Dances with Oozes (10 player)

Strategy Guide:

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• For this achievement, your group must not allow the Large Oozes that spawn throughout the encounter reach 5 stacks and explode. In order to do this, you will need good communication and a good group.
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Our group:

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• 2 Tanks - | Paladin | Warrior |
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• 2 Healers - | Shaman | Paladin |
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• 6 DPS - | Hunter | Ele Shaman | Warrior | Rogue | SPriest | Boomkin |
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Boss Information:

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• This is a very complicated boss fight which requires skill, timing and situational awareness from all members of your raid group.
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• To start, spread out all around Rotface as much as possible. He will be solo tanked by your MT in the center of the room where he stands due to Ooze Flood which will encompass a quarter of the room at any given time.
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• You need to spread this way to avoid Slime Spray which is a spray that targets a random raid member and must be avoided. Have the member that is targeted move away, and back again when the spray is over.
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• The OT will be running around the room and kiting the Oozes around. 1 Small Ooze will spawn after Mutated Infection dissipates from the raid member. (It can be dispelled) 2 Small Oozes will merge together when within range of one another and gain 2 buffs. One is an AoE damage Radiating Ooze and the other is Unstable Ooze which stacks up to 5. (6 Ooozes)
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• As the Oozes grow in size with each stack... they do significantly more damage and can not be tanked. They must be kited. Once the stack reaches 5 the Ooze casts Unstable Ooze Explosion and rains down Ooze all over the raid at the location of each member at the point of explosion.
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• That is pretty much it, however, the Oozes spawn small puddles that you just need to avoid.
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Achievement Strategy:

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• Now for the Achievement!
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• In order to get this achievement, you must coordinate the spawning and merging of the Small Oozes.
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• To keep the large Ooze from reaching 5 stacks and exploding, you need allow the oozes that spawn to stay on the current target that obtained the debuff.
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• Once the oozes start spawning, it is a DPS race and you must burn Rotface down as fast as possible before you get overrun by oozes.
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• In the case that 2 oozes merge, make sure you have your off tank there to pick up the ooze and begin kiting.
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• You need to try and keep 1 ooze on each person, this is easily healable, however, if too many spawn... just wipe it and start over.
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Tips:

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• Make sure the OT is taunting the Large Oozes ASAP to avoid raid damage.
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• The tank CAN run through the slime in the room. It will help kite the Ooze and your healers should be able to heal him through it.
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• Have good healers.
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I wish you the best of luck, and feel free to critique my post and ask any questions.

A link to our video on YouTube will be coming shortly, so you can see how it's done.

~Wrex - Pseudonym - Executus: US

Edit: The fight was hotfixed and the original strategy is now void. The guide is updated.

A reference to the movie Dances with Wolves (1990) starring Kevin Costner.

Stands With a Fist: [translating for Kicking Bird] He thanks Dances with Wolves for coming.
John Dunbar: Who is Dances with Wolves?
Stands With a Fist: It is the name all the people are calling you now.

Would just like to share how we did this tonight in 10 man after about an hour of experimentation.

Group setup - 2 tanks, 2 healers, 6 dps
MT - Protection Paladin
OT - Blood DK
Feral Druid (me)
Arcane Mage
Hunter
Rogue
Enhancement shaman
Shadow priest
Holy paladin
Resto druid

Strategy

Begin the pull, keep the ranged spread out... melee all stack on one spot, Just let the oozes spawn as they do (we used a cleansing totem to auto dispel) and don't intentionally make an effort to merge them.. Inevitably two will merge to form a big ooze, at this point the dk OT will taunt the big ooze and begin kiting as usual.. When two more merge, they too will be picked up by OT and merged into a large ooze... the OT keeps one ooze until it reaches 4 stacks, then when the next 2 merge, I picked them up and began kiting.

The idea is to zerg the boss down before you get overrun... you must coordinate this and remember to never make a conscious effort to merge the oozes, just let it happen (although try your best to keep them un-merged for as long as possible) We used bloodlust at 50%, and at least 4 of the DPS were above 8k and in the end we had another three small oozes up, so a high DPS requirement is necessary to ensure you can zerg it this way without getting overrun.

Good luck and enjoy this fun achievement !

Good luck