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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 forward to the subsequent patch, so if a boss is simply sitting there, they’ll search for a solution to kill it in opposition to Blizzard’s needs.
World of Warcraft: Midnight’s March of Quel’Danas raid opens up on Tuesday, however one in all its bosses, L’ura, is hanging out within the recreation proper now. The floating cluster of power could also be virtually 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, meaning she will be able to bleed.
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The primary main impediment within the journey to kill L’ura was staying alive lengthy sufficient to really hit her. Though she will be able to’t assault gamers immediately, anybody who enters her area close to the freshly-voided Sunwell will take huge periodic ticks of injury. No character can survive various 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. Mainly, 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 finished by 75%, the DoT turns into trivial sufficient to outlive for a couple of minutes.
This trick let Rextroy and their associates begin to take a look at some theories. Over the course of some days, they discovered the boss might be damage by hunter pets, however not sufficient that it really made a dent in her well being. In actual fact, the pets successfully did not deal any injury in any respect as a result of the boss regularly heals itself. The one solution to get the job finished was to hit it for an entire lot of injury all of sudden.
The answer Rextroy and the crew landed on (primarily based on a earlier feat) was to usher in a sacrificial rat and a bugged monk assault that allow them deal round 100M injury. That is because of the manner high-level characters deal bonus injury to low-level enemies, and the best way the monk assault transfers that injury over to L’ura.
After gathering up as many rats as they might on Saturday, the group shrunk themselves down utilizing a toy that reduces their injury by 99% (to resolve the DoT downside), 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 reaching 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 might use what they’d simply realized. They took out a mythic+ boss in a single hit after which stunned some gamers in PvP. Neither had been as satisfying as it could’ve been to kill the boss although. On the very least, Blizzard cannot take away the truth that Rextroy and their associates are actually the world’s first—and possibly final—gamers to defeat L’ura as a bunch made up of monks and rats.
