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Nefarian

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FIGHT OVERVIEW
  • This fight has 3 phases. In the first phase, you fight Onyxia, and Nefarian joins the battle 30s later.

  • The 2nd phase starts when Onyxia is defeated. The room fills with lava, so split your raid evenly among the 3 safe platforms.

  • The final phase begins after 3min in phase 2 or once the adds are dead.

  • The final phase is similar to the first one, but without Onyxia.

Heroic Changes
  • During phase 1 and 3, Nefarian mind controls several players, they are killed if they reach the portal.

  • In phase 2, Nefarian debuffs random players, causing a knockback effect on nearby players when the debuff expires.

  • In heroic, the damage from Electrocute will require a careful planning of defensive cooldown.

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Phase 1

You start the encounter fighting Onyxia, with Nefarian joining 30 seconds later.


Both drakes breathe on their target and sweep players behind them.


Tank Onyxia and Nefarian away from each other if you can't handle their proximity buff.


Adds spawn around the room, they need to be kited away from both drakes.


Onyxia passively gains energy and even more at each time Nefarian casts Electrocute.


If Onyxia reaches full energy, she wipes the raid, so try to lower Nefarian's health as much as possible before that happens.

TANK

FACE THE BOSS AWAY

FROM THE RAID

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Shadowflame Breath
Frontal Cone

Both Nefarian and Onyxia unleash a frontal cone breath that damages all players hit.


Additionally, it fully recharges the energy of the adds if they are hit, delaying their death.


Ensure that no one is caught in the breath.

TANK

ROTATE ONYXIA

BEFORE THE CAST

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Lightning Discharge
AoE Damage

Every 25s or so, Onyxia discharges energy from her sides dealing massive damage to all players within 60yds.


Before this happens, the tank must rotate the boss to protect the raid standing on her flanks.

TANK

PICK UP AND

KITE THE ADDS

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Hail of Bones
Adds

Before Nefarian lands, he launches several Animated Bone Warriors randomly in the room.


These damage all players within their landing area. The adds must be kited and managed properly.


They start with full energy that decreases over time. When it reaches zero, they collapse and deactivate, so there's no need to focus them.


If hit by Onyxia's or Nefarian's breath, they fully recharge their energy, which must be avoided through proper positioning.


They gain a stacking buff every time they hit a player, so use CC on them!

EVERYONE

USE DEFENSIVE

TO SURVIVE

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Electrocute
Raid Damage

Every time Nefarian loses 10% health, he electrocutes the entire raid, dealing massive damage.


This can easily kill players, so plan carefully when to trigger this ability and coordinate with defensive cooldowns!


It also increases Onyxia energy by 25%.

EVERYONE

TAKE THE MAXIMUM

BUFF POSSIBLE BEFORE

REACHING THE PORTAL

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Dominion
Mind Control

Nefarian mind controls a random player, who then walks toward a nearby portal. Reaching the portal kills the player.


While mind-controlled, they gain two abilities: Free Your Mind, which breaks the mind control, and Stolen Power, which increases damage and healing by 4% per stack, up to 450% for 15s.


Stolen Power is spammable. The goal is to stay mind-controlled long enough to gain many stacks, then use Free Your Mind right before reaching the portal.

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Tail Lash
Stun

Both Nefarian and Onyxia sweep all players behind them, inflicting damage and stunning them for 2s.

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Electrical Overload
One-Shot Mechanic

If Onyxia reaches full energy, she deals lethal damage to the entire raid.

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Children of Deathwing
Tank Mechanic

Nefarian and Onyxia attack 100% faster if they are within 50 yards of eachother.

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Tail Lash
Stun

Both Nefarian and Onyxia sweep all players behind them, inflicting damage and stunning them for 2s.

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Children of Deathwing
Tank Mechanic

Nefarian and Onyxia attack 100% faster if they are within 50 yards of eachother.

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Electrical Overload
One-Shot Mechanic

If Onyxia reaches full energy, she deals lethal damage to the entire raid.

Phase 3

Phase 3 begins after 3 minutes or once the adds are dead.


This phase is similar to the first phase, but the adds cannot deactivate as Nefarian constantly refills their energy.


It's crucial to lower Nefarian's health in the first phase to defeat him before your off-tank gets overwhelmed by the adds.

EVERYONE

FACE THE BOSS AWAY

FROM THE RAID

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Shadowflame Breath
Frontal Cone

Nefarian unleash a frontal cone breath that damages all players hit.


Additionally, it fully recharges the energy of the adds if they are hit, delaying their death.


Ensure that no one is caught in the breath.

EVERYONE

USE DEFENSIVE

TO SURVIVE

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Electrocute
Raid Damage

Every time Nefarian loses 10% health, he electrocutes the entire raid, dealing massive damage.


This can easily kill players, so plan carefully when to trigger this ability and coordinate with defensive cooldowns!

EVERYONE

KITE THE ADDS AND

STAY OUT OF THE FIRE

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Shadowblaze Spark
Ground Effect

Nefarian resurrects all the adds from the first phase.


He launches a spark that creates growing patches of fire, refilling the energy of the adds.


Since they can't die anymore, they must be kited and crowd-controlled until the end of the encounter.


Defeat Nefarian before your tank is overwhelmed by their stacking buff!

EVERYONE

TAKE THE MAXIMUM

BUFF POSSIBLE BEFORE

REACHING THE PORTAL

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Dominion
Mind Control

Nefarian mind controls a random player, who then walks toward a nearby portal. Reaching the portal kills the player.


While mind-controlled, they gain two abilities: Free Your Mind, which breaks the mind control, and Stolen Power, which increases damage and healing by 4% per stack, up to 450% for 15s.


Stolen Power is spammable. The goal is to stay mind-controlled long enough to gain many stacks, then use Free Your Mind right before reaching the portal.

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Tail Lash
Stun

Both Nefarian and Onyxia sweep all players behind them, inflicting damage and stunning them for 2s.

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Tail Lash
Stun

Both Nefarian and Onyxia sweep all players behind them, inflicting damage and stunning them for 2s.

Phase 2

Phase 2 begins when Onyxia is defeated. Nefarian flies off, and the room fills with lava, leaving 3 platforms emerged.


An add spawns on each platform, split your raid evenly to deal with them.


They cast an interruptible raid-wide damaging ability that must be kicked!

EVERYONE

SWIM TO A PLATFORM

AND KICK THE ADD

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Blast Nova
Interrupt

As the room fills with lava, an add spawns on each platform.


Split your raid evenly to deal with the adds.


Set up an interrupt order to stop every cast.

IF TARGETED

JUMP OF THE PLATFORM

BEFORE DEBUFF EXPIRES

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Explosive Cinders
Knockback

Throughout the phase, Nefarian targets random players with a debuff that deals fire damage and knocks everyone back upon expiration.


Jump into the lava to avoid knocking back your allies!

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Shadowflame Barrage
Raid Damage

While flying, Nefarian deals damage to random players throughout the phase.

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Shadowflame Barrage
Raid Damage

While flying, Nefarian deals damage to random players throughout the phase.

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- Shadowflame Breath
- Tail Slash
- Dominion
- Explosive Cinders
- Blast Nova