Brutallus Brutallus is a pit lord and the second boss of the Sunwell Plateau raid . He is described by Jeff Kaplan as a " giant pit lord who has lost his wings . " He also has blades for hands like Kargath Bladefist . Brutallus appears to have been in many fights because there are multiple scars on his body , as well has seemingly ripped off wings . He is a hard , melee oriented boss with high gear requirements . If players run as far north as they can in the Dead Scar outside on the Isle of Quel ' Danas , they can see a preview of the encounter inside the instance , with blue dragon Madrigosa flying in the air above Brutallus and taunting him . When players in the Sunwell Plateau approach the Den of Iniquity , a room overlooking the Dead Scar , Brutallus fights and kills Madrigosa . Strategy . Currently , Brutallus has about 4 . 7 million Health ( previously 10 , 500 , 000 ) and a 6 - minute enrage timer , meaning 20 , 420 DPS ( previously 29 , 167 ) is required to beat him before the berserk timer . Kills have lasted no more than 6 : 28 , and most likely , you ' ll be lucky to live past 6 : 10 . As it is plainly obvious , Brutallus is a massive gear check ( in more than one way ) . The strategy to this fight is very simple : Make your raid into a " V " shape , with 1 tank at each top end of the V and respective soak groups behind him , and have the melee group at the vertex of the V so that they are always behind Brutallus ( no parrying ) . Each soak group takes 3 meteor slashes , the other tank taunts , and that group takes 3 meteor slashes , rinse repeat . For Burn , that person must leave the group and run to a spot where they won ' t get slashed but be healed for the debuff , which everyone should be very spread out so that the burned person does not cause Burn to happen to other players . The maximum amount of healers you can bring to this raid is 8 , as 9 healers will almost certainly not get you enough DPS to kill him . If your healers can do it , bring only 7 healers . It should be noted that the fight — more specifically Meteor Slash — was slightly changed in 2 . 4 . 1 . Its range was 30 yards but is now far longer , most likely to stop an exploit . Because of this , your positioning will have to be a bit more delicate to make sure a burned player isn ' t in any way in the cone of meteor slash . The toughest part of this fight is the class balance of the raid . Warriors ( and Rogues ) can do extremely high DPS , especially with Warglaive sets giving a very big bonus to this demon boss , but too many and you won ' t have enough soakers . Shadow priests help out a lot with Vampiric Embrace healing their group ( the soaker groups ) , but their DPS is " capped " at 1400 - 1500 DPS under normal raid circumstances , even with the best gear possible . It will be up to you and your guild to find the best balance for killing Brutallus . Using destruction potions / haste potions for the DPS is pretty much required , and your melee should have Elixir of Demonslaying over Flasks of Relentless Assault , full raid consumables , including food and buffs ( you will need every single buff you can get to increase your healing and damage ) , even if it includes having a discipline priest waiting outside the instance buffing your casters with imp spirit and that extra paladin for the extra blessing . Things in this fight you don ' t have to worry about : Damage on the tanks is " extremely " high , but continuous and predictable . A strategy with 3 tanks enables you to avoid his stomp ability , while one with 2 tanks enables you to beat the enrage timer more easily . At level 80 - 85 . Ideal Raid Composition : 4 healers , 2 tanks , 19 dps At level 80 , considering Brutullas is a gear - check and dps race , there is little strategy required beyond burning him down as quickly as possible with two exceptions : Following this strategy should minimize deaths to the raid and ensure a quick kill . At 85 the fight will go on much quicker with the damage output of all dps and addition of the tanks , following the above will lead to a flawless kill . Quotes . Isle of Quel ' Danas . When hit by some Arcane Charges : Sunwell Plateau . Intro : Aggro : Charge : Killing a player : Loving combat : Berserk : Death : Media . PTR glitch . On the PTR , Brutallus was capable of being enslaved by a Warlock . This required the player to wall jump , and was considered an exploit . He spreads a debuff similar to Corrupted Blood , and can ' t be killed outside of the Sunwell Plateau instance . In a later build , he was affected by a scaling bug , which resulted in him being only slightly taller than players .