In this encounter we do the safety dance around a room of conveyor belts and sometimes-electrified platforms. The conveyors will bring in his inventions which cast beams, fire rockets, and pull us with magnets, all while trying to pop mines before these inventions do. In the intermissions he empowers an invention, making it more dangerous.
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#Link to this headingMechanics
The boss room is a mechanic itself which consists of 4 metal platforms separated by 3 large conveyer belts running the length of the platform and 2 smaller conveyer belts that separate the platforms.
#Link to this headingPhase One
Sprockystocky has a timed, energy-based phase 1 that lasts 2 minutes.
For the duration of the phase Lockenstock will have 2 of the 4 platforms electrified in a pattern consistent pull-to-pull. Anyone who stands on them takes 1 million nature damage per second while being slowed by 40%.
This happens almost immediately into each phase 1 then 40, 15, and 15 seconds later until the phase 2, then it repeats ✨.
The below image courtesy of Wowhead.com.gov.co.uk shows the sequence. The blue platforms are electrified, so we start the boss opposite the doorway (the icon at the bottom). The red dots indicate landmines, discussed later.
The small horizontal conveyor belts are a static feature; they do not stop moving, change direction (as far as I can tell), or do anything other than continuously spawn a single fire trap over and over.
Standing on the trap deals a mild amount of damage and knocks you up into the air and giving you a 60% movement speed increase for 6 seconds.
As we fight the boss one of the large conveyer belts will be carrying in an invention, after which the boss will Activate Inventions!, halting and electrifying the (large) belts while turning on the inventions.
- The left conveyor carries in fire turrets that cast Blazing Beam across the platforms dealing massive damage every 0.2 seconds to anyone hit.
- The middle conveyor carries in magnets that become Mega Magnetized, pulling players towards them and stunning players on contact for 6 seconds.
- The right conveyor carries in cannons which fire a Rocket Barrage across the platforms dealing large damage to anyone hit.
The intermissions are where the boss empowers his inventions and not only are they more dangerous, they start to overlap each other.
- The first time we re-enter phase 1 the the left conveyor turrets now cast Jumbo Void Beam which are much wider and do damage to you incredibly quickly — every 0.2 seconds.
- The second time we re-enter phase 1 the right conveyor cannons now fire a Void Barrage which launches shadow orbs that deal large damage on hit but also deal damage to the rest of the raid via Voidsplash.
It's hard to confirm this because of PTR logs being buggy and these bosses being barely tested, but from videos the inventions follow a fire, rockets, magnets order. However, the empowered inventions will cast every time.
- First Phase 1: The vanilla order.
- Second Phase 1: The Blaze Beam is replaced with Jumbo Void Beam and will now always happen during inventions.
- Third Phase 1: The Rocket Barrage is replaced with Void Barrage and is now also cast every time.
Lockenstock flexes on us, dealing moderate raid damage and applying a 10 second DoT to the raid.
Several players are given a bombard mechanic, dealing damage and causing them to spawn a drill under their feet every 1.5 seconds for 4.5 seconds.
You become totally Screwed! if hit, stunning them and applying a moderate 6 second bleed.
Lockenstock places several landmines across the room. Stepping on one triggers Unstable Explosion, dealing large raid damage and giving everyone a 200% vulnerability to this damage for 2 seconds. The player who trigger the landmine gets Unstable Shrapnel foot blisters, inflicting large damage and applying a 1000% vulnerability to this damage for 2 minutes.
There will always be 4 landmines spawning each time the floor pattern changes via Wire Transfer, and the landmines spawn in the same positions each time – on the 2nd and 4th piece of sheet metal on each non-electrified platform.
With 3 different floor patterns per phase 1 that's 3 sets of landmines for 12 total mines. They do not time out, but they will detonate if an invention hits them or the platform beneath them becomes electrified.
Lockenstock gifts his current target an explosive that explodes after 6 seconds dealing large fire damage to the entire raid, reduced by distance.
The active tank receives a Gravi-Gunk from Lockenstock's attacks, increasing damage taken by 20% and reducing movement speed by 5%, stacking.
#Link to this headingIntermission
When the boss reaches 100 energy he casts a Beta-Launch launching players to the entrance wall of the room while he gives lubes up his toys with black blood. At this time, all of the conveyor belts are trying to move you back towards the entrance.
He jumps to the middle of the top right most platform, standing on its edge where it meets the conveyor. This allows melee to smack him while he channels. The second intermission he flips sides.
Lockenstock channels for 20 seconds as he enriches an invention with evil blood. The room, of a similarly moody aesthetic, has all 4 platforms electrified while Black Bloodsplatter rains down on the room. Anyone hit takes moderate damage and are disoriented for 2 seconds.
Every 5 seconds of the 20 second channel, Bleeding Edge, causes everyone in the raid will take large shadow damage and be given a 1.3 million healing absorbed. This happens 4 times, then the intermission ends.
The fiddling with black blood gives Lockenstock a stacking 15% damage buff every time he exits his intermission.
#Link to this headingStrategy
Crockenshmuck is a completely scripted boss so the strategy is written in stone and all we can do is pretend we can read. I was planning on making a couple of pictures showing key areas of the room for certain mechanics, but I'm not going to bother with it because this being the RaidPlan background demoralized me so much. Fights like this with lots of minor mechanics and scripted movement are an exhausting boss to plan, so I'll focus on presentation for this boss when it comes to Mythic. Most people only need to know how to follow the tanks and dodge a wrench.
What the hell is this?
Shipping containers in the backrooms looking ass...
Mythic is also a spiritual successor to everyone's favorite mechanic from
Star Augur Fucking Etraeus
If you scrolled this far, here are some tips and bits:
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The first two sets of landmines are followed by inventions, meaning we can let the fourth landmine die, uninsured, via acts of god. The third set of landmines is immediately followed by the intermission which is healing intensive, so we want to clear all of those.
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In the intermission we should gateway to just behind where the boss is channeling on the conveyor belt. There is a short delay before the blood rain starts falling where we want to do this otherwise we risk everyone gating into a disorient.
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The rails of the conveyor belts let you stand still and cast in the intermission, though you still have to dodge the blood.
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There were rumors of a spell by some, its name forgotten by me, that just kills everyone if you go into his third intermission. I don't see any signs of it, but if it is missing then the stacking 15% damage buff is perhaps a soft enrage?