Ignis the Furnace Master strategy guide

The following Ignis the Furnace Master strategy refers to the Ulduar raid instance (10 and 25 man raid).

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Ignis the Furnace Master strategy Basics:

Ignis the Furnace Master is a fire damage dealing boss that also uses his fire abilities to buff up his construct adds that make AOE damage after being buff stacked (20 stacks) from being hit by his fire attacks.

Ignis the Furnace strategy is a "tank and spank" one in nature, with a few additions.

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Ignis the Furnace Master main abilities:

Scorch (30 yards frontal AOE):
Ignis the Furnace Master deals medium damage (3-4K) every half a second in a cone in front of him. This will leave a circular AOE on the floor that will later affect construct adds (read below).

Some players will not be able to see the AOE on the floor because the games' default graphics are set off for this effect.
To turn it on: On your options menu in game choose video, then select Effect, and on the bottom right side of the menu enable "projected textures" if it is'nt enabled.

Flame Jet (3 seconds cast, shares Cool Down with "Summon adds"):
Ignis the Furnace Master AOE interrupts and locks all spells of raiders for 8 seconds, as well as dp a low (1K) fire damage every second for 8 seconds.

Slag Pot:
Ignis the Furnace throws a random raid member to the slag pot, making heavy DoT damage (5K every second for 10 seconds) but at the end of it increasing the target haste by 150%.

Players inside Slag pot can still cast spells.

Summon Adds (40 seconds cooldown):
Ignis the Furnace will "awaken" one of the construct adds in the room. The constructs move very slowly, and hit lightly, but when they get hit by Ignis the Furnace fire attacks (Scorch Trail) they start stacking a buff increasing their speed and haste by 5%. When they get to 20 stacks they will get "moltened" and start making AOE damage around them and will hit very hard.

Summoning the adds will also put a stacking "strength of the creator" buff on Ignis, increasing his damage by 15%, which will be removed only when the construct is destroyed.

While moltened they can be dragged (taunted) into the pools in the room. When in the pools they will be stunned and any sinlge hit of over 5K damage will shutter them (they will explode for about 20K damage AOE when destroyed, so watch out).

They can be snared in any way possible.

Ignis the Furnace Master strategy:

Ignis the Furnace Master strategy step 1:
Pull Ignis using Miss direct to the tank standing close to one of the pools of water.
Make sure Ignis the Furnace faces away from the raid.

Ignis the Furnace Master strategy step 2:
Tank avoids AOE left of the floor by Scorch.

Ignis the Furnace Master strategy step 3:
Assign 2 offtanks on the adds.
Off tank #1 will keep all the adds on him.
Off tank #2 will pull the adds that got moltened into the pools (away from the raid!), as well as fill in for offtank #1, should he get caught in Slag Pot.

The OT that pulled the moltened add to the pools runs away from the stunned add, and an assigned ranged DPS kills the add.

Ignis the Furnace Master strategy step 4:
When Ignis the Furnace Master casts flame jet all caster make sure they stop casting by the time it's complete to avoid spell lock.

Ignis the Furnace Master strategy step 5:
Watch for Slag Pots, get ready to heal its' target ASAP. Slag pot targets should heal themselves if capable of healing.