Nefarian (tactics)

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'''Nefarian''' is located atop [[Blackwing Lair]] after [[Chromaggus]]. He has two forms: his Human form, Lord Victor Nefarius, and his dragon form, Nefarian proper. Nefarian is an extremely difficult encounter as it requires a full 40-man raid to win along with strong coordination and leadership. On average, the full encounter consists of 3 stages and takes about 20-30 minutes to finish.

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==Strategy==

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===Phase 1===

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==Source==

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To activate the Encounter a person must walk up to Nefarian's throne and talk through what he says. Upon completion of this he says "Let the Games begin." From here, Nefarian is invulnerable, and walks amid the raid randomly [[shadow bolt]]ing, [[mind control]]ling people and casting fear on random targets. The room begins to flood with [[Drakonid]]s at the same time.

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Phase 1 of the fight consists of defeating the drakonids.

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There are 6 types of drakonids that spawn. In every Nefarian encounter you will fight [[Chromatic Drakonid]]s; the largest and toughest drakonids. Fortunately they spawn in far fewer number than the other colors. In addition to the Chromatic Drakonid, 2 other random colors of [[Drakonid]]s will spawn as well. One color will spawn from the southern door, and one color will spawn from the northern door. Colors are fixed for each instance: if Nefarian is attempted multiple times before the instance resets, the same color combinations will appear.

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Different colors of Drakonids have different special abilities and are resistant to different schools of magic. Note that, unlike some other Blackwing Lair mobs, these Drakonids are not particularly vulnerable to any magic.

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Below is a list of their colors and associated abilities / resistances:

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*'''[[Red Drakonid]]s''' - Short range cone [[DoT]] fire attack, stacks; resistant to [[Fire]]

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*'''[[Blue Drakonid]]s''' - Attack which drains [[mana]]; resistant to [[Frost]]; slightly resistant to [[Arcane]]; Lowers [[attack speed]]

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*'''[[Green Drakonid]]s''' - Stun, resistant to [[Nature]]

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*'''[[Black Drakonid]]s''' - Moderately powerful direct damage fire attack; resistant to [[Shadow]] and [[Fire]]

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*'''[[Bronze Drakonid]]s''' - Reduces Attack and Cast Speed; resistant to [[Arcane]]

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The Drakonids can be killed by either AoE attacks or direct damage and aside from Chromatics, they do not hit very hard and do not have a lot of health.

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====Doorway Method====

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Raid is split up into groups so that DPS is split up as evenly as possible. The easiest way to do this is start with a Physical assist train on one side (Hunter, Rogue, Warrior) with nuker/AoE classes (Mage, Warlock, Paladin, Shaman) on the other, with healers and tanks being split evenly. At least 2 to 3 tanks need to be designated per side to be able handle Chromatic Drakonids. Taunt moves should be enough to hold mobs, but any that leak should be the primary target, followed by a designated assist target.

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Ranged DPS classes (Mage, Warlock, Hunter) and healers should be positioned max range from either door so that they can switch sides quickly. Hunters can be moved between sides to tweak the DPS balance. Hard, steady DPS is crucial so if one side is waiting for spawns, people need to switch over; the non-chromatic drakonids shouldn't live past taunt duration while chromatics have significantly more health and need to be "sunder" tanked.

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*'''ALWAYS''' AOE the '''Red Drakonid''' group. (Warlocks DoT with Corruption/CoA then Shadowbolt.)

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*'''ALWAYS''' Assist-train the '''Blue Drakonid''' group.

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*'''DPS''' is preferred on '''Black Drakonid''' groups, unless you get Black/Blue.

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*'''AOE''' is preferred on '''Bronze Drakonid''' groups, unless you get Red/Bronze.

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*'''Green Drakonid''' groups are governed by the other color that appears with them.

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For Black combos, Warlocks should be switched off with Hunters so that they can make full use of their moves. Blue doesn't impact +hit/-resistance Mages too badly but it might help to add Hunters to assist train mobs.

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Red and Bronze drakonids should be handled primarily by casters and only melee with called out healers.

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Green drakonids are the least harmful so this side should be composed mainly of dispellers and classes that wouldn't do versus the other color.

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===Phase 2===

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After killing 42 Drakonids, no more will spawn (you still have to kill all the others that are up), and Nefarian lands on the balcony in Dragon Form. This is the beginning of Phase 2 of the encounter. Before landing he will cast an AoE (ignores LoS) [[Shadow Flame]] on the entire raid. This version of the spell does about 1000 shadow damage and is completely resistible. Previously, every member of the raid must have been wearing an [[Onyxia Scale Cloak]] to avoid the fatal DoT from the [[Shadow Flame]] (frost mages could use their [[Ice Block]] ability and paladins could use their [[Divine Shield]] ability to avoid the Flame without the cloak.). By now most of the drakonids should be dead. Move your raid to this area and start DPSing him down, from here on out its simple damage dealing with a few twists. It should be noted that, if your raid attempts the aoe version of phase one and stays near the throne, you can stand BEHIND the throne and NOT be hit by Shadow Flame. It is the only place in the room that has this property (and is therefore was the only way for someone without a Cloak or immunity shield to live).

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He has all the abilities of normal dragons: [[Conical]] breath attack (shadow based), [[cleave]], and [[bellowing roar]]. He also does [[Veil of Shadow]] on the target nearest to the center of his hitbox. Nefarian casts an AOE fear roughly every 30 seconds. The ground shakes immediately before this occurs, giving the MT time to stance dance and use berserker rage. Alternatively, have any priests cast fear ward on the MT. It's worthy to note that his fear has limited range of about 35 yards, so ranged DPS and healers can completely avoid it by proper positioning.

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Approximately every 25-35 seconds he will "call out" a specific class. During class-call outs, that class will have some negative effect on them. Below is a list of each class and the effect their call-out has on them:

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;[[Death Knight]]s

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*Effect: Casts [[Death Grip]] on the entire raid, pulling everyone inside his hitbox.

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*Solution: Simply run back to your positions - unlike the Rogue call, this one does not immobilize teleported players for the duration.

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;[[Druid]]s

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*Effect: Stuck in [[Cat Form]] for duration of the call.

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*Solution: Safest call is to stay back and wait for the debuff to wear off. Some raids may let the Druids run up and DPS, however this puts them at risk for getting feared into the Shadowflame and dying. Mages should get ready to decurse the [[Veil of Shadow]] off the MT.

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*''Note: As of October 2007, this class call is bugged and will put the entire raid into cat form for its duration. It is unclear which abilities are still usable while transformed. Ironically, our druid was able to heal during this call while our other healers were not.''

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;[[Hunter]]s

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*Effect: Equipped [[ranged weapon]] instantly broken.

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*Solution: Hunters should either manually unequip their bow or set up a macro ''(macro available at bottom of article)'' to instantly unequip. Be sure to bring extra ranged weapons in the event your bow/gun does break. Alternatively, equip a second ranged weapon immediately prior to the class call, then switch back to the main weapon after. Using a cheep weapon (gray quality) will reduce repair bills incurred, but will reduce DPS during the seconds when it is equipped.

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*Effect: Cast [[Wild Polymorph]] on random raid members, which has no range or Line of Sight (LoS) restrictions.

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*Solution: Mages can use Ice Block to remove this debuff, but priests and paladins need to be ready to Dispel Magic and Cleanse polymorphed players, especially tanks. Wild Polymorph has no range or line-of-sight limitations, so moving away from the raid or behind the nearby pillars is ineffective; mages can continue to DPS through this call.

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*Effect: Direct Heals will subsequently [[DoT]] their target with [[Corrupted Healing]] ([[Renew]] and [[Power Word: Shield]] do still work normally though). The [[DoT]] is stackable and can end up doing a lot of damage if not caught quickly.

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*Solution: Stop use of direct healing spells for the duration. Druids, Paladins, and Shaman must compensate. Three or more stacks of this debuff makes the Main Tank very difficult to heal. Priests can stack Renew the main tank and wand Nefarian for mana (with Judgement of Wisdom on Nefarian).

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*Effect: Cast [[Blessing of Protection]] on Nefarian.

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*Solution: Paladins should cast Judgement of Wisdom on Nefarian, and all casters should wand back mana while he is protected. (It is advisable to cease damage during this call as the MT won't be able to gain more aggro. Healer heal, the rest can lean back and regenerate mana.)

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*Effect: Teleported and immobilized in place close to Nefarian.

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*Solution: In some cases Rogues will be rooted in a "safe" spot and MT adjustment is not required. If rogues do get rooted in the Cleave/Shadowflame area, the MT must turn Nefarian 45-90 degrees away from the raid to prevent rogue deaths.

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*Effect: Give Nefarian buffed [[totems]], including windfury, and fire nova. Corrupted Totems have between 200 and 2000 HP and they very quickly will become a veritable forest of totems. Concentrated firepower isn't needed to take down totems, but weaker melee hits won't destroy some totems in single hits. The totems, while problematic, sound worse than they are - the major issue (raid-wide) here will be DPS on Nefarian becoming nonexistent due to clean up efforts or losing someone extremely low on health due to getting hit by a fire nova pulse. The worst part about this call is the huge drain on shaman mana and mana regeneration. It is not a good idea to enter Phase 3 when these totems are up, as the Bone Constructs will receive the buffs from the totems.

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*Solution: All single target DPS switch to the totems and bring them down as fast as possible. There's not much else to do besides weather the tax on shaman mana - if shaman are low on mana, waiting to drink a mana potion until AFTER their call is over may spare them a wasted potion and some totem spawns.

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*''Note: Pressing V on your keyboard (or whatever key you have set to enable enemy health bars on-screen) is very useful for this part.''

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*Effect: Stuck in [[Berserker Stance]] plus an additional 30% damage taken for duration of the call.

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*Solution: Extra heals for the MT. The MT also needs to make sure that Stance Sets is not enabled or he'll likely unequip his shield. At the end of the debuff Warriors must manually return to their desired stance. The raid should also watch its damage output, as the main tank will not be generating the extra threat ordinarily caused by defensive stance.

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*Effect: 2 [[Infernal]]s per Warlock are summoned. They will stun and do minor (physical?) damage to the warlock and those immediately surrounding them.

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*Solution: The infernals are immune to fire damage but are easily taken down by mage AoE. Assistance from Rogues and Warriors is also helpful. Warlocks, try to stand in an isolated area in the back of the raid for the duration of Phase 2 to avoid stunning healers when the Infernals come down. Having your mages stand near the Warlocks and setting up a frost Nova rotation helps to keep them contained.

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===Phase 3===

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When his health reaches 20% he will resurrect all the [[Drakonid]]s killed in Phase 1 as "[[Bone Constructs]]". They hit fairly hard but do not have a lot of health, so they are relatively easily AoE'd to death. It is advisable to move AoE groups into position where the [[Drakonid]]s were originally killed prior to reaching 20% HP to ensure their swift elimination, and to avoid healers getting swarmed. It is also advisable to wait for an appropriate call, where you don't lose any healing. Since the Bone Constructs are classified as [[Undead]] they are vulnerable to Paladins' [[Holy Wrath]], which should be used in conjunction with other AoE sources. An effective technique for Paladins is: 1.) BoP a Mage 2.) Divine Shield 3.) Holy Wrath 4.) Use Stratholme water (if you brought some along). This would be an ideal time for the non-MT Warriors to pop [[Shield Wall]] and [[Challenging Shout]] in a staggered order to ensure adds do not attack healers (assuming these abilities are not on cooldown from Phase 1). Corrupted Shaman Totems from the Shaman class call will affect the adds; it is advisable to have those totems killed before the adds spawn.

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Note that if your computer isn't top of the line you will have extremely low FPS when the drakonids are resurrected, so make sure you turn your graphics down and do anything else you can to increase performance before the fight.

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After this he continues to cast his class debuffs up till he dies.

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Nefarian encounter can be reattempted any number of times, however, it takes 15 minutes for him to reset after a wipe (as of patch 1.9.3). Prior to this patch, once the battle had progressed to Phase 2, and the remaining Drakonids had all been killed, the gates would never re-open. Therefore, a Soulstone or other wipe prevention must have been in place, or the battle could not be re-attempted until the instance had reset completely. Nefarian would still respawn after 15 minutes.

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An alternate strategy for Phase 3 is to have all the AoE move towards the [[Drakonid]]s have the entire raid (with the exception of the MT) move to one spot, the Heal Aggro alone will draw the [[Drakonid]]s where Mage AoE becomes much easier and much more effective.

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==Nefarian at level 70+==

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Downing Nefarian is no longer about tactics. As long as people round up and just aoe down the [[drakonid]]s, there should be absolutely no problem at all to get him down on the first try. Without the adds, Nefarian has become a tank and spank fight and all the communication needed to down him prior to The Burning Crusade is no more even a bonus.

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==Hunter macro for ranged weapon unequip==

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This macro was updated patch 3.2, you may use this to unequip then equip your weapon. When you see his call simply use it to remove the weapon and after the call comes then use it again to equip the weapon once again and continue to attack. '''Node:''' you need the first backpack (the original bag) slot empty for this to work!

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/run local p,s="player",18 if GetInventoryItemLink(p,s)then PickupInventoryItem(s)PutItemInBackpack()else PickupContainerItem(0,1)EquipCursorItem(s)end

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==Quotes==

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;Aggro

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:{{text|yell|In this world where time is your enemy, it is my greatest ally.}}

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:{{text|yell|This grand game of life that you think you play in fact plays you. To that I say...}}

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:{{text|yell|Let the games begin!}}

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;Landing

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*{{text|yell|Well done, my minions. The mortals' courage begins to wane! Now, let's see how they contend with the true Lord of Blackrock Spire!}}

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;Shadowflame

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*{{text|yell|Burn, you wretches! Burn!}}

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;Summoning skeletons

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*{{text|yell|Impossible! Rise my minions! Serve your master once more!}}

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;Class call out

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*{{text|yell|Death Knights, get over here!}}

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*{{text|yell|Druids and your silly shapeshifting. Let's see it in action!}}

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*{{text|yell|Hunters and your annoying pea-shooters!}}

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*{{text|yell|Mages too? You should be more careful when you play with magic...}}

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*{{text|yell|Priests! If you're going to keep healing like that, we might as well make it a little more interesting!}}

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*{{text|yell|Paladins, I've heard you have many lives. Show me.}}

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*{{text|yell|Rogues? Stop hiding and face me!}}

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*{{text|yell|Shamans, show me what your totems can do!}}

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*{{text|yell|Warriors, I know you can hit harder than that! Let's see it!}}

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*{{text|yell|Warlocks, you shouldn't be playing with magic you don't understand. See what happens?}}

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;Killing a player

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*{{text|yell|Worthless wretch! Your friends will join you soon enough!}}

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*{{text|yell|ENOUGH! Now you vermin shall feel the force of my birthright: The Fury of the Earth itself!}}

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;Death

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*{{text|yell|This cannot be! I am the Master here! You mortals are nothing to my kind! DO YOU HEAR? NOTHING!}}

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==Loot==

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As of [[Patch 3.2.2]] the [[Tier 2]] helms that dropped from {{mob|Onyxia}} have been moved to Nefarians loot table. <ref>{{ref web

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|url=http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=20126974538&pageNo=1&sid=1#7

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{{lootbox|[[Tier 2]] Head

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{{lootbox|[[Tier 2]] Chest

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{{Lootbox|Nefarian non-set loot

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|Archimtiros' Ring of Reckoning

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|Ashkandi, Greatsword of the Brotherhood

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|Boots of the Shadow Flame

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|Crul'shorukh, Edge of Chaos

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|Cloak of the Brood Lord

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|Lok'amir il Romathis

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|Mish'undare, Circlet of the Mind Flayer

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|Neltharion's Tear

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|Prestor's Talisman of Connivery

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|Pure Elementium Band

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|Staff of the Shadow Flame

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==Video==

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==Notes==

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*Nefarian's voice is believed to be that of [[Chris Metzen]]. <ref>{{ref web

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*Up until the introduction of the 40-man [[Temple of Ahn'Qiraj]] instance in early 2006, Nefarian was considered by players to be one of the most difficult of all boss encounters. "Downing" Nefarian is still a significant achievement for guilds pursuing [[end-game]] content.

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*The world first kill was claimed by Drama, an alliance guild of Shattered Hand US at the time of the kill, now currently resides on Korgath US.

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==Patches and hotfixes==

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*{{Patch 3.2.2|note=[[Tier 2]] helms moved from [[Onyxia_(original)|classic Onyxia's]] to Nefarian's loot table.}}

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*{{Patch 3.0.2|note=Class call for [[Death Knight]]s added.}}

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*{{Patch 1.6.0|note=Added.}}

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-'''Nefarian''' is located atop [[Blackwing Lair]] after [[Chromaggus]]. He has two forms: his Human form, Lord Victor Nefarius, and his dragon form, Nefarian proper. Nefarian is an extremely difficult encounter as it requires a full 40-man raid to win along with strong coordination and leadership. On average, the full encounter consists of 3 stages and takes about 20-30 minutes to finish.
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-===Phase 1===
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-To activate the Encounter a person must walk up to Nefarian's throne and talk through what he says. Upon completion of this he says "Let the Games begin." From here, Nefarian is invulnerable, and walks amid the raid randomly [[shadow bolt]]ing, [[mind control]]ling people and casting fear on random targets. The room begins to flood with [[Drakonid]]s at the same time.
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-Phase 1 of the fight consists of defeating the drakonids.
-There are 6 types of drakonids that spawn. In every Nefarian encounter you will fight [[Chromatic Drakonid]]s; the largest and toughest drakonids. Fortunately they spawn in far fewer number than the other colors. In addition to the Chromatic Drakonid, 2 other random colors of [[Drakonid]]s will spawn as well. One color will spawn from the southern door, and one color will spawn from the northern door. Colors are fixed for each instance: if Nefarian is attempted multiple times before the instance resets, the same color combinations will appear.
-Different colors of Drakonids have different special abilities and are resistant to different schools of magic. Note that, unlike some other Blackwing Lair mobs, these Drakonids are not particularly vulnerable to any magic.
-Below is a list of their colors and associated abilities / resistances:
-*'''[[Red Drakonid]]s''' - Short range cone [[DoT]] fire attack, stacks; resistant to [[Fire]]
-*'''[[Blue Drakonid]]s''' - Attack which drains [[mana]]; resistant to [[Frost]]; slightly resistant to [[Arcane]]; Lowers [[attack speed]]
-*'''[[Green Drakonid]]s''' - Stun, resistant to [[Nature]]
-*'''[[Black Drakonid]]s''' - Moderately powerful direct damage fire attack; resistant to [[Shadow]] and [[Fire]]
-*'''[[Bronze Drakonid]]s''' - Reduces Attack and Cast Speed; resistant to [[Arcane]]
-The Drakonids can be killed by either AoE attacks or direct damage and aside from Chromatics, they do not hit very hard and do not have a lot of health.
-====Doorway Method====
-Raid is split up into groups so that DPS is split up as evenly as possible. The easiest way to do this is start with a Physical assist train on one side (Hunter, Rogue, Warrior) with nuker/AoE classes (Mage, Warlock, Paladin, Shaman) on the other, with healers and tanks being split evenly. At least 2 to 3 tanks need to be designated per side to be able handle Chromatic Drakonids. Taunt moves should be enough to hold mobs, but any that leak should be the primary target, followed by a designated assist target.
-Ranged DPS classes (Mage, Warlock, Hunter) and healers should be positioned max range from either door so that they can switch sides quickly. Hunters can be moved between sides to tweak the DPS balance. Hard, steady DPS is crucial so if one side is waiting for spawns, people need to switch over; the non-chromatic drakonids shouldn't live past taunt duration while chromatics have significantly more health and need to be "sunder" tanked.
-*'''ALWAYS''' AOE the '''Red Drakonid''' group. (Warlocks DoT with Corruption/CoA then Shadowbolt.)
-*'''ALWAYS''' Assist-train the '''Blue Drakonid''' group.
-*'''DPS''' is preferred on '''Black Drakonid''' groups, unless you get Black/Blue.
-*'''AOE''' is preferred on '''Bronze Drakonid''' groups, unless you get Red/Bronze.
-*'''Green Drakonid''' groups are governed by the other color that appears with them.
-For Black combos, Warlocks should be switched off with Hunters so that they can make full use of their moves. Blue doesn't impact +hit/-resistance Mages too badly but it might help to add Hunters to assist train mobs.
-Red and Bronze drakonids should be handled primarily by casters and only melee with called out healers.
-Green drakonids are the least harmful so this side should be composed mainly of dispellers and classes that wouldn't do versus the other color.
-===Phase 2===
-After killing 42 Drakonids, no more will spawn (you still have to kill all the others that are up), and Nefarian lands on the balcony in Dragon Form. This is the beginning of Phase 2 of the encounter. Before landing he will cast an AoE (ignores LoS) [[Shadow Flame]] on the entire raid. This version of the spell does about 1000 shadow damage and is completely resistible.  Previously, every member of the raid must have been wearing an [[Onyxia Scale Cloak]] to avoid the fatal DoT from the [[Shadow Flame]] (frost mages could use their [[Ice Block]] ability and paladins could use their [[Divine Shield]] ability to avoid the Flame without the cloak.). By now most of the drakonids should be dead. Move your raid to this area and start DPSing him down, from here on out its simple damage dealing with a few twists. It should be noted that, if your raid attempts the aoe version of phase one and stays near the throne, you can stand BEHIND the throne and NOT be hit by Shadow Flame. It is the only place in the room that has this property (and is therefore was the only way for someone without a Cloak or immunity shield to live).
-He has all the abilities of normal dragons: [[Conical]] breath attack (shadow based), [[cleave]], and [[bellowing roar]]. He also does [[Veil of Shadow]] on the target nearest to the center of his hitbox.  Nefarian casts an AOE fear roughly every 30 seconds.  The ground shakes immediately before this occurs, giving the MT time to stance dance and use berserker rage.  Alternatively, have any priests cast fear ward on the MT. It's worthy to note that his fear has limited range of about 35 yards, so ranged DPS and healers can completely avoid it by proper positioning.
-Approximately every 25-35 seconds he will "call out" a specific class. During class-call outs, that class will have some negative effect on them. Below is a list of each class and the effect their call-out has on them:
-;[[Death Knight]]s
-*Effect: Casts [[Death Grip]] on the entire raid, pulling everyone inside his hitbox.
-*Solution: Simply run back to your positions - unlike the Rogue call, this one does not immobilize teleported players for the duration.
-;[[Druid]]s
-*Effect: Stuck in [[Cat Form]] for duration of the call.
-*Solution: Safest call is to stay back and wait for the debuff to wear off. Some raids may let the Druids run up and DPS, however this puts them at risk for getting feared into the Shadowflame and dying. Mages should get ready to decurse the [[Veil of Shadow]] off the MT.
-*''Note: As of October 2007, this class call is bugged and will put the entire raid into cat form for its duration. It is unclear which abilities are still usable while transformed. Ironically, our druid was able to heal during this call while our other healers were not.''
-;[[Hunter]]s
-*Effect: Equipped [[ranged weapon]] instantly broken.
-*Solution: Hunters should either manually unequip their bow or set up a macro ''(macro available at bottom of article)'' to instantly unequip.  Be sure to bring extra ranged weapons in the event your bow/gun does break. Alternatively, equip a second ranged weapon immediately prior to the class call, then switch back to the main weapon after. Using a cheep weapon (gray quality) will reduce repair bills incurred, but will reduce DPS during the seconds when it is equipped.
-;[[Mage]]s
-*Effect: Cast [[Wild Polymorph]] on random raid members, which has no range or Line of Sight (LoS) restrictions.
-*Solution: Mages can use Ice Block to remove this debuff, but priests and paladins need to be ready to Dispel Magic and Cleanse polymorphed players, especially tanks. Wild Polymorph has no range or line-of-sight limitations, so moving away from the raid or behind the nearby pillars is ineffective; mages can continue to DPS through this call.
-;[[Priest]]s
-*Effect: Direct Heals will subsequently [[DoT]] their target with [[Corrupted Healing]]  ([[Renew]] and [[Power Word: Shield]] do still work normally though).  The [[DoT]] is stackable and can end up doing a lot of damage if not caught quickly.
-*Solution: Stop use of direct healing spells for the duration. Druids, Paladins, and Shaman must compensate. Three or more stacks of this debuff makes the Main Tank very difficult to heal. Priests can stack Renew the main tank and wand Nefarian for mana (with Judgement of Wisdom on Nefarian).
-;[[Paladin]]s
-*Effect: Cast [[Blessing of Protection]] on Nefarian.
-*Solution: Paladins should cast Judgement of Wisdom on Nefarian, and all casters should wand back mana while he is protected. (It is advisable to cease damage during this call as the MT won't be able to gain more aggro. Healer heal, the rest can lean back and regenerate mana.)
-;[[Rogue]]s
-*Effect: Teleported and immobilized in place close to Nefarian.
-*Solution: In some cases Rogues will be rooted in a "safe" spot and MT adjustment is not required.  If rogues do get rooted in the Cleave/Shadowflame area, the MT must turn Nefarian 45-90 degrees away from the raid to prevent rogue deaths.
-;[[Shaman]]s
-*Effect: Give Nefarian buffed [[totems]], including windfury, and fire nova. Corrupted Totems have between 200 and 2000 HP and they very quickly will become a veritable forest of totems. Concentrated firepower isn't needed to take down totems, but weaker melee hits won't destroy some totems in single hits. The totems, while problematic, sound worse than they are - the major issue (raid-wide) here will be DPS on Nefarian becoming nonexistent due to clean up efforts or losing someone extremely low on health due to getting hit by a fire nova pulse. The worst part about this call is the huge drain on shaman mana and mana regeneration.  It is not a good idea to enter Phase 3 when these totems are up, as the Bone Constructs will receive the buffs from the totems.
-*Solution: All single target DPS switch to the totems and bring them down as fast as possible. There's not much else to do besides weather the tax on shaman mana - if shaman are low on mana, waiting to drink a mana potion until AFTER their call is over may spare them a wasted potion and some totem spawns.
-*''Note: Pressing V on your keyboard (or whatever key you have set to enable enemy health bars on-screen) is very useful for this part.''
-;[[Warrior]]s
-*Effect: Stuck in [[Berserker Stance]] plus an additional 30% damage taken for duration of the call.
-*Solution: Extra heals for the MT. The MT also needs to make sure that Stance Sets is not enabled or he'll likely unequip his shield.  At the end of the debuff Warriors must manually return to their desired stance.  The raid should also watch its damage output, as the main tank will not be generating the extra threat ordinarily caused by defensive stance.
-;[[Warlock]]s
-*Effect: 2 [[Infernal]]s per Warlock are summoned.  They will stun and do minor (physical?) damage to the warlock and those immediately surrounding them.
-*Solution: The infernals are immune to fire damage but are easily taken down by mage AoE. Assistance from Rogues and Warriors is also helpful.  Warlocks, try to stand in an isolated area in the back of the raid for the duration of Phase 2 to avoid stunning healers when the Infernals come down.  Having your mages stand near the Warlocks and setting up a frost Nova rotation helps to keep them contained.
-===Phase 3===
-When his health reaches 20% he will resurrect all the [[Drakonid]]s killed in Phase 1 as "[[Bone Constructs]]". They hit fairly hard but do not have a lot of health, so they are relatively easily AoE'd to death. It is advisable to move AoE groups into position where the [[Drakonid]]s were originally killed prior to reaching 20% HP to ensure their swift elimination, and to avoid healers getting swarmed.  It is also advisable to wait for an appropriate call, where you don't lose any healing.  Since the Bone Constructs are classified as [[Undead]] they are vulnerable to Paladins' [[Holy Wrath]], which should be used in conjunction with other AoE sources.  An effective technique for Paladins is: 1.) BoP a Mage 2.) Divine Shield 3.) Holy Wrath 4.) Use Stratholme water (if you brought some along).  This would be an ideal time for the non-MT Warriors to pop [[Shield Wall]] and [[Challenging Shout]] in a staggered order to ensure adds do not attack healers (assuming these abilities are not on cooldown from Phase 1).  Corrupted Shaman Totems from the Shaman class call will affect the adds; it is advisable to have those totems killed before the adds spawn.
-Note that if your computer isn't top of the line you will have extremely low FPS when the drakonids are resurrected, so make sure you turn your graphics down and do anything else you can to increase performance before the fight.
-After this he continues to cast his class debuffs up till he dies.
-Nefarian encounter can be reattempted any number of times, however, it takes 15 minutes for him to reset after a wipe (as of patch 1.9.3).  Prior to this patch, once the battle had progressed to Phase 2, and the remaining Drakonids had all been killed, the gates would never re-open. Therefore, a Soulstone or other wipe prevention must have been in place, or the battle could not be re-attempted until the instance had reset completely. Nefarian would still respawn after 15 minutes.
-An alternate strategy for Phase 3 is to have all the AoE move towards the [[Drakonid]]s have the entire raid (with the exception of the MT) move to one spot, the Heal Aggro alone will draw the [[Drakonid]]s where Mage AoE becomes much easier and much more effective.
-==Nefarian at level 70+==
-Downing Nefarian is no longer about tactics. As long as people round up and just aoe down the [[drakonid]]s, there should be absolutely no problem at all to get him down on the first try. Without the adds, Nefarian has become a tank and spank fight and all the communication needed to down him prior to The Burning Crusade is no more even a bonus.
-==Hunter macro for ranged weapon unequip==
-This macro was updated patch 3.2, you may use this to unequip then equip your weapon. When you see his call simply use it to remove the weapon and after the call comes then use it again to equip the weapon once again and continue to attack. '''Node:''' you need the first backpack (the original bag) slot empty for this to work!
- /run local p,s="player",18 if GetInventoryItemLink(p,s)then PickupInventoryItem(s)PutItemInBackpack()else PickupContainerItem(0,1)EquipCursorItem(s)end
-==Quotes==
-;Aggro
-:{{text|yell|In this world where time is your enemy, it is my greatest ally.}}
-:{{text|yell|This grand game of life that you think you play in fact plays you. To that I say...}}
-:{{text|yell|Let the games begin!}}
-;Landing
-*{{text|yell|Well done, my minions. The mortals' courage begins to wane! Now, let's see how they contend with the true Lord of Blackrock Spire!}}
-;Shadowflame
-*{{text|yell|Burn, you wretches! Burn!}}
-;Summoning skeletons
-*{{text|yell|Impossible! Rise my minions! Serve your master once more!}}
-;Class call out
-*{{text|yell|Death Knights, get over here!}}
-*{{text|yell|Druids and your silly shapeshifting. Let's see it in action!}}
-*{{text|yell|Hunters and your annoying pea-shooters!}}
-*{{text|yell|Mages too? You should be more careful when you play with magic...}}
-*{{text|yell|Priests! If you're going to keep healing like that, we might as well make it a little more interesting!}}
-*{{text|yell|Paladins, I've heard you have many lives. Show me.}}
-*{{text|yell|Rogues? Stop hiding and face me!}}
-*{{text|yell|Shamans, show me what your totems can do!}}
-*{{text|yell|Warriors, I know you can hit harder than that! Let's see it!}}
-*{{text|yell|Warlocks, you shouldn't be playing with magic you don't understand. See what happens?}}
-;Killing a player
-*{{text|yell|Worthless wretch! Your friends will join you soon enough!}}
-;5% HP
-*{{text|yell|ENOUGH! Now you vermin shall feel the force of my birthright: The Fury of the Earth itself!}}
-;Death
-*{{text|yell|This cannot be! I am the Master here! You mortals are nothing to my kind! DO YOU HEAR? NOTHING!}}
-==Loot==
-As of [[Patch 3.2.2]] the [[Tier 2]] helms that dropped from {{mob|Onyxia}} have been moved to Nefarians loot table. <ref>{{ref web
-|url=http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=20126974538&pageNo=1&sid=1#7
-|archiveurl=http://blue.mmo-champion.com/1/20126974538-t2-helms-post322.html
-|title=Re: T2 helms post-3.2.2
-|author={{Blizz}} [[Bornakk]]
-|date=2009-09-25 16:34:00
-|archivedate=2009-09-25
-|accessdate=2009-09-25}}</ref>
-{{lootbox|Quest items
-|Head of Nefarian
-|Red Scepter Shard
-}}
-{{lootbox|[[Tier 2]] Head
-|Bloodfang Hood (tier 2)
-|Dragonstalker's Helm (tier 2)
-|Halo of Transcendence (tier 2)
-|Helmet of Ten Storms (tier 2)
-|Helm of Wrath (tier 2)
-|Judgement Crown (tier 2)
-|Nemesis Skullcap (tier 2)
-|Netherwind Crown (tier 2)
-|Stormrage Cover (tier 2)
-}}
-{{lootbox|[[Tier 2]] Chest
- |Bloodfang Chestpiece
- |Breastplate of Ten Storms
- |Breastplate of Wrath
- |Dragonstalker's Breastplate
- |Judgement Breastplate
- |Nemesis Robes
- |Netherwind Robes
- |Robes of Transcendence
- |Stormrage Chestguard
-}}
-{{Lootbox|Nefarian non-set loot
- |Archimtiros' Ring of Reckoning
- |Ashkandi, Greatsword of the Brotherhood
- |Boots of the Shadow Flame
- |Crul'shorukh, Edge of Chaos
- |Cloak of the Brood Lord
- |Lok'amir il Romathis
- |Mish'undare, Circlet of the Mind Flayer
- |Neltharion's Tear
- |Prestor's Talisman of Connivery
- |Pure Elementium Band
- |Staff of the Shadow Flame
- |Therazane's Link
-}}
-==Video==
-<youtube>eeSbZosSu2A</youtube>
-<youtube>toZNwpEEFfE</youtube>
-==Notes==
-*Nefarian's voice is believed to be that of [[Chris Metzen]]. <ref>{{ref web
-|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/technology/10warcraftqa.web.html?pagewanted=4&_r=5</ref>
-*Up until the introduction of the 40-man [[Temple of Ahn'Qiraj]] instance in early 2006, Nefarian was considered by players to be one of the most difficult of all boss encounters. "Downing" Nefarian is still a significant achievement for guilds pursuing [[end-game]] content.
-*The world first kill was claimed by Drama, an alliance guild of Shattered Hand US at the time of the kill, now currently resides on Korgath US.
-==Patches and hotfixes==
-*{{Patch 3.2.2|note=[[Tier 2]] helms moved from [[Onyxia_(original)|classic Onyxia's]] to Nefarian's loot table.}}
-*{{Patch 3.0.2|note=Class call for [[Death Knight]]s added.}}
-*{{Patch 1.6.0|note=Added.}}
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