Cinderbrew Meadery Dungeon Guide: Location, Boss Strategies, and Trash

Cinderbrew Meadery is a max-level dungeon located on the East side of Isle of Dorn, Khaz Algar.

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 1, please see our overviews linked below. Otherwise, without further ado, let us begin!

The Cooking / Alchemy profession bonus is located just to the right of the entrance (see the screenshot below). It are required to have at least 25 skills in The War Within Cooking to redeem it.

Alternatively, you can pick up the Engineering weapons located in the starting area of the dungeon (screenshots below). It require you to have at least 25 skills in The War Within Engineering to be able to obtain or be Goblin, Gnome or Mechagnome. The weapon aims to help you clear any non-boss enemies of your choice.

• Interrupt Venture Co. Pyromaniac's Boiling Flames channel cast. Your Healer must react and dispel Erupting Inferno debuff as swiftly as they can.
• Venture Co. Patron will only be dangerous to your tank due to their Mean Mug stackable debuff and otherwise be harmless to your team.
• Beware of Hired Muscle and its AoE ability doing group-wide damage Mighty Stomp and knocking back players. They will also target a random party member with Throw Chair, if you do have low HP, use your defensive!
• Sidestep the Cinderbrew Toss's ground visual coming from Tasting Room Attendant to prevent you from being disorientated
• At last, when facing the only mini-boss of the dungeon - Chef Chewie, beware of its Compliments of the Chef aura, increasing the damage done of any nearby enemies by 15% and making them immune of any crowd-control effects. In addition, avoid the ground swirlies coming from High Steaks.

• Stay away from any Hot Honey ground visuals.
• Sidestep the Blazing Belch frontal.
• When Brew Master Aldryr reaches 100 energy, he will begin to cast Happy Hour and therefore take 99% reduced damage thanks to Diregard. Grab any nearby Mug of Cinderbrew and get close to the enraged Thirsty Patrons to cease their tantrum. Once all of them are ceased, the regular phase will continue.
• Make sure to avoid getting close to the Crawling Brawl "event" once Happy Hour ends to prevent you from taking further damage.

• Use your active mitigation when Brew Master Aldryr throws Keg Smash on you. In addition, move him away from any nearby Hot Honey ground swirlies to avoid your team from taking further damage.

• Use your healing cooldowns for each Throw Cinderbrew cast as it will DoT 2 random players.
• During Happy Hour, each of the Thirsty Patrons will deal group-wide damage with Rowdy Yell, hence why you want to prioritize your major healing cooldowns in this phase.

• Interrupt Flavor Scientist's Rejuvenating Honey.
• Taste Tester will randomly hit a member of your party with Free Samples?. Be mindful that they can also increase their damage by 100% when Spill Drink (uninterruptable) has been cast.
• Avoid the lethal Reckless Delivery coming from Careless Hopgoblin. Once they successfully hit a wall, they will be Stunned and deal group-wide damage, which spawns Brew Drops.
• IMPORTANT:If you see Explosive Brew being spawned, make sure to focus it and nuke it down, else it will apply group-wide damage upon explosion, additionally leaving a DoT to the entire team (likely to wipe).

• When I'pa gets to a 100 energy, it will begin channeling Spouting Stout, dealing group-wide damage and leaving harmful ground ichors (avoid them). In addition, the boss will form 3 Brew Drops, which you must make sure to defeat before they get too close to him and trigger Fill 'Er Up.
• Once you slay a Brew Drop, it will trigger Oozing Honey ground ichor, which you must avoid. Once the Oozing Honey dissipates, it will reform to Brew Drop for a second time, hence why it is important for all Brew Drops to be close to each other when defeated.
• If you Healer does not dispel you from Burning Fermentation, use your defensive cooldowns.

• Use your active mitigation when I'pa is casting Bottoms Uppercut tankbuster ability.
• Move the boss away from any nearby Oozing Honey ground ichors.

• Use your major healing cooldowns during the Spouting Stout channel as it will deal group-wide damage.
• Dispel as many Burning Fermentation debuffs as you can.

• Beware of Worker Bee's Shredding Sting leaps, as they will apply stackable Bleed effects on you. Once they get to a low enough HP, they will begin casting Final Sting, of which you must make sure to kill them before the cast is completed (it will be lethal).
• Use defensive when Bee Wrangler's Bee-Zooka is targeting you and beware when they cast Bee-stial Wrath, as they will Enrage any nearby Worker Bees & Bee-lets.
• Run away from Venture Co. Honey Harvester's Beeswax circle and use defensive when he casts (uninterruptable) Swarming Surprise. Do keep in mind that the debuff is stackable, and it also does group-wide damage so you want to prioritize killing that mob ASAP.
• PRIORITY: Interrupt Royal Jelly Purveyor's Honey Volley and avoid the ground swirlies spawning from Rain of Honey.
• Tanks must pay attention to Bee-let's Bee Venom stackable Poison debuff.

• When Benk Buzzbee casts Snack Time, it will drop 3 barrels step away from the initial spawn damage), each of them spawning Ravenous Cinderbee every 30 sec. Those bees will cast Shredding Sting on a random player and apply stackable Bleed effects, hence why you want to focus them ASAP.
• Once you defeat the Ravenous Cinderbee, they will become eligible to be Tamed, which later you can use their Bee-Haw! to destroy any existing barrels.
• Use a defensive when you get targeted by Honey Marinade, once the debuff is about to expire, it will spawn a Flaming Honey lingering ichor, of which you must place away from the Ravenous Cinderbee. Do keep in mind that if any Ravenous Cinderbee gets in touch with the Flaming Honey will become Honey Gorged.

• Focus on stacking all the existing Ravenous Cinderbee on top of the Benk Buzzbee to allow your team to cleave them effectively.

• Spot-heal any party member that gets multiple stacks of Shredding Sting Bleed effect.
• Use your major healing cooldowns during Fluttering Wing cast as it will do group-wide damage.

• Avoid being hit by the Yes Man's Downward Trend. In addition, all 4 Yes Mans have a Field Promotion aura, healing themselves to full once one dies. A good strategy here would be to focus them 1 by 1.

• Avoid being hit by the Goldie Baronbottom's barrel initial damage from the Spread the Love! cast. The goal here is to break as many barrels as you can by pointing the boss's abilities to them, making the regular barrels - > Volatile Barrels.
• Once the Volatile Barrels explode, they will trigger Cinder-BOOM!, spawning 4 waves, which you must avoid. Be mindful of the quantity of Volatile Barrels you are triggering due to their Cindering Wounds stackable damage.
• When the boss targets you with Burning Ricochet, "clip" any nearby barrels and destroy them.
• Once Goldie Baronbottom reaches 100 energy she will trigger Let It Hail! which triggers every barrel in the room, which pretty much can wipe you if you haven't cleared enough of them.

• When you being targeted by Cash Cannon, aim at any existing barrels to "destroy" them.

• Spot-heal the targets with Burning Ricochet debuffs.

Type	Item	Stats
1H Mace	Crusher of the Unsettled	Mastery/Haste
Plate Shoulder	Foam-Ridden Pauldrons	Vers/Mastery
Back	Chef Chewie's Towel	Crit/Mastery
Leather Wrist	Battle-Scarred Fisticuffs	Mastery/Haste
Trinket	Cinderbrew Stein	Special effect

Type	Item	Stats
Staff	Sticky Stirring Stick	Haste/Crit
Off-Hand	Vessel of the Beverage	Vers/Crit
Cloth Head	Cinderbrew-Soaked Cowl	Mastery/Vers
Neck	Strapped Rescue-Keg	Haste/Mastery
Mail Wrist	I'pa's Pale Aleguards	Crit/Vers
Leather Waist	Brewery Toiler's Waistband	Vers/Haste
Plate Feet	Hops-Laden Greatboots	Mastery/Crit

Type	Item	Stats
2H Axe	Algeth'ar Hedgecleaver	Str, Mastery/Vers

Type	Item	Stats
2H Mace	Hivebreaker's Dipper	Vers/Haste
Dagger	Scalding Queenmaker's Shiv	Crit/Mastery
Leather Shoulder	Fireproof Cinderbee Perch	Haste/Vers
Plate Wrist	Fuzzy Cindercuffs	Crit/Haste
Cloth Hands	Punctured Apiary Gloves	Haste/Mastery
Mail Legs	Pollen-Lugger Treads	Crit/Haste
Trinket	Ravenous Honey Buzzer	Str/Agi

Type	Item	Stats
1H Axe	Profit Divider	Crit/Vers
Mail Head	'Azeroth's Greatest BEE.E.O.' Cap	Vers/Mastery
Cloth Shoulder	Moneymaking Businessmantle	Crit/Mastery
Plate Chest	Slashproof Business Plate	Haste/Crit
Leather Feet	Backbreaking Bootstrappers	Mastery/Haste
Ring	85-Year Tenure Ring	Mastery/Crit
Trinket	Synergistic Brewterializer	Int

There are 4 total achievements to obtain in Cindrerbrew Meadery:

Achievement	Criteria
Cinderbrew Meadery	Defeat Goldie Baronbottom in Cinderbrew Meadery.
Heroic: Cinderbrew Meadery	Defeat Goldie Baronbottom in Cinderbrew Meadery on Heroic difficulty or higher.
Mythic: Cinderbrew Meadery	Defeat Goldie Baronbottom in Cinderbrew Meadery on Mythic or Mythic Keystone difficulty.
Keystone Hero: Cinderbrew Meadery	Complete Cinderbrew Meadery at Mythic Level 10 or higher, within the time limit.