Tips for Noob Putricide Abomination Tanks

Hey there. Last week I pugged a group for an ICC 10 run and one of their tanks had to bail mid run so I shifted my position from dps to tank to help fill out. I'd never done the Abom tank position on Putricide before, and apparently I was the only one of the two tanks interested in doing it, and I've noticed a pattern that seems to happen to every ICC 10 group I've been in: The first time you tank with the Abom you fail, but every other time you do it, it goes pretty smoothly.

I think I determined why these things happened, and I'd like to share my knowledge with anyone who is searching for tips on doing this (in case they've never done it before).

First of all, you will have 3 abilities whose importance is also their lineup in the keys:

1 - eat ooze : This abilities is basically a button you spam until the slime puddle is gone, if you leave even a small amount left it will grow back up and will become almost impossible to clear out. Each time you hit this it adds 4 energy to your bar.

2 - regurgitated ooze : This ability will spit at either of the adds that pop out and slow their movement by 50%. for 20 secs (it also deals damage). It costs 45 energy to use each time.

3 - mutated slash : This ability hits target, dealing weapon damage and reducing armor by 4% stacks up to 5 times. Costs no energy.

Ok, so here are the tips that will help you be a first time Abom champ:

Tip 1: You should get to use the slash some, so equip your best dps 2 hander (and have your sword and board macro ready to go for phase 3).

Tip 2: click the table, then run back to the raid. The Abom will take a bit to spawn out of you, but you don't have to stay near the table. Since the slime will spawn near the raid, the less time you have to take running there, the better.

Tip 3: make sure you stand IN THE MIDDLE of the puddle. I mean the exact middle. Not "near" the middle.

Tip 4: you will spam 1 until a puddle is gone, then go to the next puddle. Puddles spawn in 2's, once they're both gone, you can slash like crazy, and save one regurgitation for when the add spawns.

Tip 5: 1 is spammable. Once you're in position, spam it.

Tip 6: regurgitated ooze lasts 20 secs, so you don't want to hit the mob right away, but you do want to hit it before it starts moving. This may involve practice, but not too bad.

Tip 7: If the slime puddles are soaked up, your priority list is the following:

(a) regurgitate ooze on add (if up)

(b) slash add (if up)

(c) slash professor

You should find that the pools don't take too long to eat up, which should leave you time to do all of these.

Tip 8: The key to eating the puddles is to get them while they're small. Larger puddles take longer to eat, and cause you to take more damage. Get the puddles eaten fast, THEN do everything else.

Tip 9: If the worst happens, and your abom is killed, just run back and grab another. If this happens, though, you're most likely spending too much time standing in large ooze puddles and the raid is probably going to wipe, so don't let this happen.

Tip 10: Even in the abom your priority is to make the adds go down. You want to eat the puddles quickly so that you can spend your time on the adds. If no adds are up, and you have no puddles to eat that's the ONLY time you need to worry about the professor.

If you'll follow those tips, I think you'll find that your abom career will be a glorious one.