Am I doing Rotface Right?

Rotface

If Festergut is the Patchwerk of ICC, then Rotface is the Grobbulus. I hate Rotface with a burning rage that is nearly as great as my hatred for elves. This fight is all about ooze management and good burst DPS at the last 20% when the oozes are going crazy.

• Avoid getting slime sprayed. One way to gauge your performance on this fight is to see how much Slime Spray damage you took. You want that number to be zero.
• Be aware of where the kiter is at all times. When you get the Mutated Infection you don't want to waste any time trying to figure out where your kiter is.
• When you get Mutating Infection, Disengage toward the kiter. Your goal here is to get rid of your ooze as quickly as possible and return to the center.
• Remember to continue shooting Rotface while you're dealing with your infection and ooze.
• Be ready to MD an ooze to the kiter at a moment's notice. If someone dies with the Mutating Infection the little ooze will still spawn and head straight to the healers. It's our job to get them back to the kiter.
• During the ooze explosion, continue to DPS while you run away. Remember to pause a half second to let your auto-shots fire while you're running.
• Aspect of the Wild is not be needed for this fight. Currently MM hunters take a massive hit for using this, and it just isn't necessary.

Now, some groups may actually have their hunter kite the Big Ooze. We are better than any tank at generating threat on our kiting targets, and we can continue to DPS Rotface while we're kiting. Here are some tips if you're going to be kiting the Big Ooze:

• Do not ever let it get too close to you. The Big Ooze is perfectly capable of one-shotting you.
• Do not get too far away. Since you're going in circles, the farther you get the more "corners" the Big Ooze can cut, and it can and will cut through the center of the room, hitting the raid with its aura.
• You will have to kite through the ooze flooded portions of the room at times. Do not try to switch directions. Your healers can deal with it.
• If you get caught in multiple floods in a row and the big ooze is getting close, jump-Disengage to buy some range.
• Always keep an eye on the center for loose small oozes. One of our strengths is our ability to pull these out of the center without having to adjust our kiting.
• Put Serpent Sting on Rotface. Create a macro for your Chimera Shot so that it automatically shoots at Rotface, and lets you keep your ooze targeted. This will allow you to always have Serpent Sting on the boss, and your most damaging shot will always fire at him.
• Use all other shots on your ooze. Healers can spike a lot of threat on the ooze, and you want to maintain a big, big threat lead. Losing your ooze due to DPSing the boss more is not worth it. Trust me on this one, I did it once.
• During the ooze explosion and anytime there is no Big Ooze out, you should be DPSing the boss all out, from range.
• When I was kiting (in 10-man) I was able to do 6k DPS with 74% of my damage done on Rotface. This is a huge DPS gain for the raid versus having a tank do the kiting -- assuming that the tank can switch to offspec and do good DPS.