Never doubt that we can not do it...just wondering how long it will be actually...the day before we had the Professor down to like 5% before....so downing him is not a surprising thing....we actually did it like 1st try today...
I really healed like mad...doing POM, CoH and constantly casting a "renew" on people who're having constant dmg so that I can concentrate on the group...especially PoH after the melees stacked on the slime...I am in the healer group so naturally PoH on our group is important...mana is not an issue here...keeping people alive is crucial...we need everyone for this fight...
Our mao mao's constant "switch range"...."switch melee" on the slime (and cloud) were very effective when everyone just take instructions so well...timing was perfect...once slime spawn, the range will just dmg it first...after target is being locked...the melee will rush in to finish it off...(of cos same goes for cloud)
Amazingly...no melee run after the cloud before anyone's being targetted...I can hear Oak calling on vent..."remember do not run into cloud before it has any 1 target"...hee...Kiting of cloud was perfect too...I tried to shield the kiter whenever possible...anyway the cloud disappeared really fast too...
What I am most afraid of is the Choking Gas Bomb that Professor Putricide throws around him, the Gas Bomb deals lots of dmg every sec and explodes for around 16k dmg after 20 sec. Isn't that a PITA?? Stay away from these orange chemical bottles on the ground...they are real painful...
One of the things that people gets lots of dmg to is Malleable Goo...Professor Putricide will throw a few "balls of slime" at you and you will have to avoid it...a few tricks to avoid these...cos they are thrown at you or any targetted person in a straight line...what you have to do to avoid it is just to move away from the straight line "drawn"/"thrown" another trick is to stick to Professor Putricide (or rather following him like a dog heee....)...which is easy for me since I am a healer...
I was being advised to update my GridStatusRaidDebuff for Grid so that I can see the debuffs @ Blood-Queen Lana'thel...sadly I was late home and not able to join the guild with the 5 tries of Blood Queen tries...I wonder how everyone's gonna be assigned on the biting part...
While I was listening to the guild down Blood Prince Council, 3 boss again sounds familar....remember The Illidari Council in Black Temple? Not at all like it even though you have to fight 3 bosses too...Our guild down Blood Prince =) yeah...
After Blood Queen I was being sub in since one of the healers keeps getting disconnected....However, we could not get Professor Putricide down this week as different people made different mistakes in the raid, one of the melee (warrior) actually charged at the cloud when he was being targeted!! OMG and wrong macro button pressed...Da and strisen was saying that if we are not being limited with our tries...they would find this funny...I was screaming at the top of my voice!
Can't people understand stay away from CLOUD??!!
Everyone in the raid is getting better and better with each try on Professor Putricide...mao mao is calling our for the range to switch on DPS then the melees to switch for each CLOUD and slime...this way it is safer....however because of this, each try we did, he had to be brez...when he stops "spoon feeding" the raid, our melees were not able to switch DPS fast enough...
On our last try....When the raid leader called out to stop DPSing the boss so as to wait for a cloud spawn get it down and then we will be able to concentrate on the boss for the start of P3...however everyone was like stepping on the accelerator on DPS...sigh...best part...one of our rogue actually took the instruction from raid leader literally and when hero is being called, "DPS the cloud down" and he ran after the cloud before anyone was being targetted and he was actually the targetted person...so its a wipe on that last try...
Talked to Mao Mao after the raid and found out that if I ever gets targetted by CLOUD I should actually shield myself and run since I have the "a little faster" buff when I shield myself...must bear that in mind...if ever required...cos you can never out run a CLOUD on P3 for sure...
Last week, my guild hit the new Icecrown Citadel bosses in the Plagueworks wing - Festergut, Rotface, and Professor Putricide...We did well for the first 2 bosses...however Professor Putricide is a real PITA...
Abilities of Professor Putricide:
Puddle of Slime - The Mutated Slime grows continuously, inflicting 4388 to 4612 damage every 1 sec until it is consumed by another Mutated creature!
Mutated Transformation - You have been mutated! Inflicts 1950 to 2050 damage to nearby players every 1 sec. Curing the disease will revert the player to their form. This spell turns you into a Mutated Abomination.
Choking Gas Bomb - Professor Putricide throws Gas Bombs around him, the Gas Bomb deals 5653 damage every 1 sec and explodes for 15600 to 16400 damage after 20 sec.
Choking Gas - The Choking Gas inflicts 4388 to 4612 damage and causes you to choke, reducing your chance to hit by 75% for 10 sec.
Choking Gas Explosion - The explosion inflicts 10725 to 11275 damage to enemies within 10 yards, knocking them back and reducing their chance to hit by 75% for 10 sec.
Malleable Goo - Professor Putricide bounces a Malleable ball of Green Goo at the target, inflicting 9750 to 10250 damage and slowing attack and cast speed by 1% for 20 sec.
Mutated Plague - The Mutated Plague spreads to Professor Putricide, healing him for 300000 for each stack of Mutated Plague that was on the target.
Saw the execution of the world first kill on Professor Putricide on Youtube.com have a look below:
I keep standing at the wrong position for the first boss, Lord Marrowgar...I should be stacking with the raid...sigh...when I get spike while standing away from the raid..."YOU should be sticking with the whole raid for easy access to the SPIKE!" Dawyn said...
For Gunship Battle, I did not know when to jump over to the other ship all the time till today...I just realized that when the cannons are not being "ice blocked" means we have to jump back and when it is being ice blocked it means we have to jump over and fight...LOL....
Anyway we quickly cleared the old wing no wipes at Deathbringer Saurfang (execution was perfect and healing was superb everyone's so pro!) and proceed to the new wing with new trash mobs...
OMG we wiped to Stinky....which is a trash on the way to the boss LOL...please do not under estimate these 2, Stinky and Precious, they can be healed through...wow he really down you to minimum and all healer have to AOE heal so that you can survive the fight...OMG really funny seeing pple die the first time we met stinky....wow
Stinky is to the left corner before Festergut's room and Precious to the right corner before Rotface's room...Tankspot.com is the best...they even have a video about it man!!
When we come back the second time....we down them without trouble...trick is to AOE heal....I mean really AOE heals from all healers in the raid!!! LOL...
First try on Festergut...the healers like died so fast to the Vile Gas LOL...Please!!! Everyone should not be standing together...you should be 8 yards apart, I made sure my "/distance": Distance check was up...that no one is 10 yard in range to me...For this fight I realized that DPSers should be more cautious that they should not be within range to the healers cos it is very crucial that the healers keeps the raid and the tank up...so it is best for the DPSers to move when they are in range to the healer instead of forcing the healers to move...standing together I repeat is a NO NO!!
Another thing to remember to do is to run to spores...very simple...when the spores are up...move to nearest spore, when the gas (Gaseous Blight) is up (meaning the ground turns yellowish) spread out and continue DPSing or healing...
We killed Rot face on the 2nd try...By reading the strategy to Festergut and Rotface, I had the impression that Rotface is harder...I realise that Rotface is so much tougher then Festergut...
At Rotface, the room itself does Ooze Flood, which floods basically an entire quadrant of the room with slime....All you need to do is to make sure you stack with the the tank tanking Rotface and then of cos the tank will have to be in the center of the room so that the whole raid can avoid the ooze flood safely...
The ooze flood floods the room at a random quarter, but as mentioned if you stick with the tank in the center, most likely you do not need to move away from your location much...
Mutated Infection is like a Grobbulus type debuff, do not cleanse it if you do not know what to do about it (exact words from mao mao our raid leader...LOL...) cos if cleansed or let it run its duration, it'll spawn a Small Ooze...I got it once and I was not able to run to our OT on time and DCed...OMG....wat a bad time to DC...So our OT just had to tank the small ooze and wait for the next ooze to be brought to him to form the Big Oozes...
OT had to kite the Big Ooze around. The Infected are to bring their Small Oozes to the kiter so they can merge them into the Big Ooze. When the Big Ooze gets to 5 stacks of Small Ooze, it will stop and cast Big Ooze Explosion. Just heal through...no problem with that...The only problem is with people kiting their small ooze to the OT, myself in particular...after the end of the fight, mao mao was telling me, "you have to heal better" again...I guess I was paying too much attention to running away from trouble...
Before we start Progessor Putricide, Dawyn asked for Fish, just right after he typed out the sentence, maldini, bunny, snowy and vuldin all prepared a fish feast, we really had a fish feast...LOL....
For Professor Putricide, OMG he is real PITA!! I have not studied about the fight...I guess I will blog about the strategy later...From what we did I can only summarize the following...
I got the yellow slime and couldn't see it at all....when mao mao call for me to kite I was already dead....can't see anything at all at first...For the 2nd try I start to realize that the so call "Gas cloud" looks like an orange slime...it will place 10 stacks of debuff on the person, every sec you will get dmg and then 1 stack of the debuff will drop off...but it will cause lots of dmg to the raid if it reaches the person that it has target depending on the stacks of debuff on the person...NEVER let these yellow/orange looking slime reach you if you are being targeted, they really hurts, it will wipe the raid...btw it changes target after 20 sec once all the debuff on the target drops off...
Volatile Ooze is another horrible one...it will target a player "sending" a line of green, it will root the person that is being targeted and moves toward the targeted player...OMG, have to kill the slime before it reaches the targeted person if not it will explode when it reach the person that is being targeted causing lots of dmg to the targeted player and also the people around them...
When he does the Tear Gas, whereby everyone is being "STOPPED" 2nd phase starts and thats where we screw up most of the time....mao mao realised that the hunters were standing too close to the center making it easy for the slimes to reach them whether its the green one or the orange one (gas cloud)...sadly it was the last try that we are going for in which we got the boss only to 65% this time round...
Most people had difficulty avoiding the "flying slimes", ie Malleable Goo shot at them...its kind of interesting cos it is shot straight at you (travel in a straight line)...so you gotta strive left or right to avoid it...the animation is really darn cute...
Our OT, Zell is asked to be the Abomination (he has to click on the table behind the boss), so cute, he runs around to eat Ooze - Reduces the size of a nearby Slime Puddle so that we can run around the place...
Gas Bombs...looks like brown flasks on the ground and feels like volcanno...make sure you stand away from them cos they will do like 5k dmg/second to everyone standing over them, will reduce their hit chance by 75%, and explode for over 15k damage after 20 seconds...
We only managed to get him down to phase 2 and since are given only 10 tries on this boss...we gotta try to down him next week...Not bad for a first try =)
OMG! I gotta know Rotface and Professor Putricide (in which you're given only 10 tires) not only Festergut...but but it took me around 3 days to understand what Festergut fight is about...Not sure if I can execute what that is to be done even! And OMG I have to know about Rotface and Professor Putricide does too =(
Ok last minute preparation, printed out what is posted on guild's forum so that I can read about it on my 1 hour trip home...couldn't have done that earlier since my mentor in RL was admitted to hospital and went to visit her...
ok not as complicated as Festergut even though they look alike...Rotface needs 2 tanks are needed for this fight...One for the boss, and one to kite the Big Ooze add...Totally love tankspot.com and www.stratfu.com
First off, tank him in the center. The raid should all stick close.
Slime Spray
Raining Green Ooze. Deals 6k Nature dmg to enemies in cone in front of the caster every second for 5 seconds. You just have to run under the boss to get away from the spray
Mutated Infection
The Mutated Infection inflicts 4k dmg every 1 sec and reduces healing received by 50% for 12 sec. After the Infection is removed a small ooze is created at the target's location.
Small Slime Abilities
Sticky Ooze Sprays a puddle of green goo near a target, inflicting 4k Nature dmg every 1 second and decreasing movement speed by 50% for all targets within the 6 yards radius of the puddle.
Weak Radiating Ooze The Weak Radiating Ooze inflicts 4.5k dmg to enemies within 10 yards, it will also cause the Little Ooze to merge with other nearby Ooze.
Large Slime Abilities
Sticky Ooze Sprays a puddle of green goo near a target, inflicting 4k Nature dmg every 1 second and decreasing movement speed by 50% for all targets within the 6 yards radius of the puddle.
Radiating Ooze The Radiating Ooze inflicts 5.5k dmg to enemies within 10 yards, it will also cause the Ooze to merge with other nearby Ooze.
Unstable Ooze Increases all dmg done by 20% per application. Applied when a Big Ooze absorbs a small Ooze.
Unstable Ooze Explosion
Launches slime missiles at several random players, inflicting 12k Nature dmg to players within 6 yards of the targeted location. Cast when a Big Ooze reaches 5 stacks of Unstable Ooze.
OT should be standing outside of the safezone, preferably in a location that just finished Ooze Flood if it happened already....Once the Ooze has spawned the OT should grab aggro and begin to kite it around. The targeted player that dropped the Ooze should return to the safezone after the small ooze is spawn, of cos drop should be done near the OT...
When a 2nd player gets Mutating Infection they should run just behind the Offtank and in the path of the first Ooze and should be cleansed to drop their Ooze there. The 2 Small Oozes should merge to create a Big Ooze, which the Offtank should grab aggro on and continue to kite.
Small Oozes should be dropped in front of the Big Ooze. When the Big Ooze has absorbed 5 Small Oozes and its Unstable Ooze reaches 5 stacks it will cast Unstable Ooze Explosion.
This will target several random people and launch projectiles into the air targeted at where they were standing. Everyone should move out of the safe zone (since that is where everyone is standing, that is where all of the projectiles should be aimed.) Once the Big Ooze has exploded, you will have to merge 2 Small Oozes again and start the process over.
Had a marathon instance run today...did more then 6 Heroics instance consecutively...Did ToC, Hall of Stone, Pit of Saron, The Forge of Souls, Utgarde Keep, Azjol Nerub and Violet Hold, the rest not listed...
Finally took a picture of the "butt cheek" Devourer of Souls
LoL I even earned the achievement [Looking For Many] whereby I have "Use the Dungeon tool to finish random heroic dungeons until you have grouped with 50 random players total." and I earned the title "Chrystie the Patient" hee....
What I am glad is for the first time I did not die at the first boss of H TOC ha ha....always get dismounted and die after trumple....now I smarter just keep shielding and run away if dun have shield RUN!
So tired after so doing them...Actually my aim was to complete all the instances just for the fun of it...but I gotta admit I don't have the stamina to do them all...
Usually the group that gets pulled together for Oculus will be say "OMG I hate this instance" the next thing you see, people will leave one by one...Blizzard sure is smart, they recently had a hotfixed deployed so that it will be more attractive for players...Recently the loot for Oculus has improved! Once Ley-Guardian Eregos is defeated, a loot bag will be provided to each player present. Each bag contains 2 additional Emblem of Triumph, a chance at rare gems and a chance at obtaining Reins of the Blue Drake. Best part?? This bag will only drop if you get The Oculus when you select random instance with the Dungeon Finder.
Why I did not get any random instance for Oculus today?? Ahhhhhh........
Blizzard Helps Cops Track Down WoW Fan, Suspected Drug Dealer
Wanted on drug dealing charges, Alfred Hightower skipped the country after a warrant was issued for his arrest. But he didn't stop playing World of Warcraft and that's how police caught him.
he Howard County Sheriff's Department in Indiana discovered that Hightower, was a big fan of some "warlock and witches game", eventually piecing together that it was World of Warcraft.
The investigating deputy contacted Blizzard to see if they would help track him down, the Kokomo Perspective reports.
"They don't have to respond to us, and I was under the assumption that they wouldn't," Roberson told the Perspective. "It had been three or four months since I had sent the subpoena. I just put it in the back of my mind and went on to do other things. Then I finally got a response from them. They sent me a package of information. They were very cooperative. It was nice that they were that willing to provide information."
Blizzard provided the sheriff the suspect's IP address, account information and history, his billing address, and his online screen name and preferred server. Deputies then used the information to pinpoint Hightower's location in Canada.
Hightower, who was wanted on charges of dealing in a schedule III controlled substance and dealing in a schedule IV controlled substance, and two charges of dealing in marijuana, was picked up by Canadian authorities and will be returned to Howard County on Jan. 5.
While it's good to see Blizzard helping out law enforcement, it is a touch Big Brothery to hear just how much information they track and keep and are so willing to give away... even when not legally required to do so.
Who say I am hard core player?? Even though I really find it hard to not play WOW or rather feels something missing if I don't play WOW...but this guy is really hard core....
