Sindragosa is the second and final boss in the Frostwing Halls. We downed her tonight on both ten and twenty five man. It was a really fun fight to learn and felt rewarding to get down.

I’m going to start by saying that I made a video of this, which I talk over to try to explain the strategy and how to do things.  I choose to use our 10 man kill for this because I think things are clearer with less people running around!  So without further ado, here is the video:

Basically, for the first 70% of the fight she alternates between ground phases and air phases.  While she’s in a ground phase, she will cast a debuff called “Unchained Magic” on two people in ten man and five people in twenty five man.  As a healer what this does is form a stacking debuff, that will damage you 7 seconds after your last cast.  The more you cast, the higher the stacks, and the more damage you will receive.  While you have this debuff, heal only when absolutely necessary. I would not recommend going over six stacks.

She also periodically pulls everyone to the center.  When she does this, run out!  She will cast blistering cold which does a ton of damage to everyone within 25 yards.  You are considered outdoors, so as a druid you can pop travel form to get out quickly.  I also suggest using barkskin incase you (for some reason) don’t make it out.

When she goes into an air phase, she will choose two people on ten man, and five people on twenty five man to put into iceblocks.  If you are chosen you will get a blue arrow over your head.  We had our people run to the center, where they then spread out, as to not kill each other with the ice block damage.  If possible, have someone in raid with a mod that will mark her targets so you can apply HoTs to them before they go into an iceblock.  The iceblock damages them, and once inside they can not be healed, however pre-existing HoTs will continue to tick even inside the ice.

Once they are in ice, everyone runs to the middle.  You will see white circles on the ground that you need to line-of-sight using the iceblocks.  If you don’t get out of LoS you probably won’t get one shot, but you will take a lot of damage.  This will happen four times per air phase.  After all four have gone off it is okay to break the people out of the ice.

Once she hits 30% she will no longer have air phases.  At this point she will pick one person at a time to encase in ice.  Our raid stacked in the middle, and had the first debuffed person going to the right, the next to the left, etc.  During this phase she will put a debuff on the entire raid called Mystic Buffet.  It will increase the magic damage that you take by 10% per stack. You can remove the debuff by using one of the iced people to line-of-sight the boss. Once your stack is cleared you can go back to healing or DPSing.  Unchained magic is also still occurring during this phase, as is blistering cold. Between 10 and 15% depending on your group you will want to pop heroism and burn her down, paying less attention to breaking people out of the ice and more attention to maximizing your DPS.  If people are standing out and getting a lot more debuffs during this phase, its a good time for barksking and other personal cooldowns.  If you have a paladin, its also a great time to bubble-sac.

Good Luck everyone with this fight!!

Also, I haven’t forgotten about a Valithria Dreamwalker instructional video… I just thought I’d do this one first!  Also, its 5:30 AM, so I apologize for any typos you may find, I’ll probably find a few to edit out after I’ve slept!