Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poobah of World of Matticus and a founder of No Stock UI, a WoW blog for all things UI, macro, and addon related.

You'll find the Blood Queen at the top floor above the chamber that has the Blood Princes. She is the head boss in the wing and is one of the few encounters in the instance that drops tier 10 tokens. This will be a high stress encounter for healers as there is so much going on at once.

Piece of cake? Oh you bet. The strain will be on your DPS players to take her down before the enrage. For us healers, we just have to stand on our head and balance raid health for about 5 minutes.You can check out the overview of the Blood Queen encounter here if you're not sure about the overall mechanics of the fight. This post is strictly meant for the healers so it is best to have an understanding of the encounter.
Preparation Personally, I like to utilize 6 healers for the encounter. In fact, if your raid group just started working on her, I highly recommend it. I like to set my healers up in a circular formation around the center of the room. You'll notice a patterned circle in the middle of the chamber. Organize your healers around that with the tank healers closest to where the Blood Queen will be tanked (this should go without saying). So long as they are equally spaced out from each other, they won't need to worry about Twilight Bloodbolts much.
Ground phase 2 tank healers should be enough to keep your tank and Blood Mirror soaker alive. A nice mix of holy priests, shamans and druids will round out the raid as well. And contrary to popular belief, a raid healing discipline priest will have a field day covering the raid. Casting Power Word: Shield will trigger a train load of absorptions. I actually gave my discipline priest specific instructions: Shield the healers, shield anyone targeted by Swarming Shadows, and shield players under the effect of Pact of the Darkfallen. Don't forget that the Shroud of Sorrow aura is going to deal constant damage to the entire raid.

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