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Zul'Gurub Bloodlord Mandokir Soloed by Zeroji Over 76 Minutes
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Posted
2021/04/07 at 1:32 AM
by
Archimtiros
Classic WoW streamer
Zeroji
has successfully soloed
Bloodlord Mandokir
with his Hunter Sathele, in a 76 minute encounter using the infamous bridge pathing trick to continually kite the dangerous raid boss.
The first half of the fight only took about 7 minutes, focusing on the raptor Ohgan while baiting out Mandokir's spin to separate the bosses, so that Ohgan is attackable while the Bloodlord is kept out of line of sight to avoid dealing with his charges. Once the raptor is defeated, the real encounter begins - first waiting out the 90 second Enrage buff while using consumables to prepare for the next hour of fighting Bloodlord, but although it uses the same strategy and there is only one target instead of two, keeping Mandokir in line of sight becomes much more dangerous and the encounter is made much longer due to managing
Threatening Gaze
. Throughout it all, the Hunter's pet is kept parked off to the side, to provide a target to keep the boss in combat while using
Feign Death
whenever the Bloodlord gets too close for comfort.
This bridge hopping trick is nothing new, abusing pathing to keep enemies running back and forth between the bridge and the water below, and is commonly used for
farming strategies
, though while it can be called a gimmicky way of defeating the boss, it also shows an incredible amount of patience and mastery - when one hit can take off half your health and the boss loves to combo charges, autos, and special abilities, one mistimed movement can instantly end a grueling hour long attempt. Despite using the relative safety of the bridge trick, there are also spots where you can still be hit, requiring constant repositioning throughout and a lot of extra time healing back up or waiting for cooldowns, prolonging the encounter and increasing the chance that something may go wrong. Missing a jump and landing in the into the water is also an immediate death sentence, or at best encounter reset. In all, this 1 hour and 16 minute kill was the culmination of over
6 hours of attempts that day
and countless more over the previous week.
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Comment by
Bobert99
on 2021-04-08T02:06:21-05:00
To the first commenters: yes, they should totally change every aspect of this 16 year old game to cater to every minority opinion. Doesn't matter if that would break the game if any mob could just teleport past any obstacle some AI algorithm would evaluate as "too cumbersome".
Instead of actually congratulating the player (who is btw. the most infamous soloing Hunter of WoW Classic and runs an average of 99 parses in Naxx, so a true master of his class), this feat has to be poopoo'd and the player put down.
That's like saying a thief shouldn't be charged because he only stole something trivial, and that he should be congratulated for getting away with it.
An exploit is an exploit. There is no excuse that it shouldn't be fixed.
Nope. People wanted #nochanges and Blizzard kept all the weird pathing in the game like they said they would. This is nothing like stealing something since this is a recreation of the original game with most of it's flaws.
Comment by
Bobert99
on 2021-04-08T02:08:56-05:00
'member the good old days when using exploits used to get you a vacation. Now we celebrate them.
This is just an example of how lazy Blizzard have become. Don't look at exploits, let bots take over the economy, just let the 'players' do whatever it wants as long as we get our money.
You make it sound like it was super easy and everyone could do it. This "exploit" was left in the game on purpose. It's not an exploit in the recreation of the game. This has nothing to do with bots which are illegal. Why are so many people the type that literally craps on everyone and everything that doesn't affect them just because they don't like how someone else enjoys the game?
Comment by
Peesneeze
on 2021-04-08T02:43:59-05:00
I don't really get all the solo boss news. Not sure how it's appealing in a mmo.
Comment by
Kalados
on 2021-04-09T10:56:19-05:00
To the first commenters: yes, they should totally change every aspect of this 16 year old game to cater to every minority opinion. Doesn't matter if that would break the game if any mob could just teleport past any obstacle some AI algorithm would evaluate as "too cumbersome".
Instead of actually congratulating the player (who is btw. the most infamous soloing Hunter of WoW Classic and runs an average of 99 parses in Naxx, so a true master of his class), this feat has to be poopoo'd and the player put down.
"infamous" Yeah, that's not a compliment, grab a dictionary.
Comment by
Kalados
on 2021-04-09T10:56:20-05:00
To the first commenters: yes, they should totally change every aspect of this 16 year old game to cater to every minority opinion. Doesn't matter if that would break the game if any mob could just teleport past any obstacle some AI algorithm would evaluate as "too cumbersome".
Instead of actually congratulating the player (who is btw. the most infamous soloing Hunter of WoW Classic and runs an average of 99 parses in Naxx, so a true master of his class), this feat has to be poopoo'd and the player put down.
"infamous" Yeah, that's not a compliment, grab a dictionary.
Comment by
lenpup
on 2021-04-13T11:34:55-05:00
Oh please stop.
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