Anub'Rekhan strategy for dummies guide (2,230,000 Hit points normal/ 6,763,325 Hit Points heroic).

This boss is fairly easy. The fight starts with him having 2 crypt guards at his side with about 500K life each. They can cleave, Spit acid and go into frenzy. They are easily tanked and killed, and should be at the start of the fight.

Anub'Rekhan key Abilities:

This fight is a basic Tank and Spank fight with a few exceptions.

• Impale:

Every now and then Anub'Rekhan will target a random player and will use attack it with Impale Ability. This looks like a cone of spikes from Anub'Rekhan to the target. Everyone in the spikes AOE will be thrown into the air, and will suffer 50% fall damage.

It's mainly up to healers to be aware of this damage, and heal threw it, nothing special.

• Locus Swarm:

Every 70- 120 seconds or so Anub'Rekhan will use an AOE effect called Locus Swarm, ranging 30 Yards and stacking, making the targets suffer from nature damage and be Silenced (preventing even special abilities. This also applied to the tank so, for example, he can't Shield wall).
When this effect is over Crypt Guard will spawn and they need to be tanked and downed ASAP so they don't stack their poison attack enough to kill someone.

• Threw out the fight Anub'Rekhan will also resurrect corpses of his guardians or players into Scarabs, those have aggro towards a random target, and should be picked up by a tank and killed.

Encounter strategy:

1. (25 man only) Tank gets into place and pulls, while the 2 guards get tanked and downed ASAP.

2. Anub'Rekhan is tanked and spanked with raid rest of the raid forming a "U" shape to avoid as much damage from Impale as possible (See Picture Below).

3. Watch out for corpse raising add. Have your offtanks around they corpse, and a mage in standby to frost nova them .
4. When he starts casting locus swarm the tank get away and starts to range pull him along the walls of the room. A hunter can assist the Tank run faster.
Rest of the raid tanks and kills the adds that spawn. EVERYONE watches to not go into locus swarms (See Picture Below).