World of Warcraft Karazhan Guide Part 3: Maiden of Virtue Walkthrough

If you're looking for a World of Warcraft Karazhan Maiden of Virtue guide and walkthrough, then you've come to the right place!

Now that you've defeated Moroes, leave The Banquet Hall and head back out to The Grand Ballroom. Clear any necessary trash in the room, and head through the doorway to the left. This leads into The Guest Chambers which is where you will find the Maiden of Virtue. There are several packs of trash first. This trash isn't particularly difficult, use shackles on the undead and a warlock to enslave or banish the demons (concubines). With a warlock, priest, and competent tank, the trash is pretty trivial.

Ideal Group Compisition:

1 Main Tank (crit immune)

3 Healers (at least holy 1 paladin is best)

6 DPS (1 priest, 1 warlock is very useful for trash)

This fight can be a stress on your healers and DPS as everyone takes damage. Often times people die to holy fire or holy ground. It is highly suggested that the raid have no more than 2-3 melee DPS and the rest be ranged.

We usually have our druid offtank switch gear and DPS on this boss and let the warrior main tank him. This is a commonly used strategy as Maiden only requires one tank and it can be a pain to switch people in and out.

After you clear the hallway up to Maiden, get the group ready and buffed up. There is no reason to clear the side rooms, though one of them has a book for a quest, generally we come back later after the trash despawns when Maiden drops). Again, make sure that people have appropriate consumables, deady boss mods, and omen threatmeter.

Before the fight, all ranged DPS and healers are to spread out in a circle around Maiden, standing in between the pillars. The main tank then runs in and engages Maiden, tanking her in the center of her platform where she stands. All DPS should have health potions and bandages (and know how to use them!).

The holy paladin in the group needs to put and keep Blessing of Sacrifice on the main tank the entire fight. This is due to the fact that Maiden occasionally uses an ability called Repentance that will stun everybody in the raid for 12 seconds. However, she also spams an AoE called Holy Ground that deals a few hundred damage to everyone in melee range. Repentance breaks if the target takes damage, so the paladin's Repentance will be broken when Holy Ground ticks on the main tank. This way you have at least one healer available to heal through Repentance so that the melee DPS and the tank don't die.

If you don't have a paladin, it's possible to still do this fight if you have some good heal over time spells on the main tank (preferably from a good resto druid). Melee DPS should be prepared to move out of the Holy Ground radius and bandage themselves, should they find themselves at low health.

Maiden uses two other abilities that are relevant - Holy Wrath and Holy Fire. Holy Wrath does holy damage to a single target, then chains off to another nearby raid member (this doesn't affect pets). This is easily avoided by staying spread out. Holy Fire does fire damage to a random raid member, then ticks 1750 damage every 2 seconds for 12 seconds. This damage over time needs to be dispelled, if any priests or paladins in the raid have the add-on Decursive it is immensely helpful here. As another option, shamans may make the Holy Fire a non-issue for their group (not the whole raid) by using well placed Grounding Totems.

Maiden is a pretty straightforward, single phase fight. Melee can use Holy Protection Potions to help negate the effect of Holy Ground if you're having trouble with melee DPS dying. This is a very healing intensive fight, with the healers needing to be on top of their game and cross heal DPS and everyone in the raid. Everyone must be kept at or near full health or they may die to a surprise Holy Fire. Amplify Magic should never be used here, as it boosts Maiden's damage significantly. Dampen Magic can and should be used on melee DPS.

That's about all for Maiden. It may take a few tries, but using this guide you should be able to down Maiden consistently with a bit of practice. Hang in there, soon enough you'll be on to Curator, Tier 4 gloves, and eventually clearing Karazhan in one night!