Top five toughest and easiest raid bosses
Jinzuku over on Hyjal has a fun idea: list your top five toughest and easiest raid bosses. C'thun, M'uru, Kil'jaeden and Sarth 3D are appearing on most of the lists -- the old Four Horsemen and even C'thun's trash are also getting called out by Bornakk. Personally, I haven't raided much of the hardest content, but on the hard side, I'd have to say that General Rajaxx gave my guild a rough time, Ragnaros didn't go down easy, and Twin Emps didn't play well with us (or a lot of other guilds, either).Easiest? Chess (duh), I always found Baron Geddon to be pretty easy (though no less fun), Attumen the Huntsman, and Venoxis was a knockover, too. But as you can see from the thread, people are all over the place -- some of the hardest bosses in the game for some were simple for others. And while some guilds fly through content, others can bump their heads on bosses for quite a while. I wouldn't put him on the hard list, but I know a few guilds I've run with had quite a bit of trouble with Moroes while they were first starting out.
And it's no surprise that most of the hardest bosses in the game came near the end of expansion cycles -- AQ40, Naxx, and Sunwell. A few people in the thread predict that we'll eventually see the Lich King on these lists, and given that Blizzard goes tough when you get a couple content patches into an expansion, that wouldn't be a surprise at all.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Maru Feb 19th 2009 8:05PM
In terms of the content me and my guilds have faced. Vael. No doubt! Never got higher :(
apoxic Feb 19th 2009 8:34PM
I second that. Taken I was never higher back in Vanilla WoW than Vael either, I've never felt so helpless :P
mike Feb 19th 2009 8:07PM
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it Attumen the Huntsman?
Kakistocracy Feb 19th 2009 11:27PM
Maybe he raided with a hunter named Attumen, and when that guy got mind controlled, he went down fast under the collective fire of 24 other people.
Sentient Feb 20th 2009 12:14AM
Yeah he would have to be talking about a mind controlled party member.
Dobmeister Feb 20th 2009 10:21AM
It's not even Attumen, his true name is Attunement The Huntsman.
Cedrich Feb 19th 2009 8:19PM
I gave up raiding for Wrath, so I'll talk TBC.
Easiest: Shade of Akama
I spent longer going over tactics than the fight took for our first guild attempt. No really...
Hardest: Kael'thas Sunstrider
So much going on at once, nightmare to raid-lead and coordinate.
Nadril Feb 19th 2009 8:19PM
Kael'thas for me. Unlike a lot of fights it had a lot going on, and 5 phases was pretty nuts.
grelk Feb 19th 2009 8:23PM
OK I had to come in on an easiest - and bear in mind I'm DPS - Easiest of the current crowd for my 5cp is Patchwerk.
Pure tank and spank. Not even the patronising raid damage that VoA throws out. Just a big guy you have to be able to kill quick enough.
My very-much-casual edging on raiding guild got him down one shot, first time.
Satisfying yes, but also a sign of how friggin easy he is. Apologies to tanks and healers who are going to correct me, but frankly me and my bunch of friends standing 30 yards away shouting pewpew should have started a /yell cyber orgy to liven it up.
grelk Feb 19th 2009 8:24PM
Followup hardest comment:
Frogger.
It's a killer.
Alkaios Feb 19th 2009 8:55PM
I'd rank this right next to the elevator boss in SSC.
They both have the ability to wipe raids lol =)
grelk Feb 19th 2009 10:22PM
You know it.
We have a rezzer who specialises in rezzing lolfailers at the beginning rather than the end.
Then there was the night he did that, laughed with glee, ran through and...
...
...
died.
Revenge is sure sweet, ain't it?
lightning4 Feb 19th 2009 8:26PM
Sarth 3d is a bit overrated now. Sure, it's by far the hardest content available in wrath, but it's only a first tier raid being multiplied a tier up or so. It doesn't really deserve to be on lists alongside notorious guild-killers like M'uru.
I'd fully expect the 10/25 after Uludar to be roughly as hard or harder than 3D the whole way through.
Azhariel Feb 19th 2009 8:59PM
I actually doubt Sarth 3D will be easier than Ulduar 10/25..
But I'm 98% sure Ulduar-with-achievements will be a lot thougher than it.
DrowVampyre Feb 19th 2009 8:26PM
I haven't done any raiding pre-WotLK, so basically just Naxx and OS for me. but the easiest by -far- of them, is Gothik the Harvester...I'm confident he could be 5-manned, and even then be easier than some of the 5 man heroic bosses
Scott Feb 19th 2009 11:38PM
This is interesting considering that Gothik was considered one of the hardest fights in all of Vanilla WoW. At the time, I think he was 2nd or 3rd to the original Four Horsemen and Kel'Thuzad.
Heilig Feb 20th 2009 2:01AM
He is still tough on 25 man, since he requires coordination and communication between the rooms. On 10 man, you just blow everything up as fast as you can. If you do that on 25, the dead side gets swamped with adds that do a TON of AoE damage.
Aggregate Feb 19th 2009 8:31PM
Tenris Murkblood.... not because he was particularly hard for most people who were downing him but because if you were actually geared for entry level Kara he was so much harder than the rest of the raid.
ghogiel Feb 19th 2009 8:33PM
twin emps for me.
had the best time fighting them =)
Callik Feb 19th 2009 8:40PM
I never did any TBC raiding so can only go on classic raids. This is how my guild found things.
Easiest
MC: Gehennas/Golemagg
BWL: Broodlord Lashlayer/Drakes
AQ: Skeram/Fankriss
Naxx: Spider Wing/Razuvious
Hardest
MC: Majordomo/Ragnaros
BWL: Vaelestraz/Chromaggus
AQ: C'Thun/Twin Emps
Naxx: Construct Wing/Four Horsemen
Hardest of the lot? In terms of pure wiping we spent a good several weeks beating on Vael before we got him down.