Operation Mechagon: Workshop Mythic+ Dungeon Guide

This fight has seen some significant updates with season 2, where you’ll now be dealing with both bosses together for the duration of the fight, as whenever 1 boss dies it’ll begin to channel Electrical Storm onto your group which quickly becomes too difficult to heal. This means you’ll want to watch their health and make sure you adjust your priority target as needed to cleave them evenly.

Looking at Gnomercy’s abilities, B.4.T.T.L.3 Mine causes the boss to throw out mines under random players for a few seconds, which activate after a delay and will deal heavy fire damage to anyone who touches them. You’ll want to stay relatively grouped here in order to cluster these mines in one spot, then rotate away from them as needed. If you’re really tight on space or get a bad spawn you can always use things like immunities to clear some out. You’ll also want to beware of their other ability, Foe Flipper, which does a 6yd AoE around a random player which knocks back anyone hit, so just make sure you aren’t thrown into any mines.

The ultimate ability here is Maximum Thrust, which is cast at 100 energy and causes the boss to charge in a line towards the tank, dealing heavy damage to anyone it hits and spawning several more mines on impact. I recommend pointing this towards the closest wall to help with cleave uptime, then when the mines spawn just make sure people are avoiding them.

Moving on to the Platinum Pummeler, players will want to watch out for the tank hit Platinum Pummel as it also cleaves anyone within 6yds. Tanks should also do their best not to move much when this cast begins. For healers you’ll want to make sure you are prepared for the Ground Pound channel, which deals heavy damage to the group over 4s.

Finally, the ultimate ability of this bot is Platinum Plating, which gives it a 33% damage taken reduction until removed. In order to remove it, you’ll need to hit the boss with the Piston Smasher attack we discussed earlier, so tanks will want to make sure they are positioned near one of the hammers when this boss is near full energy. Note that the pistons will be unusable for 1.5mins after removing a stack of the plating, so you’ll need to rotate around the room to the next hammer after putting one on cooldown.

Throughout this encounter an Air Drop will spawn a Junk Cube near a random player. When hit by a boss ability these cubes will begin to glow, then when hit with a 2nd ability they will explode for lethal damage to anyone within 8yds, so make sure you stay away from any glowing cubes!

In terms of abilities that will affect these cubes, the first is Explosive Leap, where the boss jumps between 3 random players dealing an 8yd AoE around each. Targeted players will want to make sure they spread out so that they don’t cleave each other or any of the Junk Cubes. If you’re quick you can also use a combat drop like Feign Death or Shadowmeld while the boss is leaping to cancel the attack entirely.

The other ability that damages cubes is Venting Flames, which deals lethal fire damage to anyone within line of sight over 3s and hits all cubes in the arena. To survive this you can have your group hide behind an undamaged Junk Cube, safely taking no hits from this channel. If you have no undamage Junk Cube available when this cast begins you will likely wipe, which is why avoiding them with the Explosive Leap is so important.

In terms of Tank damage you’ve got Blazing Chomp, which applies a Magic DoT that deals heavy fire damage each second for 3mins. The problem here is that when this is dispelled it also deals a large hit of group damage, so you want to dispel it quickly but make sure the dispel happens when the rest of your group is healthy. Tanks be ready to defensive these hits, especially if you have to hold this debuff for a few seconds to prevent the explosion from overlapping with Explosive Leap.

Throughout this encounter you’ll want to be on the lookout for a couple avoidable mechanics. The first is Self-Trimming Hedge, which launches out a blade that bounces around the arena, dealing physical damage to anyone hit. The second is Discom-BOMB-ulator, which is a circle thrown out at a random player that will deal heavy nature damage and apply a Magic disorient to players in the area.

When the boss reaches 100 energy he’ll use Hidden Flame Cannon, causing 3 beams of flame to erupt from the centre of the room while rotating clockwise for 10s, applying a heavy DoT to anyone they touch. Try and stay in the same third of the room when these come out and rotate together.

Outside of this, the boss will occasionally summon an Inconspicuous Plant somewhere around the room, which just channel Blossom Blast into the closest player. Make sure to run over to these mobs when they spawn and cleave them down quickly. A useful tip is to have a stun ready every time this add spawns, ensuring that your tank is the closest player once the stun ends. This forces the plant to attack your tank as opposed to a squishier player in your group, making the damage it does much easier to handle. Beware that after killing these mobs the Flame Cannon will ignite the Oil Fountain they leave behind, causing fire circles to constantly shoot out in that part of the room for the remainder of the fight.

This is a 2 phase encounter, where to start you’ll be fighting King Mechagon while inside his Aerial Unit. While in this phase the boss does not melee, instead opting to fire Pulse Blast at the tank for nature damage, so keep in mind that physical or melee attack mitigation does not help in this phase.

For everyone else, you’ll notice 4 Plasma Orbs on the ground, which deal damage and knock back any players who touch them. Occasionally the boss will use Recalibrate, causing these orbs to shoot in a line towards a new location, dealing damage to all players in the path as well as in a 6yd AoE upon reaching their new destination, so make sure you avoid these.

There’s also some additional random target damage in the form of Mega-Zap, which shoots out a line towards a random player and applies a 12s DoT to anyone hit. I recommend have the targeted player stand still, while having the rest of your group make sure they aren’t in the path of the attack. This is also a good spot to press a defensive if you’re the target.

For group damage in this phase the boss will use Take Off, launching into the air with an 8yd AoE then chasing down a random player with a Cutting Beam. This deals lethal damage to anyone too close, but also pulses for light group damage over 6s. Just make sure if you’re the fixated player that you run away from the boss without causing the beam to hit your group.

Once you defeat the aerial unit, King Mechagon will stun the group and hop into his Omega Buster, starting the second phase. Tanks beware that in this phase the boss is stationary, so you need to make sure you stay in melee otherwise you’ll trigger Protocol: Ninety-Nine.

In this phase Mega-Zap continues to happen, however the line is now significantly larger and it now fires out 3 times in a row, so it becomes very important to not be cleaved by this ability. It can be helpful to have melee players on the far sides of the bosses hitbox, as this allows you to safely fire your beams down the outer edge of the arena, allowing range to plant in the middle of the room.

On top of this, you’ll also still need to dodge the Plasma Orbs in this phase, however there is some additional movement now outside of Recalibrate, as the boss will occasionally throw out a Magneto-Arm which pulls all orbs and players towards it for 9s. While pulling this also deals pretty heavy group damage, though keep in mind this damage is reduced by distance, so be ready to use movement abilities to get as far from it as possible to reduce your damage intake. Healers of course will also want to be ready for this cast, using healing or defensive CDs as needed to survive.

After defeating the Omega Buster, King Mechagon is left defenseless and your group can quickly kill him to end the encounter.