Heigan the Unclean (10-Man)

Heigan the Unclean is the 2nd boss of the plague wing in Naxxramas. This encounter was made famous for its “dance” mechanic. This truly unique encounter is fairly easy to master…if you can dance!

Heigan the Unclean

Level ??
3,060,000 health

ABILITIES

• Spell Disruption - 20 yard aura around Heigan, increases casting times by 300%.
  
  
• Decrepit Fever - Disease applied to a random player, deals 3000 damage every 3 seconds and reduces maximum HP by 50% of all players within a 20 yard radius.
  
  
• Eruption - 3 of the 4 quarters of the dancing area will erupt with green slim, dealing 6,000-7,000 damage to players caught around the edges, and dealing 12,000-14,000 damage to players in the middle. In phase 1 the floor will erupt every 8 seconds and in phase 2 it will erupt ever 2-3 seconds.
  
  
• Plague Cloud - Deals 7,500 damage per second to anyone still standing on the platform after Heigan teleports back up there.
  

STRATEGY

At the start of this fight all of the Healers and ranged DPS will run up on the platform that heigen starts on, the tank and melee DPS just need to simply follow the boss around. The Ranged DPS and healer will need to be back at maximum range because Heigan will cast spell disrupting and it affects anyone with in 20 yards of him and will increase casting time by 300%. Melee will need to stack on tank for this phase.

“The Dance” # 1

Heigan will engage his eruption rotation. 3 of the 4 pieces of the room will eruption at the same time. The first safe location in the room will be 1, IE 2, 3, and 4 will erupt. After the first eruption the entire raid will move location 2, IE 1, 3, 4 will erupt. Then to 3, 4, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc…The eruption will continue going left to right, then right to left continually for 2 complete rotations. In this one the floor will erupt a little slower, every 8 seconds.

It’s better to run closer to the platform as it reduces the total distance you must travel between positions due to the room’s curved perimeter.

All of the melee need to be sure be sure not to be on the edge of an eruption or in the middle of one for that matter. These hit hard and will put a lot of undo stress on healers so be careful. I suggest that you put a raid mark on the tank to help keep the group together. As a tank you have the most important job on the fight. It’s your responsibility to make sure you move Heigan quickly enough and position him correctly before the next eruption goes off

If you are one the platform all you need to do is DPS and Heal but keep in mind that if you are playing a class that can cast Disease cleanse then most important thing you want to be watching for is the decrepit fever. You need to dispel this immediately.

When the first Dance ends Heigan will teleport back to the platform. After a few seconds he will start casting plague cloud on the platform, which is why the entire raid must get to position 1 which is where the Tank and Melee dps left off at in the first dance. This dance will be the same eccept for the fact that instead of the Tank and Melee dps dancing the entire raid will be doing it this time.

“The Dance” # 2

Heigan will engage his eruption rotation. 3 of the 4 pieces of the room will eruption at the same time. The first safe location in the room will be 1, IE 2, 3, and 4 will erupt. After the first eruption the entire raid will move location 2, IE 1, 3, 4 will erupt. Then to 3, 4, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc…The eruption will continue going left to right, then right to left continually for 2 complete rotations. This one will happen a bit faster it will erupt the floor every 2-3 secs.

At this point Heigan will run down from the platform and go back to your main tank. Ranged and healers should return to the platform and Tank and Melee DPS will resume on Heigan like they did at the beginning of the fight.

Rinse and Repeat.

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