Maexxna
General Information
Attacks and Abilities
- Web Wrap: Cast at the 20 second mark, and then every 40 seconds after that. Encases three players in a cocoon, incapacitating them. Does 650 to 850 Nature damage every 2 seconds. The cocoon can be destroyed from the outside, freeing the player.
- Web Spray: Cast every 40 seconds incapacitating everyone for 8 seconds, and dealing 1750-2250 Nature damage. This ability cannot be resisted, and the only way to avoid it is to be dead, have Flask of Petrification, have
[Divine Intervention], or be already incapacitated by Web Wrap.
- Poison Shock: Does 1750-2250 Nature damage in a 15 yard frontal cone.
- Necrotic Poison: Reduces healing taken by 90% for 30 seconds. This needs to be cleansed immediately,
[Abolish Poison] being the most effective way to remove it during the Web Spray.
- Enrage: At 30% health, Maexxna will enrage, increasing attack speed and dealing significantly more damage.
- Spider Spawn: 8-10 Small spiders are spawned at the 30 second mark, and then every 40 seconds after that. They are grouped up and AoE'd before the Web Spray commences.
Strategies
Positioning
- Maexxna should be positioned in the middle of the room with the tank on one side and the rest of the raid behind and to the side of Maexxna.
- A few Hunters are ideal for Web Wrap duty, standing a bit farther back, closer to the wall, and targeting the players stuck on the wall, killing the web before it kills the victim.
- A Warrior (or Paladin with Consecrate) should be casting Demoralizing Shout to keep the spiders attacking and grouped up on him, instead of the healers/AoE'ers behind Maexxna.
Since there is no AoE damage done to the raid during this fight, grouping up directly to her side, or behind her will help the AoE'ers kill the spider spawns that much more easily. You should still have 4-5 ranged DPS spreading out to be in range of Web Wrap wall victims.
Timing
This fight is on a 40 second cycle, with several mini-phases.
- 1-20 seconds - Spent putting solid DPS on Maexxna, no damage should be done to anyone but MT, so top everyone off for the next phases. After the first complete cycle, the first 8 seconds will be spent incapacitated via Web Spray.
- 20-30 seconds - At 20 seconds, Maexxna will toss 3 random raid members (not MT) onto the nearest wall, and will need ranged DPS to destroy the 3 Web Wraps before the next phase. The victims will need to be topped off once they are released.
- 30-40 seconds - At 30 seconds, Maexxna will spawn 8-10 small spiders from directly underneath her. Mages/Warlocks need to AoE kill them. Frost Nova'ing is very effective. Make sure the Warlocks do not Hellfire, and instead use Rain of Fire, as they will be vulnerable to dying to the Web Spray.
- at 40 seconds - Everyone in the room will be affected by Web Spray, doing ~2,000 damage and incapacitating them for 8 seconds. The timing resets to 0 seconds.
How to get the MT to survive the Web Spray:
At roughly 5 seconds (35 seconds into the cycle) before the Web Spray, healers should put all Heal over Times (and PW:Shield) on the MT and max rank heal to ensure that the tank is at full health before Web Spray is cast. If the MT is fully buffed, and receives the appropriate, timely heals, then he should survive the 8 seconds of Web Spray without dying. This forces the MT to generally be the best geared Warrior in the raid.
Tips
- A Nature's Swiftness/Lay on Hands rotation may also be set up to have at least one instant heal up for the end of each Web Spray.
- Maexxna will often kill the tank during the Web Spray if she lands a crit during the enrage, the MT should Last Stand/Lifegiving Gem/Shield Wall/etc. to stay alive during that phase.
- Healers can try to heal the wall victims of the Web Wrap, but LoS issues have arisen, bringing into question whether or not healing the victims, while they are on the wall, is intended.
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