IceCrown Citadel guide - The Plagueworks P3
This is the third part of the ICC the Plagueworks guide.Here comes the last boss in the Plagueworks.In normal and heroic mode .
Professor Putricide is the last boss in the Plagueworks wing of the Icecrown Citadel. He is the insane Professor that created the two previous bosses and wants to cure us of all our flesh.
This fight involves having two tanks, one tanking professor Putricide and the other drinking a potion from the professors desk to become an abomination that looks like the two previous bosses. Throughout the first two phases of this fight the abomination tank must eat the slime pools that form on the ground and slow the oozes and clouds that the professor spawns. The main tank simply hols the professor by the ooze pipe to the right of the entrance to the room and avoids slime pools.
When oozes or slims appear everyone that is not targeted by one must dps them down as fast as possible. Once you drop the professors heath enough he will stun everyone and run back to the table and phase two begins wow gold.
In phase two the fight remains much the same, however he now throws mutable slime at players that must be avoided. He also places flasts on the ground that need to be avoided or they slow you down and place a large DOT on you. Once you lower his health enough he will stun everyone and phase 3 will begin.
In phase three the off-tank reverts to thier normal appearance and you must trade threat back and forth to balance the debuffs that the professor puts on you. The tanks jobs are to hold aggro, while balancing debuffs, while kiting the professor around the ever growing slime pools. DPS must burn the professor down quickly.
Since you have no way to get rid of the slime pools any longer they serve as a soft enrage timer. You need to defeat him before the room fills. Therefore the tanks should kite him as slowly as possible and DPS / Healers should stay grouped up so that slime is not thrown all over. As soon as a slime pool appears everyone moves as little as possible to a new safe place, preferably hugging and existing slime pool. This extends the third phase giving you slighty mode time.
Heroic Mode - Professor Putricide
Putricide is a difficult fight to begin with, and Heroic mode is just that, Heroic. In addition to more health and damage, he throws more malleable goo at players and gains two new abilities.
The first is called Unbound Plague which is essentially a bouncing 1 minute DoT that jumps to players that are within melee range and stacks indefinitely. Putricide casts it on a random player who must get away from everyone immediately. Each stack does a small amount of damage. The idea is to hold onto it until you need to hand it off to someone, around 10-15 stacks. However when it jumps off a player it leaves a different 1 minute debuff that raises damage from the plague by 300%, which means you can not get it back or you will die. You need to hand it off 4-5 times for everyone to survive, so you need to have a preset order of players to hand it off to and stay away from everyone else.
Secondly, instead of stunning the raid with tear gas between phases, Putricide instead spawns both a volatile ooze and a gas cloud. You need to get these down as fast as possible without taking extra damage.
Good luck - the fight is even more insane than the normal Putricide fight!
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Professor Putricide is the last boss in the Plagueworks wing of the Icecrown Citadel. He is the insane Professor that created the two previous bosses and wants to cure us of all our flesh.
This fight involves having two tanks, one tanking professor Putricide and the other drinking a potion from the professors desk to become an abomination that looks like the two previous bosses. Throughout the first two phases of this fight the abomination tank must eat the slime pools that form on the ground and slow the oozes and clouds that the professor spawns. The main tank simply hols the professor by the ooze pipe to the right of the entrance to the room and avoids slime pools.
When oozes or slims appear everyone that is not targeted by one must dps them down as fast as possible. Once you drop the professors heath enough he will stun everyone and run back to the table and phase two begins wow gold.
In phase two the fight remains much the same, however he now throws mutable slime at players that must be avoided. He also places flasts on the ground that need to be avoided or they slow you down and place a large DOT on you. Once you lower his health enough he will stun everyone and phase 3 will begin.
In phase three the off-tank reverts to thier normal appearance and you must trade threat back and forth to balance the debuffs that the professor puts on you. The tanks jobs are to hold aggro, while balancing debuffs, while kiting the professor around the ever growing slime pools. DPS must burn the professor down quickly.
Since you have no way to get rid of the slime pools any longer they serve as a soft enrage timer. You need to defeat him before the room fills. Therefore the tanks should kite him as slowly as possible and DPS / Healers should stay grouped up so that slime is not thrown all over. As soon as a slime pool appears everyone moves as little as possible to a new safe place, preferably hugging and existing slime pool. This extends the third phase giving you slighty mode time.
Heroic Mode - Professor Putricide
Putricide is a difficult fight to begin with, and Heroic mode is just that, Heroic. In addition to more health and damage, he throws more malleable goo at players and gains two new abilities.
The first is called Unbound Plague which is essentially a bouncing 1 minute DoT that jumps to players that are within melee range and stacks indefinitely. Putricide casts it on a random player who must get away from everyone immediately. Each stack does a small amount of damage. The idea is to hold onto it until you need to hand it off to someone, around 10-15 stacks. However when it jumps off a player it leaves a different 1 minute debuff that raises damage from the plague by 300%, which means you can not get it back or you will die. You need to hand it off 4-5 times for everyone to survive, so you need to have a preset order of players to hand it off to and stay away from everyone else.
Secondly, instead of stunning the raid with tear gas between phases, Putricide instead spawns both a volatile ooze and a gas cloud. You need to get these down as fast as possible without taking extra damage.
Good luck - the fight is even more insane than the normal Putricide fight!
To view more wow raid guides here.
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IceCrown Citadel guide - The Plagueworks
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Blizzard ask feedback from the players for the Cataclysm Tanking Cooldowns
