Grand Widow Faerlina ( original ) Attacks and Abilities . Grand Widow . " Note : You must sacrifice the worshiper AFTER she enrages if you want to stop her for the full 60 seconds . If you sacrifice the Worshiper before the enrage , it will merely delay the enrage for 30 seconds . " Worshipers and Followers . There are 6 NPCs at the start of the fight , 4 Worshipers and 2 Followers . They will be off - tanked for most of the fight , and eventually sacrificed to Faerlina . When mind controlled , they can be used to remove and prevent Enrage as well as silence Fearlina ' s nature school for 30 seconds . Using this ability actually kills the Worshiper , so this fight cannot last more than 4 : 45 or so because there will be no way to prevent the Enrage if all the adds are dead . 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 . The Poison Volley hurts , but can be healed through and the DoT can be cleansed off fairly easily . A Greater NR pot when learning can help ease the learning curve . Strategies . Melee can put quality Fire resistance gear on to lessen the damage of the Rain of Fire . Most importantly though , the MT and all melee need to pay attention to where it is being cast and run out of it as fast as possible . It is also very important to have ranged DPS and healers spread out throughout the room to avoid getting multiple hits with the Rain . Again , Greater FR pots will help the learning curve . Overall this is a very short and sweet fight . It shouldn ' t be lasting any more than 4 minutes , and as such , it is a DPS race to get her down before you run out of adds to silence her with . Make sure that your Paladins and Shaman Cleanse in this fight . Have all your healers at least cleanse themselves so the paladins / shaman can cleanse the DPS . Three Paladins / shaman cleansing is a solid number . Make sure your cleansers are wearing mana / 5 and intellect gear instead of their + healing gear , as cleansing can drain quite a bit of your mana . For newer guilds , this fight is very healing intensive as people might not get out of the rain of fire quick enough . Assigning 4 healers with the most + healing to cover 2 groups each with rank 5 renews and Rank 6 rejuvenate can be quite effective , as that spell is usually their quickest heal in terms of cast time , and is quite efficient . That leaves 8 healers left , assuming a raid of 15 healers , two healers on the main tank , the other 6 healers on the followers / worshipers . Have your mind controlling priest heal a tank that is tanking a follower , so he can move into position for the MC once the two followers are dead . Have the other healer healing a follower tank also be a priest . Make sure that he watches over the mind control priest ' s health , as well as have him make sure the main tank is topped off just before the enrage . Have him become the backup MCer in case the mind control priest dies for any reason . If your whole raid lives through the first sacrifice , this fight gets easier and easier . With each Worshiper sacrifice , more and more healers are freed up and your chances of keeping the raid as well as the main tank alive go up .