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Naxxramas

RaidLevel 60+40 players

Raid Map & Bosses

Naxxramas, the 40-player floating necropolis of Kel'Thuzad.

Naxxramas

Naxxramas is one of the new raids in World of Warcraft: Forever. Browse the other raids or plan your route in the leveling guide.

Level
60+
Raid Size
40
Bosses
15

About Naxxramas

Kel'Thuzad was a Dalaran archmage before he was anything else, and he left the Kirin Tor because they would not follow the work where it led. He founded the Cult of the Damned, he died at Arthas's hands, and he was carried to Northrend and brought back as a lich — which is not a punishment in his case. It is the promotion he went looking for.

Naxxramas is his. The Lich King gave him a necropolis and he has spent the time since turning it into a working institution: an abomination cellar, a spider quarter, a military wing drilling the dead of Lordaeron's own armies, and a plague ward producing strains for a war that has not been declared yet. Everything in it is built to be replaced, including most of its occupants.

It hangs over the Eastern Plaguelands now, above Stratholme, close enough that the Argent Dawn tracks its drift on a chart. Nothing about its position is accidental. Kel'Thuzad has chosen the ground he intends to be standing over when the rest of it begins.

First Run

  • The necropolis floats above Stratholme in the Eastern Plaguelands.
  • Forty players at maximum level. This is the end of the Classic progression.
  • Attunement is expensive and per-player. Settle it across the roster well before the first raid night.
  • Four wings plus the final ascent, and each wing asks for something different from the group.

Veteran Notes

  • Fifteen encounters across the Arachnid, Plague, Military and Construct quarters, then Sapphiron and Kel'Thuzad.
  • Forty players, maximum level.
  • The Four Horsemen and Thaddius are positioning fights that no amount of gear will excuse.
  • Frost resistance is required for Sapphiron.

Raid Bosses

15 bosses wait in Naxxramas.

  1. 01Anub'Rekhan
  2. 02Grand Widow Faerlina
  3. 03Maexxna
  4. 04Noth the Plaguebringer
  5. 05Heigan the Unclean
  6. 06Loatheb
  7. 07Instructor Razuvious
  8. 08Gothik the Harvester
  9. 09The Four Horsemen
  10. 10Patchwerk
  11. 11Grobbulus
  12. 12Gluth
  13. 13Thaddius
  14. 14Sapphiron
  15. 15Kel'ThuzadFinal

Raid Progression

  1. Barrow Deeps10 players · 0 bosses
  2. Hyjal Summit20 players · 0 bosses
  3. Molten Core40 players · 10 bosses
  4. Onyxia's Lair40 players · 1 bosses
  5. Blackwing Lair40 players · 8 bosses
  6. Zul'Gurub20 players · 10 bosses
  7. Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj20 players · 6 bosses
  8. Temple of Ahn'Qiraj40 players · 9 bosses
  9. Naxxramas40 players · 15 bosses