The Motherlode Dungeon Guide: Location, Boss Strategies, and Trash

This guide will be an extensive overview of the dungeon, providing vital information on how to complete it across all difficulties. We will cover all 4 Boss fights, as well as the most notable trash enemies in the dungeon and their important abilities. If you would like to learn about the rest of the dungeons in The War Within Season 2, please see our overviews linked below. Otherwise, without further ado, let us begin!

• Be careful of Off-Duty Laborer as they will cast Throw Wrench on whoever engages in combat first (it should always be the tank).
• Interrupt Refreshment Vendor Iced Spritzer.
• Interrupt Hired Assassin's Toxic Blades. If you fail to do so, every tick of Fan of Knives (which you should stop ASAP), will apply a stackable Poison effect.
• Besides being careful of their Grease Gun, make sure to do everything you can to stop Mech Jockey to cast its Activate Mech.
• If Mech Jockey finishes its Activate Mech, they will transform into MachanizedPeaeckeeper. Dodge their Tear Gas and be sure always to stay healthy as Charged Shield will hit random party members.
• Enrage dispel Addled Thug's Inhale Vapors and be mindful of their Uppercut1217280 (deals huge damage and knocks you up).

• Dodge the Shocking Claw.
• During Footbomb Launcher, every team member must help kick all bombs onto the boss. Keep in mind the more bombs go in, the more damage the boss will take. Should you fail to do so, your whole group will take massive damage per bomb explosion.

• Move the boss away from any gold piles on the ground during its Coin Magnet, the more stacks he collects, the more damage the boss will temporarily do.

• Use your healing cooldowns during each Static Pulse.

• Use defensive cooldowns during Azerite Extractor's Rapid Extraction. They will also apply a nasty Bleed effect on your tank - Puncture.
• Sidestep the Wanton Sapper's Mining Charge.
• Interrupt Venture Co. Earthshaper's Rock Lance.
• IMPORTANT KICK Do your best to stop the Stonefury's Furious Quake.
• Avoid the ground AoE coming from Taskmaster Askari's Massive Slam.

• Avoid the Tectonic Smash frontal.
• Focus on the boss while you don't have an empowered add, but as soon as the boss casts Azerite Infusion on a nearby Earthrager, immediately swap on it as he will radiate group-wide damage that will turn lethal if the boss finishes its Resonant Quake.
• Make sure you use defensive before each Resonant Quake, especially if your HP is low.

• Do your best to control the Earthragers and prevent them from meleeing your party-members as they will apply a stackable Bleed effect.

• Spot-heal people with high Bleed stacks from the Earthragers.
• Use any damage reduction cooldowns to mitigate some of the Resonant Quake damage.

• IMPORTANT KICK Interrupt Venture Co. Alchemist's Transmute: Enemy to Goo to prevent them from CC your party members. Any spare interrupts should be used for Caustic Compound Poison effect.
• Use defensive cooldowns when Venture Co. Mastermind targets you with their Mind Lash. In addition, avoid staying in the Brainstorm ground puddles as they will damage you and silence you.

• Avoid staying in the azerite ground pools as they will do damage to you.
• When targeted with Azerite Catalyst, do your best to put several rings of azerite together so you can have more space.
• Players that are targeted by Propellant Blast must clear the remaining azerite on the ground (The boss will cast it each time before the Gushing Catalyst appears).

• Always position the boss in areas where there is more space to manoeuvrer and place the azerite from Azerite Catalyst.

• Spot-heal players that get targeted by Propellant Blast as it will do damage and push them back.

• Avoid being hit by the Ordnance Specialist's Artillery Barrage.
• Use defensive cooldowns when Venture Co. War Machine is channeling Charged Shot. They will also cast Deploy Crawler Mine, which you should focus on and prioritize killing (they won't damage you unless they target you unless they make an impact with the focused target).

Mogul Razdunk is a 1 Phase boss encounter with a tough intermission once he reaches 50%, which will test your limits as a team and require top-tier coordination. Phase 1 will consist of dodging Gatling Gun, staying away from Homing Missiles and paying attention to the drones in the sky for their Micro Missiles. The intermission, however, will have you destroying pillars with Drill Smash and fighting of 2 Venture Co. Skyscorcher.

• Sidestep the Gatling Gun.
• Be mindful when Summon B.O.O.M.B.A. appears, both drones will fire Micro Missiles which are lethal upon impact (they have travel time, the closer you are to them the faster they will do damage on the indicated ground patch).
• If targeted by Homing Missile, run away from your team to avoid further damage to the party.
• When the boss reaches 50%, he will spawn spawn 2 Venture Co. Skyscorcher (which you must focus on  and defeat ASAP) and 3 pillars of which upon destruction with Drill Smash will resume the Phase. In the intermission, the most important thing is to deal with the Venture Co. Skyscorchers ASAP as both of them will cast Buster Shot and Azerite Heartseeker to a random party member. When you combine that + the damage party-wide damage coming from Drill Smash, can turn lethal if you don't use your defensive!

• Do your best to position the way that gives your team "safe space" against the Micro Missiles coming from the drones in the sky.
• During intermission, try to have both Venture Co. Skyscorchers close to each other for a better cleave.

• Spot-heal targets with Homing Missile as they will get a large front-load damage and a nasty DoT effect.
• Use your major healing cooldowns during the intermission, as the whole party will take damage each time the Drill Smash hits the ground + the Venture Co. Skyscorchers shooting on random targets!

Type	Item	Stats
2-H Mace	Electro-Arm Bludgeoner	Mastery/Haste
Shield	G0-4W4Y Crowd Repeller	Haste/Crit
Leather Wrist	Servo-Arm Bindings	Haste/Crit
Mail Hands	Linked Pummeler Grips	Mastery/Crit
Plate Hands	Power-Assisted Vicegrips	Mastery/Vers
Cloth Legs	Rowdy Reveler's Legwraps	Haste/Crit
Ring	Footbomb Championship Ring	Mastery/Haste

Type	Item	Stats
Mail Wrist	Bindings of Enraged Earth	Vers/Crit
Plate Wrist	Stonefury Vambraces	Haste/Mastery
Cloth Hands	Mine Rat's Handwarmers	Mastery/Vers
Cloth Waist	Excavator's Safety Belt	Crit/Vers
Mail Waist	Shalebiter Interlinked Chain	Haste/Mastery
Leather Waist	Unscrupulous Geologist's Belt	Crit/Mastery
Leather Feet	Mercenary Miner's Boots	Haste/Vers
Plate Feet	Sabatons of Rampaging Elements	Crit/Haste
Trinket	Azerokk's Resonating Heart	Mastery

Type	Item	Stats
Gun	P.A.C.I.F.I.S.T. Mk7	Vers/Haste
Back	Cloak of Questionable Intent	Haste/Crit
Cloth Wrist	Rixxa's Sweat-Wicking Cuffs	Vers/Haste
Leather Hands	Corrosive Handler's Gloves	Mastery/Crit
Mail Legs	Chemical Blaster's Legguards	Haste/Mastery
Plate Legs	Leadplate Legguards	Crit/Mastery
Cloth Feet	Deranged Alchemist's Slippers	Mastery/Haste

Type	Item	Stats
1H-Mace	G3T-00t	Mastery/Crit
Leather Head	High Altitude Turban	Mastery/Vers
Mail Shoulder	Crashguard Spaulders	Crit/Mastery
Cloth Shoulder	Exquisitely Aerodynamic Shoulderpads	Haste/Crit
Plate Shoulder	Skyscorcher Pauldrons	Haste/Crit
Cloth Chest	Petticoat of the Self-Stylized Azerite Baron	Haste/Vers
Mail Chest	Shrapnel-Dampening Chestguard	Vers/Haste
Leather Chest	Venture Co. Plenipotentiary Vest	Crit/Mastery
Trinket	Razdunk's Big Red Button	Str

There are 4 total achievements to obtain in The Motherlode:

Achievement	Criteria
The MOTHERLODE!!	Defeat Mogul Razdunk in The Motherlode.
Heroic: The MOTHERLODE!!	Defeat Mogul Razdunk in The Motherlode on Heroic difficulty or higher.
Mythic: The MOTHERLODE!!	Defeat Mogul Razdunk in The Motherlode on Mythic or Mythic Keystone difficulty.
Keystone Hero: The MOTHERLODE!!	Complete The Motherlode at Mythic Level 10 or higher, within the time limit. Reward, Teleport to The Motherlode.