First Naxxramas Run

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Post by Jeremypwnz

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Post by ArgentSun

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@scottlvl73, I am the Ashbringer. You are not. 'nuff said.

On topic, some of the bosses are healer test, some are tank test, few are DPS test, some are retardation check (/heigandance). Going through the list...

Anub'Rekhan - Tank check. All you will need to do is run around the edge of half of the room 2-3 times during the encounter. Not too hard, just need to have good reflexes and healer who can heal and run.

Grand Widow Faerlina - Easy boss. Your DPS will need to kill an add every so often, but they don't have a lot of hit points, and I (paladin tank) can bring them low enough, so the DPS can burn them down in 2-4 seconds at most.

Maexxna - Kind of reaction check - your DPS will need to kill the cacoons around the webbed players, and your Tank will need to be able to survive a few hits with no heals.

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Patchwerk - Gear check. Tanks need to have enough hit points, Healers need to be able to keep healing through the damage spikes, DPS needs to beat the enrage timer.

Grobbulus - Kind of a DPS race with a bit of "oh, I have desease, I need to go drop it away from the group!" element.

Gluth - DPS check. You will need some AoE DPS, and some nuking abilities to beat the enrage. Maybe a non-tank plate user/bear to eat the Mortal Strikes.

Thaddius - Heroic Mechanar reborn! If you can avoid wiping the group due to wrong charge, you are fine.

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Instructor Razuvious - Tank check. You and the other tank need to be able to control the adds properly and switch aggro taunting properly. It may take a few tries if you've never done such thing.

Gothik the Harvester - DPS check. Your DPS will need to be able to take down the adds, and then the boss within a certain time window. If not, the stacking -% stats will get to 10, and -100% to all stats means...you don't exist.

The Four Horsemen - This one may be a challenge. Your tanks don't have to be all that good, but your DPS has to be, and you need to have good raid coordination. My guild usually needs a few tries to get this one down.

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Noth the Plaguebringer - Nothing special, DPS down, pick up adds, kill adds. Must have a decursing class in the raid.

Heigan the Unclean - Checks your raid's ability to move from place to place, a.k.a. do the Heigan dance.

Loatheb - DPS and Healers check. Requires some coordination.

Both Sapphiron and KT are coordination check, where everybody needs to pay attention to what's going on.

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Post by Vickii

Good luck and enjoy!

Go to spider wing first and take the 3 bosses in order. Bringing a priest can help you on the 2nd boss by dispelling frenzy (i think thats in 10 man but maybe check it!) but otherwise they are all simple although do expect some wipes if your really new to it.

If you get that clear, then go to Plague wing and kill Noth, the first boss there. Then you have a choice..

Heigan or Instructor. Heigan will end your night for you if noones been before :) you will learn him and kill him soon but he most likely will beat you on first attempts. Instructor in the DK wing is probably the best chance of a kill after Noth.

Patchwerk is probably something better left to another day so don't go abom wing and you don't really want to be going further than instructor just yet. I think the above is plenty for first raid...

Although if you steamroller it (possible), feel free to go wherever you like ^_^ But don't beat yourself up if you wipe on anub'rehkan either. There are guilds who do and practise makes perfect.

Good luck!

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Post by lorgion

So say Ranged DPS keeps attackng while i Kite the boss will they pull aggro, I obviously can't stand and gain aggro Tell them to Stop DPS during the attack?

They shouldn't. They should watch their threat and know not to pull agro. But you'll have a bit of a headstart since they should all be killing the other big spiders creatures while you tank the boss, then they join you on the boss, then another spider creature will spawn and they should kill that. So you get moments when you are more or less alone on the boss.

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Post by windstrum

From my limited experiece of Naxx so far, the green post sums it up most excellently (and deeply!).

I've had the luxury of being in two Naxx 10man pugs (no guild runs as yet), and we managed to down (in two seperate runs) Grobbulus, Gluth, Thaddius, Anub'Rekhan, Grand Widow Faerlina, Noth the Plaguebringer, Heigan the Unclean and Loatheb. We also faced Sapphiron and Maexxna, but were unsuccessful on each.

Sapphiron we went into with little hope, but thought we'd give it one try. Maexxna was a little more disappointing. Three unsuccessful attempts:

First try: The two shamans (myself and another elemental) were in different groups, and used poison cleansing totem to remove the DoT. But they either didn't work or were not in range. Tank received far too much damage from the DoT, healer couldn't keep them alive, we wiped.

Second try: I was killed within the first 10 seconds, getting thrown far from the group and getting webbed. DPS didn't reach me in time to remove web. The rest of the group went on for a while longer but were eventually defeated (irrelevant to my being dead).

Third try: All webbed people were fairly close to the group, but by the time the third person was webbed the DPS was having trouble removing the web (probably fatigued/lost focus). One by one people started to die.

All in all I think a lot of the troubles we had (not just with Maexxna, but even on successful boss fights) would be overcome by being in a guild group that worked well together. Organising a pug in a given fight can be an uphill battle at best.