Who Needs a Hug?
Posted: July 28, 2010 at 9:45 amHave you ever met a raid or instance boss that made you so sad, you just wanted to hug them?
I have. I’ve met quite a few of them. Like … a lot of them. So I decided to make a list, because that is how I roll.
You can has Top 5:
5. Patchwerk (Naxxramas)
Yes, I know he’s an undead, patched-together abomination who hits very hard and very fast and, you know, basically just tries to kill you because that’s what Kel’Thuzad told him to do. But how can you not want to hug a guy who says things like “Patchwerk want to play~!” on aggro? Really, he’s just a big ol’ undead teddy bear who has the misfortune of belonging to an evil lich with a thing for cats.
He was our raid quest this week. We killed him, and then I hugged him.
4. Illidan Stormrage (Black Temple)
Okay, so the guy’s gone around the twist and now is the variety of insane that requires killing. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t need a hug. After all, if he’d had more hugs as a child and hadn’t spent his lifetime playing second fiddle to his brother, he might not have gone around the twist. Also, I’m a fangirl.
3. Alexandros Mograine (Naxxramas, level 60).
I’ll be honest, I never got to see this guy when he was actually a raid boss, because I was still a lowbie when BC hit and I never made it to Naxx before Wrath (sadface). But if you’ve read the Ashbringer comics, you know why I feel that this guy needs a hug. For that matter, so does his son. Darion, that is. Well, I suppose Renault needs hugs too, but Renault also did a lot of things that made me want to punch him in the teeth.
By the way, if you ever meet someone with a Corrupted Ashbringer, you need, NEED to get them to take you to Scarlet Monastery to see the event there. It’s very cool.
2. Keristrasza (The Nexus)
Captured by Malygos after she killed his consort, horrifically abused, and finally driven to insanity … hers is a fairly tragic story, which ends with the player having to kill her in the Nexus. The first time I killed her, all I could do was sit there and went ;_; at the screen.
Actually, I think I was the one needing a hug after that. =(
1. Sir Zeliek (Naxxramas)
If you hang out in Wintergarde Keep for a bit, you’ll hear Commander Eligor Dawnbringer describe Zeliek as “a paladin in life, so strong in his faith, that even in undeath, the power of the light still heeds his call, smiting his foes in battle.” The catch is, while his body is forced to do Kel’Thuzad’s bidding, he didn’t turn evil or lose his sanity when he was Scourgified. He still has control of his mind – meaning he’s fully aware of what he’s being forced to do but unable to stop it. And he doesn’t like it at all.
The game doesn’t tell us anything else about Zeliek. We don’t know how he died or how the Scourge managed to get him in their grip. All we know is that his current existence is very, very rough (and, given what the Light tends to do to undead, probably very painful too).
Go to Naxx. Give Zeliek a hug.
And that, my friends, is your random Shizu-post for the day! *ta-da*
The Discussion
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Almost all the abominations make me go “d’awwwww” and frown a little when we have to kill them – even Rotface and Festergut.
Also: Forgemaster Garfrost. He just wants something good to eat. And he rhymes like something out of a Doctor Seuss book!
I immediately thought to myself ‘Sir Zelick’ when I read what this post is about. And lo, there he is at number 1.
I’ve only fought three of the ones on the list (1, 2, and 5), but I’d have to agree that they all need hugs. Actually, I would give hugs to XT too, ’cause he just wants to be a good boy and play with his nice little toys. Can’t help how he’s made, right?
Vile, the dude at the Shadow Vault – I kind of heart that guy. “Yay! Shizukéra is best protodrake stealer!”
Agreed on Garfrost too – not his fault he tries to kill you in the process of getting some tasty noms, it’s probably just the Scourge addling his brain.
Rotface and Festergut are just creepy-looking though. D: I met them for the first time last night and THEY SCARED ME A LITTLE OKAY. (Also, Festergut has bad, bad gas.)
@Mishawen ~
XT is just trying to play – he just hasn’t learned to play gently with his toys. *nod* I’M READY TO PLAY <3
And yeah, Zeliek makes me sad on a deep emotional level. He’s got such stupendous amounts of faith, and the Light still responds to him, but it can’t save him. Death is his only release.
And I misspelled Mishaweha’s name. AAAAAAH, sorry ’bout that!
Vaelastrasz in BWL. Similar to Keri, except you watch him get corrupted by Nefarius at the start of the fight. ” ALEXSTRASZA, HELP ME!” used to get me every time
Al’ar. He’s not evil, he’s just loyal to his master as phoenixes are. It’s not his fault that Kael is a megalomaniac fuckhead.
Going back to BC days, how about Warp Splinter in Botanica? Don’t know the story behind him, but he keeps arguing with himself the whole time he’s fighting you, as if someone else has corrupted him and is forcing him to fight.
I never knew the story behind Zeliek, but fighting him always made me kinda sad. He’s always been my favorite Horseman.
And I agree with Shizu about Rotface and Festergut. They are just disgusting. Looking at them used to make me feel a tiny bit sick.