This guide is intended to provide a comprehensive description of theencounter with Oondasta in Pandaria. It is targeted at anyonewho desires to understand the fight mechanics.

This guide is updated for World of Warcraft MoP 5.4.

Oondasta is one of two new world bosses inroduced in Patch 5.2. Thisboss is intended to be extremely difficult, and, according to Blizzard,it is only meant to be defeated by raid groups that are progressing onHeroic-level content.

The fight is not very complicated, but the tuning appears like it will bethe greatest obstacle in the way of raids trying this boss.

1. General Information↑top

1.1. Health and Raid Composition

1.2. Enrage Timer

We do not know if Oondasta has a hard enrage timer. Oondasta has a stackingself-buff that causes him to deal increasing damage throughout the fight, whichacts as a soft enrage timer.

2. Loot↑top

In addition to the item level 522 gear listed below,Oondasta also dropsa rare mount: Reins of the Cobalt Primordial Direhorn.

2.1. Armor

Item Name	Armor	Slot	Main Stats
Waistband of Elder Falcarius	Cloth	Chest	Intellect
Robes of Zalmoxes	Cloth	Chest	Intellect/Spirit
Gloves of Tyranomancy	Cloth	Hands	Intellect/Hit
Gloves of Varsoon the Greater	Cloth	Hands	Intellect/Spirit
Terrorful Weave	Cloth	Waist	Intellect/Hit
Girdle of Dimorphodontics	Cloth	Waist	Intellect/Spirit
Fancifully Frilled Tunic	Leather	Chest	Intellect
Gloves of Unliving Fossil	Leather	Hands	Intellect
Belt of Crushed Dreams	Leather	Waist	Intellect
Vest of the Bordomorono	Leather	Chest	Agility
Gloves of Gastric Rumbling	Leather	Hands	Agility
Girdle of the Derrodoccus	Leather	Waist	Agility
Mail of the Mosschopper	Mail	Chest	Intellect
Orndo Mando's Gloves	Mail	Hands	Intellect
Belt of the Arch Avimimus	Mail	Waist	Intellect
Gorgoraptor Scale Chest	Mail	Chest	Agility
Therapsid Scale Gloves	Mail	Hands	Agility
Belt of the Dying Diemetradon	Mail	Waist	Agility
Scorched Spiritfire Drape	Plate	Chest	Intellect
Skullsmashing Gauntlets	Plate	Hands	Intellect
Waistband of Furious Stomping	Plate	Waist	Intellect
Tyrant King Battleplate	Plate	Chest	Strength
Breastplate of the Iguanocolossus	Plate	Chest	Strength/Dodge
Carnotaur Battlegloves	Plate	Hands	Strength
Vulcanodon Gauntlets	Plate	Hands	Strength/Mastery
Belt of the Tyrannotitan	Plate	Waist	Strength
Voolar's Bloodied Belt	Plate	Waist	Strength/Dodge

2.2. Cloaks and Rings

Item Name	Type	Main Stats
Amulet of the Titanorex	Amulet	Intellect/Hit
Choker of Stygimolochy	Amulet	Intellect/Spirit
Eye of Oondasta	Ring	Intellect
Ring of Shamuru	Ring	Intellect/Spirit
Necklace of the Hazillosaurus	Amulet	Agility
Forzarra's Last Meal	Ring	Agility
Overcompensating Chain of the Alpha Male	Amulet	Strength
Ring of King Kangrom	Ring	Strength
Lootraptor's Amulet	Amulet	Strength/Dodge
Achillobator Ring	Ring	Strength/Parry

3. Spawn Patterns↑top

Oondasta is located on the Isle of Giants, in the North ofKun-Lai Summit. He spawns in the center of the Isle of Giants.

We are unsure as of yet what the respawn timer of this boss is, butBlizzard have stated that this boss is meant to be rare, in a similar sense toGalleon, so we may find that he only spawns once or twice per lockout.

It is also worth mentioning that the tagging system for world bosses inPatch 5.2 is faction-wide. That is to say, as long as the boss is engagedby someone on your faction, all other members of your faction are eligiblefor loot if they engage the boss, regardless of whether or not they aregrouped together.

4. Overview of the Fight↑top

The fight against Oondasta is not very complex. It is a single-phase,single-target fight during all of which you will simply be DPSing the boss.

Oondasta has a cone attack, a raid-wide damaging AoE ability and an abilitythat requires the raid to spread out. Additionally, Oondasta cannot be taunted,but tanks generate considerably more threat against him, thanks to afight-specific passive ability. There is a tank-debuff that requires a tankswitch.

5. Abilities↑top

Oondasta is immune to taunts. Tanks who attack Oondasta have 100% increasedthreat generation, thanks to Alpha Male.

• Crush deals a large amount of Physical damage to Oondasta'scurrent target, and applies a stack of a debuff that reduces the target'sarmor by 25% for one minute.
• Growing Fury is a stacking self-buff that Oondasta appliesto himself as the fight progresses. Each stack increases his damage by 10%.This acts as a soft enrage timer. A new stack is applied roughly every30 seconds.
• Piercing Roar is a raid-wide damaging attack that inflicts a moderateamount of Physical damage, and interrupts any spellcasting. Getting interruptedby Piercing Roar also locks players out of that school of magic for 10seconds. Piercing Roar is not instant cast, so this gives players some warning,allowing the to ensure that they are not in the process of casting a spellwhen Piercing Roar is cast.
• Frill Blast is a wide frontal-cone attack that Oondasta uses atregular intervals. It deals a massive amount of Fire damage to all affectedplayers.
• Spiritfire Beam is essentially a chain lightning. Oondasta targets arandom raid member with this ability, which deals a moderate amount of Firedamage, and then jumps to another nearby player within 3 yards, affecting upto a total of 20 players. With each new jump, the damage of the ability isincreased by 50%, making it lethal after 2 or 3 jumps.

6. Strategy↑top

The strategy for defeating Oondasta is relatively simple.

• Have your tanks face Oondasta away from the raid. When one tank is affectedby Crush, they should cease attacking the boss so that they donot generate any more threat, allowing the other tank to take over tankingthe boss.
• Tanks must be prepared to avoid Frill Blast, the frontal cone attackthat Oondasta casts.
• All healers and casters must watch out for Oondasta's casts of Piercing Roar. When Oondasta begins casting this spell, they shouldcancel any spell casts they are currently casting, so as to avoid beinginterrupted and locked out.
• The raid should spread out as much as possible around Oondasta, in order toprevent Spiritfire Beam from jumping to multiple players.

6.1. Tanking Concerns

This is a stressful fight for tanks, as they cannot rely on their taunts forgaining or maintaining threat. Keeping aggro over DPS players (and healers)should not be a problem, but over-aggroing the other tank whenever a tankswitch is needed can be a challenge.

We advise the tank who receives a stack of Crush to ceaseall attacks against the boss (while still facing him, of course) until theother tank has aggro.

Both tanks will have to promptly avoid the casts of Frill Blast thatOondasta makes use of. The frontal cone is very wide (60 yards), so cautionis advised.

6.2. Dealing with Spiritfire Beam

The most obvious solution to dealing with Spiritfire Beam is to haveeveryone spread out. With the 3-yard range of the ability, this is rathereasy to do. That said, however, there is a good chance that there will be avery large number of players engaging Oondasta at once (due to thefaction tagging system). This may cause spreading out not to be veryfeasible.

In case spreading out does not provide enough distance between players torender Spiritfire Beam harmless, we can provide two suggestions for alternativestrategies.

• Have the entire raid stack in one location behind Oondasta, and have theplayer targeted by Oondasta quickly move out of the raid before the spellhits them. If this is done correctly, the spell should not jump to any otherplayers.
• Assign a partner to every raid member, and essentially have the raidspread out in couples. This has the advantage of greatly reducing the numberof players that need to spread out, therefore ensuring that you will notrun out of room. The disadvantage is that with each Spiritfire Beam, a secondplayer will always be hit.

Finally, there is one other way to handle Spiritfire Beam, should you findthe above strategies unappealing. You can have the entire raid stacked upbehind Oondasta, and have a Priest stand about 10-15 yards away from this group.This Priest must them immediately use Leap of Faith on the playertargeted by Spiritfire Beam, thus pulling them out of the raid. Due to thecooldown of Leap of Faith, you will need at least two Priests in the raidgroup, so that they can rotate Leap of Faith to cover each SpiritfireBeam.

6.3. Piercing Roar

Piercing Roar is not very problematic in and of itself, but it iscrucial that healers (and to a lesser extent, casters) are never caught castinga spell when Oondasta uses this ability. Getting locked out of spell castingfor 10 seconds, for a healer, is very likely to cause deaths.

It is also worth mentioning that while the raid-wide damage of PiercingRoar (which cannot be avoided) is not very high to begin with, it will be veryhigh by the end of the fight, due to Oondasta's stacks of Growing Fury. At this point, you will have to use healing anddefensive cooldowns to survive.

7. When to Use Heroism/Bloodlust/Time Warp↑top

We recommend using Heroism/ Bloodlust/ Time Warp at thestart of the fight, when all players have their DPS cooldowns available.

8. Corpse Running/Avoiding Wipes↑top

Because the fight does not take place in an instanced environment, it ispossible for dead raid members to release spirit and run back to the place wherethey died and resurrect. This is a good way for your raid to replenish itsnumbers. Keep in mind the following things:

• After 2 resurrections in quick succession, you will have to wait for 2 minutesbefore you can resurrect again.
• When you resurrect, you come back with 50% of your maximum health. It isbest that healers are prepared ahead of time to heal you.
• It is best to group up (in ghost form) and resurrect at the same time,rather than each one individually. This gives you a better chance torecover.

If a large portion of your raid dies, remaining raid members should attemptto delay a wipe for as long as possible, to give the dead raid members achance to run back.

9. Learning the Fight↑top

The fight against Oondasta is quite simple. Tanks will have to manage theirtank switches on their own, and while this may take longer than usual due tothe tanks not communicating over voice chat, it is something that is absolutelynecessary if the raid is going to succeed.

The greatest challenge to defeating Oondasta, however, will be properspreading for Spiritfire Beam. This is something that your raid groupwill need to work on as a whole. It is very important that your raid talks toand ideally groups with any stray players of your faction that may choose toaid your group by engaging Oondasta. This is because these players'positioning can be devastating to your raid, if they cause Spiritfire Beam tojump to additional targets. Therefore, we encourage you to take the time totalk to any such players that you see and explain the strategy to them.

10. Concluding Remarks↑top

This concludes the Oondasta guide. As you can tell, this encounter issimple, yet intense. It will strain your healers and your DPS players, and yourraid must have good coordination to defeat it. If you have any comments orsuggestions, we would love to hear from you on our forums, or via e-mail.

11. Changelog↑top

• 11 Mar. 2013: Added alternative strategy for handling Spiritfire Beam, involving Leap of Faith; also accounted forSpiritfire Beam's range now being 3 yards.
• 28 Feb. 2013: Added loot items introduced in PTR 5.2 build 16650.