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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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Must resist urge to read everything posted here. I wanna beat it all by my lonesome :/
Nah read up - you want to be done with this and have the new cards as fast as the rest of us lol.
You don't get any cards from heroic.
Still regardless - be done with adventure mode asap and get back to earning gold from killing ranked players!
Also - card back for heroic (from what I've read).
Well, I am glad that I didn't read anything. Cleared everything for this week. Heroic Maexxna took a couple tries but the rest was fairly easy. The wait for next week begins :)
Best way to grind her down IMO...
This is exactly what I did.
Do Faerlina - she kills my hunter in 4 rounds since I can't empty my hand fast enough :(
What? I beat Faerlina, normal and heroic, with a standard Zoo deck. Took two tries on heroic, but it wasn't hard. Being able to bleed out your hand was important in nullifying that hero power.
On normal, I beat them all with a pretty standard Zoo deck on my first try.
Freeze mage absolutely destroyed the first two bosses on Heroic. I'm playing the variant with Antonidas. I ended the first match with 8 Fireballs in hand. The AI does not understand that you need to deal with Antonidas in a single turn or you die.
Here is the deck I used below.
I used a Frost Giants mage deck with Alex to beat Anub. Going to try it for the other two.
Like ocuses said, all you have to do for heroic maexxna is to put 7 1 damage minions on the enemy board, heal yourself and use charge.
I used this
<3 that healadin deck.
hc maexxna is easy with vodoo doctors, earthenring farseers, wolfriders and bluegill warriors
hc faerlina zoo lock did the trick for me the trick is nerubian egg, she doesn't use her hero power when you have it in play.
hc anub I used my mind control priest deck: http://i.imgur.com/p23mqQN.png
all 3 heroics were down on the first try with said decks with maexxna and faerlina down my first try and anub down on my second try (failed with a rogue)
Tried using Nerubian Egg to see if it would cancel out the special ability....nope - she blew it up on her turn. I died round 4,
oh it must be some other reason why se refused to use it the second I played it
One words answer to most Naxx Heroic bosses: Alexstrazsa
Thats how I cleared Anub and Maxxena by the way.
Anub I used mostly delay tactics as Mage, until I got Alexstrazsa out and easily kill him the next turn. I also have Lorewalker Cho to completely mess up the AI (seriously they kind of doesnt know how to handle Cho). He keep trading Mirror Images with me, which I gladly reuse over and over to stall him badly as I build my defense to wait for Alexy arrival
Widow I used Tank N Spank priest deck, with Velen added in. I also happened to use Cabal to steal her worshippers over, which turned the whole game around for me. After that with Velen on she was firmly under my control.
For Maexxna if you did her Class Challenge you should know how to handle her: use a deck loaded with Battlecrys and Charger. I used Rogue for this one, with added bonus of having SI:7 Agents to repeatedly smack the cheater boss. I also have Sea Giant, since Maxx very quickly filled up the board, and amusingly, I used Vanish too, as that turned out to be the best way to force her to deck her own cards and avoiding deathrattle triggers.
Also, I am thinking of using Mass Silence and/or Cabal Priests on 4 Horsemen. Should be hilarious when it come out.
Freeze mage works wonders on the first heroic. I didn't even have to use ice block or doomsayer. 2 molten giants helped too. :)
I did Heroic with RampDruid>Zoo>Freezemage. Only lost the first game against Maexxna but mostly due to bad draws. The next game I won with a wonderfull Alextraza that got played first on him and then healed myself 3 times since he only had 8dmg on the board. Just needed to wait for a few more cards before it was game.