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Today I met Terramorphous' Wormhole thresher attack. It is not pleasant; we took constant damage, were unable to move fast enough to escape the pull of the vortex (he pulls you in like a wormhole thresher) and he didn't summon any tentacles. His attack animation (and the gravity pull) stopped just after our Fight for your Life timers started to run out (it was extremely long, a minute or two), and with no tentacles to kill for second winds we all quickly died.

Is there anything we can do to avoid/escape from his blackhole attack? "Die and pray for a tentacle to kill" didn't work so well.

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he stays underground for a long time with dust rising from the same position before he does that attack. at least, that was my experience. – kira Jan 27 at 20:08

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Before he starts the wormhole attack, hide behind a rock. He will pull you, but the rock will block you, for the most part. But if you're exposed once he starts the attack, you're pretty much hosed.

If you're hidden for most of the attack, but he manages to pull you around it, or you accidently leave the protection of the rock, you can resist—a little—by running the other direction. But that will only help you if you managed to stay behind the rock long enough that he doesn't have time to pull you all the way to him before his attack ends. Because once you're next to him, you're pretty much dead.

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That was my theory, good to know it works. Is there a way to tell when he's doing to do it? By the time I realized he was doing the wormhole attack I was starting to get pulled in, but since I've only seen it once I might have missed some visual/other cue before the attack. – Ben Brocka Jan 14 at 14:25
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@BenBrocka: I thought about mentioning the fact that, no, I don't know if the boss has a tell before that move or not. Does anyone else here know if the boss has one or not, and if so what it is? – Mufasa Jan 14 at 16:06

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