Soloing current raid bosses should actually be impossible for anyone in World of Warcraft. But one paladin doesn’t care, he fights for almost an hour.
Raid bosses are among the toughest fights in World of Warcraft. They are actually meant for groups of 10 or more players and nearly impossible to kill solo. However, one player is undeterred and has taken down a current raid boss solo – even though the fight lasted almost a whole hour.
Who is Rextroy? The paladin Rextroy has repeatedly made headlines in recent years. In his videos, he is a true master at combining various mechanics and effects within World of Warcraft to achieve absurd results. Most of the time, these are immense damage numbers that shouldn’t be possible in either PvE or PvP, leaving other players in stunned amazement.
What did he do? This time he took on the fight against Dausegne. This is a boss from the current raid, Sepulcher of the First Ones.
While the boss is mechanically one of the easier fights, it is still not doable for a solo player. After all, the fight is still a DPS race to defeat the adds that spawn progressively.
But Rextroy wants no part of that. He has experimented for a long time on how to simply avoid the deadliest effects in this fight. With a speed-based gear set, he has increased his own movement speed to such an extent that he can always keep the additional enemies at bay during the fight. While it is always extremely close, he manages just barely to never get hit.
Additionally, Dausegne does not have a conventional enrage effect that merely increases her damage. Instead, the enrage effect with Dausegne means she regenerates her mana much faster and fires her most powerful abilities at an increasingly rapid frequency, which would simply overwhelm most players – with the exception of a perfectly played paladin.
What makes this so impressive? The achievement of soloing a current raid boss is already something special. But with this video, Rextroy has once again proven what a persistent and attentive player he is. The entire boss fight lasts nearly an hour and allows for not a single second of inattention – a single mistake could lead to an immediate death. After all, there were countless dangers. The boss’s pushes, the damage from abilities, as well as the deadly adds that Rextroy would have certainly taken out with one hit had they gotten in range.
With his latest video, Rextroy not only demonstrated that he knows a lot of tricks and tips – but also that he is simply a damn good and enduring player.
What do you think of this achievement? Impressive? Or just a waste of time?
