High Priest Venoxis Guide: Strategy, Abilities, Loot

• You will want at least 2 tanks.
• Positioning is key. Have one tank pull the boss away from the snake adds to start, since she can heal them.
• Once Phase 2 begins, slowly kite the boss in a circle around the room. Do not stand in the poison clouds.

• Make sure at least one healer is in range of the boss tank.
• Watch for melee who are standing too close to the boss, since they can get cast on for all of or almost all of their health.

• Ranged DPS should focus Venoxis from the start of the fight to get him to 50% as quickly as possible.
• Melee DPS need to stay far away from Venoxis during Phase 1. Use this time to burn down the snake adds that the off-tank should be holding away from the boss.
• Once Phase 2 begins, everyone can safely burn the boss, just avoid the poison clouds.

• Getting the boss positioned correctly is the most important part of the fight. Have your main tank pull the boss to one side of the room, while your melee and off-tank take the snake adds to the other side of the room.
• Have Ranged DPS always on the boss, but do not let melee go near the boss until after she turns into a sneak and Phase 2 begins.
• Be careful to slowly pull the boss in a circle around the room in Phase 2. Do not stand in the poison cloud that the boss leaves behind.

Start the fight by pulling Venoxis to one side of the room, while the off-tank pulls the snake adds to the other side. Have the Ranged DPS focus Venoxis while the melee kill the adds. The melee absolutely cannot go near him until Phase 2 begins, so have them kill the adds to start. If you are worried about killing and keeping threat on all of the adds at once, you can use Polymorph and Hibernate on the ones that you are not killing, while you kill them one at a time.

Once the boss reaches Phase 2 at 50% health, she will transform into a snake, and will start dealing more damage. Tanks and healers should be careful at this point to not let the tanks die. This is when you should use DPS cooldowns, if you have them, since this will be the more important DPS phase. Burn him from 50% to 0 as quickly as possible to end the fight. The DPS need to be careful to not stand in the poison clouds that the boss leaves behind, which she will occasionally cast. Just move him in a circle around the room, moving whenever she is casting a new poison cloud.

• Holy Wrath is the chain lighting ability that the boss will cast in Phase 1. No one besides the tank can be within range, otherwise they will most likely die, potentially wiping the raid.

Item	Slot
Blooddrenched Footpads	Feet
Zanzil's Band	Finger
Zulian Stone Axe	2-Hand Axe
Zulian Tigerhide Cloak	Back
Fang of Venoxis	Dagger
Runed Bloodstained Hauberk	Chest

The High Priests and Priestesses of Zul'Gurub have a shared set of items in their loot table that can be dropped in addition to their specific loot tables.

Item	Slot
Belt of Untapped Power	Waist
Blooddrenched Mask	Head
Cloak of the Hakkari Worshipers	Back
Gloves of the Tormented	Hands
Might of the Tribe	Back
Sacrificial Gauntlets	Hands
Zulian Headdress	Head
Zulian Scepter of Rites	1-Hand Mace
Band of Servitude	Ring
Seal of the Gurubashi Berserker	Ring