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Comment by Latias714

Guide:

Abilities:

Frost mixture: throws a frost mixture at a target, anyone within 15 yards of the target is hurt.

Poison mixture: initial damage, poison dot, movement slowed, hurts anyone within range of target.

Ice shards: frost damage, shards fall on lit up circles

Tactic:

Go all out at first, or as much as your tank can handle. If you have bloodlust, you can use it now, or save it. Usually you save it so you're not caught in the...

mystery toxin. when this happens, the party needs to KEEP MOVING at all costs. if you stand still, you will die. this is why bloodlust is usually saved, if you pop it at the start he may conjure this right after and your casters will have to run and not cast. After mixture ends, hit that BL like you mean it.

Overall a very easy boss if you avoid chaining abilities to one another, avoid ice shards, and you keep moving at all costs during mystery toxin.

Tip: melee, if you have keybinds (not everyone mouse turns you know), you can circle around him as if you were murdering your favorite PvP target during mystery toxin.

Comment by Nightli

Had him drop the Eerie Stable Lantern -> Eerie Stable Lantern

Really quite odd!

Comment by TheAmadaun

Heroic mode guide:

He does four things. He randomly single-target throws a poison bomb at someone, dealing unavoidable damage and leaving a poison debuff. Big deal. He casts ice shards, which you can dodge easily.

The tricky part is the unstable mixture. He'll spray either green or red. If he sprays green, start moving and don't stop until the ability ends - it only does damage when you stand still. If he sprays red, stay put and don't move, because it only does damage when you move.

That's it. Very easy fight if you know what the abilities do.

Comment by Lurtzello

Just soloed his last 300k as Pala Tank: group wiped standing still lol

Comment by Donnis

Green means go.
Red means stop.

Comment by 528889

This guy shows ZERO remorse with pets. His green ooze will just kill them. Be cautious.

Comment by Selexin

Needs more location pins... I just can't seem to pinpoint his exact location.

D:

At the time of this post there were a few thousand pins in 1 room.

Comment by Jollef

Why the hell did they change the tactics? Too many retarded kids complaining?

Comment by 76912

Needs more location pins... I just can't seem to pinpoint his exact location.

D:

At the time of this post there were a few thousand pins in 1 room.

whats more scary is, that u acutally counted them all ;)

Comment by 609114

If he starts using a mystery toxin and then dies, the toxin will still continue to spray. Don't stand still after the fight if this happens.

Comment by jj2012

MOAR DOTS

*cough*

map reference....

Comment by Maelynn

I guess it was too much to hope he had bought a new top hat between being ressed by Sylvanas and moving into SFK... :'(

Comment by Herbhaven

I think his Red Mixture works differently now, correct me if I'm wrong.

It now seems to do 15,000 damage to the whole party every 2 seconds but increases critical hit chance by 100% whether you move or not.

Comment by 649369

What is that random poison he throws? How can it be avoided? It is simple to dodge frost and green and red poisons, but he throws something...How do I dodge? Is it simply a move out of effect thing (I died to it and got booted from party :( )

Comment by 765496

If your body turns green - run or jump. If you turn red stay in same spot, don't move. You probably moved on red and stayed on green :)

Comment by Erethzium

This boss seems to have been stealth buffed, big time. Just about all of his attacks now hit like trucks. I've never, ever wiped on this guy before, but doing SFK this morning, he just raped my group. My favorite part was the poison that I couldn't dispel that was ticking for 6k every second. GG unavoidable 80k damage.

So, having a poison dispeller as well as big AoE heals are pretty much requirements now. Super easy boss turned super hard.

Comment by Sunstorm

Fun fact:

Name may be a reference to Paul Walden, a famous chemist. He could've received a Nobel Prize in 1914, but due to him being German and WWI unfolding he didn't get it.

Edit: *facepalm*

Comment by harro1

Good luck doing this guy with priest heals since 4.06. wtb cure poison.

Comment by Arothand

I've pretty much solo'd this dude as a Prot Pally (from about ~70% health or so) before when DPS didn't understand the redlight/greenlight stuff and my poor Healer friend died trying to heal them. He hits like a girl, you just have to be aware of his ice crystal attack and not stand in the cool blue stuff.

A very fun boss, IMO.

Comment by aoeu

Wiped twice trying to heal this random group on my priest... so I looked at my logs and said my healing was 13k hps. Huh?

Reviewed the recount logs.. no one (tank nor dps) moved on green light. yup, can't heal stupid..... /leave group

Comment by 181148

I'm looking forward to playing Mother May I? in the next patch. With Red Light, Green Light; Keep Away; and Ring Around the Rosie coming out in Cataclysm, it can't be far!

Comment by Toroq

Generally speaking, your DPS and healing is better while standing still. The DPS part is especially true for casters, movement directly decreases a casters DPS as you cannot cast while moving.
Since there's no penalty to standing still in the red phase, the "Do not move" is DBMs way of telling you "It's the red phase, you don't have to run around like a headless chicken."

Comment by henslock8

Red Light!
Green Light!

Comment by icemistress

does anyone have a solid strat for healing this on a shammy?

I tried for the first time tonight, ilvl 349 and it was just horrible. tried 3 times each time he chained 4-5 green things in a row and naturally as a shammy i have next to no healing while moving. even with the heal on the move spell - its cd is long enough to mean im still relying 99% on riptide to heal. Just does not cut it. Sooo yeah, would like someone out there who has managed to endure this on a shammy to lend a hand cause i personally have not yet found way to bypass blizzards "cannot do that while moving" issue with this fight. Unless they expect it to be healable soley with healing rain (lol)

Looks to be a druid healers heaven much like toc back in the day was shammy healing heaven with chain heal spam and dispells

Comment by thelandarian

This is his idea of revenge for taking his hat.

Comment by Superchief

Wouldn't it be cool if frost mages could cast something like his ice shard shower spell? No pun intended. It looks like ice lance spam magnified ten times, we need this.

Comment by Wolfgenerator

Red - Stop and don't move
Green - Move and don't stop at all costs

Red light green light.

Comment by Elementalkin

It may be worth noting that, at least for the low level version, the target of Conjure Poisonous Mixture cannot avoid the effects. It will hit them regardless of how far away from the landing point they are.

Comment by OutbackID

I've done a couple of runs just for fun since it's the love in the air 2018 event. Is it just me, or are the bosses in Shadowfang Keep no longer dropping loot?

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Lord Walden

This NPC can be found in Shadowfang Keep .

Shadowfang KeepBaron AshburyBaron SilverlaineCommander SpringvaleLord WaldenLord GodfreyLord WaldenLord GodfreyShadowfang KeepHeroic Strategy

Lord Walden will throw Frost Mixtures and Poison Mixtures frequently throughout the fight. If you can move away from the flying projectile, make sure you are at least spread out, so not two people get hit by those debuffs.

He will also channel a mysterious mixture - either green or red, chosen randomly every time. He seems to prefer green though. Each one is handled differently, and followed by Ice Shards, which easy to avoid if you look at your feet.

Green Mixture: Stacks Toxic Coagulant every second you remain stationary. Negated simply by moving constantly for the duration of the spell. Remember, jumping is also a form of moving.

Red Mixture: Applies Toxic Catalyst whenever you move. Simply remain stationary for the duration of the spell.

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Heroic		Mythic
Deadly		Important
Tank		DPS
Healer		Interruptible
Magic		Curse
Poison		Disease
Enrage

Ice Shards – Lord Walden releases Ice Shards all over his laboratory for 5 sec. Each Ice Shard arcs through the air then lands, dealing 37 Frost damage to all enemy targets within 2 yards.
Conjure Poisonous Mixture – Lord Walden conjures a bottle of poisonous mixture then throws it at the location of a random player. When the bottle lands on the ground it erupts.
The poison immediately inflicts (100% of Spell power) Nature damage to players within 4 yards, and continues to inflict 7 Nature damage every 2 seconds while decreasing the movement speed of players by 40% for 15 sec.
Conjure Poisonous Mixture – Lord Walden conjures a bottle of poisonous mixture then throws it at the location of a random player. When the bottle lands on the ground it erupts.
The poison immediately inflicts (100% of Spell power) Nature damage to players within 4 yards, and continues to inflict 7 Nature damage every second while decreasing the movement speed of players by 40% for 15 sec.
Conjure Frost Mixture – Lord Walden summons a frosty mixture and breaks it on the ground. The chemicals immediately deal (100% of Spell power) Frost damage to all nearby enemies within 45 yards.
Conjure Mystery Toxin – Lord Walden summons a cauldron of Mystery Toxin for 10 seconds. The concoction inside is usually a Toxic Coagulant, but when Lord Walden reaches 35% health he summons a cauldron of Toxic Catalyst instead.
Toxic Coagulent – Every 3 seconds the Toxic Coagulent toxin is applied to nearby enemy players from Lord Walden's cauldron. The Toxic Coagulent inflicts 217 damage every second, and decreases the movement speed of the affected player by 10% for 6 sec.
This effect can stack up to 3 times, and if it does then the toxin fully coagulates and the player is stunned for 5 sec. However, whenever a player moves or jumps the toxin becomes unable to coagulate and a stack is removed.
Toxic Catalyst – The Toxic Catalyst pours out of Lord Walden's cauldron, inflicting 272 Fire damage every 2 seconds but increasing the target's critical chance by 100% for 10 sec.

Lord Walden

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