to start the boss fight again.