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Blackrock Foundry

Blackrock Foundry

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Boss abilities and loot tables from Blizzard's own journal, boss by boss.

This foundry was the ancestral home of the Blackrock orcs, wherein master smiths smelted and worked the impossibly hard ore that is the clan's namesake. Now, massive giants captured and broken by the Thunderlord heat the great forges, flamebenders of the Burning Blade imbue the ore with an inner fire, and engineers shape the slag according to otherworldly schematics. Warlord Blackhand's foundry is the center of the Iron Horde's military might, churning out the weaponry that will be used to raze Azeroth.

Written notes for this instance are a later milestone. Everything on this page comes from Blizzard's journal data.

Expansion
Warlords of Draenor
Minimum Level
40
Modes
Raid Finder, Normal, Heroic, Mythic

Bosses

1. Oregorger

The storehouses of the Blackrock Foundry, laden with heaps and pallets of unprocessed Blackrock ore, represent a grand banquet feast for the ravenous rock-eating goren who have burrowed into the chamber. Oregorger is by far the largest of the invaders, gluttony swelling his frame far beyond the size of any goren previously seen in Draenor.

Abilities

  • Overview

    Oregorger draws upon his reserves of Blackrock Ore to attack his enemies. When he has spent all his Blackrock Ore, he begins rampaging around in search of new Blackrock Ore to replenish himself. Once Oregorger is sated, he stops rolling and returns to fighting.

  • Satiated Slaughter

    When sated, Oregorger draws upon his Ore reserve to unleash powerful attacks against his enemies.

  • Feeding Frenzy

    When his Blackrock Ore reserves have depleted, Oregorger rampages through the room, trampling all in his path as he searches for ore to eat.

Loot

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2. Hans'gar and Franzok

Hans'gar and Franzok are twin brothers raised and trained as masterful brawlers of their clan. Both carved paths of glory as warriors, but destiny had other plans. The brothers, each unwilling to slay the other in the rite of mak'gora, were banished from their clan and left for dead. They survived as outcasts in the savage wilds of Draenor, and when the Iron Horde called, these powerful warriors f…

Abilities

  • Overview

    The battle against Hans'gar and Franzok takes place amidst an operational Blackrock assembly line. At fixed health thresholds, one of the twin orcs jumps out of the fight space to activate the factory machinery, enabling the conveyor belts that bear plates of molten Blackrock ore, or massive presses that stamp down from overhead.

  • Environmental Threats

    The battle takes place admist an active Blackrock processing line, which poses many dangers to the unaware player.

  • Franzok

    When Hans'gar or Franzok take damage, they gain increasing amounts of Rage. As their Rage increases, Pumped Up increases in power and they inflict more melee damage, increase the hammers thrown by Skullcracker, reduce the cast time of Disrupting Roar, and increase the number of jumps performed during Body Slam.

  • Hans'gar

    When Hans'gar or Franzok take damage, they gain increasing amounts of Rage. As their Rage increases, Pumped Up increases in power and they inflict more melee damage, increase the hammers thrown by Skullcracker, reduce the cast time of Disrupting Roar, and increase the number of jumps performed by Jump Slam.

Loot

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3. Beastlord Darmac

As a young orc, Darmac quickly rose through the ranks of the Thunderlord as a gifted trainer of beasts. Where others only saw animal instincts, he recognized intellect and drew forth untapped potential from brain and muscle and bone. When the Iron Horde demanded his service, Darmac saw no greater honor than to outfit and train the most savage beasts Draenor had to offer.

Abilities

  • Overview

    At the start, Darmac fights on foot amidst the fiercest war beasts of the Iron Horde. Upon reaching 85% health, Beastlord Darmac leaps onto the back of the nearest Prime Beast to continue the fight. When that Beast is killed, Darmac absorbs its essence, gaining new abilities. With each additional 20% health lost, Darmac seeks out a new Beast to ride.

  • Stage One: Ferocious Feet

    Darmac begins the fight on foot.

  • Stage Two: Back of the Beast

    Darmac leaps onto the back of the nearest Prime Beast.

  • Stage Three: Spiritual Successor

    Darmac is empowered by slain Prime Beasts.

Loot

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4. Gruul

Garrosh knew that the surest path to breaking the gronn lay in subjugating their great father, Gruul. Known in another time as the Dragonkiller, here Gruul has been reduced to the role of menial laborer. In a cruel mockery of the Shattered Hand's warrior tradition, his hand has been replaced with a hook to enable him to more easily haul pallets of fuel to the furnace.

Abilities

  • Overview

    Gruul attacks with massive sweeping blows that require the coordinated efforts of multiple players to withstand, and periodically enters a [Destructive Rampage], ignoring all targets and continually performing [Overhead Smash].

  • Inferno Slice
  • Cave In
  • Overwhelming Blows
  • Flare
  • Petrifying Slam

Loot

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5. Flamebender Ka'graz

Under the banner of the Iron Horde, Blackhand has enlisted Flamebender Ka'graz of the Burning Blade to imbue the Blackrock-forged armaments with the essence of flame. Along with her assistant Aknor Steelbringer, Ka'graz toils before an everburning forge in support of the Iron Horde's conquest of Draenor.

Abilities

  • Overview

    Flamebender Ka'graz gains energy over time, unlocking new abilities at given thresholds. At 100 energy, Ka'graz channels a Firestorm, fully consuming her energy and beginning the cycle anew.

  • Molten Energy

    Flamebender Ka'graz gains energy over time allowing her to access even more powerful abilities. She gains abilities at 25, 50, 75, and 100 Molten Energy.

  • Flambender Ka'graz
  • Aknor Steelbringer

Loot

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6. Operator Thogar

Known more for his cruelty and cleverness than for brute strength, Thogar oversees the operation of the Grimrail. From the Foundry's depot, he coordinates the ongoing ground battle against the draenei in Talador, with entire batallions of troops and artillery at his beck and call.

Abilities

  • Overview

    Trains periodically pass through the encounter area, dropping off troops or providing support for Operator Thogar.

  • Operator Thogar
  • Reinforcements

Loot

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7. The Blast Furnace

The Blackrock clan's unique ability to smelt the black ore, a substance so dense that ordinary flame does not even soften it, has always been their most closely-guarded secret. Deep within the Foundry, their furnace contains a primal force as old as Draenor itself, raging within the confines of its prison as it emanates a preternatural heat.

Abilities

  • Overview

    The objective of this encounter is to destroy the Foundry's massive furnace. Players must first disable the Blast Furnace's Heat Regulators, which will release the Heart of the Mountain, a blazing fire Fury that powers the furnace. Primal Elementalists then join the fight and channel beams to control the raging Fury. Once the Primal Elementalists have fallen, the Heart of the Mountain is unleashed

  • Stage One: Sabotage

    Players must disable the Heat Regulators located on each side of the Blast Furnace to disable it.

  • Stage Two: The Heart Exposed

    The Heart of the Mountain escapes from the Blast Furnace! Primal Elementalists join the fight in an effort to keep the Heart of the Mountain from destroying everything.

  • Stage Three: Freedom!

    With all of the Primal Elementalists defeated, the Heart of the Mountain attacks everything in sight.

Loot

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8. Kromog

The magnaron are mysterious in their ways, ancient and inscrutable. Miners excavating an expansion to the Foundry, in support of the Iron Horde's massive production needs, were horrified to unearth a chamber containing a living magnaron. To their astonishment, Kromog began to assist in their endeavors, and now uses his massive stone fists to hammer out the gigantic plates needed for the Iron Horde…

Abilities

  • Overview

    The massive magnaron Kromog stands immobile overlooking a ledge as he assaults players with his fists and the very stone beneath them. Many of Kromog's mighty attacks create [Reverberations], and at 30% remaining health, Kromog gains the effect of [Frenzy].

  • Warped Armor
  • Fists of Stone
  • Stone Breath
  • Slam
  • Rippling Smash

Loot

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9. The Iron Maidens

With little opportunity to exercise her tactical brilliance under the ancient social structure of the orc clans, Gar'an was thrilled to be one of the first warriors to volunteer for naval duty under the Iron Horde. Instantly successful in battle, she was named Admiral of the Iron Horde fleet and selected Marak and Sorka as her lieutenants. Together, they are called the Iron Maidens, and have crush…

Abilities

  • Overview

    The Iron Maidens continuously gain Iron Fury, progressively unlocking new abilities. Periodically, one of the Maidens moves to the Dreadnaught to bombard players with its cannon. A team of players must use loading chains to get to the deck of the boat, defeat the Deckhand stationed there, and sabotage the ammunition of the main cannon before it finishes [Warming Up]. When any one of the Maid

  • The Iron Maidens
  • The Dreadnaught

    When one of the Maidens mans the Dreadnaught's main gun, a group of players must use the loading chains to travel to the Dreadnaught and defeat that Maiden's deckhand before the Maiden completes the warmup sequence of the main gun. While the gun is warming up, the main cannon will barrage the docks with bombs, which players who remain on the docks must avoid.

Loot

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10. Blackhand

A ruthless tyrant and fierce warrior, Blackhand is Warlord of the Blackrock clan, second only to Grommash in stature within the Iron Horde. Bathed in sweltering heat that few other mortals could withstand, Blackhand oversees the operations of his Foundry from atop its Crucible, wielding his smoldering slag hammer to forge weapons of peerless quality.

Abilities

  • Overview

    Upon reaching 70% and 30% health, Blackhand causes the floor beneath the players to give out, falling to a lower level of the tower and changing the environmental hazards that he brings to bear to destroy his foes.

  • Stage One: The Blackrock Forge

    Blackhand pours Molten Slag into the moulding of the room, the slag slowly encroaches on players as the phase progresses.

  • Stage Two: Storage Warehouse

    Blackhand has stored deadly siege weaponry and calls in reinforcements on the balcony above.

  • Stage Three: Iron Crucible

    The Iron Crucible has hardened over after the Black Furnace was destroyed.

Loot

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Data from patch 12.1.0. Game data provided by Blizzard Entertainment through the Battle.net API.