Two Bosses Enter: Ozruk vs. Lord Godfrey
by Alex Ziebart 
May 16th 2011 at 8:00PM
The Sweet Sixteen of this Two Bosses Enter tournament has come to a conclusion, and we officially enter the Crazy Eights. Ozruk and Lord Godfrey step back up to the plate this week for a cataclysmic battle.
| Ozruk | |
|---|---|
| Lord Godfrey |
In last week's matchup, it was assassin versus assassin: Vanessa VanCleef faced down our final wild card competitor, the Cardboard Assassin.
Follow along for the details of this week's matchup, as well as discussion on last week's match.
The rules of the ring
- The WoW Insider Ring is considered neutral territory, where both combatants are able to access their usual encounter mechanics and abilities. If you can't visualize it inside the squared circle, visualize it someplace else -- but you must take into consideration all of each bosses' abilities and mechanics.
- Assume that each opponent is intelligent and capable of strategic thinking.
- All of the competitors' abilities, including crowd control and other effects to which bosses are usually immune, work on their opponents (with apologies to considerations of lore on this point).
- Assume that the opponents share similar levels, health pools, and comparative overall damage output.
- Don't get caught up in gameplay mechanics and what actual players might do in each encounter.
- Don't neglect style, story, and scale. Everything is a factor; seeking balance is your goal as a spectator and judge.
Break yourselves upon my body!
Ozruk utterly dominated his opponent in round one with 81% of the popular vote. It's safe to say that Asaad broke himself upon Ozruk's body. Can Ozruk manage the same against Lord Godfrey, the man who killed Lady Sylvanas?
Ozruk's arsenal includes ... If you haven't witnessed Ozruk's gleaming, perfectly chiseled body yourself, perhaps you'd like to learn more about his flawless physique or read other adventurers' first-hand reports.
Murder never gets old.
Lord Godfrey barely beat his opponent in his first matchup, when he went head-to-head with returning champion Scourgelord Tyrannus. Tyrannus's ability to close to melee with the help of his pet frost wyrm Rimefang really put the hurt on Godfrey, but the Gilnean Sensation managed to pull through. Will Godfrey be able to kite Ozruk more successfully without a frost wyrm icing over his poor undead feet constantly?
Godfrey's bag of murderous tricks includes ... If you've never been unfortunate enough to cross Lord Godfrey, you may want to learn about his background or read adventurers' first-hand accounts of their encounters.
Last week's matchup was by far our most controversial (and most popular) yet. How can the Cardboard Assassin participate in a tournament for bosses? I'll tell you how: The tournament coordinator is a cheating bastard, that's how.
Longstanding fans of the Two Bosses Enter tournament were not fond of the Cardboard Assassin's inclusion, but thousands of others flocked to the stands to watch the standoff between the elusive Vanessa VanCleef and the debonair Cardboard Assassin.
Reader Phantom painted us a picture of how the showdown between the two assassins may have played out ...
Vanessa Van Cleef enters the stadium warily.It was a close match, but the Cardboard Assassin did ultimately walk away with the win. However, something tells me we may not have seen the last of Vanessa VanCleef. The Defias Brotherhood doesn't go down so easily.
"This suits me perfectly," she thinks. "With a victory here, people shall flock to my banner. The new Defias Brotherhood will be stronger than it ever was!"
Her gaze falls on an inconspicuous box in the center of the arena.
"Who could this be? A surprise entrant? The Devourer of Souls, perhaps?"
Suddenly, the box opens! A cardboard cutout of a masked figure on a spring emerges, and starts swaying in the breeze. Not one to fall for such decoys, Vanessa turns around and searches for surprise attackers.
"SHOW YOURSELVES!," she roars to the empty arena. When nobody responds to her challenge, she turns back to the swaying cardboard figure.
"Is this it?," she asks. Surely the organizers of this tournament would have something more formidable lined up for her than a child's toy?
"You think me a joke?," she calls to her unseen watchers. Frustrated, she punches the swaying cardboard cutout in anger, knocking it away.
Unfortunately, Vanessa's attention remained focused on surprise threats coming from behind her. Thus, she was unprepared when the cardboard figure snapped back, slamming her square in the face and sending her crumpling to the floor.
| Cardboard Assassin | |
|---|---|
| Vanessa VanCleef |
The battle begins!
Remember, Two Bosses Enter matchups are all about substance and style, not gameplay, mechanics, and numbers. Don't base your strategies on player tactics, which opponent has been easiest or most difficult for you personally, or the difficulty of each opponent relative to instance progression. Vote for the spirit of the battle as set forth above. Set aside differences in opponents' health pools, game level, and actual damage output. Absolutely no game mechanics nitpicking!
Set aside the world order -- let the WoW Insider Ring determine who's the champion! Your votes determine the outcome in WoW Insider's series of fantasy deathmatches, Two Bosses Enter, One Boss Leaves.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
jaypea May 16th 2011 8:05PM
Team Godfrey
fallemwarrior May 16th 2011 9:40PM
Is Bellena a murloc in this scenario?
brian May 16th 2011 8:07PM
"However, something tells me we may not have seen the last of Vanessa VanCleef. The Defias Brotherhood doesn't go down so easily."
Shenanigans? In my tournament? It's more likely than you think.
h5bcb May 17th 2011 12:54AM
The Cardboard Assassin was merely a setback.
Necromann May 16th 2011 8:08PM
Godfrey to the end.
North May 16th 2011 8:09PM
Godfrey needs to go all the way to the end!
Deathknighty May 16th 2011 8:12PM
I love Godfrey, but no one breaks themselves upon Ozruk's body and lives.
No one.
brian May 16th 2011 8:26PM
Especially when he can back that up with incredible singing talent, and kicking ass at the wind chime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elUVA0O93Oo
Luci May 17th 2011 9:50AM
But what really knocked him out were Ozruk's cheap sunglasses.
juggernaut_4 May 16th 2011 8:12PM
How I'm basing this fight:
The boss with the cosmic glowy beard vs. boss with hand guns..
Tough choice indeed...
MattKrotzer May 17th 2011 9:48AM
This is what I was thinking, until I remembered that Godfrey raises zombies from the corpses lying about.
Could there be a more prevalent source of corpses than the ground before Ozruk? Maybe Coroborus, but that's probably it.
Godfrey would sic his army of the undead upon Ozruk, who would be overcome by the sheer numbers. Godfrey wouldn't even fire a shot to win this one.
othragon May 16th 2011 8:13PM
Obviously the Wind Chime Interlude is Ozruk's ace in the hole.
Fletcher May 16th 2011 8:17PM
This weeks' is actually an interesting one. Let's see ... Godfrey is perfectly able to deal with Ozruk's Paralyze, thanks to Cursed Bullets. We can safely assume that Shatter and Ground Slam won't be a problem for him. But his ghouls will probably kill themselves on Elementium Spikeshield or Shatter - they're squishy and not very smart, after all - and his hardest-hitting ability, Pistol Barrage, is either useless (assuming Ozruk can move appropriately) or an actual liability (if Ozruk puts up Elementium Bulwark and reflects it).
Ozruk does hit fairly hard in melee - but he also stops a lot to cast Paralyze or Shatter or Ground Slam, offering Godfrey ample time to get away and potentially unload Pistol Barrage while Ozruk is preoccupied with his current cast (and thus can't put up Elementium Bulwark). Both of them will be trying to get off their big abilities while their opponents are busy casting something else. Of course, if either combatant is capable of juking their casts, this changes.
Ultimately I'm going to give it to Godfrey - I think his Cursed Bullets will pull him ahead in this case. But I'd say it's fairly close.
Fletcher May 16th 2011 8:20PM
If this is taking place in the Stonecore, however, things slant decidedly in Ozruk's favour; Godfrey's ghouls (whose rotten brains are equal in intelligence to the average pugger) will undoubtedly pull that group of adds just to the right and wipe.
brian May 16th 2011 8:29PM
Are you sure Cursed Bullets can be reflected? Hunters hate Ozruk because Serpent Sting isn't reflected, and it should be considered a spell.
Fletcher May 16th 2011 8:36PM
I don't know TBH; but "All of the competitors' abilities, including crowd control and other effects to which bosses are usually immune, work on their opponents (with apologies to considerations of lore on this point)." So in this case we can assume that Bulwark works on Cursed Bullets.
In a pinch, Godfrey is capable of pretending to be an arcane mage and running up to melee Ozruk for the Spikeshield debuff.
Apple May 16th 2011 10:17PM
Keep in mind that if Cursed Bullets isn't dispelled or healed through, it's virtually a death sentence when cast on a gear-appropriate player. I know my non-decursing paladin always hated PuGging that fight.
If we assume that bosses' abilities are scaled to be equally effective on each other, we're talking about an incredibly powerful cursed bullet. If Godfrey tries to use it to escape paralysis, he's just as likely to murder himself in the process.
So, he runs into melee range to start punching Ozruk, and promptly breaks himself upon his body.
squig_masta May 16th 2011 8:40PM
Are we talking pre 4.1 Ozruk or post 4.1? Without the tell tale Graphic affects his ground slam/shatter might trip Godfrey up the 1st time he uses them, but if a small windstorm gathers around his oppenent he'll probably have the wherewithall to get on the other side of it.
Overall though, I believe at the end of this a protector will fall.
Saf May 16th 2011 8:44PM
Considering that Ozruk moves so slow that you can kite him from 100% to 0%, even while taking paralyze damage, this is an easy win for Godfrey. There have been multiple times in groups I've been in where the tank/healer would die, we'd all run back to the entrance, and we'd only die because we couldn't heal the damage of Paralyze. Since Godfrey has the Cursed Bullets DOT, he can avoid Paralyze, and since he uses pistols, can DPS while kiting.
If Godfrey can keep Cursed Bullets reflected back on himself, and kites, Ozruk will NEVERget to hit him once. Therefore, win goes to Godfrey.
Jack Mynock May 17th 2011 6:41PM
Cursed Bullets isn't going to get Godfrey the win. It might not even get reflected if it's a shot and not a spell. It's alos a very potent dot, so if it does get reflected it's going to deal a lot of damage to Godfrey.
There's also the problem that Team Godfrey seems to be allowing Godfrey to act intelligently but not Ozruk. Who's to say Ozruk has to cast elemental bulwark at all?