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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.
Professor Putricide 10 man Video
Posted by Cows in Resto Druid on January 7, 2010
Don’t usually post 10 mans or normal modes for that matter. However this fight is pretty cool to watch and there are no resto druid povs out there atm so I thought I’d go ahead and upload this one. Obviously this is not a particularly taxing fight, and in the video you can see a fair few mistakes being made with positioning and getting hit by bottles etc (and not having the bottle cast time debuff on power auras yet – which i strongly recommend you do before attempting the fight as a healer). As always full Ventrilo is in the video, this is by no means a clean kill but enjoy!
As always, since you can’t embed the HD versions automatically from youtube anymore – make sure you click the hd button. Better yet, click the link below the player to view it on youtube directly so you can put it into widescreen 
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.
Live raid streaming & Mandelson’s police cyber state
Apex will be carrying out a publicity stunt stream test in our weekly CC25 heroic raid tomorrow (Sunday 22nd Nov). The stream will include multiple PoVs from:
- Tonberry (Shadow priest)
- Flaps (Arms Warrior)
- Tweat (Healer priest)
I’ll post the link tomorrow as soon as it’s up – we should be starting as usual around 16:00 server time (CET), which is 15:00 GMT/UTC. Although we often start these raids a few minutes late. Be sure to tune in so you can either be there when we kill insanity for the 4th week in a row or take the piss when we inevitably crumble under the pressure and fuck it all up
I’d love to be on that streaming list above too, but unfortunately I live in a fucking backward country where the best upload speed I can hope to get, while not living inside a major metropolis, would be woefully inadequate to live stream without game lag.
It’s a bit off topic but some of you might have seen stuff about the new ‘Digital Britain‘ law details being published recently which was designed as a package of measures to boost digital industry in the UK. But apparently it’s far more important to stomp all over anyone who might dare to download a TV show than to produce legislation to boost our, quite frankly dire, digital infrastructure. While you have forward thinking countries like Sweden, Norway and Spain making (or considering making) it a legal requirement for it’s citizens to have access to greater broadband connectivity and capacity – we in the UK are still mostly using Victorian era telephone wiring. Pretty disgusting that the country which was the birthplace for most of the modern telecommunication inventions (along with the world wide web itself) which make it possible for the internet to exist as it does today can barely offer 1/3 of it’s citizens >2mbit connection speeds. No, no it’s much more important that we disconnect people sharing that episode of top gear in a guilty until proven innocent process run by the content rights holders themselves. Luckily some people are fighting back on this, these people will be known to all as ‘the ones with common sense’. The fact that the guy spearheading this abolition of cyber civil rights isn’t even a fucking elected official – but just appointed into government having previously been forced to resign more than once for being part of scandal – leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.
Not really much going on
So there’s not really much going on to post about at the moment. Everyone is just waiting with baited breath for 3.3 to be released. Currently I’m not personally raiding the PTR due to work commitments so I can’t comment much on the new bosses, however there’s a lot of comment already (and a lot of info ) out there on other sites.
Once 3.3 does get a bit nearer you can expect a lot more here, along with videos of kills as and when they happen.
There’s been a bit of discussion internally in Apex about releasing videos. There used to be an unwritten rule that many top guilds stuck to which essentially stated that guilds wouldn’t release full videos of new live fights before the top10 kills were decided. However the advent of different modes within a fight has diluted this quite a bit and it seems that no one really follows it any more. Right now whoever gets the first video of a new fight’s kill on youtube the fastest, gets all the e-fame on mmo-champ and other sites. So it seems that’s what people are now going for and so will we.
Until then here’s a screenshot of Geoph gaining a well deserved Insanity achievement last week:
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