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Yet another Lich King fight idea
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Post by
Fjobben
So I was wondering how the Lich King fight would be, I came up with a few ideas and decided to make a post about it. (Please note that this is a 25-man fight)
Placement:
The raid enters through a very large wooden door to the Frozen Throne: A large, round field on top of Icecrown Citadel. There are no fences on the edges and there is a gret view, you can see all of Icecrown, A bit of Sholazar Basin and even Dalaran. To the right side, there is a small stair leading on a platform where harpoons and Siege Engines are. Finally, in a 100 yard distance, there is the Lich King.
Setup:
4 tanks, 6-7 healers, 9-10 DPS and rest of the the people are on the harpoons.
Fight:
The Lich King has 80.000.000 HP. Along with your raid members the following NPCs are joining the fight to aid you:
Highlord Tirion Fordring
Darion Mograine
Some people might ask why there are so few NPC to help you. The reason is that there are so many persons involved somehow with Arthas, later the Lich King, who would have to speak their piece, it would be kind of boring. Also, so many NPC in the fight would make it complicated. I am not saying though that the characters can't come in the end, just that their roles wouldn't be really big.
Back to the fight, it begins when Tirion and Darion walk towards the Lich King, and begin somekind of a speech (see the first part of the comment Kappajoe made for the speech. Thanks Kappajoe!). They two charge then at him, but the Lich Kings swings a powerful strike (like the one where he killed Saurfang jr.) and knocks them back, unconscious and have a good chunk of their health taken away. This is where the fight starts for the raid. 2 tanks must aggro the Lich King, he hits for 20K normal hit, and in addition, he does a DEF/armor reduction debuff on the current Main Tank, killing him quickly if not switched aggro on the other tank.
He also casts an army of the dead-like spell, summoning loads of undead elites with 100k HP all across the field (Think Onyxia whelps). The 2 other tanks must quickly pick them all up and let DPS AoE them down, this spell will be cast every 3 minutes.
Frostwyrms, flying above the battlefield, will come down. They cast frost breath over a large area, one-shooting players. This is where the role of the harpoon-controllers come of use, they must kill the Frostwyrms very quickly, since they can cover the whole field in flames if not defeated soon enough.
And another Lich King ability, every 5 minutes he casts a spell wich is channeled over 11 seconds. Over that time, it decreases your health by 10% every 1 second, total of 110% health lost. This puts ALOT of stress on healers, the must cast HoTs on every raid member in less than 11 sec. This is also affected on tanks, but since the Lich King is channeling, they won't be taking extra damage from him.
At about 50% HP, 3 Bone Giants (like the ones from the walls around Icecrown) will come out the gate (it's very big, remember?).
Players must man the Siege Engines (also 3) and begin to attack them, preferably before they attack other players that are on the Lich King, since they will be getting one-shooted. The Siege Engine must almost never get a hit from the giants, but keep a good distance from them and let turrets kill them (Think Flame Leviathan).
The fight becomes harder, and harder, and harder, until at 20% he starts tearing down tanks. This is where the sleepy heads, Darion and Tirion, wake up. The instantly charge at him
only to be knocked back again
taking the aggro off the tanks and deal him hard hits. The 2 tanks can help the other 2 handle the adds, since they always become more and more each time he vasts the spell.
Finally, at 10%, the Lich Kings summons a
massive
army of undeads now, way to many the tanks can handle. All the party members must now come together and try to hold their stand. When all seems lost, and the Lich King is overwhelming the raid, all the Ashen Verdict (i.e. all the paladins and death knight NPCs) under the lead of Rhonin, Jaina, Sylvanas, Muradin and Saurfang come to the aid.
Now there is a big fight, wich
will
require the raid group to participate in, or the Lich Kings wins.
I had not really thought about the end but I was thinking about something like Arthas' spirit to come out when the Lich King was defeated and say something, but all that in good time.
Thanks for reading my idea, I know it was long but I hope you enjoyed it. Feel free to comment!
Post by
Interest
I like it, but the idea of making the Lich King surrender...or even asking for it?
Ehhhh
Post by
Fjobben
Hehe, you're right, I just was in a bit of trouble of how the fight could begin. I was thinking of something like the Bolvar speech in the wrathgate cinema, but I just couldn't make up anything :)
Post by
445568
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Post by
chase123
The only thing is that the Cata trailer says that the fight against the LK continues so w wont defeat heim, just weaken him severly.
Im pretty sure we defeat him before Cataclysm. Or at least redeem him.
Post by
Mavirick
Warcraft III was my favirote game before WOW and some of the abilities arthas had I think he'll be using and this is one tactic I believe will happen:
At some point in the fight his going to res skeletons, Ghouls and all that from piles around him and though they will be weak you will need to let one tank and heals on arthas and let your raid concentrate on the mobs.
If they are not killed quickly Arthas will sacrifice one of them and generate a small amount of health back. This will continue over time unless they are all dead.
Post by
justinc
Cool story except that 3.3 is ALL BUT done.
Post by
152018
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Post by
Crabby
Why does the Lich king has to die like all other bossess we have encountered. Why couldn't we lose to them? xD Let's do it this way, start it with kappajoe's story and end the fight with Tirion Darion dying in front of players and conclude it with alliance/horde players fleeing with scourge chasing behind them. Who cares about gears, let's do something new. I'm sick and tired of the common ending of stories. it's like Disney movies.
Post by
Fjobben
Very, very nice speech and even nicer 'end line' when the Lich King dies, Kappajoe. with no doubt I would add the first part to my post, however, it's a bit long and I tried to have my post as short as possible so people would be reading pretty much only the fight. But can I refer to your post as the speech should be? I really like it.
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275081
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Post by
Interest
The only thing is that the Cata trailer says that the fight against the LK continues so w wont defeat heim, just weaken him severly.
Im pretty sure we defeat him before Cataclysm.
Or at least redeem him
.
He won't be redeemed. Trust me.
Post by
152018
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Post by
chase123
The only thing is that the Cata trailer says that the fight against the LK continues so w wont defeat heim, just weaken him severly.
Im pretty sure we defeat him before Cataclysm.
Or at least redeem him
.
He won't be redeemed. Trust me.
I dont know, have you read the datamined files and what Uther said?
Im thinking blizzard is going to make The Lich king/Arthas into another Darth Vader.
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