Instructor Razuvious
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Instructor Razuvious is the first boss of the military wing, otherwise known as the death knight wing, in Naxxramas. This encounter is certainly one of the easier fights in Naxxramas as it requires no real tank (which we'll discuss below).
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(25) Raid Abilities
Instructor Razuvious
Instructor Razuvious comes with 4 Death Knight Understudies, two of which must be Mind Controlled and used as tanks. He has approximately 10,100,000 hitpoints and hits for around 30,000 on plate.
- Disrupting Shout - A physical AoE that hits the entire raid for 7125 to 7875 physical damage. Cannot be avoided, cast every ~15 seconds.
- Jagged Knife - A ranged ability used on a random raid member every ~10 seconds. This does an initial 5000 physical damage followed by a bleed for 10,000 over 5 secs. This can be avoided by standing out of the line of sight.
- Unbalancing Strike - Inflicts 350% weapon damage and temporarily reduces defense by 100 for 6 seconds. This hits for approximately 105,000 on plate and should only be taken by understudies.
Death Knight Understudies
- Blood Strike - Deals 50% weapon damage to the target, 4 second cooldown.
- Taunt - Taunts the target for 10 seconds, 20 second cooldown.
- Bone Barrier - Reduces damage taken by 75% for 20 seconds, 30 second cooldown.
(10) Raid Abilities
Instructor Razuvious
Instructor Razuvious comes with 2 Death Knight Understudies, both of which must be Mind Controlled and used as tanks. He has approximately 3,349,000 hitpoints and hits for around 30,000 on plate.
- Disrupting Shout - A physical AoE that hits the entire raid for 4200 to 4700 physical damage. Cannot be avoided, cast every ~15 seconds.
- Jagged Knife - A ranged ability used on a random raid member every ~10 seconds. This does an initial 5000 physical damage followed by a bleed for 10,000 over 5 secs. This can be avoided by standing out of the line of sight.
- Unbalancing Strike - Inflicts 350% weapon damage and temporarily reduces defense by 100 for 6 seconds. This hits for approximately 105,000 on plate and should only be taken by understudies.
Death Knight Understudies
- Blood Strike - Deals 50% weapon damage to the target, 4 second cooldown.
- Taunt - Taunts the target for 10 seconds, 20 second cooldown.
- Bone Barrier - Reduces damage taken by 75% for 20 seconds, 30 second cooldown.
Instructor Razuvious Boss Strategy
10-Man
The strategy for Razuvious really is fairly simple. There are 2 "mind control towers" for lack of a better word, that 2 players may use to control the death knight understudy adds. Your 2 controllers should be your tanks, since they likely won't be doing any real DPS anyway.
These players will use the death knight understudy adds to tank Razuvious. Please note that instructor razuvious cannot be tanked by any normal tank, he hits for 30,000+ on plate, for this reason we're going to use the adds exclusively.
Controling the Tanking Add
As soon as you take control of the add go ahead and taunt Razuvious and use your bone barrier ability. After your bone barrier ability drops go ahead and have your other controller who has the other death knight taunt Razuvious. Much the same, go ahead and use bone barrier. This rotation should continue throughout the fight, where the only real hitch in the road is when you have to drop the controls to re-click and refresh your mind control timer.
Your controllers should be communicating regarding taunts, bone barrier cooldown, and when they are dropping to re-cast the MC ability. You should never both drop MC at the same time, this will without a doubt lead to a player or players dying.
Healing 101 for Razuvious
Much like tanking, healing is fairly straight forward on this fight. Generally, we have one healer focus on keeping the adds HP up while a 2nd healer keeps the raid topped off. There isn't much raid damage in this fight, so typically one healer can handle it. The healer on the adds should be casting their longest and most efficient heals, there's no reason to spam quick heals here due to their insane amount of HP.
The only thing that you may need to watch for is the jagged knife ability, this can dish out 15K pretty fast, and if the player is already a bit damaged it can easily be a kill them. Make sure you keep an eye on raid debuffs for this bleed.
Panic Mode Tanking
In the event you get to the very end of the fight and just don't have enough HP on the Death Knight understudies you still might be able to get a kill. Have your tank taunt and immediately shield wall. Granted, you don't have the same health as a Death Knight understudy, but this can often buy you a few seconds for additional DPS.
Another option is taunt juggling Razuvious using whoever can taunt to pull him around but allowing another person to taunt him off before he deals any direct damage to them. This can be dangerous if a taunt is resisted or if Razuvious is allowed to get too close to his target since a single hit will likely kill his target.
Additional Note
After having Razuvious on farm it can be useful to allow a priest to attempt the mind control rotation to help prepare for the 25-man version of this encounter where there are no "mind control towers."