Professor Putricide - Bad Fight Design?

[Mr_Bojangles]

*Tank dies*
Raid: WHAT.

Thats happening for my guild on heroic lich king. Noob pallies don't know how to time heals in that brief .26 seconds they have before the tank randomly goes from 100% to dead. And on one occasion one of them managed to get a LoH's off, but the game was like "LoL I don't care your dead anyways". Recount showed the tank at 40% hp, the LoH criting for 60k overheal (no healing actually done) then dieing .1 second later

[Frozendekay]

Thats happening for my guild on heroic lich king. Noob pallies don't know how to time heals in that brief .26 seconds they have before the tank randomly goes from 100% to dead. And on one occasion one of them managed to get a LoH's off, but the game was like "LoL I don't care your dead anyways". Recount showed the tank at 40% hp, the LoH criting for 60k overheal (no healing actually done) then dieing .1 second later

Soul Reaper should replace the next melee swing.

Popping Vampiric Blood, a trinket, and having my 4 pc up and then surviving with 3k health only to be killed by an infest tick that first hit .2 seconds before soul reaper is SO MUCH FUN.

[kriS411]

sorry, but what the op mentioned sounds more like raid fail then mechanics fail to me.

only encounter where you may get owned by is blood prince council and the very unforgiving LK HC encounter.

[xxAkirhaxx]

soul reaper should replace the next melee swing.

Popping vampiric blood, a trinket, and having my 4 pc up and then surviving with 3k health only to be killed by an infest tick that first hit .2 seconds before soul reaper is so much fun.

qft

[deyndra]

Never raid in Vanilla WoW?

Had to laugh there

[The Painkiller]

You should all consider yourselves lucky for even being there, the only progression guild I joined that considered themselves "hardcore" and been around since vanilla couldn't even clear putricide at all! They broke up a couple months ago, leaving one (and I mean ONE) progressing guild on the horde side on my server.

[Porimlys]

Boss mechanics that can kill you is not poor fight design :P

[Irony]

Why do you have a green ooze up in p3? That wipe can't be blamed on RNG.

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Never raid in Vanilla WoW?

I can tell that you didn't.

[Chudbrochil]

We have this boss on "farm" in ICC 25, but yesterday as usual right before phase 3, a Malleable Goo is thrown at the green ooze target resulting in a good chunk of deaths.

I understand there is some RNG in encounters, but with PP it takes it to another level. The chance to have a raid wipe out of your control is far greater.

Anyone else getting annoyed by this?

Just curious, does your raid use hand of sacrifice? divine sacrifice? power word shield? This is EASILY liveable through.

At the very least the raid leader yells gtfo from there and the one guy dies and gets bres'ed/you 24 man it with 20% buff.

[blitzkreig1212]

is this a qq thread about pve being difficult?!??

[Irony]

is this a qq thread about pve being difficult?!??

0/10.
People please don't feed him.

[Tokru]

malleable goo at targeted player? clearly a fail of the raid.

hint: no malleable goo in melee range(when enough people stand outside ofc)

[NightHaawk]

I'm not fond of fights that have Random_Big_Damage_1 and Random_Big_Damage_2, that are on seperate, fluxating timers which allows for both to go off at the same time at the same target. This just makes twitch reaction on your healers' part far too important, and good healers are hard enough to come by as it is.

Yes but PP cant exactly be considered that. His raid group has a choice move towards and wipe half the raid or run away and let 1 die seems like common snese not a Big damgage + big damage the abilities are far more complex.

[Nikoll]

i might be wrong, but i think you are doing normal mode. at witch point, you all need to get a lot better because with the buff he is faceroll on heroic.

[Mahican]

ever raid prince in kara in t4 and less now that was annoying rng

Kara = TBC =/= vanilla

[nnelson54]

Kara = TBC =/= vanilla

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean and I feel like I should.

[NightHaawk]

i might be wrong, but i think you are doing normal mode. at witch point, you all need to get a lot better because with the buff he is faceroll on heroic.

Correction. To you he is a faceroll not to someone like OP proggresing through normal. (a little late i might add)

[snubb]

There are plenty of fights to complain about rng on, putricide is most definitely not one of them. In fact I've always considered him to be the best designed fight in icecrown and one of my favorite bosses in the expansion. Before the icc buffs came in, he was a great challenge in heroic.

But yea, if you want to complain about a boss with unavoidable rng and bad fight mechanics, look at Sindragosa, double holy pally unchained used to give a huge chance for tank death, in 10 man the problem can be even worse. Last week we took only one caster to eat the unchained debuff. In p3 she got blocked, as soon as she did, 2 healers get unchained, and the next mark for block went on the 3rd healer, that is just amazingly bad luck + horrible boss design right there.

[Nagu]

Soul Reaper should replace the next melee swing.

Popping Vampiric Blood, a trinket, and having my 4 pc up and then surviving with 3k health only to be killed by an infest tick that first hit .2 seconds before soul reaper is SO MUCH FUN.

Just heal yourself for 60k, should be able to with VB up.

[Kibu]

Putricide is actualy the 2nd encounter after heroic LK that doesnt make me want to sleep...A very good design.