[WoRBot]

Professor Putricide Preview

Going into Tuesday and a potential new PTR build, I figure it's a good idea to prepare everyone for Professor Putricide, since he's likely due up soon for testing (he was scheduled last week and then cancelled). During the first testing of Festergut and Rotface, a few guilds managed to engage Professor Putricide due to him being up at that time. Below are details from those attempts, but remember that this can (and probably will) change since he hasn't been tested yet.

Professor Putricide
Health: ?? (25) / ?? (10)	Damage: 25-45k (25)
There are alchemy tables in the room with Profession Putricide that have potions on them. Interacting with the potions will cause you to mutate into an abomination. This will be key for removing the Mutated Slime puddles, however you can only have a certain number of abominations up at any given time or the damage from their AoE will overwhelm you. You will remove the puddles with Eat Ooze.   He will also spawn Orange Ooze and Green Ooze, though the details on them are sketchy at best at the moment so I've left them off the ability list until we know more.
Abilities
Choking Gas Bomb Professor Putricide throws Gas Bombs around him, the Gas Bomb deals 12345s1 damage every 12345t1 sec and explodes for 0 damage after 12345d. The values are placeholders at the moment. See Choking Gas and Choking Gas Explosion.
Choking Gas The Choking Gas inflicts 4388 to 4612 damage and causes you to choke, reducing your chance to hit by 75% for 10 sec.
Choking Gas Explosion The explosion inflicts 10725 to 11275 damage to enemies within 10 yards, knocking them back and reducing their chance to hit by 75% for 10 sec.
Create Concoction Professor Putricide is rifling through the lab table, searching for a powerful potion!
Expunged Gas The Gas Cloud's attack has expunged all of the gas from the target! Expunged Gas inflicts damage to all enemies based on the number of Gaseous Blight stacks that were remaining on the target when they were attacked.
Gaseous Bloat Inflicts 1463 to 1537 damage every 2 sec and if the Gas Cloud hits you it will expunge all of the remaining Gaseous Bloat and harm all nearby allies. Stacks 10 times.
Gas Variable You have the Gas Variable! You will be targeted with things that also have the Gas trait.
Guzzle Potions Professor Putricide starts to drink every potion on the table!
Mutated Slime The Mutated Slime grows continuously, inflicting 4388 to 4612 damage every 1 sec until it is consumed by another Mutated creature!
http://static.wowhead.com/images/icons/medium/ability_rogue_deviouspoisons.jpg Mutated Transformation You have been mutated! Inflicts 1950 to 2050 damage to nearby players every 1 sec. Curing the disease will revert the player to their form. This spell turns you into a Mutated Abomination.
http://static.wowhead.com/images/icons/medium/inv_inscription_inkgreen03.jpg Ooze Variable You have the Ooze Variable! You will be targeted with things that also have the Ooze trait.
http://static.wowhead.com/images/icons/medium/spell_shadow_callofbone.jpg Plague Sickness Increases damage taken from Unbound Plague by 100%. Stacks 10 times.
http://static.wowhead.com/images/icons/medium/spell_shadow_corpseexplode.jpg Unbound Plague Inflicts damage every 1 sec, the damage is increased every second the Blight remains on you!  If you get too near to a friendly target, you will transfer the Plague from you to them. Damage starts at 200.
http://static.wowhead.com/images/icons/medium/spell_shadow_unstableaffliction_1.jpg Unstable Experiment Professor Putricide begins to peform a wicked experiment on you all!
Volatile Ooze
http://static.wowhead.com/images/icons/medium/spell_fire_felcano.jpg Ooze Eruption Inflicts 39000 to 41000 damage sharesd with nearby targets, knocking them back in all directions!
http://static.wowhead.com/images/icons/medium/ability_warlock_chaosbolt.jpg Volatile Ooze Adhesive The Volatile Ooze Adhesive bonds the target to the Volatile Ooze, inflicting 2438 to 2562 damage every 1 sec and rooting the target. The Volatile Ooze will move towards the target, exploding for 39000 to 41000 damage, split among all nearby targets.

 

[lora]

turning into aboms? sign me up!

[Lendan]

he looks cool

[moemageddon]

Could he be the mutated/plagued remains of the Grand Apothecary Putress?

::Crosses Fingers with joy::

[slayme]

moemageddon said:

Could he be the mutated/plagued remains of the Grand Apothecary Putress?

::Crosses Fingers with joy::

I'm not sure why would putress join the lich king as his plague severly weakened arthas at the wrathgate

[Capoeira]

moemageddon said:

Could he be the mutated/plagued remains of the Grand Apothecary Putress?

::Crosses Fingers with joy::

obviously he is

[Capoeira]

slayme said:

I'm not sure why would putress join the lich king as his plague severly weakened arthas at the wrathgate

because he's dead and doesnt have a choice in the matter?

[slayme]

Capoeira said:

because he's dead and doesnt have a choice in the matter?

Killing someone that was a free undead in the first place means they will get under the lich king's controll?

What makes you think he's putress? OMG HIS NAME STARTS WITH A "P" AND HES UNDEAD ITS PUTRESS!

[rhorle]

slayme said:

Killing someone that was a free undead in the first place means they will get under the lich king's controll?

What makes you think he's putress? OMG HIS NAME STARTS WITH A "P" AND HES UNDEAD ITS PUTRESS!

Because there is no other sign of putress who was a major character in the story of wrath of the lich king?

[slayme]

rhorle said:

Because there is no other sign of putress who was a major character in the story of wrath of the lich king?

He's dead = end of story?

Not all characters need to have multiple roles in the story, he did what he did at the warthgate and we killed him

Malygos is a major character in WotLK also and hes not in ICC either so what?

[rhorle]

slayme said:

He's dead = end of story?

Not all characters need to have multiple roles in the story, he did what he did at the warthgate and we killed him

Malygos is a major character in WotLK also and hes not in ICC either so what?

if he is dead, bolvar and saurfang wered used by the lich king then its possible this is the new form of putress in the lich kings service. Blizzard also hasn't done much of anything with the dreadlord storyline which putress was connected to.

The story isn't done like malygos's story was. All we did with putress was defeat him in undercity, nothing says he can't return elsewhere like the dreadlords keep doing.

This post has been edited by rhorle: 03 November 2009 - 10:11 AM

[Lobex]

It's not Putress, quit speculating. Bolvar and Saurfang were used because they were LEFT ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE right near the Lich King's central domain. Putress was killed in the Undercity, far away from Arthas' sphere of influence.

Like someone else here said-Putress is dead, and that's how he's staying. He wasn't a "major character", he was little more then a plot device.


*EDIT* Actually, come to think of it, Saurfang Jr.'s sould got yanked by the LK, so that makes sense...Bolvar, however, got melted by Putress' plague, which is supposed to prevent reanimation among other effects. SO how they're bringing him back is beyond me, when all that shoulda been left was a soup, useless mess.

This post has been edited by Lobex: 03 November 2009 - 10:54 AM

[slayme]

Lobex said:

It's not Putress, quit speculating. Bolvar and Saurfang were used because they were LEFT ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE right near the Lich King's central domain. Putress was killed in the Undercity, far away from Arthas' sphere of influence.

Like someone else here said-Putress is dead, and that's how he's staying. He wasn't a "major character", he was little more then a plot device.


*EDIT* Actually, come to think of it, Saurfang Jr.'s sould got yanked by the LK, so that makes sense...Bolvar, however, got melted by Putress' plague, which is supposed to prevent reanimation among other effects. SO how they're bringing him back is beyond me, when all that shoulda been left was a soup, useless mess.

It was Alextrasza who brought him back to life with burning him after the wrathgate (the lavaman model) and idd saurfang's soul was stolen by the frostmourne so it makes sense

[Leviathonlx]

Let's not forget that Varian chopped Putress' head off and threw it at Thrall also.

This post has been edited by Leviathonlx: 03 November 2009 - 11:19 AM

[rhorle]

Lobex said:

It's not Putress, quit speculating. Bolvar and Saurfang were used because they were LEFT ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE right near the Lich King's central domain. Putress was killed in the Undercity, far away from Arthas' sphere of influence.

Like someone else here said-Putress is dead, and that's how he's staying. He wasn't a "major character", he was little more then a plot device.


*EDIT* Actually, come to think of it, Saurfang Jr.'s sould got yanked by the LK, so that makes sense...Bolvar, however, got melted by Putress' plague, which is supposed to prevent reanimation among other effects. SO how they're bringing him back is beyond me, when all that shoulda been left was a soup, useless mess.

The lich kings sphere of influence is not limited to northrend. It has no limits. He raised arugal from the dead, sent his blood princes into karazhan and other places. The scourge has influence over the plaque lands if to a minor degree. The undercity isn't so powerful that agents of the scourge can't go near it and take a corpse. It also isn't out of the realm of possiblity that arthas would want vengence on putress for the wounds inflicted and would go out of his way to raise him from the dead to exact that revenge and steal his knowledge.

Bolvar wasn't melted by the plague by the way, it was the red dragon flight that would have killed him if anything. Since they torched the entire area killing the plague and giving new life to the area. This can be seen by all the flowers and stuff growing out of the ground where the plague was.

[Lobex]

Be that as it may, there's a general rule that no head=no resurrection (black dragons apparently being the exception). The fact of the matter is that Putress was a minor character used as a plot mover, nothing more. Professor Putricide, though he shares a similar name, is NOT Putress. He is Arthas' own personal apothecary, and the implication is that he has been working for the Scourge for quite some time, helping to concoct many of the diabolical substances and diseases they employ throughout their dark crusade against the races of Azeroth.

Besides, if Blizzard wanted to bring Putress back, they would simple have called him Putress again, not Putricide, with an entirely different title (proessor, rather then apothecary). When Cryptlord Anub'Arak came back, he wasn't suddenly called "Collegiate Anab'aruk" nor did Kael'Thas return as "Kael'ish, The Blood Elf formerly known as Prince." Get what I'm saying?

[rhorle]

Lobex said:

Be that as it may, there's a general rule that no head=no resurrection (black dragons apparently being the exception). The fact of the matter is that Putress was a minor character used as a plot mover, nothing more. Professor Putricide, though he shares a similar name, is NOT Putress. He is Arthas' own personal apothecary, and the implication is that he has been working for the Scourge for quite some time, helping to concoct many of the diabolical substances and diseases they employ throughout their dark crusade against the races of Azeroth.

Besides, if Blizzard wanted to bring Putress back, they would simple have called him Putress again, not Putricide, with an entirely different title (proessor, rather then apothecary). When Cryptlord Anub'Arak came back, he wasn't suddenly called "Collegiate Anab'aruk" nor did Kael'Thas return as "Kael'ish, The Blood Elf formerly known as Prince." Get what I'm saying?

That general rule is only true to people that create, not blizzard. The community often considers dead to be dead in cases. Then ignore possiblites where dead might not be dead. We are talking about a force that raises things from the dead. Yet you claim it is impropable for something to be returned from life? Edit: Arugal was brought back to life by the lich king despite his head being chopped off for the quest http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=1014

Those that kept names also looked like their past lives. Putricide looks nothing like the past putress so why name it the same? You ignore a possible storyline for no reason other then you don't want it. Its possible that there is a connection between putress and putricide so stop acting like it is 100% proven there can not be.

This post has been edited by rhorle: 03 November 2009 - 12:37 PM

[Kody]

This fellow is not Putress. His original name was Flesh-Shaper Genacyde, but I'm sure you can guess why it was changed.

[rhorle]

Kody said:

This fellow is not Putress. His original name was Flesh-Shaper Genacyde, but I'm sure you can guess why it was changed.

Putress performed genocide at the wrathgate. Just because something isn't named "Reborn putress" doesn't discount a possible connection.

[Eulo]

It's not hard to believe that the Lich King has had his own scientists working on plagues and poisons for a long time now... long before Putress was even on anyone's radar. There's no reason to assume that this is Putress anymore than you would assume Festergut or Rotface are made from pieces recovered from Patchwerk or Thaddius. It's not an impossibility... but it being a completely new character is much more likely.

If Blizzard actually intends for this Putricide to be a reanimated Putress then that will be made clear at some point. They wouldn't just think to themselves "hey, this boss should be Putress" and then not tell anyone.