WoW Karazhan Raid Guide: Opera House - Big Bad Wolf Walkthrough

The Big Bad Wolf is one of the three possible random Karazhan boss encounters that your raid might spawn when they step into the Opera House. See the archives to the right for the other Opera House bosses.

Ideal Group Composition:

1 Warrior Tank

3 Healers

6 DPS

By now you should be in level 70 blues and 4-5 nice epics you picked up from Karazhan, plus possibly a crafted or PvP epic or three. What DPS you bring is mostly irrelevant in this fight, unlike the Wizard of Oz encounter. Having a warrior tank here really helps as the wolf fears, though it isn't entirely necessary as if you have a few fear wards or tremor totems.

When you first encounter the Big Bad Wolf, he will be standing towards the middle of the stage. At this point all DPS and the tank will pick him up while ranged DPS and healers stand at the far left corner of the stage. The tank should pull the wolf to the back left corner and keep him there.

The Big Bad Wolf casts a 3 second AoE fear every 25-35 seconds. With a warrior tank and deadly boss mods timers, the fear is irrelevant as the warrior can switch into berserker stance and pop berserker rage a few seconds before each fear. Fear wards are also useful. That being said, I've tanked this plenty of times on my druid without any fear wards, but this requires your group to be carefully coordinated in order to not get aggro on each fear.

The beast of the Opera House also uses a Little Red Riding Hood ability that gives a random target a debuff. This debuff turns them into Little Red Riding Hood - pacifying, silencing, and reducing their armor and resistances to 0. It also increases their movement speed by 50% though, and this is the key! When you get turned into Little Red Riding Hood the Big Bad Wolf will chase you and try to 1-hit you, but you can kite him around without getting hit by running a circle along the edges and walls of the stage. Whoever gets the debuff must do this until it wears off. He will cast it multiple times during the fight.

If you have a tank that can deal with the fears, you should be able to down this boss within 2-3 tries, once everyone in the raid has gotten a chance to be Little Red Riding Hood and gotten the hang of kiting the Big Bad Wolf. For fist rogues, he drops probably the first usable fist weapon aside from PvP.

Tips & Tricks:

- Mages can and should use Amplify Magic, as Big Bad Wolf does no magical damage.

- Vanish and Feign Death both work while you are Little Red Riding Hood and will stop him from chasing you, but will not remove the debuff. Stay feigned/stealthed until the debuff completely wears off.

- The Paladin bubble Blessing of Protection can prevent the wolf from wailing on someone while they are Little Red Riding Hood.

- Resto Druids should not ever have Tree of Life form active during this fight, because if they get turned into Little Red Riding Hood while in this slow form it is almost a guaranteed death.

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