Icecrown Citadel: Rotface

Rotface ain't good-looking, that's true. In fact, if you'd throw on some plastic boobs on him, he'd look like a fat Amy Winehouse.
Nevertheless, he has a friend; A not-so-cute puppy called Precious. Obviously, the first thing your raid will do is kill that doggy.

Precious

Precious is a mini-boss that needs to be killed to access Rotface. He is a plague hound with some nasty abilities.

• Mortal Wound - a stacking debuff on the tank that reduces healing by 10% per stack. Tanks need to taunt off each other when the stacks get too high. The debuff stacks FAST.
• Decimate - reduces the entire raid's healthpools to very little. A decimate combined with high stacks of mortal wound is BAD for the tank.
• Awaken Plague Zombies - summons a big group of zombies in a circle around the doggy. This is where Holy Wrath and Concecration shines for a paladin.

When the mutt is dead, it's time to put that freak Amy... eh... Rotface out of his misery. Consider it a mercy killing.

Rotface

Short version of tactics: Tank boss in center of room. Kite big ooze around the room. Loot.

The challenge in this fight is handling the oozes that spawn. The small oozes spawn from raid members that have been infected my Mutated Infection, either after 12 seconds, or when they are cleansed. The oozes will stick to that person until it can merge with other oozes, creating Big Oozes. Big Oozes must be kited around the room, since they can one-shot even tanks. They also deal aoe damage, so the kiting path must be away from the rest of the raid.

When five oozes have merged, the Big Ooze will explode, dealing aoe damage and sending sprays of ooze around the room. The raid needs to move out of this to avoid damage.

This doesn't sound too hard, right? Well, the Mutated Infections are cast at an increasingly faster rate over the fight. Towards the end of the fight, there will be LOADS of small oozes that needs to be handled correctly.

Things to look out for:

• Mutated Infection - deals some damage and reduces healing received by 50%. After 12 seconds (or when the debuff is removed), a small ooze spawns.
• Ooze Flood - one quarter of the room will be filled with slime, which deals damage and reduces movement speed by 25%. Only the kiting tank should ever be in these.
• Slime Spray - Rotface rains slime in a cone in front of him. Deals quite a lot of damage, so the raid need to try to avoid being hit by this.
• Sticky Ooze - both the small and the big oozes can spit out sticky ooze in front of raid members. The sticky ooze deals damage and reduces movement speed by 50%. This is especially bad for the kiting tank to get stuck in. Avoid!
• Unstable Ooze Explosion - when the oozes have merged five times, the big ooze will explode. Run away!

Hints:

• The people who gets the Mutated Infection should run to the kiting tank, get cleansed, and make sure that the small ooze that spawns merges with the big ooze that is following the kiting tank before they run back to the raid.
• The main tank can use cooldowns to survive the Unstable Explosions, and thus does not have to move at all in the fight. The hardest thing for the main tank in this fight is avoiding falling asleep.
• If you get more than one Big Ooze (which is BAD), try to make them merge into a single one as fast as possible.

Using a paladin as the kiting tank has many advantages:

• Paladins can cleanse the Mutated Infection debuff. If the kiting tank handles all the cleansing, it can be controlled better.
• Paladins can build threat on the Big Ooze from a distance (Hand of Reckoning, Avenger's Shield, Exorcism, Judgement), and will thus not risk being one-shotted by the ooze.
• Paladins with Pursuit of Justice will run faster than other tanks, which makes kiting easier.
• Paladins can use Hand of Freedom if they get stuck in Ooze Floods or Sticky Ooze.
• Paladins are sexy and their pure awesomeness will make Oozes think twice before hurting them. And if they do hurt them, paladins have Ardent Defender.

If you get the job to tank the boss, prepare for a snooze fest. If you get the job to kite the oozes, prepare for some serious stress.

The kiting tank's job depends on how raid members move when they get the Mutated Infection. No tank in the world can save the raid if people run too late or to the wrong place or get cleansed at the wrong time or decide to hug the big ooze or hug other small oozes with their own small ooze. Not even paladin tanks can Taunt Stupid or Cleanse Retard. Maybe in Cataclysm, though.