Hello,

We killed faerlina some days ago for our first time and came up with a interesting strategy i want to share.

We offtanked the both charge guys the whole fight back in the room with only one warrior while zerging faerlina to nuts.

We silenced her right from the start and then another silence right after first enrage. Some normal nature prot potions can really help for the poison nova.
We used her other two adds for the next minute to get her out of enrage and killed her in ~2:50 i think.

A big point is that when you silence her while not enraged, the enrage will be delayed by ~30 seconds only, not 60.

Timeline (time in seconds):
0 - Fight starts
10 - first silence
~60 - second silence after first enrage
90 - third silence
~ 120 - fourth silence after second enrage
now you have 60seconds + maybe shieldwall to kill her

DPS has to do a lot of running cause the silence only stops the poison nova.
We only got 4 pallies and 4 dudus that day so dispell would have been very hard without help.

Whats your strategy? We had a hard time dispelling the poison, any tipps?

wbr,
zork

I'd agree, i dont really see what this thread is going to bring in thats new. Havent we had like 2 threads on this already, when she was first being worked on?

edit- that being said, we silence early on all enrages and just nuke her down. You'll probably struggle to kill her that fast with everyone in t2 though.

wbr,
zork.

Faerlina's well trodden, in every sense.

I'd hate to say what we did...but I will give you the same rundown I gave our raid.

Ok, I want the tanks to tank stuff, healers, heal people, no one dies. Druids, decurse and battlerez.

Dps, I want you to DPS her until she dies from it. Any questions?

And uh, then she died.

Yeah, even though the theoretical limit of the fight is 5 minutes, doing it that way is frought with danger. Guilds who are here are probably also looking at Noth and not terribly far from Patchwerk, so you should work a strategy that counts on higher total DPS. 4 minutes at most, really, and if you can get it down to 3:30, you can pop the early Worshipper right at the pull to help lock things down.

does everyone kill the two worshippers to start or warrior offtanks? I thought the worshippers bounce around and drop aggro, so how does a warr tank them? We kill the worshippers to start, i guess it would be nice to save the ~15-20 secs if we could just offtank them.

We offtank them with one def warrior and start damage at Faerlina 5 seconds after MT enters combat.
Thats what i meant, there are different ways to do stuff and some of you may do strats that sound crazy but work out perfectly.

As a casual raid ally we are not able to pot like hell so we need to find alternative strats that fit our needs, like we always do.

Faerlina does massive damage, we found it better to get rid of her as fast as we can. But that depends on the raid.

Zork, one offtank can tank both of them? Do they drop aggro at all? Where does he tank them in relation to the casters?

We are in a similar boat, only in Naxx two days a week (8 hours total), and looking for ways to improve kill times. We've killed Faerlina twice, spent 8 hours on Maexxna and are probably switching to Noth.

I really don't see why you'd ever not want to kill the followers first. You could try to offtank them, but there's no reason not to kill them first and give your tank a massive threat headstart over any of the other DPSers. After the followers die, the only thing I've ever seen pull Faerlina was ignite chains.

It's been a while since i actually healed on Faerlina, because of our normal MCer missing the early parts of some raids i've been doing it the last month or so. But when we were learning it (a week after naxx came out, i know it's been patched since then, but i dont know if this has been effected) the majority of the dmg from the poison was the initial dmg, so we wouldn't worry that much about cleansing it, one Gheal or equivilant would cover the person, and was probably quicker, because you have to heal the person even after you cleanse them.

And yeah, we kill the followers first, blow the first MC while the dps is running into Faerlina for the first time. I'm pretty sure we dont pot for it, only person who might want to is the MCing priest with a fire pot (i dont, just stack FR gear and pre-shield before MCing), other than that, following the OPs description of MCing, you wont take many poison volleys until the last half a minute, where there is only one tank and the healing is a breeze.

5second is enough if your MT is good.
Well i dont know if your 2. MT can handle both adds...just give it a try, the charge does not reset aggro. Both adds come back after the charge, just have 2 hunters pull them to the 2. MT.
Hmm the point with the poison nova is interesting, can anyone link the spell?