IceCrown Citadel guide - The Plagueworks P2
This is the second part of the ICC the Plagueworks guide.Here come with the heroic mode of the boss Festergut and Rotface.
Heroic mode - Festergut
The biggest change to the Festergut fight is that Professor Putricide gets involved in it. Roughly every 30 seconds he will throw a Malleable Goo into the fight. This does big damage if it hits the player and slows them down greatly for 15 seconds, the same as it would in the Professor Putricide fight. Players need to watch for who is targeted and ensure they get out of the way.
In addition to the goo, Festergut hits much harder (which heroic boss doesn’t) and has more health.
Rotface
Rotface is Festergut’s “Brother” and the second boss found in the wing. He requires two tanks and a bit of coordination between all members of the raid. The main tank must establish agro against Rotface and tank him in the center of the room. He is tanked near the center of the room due to the fact that the outside of the room has canisters that release slime that spreads on the ground and causes damage. Therefore players should stay in the center as much as possible.
The tank needs to face him away from the group and everyone forms up behind him, while staying in the center area of the room. Throughout the fight Rotface will target random players to cast Slime Spray on. When he does this he will turn to face that player, then cast the spray. When this happens everyone has a little over 1 second to clear the area in front of him and get to the sides. Since everyone will be directly behind him as soon as he turns everyone simply scatters to the sides. Once he is done spraying he will reface the tank and everyone moves back in behind him.
The off-tank stays to the outside of the room avoiding the slime on the ground. Throughout the fight Rotface will target random players and cast Mutated Infection on them. When this happens they must move towards the off-tank and have the infection cleansed. When it is removed they will drop a small ooze. The small oozes are not tankable and the player must stay near the off tank until another players is infected and comes out to the off tank. At this point the small oozes will merge into a larger ooze that is tankable. Once a large ooze is active, infected players need to run in front of the off tank to have the small ooze drop in its path to be absorbed.
The oozes have several abilities, the main concern being an AoE damage effect to everyone near them. Therefore the off-tank should be the only one around it. The AOE damage that it causes is quite a bit so it it best for even the off tank to kite the ooze instead of tanking it. Secondly they spew out AoE slime areas that cause damage and slow people down. These need to be watched for and avoided by all players. Once five small oozes merge into the large ooze it will explode. The explosion throws out areas that need to be avoided, so everyone clears the center until they expire.
Once the center is clear, everyone repositions and the fight resumes from the beginning with small oozes merging. The fight continues like this until you have defeated Rotface.
Heroic Mode - Rotface
As is normal on heroic mode bosses, Rotface has higher health and hits harder. In addition the mutated infection that he places on people that spawns the little slimes reduces healing by 75% instead of the normal 50%. This makes getting into position and getting it removed as quickly as possible extremely critical.
In addition Professor Putricide gets involved in the fight and throws vile gas clouds down into the fight. Anyone hit cannot move for 5 seconds and has their hit rate lowered by 75%. Basically you are out of the fight for 5 seconds.
The fight is basically the same as normal mode, but far less forgiving. Since this is a difficult fight for many groups on normal mode still, heroic can be extremely difficult.
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Heroic mode - Festergut
The biggest change to the Festergut fight is that Professor Putricide gets involved in it. Roughly every 30 seconds he will throw a Malleable Goo into the fight. This does big damage if it hits the player and slows them down greatly for 15 seconds, the same as it would in the Professor Putricide fight. Players need to watch for who is targeted and ensure they get out of the way.
In addition to the goo, Festergut hits much harder (which heroic boss doesn’t) and has more health.
Rotface
Rotface is Festergut’s “Brother” and the second boss found in the wing. He requires two tanks and a bit of coordination between all members of the raid. The main tank must establish agro against Rotface and tank him in the center of the room. He is tanked near the center of the room due to the fact that the outside of the room has canisters that release slime that spreads on the ground and causes damage. Therefore players should stay in the center as much as possible.
The tank needs to face him away from the group and everyone forms up behind him, while staying in the center area of the room. Throughout the fight Rotface will target random players to cast Slime Spray on. When he does this he will turn to face that player, then cast the spray. When this happens everyone has a little over 1 second to clear the area in front of him and get to the sides. Since everyone will be directly behind him as soon as he turns everyone simply scatters to the sides. Once he is done spraying he will reface the tank and everyone moves back in behind him.
The off-tank stays to the outside of the room avoiding the slime on the ground. Throughout the fight Rotface will target random players and cast Mutated Infection on them. When this happens they must move towards the off-tank and have the infection cleansed. When it is removed they will drop a small ooze. The small oozes are not tankable and the player must stay near the off tank until another players is infected and comes out to the off tank. At this point the small oozes will merge into a larger ooze that is tankable. Once a large ooze is active, infected players need to run in front of the off tank to have the small ooze drop in its path to be absorbed.
The oozes have several abilities, the main concern being an AoE damage effect to everyone near them. Therefore the off-tank should be the only one around it. The AOE damage that it causes is quite a bit so it it best for even the off tank to kite the ooze instead of tanking it. Secondly they spew out AoE slime areas that cause damage and slow people down. These need to be watched for and avoided by all players. Once five small oozes merge into the large ooze it will explode. The explosion throws out areas that need to be avoided, so everyone clears the center until they expire.
Once the center is clear, everyone repositions and the fight resumes from the beginning with small oozes merging. The fight continues like this until you have defeated Rotface.
Heroic Mode - Rotface
As is normal on heroic mode bosses, Rotface has higher health and hits harder. In addition the mutated infection that he places on people that spawns the little slimes reduces healing by 75% instead of the normal 50%. This makes getting into position and getting it removed as quickly as possible extremely critical.
In addition Professor Putricide gets involved in the fight and throws vile gas clouds down into the fight. Anyone hit cannot move for 5 seconds and has their hit rate lowered by 75%. Basically you are out of the fight for 5 seconds.
The fight is basically the same as normal mode, but far less forgiving. Since this is a difficult fight for many groups on normal mode still, heroic can be extremely difficult.
To be continued.View more wow Ice Crown Citadel(ICC) guides here.www.oofay.com/news.htm/
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