What is the hardest MMO fight you ever had?

[Ehayte]

Tunat'Muram Cuu Vauax, Everquest - Gates of Discord.

For the first 10% of his health, he hit for 6,500 damage per hit (every, oh let's say 1.8 seconds) on tanks that had (at the very most) 10,000 hit points. It only gets harder from there. I think this is one of the only expansions bosses in the history of MMOs to remain undefeated until after the next expansion had been released nearly 7 months later.

[Warlyx]

i remember a quote about FFXI vs FFXIV bosses

FFXIV takes an attitude of 'We're here for the players to play and beat, eventually.' FFXI had an attitude of 'We're here to kill the players. It's your job to find a way to survive.'

my vote goes for 6.4 cop fight , isnt the hardest per se , but one of the most memorables

[Symbiant]

Absolute Virtue and Pandemonium Warden from FFXI.

Noting beats Pandemonium Warden when it first came out period. I think this article says it all. http://www.wired.com/2008/08/pandemonium-war/

[Myrhn]

Maybe not the hardest boss fight but it was a hard event in my opinion. Dynamis was really fun in FFXI and needed a good organization back at 75 cap.

[HeavensSword]

Noting beats Pandemonium Warden when it first came out period. I think this article says it all. http://www.wired.com/2008/08/pandemonium-war/

And they didn't even use the correct picture for PW... ._.

[AlexionSkylark]

However Yogg Saron is probably one of the best fights ever made in an mmo ever.

I'll extend that by saying that ULDUAR was the best raid dungeon ever done in a MMO. It was fucking long, had lots of interesting lore, and most bosses were AWESOME.

It even had a very final fantasy-esque boss, Kologarn. Each of his hands were targetable, and you had to kill them too as well, besides attacking the body (if there was nobody attacking the body, boss would deal massive raid-wide damage). He also shot lasers thgough his eyes and each time a hand was killed, it broke into a dozen pieces who turn into earth elementals (adds) for the party to beat up.

[Catwho]

We eventually took down PW.... years later.... at level 99.... using zombie insta-reraise armor.

That fight wasn't just ridiculously hard, it was stupid cheap. That, and Absolute Virtue, which relied on individuals using their 2-hours within seconds of the NPC using the same two hour. It was unbeatable in the US due to lag in reaching the data center until players leveled up enough to ignore that tactic.

The original Dynamis Lord was a difficult and rewarding fight, and unlike AV and PW, it wasn't unbeatable. 18 levels very good 75s could handle him, although my group didn't like to attempt it with fewer than 30.

- Puller check - Needed a good THF to pop Perfect Dodge, then Flee, and live long enough to kite the adds far far away.
- Major DPS check - You had about 2 minutes to melt him or else things would spiral out of control, because he'd split into two.
- Tank check - All tanks had to use their Invincible at the right time, in a precise order, to avoid getting creamed.
- Healer check - Healers had to use Benediction at just the right time to restore everyone to health and/or remove status effects. (Benediction in XI was much more powerful - AOE full health restore that also removed all debuffs.)
- RDM/DRK check - CHAINSPELL STUUUUUUUN

A good Dynamis Lord fight went off like a rocket launch at NASA. Everything precisely timed. One person failing might not lose the fight, but 2-3 failing most certainly would.

[MugenMugetsu]

FFXI - Kirin fight at lvl 75 cap. Only because we only had approximately 23 people in attendance and we wiped with all 4 minis, and Kirin, up at the same time. After Whms with reraise raised themselves, and much time spent raising everyone else, after many sac pulls we were able to kill all the minis and then kill Kirin himself. That was an epic battle!

[Vurtney]

I honestly hope a fight like Mu'ru doesn't come to ff14. That fight was... ughhh.

I know what you mean. Pre nerf that fight was stressful as heck. We were loaded with shammies back in the sunwell raid. I had the "joy" of solo healing the opposite side of the room. What made that task even more annoying, trying to keep my tank and the rest alive, was the dps on the entrance side screaming bloody murder because my totems didn't reach them.

So there i was literally juggling between the middle throwing totems, trying to avoid the deathly cr*p, and my side of the room while keeping the tank and dps up. Oh, and the random kite tank that now and then passed me. I hated that fight but i mutually hated some of the dps too.

[Tarta]

Everquest 2 Mayong Mistmoore Server First Contested (Inner Sanctum was hard too) pre-nerf and Chel'Drak (pre-nerf).