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Commento di smcn

This is the second boss in the "Spider" (north-east) wing of Naxxramas. Strategies for defeating her can be found at http://www.wowwiki.com/Grand_Widow_Faerlina.

Commento di Dralmikins

Her Rain of Fire hits for about 2000 and her Poison Bolt hits for 1500 with a dot, also silence people and knockback.

Commento di 5098

We spent a night of attempts with her (post 1.12 nerf) and didn't make a lot of headway past the first enrage. We came back the next day and started sacrificing an add at the beginning of the fight to buy us 30 seconds of silence. This allowed us to get in position and burn the adds down quickly without having to deal with the poison volley and RoF, and it made all of the difference in the world for us. If you have the DPS to take her down in 4 minutes I strongly advocate this approach to take some of the chaos out of the pull / add burning.

Commento di Odinn

Timing is crucial in this fight. If the Naxxramas Cultists are sacrificed before Grand Widow Faerlina enrages, she will not enrage for approximately 30s after the Cultist is sacrificed. If the Cultists are sacrificed after Grand Widow Faerlina enrages, she will not enrage for approximately 60s, and her poison bolt volley will also be silenced for approximately 30s.

In terms of the learning curve, although it can take more attempts to get used to the timing, sacrificing the Cultists just after Grand Widow Faerlina has enraged gives the raid a lot more time. As it is such a quick, DPS-intensive encounter, this can be very important.

Greater Fire Protection Potions and Greater Nature Protection Potions are also crucial, as DPS classes do not have time to step out and bandage themselves during this encounter, nor can they effectively heal themselves such that they can mitigate the incoming damage (since where the fire is avoidable, poison is not).

Commento di 6956

If you have decent warriors, each can tank 2 followers with 2 healers on them, 1 healer when they are tanking one. This frees up some warriors to DPS. I also advocate using an initial early sacrifice for 30 second silence. It made our kills quite smoother.

Commento di 8958

I've found that if your DPS is good enough, sacrificing an add at the very begining can really help buy out some time to get the boss into position, aswell as clear the other 2 adds that cannot be sacrificed

Commento di kreghx

Level: Boss
Approximately 1,500,000 health.
Location: Second boss of the Spider wing in Naxxramas
Type: Humanoid

Poison Bolt Volley: Similar to AQ40 bosses ( Viscidus, Lord Kri ), she will cast a Poison Volley, hitting ~10 random people every 10 seconds or so. Doing around 1450 direct poison damage, and also applying a cleansable poison DoT, doing 450 damage every 2 seconds and lasting for 4 ticks. This damage is resistable, but since this is a heavy DPS race, nothing but premium NR pieces should be used.
Rain of Fire: Similar to any Warlock's or Gehennas' attack. 40 yard range, and does around 2000 damage per tick. It is resistable, and therefore Warriors/Rogues can put on quality FR gear to get around 150 or so to help mitigate damage. Greater Fire Protection potions can also be used.
Enrage: Has a 60 second cooldown, deals more melee damage, and increasing attack speed (~75%). This needs to be countered with a sacrifice of a Worshipper, removing the Enrage as well as silencing her Poison Bolt Volley for 30 seconds.
NOTE: You must sacrifice the worshiper AFTER she enrages if you want to stop her for the full 60 seconds. If you sacrifice the Worshipper before the enrage, it will merely delay the enrage for 30 seconds.

Worshippers and Followers
There are 6 NPCs at the start of the fight, 4 Worshippers and 2 Followers.

Worshippers
Approximately 250,000 health.
They will be off-tanked for most of the fight, and eventually sacrificed to Faerlina. When mind controlled, they can be used to remove and prevent Enrage as well as silence Fearlina's nature school for 30 seconds. Using this ability actually kills the Worshipper, so this fight cannot last more than 4:45 or so because there will be no way to prevent the Enrage if all the adds are dead.

Followers
Approximately 100,000 health. Can be stunned.
There are two ways of dealing with the Followers: off-tank them the entire fight or kill them first. If they are to be killed first, then they need to die quickly (around 30 seconds to bring both down). They do not hit particularly hard but will sometimes charge random people. In addition to that, they have an AOE silence, so try to have them tanked away from your caster classes.

Strategies

MT on Faerlina.
Off-tank the four Worshippers.
Kill or off-tank the two Followers first, then all DPS can focus on Faerlina (usually around the first enrage if you kill the Followers).
Mind Control a Worshipper at 0:50, 1:50, 2:50, 3:50, and sacrice it as she Enrages to remove it.
Devil's in the Details

The Poison Volley hurts, but can be healed through and the DoT can be cleansed off fairly easily. A Greater NR pot when learning can help ease the learning curve.

Melee can put quality Fire resistance gear on to lessen the damage of the Rain of Fire. Most importantly though, the MT and all melee need to pay attention to where it is being cast and run out of it as fast as possible. It is also very important to have ranged DPS and healers spread out throughout the room to avoid getting multiple hits with the Rain. Again, Greater FR pots will help the learning curve.

Overall this is a very short and sweet fight. It shouldn't be lasting any more than 4 minutes, and as such, it is a DPS race to get her down before you run out of adds to silence her with.

Commento di kreghx

For Guilds With Problems Keeping Everyone Alive

Make sure that your Paladins and Shaman Cleanse in this fight.Have all your healers at least cleanse themselves so the paladins/shaman can cleanse the DPS. Three Paladins/shaman cleansing is a solid number. Make sure your cleansers are wearing mana/5 and intellect gear instead of their +healing gear, as cleansing can drain quite a bit of your mana. For newer guilds, this fight is very healing intensive as people might not get out of the rain of fire quick enough. Assigning 4 healers with the most +healing to cover 2 groups each with rank 5 renews and Rank 6 rejuvs can be quite effective, as that spell is usually their quickest heal in terms of cast time, and is quite efficient.

That leaves 8 healers left, assuming a raid of 15 healers, two healers on the main tank, the other 6 healers on the followers/worshippers. Have your mind controlling priest heal a tank that is tanking a follower, so he can move into position for the MC once the two followers are dead. Have the other healer healing a follower tank also be a priest. Make sure that he watches over the mind control priest's health, as well as have him make sure the main tank is topped off just before the enrage. Have him become the backup MCer in case the mind control priest dies for any reason.

If your whole raid lives through the first sacrifice, this fight gets easier and easier. With each Worshipper sacrifice, more and more healers are freed up and your chances of keeping the raid as well as the main tank alive go up.
Quotes
-Enter her room (before aggro)

Your old lives, your mortal desires, mean nothing. You are acolytes of the master now, and you will serve the cause without question! The greatest glory is to die in the master's service!
-Aggro

Slay them in the master's name!
-Faerlina gaining Enrage

You cannot hide from me!
Kneel before me, worm!
Run while you still can!
-Slay raid member

You have failed!
Pathetic wretch!
-Faerlina's Death

The master... will avenge me!

Videos
Rogue PoV:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1603203867231336247
Mind Control Priest PoV:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8262324756200624186

Commento di 9296

# Mob Composition

1. Grand Widow Faerilina
2. Follower
3. Worshipper

# Mob Characteristics

1.

Poison Bolt Volley
- Shoots poison at an enemy, inflicting Nature damage, then additional damage every 2 sec. for 10 sec.

* 1200 - 1400 Direct Damage
* 413 to 587 nature damage inflicted every 2 sec (DoT)
* 30 Yard Range - Limited to 10 players affected

2.

Rain of Fire
- Rain of fire spell similar to Gehenes. The raid needs to spread out to minimize effect.

* 1850 to 2150 Fire damage every 2 sec. for 6 sec
* Can be resisted - Melee should wear FR - Ranged can out range the rain.

3.

Enrage
- After engaging the Grand Widow will Enrage every 60 seconds.

* Physical damage dealt is increased by 500.
* Attack speed increased by 150%.
* Can be silenced by a Worshipper

4. Melee Attack
- A Melee attack that does ??? damage to a single target.

# General Strategy

1. Healing Strategy
Multiple Offtanks will be assigned to the Adds ( 6-adds ). A MT will be on the Grand Widow. Healers should be assigned accordingly. It is important for a Priest to shield just prior to the 1-minute ENRAGE and healing should be concentrated to the MT for this transition.

* Priests, Paladins, and non-tanking Druids
A priest will Mind Control a Worshiper at about the 30 second mark so that we get an early silence on GWF at the 45-50 second mark. All future controls will be 15 Seconds prior to the ENRAGE. Once Grand Widow ENRAGES the priest will use the SILENCE spell on the Grand Widow which will dispell the ENRAGE and sacrifice the worshipper.

* Cleansers
Druids and Paladins after Poison Bolts

2. Combat Strategy

1. Party Composition
- MT Group for Grand Widow Faerlina
- Multiple Off tank groups
- Melee DPS and the MT should wear Fire Resistance.

2. Postioning
MT Group
The Main Tank Group and his healers will Grand Widow on the platform. The raid will remain in the NE corner of the room and DPS down the Followers. The Worshipper/Offtank Groups will be on the South side.

3. Fight Dynamics

* Initial contact
MT and OT's will be assigned and engage the Grand Widow and the Adds simultaneously. Hunters should be assigned to pull the two Adds back to the waiting Offtanks in the NE with the main Raid force.

* Kill Adds
A kill order will be assigned and the two Follower adds should be killed first. During this time 2-4 other OT's are moving the Worshippers out of range of the Grand Widows Rain of Fire to be off tanked for the whole fight.

* Fight Strategy
- The followers will be pulled to 2 Offtanks in the Norht east and the raid will Kill the adds. The adds need to die in about 1:20.
- Meanwhile the MT and his healers need to move to the platform area and engage GWF. Healers should be prepared for a silence and stay spread out on the run in to GWF. It may be smart to use a Bubble Pally to run in and dispell the silence (if it is dispellable) with the MT group.

Continued Below

Commento di 9296

3.
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* Enrage
Every 60 seconds after engaging, the Grand Widow will Enrage. Here is the time line for Priest Mind Control, GWF Enrage, and using the silence ability (Widows Embrace):

00:00 Engage
00.45 Mind Control new worshipper
00:50 Silenced with worshipper
01:05 Mind Control new worshipper
01:20 Enraged
01:20 Silenced with worshipper
02:10 Mind Control new worshipper
02:20 Enraged
02:20 Silenced with worshipper
03:10 Mind Control new worshipper
03:20 Enraged
03:20 Silenced with worshipper
04:20 Enraged (should be dead before this point)

4. Special Notes
The key to this fight will be avoiding the Rain of Fire.

Silencing the Grand Widow when she ENRAGES. While she is ENRAGED it is possible for the MT to be one shotted.

_________________________
|START to :45 sec|
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MT Priest Druid Pally - Dispell

OT-F1 Priest
OT-F2 Priest Pally

OT-W1 Priest
OT-W2 Druid
OT-W3 Druid
OT-W4 Priest

Raid-Dispel 3 Pally's
OT- Dispel 2 Druids
______________________
|:45 to 1:45|
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MT Priest Druid Pally

OT-W2 Druid
OT-W3 Priest
OT-W4 Priest

Corner Heal 4 Pallys
Corner Heal 2 druids
PoH 3 Priests in rogue groups
_______________________
|1:45 to 2:00 |
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MT Priest Druid Pally - Dispell

OT-W3 Priest
OT-W4 Priest

Dispell corner 4 Pallys
Corner Heal 3 druids
PoH 3 Priest in rogue groups
_______________________
2:00 to 2:30 |
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MT Priest Druid Pally - heal

OT-W4 Priest

Dispell corner 4 Pallys
Corner Heal 3 druids
PoH 3 Priest in rogue groups
Utility priest Heal MT priority then quadrant.

REPEAT 1:45-2:00 for 2:30 - 3:00 and 3:30 - 4:00
REPEAT 2:00-2:30 for 3:00 - 3:30

Note : The healing strategy is for a raid with 5 Healers, 5 Druids, 5 Paladins and one extra Priest for mc'ing

Commento di 44840

For level 70 players wanting to do this boss:

Because of the high amount of stamina in comparison to level 60 players, surviving her abilities is not hard at all. You can choose to simply off-tank her adds and burn her and not worry about the Enrage she does. We chose to sacrifice once after she enraged just to make sure we one shot her, but our tank reported after that the damage increase she received was not major at all.

Players should still avoid the Rain of Fire however, it can hurt but you have a lot more room for error now.

Commento di archimonde

May i ask why she is placed at The ''Spider Wing'' ??

Commento di 107419

why would she be in any of the other wings at least in this wing her name makes sence grand "widow"

Commento di Vlad

Grand Widow Faerlina (sounds)

"Slay them in the masters name!"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Faerlina\\FAER_NAXX_AGGRO01.wav")
"You cannot hide from me!"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Faerlina\\FAER_NAXX_AGGRO02.wav")
"Kneel before me, worm!"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Faerlina\\FAER_NAXX_AGGRO03.wav")
"Run while you still can!"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Faerlina\\FAER_NAXX_AGGRO04.wav")
"Your old lives, your mortal desires mean nothing! You are acolytes of the master now and you will serve the cause without question! The greatest glory is to die in the masters service!"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Faerlina\\FAER_NAXX_GREET.wav")
"The master, will avenge me!"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Faerlina\\FAER_NAXX_DEATH.wav")
"You have failed!"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Faerlina\\FAER_NAXX_SLAY01.wav")
"Pathethic wretch!"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Faerlina\\FAER_NAXX_SLAY02.wav")

Commento di dimon7777

Well now you don't need to MC the adds, just kill one when GWF goes enrage.
So, it should be like this.
OT need to tank adds MT tanks GWF, When she goes enrage, kill 1 worshiper. Repeat.Loot.

Commento di 178064

I tanked Widow as a Feral DPS spec (no 12% DR, 5000armor or 6% dodge) very, very easily. She hits like a bitch and does mainly spell damage, so a Feral tank is ideal for soaking up the damage.

Very easy encounter.

Commento di 238834

As of patch 3.0.3, there is no need to MC them, simply killing them near her will do the trick

Commento di Renew

There are two different versions of this fight. You do not need a Priest for this fight. Simply killing the Worshipper will now cast Widow's Embrace.

Normal Version
No follower's are spawned and four Worshippers are spawned.

Heroic Version
Two Follower's and four Worshippers are spawned.

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If you have really good dps, killing the Worshippers every 30 seconds will do. This will calm her before her Frenzy can go off, but realize that she will Frenzy when the debuff fades away after 30 seconds. This only prevents her Frenzy from being allowed to cast.

If you do not have great dps, you will need to play a bit more skillfully on this encounter. Killing a Worshipper when she emotes her Frenzy is the best method of action. Great target switching by the raid will be needed, but this will train your raid to be more skillful! Weaken a Worshipper and kill it quickly as she emotes, you have a few seconds before she will attack (maybe KILL) your tank. Since she casted Frenzy and had it dispelled means that she will now have to wait another minute to recast Frenzy, which for an undergeared raid will give you almost twice the amount of time to manage the fight's dps check.

Commento di 27713

Note, on heroic(25man) you need a priest in the raid, that can MC the Worshippers and use their "Widow's Embrace" spellto dispell her frenzy. Killing Worshippers will not dispell frenzy.on heroic.

Commento di selemark

Just did it 10man . the trick is to kill one mage at exact time when she go in to frenzy mode. have one dps on ad and nuke him down to 10% when Faerlina go frenzy mode the dps will just nuke the ad down and there you go. just dont trust the addons becouse the frenzy waring is not on sec. so just look when she go in to frenzy and nuke hear down then. gl and hf. /Enstorstark from Soldier on Mazrigos.

Commento di TheMuffinMan

The Worshipers, at least on 10 Man, seem to be immune to Mind Control.

If you can get her health low enough, however, after the third Frenzy is dispelled, you may be able to DPS race her if you accidentally kill the last Worshiper. This is NOT recommended as a strategy, and simply a warning that it's not a DEFINITE raid wipe, especially not for overgeared groups.

Commento di Dathren

I'd just like to suggest some things to help make this boss fight a little easier for everyone.

-Have your MT tank her up on the platform and ready to move around to avoid Rain of Fire.
-Have your OT pick up all the adds and immediately begin dropping one down, as the enrage time draws potentially closer get the add down to a point where you can use 1-2 instant abilities to kill the mob to remove the enrage.
-If you have a warrior tanking the boss it's extremely helpful to have them make a macro to intervene the OT and to hit it as soon as she enrages. You'll run out of range of her melee attacks for just a few seconds and getting you out of the massive amount of damage she'll do to you. Have you OT kill the add and repeat.
-Help if you have a shaman dropping a poison cleansing totem as well

Commento di 29600

Overall a pretty easy and simple boss on normal.

We engaged her with 2 mages and 2 shamans, as well as a paladin main tank and druid offtank.
2 of the worshippers were sheeped, the third one was kept in hex by the two shamans, and the fourth one was grabbed by our feral druid who DPSed it down to around 15% together with a rogue.

One thing that apparently wasn't mentioned anywhere (and caused an unnecessary wipe for our group on this boss) is that Faerlina must be close to the worshipper when it dies or the enrage will not be removed!

We initially had the worshippers relatively far from her, where they stood in the beginning, with Faerlina standing in the middle of the room, and killing the worshipper did not remove the enrage, and our healers couldn't keep up very long then.

So keep that in mind!

Commento di 268877

Grand Widow Faerlina 10 Man

MT: Tank Faerlina on the platform. Before the Frenzy timer goes off, make sure she is dragged to the first kill-target worshipper (add).

OT: Tank either all 4 adds or how many are not crowd-controlled with sheep, hex etc. Watch the health of the first kill-target worshipper. Worshippers should NOT be killed until Faerlina goes into frenzy. Must make sure the kill target is RIGHT NEXT TO Faerlina when she is frenzied when it dies.

Assigned DPS: Help lower the HP of the kill-target worshipper then move to boss.

DPS: blast Faerlina to high hell. When she is IN frenzy, finish off the kill-target worshiper.
Move out of reign of fire.

Healers: Dispel poison. Heal.

Rise and Repeat until she's dead. Must kill the worshippers to get her out of Frenzy. And she hits like a TRUCK in frenzy = wipe.

Commento di 125579

If the off-tank Body Pulls, then followers/worshippers will immediately run to him, instead of the MT allowing the MT to pull Faerlina off the OT instead of the OT having to pull all 4(or 6) mobs off the MT one at a time.

Commento di uthalin2190

just remember mages if your group is getting the worshippers health low to kill them faster when she enrages do not sheep any if something goes wrong just makes getting her out of enrage harder

Commento di 178052

Did GWF today on 25man...we came up with a weird but effective strategy...
-Engage Battle-
We had three mages in our team...each of them select one worshipper and sheep them leaving the last one for OT hold on to it.
Every 5sec before GWF enrages, our priest MC the tanked worshipper and silence GWF's enrage.
Repeat the process
As for the other two follower, wiped it with the help of DK tanking it, no big deal

We actually took GWF down without MCing the last worshipper

Hope this is helpfull...
plz ignore my poor english...im french

Commento di 295211

After 3 tries we came up with a pretty good strat for the 10 man version:

Raid Composition:
MT - Warrior
OT - Tankadin
Healers - 1 Palladin, 1 Shaman, 1 Druid
DPS - 1 Rogue, 1 Feral Druid, 1 UH DK, 1 Fire Mage, 1 MM Hunter

MT took GWF to the bottom of the steps, our Tankadin OT just kept the 4 adds aggro on the platform (standing a little behind em). They did not body pull as they were all ranged/casters. We assigned one rogue to DPS the first add to 10% then switch back to the boss. Right before enrage, Deathknight targeted it and called out the raid symbol. As soon as GWF enraged, DK death gripped the add to GWF's vicinity (if that add was too far away from the boss, GWF's enrage wouldn't dissipate). Add died in about 1/2 a second and enrage dissipated.

Rinse, repeat. MT would move the boss whenever the rain of fire came down. Pretty decent fight and easy, once we adopted this strategy.

Commento di 111427

Theory about Grand Widow Faerlina:

I just readed the history "The road to Damnation" about Kel'Thuzads destiny as The Lich Kings servant and I fell over this little clip which I think indicates Grand Widow Faerlina destiny:

"Anub'arak took him to a cell that held two prisoners. Villagers, by their homespun clothing. The man was cradling the woman in his arms; she was ghastly pale and soaked in sweat. Alive, both of them, though the woman was clearly ill. Kel'Thuzad glanced at the crypt lord uneasily.

Her desperate glassy eyes found Kel'Thuzad and brightened. "Mercy, my lord! My body fails. I have seen what will happen next. One bolt of flame, I beg of you. Let me rest in peace."

She was afraid of becoming the necromancer's thrall. According to Anub'arak, she would have no choice. Kel'Thuzad looked away queasily. After all, she couldn't live much longer anyway.

She struggled out of the man's arms and clung to the cell bars. "For pity's sake! If you will not aid me, at least take my husband to safety!" And she wept hopelessly.

"Hush, sweetheart," the man murmured behind her. "I will not leave you."

"Make her be quiet!" Kel'Thuzad whispered fiercely at Anub'arak.

"The noise distresses you?" With one lightning-quick motion, Anub'arak shot one claw through the bars and speared the woman through the heart. Then the crypt lord casually shook the corpse off onto the floor.

Her husband howled with anguish. Guiltily relieved, Kel'Thuzad began to turn away, but froze when the corpse started thrashing and arching against the stone floor. The male villager gaped in shock and fell silent.

The dead woman's skin was changing color: shifting to a faintly greenish gray. Gradually the spasms died off, and she scrambled unsteadily to her feet. She rolled her head to one side, then shivered as she spotted her husband. "Guards, get this man out of here." she rasped.

The guards didn't move. With a groan, she raked her fingers through her tangled brown hair, and Kel'Thuzad got a good look at her face. Blood vessels were darkening under the skin, and her eyes seemed feral, crazed.

Her husband asked doubtfully, "My love? Are you all right?"

A bitter laugh escaped her and twisted into a snarl when he took a hesitant step toward her. "Don't come any closer."

The man ignored her protest and went toward her, but she shoved him away with enough force to send him flying. He hit the cell bars and slid down, stunned.

"Stay back." Her speech was becoming more guttural. "Hurt you." She wrapped her arms around herself, backed up until she bumped against the opposite side of the cell. "Hurt you, hurt you," she whined, and something began to be wrong with the way she said it.

Uncomprehending, Kel'Thuzad watched her slowly, jerkily lift a hand to the hole in her chest. She hissed, grimaced, and brought her fingers to her mouth. Licked them. Sucked at them. Then in a blur of movement, she was leaping at her husband, lashing out, baring her teeth -

The man screamed, and blood spurted onto the cell floor. Kel'Thuzad flinched away. Closing his eyes didn't help; he could still hear unspeakable sounds. Ripping, shredding. Chewing. A soft, wretched mewling that he very much feared meant the undead woman was aware of her actions on some level, but unable to stop herself. "

My theory: After killing her husband, Faerlina was twisted in her mind and become a servant of The Lich King.
Grand Widow Faerlina
Fell free to read it. But I think that the women in this story is Faerlina basicly because her name is Grand "Widow" Faerlina. A widow is a woman whose husband has died. It would make sense! She is in the Arachnid Quarter with Anub'Arak as Kel'Thuzads guide.

Edit: Just changed some of my arguments. Should be more clear now!

Commento di 249158

Just a note, there is a bug with this boss as of 1/3/09. On heroic our guild had a bug occur when we killed on of the adds (possibly two), it did not remove the frenzy effect. This bug was also confirmed by another guild on our server, Blade's Edge. No clue what triggers it, but it can happen.

Commento di 172877

The MC only applys to 25 man, just kill one at a time each time she enrages.

Commento di Toldry

Use the following macro on the exact second the combat starts:

/in 50 /rw Mind control a Naxxramas Worshiper and get ready!
/in 110 /rw Mind control a Naxxramas Worshiper and get ready!
/in 170 /rw Mind control a Naxxramas Worshiper and get ready!
/in 230 /rw Mind control a Naxxramas Worshiper and get ready!

If you use it right, it will tell a priest in advance when to do it on the exact second.
Should be quite helpful.

Commento di Aldub

A discipline/holy priest needs 132 hit rating to avoid having his or her Mind Controls resisted by the Nazzramas Worshippers in heroic mode.

Commento di 167540

I noticed something quite odd and I was wondering if anyone can verify this.

Before 3.0.8, if you killed a worshiper prematurely, Grand Widow Faerlina would enrage and you'd need to kill a 2nd one. I believe last week we did Naxx and had some premature killings but the thing is, she didn't enrage when she was suppose to when the embrace was put up early. Now i notice the spell on wowhead says that the embrace "prevents and removes frenzy". Was this changed recently or am i remembering things incorrectly?

Commento di 283241

You MUST tank the Naxxramas Cultists on the same platform as her, whether it is the stage or the floor it does not matter. My guild wiped twice while tanking the cultists ont he stage and Faerlina on the floor because she did not lose the enrage effect when we killed a cultist.

Commento di chauchih

This Frenzy on grand Widdow fearlina in naxxramas. comes after a small amount of time, and gives the debuff you see on top. this needs to be dispelled. and you do that by killing 1 of her adds, who need to be tanked by the OT. It's important that you save these adds for when frenzy comes. Note that if you dont kill the add near Fearlina, it will have no effect.

Best way of doing this is to have a death knight to pull the add to the boss using Death grip, and then kill it. but the tank will have to get the add to 10% first, and then go for next adds. this is the easiest way.

If you have a good tank and good healers, you can start out by nuking the adds down fast. then go for the boss and go for full nuke without dispelling the frenzy. it goes faster, and less confusion, and you get an achivement for it :)

Good luck

Commento di 302359

This boss is simple, but if u dont do it right, u may wipe.
When u encounter her, u must have ur offtank pick up the adds, but dont kill them yet! Only make him keep his aggro, Nuke her until she Enrages, when she does, focus all your dps onto one of the cultists, when its dead, her Enrage fades if they are all killed too fast, you cant dispel it.

Commento di 287271

A friend may have found a relativly simple stratagey to downing her and getting the achievement without much hassle for the healers. (Assuming it is done correctly.)

The plan involves 3 tanks, when she is pulled, all adds are killed as quickly as possible.

This will leave just the raid and her left. The three tanks should then form a large triangle, each forming a point.

Now this is the tricky part. All tanks must be within each others taunt range. Then from there on the battle consists of the tanks "kiting" her around the triangle by using their taunts.

This can make things a little more difficult for melee DPS and if done incorrectly, the healers need to heal through her enrage which obviously isn't easy.

As far as I know, this can be done with any tanking class, but is probably easiest with 3 Warrior tanks or Death Knights.

Good Luck!

Commento di 228315

No, the Grand widow, first of all, wasn't a peasant like these are described.

Villagers, by their homespun clothing.

She was a botanist in life, which should mean she was atleast fairly well off. Well enough that someone was paying her to experiment with wild life instead of having to cultivate land, at least.

The Grand Widow Faerlina, a botanist in life, breeder and caretaker of arachnids in death, she oversees the spider wing, developing the most potent of poisons for the Lich King.

Second, the woman in the story goes more and more guttoral, and loses the ability to talk properly, like a 14 year old boy next to a pretty girl.

The Grand Widow doesn't have this problem, as you experience in Naxxramas. Her speach is almost sexy.

"Your old lives, your mortal desires mean nothing! You are acolytes of the master now and you will serve the cause without question! The greatest glory is to die in the masters service!"

That's not the sentence of a woman that can only say "HURT YOU!"

Thirdly, I think you will find in a war against the undead where a plague is spreading across the land, this will not be the only person to have lost a husband. By the reasoning that the girl in the story is a widow because she kills her husband, half of azeroth would be the grand widow.

Plus, the woman died first. The husband would technically be the widow.

And lastly, the Grand Widow doesn't "leap" and she doesn't bare her teeth. She still has some humanity, or she couldn't be smart enough to carry out the Lich Kings will to create these new poisons.

I think you'll find that in Naxxramas there are other creatures that have a guttoral voice, look humanoid, leap and tear at you with nails and teeth.

She is nothing more than a Geist

Commento di 307080

For the heroic achievement, get 6 healers and 3 decent or better mitigation tanks, for Normal, 3 healers and 2 decent or better mitigation tanks and its cake. We AOE'd the adds down asap, had about 5 seconds before she enraged once they were all down, then the other tank(s), Prot War and myself Prot Paladin, just spammed taunt back and forth until she was dead. Activate ALL your mitigation CD's/trinkets as soon as you're able to, and the idea is that she'll get a few swings on each tank then switch to another one, giving the previous tank time to get healed up. 2 healers on each tank and there is enough rest between each tanks 'turn' to raid heal for the poison/rain of fire. I had to get Brez'd once on heroic but we've been nailing the achievement every time. On normal mode though, if you want the achievement, you have to group up the adds WAY away from the boss before you kill them or it will count as a dispell effect and you won't get the achievement.

Silverstrike - Icecrown

Commento di Kathucka

With good gear on two healers and a tank, it's not hard to get the achievement in 10-man. Just make sure that someone else is available to dispel the poison and heal the non-tanks, as two healers will need to focus almost all their cooldowns on healing the tank.

Everyone else, nuke the worshippers early, and don't stand in the fire.

Commento di IbFeeshin

If you dont have many CCers, It's actually alot easier to go for the achievement than killing her the normal way.

Commento di 400572

My guild on our first run on her second enrage (10man) we couldnt dispell it by killing the adds and she was enraged for the rest of fight and we couldnt dispell.... anyone else encountered this?

Commento di 363446

i just noticed that she has fel coruptor armor on this

Commento di 434436

In 10 man, I just heal through the enrage, spamming holy light on the tank all the time, plus druid dots is enough for us to keep our MT up.

Commento di nyctric

First defeated by Afterlife of Cenarius on the 21st of June, 2006.

Commento di Kanariya

With a lock minion, it's possible to pull her and her adds in the back hall, causing her to reset, but the adds to remain. Thus, the adds fall, and then you re-engage the boss, making it a single tank fight. However, frenzy cannot be dispelled then, of course. Also wondering what Blizz thinks about it.

Commento di 618743

does she transform into a spider or something? however that would have look funny

Commento di citrique

As of right now, this boss -is- quite easily soloable by a DK on 10-man at 85.

I did it in blood spec / DPS gear (359 with a few 372 items). Simply start by leaving all 4 adds up. Kite her out of rain of fire. When she enrages, kill an add. Use AMS just as her widow's embrace debuff is about to fall off so you don't get hit with poison bolt volley. She will enrage at a random point after the debuff falls off, it may take up to 15 seconds for her to do so, giving you plenty of DPS time before having to run to kill another add. You will take the most damage at the start of the fight while all 4 adds are alive, however they aggro onto bloodworms so if you don't start the fight with AOE you'll save yourself a fair amount of incoming fireball damage.

Commento di 804945

Soloable by a MM hunter with spirit bond (maybe not necessary, but I couldn't do it without it). Pet tank her with all the adds together. I was not able to find a way through any spec or with 2pc t5 to mend through her frenzy. Just have to do it the old fashioned way and kill one add at a time each time she does it.

The trick is doing enough damage to her that by the time the last add goes down, you have her health low enough to beat her last frenzy. You can even mend through that for 10 or 15 seconds before your pet goes down. 350 item level doing just under 9k for the whole fight, making sure to save readiness for the end and use 2 rapid fires to finish her off.

Pop a prismatic elixir and you can stand in the rain of fire no problem. Used Aspect of the Wild as well to mitigate poison bolt damage, switching to hawk after killing the last worshiper. Only thing to really worry about is the fireballs coming from the worshipers. Just keep feigning on CD and MD to pet as much as you can without killing them until their time. Becomes a non-issue after 2 of them are dead. No t5 necessary.

Not exactly easy in this gear, but doable. I suspect it's laughable for someone in full 359 or higher.

Commento di 534473

Soloed as a fury warrior (ilevel 381). Pretty straightforward with good enough gear - at the start, pop all your cooldowns and nuke her hard. AoE down three of the adds while nuking her using cleaves/WW/heroic leap. Leave the 4th add up until widow's embrace is about to fall off, then intercept it and kill it quickly. You then have 30 seconds left to kill the boss before she enrages and the damage becomes unhealable, so be fast. I managed this with 33k DPS and 2.8k HPS (including enraged regen).

Commento di 438574

Kneel, Worm!
(As she starts her offense on my pet, a Worm named Worm)

Commento di 410866

solo sp...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gzCKCHcRRg

Commento di Esploratore

Soloed her in 351 dps gear at 10 men difficulty on my blood dk, I just dps'd her, killed the add as soon as she enraged (15-20k hits), to stop her for at least 30 sec, etc.

At around 100k she enraged and I didn't have any more adds, went down to 50% hp, but still made it.

Other tale is the 25 men difficulty, to remove the frenzy you need a priest to MC the adds and then kill them near faerlina (at 10 you don't need to MC); since when solo you won't have anyone to MC adds, you will have to tank her in frenzy all the time; I didn't even try in dps gear (had 386 or so when I tried), you're not going to kill her in 1 minute, having like 6,6 millions hp, the only way is full tank gear for max healing and absorb, kill all adds first and kite her and cycle cds intelligently till she dies.

First serious try was in 381 full tank gear, except a 397 dps belt with dps sockets; got her to 2,6 millions, which I didn't expect, but I had no cds ready any more. That week I gave up after only 1 try, I knew it was the best I could've done; tried again 1-2 weeks after with 382 tank gear and this time a 397 tank belt with tank sockets; still went down to 40k sometimes, but made it, and I also got the "momma said knock you out" achievement, as I didn't dispell her enrage. I kited all the time, this gives you more time to recharge your runes for DS or other ways of healing, also used icebound fortitude, ghoul, sacrifice, vampiric blood, empower rune weapon, even lichborne probably, each time it was off cd, like on razuvious 10. Very interesting boss to solo at 25, but mostly a gear check; I think it's not even challenging at 390-400 tank gear.

Commento di 995747

Paladin (Argeltal on Illidan) - soloed 10 Man as a Prot/Ret gear mix, with prot spec. ilvl is 393, got expertise dodge cap and 8% hit cap, 2PC t13 tank and dps sets both.

Definitely have to have prot spec to solo this. Seal of Insight is a must, don't worry about resists, use Devo aura and Seal of Might. Do the following:

1. Kill the adds. The fire damage they add over time is more than Frenzy does, even with resist aura.
2. Cleanse. Remove every instance of the poison DoT. You'll never have mana problems because of SoInsight.
3. Kite her. Backpedal around the room in a circle. This will keep you out of her Rain of Fire.
4. Cycle your CDs, do not use them all at once. You will heal more than she deals using Word of Glory, along with seal procs.
5. Loot! 132g, 2 epics.

Before I forget, when using any strat, if I get low, I save 3x Holy Power, Bubble, and Avenging Wrath. This means you'll heal for a lot. Start spamming Divine Light and go back to kiting!

Commento di Ironlight

Hunter Solo Guide/Advice

Very similar to soloing Anub, an easy solo and free gold. Make sure you have a tenacity pet specced into everything tanky, damage isn't really needed from your pet, just survivability. Glyph of Mend Pet + Misdirection are a must for any solos.

Pull by Multishot MDing to your pet, Multi shot the add to the right and left of Faerlina to hit them all, thus, MDing all of them. From time to time they switch target, back onto you but just Multishot MD them back onto your pet.

Kill an add everytime Faerlina enrages, if you've got decent enough DPS then you should only have to kill 2-3. Killing 2 at the start if you're confident enough then killing the other 2 as the fight progresses. Move out of Rain of Fire, of course and keep up mend pet for your purps and gold!

A link to my video of killing it on my hunter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiw6-q8rzT4

Happy Soloing!

Commento di Thottbot

kill 2 adds tank the other 4, sacrifice the 4 one at a time (MC) pre or post her enrage (get 30 secs if pre 60 secs if post till next enrage)to calm her down... dps her the whole time. watch out for fire & nr aoe. Use "one of these things is not like the other" deduction to figure out which 2 adds you kill and 4 others you tank.

Commento di Thottbot

Last night was our guilds first attempt at her, just under two hours later she was done. Compared to a few of the other bosses we have battled in Naxx she didnt put up much of a fight.

She hits VERY HARD. She has a huge fire AoE. I also think she is one that has a poison volley that hits 10 random people. She will also enrage every minute. Your tank will not survive long if she keeps enraged. We kept her on her platform and pulled her adds away.

2 "Follower" adds. Hit hard. They have an AoE silence that ruined our first couple attempts. We killed these two first.

4 "Worshipper" adds. These can be mind controlled, and have an ability to remove the Widow's enrage.

Our first attempt two attempts 99% and 97%. We then learned to keep the AoE silencers well away from the healers ;) Next attempt 54%, then an oops at ~75%. Next shot we dumped her. Got a !splinter!, the leather shoulders and wrist.

Best moment of the night, someone asking before we pulled the first time if we should worry about the spider respawns in the hallway, a second later there is a massive spider in our raid chewing on people. Everyone was laughing too hard to fight back ;) Rumour has it that once the pull happens the 'gate' drops and you can not aggor the spiders in the hall.

Good luck getting to her, the trash mobs do put up a good strong fight!

Commento di Thottbot

Oh noes! shes wearing Plagueheart!
Run for your lives!

Commento di Thottbot

Set-Up!
The first thing you will need to do is organize your raid. A ?perfect? raid group will need a total of seven tanks. If you can?t arrange this then you will need even more DPS then normal. You?re going to want to assign a main-tank with a full tanking group along with your two second best tanks off tanking Naxxramas Followers and the four other tanks tanking the Naxxramas Worshippers. They all need to be instructed that they should at no time do too much damage to the Naxxramas Worshippers.

You will want consumables for this fight as well. Just like Patchwerk you want as much DPS as possible. Potions are a good source of DPS to stack along with your gear and regular buffs. A Flask of the Titans will greatly aid your main-tank in staying alive the few seconds she is enraged. As a guild you may want to fund the purchase of various consumables to increase DPS along with plenty of Greater Fire/Nature Protection potions for key members of the raid.

Your healers will need to be set to heal people up in a quick manner before returning their healing back to the main-tank. Two of her skills are AoE attacks and you can?t have DPS dieing early. You also don?t want your DPS to be cut by unnecessary deaths.

To keep your melee in better shape you may want everyone to be in 150 Fire Resist with very good items. You don?t want items that cut your raids DPS at the cost of survivability because you will be lessening your chance to survive. You need to balance things out between defense and offense in this battle. Don?t sweat it to much since it isn?t as extreme as Patchwerk.

Skills
Enrage: Enrage offers a 75% attack speed bonus every minute into the fight. You need four tanks (Warriors are the best in this scenario, although a Druid could technically tank one) to tank the Naxxramas Worshippers. Then have a Priest mind control a Worshipper and use it?s sacrifice ability to stop Faerlina in the middle of her enrage. She will not enrage again for one minute. However! You can use it to prevent her from enraging. This will only give you an additional 30 seconds which is inadvisable. Sacrificing Worshippers also stops her Poison Bolt Volley for about thirty seconds.

Poison Bolt Volley: If you?ve fought Lord Kri then you know about this fun ability. She will hit 10 random people for 1400 damage that applies a very strong cleansable DoT. This should be healed up as fast as possible and the DoT removed by if at all possible. Anytime you sacrifice a Naxxramas Worshipper you will gain a 30 second immunity from this skill. Use of Greater Nature Protection Potions can be of great help along with a few NR pieces on key members (NR pieces that give good stats only though).

Rain of Fire: Your standard Rain of Fire with a lot more damage tacked on. This is countered in one of two ways. If it?s outside of melee range then everyone gets far away from it (without all bunching up). If it?s in melee range then the main-tank needs to drag her away and outside of the Rain of Fire while the melee flee from it in the direction the main-tank is dragging her. This is where the Greater Fire Protection Potions come in handy on your melee.

Tactics
The fight itself is pretty simple as long as everyone is paying attention. The entire raid needs to be spread out with the only concentration at Faerlina herself (your melee). If a Rain of Fire shows up then everyone needs to quickly run out of it. Healers need to focus their healing on the main-tank while unless she Poison Bolt Volleys in which case you need to get everyone healed up enough to survive another one.

You should start by allowing your main-tank to build aggro (3-5 sunders) while your tanks each pick up their respective add. If you do not have enough tanks then you will need to kill the Naxxramas Followers within 30 seconds in order to have a good chance at Faerlina. If you do have the tanks then just have the Followers off tanked for all of the fight. The Followers must be off tanked away from the raid as they have a very annoying AoE silence. They also can randomly charge people, so be sure they are under control!

The rest of the fight relies on people getting out of Raid of Fire, your healing and DPS being adequate, and a Priest mind controlling a Worshipper when she enrages and sacrificing it to stop it.

She will enrage every minute. Using this knowledge you can begin to mind control a Naxxramas Worshipper about ten seconds before each minute. If you?ve got some way to track the time into the fight then you could set it up to mind control an add 50 seconds in the fight, 1 minute and 50 seconds into the fight, etc. When she enrages then the Priest should use the sacrifice ability to stop the enrage before the damage becomes too much.

A pretty easy fight if your raid is well geared and you?ve mastered the tactics to take out most of the first tier bosses (we?ll exclude Patchwerk who will probably be more difficult then Faerlina).

Source

Commento di Thottbot

hawt

Commento di Allakhazam

Downed her in a PuG yesterday.

Commento di Allakhazam

http://i5.tinypic.com/15xlumd.jpg

Screenshot i found somewhere.. I cant confirm if its real but here ya go

Commento di Allakhazam

First! Which # boss is she?

Commento di Allakhazam

Downed her in a PUG on Thursday.
Also got Heroic: Momma Said Knock You Out achievement.

Commento di Rothia

The following quests can be picked up from Craftsman Wilhelm at the Light's Hope Chapel in the Eastern Plaguelands by completing Omarion's Handbook which you get from Master Craftsman Omarion.
He's trapped in a cage in the first room of trash in the Deathknight Wing inside Naxxramas.
You will be able to choose from a total of 13 different patterns depending on your professions: Tailoring (4), Leatherworking (6) or Blacksmithing (3).

Chest, bracers and hands quests are only available for: Mage, Priest, Warlock

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Glacial Cloak

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Item / Tailoring	Drop / Quest / Pattern	Frozen Rune	Bolt of Runecloth	Essence of Water	Ironweb Spider Silk	Blue Sapphire	Gold	Argent Dawn
Glacial Headdress	Gothik the Harvester: 26%
Glacial Cloak	5	4	2	4	❌	200	Exalted
Glacial Vest	Glacial Vest	8	8	6	4	❌	300	Exalted
Glacial Wrists	Glacial Wrists	4	2	2	2	❌	200	Neutral
Glacial Gloves	Glacial Gloves	5	4	4	2	❌	200	Neutral
Glacial Leggings	The Only Song I Know...	2	❌	2	❌	2	30	Neutral
Glacial Cloak	Pattern: Glacial Cloak	5	4	2	4	❌	Free	Revered
Glacial Vest	Pattern: Glacial Vest	7	8	6	8	❌	Free	Revered
Glacial Wrists	Pattern: Glacial Wrists	4	2	2	4	❌	Free	(Hydraxian Waterlords)
Glacial Gloves	Pattern: Glacial Gloves	5	4	4	4	❌	Free	Revered

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Chest, bracers and hands quests are only available for: Druid, Rogue

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Item / Leatherworking	Drop / Quest / Pattern	Frozen Rune	Enchanted Leather	Essence of Water	Cured Rugged Hide	Ironweb Spider Silk	Blue Sapphire	Gold	Argent Dawn
Polar Helmet	Gothik the Harvester: 9%
Polar Shoulder Pads	Grand Widow Faerlina: 19%
Polar Tunic	Polar Tunic	8	16	5	5	❌	❌	300	Exalted
Polar Bracers	Polar Bracers	4	12	3	3	❌	❌	200	Neutral
Polar Gloves	Polar Gloves	5	12	3	3	❌	❌	200	Neutral
Polar Leggings	The Only Song I Know...	2	❌	2	❌	❌	2	30	Neutral
Polar Tunic	Pattern: Polar Tunic	7	16	2	4	4	❌	Free	Revered
Polar Bracers	Pattern: Polar Bracers	4	12	2	2	4	❌	Free	(Hydraxian Waterlords)
Polar Gloves	Pattern: Polar Gloves	5	12	2	3	4	❌	Free	Revered

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Chest, bracers and hands quests are only available for: Hunter, Shaman

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Item / Leatherworking	Drop / Quest / Pattern	Frozen Rune	Heavy Scorpid Scale	Essence of Water	Cured Rugged Hide	Ironweb Spider Silk	Blue Sapphire	Gold	Argent Dawn
Icy Scale Coif	Heigan the Unclean: 20%
Icy Scale Spaulders	Grobbulus: 22%
Icy Scale Breastplate	Icy Scale Breastplate	8	24	7	5	❌	❌	300	Exalted
Icy Scale Bracers	Icy Scale Bracers	4	16	5	3	❌	❌	200	Neutral
Icy Scale Gauntlets	Icy Scale Gauntlets	5	16	5	3	❌	❌	200	Neutral
Icy Scale Leggings	The Only Song I Know...	2	❌	2	❌	❌	2	30	Neutral
Icy Scale Breastplate	Pattern: Icy Scale Breastplate	7	24	2	4	4	❌	Free	Exalted
Icy Scale Bracers	Pattern: Icy Scale Bracers	4	16	2	2	4	❌	Free	(Hydraxian Waterlords)
Icy Scale Gauntlets	Pattern: Icy Scale Gauntlets	5	16	2	3	4	❌	Free	Revered

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Chest, bracers and hands quests are only available for: Paladin, Warrior

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Icebane Pauldrons --- head

Icebane Breastplate --- vest

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gauntles

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Item / Blacksmithing	Drop / Quest / Plans	Frozen Rune	Thorium Bar	Arcanite Bar	Essence of Water	Blue Sapphire	Gold	Argent Dawn
Icebane Helmet	Heigan the Unclean: 11%
Grand Widow Faerlina: 17%
Icebane Breastplate	8	16	2	4	❌	300	Exalted
Icebane Bracers	Icebane Bracers	4	12	2	2	❌	200	Neutral
Icebane Gauntlets	Icebane Gauntlets	5	12	2	2	❌	200	Neutral
Icebane Leggings	The Only Song I Know...	2	❌	❌	2	2	30	Neutral
Icebane Breastplate	Plans: Icebane Breastplate	7	16	2	4	❌	Free	Exalted
Icebane Bracers	Plans: Icebane Bracers	4	12	2	2	❌	Free	(Hydraxian Waterlords)
Icebane Gauntlets	Plans: Icebane Gauntlets	5	12	2	2	❌	Free	Revered

Commento di Schuhey

Since no one has mentioned this: To cast the ability of the MCed worshipper, you must be standing still, and close (10 yards) to faerlina. Pretty f***ing important information not found in any guide anywhere...

Grand Widow Faerlina

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