Lady Vox EQ1 - shes a mean one oh and Kerafyrm "The Sleeper"

Originally posted by Netzoko

Those damn boars in Elwynn Forest...

They certainly gave Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny a workout.

Originally posted by lordlapse

Come on, Mutated Tree was easy. Go on level 40+ you'll see that even mobs give you a hard time solo. I suggest you doing that one in a party. I guess you can...

 

MU - Not too much hard bosses except Kundun and Balgass. Others can be beaten to a pulp by agi BKs.

Cabal - Pretty much hogged them all using my Archer. Had a hard time in Pontus though. If the mobs are all over you, you'll pretty much die if you don't have a party.

So in the end, I still love offline RPG bosses. Once you kill them, then the game ends. You don't have to expect a random drop that shows up once in a while. MMO's are fun though once you look pimped up.

Just shows I'm a bit new to the game. Maybe when I get to higher levels my answer will change. I'm slowly just getting the hang of the game and got a bit confused on how to heal my characters when fighting him.

There's a boss in FFXI that took 18 HOURS to beat?! Harsh....

Love your answer AbIeL! Nothing can beat a over-hormonal girlfriend!

While I left EQ1 in disgust via GOD (Gates of Discord) Planes of Power holds a special place for me

Pick of any of the four Elemental Boss encountered (Rathe Council, Xeogany, Sol Ro, Povar) needed for Plane of Time access. You actually had to have skill AND knowledge of your class to beat  these encounters my friends.

What sticks out most to me though is the pre-elemental boss RZTW (Rallos Zek The Warlord) encounter. That oldie but goodie required splitting you're raid force in half. You had to trust your captains to lead effectively. Nuff said

*Sniffle* aww...the good ole days.

Originally posted by SioBabble

The preCU Meatlump King in SWG.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LOL! Too funny.

Originally posted by kokoro-chin

There's a boss in FFXI that took 18 HOURS to beat?! Harsh....

It didn't take 18 hours to beat the boss. The group had to give up after 18 hours becaus many of them got sick from the hours of concentration. They have written a journal about their fight:
rukenshin.livejournal.com/17133.html

I like the idear of a few bosses that will take an elite guild 3-4 hours of fighting, but this boss is just stupid. The group figured they could have killed him if they had an hour more, and expect lesser groups to use more then 24 hours.

Since I've just started playing MMORPGs (currently Atlantica Online), and still near the beginning of the game, I have to say none at the moment. I'm doing good (I think) so far in the game.

Maybe if I reach a higher level, that's when I'll encounter the big, bad bosses!

The Sleeper from EQ, took the whole server to fight her and only happened once per server, ever.

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Originally posted by kokoro-chin

How about you guys? Hardest boss fight?

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Vanguard, there's this boss you got to kill to get your griffon mount. Many guilds have tried yet he was never defeated.

Come to find out, he was bugged. He would go down to 1 health, but never reach zero and die.

I like playing Vanguard, but that boss is a poster child for VG.

Originally posted by Scubiedude

"Pookie"  the White Rabbit from AC 1 before everyone started hitting max level with their characters 

If you even just tried to assess his Stats and Level when walking by his cave he would smite you to death

I remember that guy!  He definitely 1 shot me.  I never fought him but what about the giant Demon guy from AC1 that wandered from town to town for a month slaughtering everyone in his path?

Originally posted by fennec12

Originally posted by kokoro-chin

There's a boss in FFXI that took 18 HOURS to beat?! Harsh....

 

It didn't take 18 hours to beat the boss. The group had to give up after 18 hours becaus many of them got sick from the hours of concentration. They have written a journal about their fight:
rukenshin.livejournal.com/17133.html

I like the idear of a few bosses that will take an elite guild 3-4 hours of fighting, but this boss is just stupid. The group figured they could have killed him if they had an hour more, and expect lesser groups to use more then 24 hours.

Wow... I was only able to browse their journal but from what I read, they prepared for weeks before the actual fight. Fighting this boss really does seem stupid. I mean, what's the point of creating a boss that would take almost an entire day to finish?! I have to hand it to those FFXI guys - that was truly hardcore!

Mistress Zhivari in EQ2 after relase of the adventure pack. The whole way down to her and herself have been pure pain. 

Did anyone mention The Sleeper Kerafyrm  from original EQ?  I remember there was a game wide announcement to every server when three guilds banded together to take it on and won after a 4 - 5 hour fight possibly longer. Many of the participants lost multiple lvls just to to take im down.  At the time he was thought to be unkillable by most everyone who played as well as the designers. He has to be one of the toughest.

Originally posted by Vahrane

Did anyone mention The Sleeper Kerafyrm  from original EQ?  I remember there was a game wide announcement to every server when three guilds banded together to take it on and won after a 4 - 5 hour fight possibly longer. Many of the participants lost multiple lvls just to to take im down.  At the time he was thought to be unkillable by most everyone who played as well as the designers. He has to be one of the toughest.

I'd say EQ had/has its fair share of pretty damn tough boss encounters. Ring of Vulak made me cry a few times. And I cringe every time I think of a Solteris raid. I quit after TBS so I can't comment on any of the newer expansions.

Originally posted by Vahrane

Did anyone mention The Sleeper Kerafyrm  from original EQ?  I remember there was a game wide announcement to every server when three guilds banded together to take it on and won after a 4 - 5 hour fight possibly longer. Many of the participants lost multiple lvls just to to take im down.  At the time he was thought to be unkillable by most everyone who played as well as the designers. He has to be one of the toughest.

The sleepers had already been mention on page 2 of this thread!, and yea it was Ascending Dawn, Magus Imperalis Magicus and Wudan guilds friends in Rallozek. GM's intervention had de-spawned the sleeper kerafyrm on our first tried and the players went nuts, causing alot of stir. SOE apologized so we tried again, fought the sleeper was alot of funs. Loot's drop was pretty crap but instead we all get 2 free AA's!...

Haaaawt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lccbiyZl38w&feature=related

Pandemonium Warden no doubt

Originally posted by Wolfenpride

The lineage 2 Earth dragon, can't remember its name, but its freaking huge.

Took the entire server apparently when they did manage to kill it.

If it is Antharas, it is on my list. 

Anyway my list is so long and can't decide really because what is hard for a group its easy for another and viceversa.

Bump for this cool thread!  I've love to see what people think is now currently the all-time historically hardest MMO boss ever.

From EQ1, the Pre-PoP Emperor Ssraeshza in Luclin. It wasn't just hard considering the fact he had multiple guards that you had to keep fighting seperately, but also because you had to get keys and everyone who wanted to melee him needed to create special weapons to be able to hurt him. It took ages to just get to fight him, then more time working out how to do the combat, then more time trying to get it all to work as one so you win.

He's an easy target now, I've been reading of 2 Level 80's with Mercs doing him alone, but back then he was really hard. You can mez the guards with the new expansions, which you couldn't do Pre-PoP, which makes the whole encounter almost trivial.

Lineage 2 - Antharas updated in new Freya expansion.