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Comment by ThunderSithy

Keys to the fight are:
- propper placement and reactivity to Pact of the Darkfallen and Swarming Shadows
- managing the exponential spread of Essence of the Blood Queen (i.e. assigning bite order before-hand)

Keep heroism/bloodlust for when all or most DPS players are vampires. If you're a DPS class, time your clickies (trinkets, etc.) accordingly.

This fight requires very intensive raid healing and burst tank healing, as well as high DPS (aprox. 45k raid DPS).

Comment by Birdcage

10 gold says she's actually Kael'thas in disguise.

As, you know, death was mearly a setback.

Comment by julienpdx

She's Cher!

Comment by 336526

A question about offtanking: does any mitigation work for the person soaking the blood mirror, or can a warrior go into battle stance for extra dps without taking additional damage? (since i'm losing defensive stances extra mitigation)

Comment by 165080

Heroic :-

In Heroic Mode her Shroud of Sorrow ability increases by % for every vampire in the room. So in effect, her aura pulses for more as more bites go out and more vampires are created. I temporarily forget the %'s, even though I did the fight. (5% for 10 man, if I recall correctly).

Her Health in 10 man is - 18.9 Million
Her Health in 25 man is - 71.3 Million.

Comment by 347360

Priests!
Fear Ward yourselves and Mass Dispel the fear bomb in flight phase. This will not completely cancel the effect (unless you have a lot of priests), but it will certainly mitigate it some (especially preemptively casting).

EDIT: Anyone know if the old "alt+F4" will render your mind-controlled toon useless? Not instantly, of course...

Comment by dumac

lol, gotta be one of the coolest fights in game. If you are a dps, you can be a freaking vampire and you are allowed to bite others!

Haha!

Comment by llubtoille

if a paladin get's the first bite, and bubble hearths, does she cast it again?

Comment by 135713

We've been having trouble with this fight on 10 man. We were trying to get our Shadow priest bitten first (Shadow priest damage buff = extra raid healing), we were letting him go in and be the only DPSer besides the tanks.
He was the highest DPS but instead of getting bitten it was one of the healers. We did a few more tries and it definitly looks like it's whoever is 3rd on threat is the one that gets bitten. Despite the DPS our shadow priest was doing - his shadow-form was reducing threat to below that of the healers.

~~We're about to try misdirecting our shadow priest. Will let you know how it goes.~~
Didn't work. Healer wasn't even on the threat meter and still got bitten

Subsequent tries have shown that it's likely the 3rd on the threat list, provided more than three sources have significant threat, to prevent you just going in with one DPSer and attempting to force the bite on that player.

Comment by NokoFace

Sound files:

You have made an... unwise... decision.

/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\BloodQueenLanathel\\IC_Lanathel_Aggro01.wav")

THIS ENDS NOW!

/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\BloodQueenLanathel\\IC_Lanathel_Berserk01.wav")

Just a taste...

/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\BloodQueenLanathel\\IC_Lanathel_Bite01.wav")

Know my hunger!

/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\BloodQueenLanathel\\IC_Lanathel_Bite02.wav")

But... we were getting along... so well...

/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\BloodQueenLanathel\\IC_Lanathel_Death01.wav")

Yes... feed my precious one! You're mine now!

/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\BloodQueenLanathel\\IC_Lanathel_MindControl01.wav")

SUFFER!

/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\BloodQueenLanathel\\IC_Lanathel_Special01.wav")

Can you handle this?

/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\BloodQueenLanathel\\IC_Lanathel_Special02.wav")

Here it comes.

/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\BloodQueenLanathel\\IC_Lanathel_Special03.wav")

Comment by clue1ess

25-man - 59.4M HP
This is assuming 2 tanks with 2.75k dps and 6 healers, and that your 17 dps have 315 seconds to kill her (5 bites with 60 second CD). Last bite will leave 1 dps unaffected.
Total raid DPS - 189k
Total dps DPS - 183k
Avg dps DPS - 8.7k

10-man - 14.2M HP
This is assuming 2 tanks with 2.75k dps and 3 healers, and that your 5 dps have 240 seconds to kill her (4 bites with 75 second CD). Late bite will leave 1 dps unaffected.
Total raid DPS - 59.0k
Total dps DPS - 51.8k
Avg dps DPS - 6.1k

Vampires count as 2 dps (100% damage increase), which means you will have the equivalent of 33 dps on the last leg on 25-man and 9 dps on 10-man.

Comment by acolight

The fight is 2healable on normal 10man without overgearing it; the group didnt have a single ICC25 drop, and progression peaked at 10/12. Healers were disc priest + resto druid; a ret paladin specced into Divine Sacrifice helped mitigate second air phase damage, and healthstones were used on the first one. The fight is extremely demanding on the healers if 2healed, but it is doable with proper dedication. The druid got two pacts and two swarming shadows, so the luck factor can be disregarded.

We always let a mage get bitten first, giving Hand of Salvation to our second best dps, and having the mage blow cds and go nuts for 100% of the fight.

Be sure to arrange the biting order if you have an arcane mage to easily trigger the first bite, and to include your best dps to be bitten earlier; save bloodlust / heroism for when 8 vampires are out to finish her off quickly.

Good luck on Frostwing Halls!

Comment by 567036

One thing no one has mentioned, right before the second air phase if your biting people as soon as the warning appears is that you may end up getting down to 5 seconds before MC right as the air phase ends, when people may be low on health and end up killing them via the bite. If you hold your debuff until the last 3-5 seconds, you can exit the second air phase with roughly 8 seconds left til MC before biting again, which gives enough time to heal people back up to full. We used this method to great effect, bringing her from 8% at 15 seconds to enrage, to 3% and finally to the kill. If ya got a shammy, bloodlust when the top four dps have the buff, blow any big CDs ya got-DK pets/armies, Berserk for cats etc...

the whole fight is rather easy, but the killer at least for us was the transfer after the second air phase(which is when people who need to bite start freaking out looking for their target) Once you can live through the second air phase, it's almost a 100% kill unless her health is still high or the enrage timer is right on your toes.

Comment by 560496

It's me or she is somewhat similar in looks to Sarah Kerrigan?

Comment by 468951

Can anyone say for sure what determines first bite? threat, dmg done, or is it random.

EDIT: Seems to be third on threat, correct me if im wrong

Comment by Strudels

HOLY PALADINS TRICKS/TIPS:

1) If you're not specced into Aura Mastery, DO IT. The cooldown (two minutes) is PERFECTLY timed with her bloodbolt whirls - Shadow Aura +AM (even with a Priest in the raid) and 260 shadow resist will help a ton.

2) Divine Guardian works wonders. Do it.

3) No danger in staying in melee - just go off to the side a bit so if you do get Swarming Shadows, you don't insta-gib half your DPS.

4) Holy Light is your best friend (always should be, meh) ESPECIALLY after two or four bites.

5) Beacon MT, heal OT=works even better than in any other boss encounter. Go nuts; on 10 man the healing needed to the OT is a little more than negligible, so you can throw out Flashes, Holy Lights, and Shocks out to ease raid healing.

Comment by 363599

Hmmm, since Uncontrollable Frenzy is a Charm, i wonder if WotF can break it.

Comment by 190454

I have a question about this fight. I'm using Bartender4 for action bars but when I was bitten the possess bar didn't change so I couldn't get my bite off. What's the spell called to bite so I can make a macro of it, just in case this happens another time?

Comment by Galdar

Tip if you are wiping on the 2nd air phase

If you do not wait at least 5-10 seconds to bite someone on the first 2 vampire bites, you will be forced to bite in the middle of the 2nd air phase. You will wipe every time.

By standing around for 5-10 seconds with frenzied bloodthirst, you can make this fight much easier. By giving yourself that extra time, when it comes time to bite the 3rd time, you will not have to do this in the middle of an air phase.

The airphase bloodbolts deal extra damage to people standing close together. You DO NOT want to be standing by someone trying to pass off a vampire bite while blood bolts are raining down. It's nearly impossible to heal through.

Comment by 258919

10m

While this fight doesn't require quite as much group awareness as the Princes, it requires the same amount of individual awareness and more DPS - if the raid starts going immune to vampire bites, then people get MCed. A few pointers:

Preparation
Doing this fight with two healers is possible, but not the best idea unless you have overgeared, experienced healers. A paladin healer is amazing here, because both tanks take high amounts of damage and Beacon of Light fixes that. Three seems to be the magic number, as with most 10m fights in this raid. You need, as always, two tanks for this fight. Assign each raid member (other than the tanks, who just spread out) a spot to go to during the air phase - it makes things easier. Optionally, you can make "bite list" for vampires. The raid should stay spread out as much as possible, though.

The Pull
Do not charge in if you are a melee DPS (such as a feral cat or a warrior), as this may cause you to take the OT's debuff. The OT should be the closest to the Queen at all times, so the melee DPS should be on the outside of her hitbox. The MT shouldn't worry much about positioning. Caster DPS should be spread out, prefferably in an arc around the side of the circle away from the boss. This makes Pact of the Darkfallen easier to deal with. She should be tanked either on or in front of the steps, and while she has no cone attacks that I know of, tanking her facing away from the raid helps with such things as vampire bites (it's easier to see the melee DPS).

Vampires
The vampire debuff can both make and break a raid. If your raid chose not to list who bites who beforehand, then the vampire should know who they are going to bite as soon as they gain the debuff. This way, the vampire can continue to DPS the boss while looking for their next victim. Bloodlust/Heroism should be saved for when a high DPSer has the debuff. If someone's vampire buff is fading during the flight phase fear, this can potentially cause a wipe. However, do not run through the raid to bite someone or else that will almost surely cause a wipe.

Air Phase
Not terribly difficult. As I mentioned above, you'll want to assign positions to make things easier. Other than that, your only worries are vampires (detailed above), fires (which shouldn't be an issue if handled the right way), and fears (Fear Wards or, better yet, Tremor Totems handle this well). The air phase is relatively short, and the tanks should run back to their spots. This is also the best time for a bear tank to Rebirth somebody, given that they stay clear of the rest of the raid while doing it.

Flames
Not terribly difficult to deal with - if you can do Jaraxxus, you can do this. Spread the flames on the outside of the room, but at the same time try not to cover the entire outside of the room with flames. Retrace your steps if you have to, but make sure you walk beside flames you have already placed, not in them. These are only an issue in the air phase.

Pact of the Darkfallen
The best way to handle this is to line up in an arc as described above. When players are linked, they should start running towards the center of the circle in the middle of the room, but run directly towards each other when they find each other (the less time they are pacted, the better).

Not a terribly difficult fight, but requires planning and awareness. I was just in a group in which only about half of the players had run the fight before, and we still managed to get her to 30% on our first wipe.

Comment by 624081

I have to say, the most important aspect to this fight is the Vampirism buff.

If you look at Blood Queen's short enrage timer and assume all DPS are at about 8k the math shows her still alive at enrage. This means that you need to have as many vampires as possible!

There are two ways of going about the passing of the buff. In 10-man you can do it however you like because the number of DPS in your party that have the debuff becomes very high very quickly, allowing you to overpower her with your 100% increased damage. Sexy.

In 25-man it's more tricky, because 1 person with Vampirism is less than 5% of your DPS. The two ways of passing this buff are these:

-Get the Blood Queen addon that allows your raid leader to automatically whisper whoever has the debuff who they should bite.

-Bite the nearest non-vampire DPS.

Many raid leaders choose to get the addon, which makes it much easier for less attentive raiders to know when to do what, and, if all goes well, pass the buff to the highest DPS first.

However, I would not dismiss the second option. By having the DPS bite the closest vulnerable player you reduce the time spent finding a target, giving your vampires more time to do damage. Notice that when the vampirism engages Blood Craving all players that are not vampires have a large red blood droplet over their head, making it absurdly easy to bite one.

Essentially, your deciding factors should be these: After a few tries, if your players are being consistently mind-controlled before you have 16 vampires, try targeting the nearest one. This will reduce the chance that any player fails to find his target. If biting accuracy is not an issue, use the addon which will allow you to maximize your DPS over the fight.

Comment by 296147

I gotta say the scariest moment for me in WoW was during this fight when I was bitten and I only had one person to bite left and I couldn't find him but at 1 second left I bit him. My heart was racing for the rest of ICC (we wiped on Sindragosa a lot)

Comment by cms2k

Loot note: In ICC25 heroic, Blood Queen drops 1 heroic token and 2 regular tokens.

Personally, I think that's a jip.

Comment by 626133

Am I the only one who thinks she's totally hawt?

Comment by 462722

Very interesting fight, probably my favorite in ICC. I love all of it's mechanics.

Comment by 667361

I'm looking forward to see a group of Worgens attack this boss

Comment by 89244

Oh Blood-Queen, why are you so mean?

Comment by 738090

Has the same voice actor as Freya in Ulduar.

Comment by 965572

1. On BPC, when and why shouldn't you use all your abilities every time it's possible?
2. On BQL, your screen border changes color and an arrow appears above your character's head, what do you do?
3. Still on BQL, OMG you've got big red lazors linking you to 2 stacked RDPS, what now?
ANSWER PLEASE?

Comment by 946444

one of the best looking bosses in game in my opinion, and she have a interesting lore behind her

Comment by 519917

This may get downvoted, but I just wanted to add here that with current 5.x DPS, she is soloable by classes with sufficient burst in 10 man. The problem with soloing is her bite: you essentially have a minute to burn through 14 million health before you get MC'd and wipe. Resist the urge to pop your cooldowns at the beginning of the fight, and instead pop them all when you are bitten (since you get the damage buff), and DPS harder than you've ever DPS'd before. Personally I went about 160k DPS and barely manage to finish her off before the bite debuff ran out. Good luck, and happy soloing.

Comment by 1105122

Hard to handle, need OP dps and epic heals to beat

Comment by Nobbel

How to: Solo Blood-Queen Lana'thel 10 man Heroic:
http://youtu.be/aBdv3Wr-qrY

Comment by Maulis425

Just eeked this out as a Frost DK as doing it in Blood was very difficult, I had nowhere near the DPS to kill her nor did I have the availability of an add to MC. I DPSd slowly until she gave me the buff, then used all my CDs including Army, trinkets, pillar of frost and went to town. I took a fair amount of damage, the odd Death Strike helped to mitigate it somewhat. I actually ran out of time and transformed, but my diseases took her last 44k in a few seconds, so it worked out. My dps for the fight was 142k in iLevel 489 LFR dps gear. Good luck.

Comment by Nightpetter

Blood-Queen Lana'thel is the leader of the San'layn. There can be found a lot of darkfallen at Temple City of En'kilah located in the northeastern corner of Borean Tundra and in Crimson Hall in Icecrown Citadel.

List of the darkfallen Blood Princes, whom all are undead blood elves:

Valanar's Three Lieutenants:

Comment by MasterRaistlin

Priests can use Spectral Guise to ignore the bite. Then it's just tank and spank.

Comment by Alacor

A good tip for Night elves is the use of shadowmeld. All classes with minions or pets can do this (mage, priest, dk, hunter). Start combat, get your pet out and use Shadowmeld half a second before she bites ( use DBM to track it's very accurate). She bites the pet and bingo no more worrying about the bite. Now kill her before the enrage. This gives you quite a lot of time making heroic nice and doable.

Comment by Devylknyght

Get bit, use sacrificial dagger, get brezzed, no more bites, beat enrage timer

Comment by MABGamer6407

Looks like Lady Gaga got a new style going on.

Comment by MABGamer6407

She sure is fond of Green gems. Practically everywhere on her.

Comment by Sarix

Paladins: Bubble before first bite. Don't die. Win.

This is mostly for heroic 25 man. Any other difficulty you can pretty much just burn her down with the bite.

Comment by 270768

has anyone ever tried Salyin Battle Banner to bypass the bite?

Comment by grim5000

just killed her today with 3 people, she bit one person, that person bit me and then i bit the 3rd person

all 3 of us got the achievement. you do not have to reach the point where you have to bite to get credit. you just have to be bitten

Comment by Chrome166

There's a fun bug right now in 6.0.2; BQL takes 50x extra vulnerability damage from Chaos Damage sources (Demonology Warlock's Chaos Wave and Touch of Chaos). This is on top of the level difference nerfs, so on a level 90 warlock in modest gear my Touch of Chaos is hitting her for 2.5m damage a pop.

Comment by Ozlem

How to solo 25man (norm) on a warlock.

1. I go destruction.
2. active and summon voidlord.
3. At the base of the steps (bottom of steps) drop Demonic Circle and I fix Demonic Circle: Teleport to a key.
4. Stand back in the hallway above the top of the stairs (don't stand right at the top of stairs.)
5. Activate voidlord to attack Blood-Queen Lana'thel
6. As soon as Blood-Queen Lana'thel starts getting chatty and says "Know my hunger!" wait 5secs then teleport into the area.

She will no longer bite and you can just burn her down. Depending on ilvl you can get her down before first lift-off.

Comment by drummer4christ

Killed her today and forgot to dismiss pet. Got mind controlled and pet finished her off even after she enraged. I Died after she died.

Comment by NSDragon

As an Unholy DK, if your damage is too low to kill her before the MC, you can instead open the fight by sending in your ghoul to attack her while you wait by the stairs doing nothing (but be careful not to get locked out yourself). Timmy can survive long enough to get the bite, and when that happens you can just run in and attack her, and she won't bite again.

This will probably also work with any other class with a pet though, but YMMV.

Comment by 1388454

No problem at all as a 550 ret pala in 10 man heroic.

Engage with Judgement, cast Execution Sentence, Avenging Wrath and pop a Potion of Mogu Power, then spam Hammer of Wrath mixed with Judgement/Exorcism when hammer is on 2 sec cooldown! Burned her down in less then 10 sec!

Comment by Xipherian

How to solo this as a priest - one talent is key here Spectral Guise Spectral Guise.
Send in the Shadowfiend to start the fight, though I upgraded to the Mindbender to make sure it would last long enough.
Activate spectral guise a couple of seconds before the bite (Just after 10 seconds in - easier with dbm to see when bite will be cast) if all goes well then you should have not been bitten and you have much more time to kill her, which was great for my priest as my dps just wasn't cutting it to get her down while bitten.

Comment by Geoffgore

I like to call her "Lana'thel Rey".

Comment by refurbished

Is there any warning at all for her bite? She says "Feel my hunger" several times before the bite actually happens.

Comment by Gunnerb52

I have no idea what I am doing wrong and blizz gm won't help. They say they can't verify the achievement and to come here. I have tried it on normal 25 on 2 toons for 3 weeks. A hunter and a spriest. The hunter i burn her down quick and the spriest I burn it down slower but it gets the job done. I was able to get the after becoming a vampire part of this easier solo then this one.

I go in I attack with and without pet. I kill her with lots of time and nothing. I have been bit but never turn into vampire.

Oh and I have tried it on Normal 25 and heroic 25. It's the only achievement i have left for the mounts and it is driving me crazy. I have soloed all these and don't want to go ask for help for something that should be so easy

Comment by 691674

In the room with, Blood Queen Lana'thel, the Darkfallen Noble will occasionally turn the Darkfallen Tactician, into a spider, the rest will laugh

Comment by gokohono

You can easily kill her without becoming vampire as level 110.

Comment by Jessiraine0113

prolly a dumb question but here goes.... I'm a 110 arcane mage and i'm missing the part of the achieve that is defeating her while a vampire. how do you become a vampire? i can one shot her so i don't want to kill her before she can "turn" me.

Comment by vicioushunter

it's ^&*!ed in 8.0 currently hopefully my bug report gets attention. the damage she deals is INSANE LEVELS OF DPS

Comment by demonrage

i'm having trouble with the qeeun apply essence to anyone in the group, i went in with 2 other players to do the blood infusion quest.

she just never cast it at all.

is there anything i'm missing? can anyone help or has anyone tried this after 8.0?

Comment by Anamcha

Soloable as a 100 DK on 25H in patch 8.0. The issue is doing enough DPS to burn her down during the 1 minute before you are MC'd. After beating my head against the wall for weeks about it, I finally found a strat that works:

Earlier in the raid in the Putricide/Festergut/Rotface area, leave as many of the Plague Scientists alive as you can. Once you clear those 3 bosses, leave that area and go clear the 3 princes and ALL trash leading up to the Queen. then backtrack and use Control Undead on one of the scientists and bring him back up with you to the Blood Queen's room. Have the Scientist channel his Plague Stream on you during the fight, then just burn her down...i got her down with almost 20s to spare!

Should work with any class with MC capability

Comment by Maerius

Have her drops changed?
Twice now, I've gotten the Cowl of Malefic Repose to drop on 10 man heroic, but it's the "Normal" version Cowl of Malefic Repose
instead of the "Heroic" version Cowl of Malefic Repose

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Blood-Queen Lana'thel

This NPC can be found in Icecrown Citadel (2).

Icecrown CitadelThe Lower SpireLord MarrowgarLady DeathwhisperGunship BattleDeathbringer SaurfangThe PlagueworksFestergutRotfaceProfessor PutricideThe Crimson HallBlood Prince CouncilBlood-Queen Lana'thelThe Frostwing HallsValithria DreamwalkerSindragosaThe Frozen ThroneThe Lich KingBlood-Queen Lana'thelIcecrown CitadelAbilitiesPhase 1: Ground

Shroud of Sorrow - An aura of sorrow and despair emanates from the caster, inflicting 4500 Shadow damage every 2 sec. to nearby enemies.

Delirious Slash - Inflicts 50% of weapon damage to an enemy and causes it to bleed for 4500 to 5500 damage per application every 3 sec. for 15 sec.

Blood Mirror & Blood Mirror - Causes the player closest to the tank to take 100% of the damage done to tank as Shadow damage.

Vampiric Bite - Inflicts 12,025 to 13,975 physical damage to a target, granting them Essence of the Blood Queen
Essence of the Blood Queen - Increases damage by 100%, and causes attacks to heal the player for 15% of the damage done, as well as cause no threat. Causes Frenzied Bloodthirst after 75 seconds.

Frenzied BloodthirstUncontrollable FrenzybitesPact of the DarkfallenSwarming ShadowsTwilight BloodboltPhase 2: Air

Bloodbolt Whirl - Shoots a lot of Twilight Bloodbolts to random players for 6 seconds.

Phase 1: Ground

Shroud of Sorrow - An aura of sorrow and despair emanates from the caster, inflicting 4500 Shadow damage every 2 sec. to nearby enemies.

Delirious Slash - Inflicts 50% of weapon damage to an enemy and causes it to bleed for 6125 to 7875 damage per application every 3 sec. for 15 sec.

Blood Mirror & Blood Mirror - Causes the player closest to the tank to take 100% of the damage done to tank as Shadow damage.

Vampiric Bite - Inflicts 10175 to 11825 physical damage to a target, granting them Essence of the Blood Queen
Essence of the Blood Queen - Increases damage by 100%, and causes attacks to heal the player for 15% of the damage done, as well as cause no threat. Causes Frenzied Bloodthirst after 60 seconds.

Frenzied BloodthirstUncontrollable FrenzybitesPact of the DarkfallenSwarming ShadowsTwilight BloodboltPhase 2: Air

Bloodbolt Whirl - Shoots a lot of Twilight Bloodbolts to random players for 6 seconds.

Phase 1: Ground

Shroud of Sorrow - An aura of sorrow and despair emanates from the caster, inflicting 4500 Shadow damage every 2 sec. to nearby enemies.

Delirious Slash - Inflicts 50% of weapon damage to an enemy and causes it to bleed for 4500 to 5500 damage per application every 3 sec. for 15 sec.

Blood Mirror & Blood Mirror - Causes the player closest to the tank to take 100% of the damage done to tank as Shadow damage.

Frenzied BloodthirstUncontrollable FrenzybitesPact of the DarkfallenSwarming ShadowsTwilight BloodboltPhase 2: Air

Bloodbolt Whirl - Shoots a lot of Twilight Bloodbolts to random players for 6 seconds.

Phase 1: Ground

Shroud of Sorrow - An aura of sorrow and despair emanates from the caster, inflicting 4500 Shadow damage every 2 sec. to nearby enemies.

Delirious Slash - Inflicts 50% of weapon damage to an enemy and causes it to bleed for 7000 to 9000 damage per application every 3 sec. for 15 sec.