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Going Viral

Defeat Doctor Ickus after destroying 2 Volatile Plague Bombs in Plaguefall on Mythic difficulty.

Shadowlands Dungeon

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Going Viral is a 10 point achievement in Shadowlands Dungeon. Its criteria ask you to defeat 1 boss in Plaguefall.

How to Earn

WherePlaguefall (entrance in Maldraxxus at 59.5, 65.1)

How to Complete

1 criterion from the current game data.

Defeat these bosses (1)

Each line is a boss encounter from the game data, linked to its boss page where the journal has one, otherwise to the instance it is fought in.

Where: Plaguefall

  1. Defeat 2 Volatile Plague BombsThe destruction of the House of Plagues and the slime eruptions left in its wake will not stop the presumed genius of Doctor Ickus and his deranged experiments.

Details

Points
10
Faction
Both factions
Requirements
1 criteria line
Instance
Plaguefall
Instance type
Dungeon
Expansion
Shadowlands

About Plaguefall

Underneath the ruined House of Plagues, lies one of the most destructive forces Maldraxxus has ever known. Those who covet this power search the plague-ridden debris in a race to claim this weapon for themselves. Whoever captures this prize will hold the fate of the Shadowlands in their clutches.

From the in-game Adventure Guide.

Bosses, loot and map for Plaguefall

Where to Earn It

Going Viral is earned inside Plaguefall, a dungeon. The entrance is marked below.

The entrance to Plaguefall is in Maldraxxus at 59.5, 65.1.

Maldraxxus map with the Plaguefall entrance markedEntrance 59.5, 65.1

Maldraxxus, from the game’s own world map art. The framed marker is the Adventure Guide entrance.

Part of

Meta achievements that count this one among their criteria.

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1
Volleynova+127via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Easy Solo for Level 70 Dragonflight & Beyond...

1) Mythic Difficulty.

2) Achievement can be tracked, turning from Red to White when requirements are satisfied.

3) Do not pull boss yet.

4) There is a Purple vial on the desk, pick it up and run as fast as you can to any of the four green cauldrons, then dump the contents of the vial into the cauldron with the special ability.

5) Wait for debuff to wear out so you can pick up the vial again, at the cauldron you just placed it at.

6) The vial is now accessible again, pick it up and run again to another green cauldron, and pouring the contents within to change it purple.

7) Rinse & Repeat 2 more times, all the while avoiding the boss as he hops around.

8) Finally, with all four cauldrons now purple, you can now pull the boss.

9) Reduce boss health slowly and fight as you normally would, avoiding stuff on the ground, eventually he'll hop to a purple cauldron and raise up a purple volatile plague slime.

10) Kill the slime, continue to reduce boss health and he'll jump off to another purple cauldron, kill that volatile purple slime as well.

11) With the achievement requirements met, nuke the boss.

12) ?

13) Profit. Achievement Completed.

3
Xeaven+29via Wowhead (opens the original comment in a new tab)

Here's a tip for anyone doing this achievement in Dragonflight & Beyond.

Once you put the [spell=333162] into one of the cauldrons, the potion will *STAY AT THE SAME CAULDRON* you deposited it into. You will then get a 59 second debuff called Volatile coating [spell=333252] which means you can't carry the potion again for that time. Be warned, the potion will despawn after about 66 seconds, so there is a 6-7 second window in which you need to pick up the [spell=333162] again and take it to a new cauldron.

This means it should take you about 4 1/2 minutes to fill every cauldron with the [spell=333162]. Simply kill the Volatile Slime twice, kill the boss and you'll have your Going Viral achievement!

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