Grand Widow Faerlina Grand Widow Faerlina is the second boss of the Arachnid Quarter in Naxxramas . Commander Eligor Dawnbringer : " " The Grand Widow Faerlina , a botanist in life , breeder and caretaker of arachnids in death , she oversees the spider wing , developing the most potent of poisons for the Lich King . " " 25 - man Abilities . Grand Widow Faerlina . She has 6 , 760 , 000 hit points . Worshippers and Followers . There are 6 NPCs at the start of the fight , 4 Worshippers and 2 Followers . Worshippers . The Naxxramas Worshipper s will be off - tanked for most of the fight , and eventually sacrificed to Faerlina . When mind controlled , they have a Widow ' s Embrace ability which when cast NEAR Faerlina can prevent Frenzy as well as silence Faerlina ' s nature school for 30 seconds . Using Widow ' s Embrace AFTER Faerlina Frenzies locks her nature school for 60 seconds . Using this ability actually kills the Worshipper . Followers . There are two ways of dealing with the Followers : off - tank them the entire fight or kill them first . If they are to be killed first , then they need to die quickly ( around 30 seconds to bring both down ) . They do not hit particularly hard but will sometimes charge random people . In addition to that , they have an AoE silence , so try to have them tanked away from your caster classes . They are IMMUNE to silence . 10 - man Abilities . Grand Widow Faerlina . She has approximately 2 , 230 , 000 hit points . Worshippers . There are 4 " Naxxramas Worshipper " NPCs at the start of the fight . Worshippers . They will be off - tanked for most of the fight , and eventually sacrificed to Faerlina . When killed near Faerlina , they will remove and prevent Frenzy as well as silence Faerlina ' s nature school for 30 seconds . This fight cannot last more than 4 : 45 or so because there will be no way to prevent the Frenzy if all the adds are dead . It should be noted that in 10 - man , the Worshippers are immune to Mind Control , and must be DPSed down . This can be tricky if your off - tank is overzealous and brings one in particular down too fast . Predetermine a kill order for the worshippers ( raid marks work well ) , and bring one down to ~ 5 % , then kill it once Faerlina enrages . Strategy . 25 - man . Three tanks are ideal . One tank will pick up the Worshippers and offtank them near the priests in the raid . One will pick up the followers which will be focused down by the DPS classes . The Followers CANNOT be sheeped ( a difference from the 10 - man ) . The main tank will pick up Faerlina and drag her to the middle of the room where everyone will spread out around her . When the frenzy is about to come off cooldown a priest will mind control one of the Worshippers and move it near Faerlina then use Widow ' s Embrace when frenzy is cast . Aside from healing her AoE damage this is the entire fight from 100 % to 0 % . The priest will need to be quick as she hits extremely hard while frenzied and may kill the tank if there is any delay . 10 - man . Easier than 25man . You will need two tanks . One tank will pick up the worshippers and offtank them right under the stairs on the left side . Any tank class is good at tanking them , as long as they don ' t deal high loads of damage . The main tank will pick up Faerlina after the OT pulls the rest and drag her to the middle of the room where everyone will spread out around her . Every DPS should focus ONLY on Faerlina , ignoring the four adds till the enrage phase is near . The off - tank will pick all four adds , and start DPSing one of them : the one who must be killed in order to stop Faerlina ' s enrage . When the frenzy is about to come off cooldown ( 10 secs or so ) every DPS should stop all DPS and switch target to the worshipper marked to kill . Do not start attacking it , just target it and be in range for attacks . The main tank should go where the OT is , the closer the better , taking Faerlina with him . The Offtank should have lowered the worshipper ' s health to 15 % or less . When the enrage is up , all DPS should burst their CD to insta - kill the worshipper . If done properly Faerlina ' s enrage should fade , and MT can move Faerlina back to the center of the room , where DPS can resume on her . Rinse & Repeat every time the enrage timer is close . NOTE : Off - Tank should stop DPS worshippers at some time , because he / she will kill them all otherwise . NOTE : It is also possible to do the same start strategy but instead killing one Worshipper at a time to stop her enrage . ( If gear is well suited ) Downing all Worshippers and then focusing on Faerlina , even through her enrages can be done . ( Good healer ( s ) and someone to dispel is needed for this way in this fight . ) Achievements . The raid can earn the achievement by killing Faerlina without dispelling any of the Frenzy phases . Strategy . If your guild is lacking a shadow priest or you fancy getting your achievement , the following strategy will work for both 10 and 25 man raids . First of all the raid setup needs to have the usual 2 tanks , two shamans and 5 - 6 healers in the raid . Have both Shamans place cleansing totem down at the beginning of the fight , have 3 - 4 healers on your main tank . one healer on the raid * preferably a Druid * and one healer on the offtank . Engage the boss fight by having your offtank * preferably an aoe tank such as Paladin / DK * charge onto the pedestal and collect all the Worshippers and Faerlina . Have your main tank pick up Faerlina and tank her in one set position until rain of fire is cast on the main tank . Whilst the main tank gains aggro on Faerlina dps all the adds down using aoe . Once the adds are down , blow heroism pop your trinkets and full nuke Faerlina with 4 - 5 of your healers all concentrating on the main tank . This amount of healing can easily heal through the enrage and with the poison totems and a druid on raid healing . The achievement is yours ! If you have problems with your main tank dying due to the occasional slip up , the easy way around this is to reverse tank roles , have your main tank charge in and take all the adds whilst your offtank builds up aggro on the boss . Once the adds are down the main tank can then taunt Faerlina off the offtank . giving the offtank substantial threat in case the main tank dies . External links .