High Priestess Mar'li, Healer Guide - World of Warcraft

High Priestess Mar'li Dungeon Journal Model This page covers a healer-focused strategy for High Priestess Mar'li in Zul'Gurub. While it's tailored for healers, other roles may also find the information useful. If you have any suggestions or feedback, you can leave a comment below or tweet @PrestonDvorak.

This guide has been updated and maintained based on my own experiences with the encounter, logs information, and Dungeon Journal information. I'll continue to update it as-needed.

General Mechanics and Abilities

Accompanied by one Witherbark Speaker and four Spawns of Mar'li.
- Witherbark Speaker
  - Interrupt Superior Healing Ward and Healing Wave to prevent the healing.
  - Interrupts random player's spell casts with Earth Shock.
- Spawn of Mar'li
  - Target random players with Poison (dispel, poison), dealing light damage over time.
  - Gradually get stronger the longer they're alive.
Periodically spawns Spawns of Mar'li throughout the encounter.
Switches between troll and spider form.
- In troll form:
  - Interrupt Drain Life to prevent the healing.
  - Applies Poison Bolt Volley (dispel, poison) to all players, dealing light damage over time.
- In spider form:
  - Purge Enlarge to remove the increased physical damage dealt effect.
  - Stay at least 20-yards away to avoid Enveloping Webs. This forces a threat reset.

Season of Mastery Differences

Currently, I'm not aware of any differences.

Resistance Levels

Players should have as much Nature Resistance as possible without sacrificing other stats.

Healing Notes

The notes below mostly pertain to progression difficulty, meaning if you out-gear the difficulty you're on or use extra healers they may not apply.

Prioritize dispelling poison effects from the tanks and be prepared for the light healing required on all players as dispelling all the poison effects will take time.
Be prepared to heal a non-tank player following Enveloping Webs while the tank reestablishes threat.