Good news, everyone!
First, yes, the title of this post is meant to be ironic in the sense that I pre-excoriated everyone prior to Putricide coming out, telling them not to title their kill-posts with that famous line from Farnsworth/Putricide. Although, I guess it’s not as ironic if I have to explain it… hrm. And it probably isn’t ironic at all to begin with… double hrm. Hrm hrm.
But, good news indeed, and this doesn’t involve the Death Zone, or the Zone of No Return, or for that matter anything from the Galaxy of Terror… we did it, we killed Putricide!
First and foremost I’d like to thank Renne of Malfurion (apologies if I got your name or server wrong, doing this from memory) who rolled a level 1 alt on the Hoof to wish my guild good luck and offer encouragement. That was totally unexpected and helped motivate people to know that others were rooting for us.
The night started off with Demo offering a poll via ready check: yes to do Blood Queen, no to go back to Putricide. Just about everyone hit no, it was an overwhelming response. Indeed, everyone was gung-ho about finally downing the sucker and reclaiming our honor. Poor Morvain had recurring dreams that night before that we were fighting Putricide, getting him down to 4%, and then the fight would reset. If anything, we had to do this so Morvain could sleep once more.
For about the first hour we were trying a tweak strategy that involved more movement to attempt to minimize opportunities for raid damage. That didn’t work though, dps was slowed considerably. Where we used to get to P3 with 3 minutes left, now we were getting there with 1:30 left.
When we finally switched back to the tried and true method we had a few attempts with people dying to the same old stuff. Once we worked that out though, we were starting to get cleaner add kills and the boss’s health was dropping ever more precipitously. Once he was dancing around the 38% mark I had to play footsie with his positioning. He couldn’t stay in too long or he’d push over to P3 with an add up. Stay out too long and we’ll get another add. We needed that Goldilocks middle where I get him to 36% with cleaves, then drag out and whittle him down to 35.1% myself, and then bring him back in as add was dying to be pushed over.
I managed to pull it off, getting him to dps at about 36% as the green ooze died. With five seconds til the next ooze cast, everyone gunned it and quickly pushed him to P3. All the slime was gone and… holy cow… everyone was still alive. This was our most perfect shot at P3 yet.
Phase 3 was crazy, with everyone nearly panicking (me especially) as we tried to push him down as soon as possible and as fast as possible. The first two stacks went up on each tank, then I got it to 4, Demo to 4, and Nordic took it. At the 3 mark people started dying with Putricide at under 3%. 1:30 still on the hard enrage timer.
We pushed it with all our might, the healers doing their damnedest to keep the tanks up and when it hit about .5% this golden light washed over me, all sounds on vent ceased, a radiant warmth shone down, and I was granted peace in the knowledge that our long weeks of struggle were finally coming to fruition.
With a gasp, Putricide keeled over and coughed up his purples.
Finally.
Great job, ES!
Armory Feed
Big Congrats!
My 10-man team got close last week (within 5%, but we weren’t consistently getting him to P3), and last night (and I’m sure it was helped with the new zone-wide buff) we got him to P3 consistently each time and one time less then 1% (about 100k HP), but it was getting late and we had to call it for the night. My question, what strategy do you use for tanking P3?
The closest I’ve seen him to death was a mere 4k away from a kill, the raid dead save me and the OT, and he managed to smite me before the last dot tick to heal himself a good 10% or so, thus shattering our dreams. Sadly, this was the last attempt of my final night in-game for some time (had to let my account slip due to RL issues), so my hopes of seeing him die before having to quit were dashed by a split second.
Grats on your kill tho. =)
Grats on the kill! The little band of 10 that I run with downed him 3 weeks ago (with no buff) and we haven’t been able to duplicate our success. Maybe tonight’s the night since we’ll have the buff.
Bacon’s last blog ..Out for a few days
@Orthien
4 March 2010 at 5:39 pm #
Grats to you and your guild.
Also good to hear your recruitment is helping sort your guild issues.
Orthien’s last blog ..When it rains, it pours.
Grats on the kill!
Do you think we could get a post on your UI? I’ve always liked it in the screenshots, and would probably switch over to it if I knew how to set it up like that.
Great job! Glad that you can finally cross that one off your list.
@ Lanaka
oh that blows :*(
@ Rhidach and ES
Big grats guy good job :)