Naxxramas Bosses - Grobbulus
This fight is really just a kiting tank and spank encounter with some occasional adds and poison clouds. Details below.
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Grobbulus How To
This fight has a 12 minute enrage timer. If you don't kill Grobbulus by then, it is a wipe.
From time to time Grobbulus will hit someone at random with Mutating Injection. DO NOT dispell it. It will drop a Poison Cloud where the player is standing if you do. It is important that the person hit with Mutating Injection go behind Grobbulus to a clear area along the outer wall and wait there for the Mutating Injection to drop the Poison Cloud. See 2:38 in the video of me doing this. When this cloud drops, the player should run out of it immediatly and return to DPS'ing the boss. (In the video Deadly Boss Mod is marking players with a skull when they get the Mutating Injection. So as you watch the video, when you see a player with a Skull, watch what they do to see how you can handle it.)
Main Tank
The Main Tank should grab Grobbulus just as he is coming down the ramp in his room. You will be slowly leading him around the edge of the room in a clickwise direction. The best strategy for the tank to use is to toggle your walk button on ( "/" button above your number pad on your keyboard) and keyboard walk backwards around the outer edge of the room while tanking Grobbulus. Your goal is to leave enough room between the boss and the poison cload that he drops so that a raid member can drop his poison cloud when he is infected between them.
An important tanking note: After you complete a full circle around the room and you are approaching the ramp again, it is important that you cut this corner at the ramp. DO NOT go into the corner of the ramp. If you do it could lead to Grobbulus spraying the raid and spawning a lot of Slime adds. If you look at the 4:32 in the video you can see our tank going into the corner. Do not do this. Instead go at an angle from the wall to the end of the ramp. Your goal is to keep Grobbulus facing away from the other raid members.
Off Tank
Your job is simple. Pick up Slime adds as they spawn and pull them towards the center of the room so that the DPS can burn them down.
DPS
Melee DPS should remain behind Grobbulus at all times. Never should you go in front of him with the tank. From time to time Slime adds will spawn. All DPS should burn these down as quickly as possible. Ranged DPS should remain behind and at a 45 degree angle to Grobbulus. See video for positioning.
Healing
You will be with the Ranged DPS behind Grobbulus and at a 45 degree angle to the boss. Never get ahead of Grobbulus or the Main Tank. See video for positioning. The main healers should be on the main tank at all times. Secondary healers should be on the raid.
From time to time a raid member will be hit with Mutating Injection. DO NOT dispell this as it will release a poison cloud where the afflicted person is standing. The person that has it will need heals though. I suggest a secondary healer be tasked with healing injected players.
