In our last update, we talked about our upcoming battle against Blood Queen Lana'thel, the ruler of the San'layn, a sect of blood elves who were raised in undeath by the Lich King.

The Blood Queen is a relatively simple fight in theory. Basically she "bites" raid members, which empowers them for a short period. At the end of that time though, the empowered raid member needs to "feed" by biting another member, which empowers them and resets the blood thirst on the original member. In a perfect world, you cascade this ability through the raid, eventually allowing you to push out enough raid damage to defeat the Blood Queen before she enrages.

In reality though, Blizzard has added a lot of factors that complicate the fight - constant raid damage that increases by the number of "vampires" present in the raid. Dark pacts that link raid members and do damage to those around them until they get close enough to each other for it to fade and then lastly, nasty blood bolts that can chain between raid members.

She proved a tough fight for us. We've rarely come up against some of the gear limits we face as a 10-man "strict" guild, but she came close as we finished her off with roughly 10 seconds before her enrage timer.

Guild Strats:

• Lana'Thel Strat Comic - Dreambound