Top 10 Hardest Raid Bosses of All Time in World of Warcraft [Reforged]

In this video I'll go over the hardest raid bosses in the history of warcraft, based on a lot of different factors that I'll be explaining within each segment of this video.

--The List--
Intro: (0:00)
10-Fallen Avatar, Tomb of Sargeras - (453 wipes before World First (Method)): (0:11)
9- Blackhand (WoD) (325 wipes before World First (Method): (4:07)
8- WoD Archimonde (472 wipes before World First (Method)): (7:04)
7-Firelands Ragnaros (500+ (Paragon): (10:32)
6- Uu'nat, BfA- (731 wipes before World First (Pieces)): (13:23)
5- The Lich King, Wotlk (170+ (Paragon) (limited attempts, 5% buff)): (17:26)
4- Legion Kil'Jaeden (654 wipes before World First (Method): (21:31)
3- Alone in the Dark (Yogg-Saron) Wotlk (500+ estimated (Stars) World First): (28:43)
2- C'thun, Vanilla WoW (Killed 86 days after it was available): (36:05)
1- M'uru, TBC (Only 5 guilds killed it pre-nerf): (41:33)

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[MrSpiceBoi]

Got this in my recommended, never played Warcraft and I have absolutely no clue what half of what you’re talking about means but still watched the whole thing lmao

[Holmesy]

The best players in the entire world: We have proven this is impossible to do.
Blizzard: Git gud, scrubs.

[MarekPar]

Jesus man, that's such a great video. You are successfully fighting the stereotype of "top 10" videos being low effort. The amount of research here is insane. Great Job.

[aggressiveauthorityfrostma]

The thing that made Lich King so difficult for top guilds, was that you had to have 5 paladins and 2 disc priests in a 25 man raid to pair up aura mastery with shields for infest. Disc priests alone were not enough to fully absorb the infest without the aura mastery until the 25% buff came from the 5th month of the boss.

[yarigaso]

I'm amazed you kept my attention for 50 minutes with this, it really did not feel like 50 minutes to me !

[themetalone]

Holy hell...imagine wiping to the same boss 500+ times.
I get to 50 wipes and I'm like "WTF?!"
That's some real dedication, right there.

[calvinwithak]

Imagine being a literal old god, one of the most powerful and malicious beings in existence, and not being more difficult to kill than some floating crystals

[juselara]

I cannot believe the amount of information you have on every encounter. Hell of a research

[EvenFlow]

Didn't even realize this video was 50 min until it was over. Your best video by far.

[PeterKocic]

What a trip down memory lane, and the pleasing feeling to see M'uru at the top. Had the privilege to raid Vanilla to LK with in un-nerfed state competing for top 20 kills, being part of those 0.23% and early Yogg-0's. Just an amazingly hard fight which we only got right after the first pushback nerf.

One of the things you never mentioned about the M'uru fight is how incredibly hard this fight was for the two add-tanks. This was pre-aoe tanking so the adds running in at a very high speed and quite twitchy to move around, had to be nailed hard and swift - so perfect threat execution on two targets at the same time, because cleave damage was the only way to get them down fast enough. Very hard compared to after tanking changed to simplify aoe.

[antonsundin]

I was a mage in a top guild during TBC and i had completly forgotten about the fact that everyone in the guild did indeed pick up leatherworking in order to use those drums. The prenerf Muru fight was just crazy. The mages had to mark and cc the humanoids spawning from the two opposite sides of the room perfectly while also counterspelling the casters. The tank would die due to the high amount of damage if he took more than 1 on at a time and if the caster adds werent counterspelled in time they would be in a bad location where melee dps wouldnt reach them fast enough and you would wipe because you would get overrun by adds because they spawned so frequently. Muru also spawned 1 big void walker which needed to be tanked and when it died it spawned a bunch of small adds that needed to be aoed quickly, our guild used warlocks that spammed some seed aoe ability, the name i cant remember. AND you needed to do dmg to Muru himself aswell and you needed to get a perfect transition into the dps race phase without any adds alive. And in addition to that the damage and healing required through the fight was crazy. The adds spawned so fast and had so much hp you had little time to dps Muru and Muru did high continuous dmg to the raid too, it was so much dmg and healing required that sometimes youd just wipe randomly because someone died or someone fucked up a crowd control or people focused too much on damaging muru so you got overrun by ads and sometimes people didnt damage Muru enough so the fight just lasted forever until someone inevitably died.


The dps phase while very hard was extremely simple and straightforward. He just did so much raid dmg and had so much hp you basically needed a perfect transition with no adds up and people in good locations with everyone alive and every important cooldown ready.


I also saw another comment about the bad fps in the fight and i can confirm i remember lowering my graphics settings myself aswell. The chain lightning in particular and everything else during the fight just killed your fps.

[harrisonvc]

This has to be the one of the best WoW list videos ever made. Wonderful work! I was shocked to see that I just watched a 50 minute list video, it was so good that it didn't seem longer than normal :) thanks for this masterpiece!

[ericmramalho]

M'uru was the hardest boss i've ever faced. Thanks for keeping it number one on the list.
I remember weeks of wipes, raiding sunday to thursday, 8pm to midnight.
And as a holy pally, i had a whole group to myself, with 3 shaman rotating mana tide when i asked and a shadow priest. Because the tank heal was INSANE!! zero breaks, moving from MT tanking the big void, to the pally tank getting the small adds. And my guild helped me farm dark runes from scholomance, so i could get another mana boost on the fight.
Ahhhh the good old days.

[levferno]

You should definitely keep it up with the reforged content. The work you put into them is so worth it.

[cryogenical_]

Hiru, this was insanely well made. It's got all the information that videos like this normally don't have, and you explain everything perfectly.

[KG]

"One quick video before I go sleep", I said.

I couldn't skip a single second of this perfectly put together video. I loved all the details about the specific mechanics. You are very knowledgeable. And even the music is well selected and spot on.

[RazanaArcclaw]

Actually hogger is the hardest boss in the history of wow.

[tahsinseckinyeni]

Putting M’uru on top is spot on. Our guild also got disbanded after countless tries on it. I was the Warrior MT . IMO, humanoid adds were insanely fun n relatively easy to tank with the help of spell reflection. But we always sucked at transitioning on to 2nd phase just as you mentioned. Good memories though : ) Thanks for the beautifully compiled video!

[Kikatzu]

It's funny that you mention your drawings at the ending as my immediate thought during the Lich King boss explanation was just the drawing you did of picking up the stick figure and gently placing them. I know you didn't like the illustrations, but that one always comes to mind when talking about the bomb exploit. :' )


Lovely video and I look forward to the next revisit 5 years from now! :D

[xzthedog]

I’ve been subscribing to this channel recently and I’ve just been blown away by the nostalgic factor. You see, I played wow vanilla when it first came out and I would definitely call myself more of a casual gamer. These raid bosses in vanilla wow were statistically very rare for the average gamer to participate, requiring large amounts of game coordination and dedication for gear leveling and such. Basically 15 years later I'm learning about parts of a game I really was unable to experience 15 years ago. I've never encountered cthun let alone been able to play in AQ. Hell I only had parts of a tier 1 set! Altogether, I really appreciate your videos ! Thank you!!!