Instructor Razuvious Instructor Razuvious is the first boss in the Military Quarter of Naxxramas . The most feared of the death knight trainers of the Scourge , Razuvious is accompanied by two ( normal ) or four ( heroic ) Death Knight Understudies , who are used by the raiding party to defeat him . Summary . Instructor Razuvious hits hard ; too hard for any tank that isn ' t substantially over - geared for the fight . His understudies have a Bone Barrier self - buff capable of absorbing most of the damage . In the 10 - man version these understudies can be mind - controlled through the Orbs of Domination by the stairs ; a 25 - man raid will have to bring enough priests to mind - control them directly . Successful strategies for defeating Razuvious require the raid to rotate tanking duties between mind - controlled understudies so Razuvious is always attacking the understudy currently protected by Bone Barrier . 25 - man abilities . Instructor Razuvious . Instructor Razuvious has approximately 10 , 100 , 000 hit points . His regular melee hits plate for about 30 , 000 . Death Knight Understudies . Four of these are pulled with Instructor Razuvious . They hit lightly and should be offtanked for most of the encounter . A priest will need to mind control one immediately and one should always be mind controlled through the encounter , unlike the 10 - man version of the encounter there are no orbs to mindcontrol the understudies with . Healers will need to heal them through Instructor Razuvious ' damage . After Instructor Razuvious dies these will take 1000 % extra damage from players . Note : Compared to the original 40 - man version , there is no longer a Mind Exhaustion debuff on the Understudies after you stop MCing them . This means a priest can mind control the same Understudy over and over . However the standard diminishing returns on repeated MC still exists . 10 - man abilities . Instructor Razuvious . Instructor Razuvious has approximately 3 , 349 , 000 hit points . His regular melee hits plate for about 30 , 000 . Death Knight Understudies . Two of these are pulled with Instructor Razuvious . They hit lightly and should be mind controlled for most of the encounter . A player will need to use the orbs of domination to mind control one and at least one should always be mind controlled through the encounter . Healers will need to heal them through Instructor Razuvious ' damage . After Instructor Razuvious dies these will take 1000 % extra damage from players . 25 - man strategy . You will need : Before the fight begins , you must assign Mind Control Priests to specific Understudies . Two Priests are required for this fight , but three is safer , and four is if you do not want to bother tanking the extra fourth add . See Useful macros for priests for a convenient Mind Control macro . When the pull begins , the Tank should walk about 3 / 4s of the way down the steps until the Understudies pull . The Tank will not do any actions , just serve as a Damage Soaker for the first three seconds of the fight . The Tank may use an AoE Aggro , as long as it does not hit the Instructor . Razuvious will watch for three to five seconds , then he will join the fight , attacking the person with the highest aggro . It is the Main Priest ' s job to Mind Control one of the adds and Bone Barrier ( 6 ) + Taunt ( 5 ) the Instructor before he gets to the tank . Priests generally can stand at the base of the stairs and tank the Instructor at the closest part of the Green Circle . This should give everyone enough space to work with ( Mind Control distance break ) , and allow enough time for the Priests to Re - Mind Control before they get back to them . An alternative way of pulling is to have two paladins shield the two priests who go in first . This way they both have more than enough time to cast Mind Control and one of them to taunt the Instructor . After the initial pull from the Understudies , the two Mind Controlling Priests will alternate the use of their ' Pets ' to Bone Barrier and then Taunt . It is extremely important to Bone Barrier THEN Taunt as the Instructor will cause massive damage to the add which tax the Healers ability to keep the add up . The switch will need to happen every 10 seconds ( 9 seconds to be safe ) since Taunt / Bone Barrier Cooldown is about 18 seconds , but the effect is 10 seconds . Note that if Taunt falls off , or Mind Control falls while an Understudy is tanking , it is extremely easy for any player to pull aggro , and the Instructor will begin killing players . If the two mind controlling priests change which Understudy they control , dropping their control and getting the new Understudy after Razuvious has been taunted off of them , they can then change which Understudy is tanking sooner than the 18 second cooldown on the abilities . Stand behind Razuvious to taunt him . This allows the other priest to see that you have started tanking Razuvious by the direction he turns . If you are utilizing less than four Priests to Mind Control , the rest of the adds will need to be off tanked . They do not hit particularly hard . They may be needed if one of the Understudies die while tanking Instructor . As for the DPS , once a MC Priest ' s add has control of the Instructor , all DPS may unload on the Instructor . Each Taunt lasts 10 seconds , and , as long as the Tanking Priest is spamming ' Blood Strike ' , and has ' Taunt ' running it is impossible to pull Aggro from an Understudy , due to how the Understudies Effects work . Healers will need to focus on Healing the Tanking Understudies . The most mana - efficient heals should be used ( such as a Priest ' s Greater Heal ) for Understudies , since Understudies take massive amounts of damage . The raid should generally be kept at least at 90 % , as Instructor will throw a knife randomly at a raid member which will generally bring them down to at least half health ( Cloth wearers could be killed outright ) . To make sure that the raid stays up , one healer should be dedicated to healing players that get the Jagged Knife Debuff , healing the adds Tank otherwise . Another strategy that has been brought to the raiding community is from the Dungeons and Raids forums on the main World of Warcraft Website . The title of the post is Razuvious Who Needs Priests ? A guild on Azshara ( US ) < Dungeon Team Extreme > came up with the strategy of using 3 hunters in a triangle and doing a distracting shot rotation to make up for the lack of priests . This strategy can be viewed in the video on the forum post or at the bottom of this page in the video section . It is an alternate strategy there for guilds who seem to have a shortage of priests for their raids . As well as a strategy of using 1 priest and have a hunter taunt then feign between mind controls : this article 10 - man strategy . There are 2 and 2 controlling orbs in the 10 - man version . The 2 orbs should be controlled by the tanks and the encounter is started by each tank selecting their own understudy , walking up to their orb and right - clicking it to control them . Razuvious will immediately aggro onto them and whichever tank is decided to tank first must immediately hit " 6 " on your new hotkey bar ( pet bar ) for Bone Barrier , then " 5 " to taunt . While tanking use the " 4 " key repeatedly to Blood Strike for holding aggro . Keep Razuvious tanked near the back of the circle where the understudies are located before the encounter starts , this way when you refresh your orb spell you will have plenty of time to re - control your understudy before he can run all the way to you . Bone Barrier lasts 20 secs so the 2nd tanking understudy must hit their Bone Barrier and taunt before the first tank ' s Bone Barrier runs out . There is a 30 second cooldown on the Bone Barrier . To help your healers and ensure the understudies always have Bone Barrier up , taunt closer to every 16 seconds , rather than 20 . The tanks can see the Bone Barrier icon ' s 30 second cooldown timer on the pet bar . Once it goes past halfway , the tank should call out for a taunt . Calling out is helpful because when a tank has to dismiss and re - control an understudy , he can lose track of the timer . ALWAYS use the Bone Barrier ability BEFORE you taunt . This is all the fight is , the tanks trading taunts to ensure the tanking understudy has Bone Barrier up 100 % of the time . Healers will need to help heal the understudies even with their Bone Barrier up to ensure both stay alive through the entire encounter . When clicking an orb to control an understudy you will see that your character is channeling the spell and the channel lasts for 1 minute . To make sure the channel does not break while tanking Razuvious , each tank should refresh the channeling spell every 2 taunt cycles . In order to do this after you ' ve been taunted off of the second time IMMEDIATELY right - click the understudy ' s pet frame and select " dismiss " . NOTE : you cannot use the " leave vehicle " button that shows up in the " = " of your hotbar , it does nothing , you must dismiss manually . Another option is to use a class ability that interrupts the channeling of mind control . A warrior can do this by using a shout , for example . This may be faster and easier than using the " dismiss " option . As soon as you have dismissed the understudy click the orb again to control him , this refreshes your channeling spell and will leave you with enough time for the 5 second cooldown on your abilities to be off before the current tank ' s Bone Barrier falls off . Tips : Tank the boss in the far center of the green floor . Whenever you need to dismiss and re - control the add , move the add to the right / left , far - end of the room . This way , the add will come straight to you and because all melee players are in the center , you have clear sight of him to target . Even better , you can start the fight by using / focus on your add , and click on his portrait to target it whenever you need to take control of it again . Dismiss , click on portrait , wait 2 – 3 seconds for the " uncontrollable " buff to wear off , and right - click on the orb without moving to re - control him again . This technique is sometime hard to explain to people , however there are a few things the main tank can do to aid the off tank . If your off tank has not taunted the mob off , you are able to tank a few hits , and with 3 healers in the group , you can heal through the damage if they focus ( i . e . 2 priests and druid , spam healed for the entire fight and survived the 10 - man version ) . In Wrath of the Lich King . Razuvious also appears at , where he oversees the training of new death knights . He is involved in the following quests : Macros . The following four macros are helpful for if you are Mind Controlling the Understudies . Control Understudy : Requires your assigned Understudy is your Focus Target . ( / focus ) This macro targets your assigned Understudy and casts Mind Control . Bone Barrier and Change Target : Once you have an Understudy under your control , you can use this macro to change your target to Instructor and Cast Bone Barrier ( once you are close to Instructor and ready to taunt ) . Due to the limitations of Global Cooldown and Targeting , it must be different from your Taunting Macro . Taunt and Notify : This allows you to notify everyone around you that you are taking Instructor . Make sure Bone Barrier is already up . If you are utilizing the four macros here , you will hit this immediately after the last macro ( Bone Barrier ) . Release Understudy : The following macro allows you to dismiss your understudy allowing you to use the ' Control Understudy ' Macro right after . With these four Macros , you can effectively make this a four - button fight ( with the exception of hitting the Attack Buttons ) . Quotes . Aggro : CM / un - CM : Death :