Grand Widow Faerlina
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Overview
An alchemist in life, the Widow and her acolytes now tend to Naxxramas' spider broods.
Faerlina is a single-phase encounter and serves as a moderate DPS check due to her Frenzy mechanic.
Gear and consumables
Like most Wrath of the Lich King raid encounters, this fight is tuned for players who are using level 80 epic gear, as well as the best flasks and food buffs available. Getting the best possible gear for your character will make this fight a whole lot easier.
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Abilities
HP: 2,200,000
Melee: Hits for light damage on a tank.
Rain of Fire: Similar to the warlock spell of the same name, pelts an area with fire, dealing 2,600 fire damage every second to anyone standing in the rain.
Poison Bolt Volley: Poison strikes the 5 players closest to Faerlina, dealing 2,500 damage and applying a DoT which deals an additional 1,700 damage over 6 seconds. The DoT may be cleansed by Druids, Paladins, and a Shaman's Poison Cleansing Totem.
Frenzy: Faerlina's melee damage increases dramatically, hitting a tank so hard that it is impossible to survive for long. Faerlina will use this ability every 60 seconds.
Naxxramas Worshiper (x4)
HP: 83,000
Melee: Hits for light damage on a tank.
Dying: When a Worshiper dies, if Faerlina is Frenzied, the Frenzy will be dispelled. The Worshiper's death will also prevent Faerlina from casting Poison Bolt Volleys for a period of time.
Preparation
Raid composition (10 man)
2 Tanks
3 Healers
5 DPS
1-2 Shamans are highly desireable in this fight for Poison Cleansing Totems. It is important that at least 2 members of your raid be able to cleanse poisons.
Assignments
The following macro describes example raid assignments:
/rw - FAERLINA INC -
/raid MT: [1 Tank] - Heals: [1 Healer]
/raid Worshiper Tank: [1 Tank] - Heals: [1 Healer]
/raid Raid Healing: [1 Healer]
On the Pull
Raid The accompanying diagram illustrates the positioning your raid should assume upon initiating the encounter. [DIAGRAM]
Main Tank Run at Faerlina and position her as indicated.
Offtank You must acquire aggro on all four Naxxramas Worshipers, using AOE threat abilities like Thunderclap to tank all of them. Once all four Worshipers are attacking you, move to the position indicated in the diagram.
In the Heroic version of this encounter, unless your Offtank has very good gear, two Offtanks should be used. Each Offtank must acquire aggro on two Worshipers.
Phase 1
Raid Throughout this encounter, Faerlina will frequently cast Rain of Fire centered on a single raid member. That player and anybody else nearby should move out of the Rain of Fire as quickly as possible, while trying to stay in range of their healers. Even the tanks must move.
If you are a ranged DPS class or healer, stay spread out. Don't cluster together or you'll be hit by the Rain of Fire more often.
Raid Leader 50 seconds into the fight, place a raid symbol on top of the head of one Naxxramas Worshiper to assist with DPS targeting. Repeat this at 1:50, 2:50, and 3:50 into the fight.
DPS The Raid Leader will mark one Naxxramas Worshiper with a raid symbol 50 seconds into the fight. When the mark appears, immediately switch your DPS to the Worshiper, and reduce it to about 15-20% health, but DO NOT KILL IT!
One minute into the fight, Faerlina will Frenzy. When you see the Frenzy animation, immediately kill the marked Worshiper to dispel the Frenzy effect. You may then return to DPS'ing Faerlina.
In the Heroic version of this encounter, do not kill the Worshipper using normal means. Instead, a Priest must Mind Control one of the Worshippers, and use its Sacrifice ability to dispel Faerlina's Frenzy.
You must repeat this process every minute until Faerlina dies.
Healers Heal your assigned targets and keep Poison Cleansing Totems down at all times. Cleansing poisons is a high priority.
If you are assigned to heal the Main Tank or the Raid, be aware that once every minute, Faerlina will briefly Frenzy. The Frenzy should be cancelled quickly, but your Main Tank will likely take one or two very hard hits. Prior to the 1, 2, 3, and 4 minute marks, apply HoTs to the Main Tank and precast your big heals.
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