XT-002 Deconstructor

XT-002 Deconstructor's hard mode is probably the easiest hard mode in Ulduar.  This should be the first hard mode most guilds tackle as the dps and healing requirements are quite a bit lower than the other hard modes.  

Raid Setup

• 2 tanks
• 6 healers
• 17 dps

Positioning
Ranged will split up into 2 loose groups to reduce Searing Light splash damage.  Melee should group together on XT's right leg and move to the left leg if you get Searing Light (if anyone is taking damage, move farther left).  The Life Spark tank will stand about 10 yards from whoever gets the Searing Light debuff and pick up the Spark as soon as it spawns.

Tanking XT in between two XT-Toy Piles will force all spawning bots to come from the 2 piles on the opposite side of the room.  Ranged should be able to kill any bots that spawn before they ever get near a group.



Phase 1

Phase 1 is exactly the same as phase 1 normal mode.  Keep the Searing Lights and Gravity Bombs out of the raid and practice your positioning for the hard mode phase.  The goal here is to get XT to 75% as soon as possible without blowing any major cooldowns.  XT has a 10 minute enrage timer and the less amount of time you spend in phase 1 the more time you have for phase 3.  This phase should take less than about 1 minute 15 seconds.

Phase 2

Phase 2 is the Heart burn phase.  The Heart of the Deconstructor has 7.2 mil hp and you have 30 seconds to kill it and push XT into hard mode.  The heart takes 100% more damage so it shouldn't be too difficult to do the 240k dps necessary to kill it in time.  If needed burn Bloodlust/Heroism.  Healers can try to dps as best they can since there will be no healing in this phase, unless there are leftover debuffs from before the heart got exposed  

Phase 3

Phase 3 is the actual hard mode encounter.  XT will heal back to 100% and now have 36 mil hp.  XT will also do 15% more melee and  Tantrum damage, but Gravity Bomb and Searing Light will remain the same.  XT's melee swing will increase to about 23k with Inspiration/Ancestral Fortitude up.  Any Boombots, Pummelers, and Scrapbots need to be killed by ranged as soon as they are in range.

Gravity Bomb's will now spawn a Void Zone when they explode which will deal 7500 per tick to anyone who stands in them.  Anyone with a Gravity Bomb should move to the designated areas and stand as close to another Void Zone as possible without standing in it.  This will make the Void Zones overlap and take up less total area.  Void Zones will despawn after 3 minutes.  

The Searing Light debuff will now spawn a Life Spark at the end of its duration.  A Life Spark is a mob with 176k hp that has a nature damage melee for ~10k and an aura that puts the Static Charged debuff on the raid, dealing 2000 nature damage every 3 seconds.   The Life Spark can crit and needs to be tanked.  Anyone who gets the Searing Light debuff should move to the designated area so the tank can pick up the Life Spark as soon as it spawns.  About 5 ranged should be assigned to killing Life Sparks.  You should never have more than 1 spark up at a time, if you do assign another ranged to kill them as well.  

Healing assignments:
2 healers on XT tank (one with Inspiration/Ancestral Fortitude recommended)
1 healer on Life Spark tank
3 healers on the raid

During Tantrum all XT tank healers should be healing the raid.  XT will not melee during the  Tantrum so the tank won't be taking any more damage than anyone else.  Life Spark tank healers should also heal the raid if there is no Life Spark up.  Also, during Tantrum if there is a Searing Light or Gravity Bomb up, 1 raid healer should be assigned to focus on that person and make sure they don't die.  

If phase 1 went well you should have at least 8 minutes 15 seconds to kill XT.  If you can't make the 10 minute enrage timer it is possible to kill XT after he goes berserk depending on the cooldown on Tympanic  Tantrum.  It takes XT a long time to run around killing people individually but almost no time to wipe the entire raid with a  Tantrum so if you got lucky with a  Tantrum right before the berserk you should have a decent amount of extra time.


Note:
This is a guide for the Heroic version of XT-002 Deconstructor.  For the normal version a single tank can taunt the Life Sparks while tanking XT.  Have all dps quickly kill the Sparks and resume dps on XT.  Otherwise the strategy is the same and the same positioning can be used.

Tips:
Ice Block, Divine Shield, etc will spawn a Void Zone or Life Spark wherever you are standing so make sure you are in position before using these abilities to remove Searing Light or a Gravity Bomb

XT-002 Deconstructor

	Tympanic Tantrum Deals 10% damage every 1 sec for 8 sec. It also dazes nearby targets for 2 sec (the channeling duration).
	Light Bomb This ability deals 3500 damage (Normal: 2250) every 1 second to all enemies within 8 yards of the target for 9 seconds.
	Gravity Bomb Charges the target with dark energy, causing them to explode and pull in nearby allies after 9 sec. This ability triggers Gravity Bomb (see below).
	Gravity Bomb Pulls enemies within 12 yards into a gravity well, dealing 14625 to 15735 damage. (Normal: 11700 to 12300)

At 75%, 50%, and 25% XT-002  enters a new phase exposing his heart and summoning three types of adds with 2 million HP: XM-024 Pummellers, XS-013 Scrapbots, and XE-321 Boombots. Once you killed all adds you will be able to resume DPS on XT-002 Deconstructor.

	XM-024 Pummeller These are a melee type add using Arcing Smash, Trample, and Uppercut.
	XS-013 Scrapbot These adds will try to reach and repair XT-002.
	XE-321 Boombot These adds explode, dealing damage to anyone (even NPCs) within 20 yards.

Hard Mode
To active his hard mode, you have to kill his heart during the adds phase. You have to click on him, which will expose his heart, then destroy his heart. The Destruction of his heart will trigger Heartbreak and give him several new abilities.

	Heartbreak The heart of the XT-002 Deconstructor has been severed, removing the combat limitations of the XT-002 Deconstructor. Damage increased by 15%. Health increased by 60%.
	Void Zone Causes Gravity Bomb to spawn a Void Zone that deals 5000 Shadow damage (Heroic: 7500) to enemies that stand within it.
	Life Spark Causes Light Bomb to spawn a Life Spark, it's an add that will keep casting Static Charged. (see below)
	Static Charged Deals 800 Nature damage (Heroic: 2000) to all enemies within 500 yards every 3 sec.

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25-Man

Ilvl	Type	Name
239	1H Mace	Sorthalis, Hammer of the Watchers
239	Plate	Breastplate of the Devoted
239	Neck	Charm of Meticulous Timing
232	Staff	Twisted Visage
232	Dagger	Golem-Shard Sticker
232	Wand	Quartz Crystal Wand
226	Plate	Shoulderplates of the Deconstructor
226	Plate	Horologist's Wristguards
226	Plate	Clockwork Legplates
226	Mail	Quartz-studded Harness
226	Mail	Brass-lined Boots
226	Leather	Boots of Hasty Revival
226	Cloth	Mantle of Wavering Calm
226	Cloth	Sandals of Rash Temperament
226	Finger	Crazed Construct Ring
226	Finger	Signet of the Earthshaker
226	Sigil	Sigil of the Vengeful Heart
226	Totem	Thunderfall Totem

10-Man

Ilvl	Type	Name
219	Dagger	Plasma Foil (MH)
219	Shield	Pulsing Spellshield
219	Cloth	Conductive Cord
219	Leather	Treacherous Shoulderpads
219	Leather	Vest of the Glowing Crescent
219	Mail	Helm of Veiled Energies
219	Mail	Gloves of Taut Grip
219	Plate	Chestplate of Vicious Potency
219	Plate	Armbands of the Construct
219	Finger	Power Enhancing Loop

25-Man

	Heroic: Heartbreaker Defeat XT-002 Deconstructor after destroying his heart on Heroic Difficulty.
	Heroic: Nerf Engineering Defeat XT-002 Deconstructor without him recovering any health from XS-013 Scrapbots on Heroic Difficulty.
	Heroic: Must Deconstruct Faster Defeat XT-002 Deconstructor in 205 seconds on Heroic Difficulty.
	Heroic: Nerf Gravity Bombs Defeat XT-002 Deconstructor without any raid member dying from a Gravity Bomb on Heroic Difficulty.
	Heroic: Nerf Scrapbots Defeat 20 XS-013 Scrapbots within 12 seconds using XE-321 Boombots on Heroic Difficulty.

10-Man

	Heartbreaker Defeat XT-002 Deconstructor after destroying his heart on Normal Difficulty.
	Nerf Engineering Defeat XT-002 Deconstructor without him recovering any health from XS-013 Scrapbots on Normal Difficulty.
	Must Deconstruct Faster Defeat XT-002 Deconstructor in 205 seconds on Normal Difficulty.
	Nerf Gravity Bombs Defeat XT-002 Deconstructor without any raid member dying from a Gravity Bomb on Normal Difficulty.
	Nerf Scrapbots Defeat 20 XS-013 Scrapbots within 12 seconds using XE-321 Boombots on Normal Difficulty.

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