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Festergut Strategy Page
saedo — Thu, 10/15/2009 - 11:52

Health:
- 10 Man: 9.412M
- 10 Man Heroic: 13.7M
- 25 Man: 40.44M
- 25 Man Heroic: 52.2M
- Enrage: 5 mins
Abilities:
- Gaseous Blight - The Gaseus Plague inflicts 2925 to 3075 Shadow damage to all nearby players. Instant
- Inhale Blight - Inhales the Gaseous Blight in the room, increasing damage dealt by 30%. 3.5 sec cast, 15 sec cooldown
- Pungent Blight - Violently releases the Gaseous Blight, dealing 48750 to 51250 Shadow damage to all enemy players, releasing the deadly Blight back into the room. 3 sec cast, 15 sec cooldown
- Gas Spore - Unleashes a Gas Spore, inflicting 2-4 random targets with a gaseous spore. The Spore will explode after 12 seconds, inflicting 1950 to 2050 damage to all nearby friends. The damage from the Gas Spore builds the targets immune system, giving them a resistance to the blight. Instant, 18 sec cooldown
- Gastric Bloat - Inflicts 14625 to 15375 damage and applies Gastric Bloat to the target, increasing damage done by 10% for 1.67 min and will cause a Gastric Explosion at 10 stacks inflicting massive damage to nearby allies.
- Vile Gas - Inflicts a Vile plague in targeted area, inflicting 4875 to 5125 damage every 2 sec for 6 sec. The plague causes the infected targets to vomit uncontrollably inflicting 3900 to 4100 damage to nearby allies. Instant
The Fight:
Gaseous Blight
This is basically a tank and spank fight with a few group up and spread out scenarios. It has a 5 min enrage, and basically serves as a gear/dps check for the raid.
First thing of note, the room will be covered with an orangy gas, the Gaseous Blight. It's a constant damage aura for the raid to heal through.
Inhale Blight
Festergut will start inhaling the Blight every so often. Each time he does, the aura damage goes down, but he increases his own damage done by 30%. So, less raid damage, more tank damage, be aware to shift focus.
Pungent Blight
After 3 inhales, the room is cleared of the aura and his damage is up by 90%. After 20 sec or so, he will perform this, expelling all the gas back into the room, resetting his own debuff (back to normal damage), and dealing about 50K damage to the entire raid.
Instant death to most unless...
Gas Spores
Every so often he'll throw out 3 Gas Spores (2 in 10 man) into the raid. The look like Loatheb's spores, but they're on a player's head. People need to group up with them, let the timer on it run down so it explodes all over them. But try not to have more than 1 spore in the same area due to...
Blighted Spores
This is a 6 second 2K ish DoT that the Spores leave on you after they explode, and it stacks. Heal through this raid damage, it is neccessary because...
Innoculated
This is a debuff you get should you survive the Blighted Spores. It gives you a 25% shadow damage taken reduction, and it stacks. This is what the raid needs to survive the Pungent Blight. There will be 3 opportunities to get it, and you'll likely need at least 2 in normal modes, all 3 in hard modes.
Gastric Bloat
Last couple of tricks this guy does are... Gastric Bloat is a stacking debuff on the tank. It makes him do 10% more damage per stack, and to reiterate, that's more damage he does, not taken. But at 10 stacks, he dies in a horrific explosion likely taking some melee with him.
So this forces it to be a 2 tank fight, tank swaps at 8-9 stacks, then help dps without pulling aggro back.
Vile Gas
This is for the ranged to deal with. With sufficient numbers, this targets the ranged, disorients them and makes them puke (damage) all over anyone around them. So this is the spread out mechanic. This will not occur during Gas Spores, so the raid works to group up and spread out whenever it calls for it.
Heroic Mode Summary
There's one new trick and that's Malleable Goo. Professor Putricide joins the fight and starts throwing them from the balcony. There'll be a small green goo puddle where it's gonna land, through the explosion radius is far larger. They hurt, give a debuff that increases your casting and attack speeds. Best to avoid them.
This forces the raid to be more out, like if you had healers stack on melee before, might be best to leave them out. More targets for Malleable Goo to target instead of it constantly doing melee. For the melee though, probably want 2 areas to run to, likely on either side. Don't be on the side the Goo lands at.
Achievements:
Flu Shot Shortage: - Defeat Festergut while none of the players in your raid group ever had 3 stacks of Inoculated in 10/25-player mode.
- For the first spores, run out on your own, no one gets the debuff except them.
- For the second spores, everyone but the first 2 group up for it.
- At this point, everyone should have 1 stack, adjust the above step if necessary like if the spore goes on the same person. They run out again.
- For the third spores, stack up like normal, this gets everyone their 2nd stack
Videos:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Agoney — Wed, 01/13/2010 - 20:17http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKwNApchEVY
Nothing really different from
saedo — Fri, 01/08/2010 - 02:46Nothing really different from what I already put up. Tweaked a few words, now this is done as the Live Version, for normal mode at least.
Vit's question
GimpyDragon — Wed, 01/06/2010 - 10:11I have heard that Festergut will require 7,500 per DPS class assuming a tank doing 3,000. Can anyone confirm or deny that?
Answer
GimpyDragon — Wed, 01/06/2010 - 10:13If I remember correctly from last night this boss has a 5 or 6 minute enrage timer. So yes this looks to be a massive dps check.
Normal DPS counting?
Vitriola — Wed, 01/06/2010 - 13:03Is Festergut one of those boss types where the dps is inflated with some kind of systemic buff or does it require 7.5k of normal level dps? It just seems high to require that number of all dps excepting only healers and the one tank.
Well there's 2 tanks and they
saedo — Wed, 01/06/2010 - 13:27Well there's 2 tanks and they do get a damage buff for what it's worth. And I believe that number assumes 5 healers.
You need a raid dps of 144,100. So, a gear check. You'd only need a 7.5K average. So the more 10K dps you have, the more 5K dps you can carry.
In Scaron's post on
Vitriola — Wed, 01/06/2010 - 15:48In Scaron's post on affliction raiding, he shows a log from a night's raid.
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/l3velsrbuqcmaoh6/sum/damageDone/
In there, Fjun is 7.35k, two are at 7k and the rest range from low 4s to mid 6s. These are some good players and they did not put out the numbers needed. Though Scaron's best run was attempt #5, the front page numbers were genreally indicative.
How then can the requisite numbers be met? You can consider this a rhetorical question as I have no notion of how it can be done.
Front page numbers dealing
saedo — Wed, 01/06/2010 - 15:55Front page numbers dealing with the whole night when it's full of trash and downtime and different bosses isn't the best place to look for your dps standards.
Looking at Saurfang is a better measurement: http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/71fusqf96s4kuou4/sum/damageDone/?s=93...
Achieved a Raid DPS of 115284.1. That's about 30K shy of what's needed for Festergut. But, ranged were dealing with adds, with their kiting, and lack of debuffed mobs. If the ranged were all boss focused 100% of the time, can they gain that 30K raid dps?
P.S. KB parses for Saurfang were: http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-1hf4hqfe79a1g4g4/sum/damageDone/?s... at 134866.5 dps, that'd be 10K shy of what's needed, so hope they can gain that with 100% boss focus time.
Actually, as I mentioned, I
Vitriola — Wed, 01/06/2010 - 17:05Actually, as I mentioned, I did check the several boss fights even going as far as to mention one specific boss fight. Those numbers did represent the boss fights and were not cluttered with trash. Still, knowing that KB is coming really close is encouraging. Well done! That is no small feat!
Ok, so attempt 5 he did hit
saedo — Wed, 01/06/2010 - 17:12Ok, so attempt 5 he did hit 7.8K, kill shot looks like 6.6K. So maybe that's possibly the difference from killing adds or killing bosses? Ranged gaining ~1K dps each, probably more for some esp ones actively kiting. So I'd venture you guys are probably closer to the dps req than you think, a 7.5K average isn't really that high.
For what it's worth, it looks
Scaron — Tue, 01/12/2010 - 10:37For what it's worth, it looks like the KB Festergut kill was a raid dps of 137.6k--with 6 seconds to spare before hard enrage. So, the average dps (assuming 5 healers and 2 tanks) would be 137.6 / 18 = 7.65 (ish) k. (Of course this is made less by tank damage (which is somewhat inflated in this fight due to buffs) and any auxilliary damage healers do (which isn't much).
Considering Festergut has
Shihli — Wed, 01/06/2010 - 15:51Considering Festergut has been killed by at least two guilds on our server already ... it's very doable.
There did not seem to be any
GimpyDragon — Wed, 01/06/2010 - 13:15There did not seem to be any damage increasing modifiers in the fight now. At least not for us. It might be a 4 healer fight though, I wasn't healing so I can't comment on how it was. But you do get I think a 75% damage reduction buff during the fight.
Yes, others have confirmed a
saedo — Wed, 01/06/2010 - 10:52Yes, others have confirmed a 5 min enrage. So DPS check it is.
Updated!
saedo — Thu, 12/31/2009 - 13:28Updated!
This vid is from a more
saedo — Thu, 10/29/2009 - 10:39This vid is from a more current build and I like it more. You can see the Innoculate mechanic happening. When the pally gets it, he doesn't take damage. When he didn't, he took a huge chunk of damage. Didn't kill him out right though, so I guess Hard Mode will do that.
Is there any reason why on
chaca — Wed, 01/06/2010 - 14:00Is there any reason why on these videos, the feral cat is constantly jumping? Is that a strat to avoid some AoE damage coming from this ugly fartbag?
Jumping makes you crit more
Nuitarin — Wed, 01/06/2010 - 17:02Jumping makes you crit more ... true story.
Dontcha know? If kitties
saedo — Wed, 01/06/2010 - 14:22Dontcha know? If kitties time the jumps to land right when they shred they do moar dps. ;p
its probably just his coping
Jayel — Wed, 01/06/2010 - 14:16its probably just his coping method for his OCD...
And this page updated as well
saedo — Thu, 10/22/2009 - 14:47And this page updated as well with PTR info.
And here's a vid too.
lol thats funny none of them
lleme — Thu, 01/07/2010 - 18:33lol thats funny none of them know whats goin on..."i think its bugged when he inhales"