Am I doing Festergut Right?

Festergut

Our first stop is the closest we're going to get to a Patchwerk fight in the Plagueworks. Festergut is darned near a straight up tank & spank, and while once again the melee have it easy, this is the fight where we can pretty much just sit still and pump out our massive sustained DPS.


In fact, Festergut is a DPS check boss. Your entire raid must be capable of very high sustained DPS to get him down before his five minute enrage timer. In both 10-man and 25-man the DPS requirements are pretty severe. The exact amount of DPS you have to do will vary depending on how many healers your raid is carrying. In 25-man your raid needs a total of 144,100 DPS to down Festergut in the nick of time. With two tanks at 3k DPS each (they get buffed) and only 5 healers, each DPSer would need to do 7,673 DPS. Any more healers and your DPS minimum goes up. Fortunately we are death dealers and are easily capable of handling this, and even carrying some of those sad elemental shamans.

• This fight is all about performance and skill. It is a test of your knowledge of your rotation, gear selection, and movement abilities.
• Remember to stay spread out. Make sure you are over 8 yards from anyone else.
• If you are MM, burn your cooldowns on engage. You should be able to take advantage of four Rapid Fires during this fight.
• When you have to move to the spores to get inoculated, remember to shoot & scoot or use Disengage to cover the ground. You should not lose a single shot to this movement -- this is where you need to use those movement skills.
• The only thing that should cause you to lose shots on Festergut is getting hit with Vile Gas. The dirty melee sold their souls to the ICC developers and once again have easy mode and don't get hit with it, so they'll generally own the meters here.
• Deterrence will protect you from Pungent Blight. Use it if you miss an inoculation (which you would never do -- right?) but mostly use it to keep the inoculation buff even after the Pungent Blight. That will help the raid cause you will take much less damage from the aoe on the room.