
Kin'garoth, Healer Guide
Posted 2 years, 11 months ago for patch 7.3.5 by Preston.
This page covers a healer-focused strategy for Kin'garoth in Antorus, the Burning Throne. While it's tailored for healers, other roles may also find the information useful. If you have any suggestions or feedback, you can leave a comment below or tweet @PrestonDvorak.
This guide has been updated and maintained based on my own experiences with the fight as well as Dungeon Journal information. I'll continue to update it as-needed.
General Mechanics and Abilities
Normal and Heroic
During this fight, you'll be alternating between two stages.
Stage - deployment
During Deployment, you'll be fighting Kin'garoth directly, alongside his creations. This Stage ends when Kin'garoth reaches 100 energy and begins again after 40-seconds.
- The tanks will be dealing with
Forging Strike.
- Don't stand within 5-yards of the tank to avoid the area of effect.
- Avoid the Detonation Charges left behind by
Reverberating Strike.
- Avoid
Diabolic Bombs.
- These should be detonated in a controlled manner when they're away from the group.
- Avoid the
Ruiner beam as it sweeps across the platform.
- Avoid the Construction Bays, which are protected by
Cleansing Protocol during this Stage.
Shattering Strike deals light damage to the group.
Stage - construction
During Construction, Kin'garoth enters his construction console and players will be fighting his creations. This Stage begins when Kin'garoth reaches 100 energy and ends after 40-seconds.
- Kin'gorath takes 99% less damage while inside a console, due to
Apocalypse Protocol.
- Avoid the impact locations of
Apocalypse Blast.
Flames of the Forge deals light damage to the group while it's channeled.
Fel Reavers
The following fel reavers will be constructed during the Construction Stage.
- Garothi Annihilator (green)
- Soak the impact locations of
Annihilation.
- Any location not soaked deals heavy damage to the group through
Annihilation Blast.
- Any location not soaked deals heavy damage to the group through
- Soak the impact locations of
- Garothi Decimator (red)
- When affected by
Decimation, move away from other players to help mitigate the damage taken.
- When affected by
- Garothi Demolisher (purple)
- Stack on players affected by
Demolish to split the damage.
- Being hit also increases shadow damage taken, likely making it impossible to help split the damage again until the debuff is gone.
- Stack on players affected by
- All fel reavers take additional damage due to
Initilizing upon spawning.
- This effect starts at 30 stacks and decreases by one stack every second.
- Killing a fel reaver triggers
Feedback Overload, damaging Kin'garoth for 4% of his maximum health.
- General kill order should be Demolisher, Annihilator, Decimator (purple, green, red).
Mythic Differences
Stage - deployment
Several abilities can become empowered depending on which fel reaver is killed last in the Construction Stage and will gain an additional effect.
Reverberating Strike
- When affected by
Reverberating Decimation move at least 18-yards away from other players.
- When affected by
Diabolic Bomb
- The player detonating the bomb will gain
Diabolic Demolition.
- When a bomb is detonated the entire group gains a stack of
- The player detonating the bomb will gain
Ruiner
- Soak the impact locations of
Ruiner Annihilation.
- Any location not soaked deals heavy damage to the entire group through
Ruination Blast.
- Any location not soaked deals heavy damage to the entire group through
- Soak the impact locations of
Stage - construction
Weapons Upgrade causes the last fel reaver killed to empower one of Kin'garoth's abilities.
- Garothi Annihilator empowers
Ruiner.
- Garothi Decimator empowers
Reverberating Strike.
- Garothi Demolisher empowers
Diabolic Bomb.
- Garothi Annihilator empowers
- Kin'garoth gains a stack of
Overcharge any time an ability is empowered twice or more.
Healing Notes
Quick Notes, All Difficulties
The notes below mostly pertain to progression difficulty, meaning if you out-gear the difficulty you're on or use extra healers they may not apply.
- Use Major Cooldowns on
- Construction Stages, especially during the beginning when all Fel Reavers are alive.
- Use Minor Cooldowns on
Diabolic Bomb detonations, especially if they're near the group.
- Construction Stages, if major cooldowns aren't available or aren't sufficient.
- Pre-heal Before (mainly for heal over time classes)
- Construction Stages
- Leytorrent potion use
- Following a Construction Stage, before
Diabolic Bomb and
Ruiner.
- Following a Construction Stage, before
- Other things to watch for
- Players affected by
Decimation should be at full health before it detonates.
- Players affected by or soaking
Annihilation,
Demolish, and
Reverberating Decimation will need additional healing.
- Players affected by
Debuffs to Track
- Several abilities cause players to need additional healing
Decimation
- On Mythic
Gear Recommendations
Below you'll find legendary and gear recommendations for healing Kin'garoth. Recommendations are mostly based on Mythic difficulty. Gear recommendations for classes other than Druids are largely based off the top items shown on WarcraftLogs. If your class Discord or other guide is recommending something else, let me know in a comment so I can make any necessary updates.
Restoration Druid
Legendary Items: Velen's Future Sight
Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus and
Aman'Thul's Wisdom both have frequent use as the second legendary.
Mistweaver Monk
Legendary Items: Velen's Future Sight,
Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus
Doorway to Nowhere and
Petrichor Lagniappe] also have frequent use.
Holy Paladin
Legendary Items: Ilterendi, Crown Jewel of Silvermoon,
Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus
Discipline Priest
Legendary Items: Velen's Future Sight,
Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus
Holy Priest
Legendary Items: Velen's Future Sight,
Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus
X'anshi, Shroud of Archbishop Benedictus also has frequent use.
Restoration Shaman
Legendary Items: Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus,
Soul of the Farseer
Velen's Future Sight also has frequent use.
DBM Settings
Below are the DBM settings I'll be using for Kin'garoth. You can set them up however you'd like, but these ones should work well as a starting point. Some settings may be Mythic only.
Healer DBM settings for Kin'garoth
Videos
Heroic, Restoration Druid PoV
Below is a video of me and my guild defeating Kin'garoth on Heroic difficulty. There is no commentary, only game sounds.
Mythic, Restoration Druid PoV
Below is a video of me and my guild defeating Kin'garoth on Mythic difficulty. There is no commentary, only game sounds.
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