Guide to Alizabal, Mistress of Hate

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Season 11 starts today after maintenance and that means a new boss is available in Baradin Hold, Alizabal, Mistress of Hate.

The Kirin Tor imprisoned Alizabal in their formidable Violet Hold not long after corrupt magi summoned the shivarra into Azeroth. Despite arcane wards restricting her powers, the demon's malicious influence alone caused her guards to murder one another in sudden fits of rage. Her transfer to Baradin Hold prior to the Cataclysm has only aggravated the ruined prison's increasingly dire conditions.

MMO Champion has a list of Alizabal's known abilities.

Skewer
Alizabal skewers and stuns her current target for 8 sec. Skewer also inflicts 10000 Physical damage every 2 sec. and increases the target's damage taken by 150%.

Seething Hate
Alizabal incites Seething Hate in a random player, inflicting 600000 total Fire damage to all players within 6 yards of the target. The damage is split amongst all of the nearby players.

Blade Dance
Alizabal enters a Blade Dance and inflicts 12500 Physical damage every sec. to every player within 13 yards. The Blade Dance also deflects all incoming attacks.


Based on these abilities, and barring any unknown abilities or environmental factors, I figure the fight strategy will look about like this:

When the current tank gets Skewered, and thus stunned for 8 seconds, the other tank should taunt Alizabal. Alizabal's most dangerous ability looks to be Seething Hat, which dictates that the group will need to be stacked up within 6 yards of each other, otherwise eating that 600k fire damage is going to result in a one way trip to the graveyard. Blade Dance looks to be the point in the fight where everyone runs away screaming in terror; likely running to the other side of the room and letting the tanks eat the damage. Of course, it may be possible for the healers to just heal through the damage and stay put. Also of note, during Blade Dance all damage is deflected, so there is no reason to worry about keeping up with your damage rotation, just focus on staying alive, using any potions, bandages, warlock boogers and self heals you may have at your disposal.

Disclaimer - Since this fight is not yet live and I have not seen this fight first hand on the PTR, any conclusions I have drawn could be wildly inaccurate and may result in bloody discharge, diarrhea, migraines, and anal leakage.

EDIT - Having seen the fight in person now, I can confirm the strategies listed above. As an added note, during Blade Dance, Alizabal randomly charges a member of the raid. Most groups scatter randomly in this phase as I predicted.