Loatheb

Loatheb
Race	Fungal monster (Undead)
Level	?? Boss
Location	Plague Wing, Naxxramas
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Loatheb

Loatheb is a Fungal monster boss in Naxxramas.

Attacks and Abilities

• Corrupted Mind — Loatheb places a 1 minute linked cooldown on all healing spells, including cleanse/dispel/remove poison. This means you only get 1 healing spell to cast per 1 minute, including cleanse/dispel/remove poison. Essentially, any beneficial spell cast on a friendly target is affected.
• Poison Aura — 5 yard range. 196 Nature damage inflicted every 6 seconds for 12 seconds. 12 seconds between each poison aura.
• Inevitable Doom — Loatheb begin to cast it after 2 mins in fight. Inflicts 2550 Shadow damage after 10 sec. 100 yards, every 30 secs. 5 mins after engaging, this will be every 15 secs. This debuff can not be dispelled, cleansed, or decursed and the damage can not be resisted.
• Decurse — Every 30 seconds, starting at about 2 seconds in fight, Loatheb will remove all curses on himself.
• Fungal Bloom — Critical-hit chance increased by 50%. Spell critical-hit chance increased by 60%. Spells and abilities cause no threat. Get from environment, you can control who gets it. 90 secs duration, spawns every 12 secs, every time only 5 people can get it.

Strategy

The encounter with Loatheb is fairly straightforward in theory but much harder in execution due to the high amount of DPS required.

Healers will only be allowed to cast one healing spell every minute. This means healers will only be able to heal the Main Tank while the rest of the raid must use consumables to stay alive. Healers should set up a rotation to determine when and who heals the tank.

Loatheb has an aura that deals Nature damage to players and pets in melee range. It's important to have [Judgement of Light] or [Poison Cleansing Totem] active at all times since melee must save their consumables to recover damage taken from Inevitable Doom.

Groups should be assigned an order to kill Spores for the Fungal Bloom debuff. Spores spawn every 13 seconds on the opposite side of the room from the majority of the raid/Loatheb.

All players must use consumables to survive the Inevitable Dooms. Players will need to use Bandages and Healthstones or Whipper Root Tubers. Note that Greater Shadow Protection Potions, which used to be consumed at least two minutes before the encounter, have been changed to have a 2 minute duration (from 1 hour), and can no longer be used in this way.

Inevitable Doom is cast every 30 seconds after the first 2 minutes of the encounter. 5 minutes into the fight, it's cast every 15 seconds.

The order of consumables should be as follows.

Time	Consumable used
Prior to encounter	[Greater Shadow Protection Potion]
2:10	[Greater Shadow Protection Potion]
2:40	Nothing
3:10	Bandage
3:40	[Healthstone] or  [Whipper Root Tuber]
4:10	[Greater Shadow Protection Potion] and Bandage
4:40	Nothing
5:10	Bandage
5:25	Anything

Depending on how much health a player has, the Inevitable Doom cast at 5:15 may mark the final 10 seconds before the debuff kills that player. It's very unlikely a player will survive another doom when it hits at 5:40.

Tips

• Players can carry multiple Healthstones depending on the rank of the Healthstone and the number of talent points the conjuring warlock has in [Improved Healthstone], but all Healthstones share a 2 minute cooldown.

• Lightwells are not afflicted by the cooldown, so you can use them to heal people who are about to die.

• Shadow priests are excellent for healing groups with current talents (as of 4th January 2007) as shown by Death and Taxes, who successfully managed to kill him with five people (http://www.dtguilds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5534). Movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raaLqFelbCk. This was hotfixed later, and Loatheb dispels the Vampiric Embrace off of himself shortly after applied. Vampiric Embrace triggers the Corrupted Mind debuff.

Loot

Tier 3 Loot Tokens

Desecrated Leggings Binds when picked up Classes: Priest, Mage, Warlock Requires Level 60 Desecrated Legguards Binds when picked up Classes: Paladin, Hunter, Shaman, Druid Requires Level 60 Desecrated Legplates Binds when picked up Classes: Warrior, Rogue Requires Level 60

Loatheb Loot

Band of Unnatural Forces Item Level 85Disenchants into: Not disenchantable Binds when picked up Unique-Equipped Finger +52 Attack Power +10 Hit +14 Critical Strike Requires Level 60 Sell Price: 6 2 56 Brimstone Staff Item Level 83Disenchants into: Not disenchantable Binds when picked up Staff Two-Hand Speed 3.20 217 – 327 Damage (85 damage per second) +57 Stamina +16 Hit +14 Critical Strike +141 Spell Power Durability 120 / 120 Requires Level 60 Sell Price: 10 56 18 Loatheb's Reflection Item Level 85Disenchants into: Not disenchantable Binds when picked up Unique-Equipped Trinket +13 to All Resistances Use: Increases resistances to all schools of magic by 40 for 20 sec. (2 Min Cooldown) Requires Level 60 Sell Price: 9 11 60 Ring of Spiritual Fervor Item Level 85Disenchants into: Not disenchantable Binds when picked up Unique-Equipped Finger +14 Intellect +11 Stamina +26 Spirit Requires Level 60 Sell Price: 6 2 56 The Eye of Nerub Item Level 83Disenchants into: Not disenchantable Binds when picked up Polearm Two-Hand Speed 3.70 251 – 378 Damage (85 damage per second) +30 Agility +50 Stamina +16 Hit Durability 120 / 120 Requires Level 60 Sell Price: 11 37 47 Splinter of Atiesh Binds when picked up Use: Combines 40 Splinters of Atiesh to form the Frame of Atiesh. Classes: Priest, Mage, Warlock, Druid Requires Level 60 "A splinter of Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian."

Trivia

The word "Loatheb" is an anagram for "Healbot" and considering his abilities, this is likely an intentional joke by the developers.

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB

• Bosskillers.com Bosskillers
• http://www.forlornlegacy.net/bored/showthread.php?t=963 Forlorn Legacy (US) kill video
• http://www.warfront.org/forums/showthread.php?t=93 War Front (US) kill video
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raaLqFelbCk Death and Taxes (US) 5 man kill video