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The Arachnid Quarter Heroic Boss Deck Guides
Need some help with the Arachnid Quarter on Heroic difficulty? We've compiled some decks to help you out! The decks used for Heroic difficulty can also help you on Normal with similar strategies. If you have an Alexstrasza, you can put her to some great use in Heroic Naxxramas.
Anub'Rekhan Heroic
View the Anub'Rekhan Boss Guide
The first boss of the Arachnid Quarter, Anub'Rekhan, is able to summon a 4/4 Nerubian for 2 mana which can quickly overwhelm you. Board clear and taunts are your best friend in this fight so that once you gain board control, you can trade against your opponent while keeping ahead. Check out a couple of Druid decks below which should be able to help you out in the fight against Anub, and if you're having issues, try out Poison Seeds!
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Grand Widow Faerlina Heroic
View the Grand Widow Faerlina Boss Guide
The second boss of the Arachnid Quarter, Grand Widow Faerlina, fires her own version of Arcane Missiles which fires one missile per card in your hand. Taunts and a small hand will go a long way in this fight to keep her minions away from your face and her hero power dealing a minimal amount of damage.
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Maexxna Heroic
Maexxna is the final boss in the Arachnid Quarter. Her hero power returns two random minions on your side of the field back to your hand. There is a "feature" of the Maexxna Heroic AI in which she will always cast her hero power first if you have minions on your side of the board. Loading up on spells and Wild Pyromancer, while only keeping two minions in play at a time, can help clear out her low cost minions with a Pyromancer/Spell combo! Make sure you mulligan for board clear!
That's not the only way of defeating Maexxna though, so check out the decks below for some help on clearing this final boss.
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I imagine on Tuesday, but they could offset it for some odd reason. Never know!
Money is on every Tuesday though.
This is true
Whenever I planned to use Alextrasza, I ended up being killable by turn 9, at least against Anub. Easy fight with a basic pally deck though.
Thanks for adding these guides. They can be pretty useful for helping out players who are struggling with the Heroic kills.
Definitely recommend anyone who is having trouble to check out some of these decks and try something new.
I think this needs spoiler buttons! It's tough enough around the forums to not find strategy spoilers by accident - making decks front page new without a spoiler warning is bad manners.
I think Naxx has already been much too easy for many players frequenting HearthPwn...
In fact, it would be good to Spoiler Hide all of the boss and encounter-specific on the front page. It does spoil the experience.
Don't read them? LOL
Well the title where quite OBVIOUS that the content would be spoiler?
The sad truth there is nothing else to talk about right now (except of the few changes the new card impact meta that is minor), thanks to half year of teasers and the content is not that big really
if you need a spoiler button after you read the tittle, Than there is lack of hope in the future
Minor impact? We're drowning in Nerubian Eggs here.
Beat Heroic Anub first try with my druid control deck. Innervated into Druid of the Claw as a 4/6 taunt on turn three, kept the 4/4s at bay for a few turns while I bolstered my forces. Killing his 2/8 that gives me a minion gave me an Ironbark Protector as well.
Can we get a spoiler button for the decks?
Excuse me but what are the rewards for the heroic mode ?
for wing nothing
for all wings a card back
they removed that. now you can craft golden after unlocking the cards on normal.
heroic is just for that one card back
Maexxna's AI is way too exploitable. She returned my Garrosh Hellscream 3 times which made me feel almost like I was cheating. She's so easy once you get the pattern. I know its only the first wing but common Blizz you can do better than that. As I recall maexxena's web shot would knock your character to the back of the room and root them to the wall where the raid had to DPS the webbing to free you fast as possible especially if you were a healer. Seems like in hearthstone that would translate to a freeze-like debuff where your minion can't attack. That would make the match much more challenging
i used
miracle rogue for Anub'Rekhan (worked first try)
sunshine hunter vs Faerlina (never draw from buzzard + dogs)
priest for Maexxna (similar to the one posted here but with added shadow word death and no shadow form)
Used a Midrange Shaman deck for Anub'Rekhan, worked pretty well, relative easy to board control.
Used a Zoo deck against Grand Widow Faerlina. Best since you can manage to have your hand empty pretty fast which makes her spell workthless.
Used a AoE Mage variation against Maexxna, including Alextraza, cone of cold and such. Worked with first try, was easy that way.
Did it with shaman. Archers, voodoo doctors, earthen rings at the start to keep you going. MC tech is really powerful. Tidehunter helped as the extra minion costs 0 to play. Argent commander is 4 damage to a minion each turn later on. Shaman and Paladin are good choices as you summon minions which is an additional target for the web. Aside from the sea giant, there isn't much in the way of big minions.
Seems to me the only way to beat her is with a shit ton of cheap 1-2 cost cards so the hand remains empty.
May try this.
Freeze mage was fine for Maexxna Heroic too... Mirror Image is really useful if you get it early. Play it, and get it sapped back to your hand. Then the mirrors cost 0 mana. That is great for when you get lower on health... You can play your Molten Giants for free, your Mirror Images for free, and a few cheap minions like Loot Hoarders. Then you have a good chance of your Giants not getting sapped.
I did not get any notification of any type of award after winning Heroic though. I thought I was supposed to get a cardback?
Vijce's hunter looks to be the go-to GG deck for Maexxna. Easy peazy.