An ancient servant of Malygos, Hand of Magic, Sapphiron was a blue dragon who lived with a powerful brood in Northrend by the Dragonblight, where he communed with the ancient spirits of the dead dragons. Sapphiron was magnificently powerful, and protected the lands of Northrend as best he could. Though Ner'zhul's malevolent influence defiled the Dragonblight, Sapphiron and his brood continued to guard his hoard of treasure from any and all intruders.

Abilitys

Sapphiron

Deals a fair amount of frost damage in a 10 yard splash radius, 25 second duration, stuns chosen target for 3 sec. Only occurs when Sapphiron is in the air. You are unable to move or attack and are immune to attacks for the duration. Ice Bolt last for 22 secs.

Slow-moving, wide-range "ice bomb" AoE attack. Sapphiron will "take a deep breath" after 5 Icebolts in the air. It can be resisted. Only happens when Sapphiron is in the air - he breathes a cloud of frost which floats slowly to the ground and explodes when it touches the ground, doing 75000-125000 damage in a 70 yard radius. Sapphiron will land after Frost Breath. It takes about 5-6 seconds to land. Its target is the middle of the room, not a specific person. Anyone who has been frozen by Icebolt will be immune to this. This attack cancels the Ice Block. Raid members can stand behind the Iceblocked individuals and will be considered out of LoS of the Frost Breath.

Frost-damage DoT-type attack. 100 yard radius, damages afflicted targets for frost damage every two seconds. Keeps applying. (Can be partially resisted)

12 second duration, 100 yard range, curse-type ability. Drains health and heals Sapphiron every 3 sec. Used every ~24 secs.

Much denser and larger than normal Blizzard. Deals damage every 2 sec. Slows movement speed by 65%, 15 sec duration. (Binary spell - the damage can be resisted completely or not at all)

Notes: Sapphiron is immune to frost spells, Berserker enrage after 15 mins and he Cleaves

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Raid Setup

Tanks: 1
Healers: 2-3 ( more preferd )
Dps: 6-7
Misc: Classes that can decurse.

Tanks: 1
Healers: 8-9 minimum ( more preferd )
Dps: 15-16, depending on how meny healers you bring.
Misc: Classes that can decurse.

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Strategy

Sapphiron will first take to the air 45 secs after engaging, then fire 2(5 in 25man) Icebolts and 1 Frost Breath and land. After that, he will stay on the ground for 67 secs before flying up again and repeating the process.

Ground Phase

His tanked away from the raid and melee dpsers due to his breaths and cleaves the cleave has a masive range and nowon should at any time be anywhere near the head. Full dps nuke wihle avoiding the blizzards that roam around in the room, Life Drain needs decursing ASAP! since this ability heals him aswell as doing damage to it's target.
Everywon should stay grped up, melee and ranged grps to make aoe healing smoother due to the frost aura.
The range healers/dps should move together in a grp around the room when avoiding the blizzards to: 1 making healing easyer, 2 making spreading and iceblock hiding eayser at air phase.

Air Phase

After his duration on the ground he will take up in the air, as soon as he takes of to the air the whole raid should spread out with an 10 yard radius since his icebolts have an spash damage for 10yards. The players that get hit by the incebolts get's encapsulated in a block of ice, looking mutch like the mages ice block ability. While your in this block of ice (for 22sec) you are unable to preform any actions but you are also immune to all forms of damage.

They key in this phase is first of to stay spread, after 2(5) icebolts have hit the entire raid moves and stand Behind one of the inceblocked raiders on the ground taking cover from his Frost breath ability. The frost breath WILL kill you unless you LOS it by staying behind an iceblocked player. As soon as the frost breath is casted he'll land and Phase 1 starts again.

Rince repeate till dead,

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.
At 10% he will no longer take to the air.

Updated: 8th of dec, 00:34