Breakfast Topic: Who's your nemesis?

For every hero, there is a villain. For every light, there is a shadow. Every rose has its thorn, but if you would just pour some sugar on me ... erm. /cough. The point is that we all have our nemeses, from Hogger and Mor'ladim to Fel Reaver, Illidan, M'uru, and the Lich King himself. Maybe you got stomped too many times by the devilsaurs in Un'Goro Crater, or maybe Mimiron had your raid frustrated for weeks on end. For my guild, it was Sindragosa.
When we got into ICC late in Wrath's life cycle, a new, small guild with a mixture of experienced raiders and players who had never ventured past heroic dungeons, we breezed through the first two wings. Blood Queen gave us a bit of trouble, but we soon swept past her and Dreamwalker and found ourselves facing off against the enemy from our loading screens, the last stop before Arthas himself. We went over the strategy, practiced our tomb placement, set up flares, and gave her a try. And another. And another. And yet another.
Though we were all sick of hearing her voice, for some reason, we just couldn't get Sindragosa down. We had trouble with disconnects, lag, Blistering Cold, multi-tombs, tanks getting tombed, clearing stacks, and pretty much everything else imaginable. The whole guild was aching to slay that dragon, and when at long, long last we managed it, the jubilation was unlike anything we'd had before. I doubt even the Lich King's demise would elicit the kind of cheers I heard on Vent when she went down. Our nemesis was vanquished at last.
Which boss or creature was (or is!) your greatest enemy in WoW? How long did you work on beating it? How did you celebrate when it was finally over?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 7)
Rhev Dec 30th 2010 8:03AM
I am my own worst enemy.
Sanguinarius Dec 30th 2010 8:03AM
Floor boss.
Still working on it.
Debesun Dec 30th 2010 8:58AM
One step further than us. We're still having issues trying to down the Elevator boss.
WoWie Zowie Dec 30th 2010 11:04AM
the lag spike boss crits for 989k. wipes us every time
Bogoradwee Dec 30th 2010 11:17AM
Try using slow fall or levitate. That's how I worked my way around it! Do, however, expect a few wipes still, as this boss is incredibly hard and requires masterful timing and cooperation between mages and priests. Especially for 25 mans
Susano Dec 30th 2010 12:31PM
Suffer mortals, as you pathetic lag spike DELAAAAAAAAAYS YOOOOOOUU!!
BB Crisp Dec 30th 2010 3:14PM
Oh, Susano. You are awesome.
Shorth Dec 30th 2010 8:06AM
My nemesis is sindragosa too! Except it is sindragosa in conjunction with the mystic buffet ach. (last one for the mount). Hopefully I will be getting it done soon.
Nina Katarina Dec 30th 2010 9:07AM
For ages my nemesis was Sindragosa in her incarnation as the loading screen boss. On the day Cataclysm came out, my new nemesis was Deathwing as the loading screen boss. Thankfully I defeated him, though occasionally I'll still get one-shot.
Greatlady Dec 30th 2010 12:40PM
I have never quit a raid encounter but this one nearly made me log. Hated that stupid achievement.
Mask Dec 30th 2010 1:17PM
Mmm a mystic buffet sounds delicious!
DracoX93 Dec 30th 2010 8:07AM
I swear to god if I have to hear about my magic betraying me one more time I think I might kill myself
Saeadame Dec 30th 2010 8:14AM
I don't know, one of my friends thought she said "BETWAYS YOU", like Elmer Fudd. After that, I didn't mind her voice so much 'cause every time I heard that I would start giggling.
Not always the best thing, madly giggling while trying to heal, but whatever.
DracoX93 Jan 2nd 2011 5:06PM
whats really funny though is I'm a death knight so I never suffered the consequences of unchained magic, and I could always AMS chill to the bone after 4 stacks so it was actually an easy fight for me except for tomb placement.
Nethril Dec 30th 2010 8:13AM
Nef from BWL was the last boss I remember being a big challenge. Took us a few weeks to down.
Saeadame Dec 30th 2010 8:17AM
Ugh, I never raided in Vanilla, but that guy even wiped my lvl 80 group a couple times. There were 4 of us, and there was the one really awesome rogue... who would always get MCed and kill us all with his superiorly geared powers.
Blerg.
Crettin Dec 30th 2010 8:18AM
Ours was Lady Vashj, pre-nerf. Our first kill came after a month with an almost wipe with only one member left a live (a hunter). I went deaf for a bit after the kill.
Jiyj Dec 30th 2010 8:21AM
Garrosh mon. He got no respect for Vol'jin and he got no respect for tha Loa. We fix em up soon bout both though, be trustin' that!
Udderpowered Dec 30th 2010 8:30AM
I'll turn a blind eye when I see a raid of trolls run into his throne room. If I accidentally misclick and buff you all before, oops.
Iirdan Dec 30th 2010 10:39AM
The (mental) image of 40 trolls running into Garrosh's throne room while the citizens of Orgrimmar stand by is quite possibly one of the funniest things I've ever seen.