Yay! After about 10 wipes I finally got my winter hat!

The funny thing is, playing this fight over and over again made me really think about what was going on. The tips that really helped in the end: you can cast instant casts during Gravity well, and the 3 versions of her are fearable.

The most powerful spell in the game for this fight is Prayer of Mending. If you have a mixed group like I do... make sure to hit that during each gravity well... it is like free hp for everyone.

I tried the "out of the room" tactic many times (in fact this was my first 8 wipes). I can't think it is an "exploit" because in reality she is very hard to bring into range ... so you basically lose a chunk of your DPS. Once I gave up on that tactic it took only 2 more tries to get her down (though it did let me live long enough on the other tries to figure out what she was all about). On the attempt I downed her I was at 40% mana, and no big CD's used. My mages are frost, and my warlock is Demo/Dest - the Felguard worked really well as a source of DPS as well as a "cc" for one of the aspects while I feared 1 and DPS'd the other. Water Elementals are great on this boss because they are immune to her freeze spell ... they just keep cranking on the DPS.

Ok, so specifically what I did:




  1. Park casters on top of eachother right in front of her at about 30 yards
  2. Run tank to the one side of her, then AS and run in, hitting her with max threat - keep her facing AWAY from your party
  3. Send in Felguard, unleash all DPS - don't look at health at this point, just max DPS and Tanking
  4. Freeze: Don't worry about this too much... it is pretty short. Usually I just started my priest using Prayer of Healing for a nice big AoE heal ... but PoM seemed better in nearly every situation (so save your mana for that).
  5. First gravity well: Make sure all DoTs are up, Use Ice Lance on Mages, AS on Pally if it is up and hit Prayer of Mending like your life depends on it. Really. (Note: Sometimes the Gravity Well will bounce your tank into Hammer/Judge range ... if it does happen, every little bit helps.
  6. Hit Follow as soon as you stop bouncing - spend a second getting aggro and start DPS'ing again. If you have an "outlyer" grab them while the other's are casting and get them on follow if you can. Don't worry too much about facing ... some will DPS and some will not. Gravity well will mess it all up in 4 more seconds anyway :P
  7. Don't worry about going crazy on DPS during this part, just make sure to keep the damage coming in - this boss has low HP and you'll realize that just 1 or 2 people hitting her will do the damage you need.
  8. Wash/Rinse/Repeat until she splits.
  9. On split, hit consecrate, AS (hope it hits all 3) and send the Felguard at the first one you see. Fear and DoT the next one, and DPS the last. Use PoM here too ... that will help keep the Felguard up. Eventually I had to go chase down the feared one ... these guys don't have much HP.
  10. Once she re-forms - make sure your team is together and your tank has her faced away. Wash rinse repeat until she dies.

Now, I know most people don't have the same party composition I do, but I thought I'd put up a non-Shaman tactic I'll post it on the Wiki after I get some sleep.