World of Warcraft’s Burning Crusade was very definitely not my favorite WoW expansion, but it had some fantastic dungeons. Karazhan leaps to mind as being a superb small-raid experience, and of the many boss encounters it offered, the Opera Event stands in my memory as being one of my favorite boss fights ever.
While it’s a bit of a cakewalk for the modern character (as evidenced by the fact that Eliot got this screenshot for me last week, solo — thanks Eliot!), back then the Opera Event was challenging, randomly offering your group one of three encounters as part of the play: spoofs on Romeo and Juliet, Little Red Riding Hood, and my favorite, The Wizard of Oz. The last was a boss fight that rewarded exceptional crowd control as you took out Dorothee, Tito, Roar, Strawman, Tinhead, and The Crone. The loot was themed to match too.
So there’s my favorite, or at least most memorable, MMORPG boss fight — a boss fight with multiple bosses. What’s yours?
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