Drugos the Hellsmith

Drugos the Hellsmith is the fifth boss of the Doomasta Stronghold raid, and the first boss of the Forge of Doom wing. Regarded as one of the trickier encounters of the instance, Drugos has what appears to be a simple fight, but it has complex mechanics which can snowball into wipes if not checked.
==Background==
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==Abilities==
===The Assembly of Drugos===
Drugos has limited abilities, but contains several mechanics.
*Hellsmithers: Drugos' mighty hammers, used to craft his tools. He retains these abilities while wielding the hammers.
**Incendiary Crash: Collides both hammers together on the target, dealing 200,000 - 205,000 damage and applying a stack of Slagged.
***Slagged: Your bones and flesh are becoming indiscernible from molten slag. Suffering 30,000 damage every 3 seconds for 30 seconds.
***Slagbound: After suffering five stacks of Slagged, you become stunned, taking 30,000 damage every second until you have less than 25% of your health. After five seconds...
***Metallic: You have become a metal creation of Drugos. Health and damage increased by 250%, and are now controlled by Drugos.
**Slag Eruption: Drugos launches explosive flames at Slagged targets, dealing 150,000 - 160,000 damage to them and adding a stack of Slagged.
**Magma Slam: Drugos empowers his hammers, slamming them into the ground, dealing 500,000 - 525,000 damage to all enemies within 10 yards, decreasing in damage up to 30 yards, and doubling stacks of Slagged on players.
**Roaring Plume: Drugos activates the plumes around the instance, dealing 96,000 - 104,000 damage to enemies caught in the flames.
**Hellsmith Armor: Drugos soft enrages, increasing damage dealt by 100% for 6 seconds. During this time, Drugos will activate all of his plumes, and if near one, doubles the damage he deals.
===Peerless Paragon===
Drugos periodically creates Peerless Paragons, and sends out his hammers to do his bidding. During this time he is unattackable, but gathers energy to launch volatile attacks. When all of his Paragons are destroyed, he gathers his hammers and becomes attackable again.
====Peerless Paragon====
*Masterwork Armor: Upon reaching 75, 50, and 25% health, the Paragon gains 25% more damage.
*Peerless Strike: Instantly deals 75,000 - 80,000 damage to the target.
*Sweep: A sweeping strike, dealing 200,000 damage split amongst a maximum of five targets.
*Impeccable Residue: Upon expiration, the Paragon leaves residue that eliminates stacks of Slagged if players walk across it. Lasts 5 seconds.
====Drugos' Forge====
*Forging Creation: Drugos slams his hammers down before sending them on their way to attack the raid. During this time, he deals 50,000 damage to the raid every three seconds for fifteen seconds.
*Volcanic Crater: A large crater forms across the ground, erupting for 124,531 - 143,221 damage, and raining fire indefinitely, dealing 46,873 - 53,211 damage every 2 seconds.
*Sentient Smith: The hammers become sentient for 30 seconds before they return to Drugos, where he'll forge another Peerless Paragon.
**Magma Slam: Deals 250,000 damage to all enemies within 10 yards of the impact point. If the magma slam touches a Paragon, it gains a stack of Masterwork Armor alongside whatever it has.
**Flame Strike: Deals 60,000 damage to the target and knocks them back.
*Purging Heat: Drugos fires up the flames in the room, dealing 175,000 damage to all players upon reaching 25 energy, up to 100.
*Hellforge: Drugos deals 300,000 damage to all players upon reaching 100 energy.
*Sight of Destruction: Drugos gains a 15% damage boost for 20 seconds for each Paragon of his destroyed, which starts when he regains his hammers.
==Strategy==
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==Quotes==
===Intro===
*Vice Iron: Alas, the Doom Brothers have been defeated. It seems their widespread terrorism has been met with a fanatical devotion to this ideal these 'heroes' proclaim of justice.
*Salvator Leonus: It is only a matter of time till we advance on to your quarters, Vice. No more running. I will kill my old allies if I must.
*Vice Iron: You are soon to have met the greatest blacksmith of our kind, Drugos Iron. Do not speak carelessly, for no weapon of quality, other than mine, is fiercer than the one he wields. That he had created.
*Drugos Iron: It seems combat is without question. Let them come, and taste peerlessness.
===Aggro===
*I've been looking forward to this. Let me see if I can't make molten slag out of that rubble you call armor.
===Incendiary Crash===
*Your bones will become brittle.
===Slag Eruption===
*Your carelessness will consume you.
===Magma Slam===
*Witness my might!
===Hellsmith Armor===
*Your ferocity is astounding. Allow me to replicate it tenfold!
===Forging a paragon===
*Blacksmithing, like combat, requires perfection. Now you will see what I was meant to do, and die by my creation.
===Heat waves===
*The fiercer the flame, the more tempered the steel.
*These flames will wear you down.
*Your life will end in ashes.
*Taste the flames of Synstra!
===Killing a player===
*A worthy combatant.
*You were not a paragon of your kind.
*A desirable fate.
*Nothing but cinders.
===Death===
*I fought for my leaders... until the end... Vice... I... the forge...
===Outro===
*Salvator Leonus: An unfortunate result. While I have no sympathy for his following or who he follows, Drugos was loyal, and a worthy combatant in the end.
*Salvator Leonus: He deserved better. I truly believed he would've made a good ally, were it not for his fierce loyalty to a council off this world.
*Vice Iron: DRUGOS!
*Vice Iron: It is done... then. A significant loss. He had no equal in our society.
*Vice Iron: You will all pay for this... even if it is by MY HAND!
*Salvator Leonus: His death was the beginning of the change of pace. We've set the stronghold's weapons back, if only for moments. We must proceed, champions.
==Loot==
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==Achievements==
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==Notes==
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