The Karazhan Guide Pt3 - Maiden of Virtue

This fight, like Attumen, but unlike Moroes, is completely optional. You don't need to kill the Maiden to progress further and are at liberty to ignore her. That said, she drops two really nice peices of Tanking loot, which Ulu still uses:

Iron Gauntlets of the Maiden and Barbed Choket of Discipline

That said:

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The Maiden of Virtue fight stands as the first real tanking gear check of Kara. Some of our Warriors early on in quest/instance blues had real problems with her, since she hits fairly hard and the Aoe Stuns can leave you without healing for several seconds.

she's doubly annoying to a Paladin tank since she emits a Holy Ground effect constantly. Holy Ground is basically a Consecration-like AoE which silences for 1 sec on each tick. That means one second out of every three, you can't cast. Couple this with the Global Cooldown and you're going to spend half this fight spamming your keys in frustration to activate your next ability. Make sure Melee watch their aggro on this fight, since they'll suffer if you struggle.

If you have another well-geared tank, then get them to tank her and help with cleansing the Holy Fire. Another thing I used to do as an off-healer was cast Blessing of Sacrifice on the tank. That way when she did her Repentance (AoE stun), the BoSac would wake me up and I could heal the tank until the healers get unstunned.

If you're intent on MTing this bitch, and you don't badly outgear the place then you're going to have to come up with a way to survive the Repentances.

1. If you have another Paladin in the group, have them keep Blessing of Sacrifice on you, and then heal you during the Repentances.

2. If you don't, then you're going to need to move over to your healers so that the Holy ground touches them and wakes them up. After you've moved them out, move them back quickly so the healers aren't silenced by the Holy Ground.

As long as the tank survives the Repentances, the Holy Fires are cleansed and the DPS behaves, she'll go down. If not, did I mention this fight is totally optional?