Professor Putricide Boss Guide - Upper Reaches
Good news everyone! The second boss of the Upper Reaches you will encounter is Professor Putricide.
Fight Details
Professor Putricide is a multi-phase fight which cycles through his different hero powers. Each one of them provides a unique challenge and you won't want to stick in some for long.
The First Phase - Mad Science
The fight starts out with a 15 Armor and 30 Health Putricide and is all about secrets! He has plenty of annoying secrets in his deck from all the secret-wielding classes which you're going to need to play around to the best of your ability. Once you get rid of his armor, he will enter the second phase.
- He does not have an Explosive Trap, so don't worry about it!
- Hunter Secrets: Freezing Trap, Dart Trap, Cat Trick
- Mage Secrets: Frozen Clone, Mirror Entity, Counterspell, Vaporize
- Paladin Secrets: Avenge, Getaway Kodo, Sacred Trial
Ideally you want to only end this phase when you've exhausted his secrets (hey there Eater of Secrets) and have good control. You're also going to want to have drawn removal to nuke Festergut as that will become a threat once the next phase begins.
Important: Do not let him enter the second phase while it is still his turn. Festergut will deal devastating damage.
The Second Phase - Madder Science
Putricide swaps over to his weapon cost-reducing hero power, gains 15 armor, and drops a Festergut onto the field; things start to get really ugly! Use removal on Festergut, play a weapon-breaking minion when he pulls out his weapons, and get rid of that armor to push him into the third phase.
Be warned: Don't push him over the edge until you have a good way of getting rid of Rotface, who is summoned at the start of the next phase.
The Third Phase - Maddest Science
Rotface joins the board and the professor no longer gives himself armor. Everything is also now going to cost 5 mana to play which means you're only able to play two cards per turn now. Once Rotface is dead (hopefully instantly), it's almost a free win. Continue controlling the oozes hes spawning and have fun.
Cool Story Bro
- Eater of Secrets is a requirement for this fight. You want it ASAP! Duplicate combo'd with it is disgustingly good.
- It's actually fairly easy to exhaust his deck and put him into fatigue if you want to try that route.
Watch Out for These Cards
- Growing Ooze - Super annoying if you don't get rid of them as they're played.
- Tentacles - He has two of these in his deck and he'll play them during any phase.
- Festergut - This guy drops on the second phase. You want to make sure you have removal available before pushing him into that phase.
Rewards
Unlike previous adventures, this boss does not reward you with a new card. Instead, you will receive a Frozen Throne card pack upon completion of the Upper Reaches wing.
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Trivia
- Good News Everyone! Sound familiar? This comes from Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth of Futurama fame - It's his catchphrase!
- After you defeat Putricide, The Lich King states that the professor belongs in a Hunter deck due to being pathetic.
- Professor Putricide is the final boss in the Plague Wing in WoW's Icecrown Citadel.
- Like the Hearthstone fight, the WoW fight also had three phases.
- The first phase required raiders to slay monsters as soon as possible and run away from the explosions they left behind.
- The second phase has gas bombs drop on melee characters and a goo ball on ranged. Getting hit by these were almost certain death.
- In the final phase, Putricide goes crazy and needs to be killed as soon as humanly possible. He fills the room up with pools of slime that kill players. The pools grew over time until the entire raid died or succeeded in killing the professor.
Fight Video
Check out Neon's guide to the fight.
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Enjoyed this fight - initially failed with a regular secret mage build (didn't know about the multiple phases so didn't have enough late game) but then crushed him with a big C'thun druid. Not every day you get to drop a 5 mana 21/21 !!
I dropped my cthun when he had rotface out not knowing it would count every hit as surviving damage. RIP
i recommend Kezan Mystic :-)
Mill rogue kill him on 1st try
secret paladin 2 ez first try
Run secrets? Weapons? High cost cards? Eater of Secrets? Nah...
Mill Rogue ftw
Especially easy b/c of Frozen Clone and Freezing Trap
Used a secret mage with TONS of secrets, and a couple of high-mana cost cards to abuse in the 'all cards cost 5 mana' stage.
(Lich king, Y'saagh, 2x Arcane giant)
Didn't use any Eater of Secrets because I didn't want to make the fight too easy. Did it first try with this deck.
Professor has a funny interaction when you drop Etheral Conjuror (the 4 mana 3/3 that grows when you have a secet up)
Putricide also has Venomstrike Trap
I crafted this deck but didn't defeated him 3 times so i used Rotface and then GG EZ WIN.
Inner fire priest = 1 single 32 damage or more hit. Easy fight. I destroyed even sindragosa with an inner fire priest deck.
Beat him with Jade Druid.
i beat with with secret mage on my first try with an opening hand of 2 eater of secrets. do not craft gluttonous ooze. acidic swamp ooze does the same job.
i only crafted eater of secrets because i had excess dust and they do make the game a lot easier especially if your opening hand has one or two
exodia mage works too! just add 1 or 2 eater of secrets and youre good to go.
last phase 5 mana ?
You got ice block on, and he got like 6 health left, and you got your fireball for that last hit? *Even if its 5 mana fireball, still 6 damage* Idk why would you downvote me if you dont even tried it. Welp im just giving you a deck that works.
Confirmed Exodia Mage works. Anton 5 + Four Apprentices 12 + Two Fireball 12 for 29 damage. Just make sure you clear his taunts.
I beat it with my Elemental Evolve deck,I just kept Mana Tide Totem alive as much as possible to alawys have all the answers. Thrall, Deathseer is fantastic int he first two phases when you have good minions, but it's kinda bad for the third one unless you have a big minion on the board.
Eater of secrets isn't even necessary. Just try and exhaust him of secrets while throwing out as many mage secrets as you can until Antonidas arrives. Easy fight.
Eater of Secrets says Hi ^^
Wont be crafting 2 just to get a pack where i will get 4 commons and 1 rare.