With the unlocking of the Plagueworks in Icecrown Citadel, Vortex had hoped for more challenging content than we had seen to date in the instance. We weren't disappointed.

It started off easily enough - Festergut took 3 attempts and then got steadily harder. Rotface (although bugged) took a day of strategy rework before we were able to kill him. Despite the Professor Putricide fight "clicking" for us on our last attempt before despawning for the week, we weren't able to defeat him in the first week that he was available. That left us with a bad taste in our mouth.

Fast forward to last night. We'd put in hours of research analyzing our mistakes and were determined to be one of the first 10-man strict guilds to defeat the encounter. In the end, the Putricide fight is a large number of relatively simple mechanics requiring very clean execution to succeed against. There are bombs, slime, ooze and a hard hitting boss combined with a substantial amount of raid damage. We solved phases 1 and 2 pretty early, but still struggled with the phase 3 transition and a lack of DPS time in phase 3 due to situational awareness issues.

Still, we're lucky enough to have incredible players in Vortex and they took the challenge personally. We knew what we needed to do and on our second pull last night (after 15 attempts total), we defeated Professor Putricide, making Vortex one of the early 10-man strict guilds to do so. Kudos to Blizzard on a well designed (although occasionally buggy) encounter. It was a fun challenge and we're looking forward to the opening of the Crimson Halls!