MoP world bosses?

[Ifeanychukwu]

So I'm currently questing through Azshara on a new druid I made and started thinking about that old world boss that would roam around. Has anything been said about some world bosses being introduced in MoP? Sorry if there have, haven't really been following the news all that much.

[Chonar]

It seems that yes, there will be World Bosses in Mists of Pandaria again. Where, how many, and what kind is not yet known, but after everything Blizzard may've learned after the Dragons of Nightmare, Azuregos, Doomwalker and Kazzak,we may be pleasantly surprised at how these big sods deal with several raids trying to screw the other over.

[Prostyle]

There are world bosses in Cataclysm...

Just sayin'

[Chonar]

There are world bosses in Cataclysm...

Just sayin'

Thats true. 5-mans all of 'em though, aint they?

[BeerWolf]

Thats true. 5-mans all of 'em though, aint they?

5man =/= 'Raid'... like those Rare elites in Cata.

It's going to be a proper Raid world boss from what I recall.

[StixRam]

5man =/= 'Raid'... like those Rare elites in Cata.

It's going to be a proper Raid world boss from what I recall.

exciting, but it'll be too easy like the previous 4 games

[shise]

There are world bosses in Cataclysm...

Just sayin'

If you call that a boss...

No.

[Chonar]

5man =/= 'Raid'... like those Rare elites in Cata.

It's going to be a proper Raid world boss from what I recall.

I... didnt say anywhere 5man bosses were raids. :|

[Ifeanychukwu]

There are world bosses in Cataclysm...

Just sayin'

They were sort of raid bosses at the beginning of Cataclysm but nowadays they're 5 mannable, maybe even less. Had you ever done any of the Emerald Dream dragons? Even at level 70 it would take a decently sized group of people that understood the mechanics. That's what I'm hoping for.

[DG]

In vanilla the world bosses really needed a full 40man raid to do them and most raid instances where 40man, in TBC you could get away with 25 people to do the bosses and most raid instances were 25man. Since so many guilds are now 10man raiding guilds how could they possibly introduce any kind of world boss that requires 40 people to take it down again? Also, I thought the biggest problem they had with world bosses was on the pvp realms where guilds would wait until the world boss was on like 20% and then come in and gank the other raid and ninja the kill when all of them were dead?

[fangless]

Also, I thought the biggest problem they had with world bosses was on the pvp realms where guilds would wait until the world boss was on like 20% and then come in and gank the other raid and ninja the kill when all of them were dead?

Well if you have the tag on the mob... after the raid wiped it would regen anyhow. But the biggest annoyance was what they introduced awhile after Azuregos. People that died near him, even from Alliance/Horde pvp deaths, got a debuff that would freeze you into a block for like 3 minutes if you got near the boss when he cast his spell.

That crap was annoying, but it was needed to prevent the other faction from just zerging you down from the graveyard.

Still, times where you had to contact other guilds to form up a 40 man before the other faction? That was neat. You had to communicate with players, you had to man up with your faction. It would sort of suck nowadays on servers where it's 50:1 for one faction or the other :P

[AestostheInsane]

This is the aspect Im looking most forward to. I've thus far had the priveledge of killing every world boss in game during its "current" time.. some harder than others... all super ass fun though.

[fangless]

This is the aspect Im looking most forward to. I've thus far had the priveledge of killing every world boss in game during its "current" time.. some harder than others... all super ass fun though.

I'll always remember Kazzak, mostly because I was in a horde guild on Mannoroth when Vodka was on that server :P Fond memories of the pvp that happened between our guild and theirs along with other alliance.

Also, we tended to exploit the terrain all the time, and walk on top of the mountains behind him to avoid clearing the Blasted Lands trash :>

[MoanaLisa]

I could be wrong about this but the world bosses that were available in Cataclysm didn't really cause much of a stir either for PvE or PvP players. A lot of people don't even seem to be much aware of them.

I'd like it if there were more world events associated with bosses but most everyone I see is sort of bleh about them. Maybe the reward isn't great enough or something.

[meroko]

If they exist, Blizzard probably will make them 10 man only for those 10 man dedicated guilds. As if they make it 25 the "10 man" will feel obligated to expand.