Beth'Tilac Strategy Guide

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Beth’Tilas is a spider boss located in Firelands

There is a large web ceiling where raiders can move up to by clicking the threads

The raid is split in 2 groups: one group below and one group above the web

Kill Beth’Tilac and all spawning adds before she kills the raid

Beth’Tilac is a soft-enrage fight : You have to kill her before her damage becomes unhealable

What is new

Version 1.02: Better assignments on ground, small errors are cleaned out

Raid composition

In 10-man normal difficulty: 2 tanks, 3 healers and 5 DPS;

In 25-man normal difficulty: 2/3 tanks, 6/7 healers, 15-17 DPS

The raid moves in and pulls Beth’Tilac

Move as one cluster and be ready to heal everyone up fast!

Beth’Tilac retreats up to the safety of her web on the ceiling

Spiders will spawn in the middle on threads. Taunt and Kill the spiders The threads will stay.

Free up 2 threads Have one tank and one healer move up simultaneously ASAP.

If Beth’Tilac is not engaged she will cast Venom Rain which does massive damage

So one group needs to move up the web to engage Beth’Tilac to stop Venom Rain

The rest of the raid stays on the ground and deals with the adds

Assign one (elite) team to move up the threads. This consists of:

10man: 1 tank, 1 healer and 2 Melee DPS

25man: One tank, 2 healers and 5/6 Melee DPS

Use the threads to climb up the web . Only one person can climb each string

Beth’Tilac will use the following abilities when she is tanked on top of the web:

Meteor Burn

Beth’Tilac casts Meteor Burn . Make sure to Move out of the impact zone.

Ember Flare

Beth’Tilac casts Ember Flare which does AoE damage

Smoldering Devastation

Beth’Tilac has an energy meter (called Fire Energy)

Whenever this is at 0 energy, she will cast Smoldering Devastation

You will need to jump down the hole in the middle of the web to dodge this

Assist on killing any big spiders when you are on the ground

Make sure to move back up after Smoldering Devastation is gone.

The group below the web do the following:

Positioning

The group on the ground is positioned in the south-west like this

To clarify: This is the exact spot in the South-west corner

The raid moves here because the South-west corner is the only corner where small spiders do not spawn

The groups deals with the following adds like this:

Cinderweb Spinner

These spider hang on thread. They always spawn in the middle

A tank can taunt these spiders down to the ground

Let 1 ranged DPS (10man) or 2/3 ranged DPS (25man) kill these spinners

Spinners cast Burning Acid which does mediocre damage

Spinner cast Fiery Web Spin which “cocoons” players, DPS cocoons down

Cinderweb Drones

These are big spiders that need to be tanked in the south-west corner

Do not stand in front of the adds (they use an acid cone)

If these spiders run out of energy they will move up the ceiling

Drones siphon energy, decreasing the time before the next smoldering devastation

So kill the big spiders before they run out of energy

Cinderweb Spiderlings

Beth’Tilac occasionly summons small adds that spawn in the 3 other corners

If these small adds reach the other spiders or the boss, they will get Consumed and heal them

Assign 3 ranged DPS (25man) to each corner. Use raid markers like this

The small spiders are high killing priority and need to be AOE’ed + slowed down fast

Beth’Tilac moves down after 3 Smoldering Devastations

You need to have Beth Tilac down to about 70-75% now

Any % higher means your DPS is too low (move more people up the web)

Make sure that all big spiders are killed when she moves down

Positioning

The raid is positioned in a triangle like this when Beth’Tilac is on the ground

Beth’Tilac uses the following abilities in this phase

Frenzy

She gains a stacking buff called Frenzy which does more damage over time

Ember Flare

Beth’Tilac casts Ember Flare which does AoE damage

Ember Flare + Frenzy becomes unhealable after a while which is a soft enrage timer

Widow’s Kiss

She also cast The Widow’s Kiss on a tank. This is a stacking debuff

The debuff reduces healing and gives the tank an aura that damages nearby allies (stacks up)

In order to deal with this do the following:

Tank Rotation

The maintank tanks Beth’Tilac

At some point (randomly) she casts The Widow’s Kiss on the maintank

The offtank taunts and takes over, the maintank wait for the debuff to run off

The offtank tanks Beth’Tilac for 20 seconds

The maintank takes over, etc.

Why 20 seconds? Is the exact time for the debuff to run out

Continue the same routine and kill Beth’Tilac