Puppy Pound

Another week, another challenge! And no, I am not hurting any puppies. Have you seen the video above. Cutest little furry bastards EVAR!

This past weekend was the first weekend of Icecrown Citadel: The Plagueworks Wing, featuring the two new abomination models of Festergut and Rotface and their very senile father, Professor Putricide, who to me sounds ridiculously similar to Professor Farnsworth.

Now to get a longer raid time for ICC 25 man we switched our raiding schedule around so that we were 10 manning on Saturday and 25 manning on Sunday. Saturday went really well boss-wise until we met Rotface. We wiped several times on him, but every time getting him closer and closer. 25 man consisted of us killing the first 4 bosses but unforntunately it definitely seems like a DPS gear check on Festergut and we were unable to take him down but we did make the Enrage timer which is good. So we put notice on Rotface for 10 man this next weekend and Festergut on 25 man for hopefully this next weekend as well.

But I am not here to talk about them. I am here because of two mobs that were placed in this new wing in the halls before each Festergut and Rotface. Yes, that's right. I'm talking about Stinky and Precious. These two look and play just like Gluth does, except one is smelly and likes to ooze green clouds at everyone all the time and the other likes to play with zombies.

The one thing I did notice was that Precious has a buff of a 1st Place ribbon on her and that made me wonder when these guys found the time to have a dog show if they are continually trying to kill every living thing! Wait! Maybe that's why this wing was closed down for those 28 days before opening! They had the who's who of the Evil lore dudes parading their pretty pups around and judging the best one. Which begs the question that if Precious won, who was last place? My vote is on Kael'thus.

But I'm begging the pooch here...hehe....begging......ahem...nevermind.

Now I liked the Gluth encounter in Naxx and was quite happy with the placement of Stinky and Precious in ICC. Both Gluth and the Abom-pups have similar abilities, such as Decimate and the stacking debuff called Mortal Wound that reduces healing. The differences lie in the stacking of that debuff, which stacks faster and can easily get to 10 stacks which reduces the healing on the tank completely. So two tanks are definitely needed.

Both Stinky and Precious do another ability, just not the same one. Stinky has flatulence issues and constantly pulses out an AoE called Plague Stench. Coupled with Decimate, this could definitely cause a raid wipe. And with us it did. Decimate followed by a pulse equals dead DPS and healers. But we got back up and took him out the 2nd time.

Precious, like I said earlier, likes to play with her food and has the ability to summon ghouls, which require immediate AoE to start taking out as many as possible. Now these ghouls do not heal Precious thankfully, but the tanks that are tanking Precious should not be tanking the adds as they also place a stacking debuff on their targets. I seem to remember getting her down the first time but it could have been the second time but I could be getting my 10 and 25 man mixed up.

Now after killing Stinky, Festergut speaks up and yells at us about killing his pup so while fighting Precious, I told myself that I would die laughing if Rotface pops in spouting, 'Preciousss, my Precioussssss.' *gollum, gollum.* Alas! he did not. Would have been hilarious though. Too bad.

All in all, it was a fun weekend of new sights, especially since Slime Frogger in Naxx was moved to this new wing in the form of Frost-Fire Frogger. Blizzard is tricksy, yess preciousss, very tricksy. *gollum, gollum.* About 4 people bit the dust walking into those traps after zoning in. The good news is that you can send one person good at frogger in to activate the Frost Rune teleporter for those of you who can never make it.

Have a great week and I will see, well write again next week!