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This page is for the Lich King "placeholder" which was used in classic Naxxramas. The Lich King would speak (but would not appear) to Kel'Thuzad from Northrend after players defeated Sapphiron (see screenshot), and it was picked up by the Wowhead client. See
here
for his other appearances.
The lore below is outdated, but I'm leaving it for posterity. Visit Warcraft Wiki for updated lore:
https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Lich_King
The Lich King is the coalescence of the souls of
Ner'zhul
and
Arthas Menethil
, creator of the
Plague of Undeath
, and the master of the
Scourge
.
Ner'zhul, elder shaman of the orc
Shadowmoon Clan
, was deceived by
Kil'jaeden
into binding himself and the
Horde
to the service of the
Burning Legion
. He sought to defy Kil'jaeden after discovering his true intentions, but Kil'jaeden was warned by
Gul'dan
of his impending betrayal. Ner'zhul was allowed to live to witness the corruption of the Horde and the subsequent
First
and
Second Wars
. When the Alliance invaded
Draenor
following the Second War, Ner'zhul began opening portals to other worlds in attempt to escape Kil'jaeden's wrath for failing to conquer Azeroth. Upon crossing through a portal, Kil'jaeden apprehended Ner'zhul and tore his spirit from his flesh, but kept him alive, allowing him a chance to still serve the Legion. Kil'jaeden granted him unfathomable power, and imbued his soul to a runeblade and a suit of ancient armor, creating the entity known as the Lich King. Kil'jaeden sealed the armor and blade within a
frozen crystal
and cast it into Azeroth, where it fell upon
Icecrown Glacier
on the remote arctic continent of
Northrend
. Using his will alone, the Lich King created the Plague of Undeath, killing the denizens of Northrend and resurrecting them as his mindless slaves. His human agent
Kel'Thuzad
brought the Plague to
Lordaeron
.
Prince Arthas Menethil, a paladin of the human nation of Lordaeron, was assigned to investigate the Plague. He watched in horror as citizens fell to the disease and were resurrected to fight against him, diminishing his faith in humanity as well as forcing him to question his peers and motives. He tracked down and killed Kel'Thuzad, but the undead holocaust continued unchecked. Seeking to end the Plague at its source, he traveled to Northrend, where he acquired
Frostmourne
, believing it could grant him the power to end the Plague and be the salvation of his people. Unfortunately, Frostmourne was the runeblade Kil'jaeden bound to the soul and will of the Lich King. The Lich King's voice commanded him, and proved to be the tipping point that made him turn from the Light and humanity. He returned to Lordaeron as the first
death knight
of the Scourge, killing his
father
the king, laying waste to
Silvermoon
, corrupting the
Sunwell
, resurrecting Kel'Thuzad as a
lich
, invading
Dalaran
, and assisting in summoning
Archimonde
into Azeroth. With the arrival of Archimonde, the Lich King was no longer needed by the Burning Legion and secretly turned against them to ensure his survival.
Following Archimonde's defeat on
Mount Hyjal
, Arthas eliminated the remaining Burning Legion and human forces from Lordaeron. The Lich King's power began to wane and Arthas was called back to Northrend. There he was met with opposition from
Illidan Stormrage
and his new
Sin'dorei
and
Naga
forces. Arthas defeated (but did not kill) Illidan, and rose the steps of
Icecrown Citadel
to meet his master. At the Lich King's command, he burst open the frozen throne, releasing the enclosed armor. Upon crowning himself with his helm, Arthas' soul conjoined with Ner'zhul's, creating one of the most powerful entities to ever walk Azeroth.
More details on the history of the Lich King are outlined in
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
and
The Frozen Throne
, as well as in
The Birth of the Lich King
,
The Lich King Triumphant
, and the
official site
.
The Lich King is a primary, but thus far unseen antagonist for both Alliance and Horde in the World of Warcraft. He commands the Scourge forces in the
Eastern
and
Western Plaguelands
,
Stratholme
,
Scholomance
,
Naxxramas
,
Eversong Woods
,
Ghostlands
and the
Isle of Quel'danas
. He will have a more pronounced role and players will have the opportunity to contend with him in the upcoming expansion,
Wrath of the Lich King
.
评论来自
31441
Blizzard had pointed out that we don't fight or kill Illidan. It's more like getting in his way. And I hope to god that we don't ever fight the Lich King as that can create major havoc in the story line of Warcraft in general.
评论来自
16943
Blizzard did point out that we "get in his way", but i do beleive in the EU forums a CM pointed out that we just don't get to kill him in this expansion, kind of like a Majordomo thing where a chest drops or something.
评论来自
56568
There is rumors That The Lich king Will be coming In game because if you go on your map on WoW and zoom out till u see outlands and azeroth you will se at the top of Azeroth there is an icy place there is an instance there called icecomb citadel thats where he is meant to be but there is no knowing when he will be coming in game!
评论来自
69345
we probably wont be able to kill the lich king cause first of all it would end the game and then everyone would get bored stop buying WoW game cards and get a life and also cause it would probably end the storyline and they wouldnt make anymore regular warcraft games either that or the horde and alliance go back to smacking each other plus it would probably take 100 lvl 100s to kill him or it would be too easy for the ultimate evil in the known world of warcraft to be beaten
评论来自
59139
lol there is an expansion for wow right now coming out called Wrath of the Lich King, lvl cap to 80, and you can fight the lich king, but it'll probly be extremely hard, as he controls pretty much all the evil on azeroth, i anticepate, that before the expansion comes out, we can fight 1 or 2 other wow history evil bosses, like kil'jaden or someone else, but I know it wont take 100 lvl 100's, that raid group would lag and disconect every 5-10 mins because of the extreme activity going on in the raid group... and blizzard also says that it'll probly be 25 man because it works so perfectly.
评论来自
iamthedark
We can now kill prince arthas in the upcoming expansion called "Wrath of the Lich King" there is supposed to be two new environments that are coming with northrend. As said before it will probably be 25-man raid. I think the expansion is coming a bit soon though, considering we dont have much time to get geared up as we all were at level 60.
The Lich King is only behind the scourge(the undeads) that ravage the eastern kingdoms. Sargeras was behind the lich king and the dreadlords master: Archimond(can't spell). That would make him the most evil being in the creation of the warcraft series. I am thinking that after this expansion there will be a final one bringing us to level 99. Or it could take a twist and we find out someone/something was behind the making of sargeras. Either way i think we are all looking forward to the new expansion and the ones to come.
评论来自
41526
He is not Prince Arthas anymore... He is now King Arthas Menetil, The Lich King. Sorry for bothering.
评论来自
68719
iamthedark , if u have read the Warcraft lore , u will remember that there is som1 behind Sargeras- the titans that placed him as a guardian of the well of eternity on Azeroth , and it may turn out that they were corrupted or somthing like that. But even if it does turn out like that , defeating them will be insane - they are titans :) but if blizz includes them it'd be great :D / and Decan12 , Sergeras does have a body - Medivh :)
评论来自
59139
thank you iamdark and i just want to clear up some incorrect history, Sargeras was champion of the titans guardian of ALL worlds created by them, azeroth made after sargeras went made though, sargeras was corrupted by the dreadlords, then they met the erdar corrupted them, then either got the pitlords or the orcs next though i think it was probly pitlords than, sargares tryed to destroy azeroth than couldnt because of dragons... medivh was corrupted.... then he died, in turn KINNDA purified him in a sense, so sargeras was banished to the twisting nether as far as extreme lore ppl know... i just told about 50,000-30,0000 years of history of the burning legion right there... anyway about the new expansion apperently it might come out earlier than i had anticipated which is eariler cool... you should read more on death knights on wowwiki.com or fourm threads because it is EXTREMELY interesting.
评论来自
59139
/sigh..... first of all arthas what ppl dont understand is that he was corrupted yes but he did so willingly... when he murdered his ppl in stratholme and killed muradin for frostmourne was him... he wanted power... so they become ONE ENTITY. tich and archimonde are both dead... sargeras if you read better lore WAS partially corrupted may i take that correction and did understand that the creators did make a mistake and set forth to destroy theyre "mistake"
评论来自
42243
In The New World of Warcraft: Wrath of The Lich King, can you fight against him and the Scourge in Northrend.
评论来自
42243
I Think there will be a Expansion set more. A Expansion where you can be lvl 100 and fight against Sargeras, in Sargeras tomb at the Maelstrom. But that should be the last Expansion set.
评论来自
60672
One thing that is indeed very strange is the ending video of the warcraft 3 expansion. You hear all of arthas old friends and loved ones almost like a flash back (except just with sound). This leads to the very minute possibility that arthas soul can be free'd. Possible end-game quest. Kill arthas freeing his spirit or something
评论来自
60672
Yeah i would have to agree; Its a major possibility that they will do like they did with The Black Temple and release it as a huge patch;
评论来自
59139
o and arthas can never be redeemed :), that kid got into because he wanted to, even when the lich king was weakened, HORRIBLY weakened arthas rode to him and knowingly PUT THE CROWN AND ARMOR OF THE LICH KING ON AND....well they both said "We are one...." which i thoguht was freaking awesome.. anyway i think when we fight the lich king we may hear yells of arthas and the lich king agruing with eachother like 2 headed ogres, this because they are "one"...which would be funny,
lichking"Damn it Arthas you cant do anything right!"
arthas"Fine you take this one!"
arthas"What are you doing you foolish old orc!"
lichking"I'm killing em now gimme a freaking break here!..your always pushing me around...."
hehehehehehehe... just like two headed ogres....
评论来自
59139
thank you solenthar, that was thee.... complete history off the lich king, and no this isnt the last exspansion, my best quest is emerald dream next, than maelstrom, two old gods still live deep in those places, see there are 5 old gods, one WE killed (c'thun) the other dead at master's glaive and the forgotten one that arthas and anubarak fought may be one, as far as i know there is an old god in the emerald dream, and the deepness of the rift in the middle of the maelstrom is deep enough to contain an old god, and yes i know... that's there because of the implosion of the well, BUT! that doesnt mean nothing cant be lurking down in there, anywaythose are two possibilities, sargeras may be fightable, but not till very high lvls you still have kil jaden who is lord of the burning legion ever sinse sargeras was "killed". also we have deathwing... the other aspects of dragons may not be fightable for they are GOOD not BAD... anyway this isnt everything i know i could probly fill up this and like 50 more comments of what i know about warcraft lore.. so dont correct me for anything, ive stood up horrible nights playing games and reading fourms and piecing together different things... all for my fellow players :)o and arthas can never be redeemed :), that kid got into because he wanted to, even when the lich king was weakened, HORRIBLY weakened arthas rode to him and knowingly PUT THE CROWN AND ARMOR OF THE LICH KING ON AND....well they both said "We are one...." which i thoguht was freaking awesome.. anyway i think when we fight the lich king we may hear yells of arthas and the lich king agruing with eachother like 2 headed ogres, this because they are "one"...which would be funny,
lichking"Damn it Arthas you cant do anything right!"
arthas"Fine you take this one!"
arthas"What are you doing you foolish old orc!"
lichking"I'm killing em now gimme a freaking break here!..your always pushing me around...."
hehehehehehehe... just like two headed ogres....
评论来自
81181
http://www.wowwiki.com/Hero_Class
here you can see possible future Hero Classes, Apparently Lich was a unlikely one ^^ Archmage, Far Seers and Demon Hunters are possible though.
评论来自
Miyari
The Lich King "shows up" in-game in a discussion with
Kel'thuzad
in
Naxxramas
, when raiders first enter his domain. This conversation can be heard in-game by pasting the commands (starting with "/run PlaySoundFile") into your in-game chat log.
Kel'thuzad: "
Our preparations continue as planned, master.
"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Kelthuzad\\KEL_NAXX_DIALOG01.wav");
Lich King: "
It is good that you serve me so faithfully. Soon, all will serve the Lich King and in the end, you shall be rewarded... so long as you do not falter.
"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\LichKing\\LICH_NAXX_DIALOG01.wav");
Kel'thuzad: "
I forsee no complications at this... wait... what is this?
"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Kelthuzad\\KEL_NAXX_DIALOG03.wav");
Lich King: "
Your security measures have failed! See to this interruption immediately!
"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\LichKing\\LICH_NAXX_DIALOG03.wav");
Kel'thuzad: "
Yes, master.
"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Kelthuzad\\KEL_NAXX_DIALOG04.wav");
Later, during the fight, his voice can be heard again as he assists in the encounter by summoning
Guardians of Icecrown
.
Kel'Thuzad: "
Master! I require aid!
"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Kelthuzad\\KEL_NAXX_HELP.wav");
Lich King: "
Very well... warriors of the frozen wastes, rise up, I command you to fight, kill, and die for your master. Let none survive...
"
/run PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\LichKing\\LICH_NAXX_SUMMON.wav");
评论来自
120564
This is not the real Lich King, but actually a dummy creature used in the Naxxramas Kel'Thuzad Event. It is used to say the Lich King's part of the dialog and is invisible. (Please see the screenshot of the dialog between the two.)
NOTE: I am referring to this particular instance of the Lich King (creature ID 16980) and not the one that will appear in the expansion, which will have a different ID and will be the real Lich King.
评论来自
Roadcow
Does the Lich King appear in Naxxramas or do you just hear him. i havnt done naxrammas but you Patman64 said something about a dummie lich and i got confused.
评论来自
147934
So now we finally know who is this menace that controls the scourge!
seriously, the scourge has like messed with the lives of the undead, and the Blood-elf's etc.
评论来自
loragheta
Arthas will be a raid boss but we dont know if he gets killed not enough info to make that assumption yet. also blizzard has said he will be in the last patch of WotLK
评论来自
153218
right now the lich king is in northrend but there is no northrend in the burning crusade and there is northrend in the wrath of the lich king
评论来自
Thottbot
first of all, its spelt Arthas, not Arthras, second of all you didnt get weapons to kill Illidan with, you got legendary items fighting Kael'Thas, please, stop being a nub and go and raid then you would know this stuff, and lastly the whole 1 per server, for 30 days? ppl wouldnt bother, itd be pointless to even try cuz the one raid guild that is the best on the server would beat you too it everytime,my theory is, even tho the Lich is unkillable and yes Syl does want him dead, you will most likely get weapons to kill him, that protect you from the power of the Frostmourne, and he probs wont even die, he'll flee or something leaving the Frostmourne behind, then come back as they release more patches, OR even another expansion, but i dont know why ppl are worrying about it yet asseen as its not coming out til '09 so you beginners still have chance to run them heroics and karazhan runs you wanted to :) but GL, and one last thing, i believe Frostmourne will be an in-game weapon, as a two handed, Deathknight only weapon "you followed in my footsteps" kinda gave you the clew, which means as it will be only deathknight, maybe even paladin too is only fair the warglaives were warrior and rogue only, and itll be same as TBC, T4.5 will become pointless memories with the lvl 70-75 quests but T6, just like T3 will be able to carry you to lvl 80 then become pointless
评论来自
Thottbot
This guy appears in Naxxramas. When you kill Sapphiron or whatever the big dragons name is, you can hear a conversation between Kel'Thuzzad and the Lich King. Arthas says that Kel'Thuzzad is doing good and should keep serving him faithfully, then Arthas tells Kel'Thuzzad to kill the raid. In the middle of the fight, Kel'Thuzzad yells "Master! I require aid!" Arthas, being too uber to fight them himself, summons up a bunch of minions to kill you.
In the new expansion, Arthas is going to be the last boss of the last raid, Icecrown Glacier.
Here's my theory. Kael was able to fake his own death, Illidan > Kael, so Illidan should be able to fake his own death. Illidan should then join with the people of Azeroth, since we all know he isn't htat bad of a guy.
The Lich King, is well, impossible to kill by the mortal races, since he wounded Illidan pretty easily, and Arthas has only grown stronger since.
So, what if Arthas was positive that he had killed Illidan. Then, Arthas looks over, sees him standing there with a whole raid behind him. Arthas is shocked that Illidan isn't dead yet and he sort of hesitates a moment. Illidan then takes this moment to charge in, and slice Arthas. Arthas then gets pissed off and kills Illidan for real this time. Now that Arthas would be injured, it would make more sence that you would be able to kill him.
评论来自
Thottbot
You will quite not defeat Arthas because there might a chance that after, a video will show up showing Arthas revive.
评论来自
Thottbot
In WotLK, I opt for classic 40man raid instance (even though I think they've said its going to be 25 like Illidan).
As for the Death Knight class, I'm still not sure of letting all races get Death Knight. I mean, they should let certain races like humans get DK of course (and maybe dwarves, just cuz dwarves r kinda like humans). But for other races, like NE/BE, they should make Demon Hunter (imo that would be tight), then for draenei-idk, prolly DK would suit draenei ok, for orcs-something like a Beserker-type class (sorry warrior players, name can be changed to something similar) that relates to their former bloodlust (if not, I can settle for an orc DK). Tauren and trolls definitely should not be DK, again I think a Beserker-type class would suit them. Undead-meh, maybe DK, but I don't think that would fit in with lore very well (Sylvanas hates DKs after what Arthas did to her, but demon hunter would be pretty kewl for UD too). Finally, gnomes absolutely CANNOT possibly be DK (they're too cute and shrimpy, even if they have locks). For gnomes, I guess a technician/inventor class would suit them (or a leprechaun class lol :P). That's wat I feel at least about the DK issue, not that I think blizz really cares at this point in the game.
评论来自
Allakhazam
Err, no, you've mixed places. Hyjal and Northrend are way different areas, separeted by thousands of miles.
Edited, Jul 31st 2006 at 8:37pm EDT by Antlan
评论来自
Allakhazam
i want a pic from him!...and an autograph :P
评论来自
Allakhazam
actually the lichking is Arthas AND Ner'zhul... instead of reading the books in wow, you should play Warcraft 3:Reign of Chaos, and its Expansion, The Frozen Throne... blizzard sometimes mixes their own stories around alot... Arthas was once a Paladin, wanting to much to rescue his people from the Scourge, even took a cursed sword, to kill his enemies... the sword took his soul, corrupted him in the process, he became the champion to the Lich King... in the end he Freed the Imprisoned Lich King, the ex-orc Ner'Zhul, leading shaman of the horde, took his magical helmet, created by the burning legion as a vessel that contains his spirit, his soul, his mind... as both minds, both entities, merged, a new creature of unnamed power was created... and that one is waiting on the icy continent, known as northrend...
well, i dont think the lich king will be able to be attacked, until there will be another addon, with northrend as a new continent...
SPOILER ALERT: if anyone wanna see the merging of both:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cax2oTsiaRo
TIP: for everyone who own Warcraft3(+TFT), to watch the FMVs without getting in the game, just open the MPQ files with Windows Media Player...
-GLORY TO THE SCOURGE-
评论来自
Allakhazam
so you can see the lich king for the very first time in-game?
评论来自
Allakhazam
The Lich King is ARTHAS, I remember the video when he puts Ner'zhul helm on his head, and the lich king says "Now, we are one" (great video, btw). So, are we seeing Arthas here? or something else? like another lich :P
评论来自
Allakhazam
Could someone get a pic of the hologram?
评论来自
Allakhazam
A Kel'Thuzad : Im gonna kill you
B Lich King : But Kel i'm your father
A Kel'Thuzad : oh noes
评论来自
Allakhazam
Is there anyway we can get to northrend? Or the area where atrhas is?
评论来自
Allakhazam
Private server?
评论来自
Allakhazam
What hologram? What pic?
评论来自
Allakhazam
http://www.scrollsoflore.com/warlock/worldmap.gif
评论来自
Allakhazam
some people will shoot themselves in the face.
评论来自
Allakhazam
So which would this be, Arthas or Ner'zhul? I actually don't think I've come across a book yet that talks of the death of Arthas, so maybe that's who it is.
Edited, Mar 14th 2007 7:30pm by johngoforth
Edited, Mar 14th 2007 7:35pm by johngoforth
评论来自
Allakhazam
ok first of all i dont really think that u can compare it to Star Warz... just cause there are holograms Naxx is basically a mad scientists lab....
so you would think that they would have better Technology then the regular races of Azeroth.... + with modern technology we already have holograms not very 3D but we have them for warfare & spying on enemy territories.... & things like that...
ok just so i know has anyone seen the Lich King anywhere otehr then in the opening video of WoW?
评论来自
Allakhazam
Does anyone happen to have a picture of him ingame?
I wanna see what World of Warcraft's done to him.
评论来自
Allakhazam
I'd love to see a pic of the hologram if anyone can get one.
评论来自
Allakhazam
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/
评论来自
Allakhazam
Here's what bothers me about this, and hopefully Allak can shed light on this with their further investigation. Isn't the Lich King suppose to be sitting on the Frozen Throne, high up in the mountains of Kalimdor? In fact if you venture into that wonderful, demon filled area of Winterspring and into one of the caves there you find an instance that is currently blocked by a large metal gate (not unlike the ones in Stormwind, only more ominous looking).
评论来自
Allakhazam
From what I've read, the first and true Lich King was named Ner'zhul, and Kel'Thuzad was his follower. Kel'Thuzad brought the plague to Lordaeron, and he is the one who named the minions of the Lich King the 'Scourge'. Arthas came along later when the Lich King's ice throne was failing. The best two books I've found on this are at the end of Scarlet Monastery's Library and in the town hall of Darkshire. I forget where I read the one about the Lich King summoning Arthas to take his place.
Edited, Mar 14th 2007 8:47pm by johngoforth
评论来自
Allakhazam
Maybe it's like an area that only GM's can access or something like that. Or in game no-one knows this place exists.
I guess maybe in a new patch this guy (probably going to be called something like Cristopher Columbus or somethin') accidentely stumbles upon this place?
评论来自
Rothia
DON'T NERF SAPPHIRON
Posted by Pazorax | WoW Developer | Blizzard Forums | 2020-11-11
Hey everybody!
We recently completed testing
纳克萨玛斯
on the PTR. A big thank you goes out to everyone who helped us find bugs or exploits we could fix before release. We often get questions about how we decide what counts as a bug, and what’s worth changing, so I thought you might enjoy a deep dive into our investigation of
萨菲隆
’s
冰霜光环
.
TLDR for anyone who only wants to know the conclusion: We’re changing the spell to tick every 2 seconds consistently.
When
萨菲隆
is engaged, the entire raid is affected by a
冰霜光环
which reads: “Deals Frost Damage every second”, but many players reported that it should be every 2 seconds. Our first thought was, “that was the Wrath of
巫妖王
version,” but we know that in a game as complicated as WoW, there can be surprising and unexpected interactions, and a lot has changed over the last 15 years. When a current behavior doesn’t match players’ or developers’ memories, it always makes us a little suspicious. Sometimes it turns out our memories are wrong, but we’ve also seen it lead to the uncovering of an unexpected interaction, so, it’s usually worth a look, and that was certainly the case here.
We looked at many old videos, and though some were from the wrong expansion, we were able to find videos that showed the original fight. The videos actually had evidence of both tick rates within the same fight. The
冰霜光环
seemed to
mostly
tick every 2 seconds, but
occasionally
tick once per second for a bit, before returning to ticking every 2 seconds. We also checked in our reference server, and the behavior was the same as we saw in the videos: mostly 2 second ticks, but occasionally a brief streak of 1 second ticks, before returning to 2 second ticks.
Perhaps the most useful clue was this post from WoW game designer Daelo in 2009, in which he describes fixing
萨菲隆
’s
冰霜光环
so that it does “the damage that was seen previous to the 3.0.8 patch”:
"We just hotfixed
萨菲隆
's
冰霜光环
so it should do the damage that was seen previous to the 3.0.8 patch regardless of the size of the raid or your server's performance. This should be 1200 every 2 seconds in Normal, and 1600 every 2 seconds in Heroic. You'll notice that the
冰霜光环
debuff you have no longer has a duration that refreshes. The tooltip also incorrectly lists the damage as occurring every second. The tooltip error will be fixed the next time we make a client patch available."
This certainly suggests that it was doing damage every 2 seconds prior to the 3.0.8 patch, but this was a hotfix to the Wrath of
巫妖王
version of
纳克萨玛斯
. We’ve already found other differences between the original and Wrath of
巫妖王
versions of
纳克萨玛斯
, so while this post was helpful, it wasn’t enough to satisfy us on its own. It contained an important clue about the debuff duration refreshing, which led us to suspect the DoT refresh might be clipping the damage tick. In WoW Classic, when you refresh a DoT, it resets the timer on the periodic damage, and can cause you to miss ticks, and since the
冰霜光环
has a 5 second duration that gets reset throughout the fight. It was a good bet that the damage timer was getting reset then too. Of course, we already reproduced that behavior in WoW Classic, so that still didn’t explain the discrepancy between the two.
At that point, we dug further into the game code and found the difference in the way
萨菲隆
re-applies the Aura. In both reference and WoW Classic, the aura re-application was done as part of an Action Trigger which fires every 2 seconds. However, in the original code, action triggers share a timer with periodic spell ticks, and action triggers were always processed first. In modern code, they run on independent timers, so a long-running action script won’t delay a spell tick.
This meant that when
萨菲隆
re-applied the
冰霜光环
in reference, it was
guaranteed
to clip the damage tick that was about to happen, leading to every other tick getting skipped. In modern code, the damage tick and the reapplication are both scheduled to occur at the same time, but are controlled by two separate timers, so either one might happen first. It just so happens that in this encounter, the reapplication generally happens
after
the DoT tick on the same second, so that players got the full damage on every tick, instead of every other tick.
But this mystery isn’t solved yet. What about those occasional one second ticks we saw in the original videos and in the reference server. They were rare, but if the reference code is guaranteed to do the refresh before the damage tick, how were they ever ticking at once a second? It turns out that the
冰霜光环
application didn’t always succeed, and if it failed, the existing DoT happily ticked away doing damage once per second until the next refresh attempt 2 seconds later, like this:
Time (seconds)
Event
Damage
0
Aura #1 Applied
0
1
Aura #1 ticks
600
2
Aura #2 Applied (clips Aura #1)
0
3
Aura #2 ticks
600
4
Aura #3 fails (Aura #2 ticks)
600
5
Aura #2 ticks
600
6
Aura #4 Applied (clips Aura #2)
0
7
Aura #4 ticks
600
Since
萨菲隆
is 3 levels higher than the player, the spell can only miss 1% of the time, but that’s what explained the occasionally 1 second ticks we saw in the videos, and with our reference.
We also reached out to the original designer, who still works at Blizzard, on a different game team. After we described our findings, he agreed that the
intended
behavior was for the damage to be every second, and the fact that the reapplication of the aura was clipping a tick of the DoT was a bug that wasn’t noticed or fixed until Wrath of
巫妖王
.
So where do we go from here? We often must carefully consider a conflict between original intent and original behavior. There’s no one right answer in all cases, but for this case, the original behavior is the correct decision, and we plan to fix this in much the same way Daelo did in Wrath of
巫妖王
. In modern code, we have a way to reliably apply an aura that deals damage every 2 seconds as long as the boss is alive, and we’ll re-write this ability to use that method, just as Daelo did in Wrath of
巫妖王
.
While the behavior that led to it originally occurring every 2 seconds instead of every 1 second was a bug, it was consistent enough as to be indistinguishable from a text bug in the Aura description. Choosing to go with the original intent would result in almost twice as much damage as players experienced in 2006, so in the end that makes this decision pretty clear.
I hope you enjoyed that trip through our development process. See you in Azeroth!
DON'T NERF SAPPHIRON
Posted by Pazorax | WoW Developer | Blizzard Forums | 2020-11-12
Hey everybody,
I wanted to drop in and give one more update. Astute readers of my earlier post may have noticed that the original implementation had a 1% to do an extra tick of damage, and while that’s pretty minor on
average
, taking an extra tick of 600 damage can create a dangerous
streak
that can make the fight significantly harder, especially if you don’t have much
冰霜抗性
.
I’m really happy to share with you that after I made my post, our newest team member added an effect that exactly reproduces the 1% chance to have an extra tick of frost damage, so you’ll have something even more true to the original difficulty.
Watch out for those damage streaks! It’s cold in there!
Blizzard:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/dont-nerf-sapphiron/709636/48
Wowhead:
https://www.cuckhead.com/tbc/news=319065/wow-classic-deep-dive-into-sapphirons-frost-aura-frost-damage-dealt-every-2-seco
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