Grand Widow Faerlina is the second boss in the Arachnid Quarter of Naxxramas.

Faerlina will have Worshipers adds at her side when you start the fight, these adds play a verry important part in the fight, more will be explained below.

Abilitys

Grand Widow Faerlina

An ability that hits ~10 random people every 10 seconds or so. Doing some direct poison damage, and applying a cleansable poison DoT. This damage is resistible.

Straight forward RoF ability. 40 yard range, resistible.

Has a 60 second cooldown, deals more melee damage, and increasing attack speed (~75%). This needs to be countered with a sacrifice of a Worshiper, removing the Enrage.

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Raid Setup

Tanks: 2
Healers: 2-3
Dps: 5-6
Misc: Class(s) that can dispell Poison

Tanks: 2-3
Healers: 7-8 minimum
Dps: 16-17, depending on how meny healers you bring.
Misc: Priest for Mind controll & Class(s) that can dispell Poison

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Strategy

The fight starts with the MT running in and picking up aggro on Faerlina(or MD her to your MT) while the OT and CCs picks up the adds. The OT brings the adds up and tank them ontop of the platform where Faerlina stood before the pull. The MT pulls Faerlina slightly down from the platform ( making sure to causing RoF on your OT )

She have 2 abilitys that cause a fair amount of raid damage, these are the RoF and Poison volley. The RoF should simply just be moved out of asap when hit by and the Poison volley should be dispelled asap. Shamans with Poison clensing totems is recomended but not necessary.

10Man
As soon as the fight start all dps moves to burn down one of the adds down to an 10-15% and then moving all dps to Faerlina, it is verry important that you burn that add down low in health first so you can dispell her frenzy A.S.A.P when it hits! After about 60sec into the fight Faerlina will frenzy, when that happends all dps moves to the add with low health and finish him of, when that worshiper dies witch applies Widow's Embrace witch dispells Faerlinas Frenzy and resets the enrage timer. When that add is down you move to brun down yet another add to an 10-15% and then move back to Faerlina again, rince and repeat till victory.

25Man
You can go with the above taktik here aswell but the adds now have 300,000 health each and there are 6 adds insted of 4, so going with a priest and MC is a far better choise. When the fight starts a Priest MC one of the adds and move to pos him next to the boss, while CCing or OTing the remaining adds. When Faerlina goes into frenzy the Priest uses Worshipper's sacrifice ability. It applies Widow's Embrace, and resets the enrage timer like killing an add normally does.

Her damage and attack speed is heavly increased opon frenzy so healers be prepared for some spiky hits on the MT those few seconds in her frenzy.

NOTE: No Numbers on health or damage of the abiliys are posted, simply cause most guides havent changed that from the old Naxx, the abilitys are more or less the same but the damage from them have obviously changed.