As with many guilds, we got our first encounter with Festergut and Rotface this past week. Some of this will probably be repetition from Friday’s post, but I’m sure you can deal.

For reference, this is all on 10-man.

Stinky & Precious

Stinky is definately the easier of the two. He summons no zombies, and just does his AOE Fart of Doom and Decimate. Other than that, straightforward tank-n-spank.

Precious is a bitch w/ her Zombie Summon. Our strat so far has been to stand there, burn the zombies when they spawn, then get back on Precious. As the fight goes on, she seems to summon them more and more frequently, so you can’t spend all your time on the Zombies, or you get no DPS on the boss. So far we’re using a “stand there and take it like a man” approach. We get her down, so it works, I suppose.

Festergut

Festergut is about a bajillion times easier than his “brother”, and I definately recommend that your raid start with him.

You can watch the vids on tankspot for yourself, but what we did is have all melee standing on him, all ranged spread out on one side of the room. Range collapsed on the person who got spored to get the inoculation.

Otherwise, DPS the shit out of him. I think we got lucky and didn’t have any 2-spores in the ranged. It only took us 1, maybe 2 attempts to get him down.

JerkRotface

This fight is a bitch. There is SO much going on. Each person needs to be situationally aware, and on top of their own shit.

Unfortunately there are some folks in my guild for whom this is a challenge.

Caliban’s Things To Know about Rotface:

  • There is a lot of DBM text spam during this fight. Turning on the “special warning” for slime spray adds the little “alert sound”.  Since I’ve already got a lot of visual things to watch with dot timers, etc, the sound makes me look up, see where Rotface is facing and make sure I’m out of the line of spray.
  • Slime Spray will hit you across the room. If you are kiting slimes, check your position when the slime spray cast warning goes off.
  • Dont’ stand in the green stuff (duh). Slime pools hit for 2-4k every second.
  • Don’t stand near the slimes. All slimes have a 10-yard aoe tick that HURTS. You have to get your baby slime w/in 10 yards of the other slime to merge them, but don’t hang out to party.
  • The DBM warning for the ooze explosion comes early. Someone needs to watch the ooze until it actually shoots the oozes out and THEN everyone needs to move. It’s targeted at where the 3 players were standing when the oozes are “fired” and not when the actual warning goes off. We’ve lost folks because people moved early and folks ran into a slime bomb.

This is a busy fight, and absolutely everyone needs to be aware of their surroundings.

One thing we haven’t tried (because it seems as if folks don’t have attention to spare at the moment) is having the Infected person call out when they’re away from the group and can have their debuff removed. Although the damage from the ooze AOE is the same as the damage from the infection, so the healers would have to heal it either way, so I guess that’s not anything to worry about.

One other mechanic that I can’t find proof on is what happens to the little slimes when the person they’re attached to dies. Anecdotaly, I saw what looked like them “fixating” on someone else, but they never did it to me explicitly, so I can’t be sure.

Saurfang 25

We made some good progress on this on Sunday, getting him down under 14% a couple times. Unfortunately by that point he was gaining so much power that he was marking another person every few seconds and we just couldn’t muscle through.

I think we’re having problems with folks getting hit by the blood beasts, so we’re going to have to work on that.

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