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Cruelfang
Beastlord Darmac - Blackrock Foundry
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Adventure Guide Entry
The in-game Adventure Guide text for the Beastlord Darmac encounter in Blackrock Foundry.
As a young orc, Darmac quickly rose through the ranks of the Thunderlord as a gifted trainer of beasts. Where others only saw animal instincts, he recognized intellect and drew forth untapped potential from brain and muscle and bone.
Encounter Facts
Instance Entrance: Gorgrond
Blackrock Foundry entranceThe Blackrock Foundry entrance is in The Pit, Gorgrond, at 51.6, 27.1 on the Gorgrond map.
Abilities & Strategy
What the in-game dungeon journal describes for this encounter. Every ability links to its spell page.
Abilities & Strategy
Overview
At the start, Darmac fights on foot amidst the fiercest war beasts of the Iron Horde. Upon reaching 85% health, Beastlord Darmac leaps onto the back of the nearest Prime Beast to continue the fight. When that Beast is killed, Darmac absorbs its essence, gaining new abilities. With each additional 20% health lost, Darmac seeks out a new Beast to ride. In Mythic difficulty, Beastlord Darmac dismounts Cruelfang, Dreadwing, and Ironcrusher when they reach 40% health.
Damage Dealers
- Free players from Pin Down if they are struck.
- Kill Pack Beasts when Beastlord Darmac uses Call the Pack.
Healers
- Players struck by Pin Down require significant healing.
- While Dreadwing is active, dispel Conflagration as quickly as possible.
- Dispel Inferno Breath and Superheated Shrapnel if they stack up.
Tanks
- Beastlord Darmac leaps atop the nearest chained beast at 85% health remaining, and then every 20% thereafter.
- Quickly gain threat on the rampaging Pack Beasts when Beastlord Darmac uses Call the Pack.
Stage Two: Back of the Beast
Darmac leaps onto the back of the nearest Prime Beast.
Stage Three: Spiritual Successor
Darmac is empowered by slain Prime Beasts.
Ability Spells
Every ability the Adventure Guide lists for Cruelfang, with its spell's school, cast time and duration and the description the game gives it.
Rend and Tear
Physical · Instant · Lasts 30 sec
Cruelfang then leaps back, inflicting the same bleed when landing.
Savage Howl
Physical · 1.5 sec cast
Inflicts Physical damage to nearby enemies. Also increases attack speed of nearby allies by 15%.
Cruelfang's Swiftness
Physical · Instant
Death grants Beastlord Darmac deadly agility, allowing him to cast Rend and Tear.
Drops
Loot the dungeon journal lists for this encounter in Blackrock Foundry.
What is shown is the loot the game's own dungeon journal lists for this encounter.
What Each Drop Is
The Beastlord Darmac encounter lists 25 items in the dungeon journal, item level 44. Equip slots covered: Wrist, Feet, Hands, Neck, Trinket, Back, Finger, Shield, Chest, Waist, Legs and Two-Hand. Every piece binds when picked up, so none of it reaches the Auction House.
- Beastmaster's Iron Bracers Wrist (Mail), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 19g 58s for it.
- Black Iron Spurs Feet (Leather), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Versatility. A vendor pays 30g 13s for it.
- Bracers of the Wolf's Cunning Wrist (Mail), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Versatility. A vendor pays 19g 96s for it.
- Cannonball Loader's Grips Hands (Leather), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 20g 42s for it.
- Choker of Bestial Force Neck, item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Strength, Stamina, Versatility and Mastery. A vendor pays 19g for it.
- Darmac's Unstable Talisman Trinket, item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect. A vendor pays 10s 71c for it. Equip: Item - Attacks Proc Haste [Instability].
- Dreaded Wing Back (Cloth), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Versatility. A vendor pays 30g 13s for it.
- Epicenter Loop Finger, item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Versatility. A vendor pays 25g 33s for it.
- Flame Infusion Drape Back (Cloth), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Haste. A vendor pays 29g 95s for it.
- Heart of the Clefthoof Shield, item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength, Stamina, Haste, Mastery and Intellect. A vendor pays 38g 25s for it.
- Heartsmasher Chestplate Chest (Plate), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Haste. A vendor pays 37g 65s for it.
- Inferno Breath Sandals Feet (Cloth), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 31g 97s for it.
- Ironcrusher's Collar Waist (Plate), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Versatility. A vendor pays 20g 49s for it.
- Ironspike Chew Toy Trinket, item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect. A vendor pays 11g 36s for it. Equip: Item - Attacks Proc Spirit [Squeak Squeak].
- Legguards of the Stampede Legs (Mail), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 39g 85s for it.
- Legguards of the Unstoppable Charge Legs (Leather), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 38g 81s for it.
- Robes of Brutal Tantrums Chest (Cloth), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 38g 66s for it.
- Rylakk-Rider's Legguards Legs (Mail), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 37g 51s for it.
- Seal of the Savage Howl Finger, item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 24g 67s for it.
- Seeking Ember Girdle Waist (Cloth), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 19g 81s for it.
- Tal'rak, Bloody Skull of the Thunderlords Two-Hand (Polearm), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 75g 21s for it.
- Thunderlord Trainer's Insignia Finger, item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 24g 29s for it.
- Treads of the Flaming Maw Feet (Cloth), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 29g 26s for it.
- Unrendable Wolfhide Robes Chest (Leather), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 40g 91s for it.
- Waistplate of Soothed Beasts Waist (Plate), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 19g 44s for it.
Read from the current game build's item data. Listed prices come from our latest US Auction House scan; a drop that binds when picked up never has one.
Achievements for Defeating It
4 achievements list a victory over Cruelfang among their criteria.