Maexxna Encounter Guide: Strategy, Abilities, Loot

Maexxna is the third and final boss of The Arachnid Quarter that you will face in Naxxramas, taking place within her webbed lair. Naturally, as a spider Maexxna will make use of a variety of poisons and webbing to torment her enemies; arachnophobes beware!

• Help destroy any web cocoons that are trapping players affected by Web Wrap.
• Quickly slay any Maexxna Spiderlings that spawn to reduce the number of Necrotic Poison that need to be dispelled.
• Pay attention to the timer for Web Spray so that you do not waste any cooldowns just before getting stunned.

• Dispel Necrotic Poison/Necrotic Poison immediately, or your tank will surely die.
• Consider applying additional heal-over-time effects to the active tank before each cast of Web Spray so that they remain safe while stunned.

• This fight is easily solo-tankable, though another tank can still help out with the Maexxna Spiderling spawns.
• While the whole raid is stunned during Web Spray, Maexxna will still be attacking the active tank. Consider playing more defensively to account for this.
• Position Maexxna so that you are the only player getting hit by Poison Shock.
• Remember that Maexxna will Frenzy at 30% health, dealing even more damage for the rest of the encounter.

• Web Spray — Every 40 seconds, Maexxna will stun the entire raid for 6 seconds and deal a large amount of Nature damage.
• Web Wrap — One (or two, in 25-man) players will be dragged to a far wall of the encounter area and become trapped in a webbed cocoon. Until this cocoon is attacked and destroyed, the Web Wrapped victim(s) are helpless.
• Necrotic Poison — This ability is cast on Maexxna's main target, and is a Poison debuff that reduces all healing received by 90% for 30 seconds if it is not dispelled.
• Poison Shock — Maexxna will spray poison in a frontal cone that deals a large amount of Nature damage. No one should be hit by this attack other than the tank.
• Summon Spiderlings — Maexxna will occasionally spawn multiple Maexxna Spiderlings. These spiderlings will apply their, weaker form of Necrotic Poison that instead reduces healing received by 75%. Fortunately, this Poison debuff is also dispellable.
• Frenzy — Upon reaching 30% health, Maexxna will gain 50% increased attack speed and deal 75% more Physical damage until she is defeated.

Begin this encounter as a tank by ensuring Maexxna is faced away from the rest of the raid to avoid anyone being hit by Poison Shock. From here, the encounter will revolve around each role doing their respective job: healers will want to immediately dispel Necrotic Poison/Necrotic Poison and DPS will want to break out anyone affected by Web Wrap.

Beyond these simple jobs, every member of the raid will want to keep track of the Web Spray timer, as being stunned at the wrong time could mean death. In particular, be ready to potentially slow down the raid's damage output to avoid having to experience any Web Sprays while Maexxna is under the effect of Frenzy from reaching 30% health.

Item	Type/Slot
Maexxna's Femur	One-Hand Mace
Wraith Spear	Polearm
Aegis of Damnation	Shield
Embrace of the Spider	Trinket
Cloak of Armed Strife	Cape
Timeworn Silken Band	Ring
Pendant of Lost Vocations	Neck
Leggings of Discord	Leather Legs
Spaulders of the Monstrosity	Leather Shoulders
Web Cocoon Grips	Plate Gloves

Item	Type/Slot
Wraith Strike	Main Hand Fist Weapon
The Jawbone	Two-Hand Mace
Matriarch's Spawn	Off-hand
Dying Curse	Trinket
Grim Toll	Trinket
Defender's Code	Trinket
Forethought Talisman	Trinket
Aged Winter Cloak	Cape
Shroud of Luminosity	Cape
Cloak of the Shadowed Sun	Cape
Shawl of the Old Maid	Cape
Cloak of Averted Crisis	Cape
Digested Silken Robes	Cloth Chest
Distorted Limbs	Cloth Legs
Cowl of the Perished	Leather Helm
Infectious Skitterer Leggings	Leather Legs
Mantle of Shattered Kinship	Leather Shoulders
Sinner's Bindings	Leather Wrist
Quivering Tunic	Mail Chest
Torn Web Wrapping	Mail Belt
Undiminished Battleplate	Plate Chest
Helm of Diminished Pride	Plate Helm
Ablative Chitin Girdle	Plate Belt
Bindings of the Hapless Prey	Plate Wrist

Maexxna is just one of the 15 encounters present in the Naxxramas raid of Wrath of the Lich King Classic. If you would like to learn more about the others, or would like to see the loot tables of every boss at the same time, please see our other pages for the raid below.