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What Was the Hardest Ever MMORPG Boss?

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FrayzZeUsher
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States225 Posts
October 10 2017 12:04 GMT
#1
Imo cthun in 2006 World of Warcraft. You could be hit for thousands of times of your max hp in one hit if you mess up. And many top players theorycrafted even if you played perfectly it is still impossible at the time.



Also some of the bosses from FFXI, not mechanically challenging, just tedious, fights lasting more than 18+ hours, but later got nerfed to around 2 hours per boss.

What you guys think was the hardest boss in MMORPG games?
nukkuj
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Finland403 Posts
October 10 2017 13:44 GMT
#2
(25) Heroic Arthas was hardest boss encounter I've played. Unfortunately, Wotlk was the only wow expansion where I played all encounters, so I don't have good way to compare them to anything else. I only played ~first third of raid encounters in Vanilla and TBC and those weren't that difficult.
minnek
Profile Joined February 2012
United States6 Posts
October 10 2017 14:10 GMT
#3
In EverQuest there was Kerafyrm, who was designed to be invincible and 1-shot pretty much everyone as a kind of "interactive cinematic event", so to speak. A large group of very dedicated players managed to kill him, however. It was an incredibly impressive feat at the time, and fun to read about. https://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/08/the-surprising-and-allegedly-impossible-death-of-everquests-unkillable-dragon/

I guess it's not technically a legit "boss" since it wasn't intended to be fought head on, but it still came to mind when I read your post.
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Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States13925 Posts
October 10 2017 14:39 GMT
#4
Nothings going.to approach wildstars depth of extremely difficult bosses.even after you learn the entire fight and can predict.each stage offhand. Dreadphage ohmna was bonkers even after you beat him a few.times.
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seopthi
Profile Blog Joined December 2014
391 Posts
October 10 2017 14:59 GMT
#5
For me it was unnerfed Kil'jaeden in Sunwell, but haven't gotten into the vanilla Naxx and haven't played any other mmo
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17254 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-10 15:02:19
October 10 2017 15:01 GMT
#6
Balrog in Genesis MUD. People who've been playing for 20 years had to gang up ignoring factions, take some GM's with them and only then were they able to defeat it.
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Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10700 Posts
October 10 2017 16:46 GMT
#7
Prenerf Vasj and Kael'tas probably are up there if you don't look at near impossible (or in fact impossible bosses) bosses like C'thun... And at least Vasj was actually also a very cool fight.
DwD
Profile Joined January 2010
Sweden8621 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-10 16:59:18
October 10 2017 16:58 GMT
#8
On October 11 2017 01:46 Velr wrote:
Prenerf Vasj and Kael'tas probably are up there if you don't look at near impossible (or in fact impossible bosses) bosses like C'thun... And at least Vasj was actually also a very cool fight.



Pre nerf Kael'Thas was unkillable. Trust me I was there on the first kill The bosses kept their threat table and it kept building up even when they were dead so when they re-spawned they just killed every healer and you couldn't tank em at all.


I don't think unkillable bosses should make a list like this because its not hard its just not possible.

For me I think 4 Horsemen from WoW, you needed 8 sick geared tanks and then it was RNG if their taunt missed so they had to had a spell caster trinket with +hit on.
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Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10700 Posts
October 10 2017 17:03 GMT
#9
Then Kael was nerfed twice? That fight was actually awesome too, if not for the first half of it..
Heyjoray
Profile Joined September 2015
240 Posts
October 10 2017 17:50 GMT
#10
On October 11 2017 00:01 Manit0u wrote:
Balrog in Genesis MUD. People who've been playing for 20 years had to gang up ignoring factions, take some GM's with them and only then were they able to defeat it.

This is not hard, this is overtuned
FeyFey
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany10114 Posts
October 10 2017 18:56 GMT
#11
GTB before first classes hit and you only had red potions.
Tachion
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada8573 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-10 20:16:55
October 10 2017 20:16 GMT
#12
There was a second boss fight in FFXI that was undefeated for years, Absolute Virtue. Eventually one linkshell managed to find an exploit to kill it, then that got patched and it went unkilled for years after that.
The dev's in FFXI really didn't give a shit if the players couldn't figure out the hardest bosses.
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vult
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States9400 Posts
October 10 2017 21:00 GMT
#13
Yeah pre-nerf 25H Lich King fight was dumb and broken..... thus the nerf later.

I would have to say that vanilla naxx putricide was hardest, though i was watching my brother fight it and not me and it looked impossible.
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Duka08
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
3391 Posts
October 10 2017 21:08 GMT
#14
On October 11 2017 06:00 vult wrote:
Yeah pre-nerf 25H Lich King fight was dumb and broken..... thus the nerf later.

I would have to say that vanilla naxx putricide was hardest, though i was watching my brother fight it and not me and it looked impossible.

Putricide was Icecrown not Naxx?
NickHotS
Profile Joined May 2014
United States105 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-10 21:40:22
October 10 2017 21:39 GMT
#15
The Rathe Council in Ragrax, Stronghold of the Twelve, EverQuest: Planes of Power expansion.
Godwrath
Profile Joined August 2012
Spain10126 Posts
October 10 2017 22:54 GMT
#16
On October 10 2017 23:39 Sermokala wrote:
Nothings going.to approach wildstars depth of extremely difficult bosses.even after you learn the entire fight and can predict.each stage offhand. Dreadphage ohmna was bonkers even after you beat him a few.times.

I mean, i haven't played much more MMORPGs PVE for a long time, but people talking about WoW bosses when wildstar happened not long ago is actually hilarious.
zev318
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada4306 Posts
October 10 2017 23:25 GMT
#17
probably because wildstar was/is a ded game so no one actually knows anything about it
Godwrath
Profile Joined August 2012
Spain10126 Posts
October 10 2017 23:35 GMT
#18
On October 11 2017 08:25 zev318 wrote:
probably because wildstar was/is a ded game so no one actually knows anything about it

Or about many other MMORPGs for that matter.
TheFish7
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States2824 Posts
October 10 2017 23:48 GMT
#19
Random trash in FF11 was harder than many WoW raids. Didn't raid in FF11 but my buddy did and he would pull all-nighters to do it. Pretty nuts. And you would even lose exp as you'd die - multiple times. And Everquest had some pretty insane bosses, never raided in that either though.

But I dunno, the hardest guy I faced was probably Mimiron. I only really raided in Vanilla and WotLK. Probably spent the most time wiping in BWL though. Problem at the time was, in the early days my guild barely had MC on farm so it was tough with a lot of raid members under-geared.
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Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States13925 Posts
October 11 2017 01:37 GMT
#20
I mean the difficulty of the raid bosses ended up being one of the bigger things that caused its death. thats how hard the bosses were in wildstar. I don't know how many people actualy ended up even downing a single 40 man raid boss but it was a clear minority of minorities. That was a shitty experience as they didn't have it tested that well and there were bug fixes during the 40 man raiding discovery process.

I'm pretty sure Enigma is the only guild that ever actualy beat 40 man Avatus.
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