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Author: Nomic

Oct 17th 2009 at 7:17:00 AM

In WorldOfWarcraft these types of bosses are often called Patchwerks, after the most famous ingame example. The original Patchwerk was a boss in lv.60 Naxxramas with only one special ability: hateful strike, which would deal massive damage to the second person on his aggro list (necessiating the use of 2 offtanks to soak up the damage). Other than that he just hit very hard and had an extremely steep enrage timer. Because the fight required no movement, target switching or special startegies beyond "kill it before it enrages and kills us all", it is very good measurement of maxium dps (indeed, on of the main criticism of "theorycrafting", ie. using a program to simulate the highest theoretical dps for a given spec, is that the results are only accurate in a Patchwerk-type fight), and new raids on the test realm usually have two Patchwerks placed close to the entrance: one that is a target dummy for testing dps, and one that can actually hit people but is rooted down (used to test tanking and healing). Patchwerk returned in the lv.80 version of Naxxramas, but like the rest of the instance he was considerably easier (the fight mechanics were the same but the enrage timer was far less steep).