Not only do I have a professor putricide strat for you… I made a video.  You’ll have to be indulgent, I’ve never attempted a video before so it’s not exactly pro  But hopefully you’ll be able to see some of the things I talk about in my strat, and better understand the fight.  Or if nothing else you can ponder over my music selection!

Where to begin…. I guess we’ll start with walking into the room… when you first enter the room on your left you’ll see n orange faucet, and on you right a green one.  You’ll be spending the next six-ish minutes running back and forth between them, good thing you can cast while you run!

We start the fight in sort-of a middle position and wait for Patricide to throw down slime pools.  One of our tanks is tanking professor putricide, while the other chugs the potion on the table to become the abomination.  As a side note, the a-bom can die so make sure it gets the appropriate heals.  We just have our pali beacon it  Both with these starting pools, and throughout the fight, we want to keep our slime pools relatively close to each other because the abomination is running around eating them up, and the less running back and forth he has to do the better.

After the pools drop, we head over to the far left corner.  Basically we are trying to get as much distance as we can between us and the green faucet, because it’s about to spawn a slime.  Once it spawns a slime, it will choose a target, root it, and head directly towards it.  If you can get it killed before it reaches the person, great!!  If not, you want everyone to stack up on the targeted member, because the damage is shared between you.

With the green slime down we then head over to the other side of the room, putting distance between us and the orange faucet.  When this slime drops it will also become fixated on someone, but this time you won’t be rooted… you have to kite it.  If the orange slime gets to it’s target it deals massive raid damage, and is pretty much a wipe.  For this reason, it is imperative that your abomination is using it’s slow on it.  Also, as a druid, if you have to kite you can always go cat and dash if you feel its getting too close for comfort.

When the orange slime is down, we go back across the room to the other side and wait for the next green…. then back again to wait for the orange… we do this throughout phases one and two.

In addition to the faucet slimes, there are other things you need to be aware of during the entire fight.  The first is that he will keep throwing down those slime pools, so you want to continue to try to place them well for your abomination… and try not to stack up on any green-slime-targets just before he’s about to throw out a pool… or you’ll end up all stacked in a pool!

Next, in phase two and three he throws out slimes, you’ll see them flying through the air.  You want to try to avoid those, they really do hurt a lot, and slow casting.

Finally, in phases two and three he occasionally places some orangeish flasks on the ground.  When you see this you want to put some distance between them and yourself because they are eventually going to explode and probably kill you.

The fight stops twice, once at 80% and once at 35%.  During these periods the room is filled with an orange haze, and the entire raid is stunned.  If a rogue gets lucky they CAN vanish-immune this and continue to DPS on either Putricide or any oozes that might be up.  These stuns mark the transition between phases 1–>2 and 2–>3.

Once you hit phase three, the faucet slimes will stop, and your one tank will be kicked out of the abomination.  Professor Putricide will continue to spawn the growing green pools, throw the slime, and set down the exploding flasks.  You want to kite him around the edge of the room, or the edge of existing slimes.  Try to avoid getting yourself trapped in a corner of a room full of green pools, because that will certainly wipe your raid.

Putricide will start putting debuffs on the tanks.  The debuffs cause raid wide damage that increases exponentially, so you want the keep switching tanks to keep each of them at as small of a stack as possible.  For example 2-2 debuffs (two on each tank) will deal far less damage than 4-0 debuffs.  But be aware that if the stack ever falls off, or the tank dies, Putricide will heal, and it’s pretty much game-over.

So kite, blanket the raid, avoid the pools, avoid the slime, avoid the flasks, spam the tanks… simple right?  Actually, it sounds worse than it is

So… let’s look at it from a Resto Druid perspective.  It’s another one of those blanket-the-raid fights.  Yeah I know, its not super exciting, but it’s true.  You might need to pay a little more attention to those tanks in P3, even though it’s also when the raid damage increases.  And as I mentioned before, don’t let the abomination die prematurely!  We have some pretty sweet DPS if I do say so, and were allowed the luxury of three healers on this encounter.  Whether or not that will change for the achievement or heroic version remains to be seen… but my guess is we’ll end up needing to two heal it.  Guess we’ll see!

That’s pretty much it… best of luck to your raid, and feel free to make comments and share tips, I’m sure some of us have had success with different strategies!