Two Bosses Enter: Moam vs. Hakkar the Soulflayer
by Elizabeth Harper 
Dec 8th 2007 at 11:32PM
- Trample: an AoE melee attack that does moderate damage.
- Drain Mana: drains mana from multiple targets, with a nearly unlimited range.
- Arcane Explosion: when Moam reaches 100% mana, he does a high-damage arcane explosion which also tosses its targets into the air for additional fall damage.
- Summon Mana Fiend: every 90 seconds, Moam will summon 3 Mana Fiends to assist him in battle. They are capable of casting arcane explosion and a counterspell.
- Turn to Stone: every 90 seconds, Moam will turn to stone for 90 seconds or until his mana reaches 100%. During this time he cannot attack, but he will regenerate mana.
For players, Hakkar is a gimmick fight. If you know the trick to the fight, the execution is simple, but if you don't know the trick, you'll never beat him. For his abilities, we're going to presume that he's on his own, without any support from his priests or priestesses, which leaves a simple encounter for us to think about. Hakkar brings down his opponents with the following abilities:
Moam drains mana, but Hakkar drains life -- so which one would win out in the end? It's nearly time for you to to tell us, but before that, a reminder: we're considering these two bosses with approximately equal health and approximately equal damage output capabilities. We aren't making this into a math equation of who's got more health than who, so when you cast your vote, cast it on fighting style, not highest level.
- Corrupted Blood: a shadow damage DoT
- Blood Siphon: a channeled spell that stuns the target, does damage, and heals Hakkar for about five times the damage done. Hakkar casts this like clockwork every 90 seconds. (For player raids, the trick is to get poisoned by nearby mobs -- then Hakkar's Blood Siphon will siphon the poison and damage him instead of healing him. Without this, he simply heals too much to be killable.)
- Enrage: after 10 minutes, Hakkar will enrage, greatly increasing his damage output
Moam drains mana, but Hakkar drains life -- so which one would win out in the end? It's nearly time for you to to tell us, but before that, a reminder: we're considering these two bosses with approximately equal health and approximately equal damage output capabilities. We aren't making this into a math equation of who's got more health than who, so when you cast your vote, cast it on fighting style, not highest level.
Filed under: Raiding, Bosses, Two Bosses Enter
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Varatil Dec 9th 2007 1:18AM
Hakkar would keep health up and control Moam until enrage. Assuming he doesn't win in under 10 minutes.
Velaegis Dec 9th 2007 12:10AM
Superman would wipe the floor with Batman.
dpoyesac Dec 9th 2007 12:30AM
Pheh. Bruce Wayne is way too smart to even FIGHT Superman unless he knows he has some trick that'll let him win. Batman, all the way.
Hephaestion Dec 9th 2007 2:44AM
Batman actually kills Superman if i remember correctly in an alternate universe.
Comic geeks will swarm to flame me now.
BigRed Dec 9th 2007 7:02PM
The Dark Knight Returns: Batman sets the stage perfectly and Supi actually doesn't stand a chance. His major weakness is that he fights fair and Batman fights to win :)
Strizen Dec 9th 2007 12:31AM
Pending a one on one situation, Hakkar has the upper hand. Moam can only drain mana from one target and Hakkar will cause good damage via Blood Siphon.
If Moam brings up the Mana Fiends, good times for the Soulflayer, just more targets to Blood Siphon.
eek76 Dec 9th 2007 4:27AM
Hakkar wouldn't be able to drain from moam himself as moam would be in stone form during that phase. Rather he'd only be able to drain moam's adds, which would add up and eventually keep hakkar ahead of moam's dmg untill enrage timer, and then it's all over.
kmotehgod Dec 9th 2007 3:45AM
Superman vs batman is stupid, if it was a straight 1v1, no weapons, no super powers, just a fist fight, batman would die in 1 hit.
Batman would only win with some lame kryponite shit which is a copout.
Chase Dec 9th 2007 5:14AM
superman is CLEARLY the victor. Just because Batman has more money doesn't mean he's better you prick.
Hammerfel Dec 9th 2007 5:32AM
I don't find these features... amusing. not nearly as much as all the other articles. I shall continue to skip them.
theRaptor Dec 9th 2007 5:50AM
Yet you bothered to write on one. Why do some people feel their preferences are oh-so important that they have to spend more time then it would take to skip something they don't like, telling people they don't like it.
Do what I do when I see an article I don't care about, don't click on it.
Hammerfel Dec 9th 2007 2:01PM
As a content creator myself, I appreciate polite feedback, whether it's positive or negative.
WOW Insider is my favorite site on the web, so I took the time to share my feedback. If I didn't like this site so much, I wouldn't have cared enough to say anything.
toots Dec 9th 2007 7:35AM
how can you blood siphon an obsidian construct?
moam wins.
Hellbena Dec 9th 2007 7:53AM
The same way you can soul drain from a construct.
Ashwin Dec 9th 2007 8:53AM
Hakkar b/c if there are no mobs around to get poisoned from moam can't do anything.
Marius Dec 9th 2007 8:30AM
Moam looks like an Obsidian Destroyer from wc3. Everyone knows Destroyers are imbalanced, therefore Moam wins.
Velaegis Dec 9th 2007 9:50AM
Geez, my Superman comment was voted DOWN? I was just kidding people, get a sense of humor : /
Also, Hakkar would win. He would just drain the life he needed until Moam was down for the count.
hpavc Dec 9th 2007 10:58AM
Moam pwnes, unless its Mana Fiend mechanics are an issue which causes a problem with Hakkars drain mechanics.
Keylogger Dec 9th 2007 12:03PM
Hakkar's gonna drain 'em dry.
Zeplar Dec 9th 2007 12:44PM
Looks like a question of Stone Form beating Blood Siphon, or Blood Siphon wiping the floor via the Mana Fiends. With nobody else to get mana from, I think Moam won't get full mana in time before the fiends come out, and then Hakkar will lifedrain them and heal to full. Even if Hakkar can't beat past Moam in stoneform, once he Enrages it's all over.