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Blood Queen Lana’thel 25 man Normal Video
So yeah it’s normal modes blahblah but here’s the first video out of the 25man kill on the new ‘limited tries’ boss. Hard stuff it seems :p
Annoyingly this video isn’t a full kill as it only starts at 50%, but since its the first uploaded video of a live kill (not ptr) of a new boss I think it deserves a mention. Oh yeah and the music really sucks, I’d put it on mute if you don’t want to rupture your ears.
NOTE: This isn’t an Apex kill – quite obvious when you think about it since the patch hasnt even gone live in euro yet – but since I already had one complaint…. Another obvious hint to it not being an Apex video is the seriously bad music choice.
Apex vs Professor Putricide 25 man Video
Abomination PoV / Phase 3 Offtank PoV (Deathknight). Sorry no vent in this one either – I was in the fight but not frapsing for some reason.
Watch in High Quality and preferably in widescreen / fullscreen.
Apex vs Rotface 25 man DeathKnight PoV Video
Video of Apex 25 man main raid vs Rotface recorded by Nozmortus Dps/Tank DK.
No Ventrilo on this one I’m afraid.
As usual, watch in HD – if possible watch on youtube’s site in widescreen using the link at the bottom of the player.
Paragon kill ‘bugged’ 25 man Putricide
Some may have heard that there was a rumor flying around centered around the Professor Putricide encounter on 25 man as the gate went up yesterday morning. It was long the lines of the encounter being bugged on 25 man due to you only getting 1 abomination, the same as the 10 man version. A lot of guilds thought that this meant it was bugged and there should be more than 1 abomination because the rate at which slime is deposited on the floor is vastly increased in 25man and 1 abo just isn’t cutting the mustard quite like it does on 10man.
Apparently that’s a load of Betty Swollocks though, as pointed out in this blue post: (source)
Just as a point of clarification. The Professor Putricide encounter is working as intended. You are only allowed one abomination up at any given time in both 10 player and 25 player modes.
And to prove it really isn’t bugged we have at least 1 kill reported by wowprogress.com for Paragon.
Go Finland!

Edit: Their video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8WSshUGBhk
Festergut & Rotface 10 man
No I’m not going to go over tactics or anything since there is already a large amount of info out there from US guilds doing them yesterday and from PTR. I will say though, it’s a nice change of pace with these latest 3 bosses – even just the 10 man versions were significantly harder than the first 4 ‘faceroll’ ICC bosses. That’s not to say we had problems with either of these abominations – they’re not that hard – but I can imagine pugs will start having some problems here. In fact I see pugs having problems with the trash just before (’Precious’ is interesting the first time you do her
).
We ran a 2 healer setup as standard with an enhancement shaman who had resto dualspec just in case. I would recommend that running a 3 healer setup will save some headache on all 3 of the new bosses. In the end the only boss we swapped in the extra healer for was Putricide himself, however there is no issue with DPS on the other two and it was touch and go with 2 healers having not done those fights before.
Rotface was quite a bit harder than Festergut, but I think this could mainly be because we didn’t really quite know what to do having only a few people in the group on PTR previously. As a result a fair bit of the fight could have been easier but we kind of brute-forced some things, like just healing through certain damage which could actually be avoided.
Festergut however was pretty much a faceroll, if you’re wondering which one you should go for first in order of progression I’d definitely say GO LEFT before going right. Not only is Festergut easier, but there is also less damage flying around once you get some spores popped, tank damage is pretty high but raid damage is a lot lower than Rotface. Again two healers worked pretty well for us here but I’d take three for safety in future, as there shouldn’t be much danger of getting an enrage if you lose 1 dps.
The LEFT side (Festergut) being easier is also compounded by his dog ‘Stinky’ also being easier than ‘Precious’ (marginally).
I’m just uploading the video of our 10 man Putricide kill right now which I’ll post here asap for anyone who’s interested.
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