Strategist: Assembly of Iron

Well, I did earn The Siege of Ulduar, did I not? Made an entry for each one of the Siege bosses, that I did. Made me wonder how adequate the term "siege" is, when the only Expedition forces are in the base camp and around Razorscale - looks we've been storming Ulduar, not besieging it. But that's just my thoughts So this time it's the Assembly of Iron. What many people call 'the Iron Council'. The three Iron Generals represent each of the iron races in the Iron Army (they also love iron). Steelbreaker, the biggest and physically strongest of them all, is an Iron Giant with colossal strength. Runemaster Molgeim is an Iron Vrykul, who has mastered the art of rune magic. Stormcaller Brundir is an Iron Dwarf with a master's touch in the lightning magic, who hates being mocked for his height. The Assembly of Iron has taken residence in the left wing of the Antechamber of Ulduar, just next to the Archivum - a great Titanic machinery, built to store and categorize information about the world. The Council is an optional encounter with total of six difficulty levels. Killing Brundir last (Steelbreaker - Molgeim - Brundir usually) is the normal mode of the encounter, and killing Steelbreaker is the hard one. Killing Molgeim or Steelbreaker last also guarantees the drop of (Item #45506), which is the beginning of the Algalon quest-line. Table of Contents Trash Quick Overview Steelbreaker Runemaster Molgeim Stormcaller Brundir Hard Mode Achievements Boss Quotes Trash You will face the trash of three bosses on your way to the Assembly - the Council, Kologarn, and half of Algalon's. Woah, you say, that's a lot! And indeed it is - 6 trash pulls are unheard of before the Keepers! Now, enough silliness, and on to what you may and will face: Lightning Charged Iron Dwarf, Iron Mender, and Hardened Iron Golem (or 2 of each on Heroic) - Preferably burn and interrupt the Mender, CC the Iron Dwarf, and have a tank around the Golem. Periodically the Iron Golem will (Spell #64877) - if your tank is a little squishy, he and all the melee should pull back, the Golem doesn't move while his fists are Hardened. You can Banish the Golem as well. 2 Rune Etched Sentries - Face them away from the group, get out of the pokeballs (Spell #64852)s on the ground. Chamber Overseer - Face him away from the group, and be ready to pick him after he leaps on top of a random target. Get away from the moving ball of lightning he summons. Mechanics Overview Here is the fight in a nutshell. Each one of the three bosses has a number of abilities. Each time a boss dies, the ones alive get healed to 100% and get even more abilities and damage through (Spell #61920). So the last boss alive gets pretty strong. Steelbreaker requires one tank and the heaviest heals. His Fusion Punches need to be dispelled in less than a second. And he must never stay in Molgeim's Runes of Power, since his damage is ridiculously high anyway. DPS should get in the vacated Runes of Power. After the first Supercharge, he gains an AoE that increases Nature damage taken. After the second, he will start killing a tank every 60 seconds (30 on Heroic), healing himself and gaining damage for each death. Molgeim requires one tank, but only medium healing. He should be tanked somewhat close to Steelbreaker. First Supercharge gives him Rune of Death - huge rune on the ground that damages players in it. The second one allows him to summon elementals that explode as they die. Brundir can easily be tanked by a DPS Death Knight, or even a Rogue. Or any class with viable interrupt ability, as almost all of Brundir's damage comes from interruptible spells. The first Supercharge gives him another lightning AoE, and the second one - yet another, fairly powerful one. He should be tanked away from all players but his tank and the healer assigned to that tank, so nobody gets hit by the AoE he has since the beginning. Steelbreaker The biggest and nastiest of the entire Assembly, Steelbreaker. His standard arsenal includes raid-wide aura (Spell #61890) and (Spell #61903)es. Beware of the Falcon Fusion Pu