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Maraudon Achievement

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:02:00 +0000

So today I finally finished Maraudon. I had a great group and we did it fairly quickly, and I got my priest to level 45. It was funny cause we pretty much 4-manned the entire thing because our mage dced in the very beginning. I finally topped the dps charts which was good for me, but I didn't get any drop out of it. Oh well it was fun and good exp :)

Randoms

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:18:00 +0000

So today I was leveling in Tanaris on my Priest and I was queued up for an instance. I was observing two players kill the "boss" I needed to kill for my quest and then I was prompted to enter the dungeon. As I entered I saw the mage and shaman who were right in front of me when I entered the dungeon. I thought it was pretty funny that we happened to get matched up together.

Paladin Tanks

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:42:00 +0000

Since when did Holy Light become part of Paladin tank rotations? Well I don't know what it is but it seems to happen quite a lot when I heal. The second they get under half heath, they cast Holy Light and it take probably about 4+ seconds to cast if they are getting hit by multiple enemies. Sadly my heals heal from 1/2 to 3/4 of their health, and I can get them to full health before their Holy Light even casts. Its just doesn't make since, if you have a healer then let them heal you and don't worry about dieing.

Top of the World...Well Ironforge at Least....

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:25:00 +0000

So today I was messing around and figured out how to get to the top of Ironforge. I have seen some people up there before and they were usually priests so I figured you needed a priest to do it. Levitate is the key skill to doing this, which allows you to "climb walls." It was fun to get up there, but its nothing special. I sat up there for a few minutes casting mind vision on people and that was about it. Oh well...

Maraudon

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:19:00 +0000

So today I queued up for randoms and I got put in a group for Maraudon as a healer. This is all good except that all the mobs in Maraudon are 44+ and out group was full of 41s and 42s. Hmm interesting, I love how Blizzard does that.

So of course it was extremely hard to heal because everyone was taking so much damage and kept pulling aggro off of each other so I could just waste of of my mana.

Aside from that, I had a wonderful mage in the the group who decides that running closer to mobs is better. So this mage is in melee range at almost every fight and getting slammed hard by the mobs and of course wasting all of my mana.

However, some how we managed to get through it, but I don't want to have to deal with that mess again for a while. Haha...

PuG Fails

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:11:00 +0000

If you can please try and avoid ICC PuG groups, because they are just a huge waste of time unless you are willing to spend a little bit of time getting rep before Lord Marrowgar. I have probably joined about 10 PuGs for ICC 10 and I have only had success in 1 group. That a 90% fail rate!!

People who organize PuGs often look at gear score a determining how good a player is. Yes this can help but more than anything, you have to be a team player and know what you are doing. The PUG that I had a successful run with had an average gear score of only 4800, which most players would think is a bit low, but we had no problems killing the first four bosses and then we decided to quit after that. Most of the other PuGs I have been in have average gear scores between 5000 - 5200 and we have major fails.

So what is the reason for this? I am not quite sure but of what I have observed is that a lot of player in PuGs tend to not listen and not do what they are supposed to and it messes it up for the whole group. Also its better to plan the group with what classes you need instead of getting whoever wants to go. In my success group, we had one of every class and of course no problems but other PuGs will have like 3 paladins or something ridiculous like that. PLAN!!

Yes it may take longer to get a group together when searching for only 1 of each class (if you are doing 10-man raids) but it will increase your success rate by a lot. So think about this next time you make a PUG or join a PUG especially for ICC 10.

Uldaman Bug

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:59:00 +0000

So this a a wonderful bug I found today while in Uldaman. Since most of the time you queue up with people from other servers, you cannot put together the "Staff of Prehistoria" because two different people will have the two parts of it and it cannot be traded or put in the non-tradable box in the trade window. Wow Blizzard! Nice job making it to where you can do this boss unless you get super lucky or run it multiple times. Sadly enough there is also a quest dealing with the boss and what do you know it cant be done. Haha oh well...

Random Queues

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:38:00 +0000

So since 3.3 you can now chose to randomly queue up for an instance. I find this great except I wish there were a few changes.

1. What if we find a good group and would like to run more instance with them in the future. Well the sad thing is you can't once you leave the party. I think it would be really cool and efficient of you could add players from other server to your friends list and be able to group up with them to at least do instances.

2. The system seems to glitch out sometimes and does not let the group vote to kick someone, say if you had a bad tank. Most of the time I get the message "The player cannot be kicked yet." I'm like WTF! He has been afk for 20 minutes!!

3. (Joke) There should be a dumbass check box. Half of the time you will get a dumbass in the group that messes up the whole run for everyone else, so if they had the check box at least you know and for other player, they can have an anti-dumbass check box so you wont get matched up with those players. :D

Update - The Post

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:14:00 +0000

Hey guys, I have just added a new section to the website, which I will discuss some of my experiences in WoW. Feel free to comment and let me know what you think or if you have experienced similar things. Check it out.

The Post

Tanks

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:09:00 +0000

Well lately I have been leveling my priest and it has finally reached level 40, however I encountered one main problem along the way. I decided to spec holy and heal instances since Blizzard added the random queue option in 3.3. This is a great feature, however it always matching me up with terrible tanks. Idk what it is but 90% of low level tanks are completely bad and don't know what they are doing and it become quite frustrating when they cannot keep aggro. I can maybe understand this up until level 20 but after that the tanks need to have the right spec and gear. Lesson learned - Find a guild member who can tank for you while you level :D.

Also here is a little video I found to help you understand how bad it sucks to heal when you have a bad tank :D

And for all you good tanks out there, I thank you for the great job you do, but all the POSERS, learn how to play first!

Update - Raid Section - Trial of the Crusader

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:19:00 +0000

Hey guys, I have just added raid guides for Trial of the Crusader thanks to http://www.tankspot.com so check them out.

Raids

Update - Professions - Secondary Professions

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:15:00 +0000

Hey guys, I have just added the secondary profession guides to the professions section so check it out.

Profession Guides

Update - Guides - Making Gold

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:29:00 +0000

Hey guys, I just added a new section to the guides area about making gold. Its kinda of a 4 part guide but you don't need to watch/read them all of you don't want to. The videos were provided by Zuggy and are a great source of how to make gold. Check them on on the guides page.

Guides

Update - Professions - Primary Professions

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:56:00 +0000

Hey guys, I just added all the primary profession leveling guides to the professions section, so check them out to get your skills to 450.

Profession Guides

WoW Armory

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:53:00 +0000

Hey guys, check out the newly improved WoW Armory. They added a new 3d view of you character and it tells more indepth information about you such as the last things you did. Check it out http://www.wowarmory.com/

Update - Professions - Gathering Professions

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:40:00 +0000

Hey guys I have just updated the professions section with all 3 guides for each of the gathering professions, so check them out and start mining, skinning, or finding herbs.

Profession Guides

Update - Guides - Farming Eternals

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:34:00 +0000

Hey guys, I just added a couple of farming guides to the Guides section, which can help you make some extra money when you need it. Check them out :)

Update - Raids - Full ICC 10 & 25 Guides

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:01:00 +0000

Hello everyone, I have just added the 25-man guide for Icecrown Cathedral thanks to http://www.tankspot.com, so check it out and learn the fights.

Update - Raids - ICC 10

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:00:00 +0000

The raid section has 10 man Icecrown Cathedral content with text and video guides thanks to http://www.tankspot.com

Site Update 1/13/2010

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:02:00 +0000

Hey guys, the site is currently being updated and hopefully it will have plenty of content available in the next couple days. Also if there are any reqeusts of content that you would like to see on the site please contact me at joshes16@gmail.com.

Update - Builds Section

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:01:00 +0000

The builds section is now complete, please check it out to get builds for your classes, thanks.

Builds Page

Useful Addons

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:48:00 +0000

Bartender4 - Bartender4 is a full ActionBar replacement mod. It provides you with all the features needed to fully customization most aspects of your action and related bars.

Recount - Recount is a graphical damage meter written by Cryect.

DHUD3 - DHUD3 is a modular Heads Up Display Addon.

QuestHelper - QuestHelper tells you how to finish your quests in the easiest, fastest manner. It includes a database of quests, monsters, and items, telling you the exact location of that dang Perfect Satyr Horn you can't find. It also computes the fastest path to complete all your quests - and gain experience - as quickly as possible.

Useful Links

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:20:00 +0000

http://www.wowhead.com/ - Great place to find information about items, quests, NPCs, and more.

http://wow.curse.com/ - Great place to find addons, they are updated often as well

http://www.wowarmory.com/ - Great place to check out other players gear, talents, and glyphs

http://wow-heroes.com/ - Great place to check out item levels of you gear and possible upgrades

Raid Guides

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:59:00 +0000

Icecrown Cathedral

Icecrown Putricide

Icecrown Rotface

Icecrown Festergut

Icecrown Deathbringer Saurfang

Icecrown Gunship Battle

Icecrown Lady Deathwhisper

Icecrown Lord Marrowgar

Trial of the Crusader

ToC - Anub'arak

ToC - Twin Valkyrs

ToC - Faction Champions

ToC - Lord Jaraxxus

ToC - Northrend Beats

Icecrown Putricide

noreply@blogger.com (Josh Dunn) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:37:00 +0000

Source: Darksend
Welcome back to the icecrown raid guide, my name is darksend and in this video I will be showing you our strategy for the 25 man version of professor putricide, the final boss in the plaugeworks.

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This is the first of 4 encounters in the instance which will share attempts as later gates become unlocked. As of right now however, you are limited to only 10 attempts.

Professor putricide is a three phase fight. Three tanks will be required required for this strategy in phase 3. We also used 6 healers for this encounter.

Phase 1 will last until 80%.

The first ability he will use is slime puddle, which will spawn a growing green puddle under 2 random raid members. One player, preferably one of the offtanks as they have very little to do until phase 3, will run to the table and drink a potion to become an abom. The abom will deal constant aoe raid damage but is also the only way to prevent the puddles from completely filling the room, as the abombs primary ability is to drink the puddles. Be careful not to drink them to fast, as you need to let them get big enough to get at least 13 drinks off in order to help counter putricides next ability.

Putricide will cast unstable experiment right before he is about to spawn one of two types of adds. They always alternate and the first one will always be the green one, also know as a volatile ooze. These adds will target a random raid member and immobilize them. It will then move towards that player at great speed. The abom's second ability is to slow the ooze by 50% for 20 seconds. These adds must be killed, because if they reach the played they will explode for significant damage as well as do a knockaway. Should this happen, right before it is about to hit stack up on that person as the damage is split between the people it hits and pick a new target to immobilize. You can still cast and perform all your normal abilities while targeted. This includes vanish, divine shield, iceblock, and fiegn death, all of which will cause the ooze to cast on a new target. The way we counter this is by moving to the left side, or the orange side, of the room as the green will always spawn on the right. As soon as it becomes targetable we have all of our walocks, mages, and hunters move to max range and begin killing it. When it picks a target we then have everyone else assist also. Should it target one of those hunters mages or warlocks they will blink, use a portal, or feign to not get blown up.

The second time he casts unstable experiment he will spawn a gas cloud. This not actually a cloud however it is simply another type of ooze, also know as the orange slime.The abom must also slow these adds as well. Gas clouds will debuff a random raid member with a 10 stack of gaseous bloat. The stack will tick down every 2 seconds and when it ticks off it will stop and target a new player. Should it reach the player it will explode and deal raid damage based on how many stacks were left on the person. Since you can move while being chased by this add we have all ranged immediatly begin attack with melee following as soon as it picks a target. Melee should be ready to switch off around 2 stacks remaining as to not get targeted if it does not die in time. The person being chased needs heavy heals during this time the debuff deals pretty significant damage.

Also because you can move while being chased by the gas cloud, notice we do not move nearly as far to the right side of the room as we do the left. This makes the aboms job noticably easier as they have less ground to cover as well as keeping the puddles closer together if not always almost on top of each other.

Neither of these adds can target putricides main agro target and both persist into phase 2, but not phase 3.

at 80 and 35%, putricide will cast tear gas, stunning everything in the room, including gas clouds and volatile oozes, for 20 seconds. Because of this, it is much more important to push when there are no slime puddles up as opposed to waiting till just after one of the adds is killed. Comminucate if you are close to a transition and have dps stop around 83%, have the abom eat the clouds, and push phase 2. Simply have the person hold off on the slow until tear gas ends.

He will gain 2 new abilities in this phase. The first is the choking gas trap. He will drop 2 traps in melee range that look like orange flasks. They will give anyone who walks over them a 75% hit reduction debuff for 15 seconds. After 15-20 seconds they will explode for about 15K damage, knocking back anyone within 10 yards as well as giving them another 75% hit reduction debuff this time for 20 seconds.

The second is malleable goo, this is the ranged equivilent to the choking traps. As long as there are enough people at ranged, putricide will pick 2 random people at range and hurl 2 bouncey balls at them. They have a decent travel time and they always travel in a straight line so they are decently easy to avoid. When it lands, anyone in the area will get hit for about 15K damage and have attack and casting speeds slowed by 200%.

Phase two just continues the back and forth killing of the different types off adds while avoiding the two new traps, while the abom continues to drink up all the green puddles until 35%.

Melee, do not try to milk extra boss damage after a green add has spawned. If it targets you, most likely you will be in the middle of the orange traps, and when the add explodes combined with the trap it will likely kill everyone nearby. Likewise do not kite the boss through the ranged because there is the change that malleable goo will target the melee, having the same effect.

At 35 as I said before another tear gas will go out. The adds will stop but the puddles, traps, and goo will all still need to be avoided. He will also being hitting much harder and faster, as he gains a buff called mutated strength. The tank should run to the door as far away from the table as possible, giving as much dps time before the first debuff is applied.

The reason you use three tanks is because mutated plauge will heal putricide when it falls off for 1.7 million per stack the tank had. This is for any reason, tank death, bubbling it off, and also surprisingly when it just falls off naturally. not only Because at 5 stacks the tank will be aoeing the raid for about 12-15K damage a second but also to make sure each tank had a debuff refreshed to make sure he would not heal, we decided to let each tank get 2 stacks before the next one would taunt, then again on the next one for a total of 3, then hopefully having the boss dead before all tanks had 4.

Thanks for watching this movie! As always, feel free to ask questions or add suggestions either on YouTube or in the strategy thread on TankSpot.com. Good luck.

Source: Aliena (10-man)
Hello and welcome to the TankSpot Icecrown Citadel Raid Guide! My name is Aliena and in this video I'll cover everything you need to know about the normal mode 10-man version of the Professor Putricide encounter. Currently you only get 10 attempts per raid lockout period to kill this boss.

A raid setup of 2 tanks, 2-3 healers and 5-6 dps is recommended.

This is a three-phase encounter and In its 10-man version, Putricide has 9.76 million combined health. The first phase change occurs around 80% and the second phase change occurs at 35%. On each phase change you get a debuff called "Tear Gas" that stuns you for the duration of Putricide running towards his table and guzzling potions.

This fight is by and large kited in all three phases and there's a lot of movement and raid awareness required from each raid member. Before the fight starts, assign one person in your raid group (preferably the Offtank) to possess an abombination to help you throughout the first two phases of the fight. Having an abomination active will make your raid take constant AoE damage, but you need them to counteract Putricide's various mechanics. To become an abomination, you need to click on the table behind Putricide.

The most obvious mechanic and a constant throughout all three phases are the ooze piles that Putricide will toss at random players. He will toss out two of those at a time that land at the selected raid member's feet and deal around 4k damage per second to anyone standing in them. The main task of the person controlling the abomination is to eat those slime puddles to reduce their size and keep the ground free of ooze. Eating an ooze pile gives the abomination 4 energy for another very important ability that I'll cover in a minute.

During the first two phases, Putricide will alternately summon two types of adds - Volatile Oozes and Gas Clouds. When this happens, the emote "Professor Putricide begins to cast Unstable Experiment!" will show up on your screen, and, depending on which type of add he's summoning, you'll either see a brown steam or a green stream of slime appear from one of the tubes in his lab. The first add he summons in every fight will be a slime. Oozes always appear on the north side of the room, gas clouds from the south.

Volatile oozes will, after spawning, fixate on a target and root it in place while moving towards it at pretty quick pace. Should an ooze not be defeated before reaching its target, it will explode, dealing 70k damage shared between all targets within 10 yards of the originally targetted player and knocking them back. Here's where another ability of the abomination comes in handy - oozes as well as gas clouds can have their movement speed slowed by 50%, which gives you substantially more time to defeat the ooze before it detonates.

Gas clouds will also fixate on a player after spawning, but instead of rooting it in place, it will place a debuff on the selected player that gives him or her 10 stacks of gaseous bloat. Every 2 seconds, some minor damage will be inflicted to the player and one stack of the debuff will drop off. If the cloud has not reached its target within 20 seconds, the debuff will disappear and it will pick a new target to apply the debuff to and chase until killed. Should it reach its target before all stacks are dropped off, it will inflict raidwide damage depending on the amount of debuff stacks left. It hurts, it really really does.

Both add types should be slowed down as soon as they pop and since you already know that the very first experiment will be an ooze spawning at the north side of the room, you should position your raid accordingly at the south side of the room. Ranged can start burning it as soon as it pops, and once it picks a target melee should also join. As you can see well in this video, if you fail to kill the ooze before it reaches its target, it will pick another one and repeat the process, so burning adds always has utmost priority.

The last mechanic you get introduced to in the first phase is gas bombs. Putricide will throw those out in sets of two, and standing on them will - how novel - make you explode. They look like brown little flasks on the ground, so avoid them at all costs.

Once he reaches 80% health, Putricide will stun the raid, run to his desk and grow two tentacles. Those basically translate to another ability he gains in phase two - malleable goo. This basically hurls a portable slime teddy bear through the air at the area a randomly targetted player stands in and will, after travel time, land and anyone still remaining in the area will take around 15k damage and have their casting and attack speed slowed by 200% for 15 seconds. Malleable Goo prefers ranged targets, but will target melee if no one is at a range.

All mechanics from phase 1 still continue on along with malleable goo until you hit phase three at 35%. Once again Putricide will run to his table and guzzle down a potion, becoming even more mutated and this time gaining a buff called Mutated Strength, which gives him a 50% damage and attack speed bonus. Attacks made against him will also cause him to stack up Mutated Plague on your tank, which inflicts raidwide damage depending on the number of stacks. We found 6 stacks to be an instant raid wipe, so to counteract that we had our main tank and offtank taunt off of each other so neither of them reached more than 4 stacks, which was still a very healable dot.

You lose the abomination once you trigger phase three, which is why it's an excellent idea to have your offtank control it since he'd just be useless up until that point. There will be no more oozes or gas clouds spawning either, but malleable goo and gas bombs still happen. Also, since you lose the abomination to eat slime off the ground, this phase needs to go fast or you'll get overrun by expanding slime. This kind of acts like soft enrage timer similiar to the Lady Vashj encounter in Serpentshrine Cavern. Make sure to save all your cooldowns for this last part and keep moving, paying attention to the stuff Putricide will throw at you and you have yourselves a kill!

Good luck!

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