

Because WoW Classic is based off of the 1.12 patch that came out just before Burning Crusade was released, its raid bosses had already been nerfed. It's a bit complicated to explain, but when raid bosses were first released, many were simply too difficult to kill at first so Blizzard tweaked them to be more manageable in the weeks and months that followed. As Blizzard explained in our interview during BlizzCon, BC Classic will use the original version of its raid bosses instead of the nerfed ones present in WoW Classic. I'm interested to see if players are able to keep destroying old raid bosses once Burning Crusade Classic (opens in new tab) launches later this year. It doesn't make for the most compelling viewing experience, but it's still an incredible achievement. Keeping focused like that for almost an hour could not have been easy. One slip and the entire fight would have to start over from the beginning. If Shiftus fired off one to many spells, for example, they might not have enough mana to keep Gendisarray's HP up. For 57 very long minutes they had to slowly chip away at Onyxia's health while managing their resources. That isn't to say that Gendisarray and Shiftus had an easy time of it. The two players are Gendisarray and Shiftus, a warrior and a priest, who had to spend that hour perfectly coordinating their abilities and use of restorative items like healing and mana potions in order to stay in the fight. Why bring 40 players when two will suffice?Īccording to WoWhead, this is likely the first time anyone has managed to kill Onyxia with just two people-and it only took them 57 minutes to do it. But today two players dealt the ultimate blow to Onyxia's frightful legacy by managing to whittle down all 1.8 million of her hitpoints by themselves.

But in WoW Classic (which is a near perfect recreation of vanilla WoW), she's been killed in all sorts of embarrassing ways, like the time 32 warriors practically one-shotted her in a record-breaking 54 seconds, or when a 40-person raid group killed her without wearing any clothes. Back in the day, this intimidatingly large black dragon was one of WoW's first-ever raid bosses and was responsible for the infamous "More DOTS!" meme due how difficult she could be.
