Festergut - ICC tactics (fifth/sixth boss). lvl 80s (WotLK days)

Music: Rage Against the Machine - Renegades of Funk. I do not own this song and will not take credit for it.

About the Video:
It was recorded January 27 2010 during a guild run (Eternal Retribution) on (EU) Quel'Thalas. I went DPS for this fight and forgot to change gear so there's no use to point out my damage haha

Tactics:
Suggested setup - 10m: 2 tanks, 3 healers, 5 DPS (at least 3 ranged are a MUST). 25m: I haven't done this on 25m yet and dont know if you need 2 or 3 tanks. 5-6 healers, rest DPS (probably at least 8 ranged are a must).

The fight is mostly about getting spore stacks which partly protects you from an AoE attack. You can NOT hide from this AoE. Melee, tanks and healers must stack on boss and the ranged should do /range 10. During the battle 2 random players will get a spore above them (about every 18 seconds), these will give the protection against the AoE. Ranged will stack on 1 spore and melee+tanks+healers on the other one. If 2 ranged get the spore one of them needs to run to the boss and stack with that group until the spore has faded. Same thing with the boss stacking group; if 2 spores spawn on that group one of them needs to run to the ranged. When the spore has faded the ranged go back the /range 10 again asap.
Other than that, you can basically just nuke the boss. The boss will cast an attack on a ranged player sometimes (Vile Gas) which cannot be casted on those who stack on boss unless you have too few ranged. Vile Gas in middle boss stacking group will most likely cause a wipe because it spreads to those who are within 10 yards of the affected player.

Tanks also need to taunt off each other. The tank will get stacks (Gastric Bloat) and at 10 stacks he/she will exlode, die and most likely wipe the raid due to the AoE dmg. Taunt off at around 8 stacks.

Good luck!

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• Festergut
• ICC
• icecrown citadel
• fifth
• sixth
• tactics
• how to
• raid
• heal
• tank
• dps

[calmegard94]

if 2 in the inner group get spore, how long time do i have to run out?

[Emmha89]

@calmegard94 : i havent counted the seconds but i'm guessing 10 secs. u should run as soon as possible in case u run the wrong way or get confused about who should run out.

@ Theonicable : do u mean the moving text? it's an option in game under interface. the circle-ish addon is called IceHUD

[TheJorjj]

We normally do this with 3 healers 2 tanks and 5 dps. We only have 2 'soakers' that get infected with vile gas, they stand away from everyone. Tanks taunt at 9 stacks, pop CD's on 3rd inhale and pop BL. Aura mastery at the aoe shadow damage :} Enrage timer is pretty tight on 25 man, everyone needs 6k+ dps.

[Emmha89]

ah they must have changed the vile gas recently then? we kept wiping the first tries cus we had less than 3 players staying away from boss (the vile gas affected the middle group), went fine though when we had 3

[axeldagur]

@Theonicable Icehud

[Theonicable]

Whats the addon called when u get mana and hp? and the one with (( ur player ))?

[Watakesan]

awesome thank you :)

[Soulphus]

My guild just downed this yesterday. Interesting note, as a tank I knew none of this stuff except for the bloat. Does that mean I fail? =D