World of Warcraft Raid Info

The Maiden of Virtue is the Second Boss in Kara. She is one of the easier bosses to take down in Karazhan, but do not underestimate her, she causes a lot of AoE damage!

The Maiden of Virtue (Maiden) has around 420,000 health, so can be, infact, MUST be nuked down quickly. With correct postitioning the Maiden boss can be defeated very easily, if everyone is put into the right places this boss is a simple tank and spank, but anyone who can dispell must keep an eye out for Maidens Holy Fire, which can cause some pretty nasty damage if not removed instantly.

But lets get down to basics, what will the Maiden do to you?

• Melee: on 14k armor: is around 2500–3500 every 1.8 sec, 4000-4800 crushing. This is not too bad and can usually be covered sufficiently by one healer. Other healers should however keep up all their Heal over Time (HoT) spells to help mitigate crushing blows and keep the tank alive during repentance
• Immune to Taunt: Watch your Agro DPS!
• Holy Ground: permanent 240–360 holy damage every 3 sec AoE 12 yards around her that also silences spell casters for 1 second.
• Holy Fire: 1 second cast, 3238–3762 fire damage up front and 1750 fire damage every 2 seconds for 12 seconds. The DoT is a Magic effect and MUST be dispelled.
• Holy Wrath: AoE chained holy damage that is cast instantly with a 20 second cooldown, it targets a random player but does not target or chain onto /off of pets.
• Repentance: Deals 1750–2250 holy damage and incapacitates the whole raid for 12 seconds with a thirty second cooldown. Dispellable only by Divine Shield and Ice Block, but broken by any damage taken. Does not hit the Maiden’s target. Repentance has a 0.5 second Cast Time.

What to Watch Out For – Why Maiden Wipes Your Raid

Maiden will wipe your raid for a few very simple reasons.

The most common reason for a wipe is repentance, this keeps your healers out of action for 12 seconds, there are several ways to avoid this. The easiest is simply to keep up all your HoTs on the main tank from the entire raid, any draenei in your raid who should take turns in casting their HoT.

If you have a DPS/Offtank druid in the group he will be stunned by repentance but the stun will be removed from Holy Ground, When this occurs they should move out of holy ground and start spamming hteir heals onto the tank – if he has low health throw a big heal on, high health throw a HoT then a big heal.

The second reason tends to revolve around Holy Fire. This spell causes a lot of single target damage and must be dispelled as soon as it occurs, as soon as he is healed top his health up and carry on. If you do not dispell or heal over this the affected player will usually die within 6 seconds.

This is possibly one of the shortest guides I have ever wrote, simply because the Maiden fight is so astoundingly simple, with only one phase and few actualy abilities Maiden is possibly one of the easiest bosses in Karazhan!

Positioning

Positioning is very important when defeating Maiden. This boss has a fairly hard to see constant AoE effect. It doesn’t cause much damage but th e silence can be very annoying for ranged raid group members. This can be avoided by tanking Maiden in the direct centre of the raised platform, her AoE ends just before the top of the platform.

Your Melee and tank should if possible all be on one group, this will allow for easy Circle of Healing management against the Bosses AoE effect, and save a lot of mana caused by over healing on this section.

Melee themselves should try and spraed out a little around the boss to avoid Holy Wrath, the ranged should spread out in a circle around the stairs of the platform. This can significantly reduce Holy Wrath damage, the healers however should keep in range of everyone to peform dispells, this is best doen with the 2 or 3 healers keeping as far away from each other as possibel, failure to do this can leave blind spots where a person effected with holy fire may die before coming into range of a healer.

Healers Advice

The best advice that can be given here is all healers keep up the HoTs on the tank, Keep the tank at full health and include a Circle of Healing Priest in the party.

Dispelling is priority, a single healer should be given the job of keeping the tanks health full HP.

DPS Advice

DPS Must keep agro under control, failure to do so usually means your healers are taken out of action by holy ground.

Other Advice

If your healers are all taken out by Repentance move maiden towards one of them, the holy ground will bring the healer out of repentance. Remember to move Maiden back to the center though!

DPSrs with healing ability shoudl do so during repentance

Paladins healer can use blessing of sacrifice on a melee palyer after teh repentance cool down to constantly take damage.

Palidins can use Divine Shield to remove repentance.

Shamans can use Grounding Totems to absorb Holy Fire

Holy Fire CAN be spell reflected!

Priests can avoid Repentance by casting Shadow Word: Death on Maiden during the 0.5 second casting time, this will bounce back after the stun and bring you back into action.

Mages should use dampen magic on all players except the tank, this will drastically reduce damage taken by players.