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Nothing is extra of a tease than dangling an upcoming raid boss in entrance of gamers every week early. MMO gamers thrive when there’s nothing to do however look ahead to the following patch, so if a boss is simply sitting there, they will search for a solution to kill it towards Blizzard’s needs.
World of Warcraft: Midnight’s March of Quel’Danas raid opens up on Tuesday, however one among its bosses, L’ura, is hanging out within the recreation proper now. The floating cluster of power could also be nearly godlike within the Warcraft lore, however the well being bar above her head says she has 149M well being—and to artful gamers like YouTuber Rextroy, which means she will bleed.
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The primary main impediment within the journey to kill L’ura was staying alive lengthy sufficient to truly hit her. Though she will’t assault gamers straight, anybody who enters her area close to the freshly-voided Sunwell will take large periodic ticks of injury. No character can survive quite a lot of seconds in there as a result of it offers 40% of your well being a second.
However Rextroy wasn’t going to be stopped by a giant scary DoT and determined to look into the way it labored. Principally, the sport considers the participant because the one doing the injury, which occurs to depart open a really intelligent loophole: By dying exterior the chamber and accepting the resurrection illness debuff that reduces your injury completed by 75%, the DoT turns into trivial sufficient to outlive for a couple of minutes.
This trick let Rextroy and their mates begin to check some theories. Over the course of some days, they found out the boss might be harm by hunter pets, however not sufficient that it truly made a dent in her well being. In truth, the pets successfully did not deal any injury in any respect as a result of the boss step by step heals itself. The one solution to get the job completed was to hit it for an entire lot of injury .
The answer Rextroy and the crew landed on (primarily based on a earlier feat) was to herald a sacrificial rat and a bugged monk assault that permit them deal round 100M injury. That is because of the means high-level characters deal bonus injury to low-level enemies, and the way in which the monk assault transfers that injury over to L’ura.
After gathering up as many rats as they may on Saturday, the group shrunk themselves down utilizing a toy that reduces their injury by 99% (to resolve the DoT drawback), and the merchandise that spawns the rat. The primary rat knocked L’ura’s well being all the way down to half, however when Rextroy sacrificed the second rat, the boss did not die.
Determined for the kill, the third participant within the group gave their rat a smack, hoping L’ura solely had a sliver of well being left. When it did not work both, everybody realized what was occurring and sighed. “Blizzard… that is so boring,” Rextroy mentioned as soon as they realized L’ura was merely programmed to be unkillable.
Blizzard’s little cheat dashed the group’s hope of attaining a world first earlier than the raid was even out. The fight log even confirmed that they dealt extra injury than the well being she had left, however apparently no enjoyable is allowed.
Nicely, some enjoyable is allowed. Rextroy went out to seek out different methods they may use what they’d simply realized. They took out a mythic+ boss in a single hit after which stunned some gamers in PvP. Neither have been as satisfying as it might’ve been to kill the boss although. On the very least, Blizzard cannot take away the truth that Rextroy and their mates are actually the world’s first—and doubtless final—gamers to defeat L’ura as a bunch made up of monks and rats.
