"Why on Azeroth are you having these two fictional characters fight each other, Adam?" you ask. Because tonight at 10:00 p.m. EDT the final season of Battlestar Galactica begins. There's a lot of fans, including the WoW developers, who are in love with this show. After a year's absence I think many of us are sitting on the edge of our seats to learn who the final Cylon is. (It's going to be Billy, by the way. You heard it here first.) But enough of my fan bois loving. Let's get down to these two bosses fighting it out.
The power in Karathress is in the minions that surround her, and then as each of them dies, she gains part of those powers herself. This is a potent one-two punch that leave many guilds scratching their head for weeks as they try to defeat her. However once things are learned and everyone becomes comfortable with the fight, she's not too hard at all. Since Kara Thrace will have to solo this, she's going to have to deal with all the mobs at once. Let's look at what she'll be facing from Karathress:
- Cataclysm Bolt: Deal damage equal to 50% of the targets max HP
- The Beast Within – 6000 damage on plate
- Multishot – 2500 ranged damage
- Leeching Throw – 525 damage per tick, 12 seconds
- Spitfire Totem – 3450 fire damage
- Water Bolt Volley – 3225 AoE frost damage
- Healing Wave – Heals a mob for 30% of total HP, interruptible
- Tidal Surge – 10 yard AoE stun
- 90% dodge rate – She was going to be a Pyramid ball player, but got injured and couldn't do it. However she's still pretty good.
- Self Resurrection – She died in one episode (we think), and then as of the final episode of season 3, she appeared out of no where amongst a Cylon attack, alive. We'll give her a shaman like self rezzing ability.
- 100% crit, 100% hit – She has almost single handedly taken down whole squadrons on Cylon ships before. She has to have some pretty heavy crit and hit, so we'll give them to her.
- High armor – Kara Thrace can take a hit. Just look at every fight she's been in.
- Divine Intervention – She's somehow connected to everything going on, though we don't know how yet. Remember her drawings and how they were the same as the temple that was found? That's proof enough that she's got some divine abilities for me. Plus, you know, she lived through the end of the world.
- Laser Guns – She's got the technical advantage here. Her guns are going to hurt bad – and with her max crit and hit, they're going to hurt really bad.
- PITA – She's a big pain in the butt, and never gives up. She'd blow up all of SSC before she allowed Karathress to win.
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4-04-2008 @ 4:05PM
SweetPoison said...
Kara would just bomb SSC with her Viper :P
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4-04-2008 @ 4:07PM
Badger said...
Starbuck FTW.
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4-04-2008 @ 4:08PM
Buckshot said...
Kara Thrace ftw. And it's not Billy, it's Madam President.
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4-04-2008 @ 4:18PM
Badger said...
Aha! I knew I wasn't the only one with that theory!
4-04-2008 @ 4:11PM
Zrob said...
Frack this..
I want to see Kara Thrace vs. Karazhan!
(besides, Karazhan has frackin Cylons in it...including King-Toaster himself, Curator.)
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4-04-2008 @ 4:26PM
Angry Joe said...
No, no, Void Reaver is King Toaster. Or maybe it's his invisible bike, I'm not sure.
4-04-2008 @ 4:23PM
Battlecow said...
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4-04-2008 @ 4:23PM
schwonga said...
See, I thought I was a nerd before reading this... now I know, I am just a normal person when compared to you people.
The chick wins, cause she gots the dirty pillows! XD
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4-04-2008 @ 4:25PM
Netherscourge said...
Who's that lovely lady in the picture?
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4-04-2008 @ 4:26PM
Adam Holisky said...
She's Karathress, the 4th or 5th boss you'll hit in Serpentshrine Cavern.
4-04-2008 @ 4:34PM
orangelick said...
Kara Thrace is a character from Battlestar Galactica. Check out the BSG Wiki for good info.
http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Kara_Thrace
4-04-2008 @ 4:31PM
orangelick said...
Kara Thrace FTW! She would rock the socks off of that puny boss. I think I'm going to go back and level my Warlock named Thrace in honor of Starbuck... 70 by the end of the bsg series? Woot.
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4-04-2008 @ 4:39PM
Zamboni said...
Low life, low armor, tier-10 weapons, self-rez, calls in nuclear strike from orbit when reduced to 10% life (just to be sure)...
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4-04-2008 @ 4:50PM
Wolftech said...
Kara Thrace would win, but in the middle of the fight, the REAL Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) would show up, kick both their asses, light his cigar of their smoldering corpses and go look for a Pyramid game to rake in some more cubits...
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4-04-2008 @ 4:53PM
Pappagallo said...
Oh man, this takes me back to the old days of rec.martial.arts, where there would be endless threads on the topics of: "Who would win, Bruce Lee or Royce Gracie?"
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4-04-2008 @ 4:54PM
my2cents said...
Wait, wait Adam...April Fool's was three days ago =P
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4-04-2008 @ 5:05PM
Pappagallo said...
You missed out one of Starbuck's key abilities. "Summon Adama" At 20% health Thrace autocasts Summon Adama. 80% chance of Adama the younger who will attack the nearest mob; 19% of Adama the elder who arrives with a battlestar and owns everything in the vicinity; 1% chance of a critical fail resulting in summoning Colonel Tigh who sits there drinking and saying "Kill her, see if I care."
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4-04-2008 @ 5:48PM
Tumnus said...
hahaha awesome :')
4-04-2008 @ 8:11PM
Cetha said...
"1% chance of a critical fail resulting in summoning Colonel Tigh who sits there drinking and saying "Kill her, see if I care.""
hahaha very nice
4-04-2008 @ 5:31PM
Joshua Ochs said...
Ron Moore has already said the final Cylon is not at the "Last Supper" table, which knocks out most major characters. Billy is an interesting choice, but he left the show for personal reasons, not for the writing, so I doubt we'll see him back.
Personally? I think it's Kendra Shaw. Keeps the male/female balance, a fairly developed character that was killed off much too early, and it might explain her strange connection to that proto-skinjob.
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