US PTR Testing - Festergut

[Boubouille]

US PTR Testing - Festergut
Festergut, one of the 3 bosses of the Plague wing of Icecrown Citadel will be available for testing on US PTRs tonight, starting 04:00PM PDT. Stay tuned for more information, streams, and all the funny stuff. (Note that only non-heroic modes are available for testing, it probably won't look really hard and it is intended)

Abilities

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			<tr><td style="padding-left: 5px">[b]Festergut[/b]</td></tr>
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			<td width="150">[b]Spell[/b]</td>
			<td width="520">[b]Description[/b]</td>
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				<td class="tableData">[url="http://db.mmo-champion.com/s/69165"][img]http://static.wowhead.com/images/icons/medium/spell_shadow_abominationexplosion.jpg[/img][/url]</td>
				<td class="tableData">[url="http://db.mmo-champion.com/s/69165/"][b]Inhale Blight[/b][/url]
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				<td class="tableData">[b]Inhales the Gaseous Blight in the room, increasing damage dealt by 30%.[/b] 3.5 sec cast, 15 sec cooldown</td>
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				<td class="tableData">[url="http://db.mmo-champion.com/s/71221"][img]http://static.wowhead.com/images/icons/medium/spell_shadow_creepingplague.jpg[/img][/url]</td>
				<td class="tableData">[url="http://db.mmo-champion.com/s/71221/"][b]Gas Spore[/b][/url]
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				<td class="tableData">[b]Unleashes a Gas Spore, inflicting 2 random targets with a gaseous spore.  The Spore will explode after 12 seconds, inflicting 1950 to 2050 damage to all nearby friends.  The damage from the Gas Spore builds the targets immune system, giving them a resistance to the blight.[/b] Instant, 18 sec cooldown</td>
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				<td class="tableData">[url="http://db.mmo-champion.com/s/71218"][img]http://static.wowhead.com/images/icons/medium/ability_creature_cursed_01.jpg[/img][/url]</td>
				<td class="tableData">[url="http://db.mmo-champion.com/s/71218/"][b]Vile Gas[/b][/url]
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				<td class="tableData">[b]Inflicts a Vile plague in targeted area, inflicting 4875 to 5125 damage every 2 sec for 6 sec. The plague causes the infected targets to vomit uncontrollably inflicting 3900 to 4100 damage to nearby allies.[/b] Instant</td>
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				<td class="tableData">[url="http://db.mmo-champion.com/s/70468"][img]http://static.wowhead.com/images/icons/medium/spell_holiday_tow_spicecloud.jpg[/img][/url]</td>
				<td class="tableData">[url="http://db.mmo-champion.com/s/70468/"][b]Gaseous Blight[/b][/url]
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				<td class="tableData">[b]The Gaseus Plague inflicts 1463 to 1537 Shadow damage to all nearby players.[/b] Instant</td>
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				<td class="tableData">[url="http://db.mmo-champion.com/s/70138"][img]http://static.wowhead.com/images/icons/medium/spell_holiday_tow_spicecloud.jpg[/img][/url]</td>
				<td class="tableData">[url="http://db.mmo-champion.com/s/70138/"][b]Gaseous Blight[/b][/url]
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				<td class="tableData">[b]The Gaseus Plague inflicts 2925 to 3075 Shadow damage to all nearby players.[/b] Instant</td>
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				<td class="tableData">[url="http://db.mmo-champion.com/s/70135"][img]http://static.wowhead.com/images/icons/medium/spell_holiday_tow_spicecloud.jpg[/img][/url]</td>
				<td class="tableData">[url="http://db.mmo-champion.com/s/70135/"][b]Gaseous Blight[/b][/url]
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				<td class="tableData">[b]The Gaseus Plague inflicts 4388 to 4612 Shadow damage to all nearby players. crash[/b] Instant</td>
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				<td class="tableData">[url="http://db.mmo-champion.com/s/71219"][img]http://static.wowhead.com/images/icons/medium/spell_shadow_abominationexplosion.jpg[/img][/url]</td>
				<td class="tableData">[url="http://db.mmo-champion.com/s/71219/"][b]Pungent Blight[/b][/url]
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				<td class="tableData">[b]Violently releases the Gaseous Blight, dealing 48750 to 51250 Shadow damage to all enemy players, releasing the deadly Blight back into the room.[/b] 3 sec cast, 15 sec cooldown</td>
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Achievements

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			<td class="tableHeader" width="655">[b]Description[/b]</td>
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<tr bgcolor=""><td>[img]http://static.wowhead.com/images/icons/medium/spell_nature_acid_01.jpg[/img]</td><td>[url="http://db.mmo-champion.com/a/4577"][b]Festergut (10 player)[/b][/url]
PH in 10-player mode.</td></tr>
<tr bgcolor=""><td>[img]http://static.wowhead.com/images/icons/medium/achievement_boss_tribunalofages.jpg[/img]</td><td>[url="http://db.mmo-champion.com/a/4528"][b]The Plagueworks (10 player)[/b][/url]
Defeat the bosses of The Plagueworks in Icecrown Citadel in 10-player mode.</td></tr>

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[Pewpewarrows]

<-- Priest streaming.

If interested you can find my UI @ http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/37823/FirstaidUI.zip

Use the README inside to install.

Enjoy! Hopefully the fight is fun.

[kron]

DPS DK ptr pov for anyone interested

http://www.xfire.com/live_video/krondormi/

[Balance]

Wewt Down! looks like a fun fight.

[Nubs]

Ah, bummer, I miss the stream?

Edit: nvm, took forever to come up

[Aous]

Look pretty intense

[Kalx]

dead already on the stream

didn't understand shit what was going on, what was that brown stuff on the ground?

[Snorri]

From what I noticed in the stream, but I might be wrong.

Seems the orange stuff that covers that covers whole floor periodically hurts the whole raid, but the stuff very slowly diminishes away and will do less damage the more it diminishes. When it gets renewed it will do more damage than the previous one. This means this acts as a soft enrage timer. You must kill the boss before the orange stuff starts to hurt the whole raid too much.

Occasionally a few random players will vomit and it seems they lose control of their character for a moment when that happens. I guess it is recommended for nearby players to get away from players that vomit.

I noticed Festergut would sometimes increase in size. Some kind of self buff that increases damage probably.

[Yizren]

sunwell woohoo!

[rat]

sunwell woohoo!

They're trying to be clever. They're failing miserably. Sigh.

[extortshorties]

They're trying to be clever. They're failing miserably. Sigh.

First of all, love the Achewood avatar.

Second of all, I totally agree. They're still balancing Festergut, he's not even on hardmode... Don't you think it's a little snotty and presumptuous to be dissing him so early? Doing a 25man normal mode boss who's only been on the PTR for like 20 seconds and then declaring that Sunwell is a REAL instance so they're gonna go do that instead is just... rude.

[rat]

First of all, love the Achewood avatar.

Marry me.

[mena]

Unleashes a Gas Spore, inflicting 2 random targets with a gaseous spore. The Spore will explode after 12 seconds, inflicting 1950 to 2050 damage to all nearby friends. The damage from the Gas Spore builds the targets immune system, giving them a resistance to the blight. Instant, 18 sec cooldown

Pungent Blight Violently releases the Gaseous Blight, dealing 48750 to 51250 Shadow damage to all enemy players, releasing the deadly Blight back into the room. 3 sec cast, 15 sec cooldown

Uh...Hakkar 2.0?

[Laniang]

Don't mind me.

[MCitra]

most people i know is disapointed in the past raids that has been out (easy or just boring after normal 10/25 heroic 10/25 versions of them with same looking loot just diffrent stats), and seeing that they one shotted a boss on PTR IC the end raid instance makes it abit meh too watch im guessing :-\

[FireryRage]

too bad you must have a battlenet account merged from 2 months ago to test.

Just another "thank you" from blizz to those of us who did it soon after it was offered.

[Golden Yak]

Judging from the abilities and Snorri's description, it seems like the fight will have you dealing with the boss and a huge cloud of poisonous blight. And periodically, Festergut inhales the cloud, removing it and giving him his Inhale Blight buff. While he has it, presumably he releases those Gas Spores, which deal damage but protect players from the blight cloud. The 'Pungent Blight' spell is probably what happens when he exhales the cloud, and the various levels of 'Gaseous Blight' show that the blight cloud does more and more damage every time he exhales it.

Actually sounds pretty fun.

[Heltoray]

has it already come that far? two bosses in the same instance looking exactly the same except for a slight difference in their colors? In the final raid instance of Wotlk?!
No, they can't be serious...


Oh well they might just make a raid instance with 5 bosses, each having the model of a worg at 500% scaling. They would name that instance Worg Citadel and simply name the bosses Worg1-Worg4- The endboss would be ,,the worgs of northrend" and it wouldn't be one, but TWO northrend worgs!!!

I got carried away, sorry :/

[Pewpewarrows]

Priest streaming here again. Just as an FYI to those watching, one of his abilities was working completely incorrectly. When he exhales all the gas he inhaled 3 times over, it's supposed to do a base 50k shadow damage to the entire raid. The Gas Spore people he marks occasionally throughout the fight explode, but give a buff to everyone they hit that reduces the damage of that 50k explosion significantly per stack. Basically you want to balance people needing more mitigation, but not exploding the entire raid every time.

It's supposed to be a dichotomy of spreading out to avoid the Vile Gas and not having 5 people explode everyone every time, and getting all 25 people the necessary stacks of mitigation to survive every "50k" Pungent Blight.

The way the fight was on this test, it was bugged and everyone had lots of mitigation all the time. With shields on the entire raid we never even took damage from Pungent Blight, which is a huge mechanic to the encounter.

So yes, of course it seemed like a pushover. I can't wait to see how punishing it will be on Hardmode. The Sunwell comment was more directed to this entire expansion of casual raiding, and was largely a joke. This is the internet, lighten up about it.

[Asur]

has it already come that far? two bosses in the same instance looking exactly the same except for a slight difference in their colors? In the final raid instance of Wotlk?!
No, they can't be serious...


Oh well they might just make a raid instance with 5 bosses, each having the model of a worg at 500% scaling. They would name that instance Worg Citadel and simply name the bosses Worg1-Worg4- The endboss would be ,,the worgs of northrend" and it wouldn't be one, but TWO northrend worgs!!!

I got carried away, sorry :/

Then quit if you dont like it.