Professor Putricide Tactics and Strategy: Phase 1 Summary

Professor Putricide is the final boss in the Plagueworks section of Icecrown Citadel, this guide will give you an overview of his abilities and the tactics and strategies you can use to defeat him. The mechanics of this encounter is based on 3 phases, in the first two your Off Tank will take control of an Abomination using the table behind Professor Putricide. While this Abomination is active, the entire raid will take constant damage, so make sure you have a decent raid healer in your lineup. The transition between phases is marked by Professor Putricide who stuns the entire raid team with a debuff called “Tear Gas” and he drinks potions from his table.

IMPORTANT: You only have 10 attempts to complete this encounter

Professor Putricide will throw slime mounds near random players which will deal damage if any player stands on them, that’s where the Abomination comes in, it’s the job of Off Tanks to make the Abomination eat the slime mounds which also gives them gives your Abomination 4 energy. .

During phase 1 and phase 2, Professor Putricide will summon two types of additions alternately. They always spawn in the same place they are summoned using his lab equipment, the two types of aggregates are volatile slime that spawns on the north side of the room and gas clouds that spawn on the south.

Volatile oozes will root a player and start running towards them, they absolutely MUST be bombarded before they reach that player; otherwise they will explode with 70k damage shared between all players within a 10 yard range, this explosion causes a knockback effect.

Gas Clouds will again target 1 player and run towards them, but this time they will receive a debuff that applies 10 stacks of Gaseous Bloat. It will deal a small amount of damage every 2 seconds and a stack of Gaseous Bloat will drop from the stack. These gas clouds must not, under any circumstances, be allowed to reach their target, otherwise they will deal area of ​​effect damage throughout the raid. The amount of AoE damage will depend on how many stacks of Gaseous Bloat are left on the player when the Gas Cloud hits their target, if there are a large amount of stacks then you can expect some serious pain.

Off Tanks Abomination has another ability that will help you deal with ads. Regurgitated Mucus will slow the target by 50% and deal damage. This is the key to controlling aggregates, make sure your Off Tank is ready for the aggregate and has eaten enough mucus mounds so that it can release regurgitated mucus as soon as they breed.

The boss will also start throwing gas bombs, throw two at a time and at random intervals. Just make sure you don’t stand on them, they’re pretty simple to avoid, but they do a massive amount of damage if activated.

Professor Putricide Tactics and Strategy: Phase 2 Summary

In phase 2, Professor Putricide will do all the abilities like in phase 1, but also gains Malleable Goo, where he basically shoots goo through the air towards an area a player was standing on. It’s important to get out of the way, otherwise he can expect around 15k damage and slow his attack and cast speed by 200% for 15 seconds.

Professor Putricide Tactics and Strategy: Phase 3 Summary

During this phase you get all the abilities from Phase 1 AND Phase 2. Basically now it’s a race against time to kill him before he kills you. Putricide will again stun the entire raid and gobble up his potions to enter phase 3 with a buff on him called Mutated Strength that increases his attack speed and power by 50%. Every melee attack made against the boss from his tank will give his tank a debuff called Mutated Plague. This will start doing raid wide damage and stacks, the more stacks the higher the damage. It is at this point that his Off Tank needs to drop his Abomination and switch tanks to Putricide and the DPS run begins. If you’re not fast enough, you’ll be killed by the slime piles that are now building up and are no longer eaten by the Abomination. The good news is that NO MORE ADD will appear in phase 3.

Professor Putricide Tactics and Strategy: Putricide Abilities

mutated abomination

• eat mucus – Eat nearby mutated slime reducing the size of the pool, giving you 4 energy slimes!
• regurgitated mucus – Regurgitated slime has a shocking effect on the target, slowing their movement speed by 50% and dealing 6338 to 6662 damage every 2 seconds for 20 seconds.
• mutated cut – Instantly deals 100% weapon damage and reduces the target’s resistance to physical damage by 4% for 20 sec. It accumulates up to 5 times.

professor putricide

• slime puddle – Throws a vial of mutated slime, creating a pool of slime at the target’s location.
• slime puddle – Mutated slime continuously grows, dealing 4388 to 4612 damage every 1 second until consumed by a mutated creature!
• slime puddle – Deals 4388 to 4612 damage to targets in the slime pool.
• unstable experiment – Professor Putricide begins to carry out a perverse experiment with all of you!
• asphyxiant gas bomb – Professor Putricide throws gas bombs around him, the gas bomb deals 5363 to 5637 damage every 1 second and explodes for 15600 to 16400 damage after 20 seconds.
• asphyxiant gas – Choking Gas deals 5363 to 5637 damage and causes you to choke, reducing your chance to hit by 75% for 15 sec.
• create brew – Professor Putricide is rummaging through the lab table for a powerful potion!
• swallow potions – Professor Putricide starts drinking all the potions on the table!

gas cloud

• gaseous bloating – Deals 1219 to 1281 damage every 2 seconds and if hit by the Gas Cloud it will remove all remaining Gaseous Bloat and damage all nearby allies.
• gaseous bloating – The gas cloud locks onto the player with Gaseous Bloat. Catching it will cause it to cast Expunge Gas, dealing damage to nearby players based on how bloated the player is.
• gas removed – The Gas Cloud’s attack has removed all the gas from the target! The expunged gas deals damage to all enemies based on the number of stacks of Gaseous Blight left on the target when it was attacked.

growing mud puddle

• slime puddle – Mutated slime continuously grows, dealing 4388 to 4612 damage every 1 second until consumed by a mutated creature!
• mutated slime – Deal damage to targets in the Mutated Slime.

volatile mucus

• volatile mucus adhesive – The volatile slime adhesive binds the target with the volatile slime, dealing 4388 to 4612 damage every 1 second and rooting the target. The volatile slime will drift towards the target, exploding, dealing 68250 to 71750 damage, divided among all nearby targets.
• silt eruption – Deals 68250 to 71750 damage shared with nearby targets, knocking them back in all directions!

Professor Putricide Tactics and Strategy: Raid Tasks

Main tank: professor putricide

He detached from the tank: Stage 1 + 2: Abomination, Stage 3: Professor Putricide

Ranged DPS: Stage 1 + 2: Clouds of Gas and Volatile Snots, Professor Putricide, Stage 3: Professor Putricide

Melee DPS: Phase 1, 2 + 3: Professor Putricide (unless your melee is heavy, you may need to add some add-ons)

healers: 1 in raid healing, you should have a good start. 1 in tank heal that can also recharge the raid in phases 1 + 2. Good healers are needed.

Professor Putricide Tactics and Strategy: Execution

1.Have your main tank start the pull, all your raid team should be on the south side of the room as the first add will ALWAYS spawn from the north and will ALWAYS be a volatile slime. Have your Off Tank take an Abomination and start eating the slime piles the boss is spewing. Once the volatile slime is generated, the Off Tank should use the abomination to hurl regurgitated slime at it and the ranged DPS should immediately destroy the plugin.

2.Have your team switch sides of the room to be ready for the next spawn (gas cloud) and repeat the steps for Regurgitated Ooze and Nuke. If you don’t get the plugin fast enough to make the switch before the next one spawns, you’ll need to heal up as much as possible, but no matter what, you MUST switch the ends of the room.

3.Make sure your team has a lot of mobility, dodging the slime piles while the sub tank uses the Abomination to eat them, the sub tank MUST have enough energy for the Abomination to use regurgitated slime on the aggregates, but any additional energy can be use on the boss if you have time.

4. Have your ranged team stack on top of each other in case one of the volatile oozes hits your target and explodes, this will ensure that the damage is spread out enough for people to survive if they are on high health.

5. You will need to bring the bosses health down to 80% to start Phase 2.

6. Continue moving from one end of the room to the other depending on the addition that appears next; however, at this point there is even more restricted movement due to Malleable Goo.

7.At 30% health the boss will go into Phase 3, at this point the sub tank should have cleared as much of the slime piles as possible and then use all of the Abomination’s energy on the boss before dropping the Abomination and get ready to swap tanks with Professor Putricide.

8. We recommend you switch tanks with 4 stacks of Mutated Plague, if you outweigh the risk of the raid being overwhelmed by damage. You will need a skillful and timely tank swap for this phase and it is at this point that ALL remaining cooldowns should be burned and Bloodlust used.

9. Loot and enjoy. This boss will most likely require some practice, a lot of positioning, and a strong raid move to factor in when building his team.