Continuing a hunter’s view on Icecrown Citadel and the boss fights. Today we’ll take a jaunt through the Plagueworks and the Crimson Hall. If you’re looking for strategy, you’re not really going to get it here. Better, more eloquent players talk about such things elsewhere, you mainly get my little pieces of the fights.<\/p>\n
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Now before you even hit the bosses in the Plagueworks, you hit two “mini-bosses”, Stinky and Precious.\u00c2\u00a0 Both are patchwerk dogs similar to Gluth in Naxxramas.\u00c2\u00a0 One does an aoe blast, the other summons zombies, and both cast Decimate<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0on everyone.\u00c2\u00a0 This is mainly healer focused as they attempt to keep everyone topped off after the Decimate.\u00c2\u00a0 Me?\u00c2\u00a0 I just shoot things.<\/p>\n In no particular order, next is Festergut.\u00c2\u00a0 Depending on the group, you may do Rotface first, it doesn’t quite matter really.\u00c2\u00a0 For Festergut,\u00c2\u00a0as a hunter it’s easy in that you’re part of the “ranged” group by default.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 It mainly means that you dps like crazy, hope the healers get you through the vile gas, collapsing on the spore and then quickly returning into position.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n In our 10-man runs, we usually have two hunters and a mage or shadow priest, with the hunters on the flanks and the mage\/shadow priest in the center.\u00c2\u00a0 The mage\/shadow priest is also our collapse point for the ranged spore.\u00c2\u00a0 And for some reasons I can’t quite understand, I’m almost always right flank.\u00c2\u00a0 Even in the few 25-man’s I did, I was always on the far right.\u00c2\u00a0 Guess it doesn’t matter since either way, I’ve always been able to collapse on the spore person in time and get back out and reset my position with more than enough time.<\/p>\n For Rotface, this is just pure chaos.\u00c2\u00a0 Our main tank holds Rotface pretty much dead center of the room.\u00c2\u00a0 That puts any hunters on the edge of the inner ring.\u00c2\u00a0 Wouldn’t be a problem except that sometimes you’re close enough to get hit by the slime pouring into a quarter of the room, and if you’re off-tank isn’t on it, it’s possible for them to drag the Big Ooze right behind you, close enough to cause you to get hit by the Radiating Ooze<\/a> attack.<\/p>\n Fortunately, being a bit back, the few times I get Mutated Infection<\/a> and need to run towards the off-tank, I can usually see where they’re at at any given point.\u00c2\u00a0 Otherwise, it’s a normal dps-fest, sidestepping the Slime Spray<\/a> and just making sure you don’t do something silly like run into the Big Ooze.<\/p>\n Now Professor Putricide, his fight is interesting in that it relies heavily on the person driving the Abominaton off-tank.\u00c2\u00a0 If that person isn’t on it with the pools of ooze or either the Volatile or Regurgitated Ooze, things go downhill for your raid really fast.\u00c2\u00a0 The fight also requires some decent timing with the dps.\u00c2\u00a0 You really don’t want either a Volatile or Regurgitated Ooze up when you go through a phase transition, so you need to time the point where you push Professor Putricide’s health down to cause a phase transition.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a pretty frentic fight (then again, what fight in here isn’t?) but I tend to enjoy it for some reason.<\/p>\n