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The Butcher
The Butcher - Highmaul
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Adventure Guide Entry
The in-game Adventure Guide text for The Butcher encounter in Highmaul.
He slices, he crushes.
Born in the fetid Underbelly of Highmaul, this ogre may have once had a proper name, but it is long forgotten. Abused and beaten from his earliest days, the hardship only strengthened his body even as it broke his mind. Now there is not an ogre in Highmaul who will not give him a wide berth as he hacks away at slaughtered carcasses to pass his days.
Encounter Facts
In the game's encounter order for Highmaul, The Butcher comes 2nd of 7, after Kargath Bladefist and before Brackenspore.
Instance Entrance: Nagrand
Highmaul entranceThe Highmaul entrance is in Nagrand, at 32.8, 38.4 on the Nagrand map.
Abilities & Strategy
What the in-game dungeon journal describes for this encounter. Every ability links to its spell page.
Abilities & Strategy
Overview
The Butcher attacks relentlessly, hacking at his foes with his dual implements of destruction. His main abilities seek to target large clumps of enemies, and positioning is key to handling and overcoming his attacks.
Damage Dealers
- Players in melee range must form clumps of varying sizes throughout the fight to manage the Butcher's Cleave and allow Gushing Wounds to fade.
- Players at range must clump in order to survive the Butcher's Bounding Cleave sequence.
Healers
- Groups that are struck by Cleave suffer periodic damage from Gushing Wounds, which can stack.
- All players in the raid suffer Physical damage when the Butcher begins his Bounding Cleave sequence.
Tanks
- Heavy Handed causes the Butcher to attack the player closest to his current target with a copy of all of his melee attacks. These attacks can be mitigated and avoided as usual. If another player is not close enough, the second attack will trigger on the primary target.
- The Tenderizer will always hit. It cannot be dodged or parried, but it can be blocked.
- The Cleaver will only apply its damage over time effect if the attack successfully lands on its target.
Heavy Handed
All of the Butcher's standard auto attacks trigger a second attack on the next closest target within 5 yards. If no target is found, the primary target is struck again.
Bounding Cleave
When the Butcher reaches 100 Energy he begins the Bounding Cleave sequence by knocking all players back, then charging to a clump at range and cleaving targets within that clump.
Frenzy
After the Butcher reaches 30% health remaining, he Frenzies. While Frenzied the Butcher deals 10% more damage and attacks 30% faster.
Night-Twisted Cadaver
In Mythic Difficulty, Night-Twisted Cadavers will spawn and walk towards The Butcher in a final, vain attempt to slay him. When the Cadaver reaches The Butcher or when they walk near a player, they will Explode, leaving a pool of Pale Vitriol behind for the duration of the encounter.
Ability Spells
Every ability the Adventure Guide lists for The Butcher, with its spell's school, cast time and duration and the description the game gives it.
The Cleaver
Physical · Instant
The Butcher's Cleaver cuts its victims down to the bone, causing them to bleed profusely over time. This effect stacks. This attack will not apply its bleed component if it is avoided.
The Tenderizer
Physical · Instant · Lasts 40 sec
The Butcher's Tenderizer hits his current target for significant Physical damage and increases the damage taken by further attacks made with the Tenderizer by 50% This attack always hits.
Cleave
Physical · 0.5 sec cast
The Butcher targets the largest clump of players in melee range and strikes them for massive Physical damage. The damage is split between all targets in the clump. Victims of Cleave are afflicted with Gushing Wounds.
Gushing Wounds
Physical · Instant · Lasts 15 sec
The Butcher's blade causes the victim to bleed profusely for Physical damage for 15 sec.
3D Model
First-party render from the game files. Model © Blizzard Entertainment.
Drops
Loot the dungeon journal lists for this encounter in Highmaul.
What is shown is the loot the game's own dungeon journal lists for this encounter.
What Each Drop Is
The The Butcher encounter lists 21 items in the dungeon journal, item level 44. Equip slots covered: Waist, Finger, Feet, Wrist, One-Hand, Back, Trinket, Hands, Head and Shoulder. 2 of them can be traded and 19 bind when picked up.
- Belt of Bloody Guts Waist (Leather), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 20g 38s for it.
- Bloodstone Seal Finger, item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Versatility and Haste. A vendor pays 22g 97s for it.
- Bonebreaker Boots Feet (Mail), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 28g 49s for it.
- Bracers of Spare Skin Wrist (Leather), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 19g 71s for it.
- Butcher's Bloody Cleaver One-Hand (One-Handed Axe), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 54g 39s for it.
- Butcher's Cruel Chopper One-Hand (One-Handed Axe), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 53g 59s for it.
- Butcher's Terrible Tenderizer One-Hand (One-Handed Mace), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Versatility. A vendor pays 121g 50s for it.
- Cloak of Frenzied Rage Back (Cloth), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Strength, Stamina, Versatility and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 33g 78s for it.
- Emblem of Gushing Wounds Trinket, item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect and Haste. A vendor pays 11s 35c for it.
- Entrail Squishers Feet (Plate), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 29g 24s for it.
- Flenser's Hookring Finger, item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 24g 38s for it.
- Fleshhook Cloak Back (Cloth), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength, Stamina, Mastery and Haste. Tooltip: “The hooks demand a price for protection.” A vendor pays 26g 95s for it.
- Gauntlets of the Heavy Hand Hands (Plate), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Equip. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Versatility. A vendor pays 19g 57s for it. Lowest listed price right now: 100g 32s across 49 US realms.
- Gutwrench Ring Finger, item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Strength, Stamina, Versatility and Haste. A vendor pays 28g 46s for it.
- Hood of Dispassionate Execution Head (Mail), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Mastery. A vendor pays 28g 71s for it.
- Meatmonger's Gory Grips Hands (Cloth), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Equip. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Mastery. A vendor pays 19g 43s for it. Lowest listed price right now: 200g across 52 US realms.
- Ogre-Eater Treads Feet (Plate), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Strength or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 28g 29s for it.
- Scales of Doom Trinket, item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility. A vendor pays 11g 79s for it. Equip: Item - Attacks Proc Mastery [Balanced Fate].
- Slaughterhouse Spaulders Shoulder (Cloth), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Mastery and Critical Strike. A vendor pays 28g 82s for it.
- Spine-Ripper Bracers Wrist (Leather), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Agility or Intellect, Stamina, Critical Strike and Haste. A vendor pays 18g 93s for it.
- Sterilized Handwraps Hands (Cloth), item level 44, requires level 40. Bind on Pickup. Stats: Intellect, Stamina, Haste and Versatility. A vendor pays 18g 59s 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 The Butcher among their criteria.