Blood-Queen Lana’thel (25 man) – Defeated
Posted by thideras | Filed under General Information
This post is a little late, sorry about that. The blood wing in Icecrown Citadal was opened recently and Blood-Queen Lana’thel was released upon the world. Shortly after (January 26th, 2010) we successfully defeated her. If you watch the video, you see that I died near the end of the fight. The three didn’t group up completely and ended up doing too much damage. If I wouldn’t have died, I would have been second in the world on Effecting Healing per Second; pulling 12k EHPS. I was quite frustrated over this as I knew that once I died, we were going to kill her. Things happens and we still have hard modes coming up; I’m very much looking forward to them.
Abilities, spells and debuffs:
[Essence of the Blood Queen] – The debuff you receive after you are bitten.
[Frenzied Bloodthirst] – After Essence of the Blood Queen fades, this debuff is applied. You must bite someone else otherwise you go into an Uncontrollable Frenzy.
[Uncontrollable Frenzy] – You gain this debuff if you don’t bite someone within 15 seconds of receiving Frenzied Bloodthirt. This is basically a mind control.
[Pact of the Darkfallen] – Cast on 3 random non-tank raid members. They must move to the same spot and let the debuff pulse to remove it.
[Swarming Shadows] – Cast on a random non-tank raid members. You will gain the debuff and have about 3 seconds to move before fire appears beneath your feet. A single instance of fire does very low damage, around 1k per tick.
[Twilight Bloodbolt] – This is cast on all raid members during her flight phase. The damage is NOT shared among nearby allies.
Strategy and fight information:
The fight itself is simple in design. At the beginning of the fight, she will bite one person in the raid. This will give them the [Essence of the Blood Queen] debuff and lasts for one minute. This debuff will double any damage done and cause them to heal themselves when attacking. After the debuff falls off, they gain [Frenzied Bloodthirst] and must bite another raid member. If you do not bite another raid member, you are charmed and start attacking the raid. This introduces a very interesting mechanic as you have to bite exponentially more people as the fight goes on. Blood-Queen herself has a hard enrage at 5:30, so this fight is extremely short. Since she has a high health pool, you will want need to coordinate who and when you bite. This is the key to beating her. If you have too many vampires, the raid will wipe due to mass mind controls. If you have too little vampires, you will hit her hard enrage.
There are two random spells she will use on the raid, [Pack of the Darkfallen] and [Swarming Shadows]. Three players will be given the Pack of the Darkfallen debuff. Every 3 seconds, it pulses and causes around 4-5k damage to the player and anyone around them. The only way to remove this is have those three raid members group up and wait for one more pulse. The other spell, Swarming Shadows, is cast on a player. After 3 seconds, fire starts appearing where the player is standing. It is best to have the afflicted player run directly to the edge of the room and follow the wall. That is the best way to increase usable area. The fire itself does around 1k damage per second per fire. So, don’t be afraid to run through the fire quick if you need.
Two times during the fight, she will have an air phase. She will run to the center of the room and do an AoE fear. You should use Fear Ward and Tremor Totems to keep healers going. Immediately after the fear, everyone needs to spread out and be at least 11 yards from each other. For every player near you, it does another bloodbolt; each hitting for 10-11k. During the air phase, ranged should be doing as much DPS as they can.
To add upon everything listed above, she has an AoE pulse ([Shroud of Sorrows]) that hits everyone for 4500 shadow damage every two seconds. I’d like to note that you can resist the damage and you can use shadow protection potions if needed. You will need a lot of raid healers for this fight.
World of Logs – Combat Parse
WoW Meters Online – Combat Parse
Link to kill video
As always, I’m up for discussing the fight in more depth than I have above. Feel free to sign up on the website here and post a comment or talk to me in game.
Thideras
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