Rotface Encounter Guide: Strategy, Abilities, Loot

• Melee DPS should be sure to stack together and move together to keep the room as clear as possible, similar to Algalon the Observer.
• Ranged DPS should spread around as much as possible to prevent the Vile Gas from hitting more than 1 person at at time.

• Healers should spread around as much as possible to prevent the Vile Gas from hitting more than 1 person at at time.
• Setup and follow a dispel order for the Mutated Infection; similar to Grobbulus, you do not want these to be removed until the affected player is in the correct position.

• Do your best to take as little damage from the Ooze as possible. You should be able to maintain threat on them without needing to be in melee range.
• Be ready to taunt any loose Big Ooze if you temporarily loose threat.
• Movement speed items, such as Nitro Boosts, can be invaluable here to help you reposition and grab an add, or create some distance between one you already have threat on.

Before engaging the boss, have your ranged DPS and healers spread around the room by hugging the wall. This helps greatly as you will want to pop all offensive cooldowns instantly on pull to burn as much down on the boss as you can.

The main mechanic in this fight are the oozes that spawn from the Mutated Infection. Rotface will infect a random player with this disease, which deals 4,875 to 5,125 damage every 1 second and reduces healing received by 75% for 12 seconds. This player needs to quickly move out of the raid to a safe location and have the disease dispelled before they die. This will spawn a Sticky Ooze in at the players location, which will have a large threat lead on the player they spawned from. This player will need to kite the ooze around, preventing them from pathing through the raid, or into other ooze.

Healers should be aware that they must not dispel the Mutated Infection until the player has ran out of the raid into a pre-determined position, very similar to the Grobbulus encounter in Naxxramas. When this debuff is dispelled, a Sticky Ooze will spawn at the players location. Everyone should quickly move away from these ooze as they deal high damage to all nearby players. The tank assigned to ooze duty will then need to quickly pick these up and kite them around the room, preventing them from pathing through the raid.

The only way to remove these ooze are to merge them together. When 2 Sticky Ooze touch, they combine together into a Big Ooze. These will need to be handled by either a Protection Paladin or Blood Death Knight, who will need to maintain aggro from at least 10 yards away and kite these around the room.

The Big Ooze are the main ooze type that the raid need to always be aware of. Whenever a Small Ooze touches the Big Ooze, the big one will absorb the small one, gaining a stack of Unstable Ooze. Once the Big Ooze reaches 5 stacks of Unstable Ooze, it will cast Unstable Ooze Explosion, which shoots a projectile towards every players current position. Everyone in the raid will need to move within 3 seconds to avoid this damage. This is a great time to use any raid-wide defensive cooldowns, as most likely some players will get hit by this, and there is no other real need for these cooldowns otherwise.

Ooze management is the real challenge of this encounter. Your ooze tank needs great coordination and communication with the players infected by Mutated Infection. The raid should always have an eye on the ooze tanks position, and attempt to "drop off" any new ooze in a path that will quickly connect with the Big Ooze. It is worth noting that if 2 Big Ooze are created, they can be dragged together and will merge with one-another, combining any stacks of Unstable Ooze.

• Mutated Infection — The Mutated Infection inflicts 4,875 to 5,125 damage every 1 second and reduces healing received by 75% for 12 seconds. After the Infection is removed, a small ooze is created at the target's location.
• Radiating Ooze — The Radiating Ooze inflicts 6,338 to 6,662 damage to enemies within 10 yards, it will also cause the Big Ooze to merge with other nearby Ooze.
• Weak Radiating Ooze — The Radiating Ooze inflicts 4,875 to 5,125 damage to enemies within 10 yards, it will also cause the Little Ooze to merge with other nearby Ooze.
• Slime Spray — Raining Green Ooze. Deals 7,800 to 8,200 Nature to enemies in cone.
• Sticky Ooze — The Ooze sprays a puddle of Green Goo near the target. The Green Goo inflicts 3,900 to 4,100 damage every 1 second and decreases movement speed by 50%.
• Unstable Ooze Explosion — Inflicts 14,625 to 15,375 damage to enemies within 6 yards.
• Vile Gas — Inflicts a Vile plague in targeted area, inflicting 4,875 to 5,125 damage every 2 seconds for 6 seconds. The plague causes the infected targets to vomit uncontrollably inflicting 5,850 to 6,150 damage to nearby allies.
• Ooze Flood — The Ooze Flood inflicts 6,338 to 6,662 damage every 1 second, and reduces movement speed by 10% for 5 seconds.

Icecrown Citadel bosses have 4 varying difficulties that they can be engaged on, with each difficulty dropping geared tailored to match its' challenges. Below you can find a list of gear dropped on each and every difficulty for this boss encounter.

Item	Type/Slot
Taldron's Short-Sighted Helm	Mail Head
Choker of Filthy Diamonds	Neck
Chestguard of the Failed Experiment	Leather Chest
Ether-Soaked Bracers	Cloth Wrist
Gloves of Broken Fingers	Cloth Hands
Flesh-Shaper's Gurney Strap	Plate Waist
Shuffling Shoes	Mail Feet
Rotface's Rupturing Ring	Ring
Abomination Knuckles	Main-Hand Fist
Lockjaw	Main-Hand Mace
Shaft of Glacial Ice	Staff
Gluth's Fetching Knife	Thrown

Item	Type/Slot
Taldron's Short-Sighted Helm	Mail Head
Choker of Filthy Diamonds	Neck
Chestguard of the Failed Experiment	Leather Chest
Ether-Soaked Bracers	Cloth Wrist
Gloves of Broken Fingers	Cloth Hands
Flesh-Shaper's Gurney Strap	Plate Waist
Shuffling Shoes	Mail Feet
Abomination Knuckles	Main-Hand Fist
Lockjaw	Main-Hand Mace
Shaft of Glacial Ice	Staff
Gluth's Fetching Knife	Thrown

Item	Type/Slot
Helm of the Elder Moon	Leather Head
Bile-Encrusted Medallion	Neck
Dual-Bladed Pauldrons	Mail Shoulder
Raging Behemoth's Shoulderplates	Plate Shoulder
Winding Sheet	Back
Blightborne Warplate	Plate Chest
Rot-Resistant Breastplate	Plate Chest
Bloodsunder's Bracers	Mail Wrist
Death Surgeon's Sleeves	Cloth Wrist
Aldriana's Gloves of Secrecy	Leather Hands
Seal of Many Mouths	Ring
Dislodged Foreign Object	Trinket
Trauma	Main-Hand Mace
Rib Spreader	One-Hand Dagger
Corpse-Impaling Spike	Wand

Item	Type/Slot
Helm of the Elder Moon	Leather Head
Bile-Encrusted Medallion	Neck
Dual-Bladed Pauldrons	Mail Shoulder
Raging Behemoth's Shoulderplates	Plate Shoulder
Winding Sheet	Back
Blightborne Warplate	Plate Chest
Rot-Resistant Breastplate	Plate Chest
Bloodsunder's Bracers	Mail Wrist
Death Surgeon's Sleeves	Cloth Wrist
Aldriana's Gloves of Secrecy	Leather Hands
Seal of Many Mouths	Ring
Dislodged Foreign Object	Trinket
Trauma	Main-Hand Mace
Rib Spreader	One-Hand Dagger
Corpse-Impaling Spike	Wand

Achievement	Description
Dances with Oozes (10 player)	Defeat Rotface without a Big Ooze casting Unstable Ooze Explosion in 10-player mode.
Dances with Oozes (25 player)	Defeat Rotface without a Big Ooze casting Unstable Ooze Explosion in 25-player mode.

Rotface is just one of the twelve encounters present in the Icecrown Citadel raid of Wrath of the Lich King. If you would like to learn more about the others, please see our other pages for the raid below.