Craziest boss kill I've ever seen.

[Beruen]

A little background. My guild was on their 4th ever Kara run. We don't have anyone that's been involved with leading kara runs before, and almost noone that's even run Kara, so it's been a massive learning experience every time. Attumen and Curator are the only bosses we've downed on the first run that we tried them. We read up on the boss fights, but its easier to apply the knowledge after we've seen the fight ourselves.

Well, this weekend, we hit Opera, and got Big Bad Wolf for the first time. Some of our people got used to being Little Red Riding Gnome pretty fast (which is to say that they'd survive a bit over half the time), and other people just didn't. We had one rogue we all felt sorry for, EVERY time she got the debuff, it was while she was standing around stunned. Some people died every time they got the debuff due to lack of practice. We still managed to consistently get BBW down under 20%, but 7% was our best.

Well, on our.. seventh(?) try, things started off bad. Soulstones and combat rez were all on cooldown from the previous attempt. Lost the first three LLRGs (all DPSers), then started having them survive. Lost a healer, another DPSer, and a tank. We're at two healers, a tank, and a DPSer, and BBW is under 5%. 2%. Vent is going crazy. And then we lose the tank to a LLRG call. The DPSer didn't last long. Vent takes a "well, we almost had it, we'll get it next time" tone. As a holy priest, I knew I was about to die since I was now top of the threat list. Managed to refresh SW:Pain and get off SW:Death before death. No, SW:Death didn't kill him, I'm not sure if it was the SW:D or BBW that killed my priest.

But I got a screenshot of the holy paladin, standing over the corpse of BBW, surrounded by a handful of corpses of the rest of the raid.

[Pin]

Grats on the kill, I had a similar experience recently.

My first time in Kara on my holy priest, we wiped on nightbane twice and on this try we were doing much better. We had him down to 15% or so when the druid tank suddenly pops out of bear form and starts casting wrath. He'd misclicked or something.

So he died, but nightbane is still taking damage. However, he is running around very fast killing the raid. Quite quickly he starts taking less and less damage, but ends up on about 10k hp. I was the only one left alive and trying to mind blast him to finish him off.

He would have killed me I think, but a shammy popped an ankh and finished him off with lightning bolt :D

[Zachariah]

From the other side of the looking glass, I actually felt challenged in Kara for the first time in ages when, on a badge run, our guild group pulled the Curator while still going through trash in his hallway. We still managed to kill him but it was the closest we'd come to wiping for a looooong time.

[coani]

Crazy boss kill:

Heroic Shattered Halls. Ogre boss. He goes nuts on us & smashes up the group, while we desperately try to dps him, and in the end, only the pally tank is left standing alive... with boss at 18% health... pally at 15%... with barely 3 digit number left in mana...

and a minute later the boss dies.

Pally swears he's never seen such a ridiculous amount of blocks & parries and somehow he was able to kill him.

Heroic moment indeed ^-^

[Clavina]

Hehe I once tanked Nethermancer Sepethrea in heroic mech to death from about ~8% when the rest of the group died... Used pot, health stone, last stand and shield wall to stay alive but got her down when I was at <1k health. I felt epic!

[Pongle]

I once ankhed up, earth shocked, and killed the bat boss in ZG - nobody else was alive.

Doing the bat boss with no mages really did suck back in tier1 and blues.

[Justinledwards]

Coilfang, we are on Quagmirran. This is really early on, not even heroic, but most of us still in greens/blues

Quagmirrans health is dropping, so are people to the poison spray.

Tank goes down, healer goes down.

All thats left is a hunter. He fires an arcane shot, which crosses mid-air with a poison bolt. The bolt killed the hunter... but the hunter killed quagmirran

their bodies hit the floor at the same time, and nothing in the room was left alive.

[dwarfenhelm]

about 9 months ago in the dark portal on wave 17 the priest took loads of adds couldnt heal me and i died tanking rift lord then all group died as the priest killed him with a shared killing blow. the priest used ss and the ressed us as the final boss was attacking medivh i tanked boss at 3% of shield and we cleared the place.
or it was the raid wiping on HKM apart from a hunter and holy pala when he was 7% and the hunter was oom, im not sure how the hell we did it but 1 hunter managed the last 7%

[Mirinda]

My old guild's first Kara run, we didn't know jack. Our first effort on Attumen, nobody knew how to position themselves. Most died from charges, as a result. We had only a pally tank and two priests up for the last 30% of the boss. It took 20 minutes to finish him from there. Can you imagine?

[Shellar]

One of our first Moroes kills happened 11 seconds before the server shutdown.

[rottentomato]

letting gruul get to 20 growths before we started dps, just to say we could.

[thorleader]

letting gruul get to 20 growths before we started dps, just to say we could.

you are insane

[rottentomato]

what would we have lost by not doing it? just a wipe and everyone getting a 8-12g repair bill? thats nothing for the ability to brag about how big gruul really does get...and he makes ragnaros look tiny honestly

worst part is, we only lost two people by the end of the fight...one tank and one healer who got nailed by the cave in and didnt get out of the way in time.

[sparklebunny]

Yeah gotta agree 20 growths is ridiculous

Little back history - my current raiding guild is an offshoot of our old one where we wanted to focus on endgame raiding and the majority of the people in the old guild liked the social aspect. Thus a lot of us have left that guild to form our new one.

One of my first KZ runs with the new guild and we hit opera and Wizard of Oz. Now we were pretty experienced with up to Curator at that point but had yet to get Illhoof, Nightbane or Netherspite at that point. Well things go rough as people died but we managed to get down the various characters so that by the time we get to Tinhead there's four of us left, my elemental shaman, warrior tank, and 2 healers. Well we tried to get as much mana as we could back while Tinhead chased the tank around and then take him down for Crone to pop....manage to get her down with 4 people :)...although it took a while. What made it cool was that the four left standing were of that old guild who had come over the week before....definitely felt like putting a feather in my cap for that one. Also the fact that those who said "it's a wipe, just die" got to eat a little crow.

[rottentomato]

had three healers finish off the dragon hawk boss in za...that had to be the longest feeling 1% of our lives...they all spam healed my pet as long as they could, and started on me after throwing up whatever damage they could...ended up being two priests, one of them using MB and a SW:death after popping pain on him, i got downed, and the last priest got off one smite just in time to see the poor guy drop as she got hit, and the druid healer hit his SS to hopefully knock out that last bit of damage if it was needed...luckly it wasnt...but it was intriguing none the less.

[Echosnare]

had a few wipes like people have mentioned including a frustrating 1% wipe on gruul after a healer accidentally DI'd the tank back when gruul was a moderate challenge.

The thing we're going to attempt is moroes and attumen at the same time. Clear moroes trash - clear attumen trash. Have a healer and tank pull midnight into moroes' room then bring on the pain :D

[Ash Housewares]

I have a similar story, was gonna make a thread for it, but this thread fits perfectly

Illidan fight, at 5% the MT dies, people had gotten sloppy and let people die to demons (the warlock tank and myself amongst others) so we were getting shorthanded, and the healers must've been slow to heal on a transition and theres no demon tank so the main tank got owned

so then its a wild dps chase to kill Illidan while he runs around destroying everyone, had a shadowpriest tanking for close to 5 seconds, got a ton of heals and then crushed for his lifebar

long story short...23 people are dead at 1% just a holy priest and a hunter, and Illidan dies to a combination of SW:Pain from our holy priest and auto shot from the hunter

naturally the priest also died and the hunter jumper cabled a resto shammy and we res'd everyone, victorious

and thats how I got my Blessed Medallion of Karabor

[Tr1cK]

A few years ago, I was in a guild that was just starting MC. I was the OT on my prot warrior, wearing mostly green and blue. We only had 34 or so people in the raid, less than 10 have ever stepped inside.

We make it down to Lucifron. Some idiot in the raid winds up pulling the imps out of the cave on our 2nd or 3rd attempt and wiping all but 4 of us out. The adds were down at this point and we were just starting on Lucifron. The MT goes down, I run up to catch him. At this point Luci is at 95% health, my roommate was a mage that was on decurse duty, and there were 2 healers up that were being dual boxed by one guy, a shaman and I think a priest. I had to DPS down Lucifron from 95% to dead while these other 2 guys kept me up. It felt like it took forever!

The great thing about it was the whole guild of noobs was singing me and my roommates praise (the healer was the GM) cause we were relatively new. I got the purple tanking ring and my roomy got the purple caster neck. It was a good night until we proceeded to repeatedly wipe on Mag lol.

[moopy]

letting gruul get to 20 growths before we started dps, just to say we could.

I'm sorry, I am gonna have to call cowchips on this one. You can't hold DPS till 20 grows, and then kill Gruul- that is, I certainly don't believe that your guild, who sound like they're making nice progress, but aren't quite Nihilum, can. After 20 grows. his damage is increased by 300%, his vanilla melee would be doing over 4k physical damage per second before any of the other abilities are considered- like the silence. I really don't believe that either your MT or your healers can sustain that- given that 2k+ HPS is what's needed for healers during the bloodboil fight, and when guilds are learning that fight, it nearly kills the healers- onces who have cleared all of t5... Add to that the fact that hurtful strike on the offtank does 12350–13650 physical damage with no grows- by grow 20, it would be one-shotting a full t6 beartank, most likely.

Back to the topic, it always amuses we when the MT goes down before Illidan, and a rogue tries to evasion tank while the raid cranks the DPS as hard as they possibly can- that's a breathless few seconds right there.
Sorry, I simply think you're making this one up :-)

[rottentomato]

I'm sorry, I am gonna have to call cowchips on this one. You can't hold DPS till 20 grows, and then kill Gruul- that is, I certainly don't believe that your guild, who sound like they're making nice progress, but aren't quite Nihilum, can. After 20 grows. his damage is increased by 300%, his vanilla melee would be doing over 4k physical damage per second before any of the other abilities are considered- like the silence. I really don't believe that either your MT or your healers can sustain that- given that 2k+ HPS is what's needed for healers during the bloodboil fight, and when guilds are learning that fight, it nearly kills the healers- onces who have cleared all of t5... Add to that the fact that hurtful strike on the offtank does 12350–13650 physical damage with no grows- by grow 20, it would be one-shotting a full t6 beartank, most likely.

Back to the topic, it always amuses we when the MT goes down before Illidan, and a rogue tries to evasion tank while the raid cranks the DPS as hard as they possibly can- that's a breathless few seconds right there.
Sorry, I simply think you're making this one up :-)



as usual...your attention to detail is amazing...

we ended up killing him on growth 21 with a full t6 bear boy doing the tanking.

i guess that means we started dps around growth 15 or so...but bear tank did die, and most of our healers are geared around 2200 heals unbuffed or so and up. only thing really holding us back guild wise, is having a few tanks get geared good and proper, and getting dps up where it needs to be (people being hit capped etc)

next time we get a hold of that tank, i'll be sure to fraps or SS it.

sorry if i messed up my typing as usual :) its usually late, or im drunk when i come on here...sometimes both :) might have caught me on a good day tho

[EdvinMedvind]

Do you have a WWS report of it?

[rottentomato]

Do you have a WWS report of it?

says the data has expired after 15 days...im not quite sure how WWS works tho...ill ask the guy that posts on it for us...


our typical time frame to down him is around 4 minutes 30 seconds with our usual group i figured that would mean starting at growth 14 with full dps...or starting at 15 with dps just kinda slacking until the end


i seem to remember seeing the off tank getting a hurtful strike around 40k damage tho...made me laugh a little when the warrior shouted over vent some obscene thing regarding it

[sciro]

Mine isn't realy a boss but a non-elite rare in Zangarmarsh called "The Bog Lord." I saw him and decided I'd like some blue loot. :) Now, I'm a protection paladin and I was 62/63, same level as him. I begin to attack him and get hi to 70% and he heals fully, do it again, he heals. I'm beggining to give up, he's a giant so immune to my stuns. Get him to 30%, heals to about 70%, I was there for 20 minutes, soloing one mob. I kept using seals, potions, heals, anything to stay alive and keep mana. Eventually, I had to make a run for it, I couldn't let him finish me there though, I went back and attacked him again armed with strength, agililty, int and attack power buff. So I start and along comes a mage to three shot him for me. -.-

Oh and I got some rubbish blue mail shoulders with some nature damage on them, all that...

[bloog]

We had a real smooth Illidan kill. Then a healer mentions one of the flame stuff tanks took a lot of healing. Appears he was wearing evasion gear by mistake. 'Oh' sais the Illidan tank, 'and I accidentally was wearing fire gear'.

Not too shappy, doing enrages without traps :).

[Tibbs]

The first time doing Kael'thas on Heroic MgT was a right laugh.

Wound up with me (afflock) and the healer swimming around taking him down from about 35%. Gotta love 3 insta-dots and Shadowburn - I think I got through 10 shards. Was right out of mana and almost no health when he fell to the last CoA dot tick.

And still only plate loot dropped :(

[Beruen]

Well, we had another kill that was almost as messy. Our first ever Prince Malchezaar kill. Finally managed to convince everyone to quit blaming wipes on bad luck with infernal drops and learn to move as a group including when and where to move. Tank dropped at 2%, and we ended up with two healers and a DPSer still standing. In fact, I think it was a holy smite that took him down. And then we ran from the corpse, because an infernal had dropped almost right on top of it a few seconds before he died.

[Tanalin]

Haha, we like to call ourselve's the 1% wipe guild. Most new encounters result in at least one 1% wipe and a lot of cussing through vent. We broke the chain on Magtheridon though, it was a 3% wipe :p

Got my tank T4 chest though, so its worth the wipes.


Prince is actually a little more challenging after the patch, wonder if that was intentional by Blizz to make the infernals almost impossible to call ahead of time. Quick reacting ftw on that fight, and a little bit of infernal luck.

[Beruen]

Yeah, our raid leader was a hunter with "track demons" up, so he was calling out every infernal drop, and deciding if we needed to shift and if so, to where. Having all the healers/ranged people group up into a tight group helped a lot as well. In a way, I think the change, while making the fight harder, also made it more likely that we'd actually take down prince, since we were able to get everyone accept that trying to find a static place to tank prince wasn't going to work. Still, three weeks from our first attempt (getting him down to 7%) to actually downing him was a stressful three weeks. Can't complain, given that only one person in our raid group had ever been in Kara prior to us starting back in early Feb (or maybe the last weekend in Jan).

But yes, I know how that magic number works. 7% is our magic number. First real attempt at Moroes and Prince both ended at 7%, followed by many unsuccessful attempts where we didn't even come close to 7% before finally getting the boss down.

[moopy]

Haha, we like to call ourselve's the 1% wipe guild. Most new encounters result in at least one 1% wipe and a lot of cussing through vent. We broke the chain on Magtheridon though, it was a 3% wipe :p

Consistent low percentage wipes are a good sign though! It shows that you're controlling the fight enough, and are nearly there. We wiped at 1% on Brutallus a good few times before killing him (I suspect a lot of people have, it's one of those fights), the enrage timer can make the end of the encounter a little.. fraught. Being able to get to that point several times in a row showed that it was totally doable, and spurred people on to eke out that extra bit of focus, to finally down the ugly mofo..

[Mirinda]

I have two new ones.

In heroic Magister's Terrace, I keep trying to find how to keep Kael's bubbles from chasing me. Position here, move there, careful about casting, whatever. I was up in front of the entryway, mashing buttons while others in my group started dying. As usual people on Vent are yelling "Burn him!" I got frantic and didn't notice I'd accidentally cast Pyroblast, and even with some haste and icy veins it's not going very fast. Pyro went off and I had to flee bubbles and pop what I could to take Kael's shots. Kael died on the second tick of the pyro dot! I was the only one alive, barely.

We were slopping around in heroic Bot, and people started going down against the demon boss Thorngrin. I'd never seen this before: I aggroed boss, hit ice block as fast as I could. Log said he melee hit me for 12,765 damage, THEN on the next line it said I was immune to a melee hit. Ice block saved me in a way I didn't know was possible.

Mage with 8K health survives 12.8K melee hit! He chased someone else until I popped off the ice block, when he came back to me. I got off fireball, dragon's breath and fire blast in succession, and Thorngrin went down right in my face.

[Zachariah]

I can't verify it, but this is what appeared to happen on a Naj'entus kill:

Very sloppy all round, half of us new to the boss. As enrage gets closer and closer, the "NUKE" call comes through and people creep up the aggro lists. Still not enough dps, he's going to enrage, come on...!


Then he dies, and I look at my logs. He did enrage and unleash his big-explosion-of-raid-killingness...but died a fraction of a second later. There was a circle of dead people around him that ended just in front of where I was standing. The explosion stopped mid-expansion.

(Shortly after that, we pulled the same trick on Supremus...we just like the challenge of killing enraged bosses, so much more satisfying)

[semiiramiis]

"All healers DPS NOW!"

Translation: The tank is dead. The off tank is dead. Anything that even vaguely resembles a viable tank is dead. The raid leader is dead. He can't see the boss's health bar anymore, all that's left standing is three dps and two healers, this is our last try for the night...and we've been slamming our heads against this boss for the past three weeks.

Leaves the two resto shamans left standing to surge out of their corners, dropping fire elementals as they come... spamming those little used shock buttons. Hehehe. Great fun. Vent goes utterly silent as the twenty dead people do a lot of praying but are too worried they'll mess up the survivors by yelling. We got Leotheras down with just three left standing at the end, a warlock and two shamans.

[Ritsuko]

I have a similar story, was gonna make a thread for it, but this thread fits perfectly

Illidan fight, at 5% the MT dies, people had gotten sloppy and let people die to demons (the warlock tank and myself amongst others) so we were getting shorthanded, and the healers must've been slow to heal on a transition and theres no demon tank so the main tank got owned

so then its a wild dps chase to kill Illidan while he runs around destroying everyone, had a shadowpriest tanking for close to 5 seconds, got a ton of heals and then crushed for his lifebar

long story short...23 people are dead at 1% just a holy priest and a hunter, and Illidan dies to a combination of SW:Pain from our holy priest and auto shot from the hunter

naturally the priest also died and the hunter jumper cabled a resto shammy and we res'd everyone, victorious

and thats how I got my Blessed Medallion of Karabor

lol, pretty much the same thing happened to us but our last 3 up died to shadow fiends. All our shamies ankhed to see the loot as we all took our run of shame back as they were killed one by one.

[Twoflower]

"All healers DPS NOW!"

Translation: The tank is dead. The off tank is dead. Anything that even vaguely resembles a viable tank is dead. The raid leader is dead.

priceless :D

[skroob]

Similar situation to most mentioned here with a gruul fight. Gruul down to about 2-3% all tanks dead, most dps gone.. holy priests forced to SW:Pain etc. finally went down with only 3 healers left standing (Priest, Shaman and Pally).. priest was overjoyed that his SW:Pain tick was the killing blow :D

[Lobothomy]

Evasion tanking gruul for the last 15 seconds of his life = priceless.

[YamahaGuy]

We were short a usual OT for alar last night, so we were understaffed a bit already. Then mid phase 2 the other OT died.

So us MT's had to juggle both adds and alar. It was pretty crazy because when the molten armor timer was close, I'd stun my add and run back to alar to taunt, and that tank traded me and took over the adds, and vise versa. Sometimes have both alar plus the add and the OT switched taunts the add, and drags that away. Since theres two tanks and three mobs (two ads, alar) we needed a little assist with pally stuns to buy us some time here and there

I had molten armor when the OT died, so I reacted and quickly found out, its not a real problem tanking an add with molten armor. lol. To prevent being 'thrown' I stunned the add when it was low and ran away. lol.

But between us two juggling the 2 ads+alar back and forth for the rest of the fight, and we got em.

Oh. Our second Vashj kill (we've done 6) there were two people left alive. Then, one died from goo. Leaving only one rogue.

There can only be ONE! highlander.

[SLi]

Not quite a boss kill, but close (would of been crazy if we did)
BTW: All of us are mostly in Outland Blues with a some Kara gear thrown in there)

Did Kara tonight, when we finally got up to Attuemen, 5 of us died rather quicky (4 dps classes and the only priest).

Attuemen was taken down to 4% with just 2 hunters, 2 pallys and the tank. less then 60 seconds and the fight would of been over, but the pallys ran out of mana, pots on cooldown and LoH already used :( So Close!

We didn't get a second chance, after tank dc'ing, getting a good tank (who ended up being a jerk, who didn't want to waste his Save ID if we didn't go any further, despite the fact Kara would reset in a few hours - which he didn't believe me btw and left), server lag + my rotten lag, we finally gave up after 3 hours.

[tabstercat]

eurgh..anybdy know that giant boss in MT (not heroic) everyone wiped except me he was on like 2% but was doing 800-900 damage to me i panicked didn't know what to do and died :P then later someone sayed "why didn't you hit evasion?" :( *sob*

[Dublecee]

one time i was at prince and the whole raid was dead except me and theirs infernals and stuff everywhere. i pop my pots and instant pyro. prince is at 1%. he hits me once. i somehow dodge and he dies. woot

[zmoericke]

One of our first Moroes kills happened 11 seconds before the server shutdown.

Grats on that, that's ridiculous.

[Aerath]

Grats on that, that's ridiculous.

That depends - did they have time to loot ? :laugh:

[Echosnare]

Seen a couple kills like that before. I deterrenced gruul down to about 4% from 7%, absolutely love that skill when I'm survival.

I remember lots of alars where there wasn't enough add dps and the OTs werent picking them up so I'd aggro them out of the healers then kite over to the OTs, deterence till they picked them up then feign and repeat.

[corga]

I soloed gruul at 1% PoM pyroblast fireblast fireball ALL CRITS

[tagkc]

On my guilds first kill of the bat boss in ZG, we were down to the tank and my priest. With the boss at 1%, I ran OOM and the tank died pretty quickly. So I whipped out my wand and started shooting. On the second shot, the boss died. Vent was eerily quite for a few seconds as it took time for everyone to realize what had happened.

[bloog]

I've seen a resto shaman in healing gear solo heroic MGT Kael'Thas from 32%. He was able to burst the shield and shock pyroblast. And still heal himself through the fireballs.
His mana did not drop. Afterwards he said it took more mana to try keep the group alive than to solo the final part.

[Aerath]

I've seen a resto shaman in healing gear solo heroic MGT Kael'Thas from 32%. He was able to burst the shield and shock pyroblast. And still heal himself through the fireballs.
His mana did not drop. Afterwards he said it took more mana to try keep the group alive than to solo the final part.

I call bovine manure.

There is no Pyroblast after 50%, nor Fireballs.

I will believe him soloing the 32% to 0 bit though.