If you could design the Arthas / Lich king raid boss encounter...

[MeierLink]

Omg... people say things that are so sure but its false...
Bolvar is NOT dead!
http://www.wowwiki.com/Bolvar

Id like to see the heroes helping us like mount hyjal and the guys said above.

But when a player dies in any phase have to be raised as lich king minions and attack the others, much like someone dies in archimonde fight... screw everybody

[Zehlkatur]

I can't come up with any better ideas than you guys. I have one idea though.

When the Lich King is at 5% he stunns the whole raid down to 1% and starts to cast some random spell.

Then, from nowhere Chen Storstout charges in and goes drunken brawler on arthas ass!
Not that would be a fine ending.

[Dizzygnome]

Omg... people say things that are so sure but its false...
Bolvar is NOT dead!
http://www.wowwiki.com/Bolvar

Id like to see the heroes helping us like mount hyjal and the guys said above.

But when a player dies in any phase have to be raised as lich king minions and attack the others, much like someone dies in archimonde fight... screw everybody

Alexstrasza: [Draconic] They must not discover the fate of the young paladin. Not yet.

[Roonweld]

Mine is going to sound very similar to a previous post, but its what i think.

Phase one- You walk into the room, Arthas is sitting on his throne, before you can attack however, Thrall, Varian, Garrosh, and Jaina will appear and they will be speaking to Arthas. This is where momentarily the horde and the alliance will put aside their differences! Maybe Tirion or something will reveal some untold truth about Arthas or something, and then the encounter begins. He throws up Frost pressence and casts Hungering cold. You cant get out of this, you just have to watch helplessly as Thrall and Varian fall in battle. Then, you actually get to start fighting. Phase 1 lasts from 100% to 75%, Because of frost pressence, you hit for a lot less. It takes a couple minutes to get him down to 75%.

Phase two- Arthas is getting more desperate, you havent fallen to the wrath of the lich king, he casts another Hungering Cold, another event happens, like another hero joining battle or something, I dont know. Then he switches into Unholy Pressence, His attacks become a lot faster and tanks need to be healed through the damage, nothing really exciting happens this phase from 75% to 50%. He keeps dropping desecration and you cant stand in it, or you die....

Phase three- He then goes into Blood Aura phase, Arthas becomes furious, and every person that dies in this phase restores 5% of his health. Desecration is still randomy being thrown down on players, and at 25% arthas gets really pissed, he sumons army of the dead, and who ever dies to the ghould gets risen up as a ghoul, so the OT's need to be quick on picking them up.


what do you guys think, i bet his weapon will drop, it will be a legendary, and only deathknights will be able to use it.

[emanruoy]

While at the end of the fight were gonna see sargeras...Yknow why? Arthas used to work for Kiljaedan who well worked
for Sargeras.
And the next expansions the maelstrom, somewhere around where sargeras may be hiding. But of course either Tirion is gonna show up and deliver the KB to Arthas or hes gonna die, so pallys could get his sword.
The fight? Obviously snow, frost, and ghouls. Well leave most of it up to blizz.
I would really like to see the ability to run to your home cities and get people like thrall,
king varian (Omg wtf is up with his face?) and other awesome leaders.
And the hard mode would be kinda like Yogg-saron, almost imposible, and having to do it without and leaders.
Frostmourne should only drop on hardmode, and arthas destroys it on normal before dying.
That would be epic IMO.

[Azurenys]

Upon Varian's return, Fordragon traveled to Northrend to command the Valiance Expedition's forces at the gates of Icecrown — where he eventually met his end.
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[Sockpuppet]

The encounter itself I don't know.. however I do believe they should bring back flasks/elixir stacking, foodbuff stacking and scroll stacking and make the encounter rediculous and put a 1try/reset respawn timer on him. Now that's a boss with some chesthairs on it!

[Ryuker]

Lots and lots of Snobalds.

[miekkagoon]

Non of these ideas include hordes of ghouls
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Lots and lots of Snobalds.

i like the way you think

[Ryuker]

Non of these ideas include hordes of ghouls
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i like the way you think

I like the way you move.

[miekkagoon]

I like the way you move.

Do you like moves of my idea of hordes dancing disco ghouls?

[Elementium]

Yeah I like fights like sarth where if you don't pay attention adds will keep spawning and overwhelm the raid.

just instead of fire elementals make em undead and maybe instead of a flame wall to avoid make it a spell like anub'rekan uses (the spike across the ground spell) and when it hits your raid X amount of adds spawn. With that The Lich King will also have 2-3 adds with him at all times.

I mean.. he's a pansy, his strength is in his ability to create an endless army of undead so I hope that's in the fight.

[Ryuker]

Do you like moves of my idea of hordes dancing disco ghouls?

Quite so, sir. Quite so.

[Nodrim]

While at the end of the fight were gonna see sargeras...Yknow why? Arthas used to work for Kiljaedan who well worked

Arthas never worked for Burning Legion^^, that was Nerzhul.

[Evereghalo]

Arthas Encounter-

Hard Mode Only, for 10 and 25 man.

This encounter will have several levels of difficulty, as each faction will choose assistance from an NPC during the encounter. IT can be a lore based enemy of Arthas, or one of the 4 Faction leaders (Thrall & Troll boss) (King Mangani & Gnome Boss) is 1 (This would be the easiest mode).


Phase 1- 100 to 90% Health.

The fight is engaged, and arthas mocks the mortals that seek to end his reign. Which ever NPC you have assisting you engages Arthas for this time, as he summons his armies of the dead. Each wave consists of 12 (10man) to 30 (25man). The armies of the dead must be picked up and tanked, the armies spread 2 diseases one that decreases the armor of whomever they strike and stacks upto 99 times, and potentially reducing armor to zero. The second diseases is spread by proximity and causes dot damage stacking upto 99 times. And arthas can randomly cast blood boil to spread them quicker across the raid. The adds spawn every thirty seconds and after they are killed the raid has to refocus arthas and dps him down.

This phase must be done quickly so as arthas does not kill your ally, during the encounter because if he/she does die arthas will use frostmourn to soft enrage fully heal, and do 200% more physical and magic damage. So ergo during the whole encounter your ally will take damage, and can not die during the encounter.

Phase 2- 90% Health to 50% health.

Cut Scene, Arthas explains something, and kicks your NPC ally back to the raid.

At this time, calls upon the souls of lost allies and enemies to assist him. He will call forth 1 of the 8 New NPC's at a time, after each dies, the NPC will use an ancient artifact to free their soul, and damage the Lich King for 5% of his health. Each of the 8 allies will have special abilities for the encounter to be described later (maybe). Examples will be Kel'Thazad, Ner'Zhul, the last king of Lorderan, and any 5 other characters tied to arthas.

At this time arthas is immune to damage and can not be attacked.

Phase 3- 50% to 10% health.

Arthas becomes upset by your persistent intrusion into the Citadel, and is now attack able, he is not tauntable but during the course of this encounter when he changes presence.

During phase 3 the Lich King will change presence every 2mins, and will leave that tank with a debuff making him vulerable to tank arthas for the next presence. He can never repeat the same presence twice, but could theoretically never go to one. He will also randomly target someone and cast death and decay to the raid (think void circle.)

Blood Presence- Will be noticable by a red skull above his head. In this presence arthas has his damage increased by 25%, and all damage caused will heal him by 4% of the damage caused. This will require the MS debuff to be up at all times, and will count for every ability including death and decay.

Abilities- Dancing Rune Weapon: this weapon will have no agro table and will start off hiting the tank, and can randomly agro onto any member of the raid (Think Prince from Kara).
Hysteria: Arthas will increase damage done by an additional 10% and will increase attack speed by 10%, but will cause damage to himself netralizing the normal healing.
And any other Cool Blood DK abilities.

Finishing Move- When changing presence the Lich King will leave the tank with mark of Blood that will activate 3 seconds inot the next prescse. This will require a new tank to get agro otherwise the next 20 strikes would heal arthas 10% of total Hp. the debuff lasts 2mins.

Frost Presence- Will be noticable by a blue skill above the head. In this presence arthas will increase his health by 5% untill the end of the presence, however leaving this presence will not triger the next phase and will require additional damage from the raid to triger phase 4. Arthas also has his armor increase by 50%, which will hurt the amount of physical damage taken.

Abilities- Howling Blast - Same as normal.
Hungering Cold - Same as normal.
Any other Cool Frost DK Abilities.

Finishing Move- When chaning pressence the Lich King will leave the tank frozen armor, that will occur upon chaning presence. This will lower the tank's armor by 80percent. The debuff will last 2 mins.

Unholy Presence- Will be noticeable by a purple skull above the head. In this presence arthas will have his haste increased. He will also gain magic suppression, along with other abilities,

Abilities- Antimagic Shell- The shell created on the ground will absorb all magic damage taken and must be pulled out.
Ghoul- The ghoul will be soul linked with arthas so damage taken is split to the zombie, and is tankable by the arthas tank.
Desecration- The ground will slowly become infected and decrease attack speed, and slowly cause damage to those standing in it.

Finishing Move- When changing presence the Lich King will leave the tank with a summoned gargoyle that will continue to cast on the tank for 2mins. The damage will scale based on the proximity to Arthas, more than 40 yards damage is reduced by 50%, within 10yards damage is increased by 100%.

Every 2 mins arthas will change presence, and failure to observe the changes can leave a raid on the verge of a wipe if a tank dies.


Phase 4 - 10% to 0% Health

Arthas will then be aggroed to the NPC and it becomes a DPS race. As arthas gains abilites from each previous presence.

Blood- He will continue to still heal for 4% so MS buff must stay on.
Frost- He will gain 5% health (so he will start back at 15%) and increased armor
Unholy- Attack Speed increased, and magic damage reduction increased.


He will continue to cast death and decay, mark of blood (This person will heal arthas if they continue to dps him) summon a zombie that must be killed, howling blast, and army of the dead on a 1min cool down.


This will be the crazy all out dps race, so that he does not kill the NPC before the end of the fight, and soft enrage.

thanks,

[Xenotoxic]

we have some very creative people in this thread. i left out some DK skills in my version of the encounter, i figured if i added dancing rune weapon during blood aura phase, it would be extra and unneeded damage. i also wanted to add a "biting cold" effect that stacks during frost phase if you dont keep moving, i just didnt think of it at the time.

[AK_47]

I did find myself thinking about that before wow was even invented. And several time after that it often occurred again and again.

However , each time I end up stopping thinking about it and finding (an)other subject(s) for my brain as I want to preserve the surprised

[Noofy]

Personally i think u guys are nerds

[Deleted]

Okey i hope some thing like this will happend in the end:
Muradin joins the fight when arthas got 10% hp left and he will says something like this: ah arthas, i gonna teach you a lesson or 2.
Arthas:... muradin how can you be alive?
Muradin: I see you still got that cursed blade.. Damn it arthas! damn the blade!
Then the fight start onve again..

When arthas got like 5% hp left muradin will say something like this :
Muradin:Whats happend lad? Do you remember the old days? When you only wanted to save your homeland. What happend to that Boy? Paladin?
Arthas: Iam not that little boy anymore.. Iam not that pladin.. Iam the lich king and iam supposed to live forever!

And then arthas try to kill muradin but muradin dodge the attack and the fight start once again
And when arthas falls to the ground, His spirit comes up from the cropse of undead pieces, and Thank us and then he fading away.
Then all in the raid will hear:
Spirit of the lichking (Ner'zhul) yells: ITS NOT OVER YET!!! You may defeated me now but ill come back and destroy you all! or something =)
Then Lady jaina, varian wrynn , Tirion , Muradin , thrall , Sylwanna and Garrosh and maybe some other, and thank the heroes who defeted the lich king and the scourge. And they drop a chest and then they teleports away.
In that Chest there will be som cool epics maybe legendary and maybe tier(10?).
that would be awesome. Thanks

[AK_47]

Personally i think u guys are nerds

Would you like us to welcome you to the club ... ?