The raid boss N’Zoth in WoW has a special phase on mythic difficulty. But this Chinese guild is so good, they simply skip the phase!
Even though the end of N’Zoth is controversial and the cinematic was rather disappointing, he is considered one of the tougher bosses in World of Warcraft. Especially on mythic difficulty, he is a real challenge that requires a lot of coordination and good gear to be defeated. On this difficulty, he even has an additional phase – which can be skipped. This has now been accomplished by the Chinese guild “Scary Maze”.
This is how it looks: In the following video, you can see the nearly 10-minute fight against N’Zoth. Most of the time, not much unusual happens; the phases are played as usual. However, at the 25% threshold of N’Zoth, the Chinese players choose a different tactic. Instead of playing the “bonus phase”, they simply keep firing mercilessly at N’Zoth and defeat him in the blink of an eye, just before all of them would have died.
How is this possible? The guild “Scary Maze” exploits a mechanic of the fight with maximum efficiency. When players fall into madness, they become significantly stronger for 20 seconds and are only then controlled by N’Zoth. The guild takes advantage of this to smash the boss directly during these 20 seconds.
The action was quite close, by the way – just one second longer and N’Zoth would have killed all the players.
Another factor is that the players’ gear has significantly improved in the past weeks and months, otherwise this wouldn’t have been possible. Back during the “World First race” between Limit and Method, such a strategy wouldn’t have been possible due to a lack of damage and gear.
What do you think of this achievement? Pretty impressive or “cheesy”, to simply skip an entire phase?
