Icecrown Citadel Boss Guides - Wrath Classic (WOTLK)

Lord Marrowgar

Summary

Tanks stack to split damage from
Bone Slice
.
Avoid
Coldflame
. They will always move in a straight line, so you just need to side step.
Break out and heal players targeted by
Bone Spike Graveyard
as quickly as possible.
Every 30 seconds, Lord Marrowgar will use
Bone Storm
. Move away if you are targeted during this.
Bone Storm
will apply a bleed that will need to be healed.
During
Bone Storm
, Lord Marrowgar will periodically stop and cast four
Coldflame
s spawning directly underneath him.

Notes

Paladins can use
Frost Resistance Aura
and Shamans can use
Frost Resistance Totem
to help mitigate damage from
Coldflame
.

Lady Deathwhisper

Phase 1

Lady Deathwhisper is protected by a
Mana Barrier
that needs to be depleted in order to start Phase 2.
This phase will be about keeping up damage on Lady Deathwhisper, without falling behind on the adds that will be spawning.
Shortly after the start of the fight, and every minute after, 7 (3 in 10 man) adds will spawn. 3 on the left side, 3 on the right, and 1 from the stairs.
The left side will always have 2 Fanatics and 1 Adherent, the right side will always have 2 Adherents and 1 Fanatic.
Interrupt Adherents'
Deathchill Bolt
, and remove
Curse of Torpor
from afflicted players.
They will also randomly gain a buff called,
Shroud of the Occult
, that needs to be broken by Physical DPS.
Fanatics will cast
Necrotic Strike
and
Vampiric Might
.
Lady Deathwhisper will sometimes empower her adds.
Empowered Adherents will gain
Deathchill Blast
and become uninterruptable.
Empowered Fanatics will deal 100% increased damaged, but are slowed by 25% so they can be kited.
Lady Deathwhisper will sometimes cast
Animate Dead
.
Reanimated Fanatics take 99% reduced Physical Damage, and Reanimated Adherents take 99% reduced Magical Damage.
Adherents and Fanatics will also sometimes randomly use
Dark Martyrdom
, which will cause them to become reanimated after exploding.
Avoid
Death and Decay
, and Healers watch out for spike damage from
Shadow Bolt
.
Crowd Control any players targeted by
Dominate Mind
(25 man).
Any adds alive once the
Mana Barrier
is depleted will need to be killed in Phase 2, so be careful when you transition into Phase 2.

Phase 2

Lady Deathwhisper will continue to cast
Death and Decay
and
Dominate Mind
.
Interrupt
Frostbolt
.
Healers watch for AoE damage caused by
Frostbolt Volley
.
Move away from Vengeful Shades, they will explode if they reach you.
Tanks
Taunt
off each other to deal with
Touch of Insignificance
.
Heroic Only - Adds will continue to spawn on one side of the room, and Vengeful Shades will do an AoE explosion instead of a single target one.
Heroic Only - Lady Deathwhisper becomes immune to
Taunt
.

Notes

Mages can
Spellsteal
and Shamans can
Purge

Vampiric Might
from Fanatics.
Paladins can use
Frost Resistance Aura
and Shamans can use
Frost Resistance Totem
to help mitigate damage in Phase 3.

Gunship Battle

Equip your Jetpacks.
Assign players to the Gunship Cannons. Use
Cannon Blast
to generate Heat, and
Incinerating Blast
to consume your Heat to prevent overheating.
AoE down the adds that spawn on your ship. Melee DPS watch out for
Bladestorm
from Sergeants.
Adds become stronger the longer they are left alive, so kill them as quickly as possible.
Ranged DPS kill the Rifelmen on the enemy ship.
Throughout the fight, the Gunship Cannons will become frozen and unuseable. You must kill the Mage on the enemy ship to break them free.
Send a group consisting of Melee Dps, a Tank, and healers over to the enemy ship by using their Jetpacks.
Kill the Mage as quickly as possible because the Commander on the enemy ship gains a stacking buff increasing their damage, which will eventually be too difficult to tank.
Use Jetpacks to get back to your ship once the Mage is killed.
Avoid enemy rockets on the ground when on your ship.

Deathbringer Saurfang

Summary

Saurfang enrages after 6 minutes.
He has two passive abilities
Blood Link
and
Blood Power
.
Ranged stay spread to mitigate damage from
Blood Nova
.
Healers watch out for players with
Boiling Blood
.
Tanks
Taunt
off each other when afflicted by
Rune of Blood
.
When Saurfang reaches 100 Blood Power, he will cast
Mark of the Fallen Champion
on a random player.
This player must be kept alive or else they will heal Saurfang for 20% (5% on normal) of his Health.
Every 35 seconds, 5 Blood Beasts (2 in 10 man) will spawn around Saurfang.
Blood Beasts must be kited and killed by Ranged DPS. They have
Resistant Skin
so they must be killed with single target abilities.
Heroic Only - Blood Beasts will cast
Scent of Blood
shortly after spawning.
Saurfang uses
Frenzy
at 30% HP.

Notes

Blood Beasts can be Crowd Controlled. Hunters and Mages are great at dealing with Blood Beasts with
Frost Trap
and
Frost Nova
. Paladins should always have
Hammer of Justice
available as well.
Melee DPS be careful using AoE abilities such as
Divine Storm
if Blood Beasts are about to spawn to prevent pulling aggro on them.

Festergut

Festergut enrages after 5 minutes.
Heal raid wide damage caused by
Gaseous Blight
.
Ranged stay spread out to avoid multiple players being hit by
Vile Gas
.
Tanks will receive a stacking debuff called
Gastric Bloat
. They must
Taunt
off each other when at 9 stacks to prevent exploding and wiping the raid.
Heroic Only - Professor Putricide will periodically toss
Malleable Goo
at random players from the balcony, these must be dodged.
Throughout the fight, Festergut will cast
Inhale Blight
, which also reduces the damage dealt by
Gaseous Blight
.
This means that that raid wide damage will decrease, but Tank damage will increase substantially after each
Inhale Blight
cast.
Throughout the fight, 3 random players (2 in 10 man) will be inflicted with
Gas Spore
, which will detonate after 12 seconds.
Everyone in the raid must stack up on one of the players with
Gas Spore
, so they can receive a stacking buff to prevent being killed by
Pungent Blight
, then spread back out.
About 20 seconds after Festergut uses
Inhale Blight
for the third time, he will cast
Pungent Blight
which will remove your buff stacks, remove Festergut's stacking damage buff, and release
Gaseous Blight
back into the room.

Notes

Heroic Only -
Malleable Goo
might be casted when you are stacking up for the
Gas Spore
explosion, so react accordingly.
Paladin Tanks can remove
Gastric Bloat
with
Divine Shield
.
Mages and Shadow Priests can use
Ice Block
and
Dispersion
to survive damage caused by
Pungent Blight
, so they can ignore stacking for
Gas Spore
.

Rotface

Summary

Heroic Only - Professor Putricide will periodically cast
Vile Gas
at random ranged players from the balcony, so stay spread out just like on the Festergut fight.
Avoid
Slime Spray
.
Throughout the fight, an outer quarter of the room will be covered by
Ooze Flood
. Each quarter will be covered at least once before repeating.
Throughout the fight, players will be randomly inflicted with
Mutated Infection
, which will spawn a Small Ooze when Cleansed or when the debuff runs out.
Two Small Oozes will merge into a Big Ooze, and a Big Ooze will gain a stacking damage buff when it merges with a Small Ooze.
Once a Big Ooze merges with a Small Ooze 5 times, it will use
Unstable Ooze Explosion
and kill itself.
The Off Tank will tank the first two Small Oozes before they merge, they will then will kite the Big Ooze around the outer edge of the room.
Players who get inflicted with
Mutated Infection
must run in front of the Off Tank's path, so when they get Cleansed, the Big Ooze will run into the Small Ooze and merge.

Notes

Be careful not to accidentally merge two Small Oozes when you already have a Big Ooze alive.
The Off Tank can run through
Ooze Flood
while kiting, Paladins can use
Hand of Freedom
to help out.

Professor Putricide

All Phases

Heroic Only - Professor Putricide will cast
Unbound Plague
on a random player.
Heroic Only - After taking a few ticks from the debuff, pass it onto another player who doesn't have the
Plague Sickness
debuff.

Phase 1

Off Tank should click the table to gain control of Mutated Abomination.
Use
Eat Ooze
to consume
Mutated Slime
puddles on the ground.
Professor Putricide will alternate spawning a Volatile Ooze from the Green Tank, and a Gas Cloud from the Orange Tank.
Volatile Ooze will always be the first one to spawn, so start the fight with Professor Putricide tanked near the Orange Tank.
Volatile Ooze will cast
Volatile Ooze Adhesive
on a random player when it spawns, and must be killed before it reaches that player or else it will explode.
The Off Tank controlling Mutated Abomination should use
Regurgitated Ooze
to slow it down.
After killing the Volatile Ooze, the whole raid should move towards the Green Tank, as a Gas Cloud will shortly spawn from the Orange Tank.
The Gas Cloud will put
Gaseous Bloat
on a random player that starts at 10 stacks, and automatically remove 1 stack every 2 seconds.
If the Gas Cloud reaches the player, it will deal increased damage based on the number of
Gaseous Bloat
stacks, so kill it before it reaches that player.
The Off Tank controlling Mutated Abomination should use
Regurgitated Ooze
to slow it down.

Phase 2

Starts at 80% Health.
Heroic Only - Professor Putricide will inflict half the raid with
Ooze Variable
and the other half with
Gas Variable
and spawns a Volatile Ooze and a Gas Cloud.
Heroic Only - The Off Tank controlling Mutated Abomination will only be able to slow one of the adds, so kite effectively and DPS whichever add your debuff allows you to.
This phase is the same as Phase 1, with two additional abilities
Choking Gas Bomb
and
Malleable Goo
.
Move away from
Choking Gas Bomb
before they explode.
Ranged players dodge
Malleable Goo
.

Phase 3

Starts at 35% Health.
Just like Phase 2, Professor Putricide will inflict half the raid with
Ooze Variable
and the other half with
Gas Variable
and spawns a Volatile Ooze and a Gas Cloud.
Adds will stop spawning, but
Choking Gas Bomb
and
Malleable Goo
will continue to be casted.
Kill any remaining adds from the previous phase.
The Mutated Abomination will despawn, and the Off Tank must help tank Professor Putricide to deal with
Mutated Plague
.
This means
Mutated Slime
will no longer be getting consumed, and will slowly fill the entire room.
Three Tanks are recommended for this to manage the stacks of
Mutated Plague
, since each stack will do increasing raid wide damage, so
Taunt
off each other each stack.

Blood Prince Council

Summary

Only one Prince can be damaged at a time because of
Invocation of Blood
. This will also give that Prince access to an empowered version of one of their spells.
Invocation of Blood
switches every 30 seconds.
Valanar will always be the Prince with
Invocation of Blood
at the start of the fight.
Stay spread out to mitigate damage from Valanar's
Shock Vortex
.
For
Empowered Shock Vortex
, Melee run out and spread out when the cast begins.
Assign Ranged DPS to deal with Valanar's
Kinetic Bombs
to prevent them from hitting the ground.
Stay spread out to mitigate damage from Taldaram's
Glittering Sparks
.
If targeted by Taldaram's
Ball of Flames
, or
Empowered Ball of Flames
, run away from it.
While the player runs away, the rest of the raid should run with the
Ball of Flames
to drain its power before it reaches its target.
The third Prince Keleseth will cast
Shadow Lance
and will summon Dark Nucleus.
The Tank on Keleseth, which can be a Ranged Tank like a Warlock, needs to damage the Dark Nucleus to gain the buff
Shadow Resonance
.
Aim to have at least 3 stacks of
Shadow Resonance
to deal with
Empowered Shadow Lance
.
Heroic Only - Limit movement as much as possible to deal with
Shadow Prison
.

Blood-Queen Lana'thel

Summary

Two Tanks are needed to deal with
Blood Mirror
.
Healers watch out for
Delirious Slash
on the Tank.
Blood-Queen has an aura called
Shroud of Sorrow
that deals raid wide damage the entire encounter.
Heroic Only -
Shroud of Sorrow
damage will increase with each player who has the
Essence of the Blood Queen
buff.
Ranged stay spread out in a semi-circle to deal with
Twilight Bloodbolt
, but try to leave an opening in the center of the room to deal
Pact of the Darkfallen
. Linked players run to the center of the room to remove the debuff.
Run away if targeted by
Swarming Shadows
, it will follow you until the debuff expires.
Every 2 minutes, Blood-Queen will fly into the air and use
Incite Terror
and cast
Bloodbolt Whirl
on the entire raid.
Spread out as quickly as possible once the fear from
Incite Terror
finishes.
15 Seconds after the start of the fight, Blood-Queen will use
Vampiric Bite
on the highest threat player besides the Tank.
This player will gain the buff
Essence of the Blood Queen
for 60 seconds.
After 60 seconds, your Action Bars will change, and you must use
Vampiric Bite
on another player to prevent being Mind Controlled within 10 seconds.
Every 60 seconds for the rest of the fight, players with the
Essence of the Blood Queen
will need to use
Vampiric Bite
on a player who hasn't been bitten yet.
Blood-Queen has a 5:30 minute enrage timer. Assuming everyone is using
Vampiric Bite
as quickly as they can, you should have 16 DPS with
Essence of the Blood Queen
around the 4:30 mark.
This will be the best time to use
Bloodlust
.

Notes

Priests can use
Fear Ward
and Shamans can use
Tremor Totem
to mitigate fear from
Incite Terror
.

Valithria Dreamwalker

Summary

Valithria must be healed to 100% HP to end the encounter.
Heroic Only - Her health decays over time.
Assign healers to heal Valithria and healers to heal the raid.
AoE the Archmages who surround Valithria.
Every 30 seconds,
Nightmare Portals
will spawn. They will look like red orbs (green on normal) on the ground before they become active.
The healers assigned to Valithria must enter the portals and touch orbs, which will grant them
Emerald Vigor
.
Heroic Only - These orbs will apply a DoT, and these orbs do not respawn which means you need to leave orbs up for future
Nightmare Portals
to maintain your stacks of
Emerald Vigor
.
It's imperative healers assigned to Valithria maintain their stacks throughout the fight.
For dealing with the adds that spawn, split the raid into two groups for the left and the right side of the room.
Kill Blazing Skeletons as quickly as possible because of their
Lay Waste
ability.
Suppressers will channel
Suppression
on Valithria.
Risen Archmages will cast
Column of Frost
,
Frostbolt Volley
, and
Mana Void
.
Interrupt
Frostbolt Volley
.
Heroic Only -
Frostbolt Volley
drains 2,000 Mana.
A Ranged DPS can kite the Zombies. They will cast
Corrosion
and use
Acid Burst
.
Have your Tanks pick up the Abominations. They will cast
Gut Spray
which is a cleansable Disease, and spawn Rot Worms when they die.

Notes

Hunters and Mages are great at dealing with Zombies with
Frost Trap
and
Frost Nova
.

Sindragosa

Ground Phase

Face Sindragosa away from the raid because of
Frost Breath
.
The raid should stand on the sides of her to avoid her
Tail Smash
.
Heal raid wide damage caused by
Frost Aura
.
Tanks, and Physical DPS will need to watch their
Permeating Chill
debuff stacks.
Casters will need to deal with the
Unchained Magic
debuff, which will apply stacks of the
Instability
debuff.
Heroic Only -
Instability
damage is noe AoE instead of single target.
Throughout this phase, Sindragosa will cast
Icy Grip
, and then begin to cast
Blistering Cold
. You must run away from her to avoid being hit by it.

Air Phase

Occurs about every 2 minutes.
Sindragosa will mark 6 players (2 in 10 man) with
Frost Beacon
.
These players must not be near anyone when they become an
Ice Tomb
.
Sindragosa will then cast
Frost Bomb
4 times at random locations that must be avoided by standing behind an
Ice Tomb
.
During this time, the raid should be damaging each
Ice Tomb
so they are quickly broken after the 4th
Frost Bomb
is casted because the players inside will start to suffer from
Asphyxiation
.

Phase 3

Starts at 35% HP.
Sindragosa will use all of her abilities from her Ground Phase and will no longer go into her Air Phase.
She stops casting
Frost Bomb
, but will still cast
Frost Beacon
and
Ice Tomb
.
Standing behind an
Ice Tomb
will be required to deal with her new ability in this phase
Mystic Buffet
to limit stacks getting too high.

Notes

Paladins can use
Frost Resistance Aura
and Shamans can use
Frost Resistance Totem
.

The Lich King

Phase 1

Tank the The Lich King near the edge of the platform, or make sure he's there before he transitions into the next phase.
Healers top off targets inflicted with
Infest
.
Heroic Only - Stay spread out to help deal with
Shadow Trap
. Move away when targeted with it.
Drudge Ghouls will die to passive cleave.
Shambling Horror must be tanked away and faced away from the raid because of
Shockwave
. They are stunnable.
They will
Enrage
which can be removed by Hunter
Tranquilizing Shot
.
Shambling Horrors will
Frenzy
at 20% health.
All DPS will focus on The Lich King, the Shambling Horrors will be killed by
Necrotic Plague
.
Every 15 seconds,
Necrotic Plague
will be applied to a random player. This player must run near a Shambling Horror and get Cleansed, so the debuff will go on to them.
Every time
Necrotic Plague
bounces, The Lich King will gain a stacking buff called
Plague Siphon
.

Phase 1.5

Starts at 70% Health.
The player who gets
Necrotic Plague
during the transition must move away from the raid and get Cleansed.
The Lich King will run to the center of the room and cast
Remorseless Winter
. Get to the edge of the platform to avoid it.
Stay spread out to mitigate damage from
Pain and Suffering
.
Ranged DPS kill Ice Spheres before they reach the raid or else they will cast
Ice Burst
.
Tanks pick up Raging Spirits that spawn from players and face them away from the raid because of their
Soul Shriek
.
Raging Spirits get summoned every 20 seconds. After the third one, The Lich King will cast
Quake
.
The raid must move away from the edge of the platform.

Phase 2

The Lich King will continue to cast
Infest
from Phase 1.
Run to the center of the room and finish killing any remaining Raging Spirits.
Two Val'kyr will pick up two random players and attempt to drop them off the edge of the platform.
DPS them to 50% (need to kill on normal) health so they drop the player.
Heroic Only - They will then begin to cast
Life Siphon
in the air. Tanks should
Taunt
them.
The other ability the raid will need to deal with is
Defile
, which requires you to stay spread out to avoid it growing. Try to drop
Defile
outside the inner circle if you can.
This means you will be stacking as best you can in the center of the room before a Val'kyr, and spreading out as best you can in the center of the room before Defile gets casted.
Rotate raid cooldowns on the Tank when The Lich King uses
Soul Reaper
.

Phase 2.5

Same as Phase 1.5, but Raging Spirits spawn every 15 seconds.
This phase will last 1 minute.

Phase 3

The Lich King will continue to cast
Defile
and
Soul Reaper
from Phase 2.
Kill any remaining Raging Spirits.
Heroic Only - At the start of the phase, and about every 1:45 afterwards, The Lich King will cast
Harvest Souls
and teleport everyone to a new room.
Normal Only - The Lich King will cast
Harvest Soul
, and only teleport one person instead of the whole raid.
Ranged DPS kill the Wicked Spirits in the air, and everyone needs to dodge the bombs they drop after they die.
If anyone dies in here, the The Lich King will gain a stacking buff called
Harvested Soul
.
You will be teleported back to the main platform in 40 seconds.
Immediately spread out since
Defile
will be casted as soon as you return.
Every 30 seconds, 10 Vile Spirits will spawn that can be killed by AoE, or be soaked by Off Tank since they explode on contact.
The Lich King will enrage after 15 minutes.
The fight is over once he reaches 10% HP.

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