Lady Deathwhisper Boss Strategy Guide

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The second boss in the first wing of the Icecrown Citadel dungeon is Lady Deathwhisper. This is a bloody battle because she spawns more adds about once a minute. Tanks also won’t do much good against Lady Deathwhisper.

Lady Deathwhisper stats:

• HP – 3,000,000 – 13,400,000
• Mana – 3,300,000 – 14,000,000
  

Lady Deathwhisper Boss Abilities

Mana Barrier

• Automatically replenishes Lady Deathwhisper’s health, taking from her mana to do so

Animate Dead

• Reanimates cult adherent or cult fanatic
• Usually raises three of each kind once per minute

Death and Decay

• 4,500-6,000 damage per second
• Shadow damage
• Lasts 10 seconds
• 8 yard radius
• Instant cast

Dominate Mind

• Cast in 25-player mode only
• Increases damage by 200 percent
• Increases healing by 500 percent
• Instant cast

Dark Empowerment

• Grants AoE damage abilities to cult adherents raised by Lady Deathwhisper.
• Makes you unable to interrupt spellcasting by adherents

Dark Transformation

• Transforms cult fanatic into a behemoth
• Increases cult fanatic’s size and damage dealt

Shadow Bolt

• 11,813 – 13,187 damage
• Shadow damage
• 100 yard range

Adherents

• Adherent’s Determination: a buff which makes them almost impervious to magic damage
• Curse of Torpor: Increases ability cooldowns by 15 seconds
• Shroud of the Occult: Absorbs 100,000 damage
• Deathchill Bolt: 8,788 – 13,437 shadowfrost damage
• Frost Fever: Frost damage done every 3 seconds; reduces attack speed by 14 percent
• Deathchill Blast: 11,563 – 13,437 shadowfrost damage
• Dark Martyrdom: 12,000 shadowstorm damage

Fanatics

• Fanatic’s Determination: a buff which makes them almost impervious to physical damage
• Vampiric Might: Increases damage dealt by 25 percent and heals 300 percent of his damage dealt
• Necrotic Strike: 70 percent weapon damage; negates the next 14,000 – 20,000 healing received
• Shadow Cleave: 15,913 – 21,000 shadow damage
• Dark Martyrdom: 12,000 shadowstorm damage

Frostbolt

• 50,700 – 61,000 damage
• Frost damage
• Cuts movement speed in half
• 2 second cast

Frostbolt Volley

• 14,400 – 17,600 damage
• Frost damage
• Reduces movement speed
• Instant cast

Summon Vengeful Shade

• Creates an add that chases a party member and casts Vengeful Blast on them
• Vengeful Blast: 23,160 – 24.840 frost damage

Touch of Insignificance

• Reduces threat by 20 percent
• Stacks up to 5 times

Lady Deathwhisper Boss Strategy Guide

1. Your tanks automatically become extra DPS players for this encounter due to Mana Shield.  Split your party into two groups: ranged DPS and melee DPS.  Ranged DPS should focus on Lady Deathwhisper, while melee DPS will run around the room and take care of the many adds she spawns constantly.
2. Lady Deathwhisper spawns a new round of adds every 60 seconds, on alternating sides of the room, so melee DPS should clean up one side before heading over to the other side to work on the next set.  All physical damage melee DPS should focus on the adherents, while magic damage melee takes out the fanatics.  Watch out for the adds to explode from time to time, dealing a lot of damage.
3. Lady Deathwhisper periodically casts Death and Decay on a party member.  It shows up as a huge green circle on the floor.  Make sure you run out of it as soon as it’s cast to avoid the damage from it.
4. If you’re playing in the 25-player mode, Lady Deathwhisper will take over control of one (or three in heroic mode) of your party members at any given time.  Use your crowd control tactics on any players under the spell of Dominate Mind.
5. Phase two of the battle against Lady Deathwhisper begins after you’ve knocked down her Mana Shield.  Tanks head back into a traditional tanking role.  They’ll need to use all powers to hold aggro on Lady Deathwhisper at this point because of her ability Touch of Insignificance.
6. Party members who can interrupt spellcasting should keep interrupting her Frostbolts because they do a lot of damage.
7. Lady Deathwhisper’s adds during phase two are ghosts which chase party members and kill them, so avoid them completely.  Just run away when one gets near you.