 Core Hound | |
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| Race | Core hound (Beast) |
| Level | 31 Elite |
| Reaction | Alliance Horde |
| Location | Magmadar Cavern, Molten Core |
| Pet family | Core hound |
Core Hounds are only found inside the Magmadar Cavern in the Molten Core. They are much different than the core hounds found elsewhere in the Molten Core. There are five packs throughout the cavern, and each hound in a pack must be defeated within ten seconds of each other or their corpse will be reignited by the living hounds and come back to life.
Abilities[]
Serrated Bite — Inflicts 1521 Physical damage to an enemy over 30 sec.
- They will come back to life, with full health, if they are dead for over 10 seconds and there is still a member of their pack alive.
- Hits most tanks for about 300-400.
- They also have a special frontal attack. It puts a DoT on the target that does 50 damage every second for 30 seconds. It stacks up to 10 times. (Total 15,000 damage over 30 seconds when stacked 10 times)
Strategies[]
Mark each hound and assign a warrior each, then pull and have the warriors all bunch them up. Try to turn so that the dog's head is facing outwards. This way, as few tanks as possible will likely be hit by the melee dot.
After every dog has a suitable number of sunders (2 minimum, but 5 is ideal), you can call in the AoE attacks. This will help get all the dogs dead at the same time. Any person that does single target damage is also constantly looking for the dog with the highest HP to target. This is very important, if a single hound dies too soon then it will be reignited by the living hounds and in turn will reignite the others when they die. If the Core Hounds do revive, it is still possible to recover with quick thinking and coordinated dps. It is also Important for the healers to remember to continue healing the tanks after all the Core Hounds are dead, those stackable DoT's continue doing a lot of damage after the battle.
Notes[]
- Core Hound packs do not give Hydraxian Waterlords reputation when killed.
- They respawn in 60 minutes.
- Be warned: If you pull a second pack while the first pack is still on the ground, the second pack WILL revive the first one.
Gallery[]
Larger core hounds in 4.2.
Appearance prior to 7.0.3.
Patch changes[]
- Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Model updated.
- Patch 4.3.0 (2011-11-29): Returned to their original size.
- Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28): Size doubled.
