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General: Community Spotlight: Your Most Epic MMOG Boss Fight
MikeB
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This week’s Community Spotlight focuses on the thread “What is the most epic boss fight you ever fought in an mmorpg? by user TwilightAdy.
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A pretty straightforward topic, TwilightAdy asks the MMORPG.com community about their favorite boss fight experiences, and shares his own:
"I just thought I would start this topic, as the title said, asking what the most epic boss you fought in an mmorpg was, and more importantly, why.
I've been a hardcore WoW player for about 2 years now, and I've seen all of the content, and while I don't have any other mmorpg to compare it to, I think the game has some pretty immense encounters. The four that defined the game for me:
C'thun: Possibly the strangest boss I have ever come across in any game, let alone in an mmorpg. A giant eyeball that fires constant beams of death everywhere (you can easily get one shotted in this fight), spawns tentacles all around the room you fight him in, and, weirdest of all, you have to get swallowed by him and attack the inside of his stomach in the second phase to take him down. But what was most epic about this encounter was the voices, the whispering: "Your friends will abandon you", C'thun whispers on a number of occassions. This made the encounter epically creepy and all the better for it.”
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The Balrog in LOTRO. Basically the Rift as a whole was loads of fun.
Onyxia for the First time in Vanilla Wow, the same run I got my Quel'Serar.
Legion in Darkness Falls(DAOC) for the first time with 100+ people, everyone wiped lol.
Gruul the Dragonkiller from WoW
"I don't give a sh*t what other people say. I play what I like and I'll pay to do it too!" - SerialMMOist
Freeing the Frostfather in the Amplitheater of Karutonia by defeating the Devourer, in Age of Conan. An awesome cutscene when you are successful. This was only a single group instance however.
As for a raid boss, the first time I saw the Hamidon in City of Heroes was quite the experience.
The most epic for me was Rallos Zek in plane of time b of Everquest. He hit so hard that we had a group of 4 clerics that were only talking to each other to time their complete heal spells so that the tank would get healed constantly. If the rotation was messed up he died almost instantly. My job was to stay on the boss the whole time and keep my aggro up just incase the tank went down, which happened at about 1% of killing the boss. I picked him up, hit my def cooldown that lasts 15 seconds and saved the 45min ordeal.
Good old days.
+1 for Zek too. Sleeper was impossible to beat, but I heard they changed it after I left.
mallyx the unyelding from guild wars nightfall campaign. not only did you have to fight thru 4 previous hard areas and bosses just to open the door to him. he has a skill set that takes a very dedicated and particular setup group of players to over-come. on top of the damage and abilities he spawns groups of demons as his health lowers. it's quite the experience all in all to get thru.
+1, I remember hearing about a Korean group finally beating him and how it took about a week of strategy and several times to finally result in beating him.
I'd have to say that Ragnaros, when I finally got Perdition's blade was very very epic... very good memories of what used to be a fairly complex game
Three spring to mind for me, will list them in reverse numerical order based on awesomeness:
3) Avatar of War - EverQuest 1 - 65 of my closest guildies and I killing the AoW for the first time ever, utter mayhem in Kael Drakkal. We were quickly dying off one by one throughout the fight, AoW dropped to 5% by the time it started looking like we weren't going to manage the kill, when three of our wizards had the bright idea to just manaburn the crap out of him. All 3 wizards landed hits somewhere in the realm of obscenity and he dropped dead with 1 healer, a rogue and the three wizards all stood there sweating like they stole something.
2) Legion - Dark Age of Camelot - Someone else mentioned this earlier, but Legion had the ability to single handedly rape your entire raid if he wanted to. Brutal boss, but amazing to fight.
1) Kael'Thas - World of Warcraft - The Eye was a hell of a dungeon, despite it's simplicity, and KT was one of the most insane fights I've ever been a part of. It took us around three weeks to finally get to the phase where KT is engaged for the first time in the proper final phase. I remember spamming like I had infinite mana and almost flatlining a dozen times (Thank god for multiple potions in those days!) but my clearest memory was our raid leader, the main tank, saying on ventrilo "Okay, I sure as hell cant take another hit like THAT" every time KT nuked him for obscene damage. He took around 9 huge hits in that fight and he said it every time. We got KT down that very attempt, our first ever final phase engagement, and our raid leader said at the end something along the lines of "I hope you don't want me to tank anything else tonight, because my hands are shaking too much to do anything like that again for a while". Brilliant fight, bravo to Blizzard.
/KsE
M'uru Pre-nerf made me when to /endlife many, many times.
1. City of Heroes/Villains Rikti Master At Arms U'Kon Gr'ai.
Not that this boss is too epic in and of himself. He is the size of a building and can one-shot people, but…
Getting to him is a wild ride with dozens of players, ideally 30+. You have to destroy the pylons surrounding the mothership and then fly, jump, teleport up to the ship. There are two types of elite bosses by the dozens and bombs you can set off. Friendly fire with the bombs is a real problem and I’m convinced some people don’t call ‘BOMB’ just for fun.
2. Hamidon also in COX is a close second. But it is more of a 50 people -30 cannon fodder = 20 people fighting it.
3. Mr. bad-talkie (Shiro) in Guild Wars. Maybe pain in the ass is better description than epic. But when the expansion first came out we had a hard time. Figured the tricks out (how to interrupt him) and it was routine, but the first few times it got my blood pressure up.
"Never met a pack of humans that were any different. Look at the idiots that get elected every couple of years. You really consider those guys more mature than us? The only difference between us and them is, when they gank some noobs and take their stuff, the noobs actually die." - Madimorga
Humm i think i'm going to give the nods to The Lag Monster in Penumbra.
A giant slim who's realm has a slow effect in it.
Seems easy enough until you remember that non monster related Lag is the bane of any MMO
now if you mean the hardest i would say that one would be rather easy red mage maat (after update that made him nearly unbeatable because they hate red mages) on final fantasy 11, if u get hit once your essentialy dead fighting him for the record i downed him on my fifth try(for those of not in the know thats doing good lol).