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Instead of hanging left up the stairs at the entrance, you will hang right after going up the stairs to get to Maiden. There are alternate routes to get to Moroes/Maiden, but this seems to be the most efficient since you are clearing some mobs used to go in both directions. The first several pulls will be the same groups of mobs that have been fought by reaching Moroes. Continue to clear non-elite mobs around the edges of the room to the right until you reach the door that has an usher guarding it. Step through the doorway and move up the flight of stairs where more non-elite groups are awaiting your raid. There are a few more patrols around here that will be needed for clearing on top of the non-elite groups before the raid will be able to progress safely beyond the next doorway on the right. As you clear down the hallway, make sure your raid hangs to the right wall so that you do not aggro a nearby room full of elites. One of the nearby room holds an item for part of the kara chain quest, but it is advised to get this on a subsequent trip to karazhan when the mobs have despawned due to Maiden's death.
After passing through this doorway there are a new set of mobs to contend with in a single hallway that leads to Maiden. The mobs consist of guards, casters and concubines. There are two patrols that should be taken out before the raid starts pulling groups of mobs, and both patrols will eventually make their way down to the raid if you wait at the end of the hall.
Guards
Difficulty: 2 elites, moderate damage.
Special Abilities: melee, summons hunter dogs.
Strategy: Shackle/cc one of the guards and keep an eye out for the wolves/dogs that spawn as you are fighting them. They hit for a considerable amount of damage to your cloth wearers but not to an extent where anyone should be killed before the beast is picked up. Switch dps over to the dog, take it down and then get back on the guards.
Casters
Difficulty: 1-3 elites, moderate damage.
Special Abilities: shadow bolts, corruption.
Strategy: Straight forward assault on the elite casters will be sufficient.
Concubines
Difficulty: 1 elite, moderate damage (banishable; demon)
Special Abilities: mass seduce; switch aggro.
Strategy: If you have a warlock in the raid, then it is simple enough to keep her banished for the fight until you are ready to pick her off, otherwise you could just as easily take her out as your first target. At some point when her health is around 20-30%, she will turn into a succubus and mass charm individuals around her. At this point in time she will most likely go after a ranged dps class.
Maiden of Virtue::
Do not approach the center of the room, where you will aggro Maiden. You can however move around the edges of this room in order to surround her, and this is what your raid should accomplish. There should be even spacing around her in a circle throughout the room, with priests/paladins spaced out somewhat evenly to dispell holy fires during the battle. Usually groups of 2 people in between pillars will work out just fine. The reason for this spacing is to reduce the damage of one of her attacks that will bounce to nearby party members.
Maiden will be tanked in the center of the room, right in the middle of that circle where she is currently awaiting your action. When the tank rushes in to confront her, the remainder of the raid will move in close enough to that center circle to receive heals and dispells from nearby allies. Casters and dps must be close enough to receive these and far enough away from her consecrates that she will cast on the ground. The consecrate will silence your for a short amount of time if you find yourself stuck inside of it.
Maiden will occassionally cast holy fire on a random party member in the raid, which must be dispelled immediately, since the dot on the holy fire ticks for an extreme amount of damage. One it is dispelled you should heal that party member back to full health.
It is customary for individuals to state that this fight cannot be done without a paladin due to another ability explained below but this is not the case at all. While the paladin will aid in this portion of the fight there are alternate ways to accommidate.
Once every thirty seconds or so, Maiden will use a mass repentance on the raid. This will stun anyone who is not taking damage for approximately 8 seconds or so. During this time the tank will not be receiving heals unless one of the healers can break free from the repentance.
1. If there is a paladin in the raid, they can keep a 'blessing of sacrifice' up on the main tank which will immediately break them free from the stun due to the tank being struck.
2. Another option is to have one of your healers step into the consecrate after 20 seconds or so while waiting for the repentance to go off, then immediately back out of the consecrate to keep heals going on your tank. NOTE: If by chance you miss the repentance your tank should be aware enough to back up a few steps from the circle towards your healer to awaken your sleeping/stunned healer(s).
Getting this repentance phase down is the key and then Maiden of Virtue will be another farmable boss within the instance.
How to video for reference:
Maiden of Virtue: How to fight.
Instead of hanging left up the stairs at the entrance, you will hang right after going up the stairs to get to Maiden. There are alternate routes to get to Moroes/Maiden, but this seems to be the most efficient since you are clearing some mobs used to go in both directions. The first several pulls will be the same groups of mobs that have been fought by reaching Moroes. Continue to clear non-elite mobs around the edges of the room to the right until you reach the door that has an usher guarding it. Step through the doorway and move up the flight of stairs where more non-elite groups are awaiting your raid. There are a few more patrols around here that will be needed for clearing on top of the non-elite groups before the raid will be able to progress safely beyond the next doorway on the right. As you clear down the hallway, make sure your raid hangs to the right wall so that you do not aggro a nearby room full of elites. One of the nearby room holds an item for part of the kara chain quest, but it is advised to get this on a subsequent trip to karazhan when the mobs have despawned due to Maiden's death.
After passing through this doorway there are a new set of mobs to contend with in a single hallway that leads to Maiden. The mobs consist of guards, casters and concubines. There are two patrols that should be taken out before the raid starts pulling groups of mobs, and both patrols will eventually make their way down to the raid if you wait at the end of the hall.
Guards
Difficulty: 2 elites, moderate damage.
Special Abilities: melee, summons hunter dogs.
Strategy: Shackle/cc one of the guards and keep an eye out for the wolves/dogs that spawn as you are fighting them. They hit for a considerable amount of damage to your cloth wearers but not to an extent where anyone should be killed before the beast is picked up. Switch dps over to the dog, take it down and then get back on the guards.
Casters
Difficulty: 1-3 elites, moderate damage.
Special Abilities: shadow bolts, corruption.
Strategy: Straight forward assault on the elite casters will be sufficient.
Concubines
Difficulty: 1 elite, moderate damage (banishable; demon)
Special Abilities: mass seduce; switch aggro.
Strategy: If you have a warlock in the raid, then it is simple enough to keep her banished for the fight until you are ready to pick her off, otherwise you could just as easily take her out as your first target. At some point when her health is around 20-30%, she will turn into a succubus and mass charm individuals around her. At this point in time she will most likely go after a ranged dps class.
Maiden of Virtue::
Do not approach the center of the room, where you will aggro Maiden. You can however move around the edges of this room in order to surround her, and this is what your raid should accomplish. There should be even spacing around her in a circle throughout the room, with priests/paladins spaced out somewhat evenly to dispell holy fires during the battle. Usually groups of 2 people in between pillars will work out just fine. The reason for this spacing is to reduce the damage of one of her attacks that will bounce to nearby party members.
Maiden will be tanked in the center of the room, right in the middle of that circle where she is currently awaiting your action. When the tank rushes in to confront her, the remainder of the raid will move in close enough to that center circle to receive heals and dispells from nearby allies. Casters and dps must be close enough to receive these and far enough away from her consecrates that she will cast on the ground. The consecrate will silence your for a short amount of time if you find yourself stuck inside of it.
Maiden will occassionally cast holy fire on a random party member in the raid, which must be dispelled immediately, since the dot on the holy fire ticks for an extreme amount of damage. One it is dispelled you should heal that party member back to full health.
It is customary for individuals to state that this fight cannot be done without a paladin due to another ability explained below but this is not the case at all. While the paladin will aid in this portion of the fight there are alternate ways to accommidate.
Once every thirty seconds or so, Maiden will use a mass repentance on the raid. This will stun anyone who is not taking damage for approximately 8 seconds or so. During this time the tank will not be receiving heals unless one of the healers can break free from the repentance.
1. If there is a paladin in the raid, they can keep a 'blessing of sacrifice' up on the main tank which will immediately break them free from the stun due to the tank being struck.
2. Another option is to have one of your healers step into the consecrate after 20 seconds or so while waiting for the repentance to go off, then immediately back out of the consecrate to keep heals going on your tank. NOTE: If by chance you miss the repentance your tank should be aware enough to back up a few steps from the circle towards your healer to awaken your sleeping/stunned healer(s).
Getting this repentance phase down is the key and then Maiden of Virtue will be another farmable boss within the instance.
How to video for reference:
Maiden of Virtue: How to fight.
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