The ultimate Boss fight

Matticus, of World of Matticus, PlusHeal, nostockui and wow.com fame, shared his dream from the other night with his followers on twitter. It led to much hilarity. I was quite amused that every time my twitter warcraft feed updated, there were yet more phases/scary things added to it. Here I’ll share the gradual progression of this epic encounter, and hopefully you’ll get a chuckle at least out of it.

The best part is the representation of it in image form at the end.

@matticus Dreamed of the hardest boss fight. Defile. Doomfire. Has 2 fire elementals that must be tanked in a tangent. Must pass cores. And 360°cleave

@tinkerpriest add in disease spreading and passing polarities

@Technophobia And you have to sit through a 10-minute RP intro and not AFK.

@MoodyDK And top it off with a Safety Dance.

@tinkerpriest add mind control, taunt immunity, and lava walls on heroic

@GamerGaz you forgot the crosshealing adds

@tinkerpriest And Leeching Swarm.

@tinkerpriest ….now it needs to grip 3 people for 110% of hp over 10sec, can’t heal targets directly.

@_Rades Also inbetween phases you have to dance across a floor that spews acid in horrible yet oddly predictable patterns.

@Thiefd Air Phase please?

@Technophobia 5min hard enrage, IMO.

@borskzj What about resist stacking?

@matticus Said boss must also include healing, dps, and tanking beams that must be blocked. Also drops random infernals. Has to be tanked by a mage.

@matticus I think thats what, 8 phases?

@Jezriya phase 9 is all the even numbered phases at once. phase 10 is all the odd ones.

@Kenichan How bout a knockback which throws off the top aggroer where 2nd & 3rd tank has to pickup?

@Loupyn must pass cores to remove stacking debuff on raid member, only 3 per fight and desolves if held >30s or <15s ?

@tinkerpriest 9 minute berserk timer, rebuffs on raid heal boss, stacking debuff (uncleanseable) on tanks that blows them up when it reaches 12.

@krizzlybear hardmode is activated when you heal an imprisoned NPC to 100%.

@pikestaff do we have a positive and a negative side yet?

@krizzlybear the trick is you have to pair up each + with an -, instead of stacking all the similar signs together.

@MoodyDK Four sides. Up, down, charm, strange.

@tinkerpriest achievement: claw cracker: burn each pincer within 10 sec of the other without losing anyone to Pinched.

@_Rades But each time you pair up, it has to be with a different person than the last time.

@tinkerpriest different race, get 45 sec debuff similar to argent tourney ones.

@pikestaff also, two words: Flame Wreath

@tinkerpriest do not move when flame wreath is cast or the raid blows up…

@Eforextinction Also, if it kills a player, it gains a new ability depending on the class of the player.

@_Rades Also the outside of the room is lined with eggs that will hatch & spawn whelps.

@tinkerpriest even better, the boss randomly decides 5 of these to use each lockout.

@krizhek so do we have a phase with cubes to click before he cast a instadeath spell?

@blackbell don’t forget void zones!

@pikestaff boss quote when he kills a player: “to the GROUND, baby!”

@tinkerpriest leeching debuff on any player more than 10 yds out, gas debuff that spreads to players within 7 yds.

@Technophobia And it should be called The Ultimate Raid Boss Of Ultimate Destiny.

@_Rades Rumored to drop the server-unique Pony mount but this has never been confirmed.

@MoodyDK Vehicle phases?

@matticus On phase 11, boss deathgrips everyone to middle, then casts arcane explosion. Flame Wreath. Blizzard. And Thorim like Lightning charge

@tinkerpriest final phase drops 3 legendary crackers and allows ranged to drop molten liquids to slow/snare.

@_Rades The molten only slows the crab adds (cradds?) though, as we know the big Crab is immune to flaming.

@Mcconniff MATT!!! Wake up you’re killing us!!!!!

@chanze and must have rays spitting venom covering the floor and the air phase from KT, and Annihilation

@MoodyDK I hope when GC puts this in he credits us. Then again, maybe I don’t.

@matticus the only bad thing about the encounter is that it will be solo’d by a rogue in 6 months

Achievement/Title for beating this boss?

Crab Slayer and The Deadliest Catch.

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Guild politics that I fail at

10man Malygos is frustrating wtih two healers.  My guild hasn’t killed it once yet, but me and the druid are sure we can keep people alive, provided we aren’t dumb.  And that’s a royal WE there.  I wonder if I should get some arcane protection potions for phase 2 because those ranged mobs wtfpwn me and anyone else if I’m too busy running to a bubble to top them off.  

I am not sure what is going on in the guild, but only six people out of twenty 80s ever sign up to kill Maly.  I can’t take being the cheerleader/salesperson convincing these raiders to freaking raid.  This is our last real progression besides 25man.  I’m not sure why none of the rest want to put attempts in.  The state of our 25mans are the same, maybe ten sign up out of the 22 in the guild, yet if those of us that want to raid go with a pug, we’re frowned at and ostracized.  Like me.  But, this core that DOES sign up for raids, well me and my MT are making things happen, despite our dismay at the guild attitude.

So yesterday our ten man Malygos attempts were painful.  The first time this week we put attempts in, we got to phase three twice.  But today, we barely saw it.  People were just dying too early.  But after putting it on the calendar almost every day this week, and only putting two solid attempts in, well I guess that’s alright.  

Later, I pugged into a Malygos 25man that I expected to be nothing but a round of wipes.  I somehow managed to live through phase 3 on the final attempt.  Honestly, with the mounts being such a pain to target/heal, and me being too lazy to find an appropriate macro (is there one?!), I settle for spamming the 1 attack and then doing the AOE heal.  I figure, with the other healers doing their jobs, my aoe heal is helping a little bit, and damage to beat the enrage is somewhat helpful.  On that last attempt, we all managed to stay clustered up.  When the enrage bar scrolled the last 30seconds I stopped healing and just spammed the attacking buttons.  But we got him (with maybe 3 seconds to go on Enrage, but more than half the raid was alive which is awesome).

So now I have the title Champion of the Frozen Wastes.  Yet another nail to put in my coffin among the guildies that aren’t happy with me, aren’t raiding, and simply get angrier when those of us that want to raid still raid without them.

Did I mention I pugged into heroic naxx and killed KelThuzad yesterday, too?  

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