Two bosses will enter... but only one will leave in WoW Insider's fantasy deathmatch series. We're pitting two of Azeroth's raid bosses against one another in a battle that your votes get to decide -- until in the end we're left with a single boss as the ultimate champion. Be sure to check out
our brackets for a full round-up of our ongoing fight schedule!) This week two Ahn'Qiraj bosses face down, faithful lieutenant
Princess Huhuran turns against her master, the Old God
C'thun. The battle of AQ commences! Read on to cast your vote on who makes it to the Final Four!
From a player's perspective,
Princess Huhuran is an annoying resistance-based fight. But just having a high enough nature resistance won't win this one for you -- beyond her nature damage, she can also deal immense amounts of melee damage, especially when in Frenzy or Berserk. Her abilities are as follows:
- Frenzy: greatly increases melee damage.
- Poison Bolt: high nature damage to the closest 15 targets, only happens when in Frenzy or Berserk.
- Noxious Poison: high nature damage DoT which silences the target. Cast on a target at random.
- Wyvern Sting: AoE sleep that deals nature damage if cleansed.
- Acid Spit: low damage nature DoT on Huhuran's primary target -- but it stacks.
- Berserk: at 30% health, Huhuran will Berserk, greatly increasing her attack speed and causing her to send out Poison Bolts.
Once Huhuran hits 30%, it's a fight against time for a raid, which usually has to burn every trinket and cooldown to bring Huhuran down before the increased damage causes a wipe. But will all these matter if she is swallowed into the bowels of...
C'Thun is the final boss in
Ahn'Qiraj, an old god considered to be one of the most difficult pre-
Burning Crusade encounters. The fight has two phases, a standard DPS phase one where you run C'Thun's health from 100% to 0% and a phase two where C'Thun takes almost no damage -- but occasionally C'Thun takes out his opponents with high nature and shadow damage along with tentacle power. In a fight with C'Thun, you can expect to encounter the following abilities:
- Eye Beam: A nature damage attack that targets a single player, but jumps from the first player to subsequent players in range with increasing damage each jump.
- Dark Glare: An incredibly high damage (read: no player could survive it) shadow attack that sweeps 180 degrees across the room.
- Eye Tentacles: These tentacles spawn at intervals throughout the fight. Individually, they have low health, but they spawn in groups and do a Mind Flay-type spell. (With generally meaner "giant" versions spawning in phase two.)
- Claw Tentacles: These tentacles also spawn at intervals throughout the fight and have low health. However, unlike the Eye Tentacles, these do melee damage. (With generally meaner "giant versions spawning in phase two.)
- Stomach of C'Thun: In phase two, tentacles will swallow players and send them to C'Thun's stomach. As you might imagine, it's not a friendly place, and every few seconds damaging debuffs will stack on anyone inside. There's an easy exit from the stomach, but killing Flesh Tentacles inside the stomach weakens C'Thun, allowing him to be hurt and killed -- so you might want to stick around.
Will the Princess be defeated by her master's many attacks or will C'thun fall to Huhuran's Berserk state? Before you cast your vote below, a reminder: we're considering these two bosses with approximately equal health and approximately equal damage output capabilities. We aren't making this into a math equation of who's got more health than who, so when you cast your vote, cast it on fighting style, not highest level. You're welcome to factor the lore of each character into the equation.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
2-24-2008 @ 3:03PM
ZJP said...
Kathoone definitely.
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2-24-2008 @ 3:08PM
TotalBiscuit said...
There's not even the slightest possibility C'thun would lose this fight to be quite honest. Even if Huhuran avoided the Dark Glare, The eye beams and giant eye beams all focussed on one target would do huge amounts of damage.
That and Huhuran wouldn't fit in C'thun's stomach anyway... therefore couldn't possibly win Phase 2.
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2-24-2008 @ 3:52PM
Knucker said...
obviously you've never see a tank with full giant buffs inside an Ahn'qiraj Flesh Hunter :P
2-24-2008 @ 4:09PM
TotalBiscuit said...
Flesh hunters are gelatinous, C'thun isn't :P
2-24-2008 @ 3:10PM
Anonymous said...
C'thun wins, hands down. Huhuran ftl.
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2-24-2008 @ 3:11PM
Neph said...
Oh come on. C'thun is an old god. It took the Pantheon to seal him (?) there.
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2-24-2008 @ 3:15PM
cds said...
She was serving him not the other way around ingame already so I guess the battle really has probably already happened and she lost.
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2-24-2008 @ 3:23PM
Baluki said...
It occurs to me that anything that's larger than your average tauren is NOT going to be able to defeat C'thun, because they can't be swallowed (which is how you damage him). Maybe in future installments, it should be assumed that ANY other creature can be swallowed.
Even discounting that, it's still C'thun.
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2-24-2008 @ 3:29PM
Theserene said...
C'thun, as there is no way she can be swallowed.
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2-24-2008 @ 3:29PM
Baluki said...
Oh, and also, you really need to take down that image of C'thun with the giant eye perched on top. The giant eye is not a part of his body, but a projection he uses while underground. Putting them together not only looks ridiculous, but it's also not accurate - it's like sticking a fire elemental to Illidan's forehead.
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2-24-2008 @ 3:31PM
nanteen said...
Can we just skip to the Cthun vs Illidian fight?
Oh and giving Ill shear. stupid.
Im guessing wowinsider is doing their best to set Ill up for the win.
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2-24-2008 @ 3:39PM
sirotrax said...
Lasers are always win.
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2-24-2008 @ 3:51PM
Hoggersbud said...
Yum Buggy!
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2-24-2008 @ 4:15PM
CrazyT said...
Dark Glare did 500k damage per hit.
Giant Eye Tentacles spawned, which did the P1 Lazer Beam (green)
Giant Claw Tentacles spawn, which used to need to be tanked.
Pretty much, I think C'thun could kill any boss that enters, because of his abilities such as Dark Glare and others.
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2-24-2008 @ 5:45PM
Jack said...
I think it's not entirely fair that the Twin Emperors (my favourite for this contest) had their healing ability taken away but C'thun is assumed by many to be invincible in his phase 2.
So in revenge, I'll assume that Huhu can be swallowed and will destroy all the tentacles with poison bolts and evade the dark glare as a flying insect should. Eye beam doesn't do much damage to just one person, and as the tentacles would be killed or slept pretty quickly Huhuran has a very good chance.
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2-24-2008 @ 6:59PM
Deusmortis said...
So, C'thun wins because Huhu can't be swallowed? By that logic, gnome rogues can no longer backstab or sap tauren.
I'm actually going with the bug on this one, because she can deal with groups so well, and I like the underdog.
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2-24-2008 @ 7:56PM
Opala said...
So many of you still going with the 'its c'thun' shit, obviously not realising its their abilities fighting, not omg he's an old god
i'd lean towards princess
she could def avoid the glare, be stupid to think she wouldnt know how to move
stacking dot on c'thun, sleep+permanent frenzy on her, she could rip him to shreds, melee claws could easily be kept oor, and she'd wipe out the mind flay ones fairly fast
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2-24-2008 @ 8:12PM
SkobelC said...
This is turning into a "Who's Cooler Boss".
Same thing happened with Illidian. Most of the comments will turn into "Oh C'thun's an old god noone can beat him" and that's it.
Huhuran should be swallowable considering how many abilities have been ignored in all the previous fights, it's not much of a stretch compared to other things we've done.
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2-24-2008 @ 8:13PM
Ashwin said...
In first phase Huhuran closes him and reduces him to zero, in the second Phase Huhuran dodges the glare, the eye tentacles do some major damage to Huhuran, but most of the melee tentacles are out of range, Huhuran goes beserk, C'thun swallows her and it's GG, C'thun.
C'thuns abilities really shine against multiple players Huhuran IMO would be stronger against single targets.
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2-24-2008 @ 11:15PM
A Man In Black said...
C'thun's Eye Beam hit Princess Huruhan for 13274529513 damage!
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