What is the hardest boss in the game?

[JonBeMerkin]

That you have progressed on and also in your personal opinion who you think the hardest boss is in the games entire existence is.

Hardest boss i've progressed on would probably be Spine from Dragon Soul and in my personal opinion not based on any sorta statistic the hardest in the entire games existence i'd have to say yogg-saron no lights just because i'm a WotLK pleb and don't have any connections/storys with others.

Just my opinion, whats yours?

[Aethilus]

Inb4 someone links the chart of days from release to kill and claims it represents difficulty.

OT: H Lei Shen during ToT, no real contest

[Queen of Hamsters]

By tried and tested logic of the internet: Kel'Thuzad in original Naxx.
For real though, I believe Method said Mythic Archimonde was one of the hardest if not THE hardest bosses?

The boss which felt as the biggest achievement to down in my own experience was Mythic Gorefiend... That, or Heroic Ragnaros.

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SSC elevator boss.

[Deleted]

I would have to put Mythic Archimonde up there. The fight was mechanically kind of retarded and the tuning was really tight.
I can't state how important those weakauras were for both the laser beams and the marks in phase 3. Without the weakauras, I would suspect a lot less guilds killing the boss if I have to be perfectly honest.

But without weakauras, I also think it was kind of overtuned, as strange as it may sound. The indicators for Archimonde's laser beams was horrible, and the debuffs in the last phase were kind of nuts when you had like 3 seconds to get infront of a group - AND make the timers. I don't envy those who had to kill him without rings.

[Drynix]

I think Yogg-0 lights and heroic LK are both very high, dunno which of the two I would consider being harder though.

That and mythic gorefiend. Those are the only 3 bosses I remember going above 500 pulls on before I got the first kill

[Deleted]

Lich King 25 heroic, no kills before % buff (arguable ofc).

[Haywire5714]

Hardest boss tuning and mechanics wise: Archimonde
Hardest boss mechanics wise: Lei Shen
Hardest boss tuning wise: Lich King 0%, Ragnaros, Archimonde hard to say

opinion

[Relapses]

Heroic Ragnaros 25M was a bitch of an encounter. The triangular strat people developed to deal with Geyser wasn't even the way Blizzard intended for the mechanic to be handled and even then it was still pretty sketch.

Mythic Archi is probably up there. And Mythic Blackhand was pretty tough when he was current. Imperator was pretty difficult, too.

[Septik]

personally, it was for the group i was with at the time, heroic ryolith. dont ask me why. we spent more time on that boss than the other 5 combined. didnt actually kill him until the monday before dragon soul came out, made one attempt on heroic rag and called the night, never went back. Looking back it is a bit embarrassing because its not a particularly complicated fight but made the group go full retard.

[Spotnick]

Court of Stars' last boss in Mythic+!5 it seems lol.

[ryklin]

if we're including nerfed bosses that actually were killed a few times before the nerfs (but still excluding broken ones like c'thun): kelthuzad, kael (honestly killing him and getting attuned was probably the hardest part of BC progression until sunwell), m'uru/KJ, yogg 0, LK 0%, nef and al'akir pre-nerf/fixes, rag, sha of fear, lei shen, and blackhand

out of all that though, I think probably LK 0% takes the top imo, the dps check was brutal

I think helya might honestly get added to the list, she looks pretty brutal, but at least artifact levels will help the rest of us, but I honestly don't think many guilds will see her down before even the end of nighthold with tier bonuses and really high artifact damage bonuses

[Durbi]

I've done every encounter since TBC (bar most of the Sunwell bosses), and hands down mythic Blackhand for me. Ragnaros and Lich king are most probably second to him, but nothing else comes even close to Blackhand. He was a brutal bosss. Never felt more proud while raiding then when my guild finally killed him.

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hogger

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[Malico]

Old naxxramas Gothik the Harvester, only this one in wow!

[GnomeEU]

Hardest Boss atm?

Probably some very High lvl Tyrannical Mythic+ Boss

Most Raid Bosses are not really hard when you don't have the lowest gear possible, they're just lots of coordination.

Try lvl 15 Tyrannical Shade of Xavius in Darkheart Thicket or lvl 15 Advisor Melandrus.

Many Tyrannical m+ Bosses at a high lvl require extreme fast reaction times to avoid getting one shot, or to top ppl off.
Also many 10+ Bosses already hit harder than Mythic Raid bosses... so yeaaah
Definitely m+ atm

[Nitros14]

Inb4 someone links the chart of days from release to kill and claims it represents difficulty.

Updated for this tier.

I see a lot of misinformation out there regarding how long bosses took to die so I thought I'd recreate this thread. DISCLAIMER: This thread is not trying to measure difficulty.



These are from the date it was possible to begin working on them, or the previous hard mode was killed. I'm sure people might quibble with some of them but I did my best. Going with 25-mans here.

This is obviously not indicative of their relative difficulty but it's interesting. Lots of caveats of course. Like Ulduar's design lending it to people being able to progress anywhere and various limited attempt bosses.

The reason Yogg-Saron and Mimiron count from the opening of Ulduar is that from day one it was possible to immediately go in and begin working on Alone in the Darkness. With other bosses it was 100% impossible to start pulls testing them out until the previous boss was slain.

#1 Ouro - 87 days from the Twin Emperors' death. (1 day from C'thun's death) 26th April 2006.
#2 C'thun - 86 days from the Twin Emperors' death. 25th April 2006.
#3 Yogg-Saron, Alone in the Darkness - 83 days from General Vezax's death. (39 days from STARS' previous Ulduar kill) 7th July 2009
#4 Nefarian* - 75 days from Chromaggus' death. 26th September 2005. (15 minute respawn between attempts)
#5 Ragnaros - 74 days from Majordomo Executus' death. 25th April 2005.
#6 High Astromancer Solarian - 59 days from Magtheridon's death. (24 days from Death Wish's previous tier 5 kill) 24th April 2007
#7 The Four Horsemen - 56 days from Gothik's death to D&T's kill. August 25th 2006
#8 Al'ar <Phoenix God> - 48 days from Magtheridon's death. 13th April 2007
#9 Heroic The Lich King* - 42 Days from Heroic Putricide's death (first pull). March 26th 2010 (Limited Attempts)
#10 Viscidus - 41 days from Fankriss the Unyielding's death. 5th March 2006.
#11 Heroic Al'Akir - 38 days from being unlocked. (3 days from Paragon's previous tier 11 kill) January 22nd 2011.
#12 The Lurker Below - 37 days from Gruul's death. (5 days from Morogrim Tidewalker's death.) 12th March 2007.
#13 Algalon the Observer* - 33 days from Firefighter. June 3rd 2009. (Limited Attempts)
#14 Morogrim Tidewalker - 32 days from Gruul's death. (1 day from Fathom-Lord Karathress' death.) 7th March 2007.
#15 tied Kael'thas Sunstrider <Lord of the Blood Elves> - 31 days from Solarian's death. 25th May 2007
#15 tied Heroic Cho'gall - 31 days from being unlocked. (13 days from 3/5 Bastion of Twilight) 15th January 2011.
#15 tied Fathom-Lord Karathress - 31 days from Gruul's death. (2 days from Leotheras' death.) 6th March 2007.
#18 tied Magtheridon - 29 days from the first 70 raid kills. (21 days from Gruul's death) 24th February 2007
#18 tied Leotheras the Blind - 29 days from Gruul's death. (16 days from Hydross' death) 4th March 2007
#20 Heroic Nefarian - 25 days from being unlocked. (13 days from 5/6 Blackwing Descent) January 9th 2011.
#21 tied Mimiron Firefighter - 17 days from the opening of Ulduar. (8 days from Ensidia's previous Ulduar kill) May 1st 2009
#21 tied Lady Vashj <Coilfang Matron> - 17 days from being unlocked. 29th March 2007
#23 Ra-Den* - 16 days from Lei Shen's death. April 11th 2013 (Limited Attempts)
#24 Void Reaver - 15 days from Magtheridon's death. 11th March 2007
#25 Loatheb - 14 days from Heigan's death. 17th July 2006
#26 tied Heigan the Unclean - 13 days from Noth the Plaguebringer's death. 3rd July 2006
#26 tied Hydross the Unstable <Duke of Currents> - 13 days from Gruul's death. 16th February 2007
#28 Majordomo Executus - 12 days from Golemagg the Incinerator's death. 10th February 2005.
#29 tied Heroic Ragnaros (Firelands) - 11 days from Heroic Majordomo Staghelm's death. July 19th 2011.
#29 tied Onyxia - 11 days from the first 60 raid kills. January 19th 2005
#31 tied Archimonde <The Defiler> - 10 days from Azgalor's death. (6 days from Nihilum's previous tier 6 kill) 9th June 2007
#31 tied Gothik the Harvester - 10 days from Instructor Razuvious' death. 30th June 2006
#33 tied Heroic Spine of Deathwing - 9 days from Heroic Blackhorn's death. 22nd December 2011
#33 tied Mythic: Archimonde <The Defiler> - 9 days from Mythic Mannoroth's death. 16th July 2015
#35 tied Sapphiron - 8 days from Four Horsemen dying. 2nd September 2006
#35 tied Gruul the Dragonkiller - 8 days from Maulgar's death. 3rd February 2007
#37 Magmadar - 7 days from Lucifron's death. 26th January 2005
#38 tied Reliquary of Lost Souls - 6 days from Supremus' death. 2nd June 2007
#38 tied Heroic Lei Shen <The Thunder King> - 6 days from Twin Consorts' death. 26th March 2013.
#38 tied Heroic Garrosh Hellscream <Warchief> - 6 days from the death of the Paragons of the Klaxxi. 30th September 2013.
#41 tied Kel'Thuzad - 5 days from Sapphiron's death. 7th September 2006
#41 tied Kil'jaeden <The Deceiver> - 5 days from the opening of the third Sunwell gate. 25th May 2008
#41 tied Sinestra - 5 days from Heroic Cho'gall's death. January 20th 2011.
#41 tied Mythic: Blackhand <Warlord of the Blackrock> - 5 days from mythic Blast Furnace's destruction. February 20th 2015.
#41 tied Mythic: The Blast Furnace - 5 days from mythic Oregorger's death. (1 day from Method's previous Blackrock Foundry kill) February 15th 2015.


Honourable Mentions:
#46 Heroic Anub'arak* - 4 days from Heroic Twin Val'kyr's death. September 6th 2009. (Limited Attempts)
#46 M'uru/Entropius. 4 days from the opening of the second Sunwell gate. 4th May 2008
#46 Heroic Sha of Fear. 4 days from the death of Heroic Lei Shi. 24th November 2012.
#46 Heroic Dark Animus. 4 days from the death of Heroic Primordius. 17th March 2013.
#46 Thaddius. 4 days from Gluth's death. 30th June 2006.


Thanks to SK-Gaming's handy list of all time world firsts and wowprogress.com.

http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/163...rld_first_list

Classic
Burning Crusade
Wrath of the Lich King
Cataclysm
Mists of Pandaria
Warlords of Draenor

I claim that this represents the hardest bosses from top to bottom.

[Deleted]

long list is long.

A lot of bosses on that list required class stacking that was not possible at the time due to how the game worked, take for example spine imagine how long that would have taken to kill it class stacking wasn't possible

[Flurryfang]

The hardest boss for me was Sindragosa HC. She pretty much killed 2 guilds of mine xD Killed her after like 500+, if not more, wipes So many nights, where we just wiped and wiped on her ><

[Leyre]

the hardest boss was madness of deathwing, trying to not die because of the buggy jumping was a FoS