You heard Brann! Prepare for the assault! Driver? Check! Gunner? Check! Engage the enemy!
Abilities
Missile Barrage (Physical) – Fires missiles at a random nearby target.
Battering Ram (Physical) – Rams the target he follows, throwing it forward and increasing his damage taken by 50% for 20 seconds!
Flame Vents (Fire) – Deals fire damage to targets near him.
Systems Shutdown (Debuff) – Once you destroyed all of his turrets, the boss will be comes stunned for 20 seconds, taking 50% more damage.
Cannon (Physical) – His turrets fire at the raid.
Searing Flame (Fire) – His turrets fire at the person attacking them.
You will fight multiple vehicles, grounded and aerial units in this encounter, though the only real unit you have to look out for is the Mechanostriker 54-A and the Ulduar Colossus:
Laser Barrage (Arcane) – Fires his ‘laser’ at a vehicle and hurts everything near it.
Ground Slam (Nature) – Slams the ground, dealing much damage.
To beat this encounter, you will have to utilize vehicles that Brann and his team has salvaged. You can choose from 3 different vehicles.
Salvaged Chopper, needs one driver and can take one person extra in the sidecar:
Sonic Horn – Hurt everyone in a cone in front of you.
Tar – Place tar on the ground, slowing everything in it.
Speed Boost – Rush around.
First Aid Kid – Heal the person in your sidecar.
Salvaged Demolisher, needs one driver and one gunner:
Hurl Boulder – Throw a big boulder at the enemies.
Huld Pyrite Barrel – Throw explosive stuff at the enemies and apply a dot, uses ammunition.
Ram – Throw enemies in front of you back.
Throw Passenger – Throw your passenger in front of you. Throw them at Flame Leviathan’s turrets!
Mortar – Shoot at enemies.
Anti-Air Rocket – Take down aerial units.
Grab Crate – Grab a pyrite crate and replenish your ammunition.
Increased Speed – Rush around, uses ammunition.
Load Into Catapult – Get yourself ready to be thrown.
Salvaged Siege Engine, needs one driver and one gunner. Also has the most health:
Ram – Ram buildings and enemies in front of you.
Electroshock – Interrupt spellcasting of every enemy in front of you.
Steam Rush – Rush around.
Anti-Air Rocket – Take down aerial units.
Fire Cannon – Fire your cannon at enemies.
Shield Generator – Generate a shield and become immune to damage for a very short duration.
Class requirements
There are no requirements, the vehicles offer enough space for your whole raid.
The pull
Flame Leviathan will engage you once you defeat the last enemies guarding the gate to the inner area of Ulduar. So don’t engage them if your raid is not ready.
Positions and strategy
Granted, this looks like lots of stuff to read and understand, but the fight is actually pretty simple. Once you’ve played around with your vehicle for a bit, you’ll get to understand the mechanics and will. be. unstoppable.
During the first part of this encounter, you’re going to crash through an army of iron dwarves. Destroy the towers they are coming out to thin out their numbers. Watch the big guys as they do quite a bit of damage and don’t let your guard down if aerial forces are incoming.
There will be 4 specially named towers in this area: Tower of Life, Earth, Fire and Storm. These need to be destroyed as well unless you want the fight to be a bit more spicy. Flame Leviathan will gain more powers for each Tower left standing.
The Fight:
After Flame Leviathan has engaged you, it will be following one of your raid members. We DO NOT want it to reach them, so the Salvaged Choppers need to rush in front of the boss and slow him down with tar fields. This tactic won’t change during the whole encounter.
You’ll notice quickly that Flame Leviathan gains speed buffs eventually giving him 100% speed. To stop those the demolisher need to throw their passengers onto the Flame Leviathan so that they can take out the turrets. Once all 4 turrets have been destroyed the boss will be stunned for 20 seconds and take more damage from your attacks.
During that time, all demolisher should use their pyrite ability to deal a large chunk of damage on the Flame Leviathan. Also the chopper need to rush in and take up the brave people that fought the turrets. They are needed in their demolishers again because you’ll have to destroy the turrets at least twice.
Normal Difficulty
Flame Leviathan only has 2 turrets.