Ghaz'an Abilities & Strategy

Ghaz'an the Hydra is the second boss of The Underbog.

Abilities

• Acid Spit: 180° frontal attack dealing 2,000 nature damage.
• Acid Breath: Inflicts up to 2,000 damage and applies a debuff, dealing 155 nature damage over 3 seconds per application. Stacks up to 10 times.
• Tail Sweep: Damage and knockback behind Ghaz'an.

Strategy

Ghaz'an walks onto the center platform when you enter his chamber. There is a wall of vertical pipes to the right and many tanks place their backs against this. The important thing is that the tank doesn't move the entire fight so that the rest of the group can stand to Ghaz'an's sides. If you are in front of him you will be hit by his Nature Breath attack and behind he will Tail Sweep you off the platform. An easy way to think of this is setting it up similar to Onyxia.

Ghaz'an's Acid Breath is the main problem in this fight. It is a binary resist (meaning you can fully resist it or it can do full damage) and stacks up to 10 times on players. Each application of the Acid Breath deals 155 damage every 3 seconds and refreshes the duration of the debuff, so a tank with 10 applications will be taking 1550 damage every 3 seconds in addition to the 1500-2000 instant damage each time Acid Breath hits. For this reason Nature Resist for the main tank can make this fight a cinch and lack of Nature Resist can make it very difficult. Shamans should place their Nature Resistance Totem or Hunters can use Aspect of the Wild.

Heroic Mode

Ghaz'an appears to hit from anywhere between 1,700 - 2,600 on moderately geared tanks, and can sometimes get a string of up to 3 attacks in a row. Besides this, the only other significant change appears to be a moderate increase to the Acid Breath damage.