Casual Healin'

Well that’s interesting. Blizz has added some new mini-bosses to ICC. And the first I have encountered is the Frost Giant.

Which is a very interesting mini-boss!

The main mechanic here is a debuff called Death Plague. It lasts for 15 seconds and then kills you. That is, unless someone else is within 8 yards, then it (harmlessly) passes to them. Once you have been cleansed you can’t get the debuff again for 30 seconds, so the way to get through this fight is to have four players assigned to rotate the debuff. Once someone gets it, they move away from the raid, and one of the debuffers goes with them. Once it passes the other moves to them to get the debuff. Once cleansed, move back into the stacked players.

The debuff goes out again every so often (I haven’t exactly worked this out yet) so multiple players will end up with it. If it doesn’t get passed successfully it jumps to another player with no range limit – so you can’t allow players to die with this or it will wipe the raid.

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I will update more information here once I have a chance to look at the logs tonight and work out what is actually happening.