![]() But it was still a great payoff for players to end the game’s first expansion. Those keyed into the story could see that Kil’Jaeden would surely pop up somewhere along the line. This wouldn’t be the last time Blizzard would surprise players with a true final boss or leave a raid boss alive for a secondary encounter. But players didn’t officially kill Kil’jaeden in 2008, and would need to wait nine years to finish him for good in the Tomb of Sargeras raid. The fight with Kil’jaeden in the Sunwell was apparently very well balanced, leaving some professional players very excited to have a real test after the 10 month content drought between Black Temple in May 2007 and The Sunwell in March 2008. The expansion wasn’t over, and players had an even bigger bad to contend with. Players felled Illidan in the Black Temple raid only to find out that Illidan’s boss, Kil’Jaeden, had come to collect. He wasn’t advertised as the expansion’s big bad, he wasn’t on the box art - Illidan was. The fight with a half-summoned Kil’Jaeden at the end of Sunwell was a pleasant surprise for players at the time. Kil’Jaeden was the final boss of The Burning Crusade expansion and the Sunwell Plateau raid. One of the leaders of the Burning Legion under the Dark Titan Sargeras, Kil’Jaeden is one of the most powerful villains in the Warcraft universe. Kil’jaeden is another big bad from Warcraft 3. Kil’Jaeden, half summoned during TheBurning Crusade Image: Blizzard Entertainment ![]() But as the final boss of vanilla World of Warcraft, Kel’Thuzad was nearly untouchable. World of Warcraft had around 7.7 million subscribers at the end of 2006, so the percentage of players who heard Kel’Thuzad’s death rattle was about 0.0007%.īlizzard eventually reworked and re-released the Naxxramas raid - complete with Kel’Thuzad - during Wrath of The Lich King, where many more players took him down. With 40-man raids, that’s only about 5,400 players. 7, 2006 (the day he was first killed) and the launch of the World of Warcraft’s 2.0.1 patch on Dec. Only 135 guilds cleared Kel’Thuzad between Sept. Naxxramas is still legendary for its difficulty, the strangeness of the original Four Horsemen fight, and how few people actually completed it. He waited for players at the end of the Naxxramas raid, but barely any players showed up to fight. He was the first final boss in World of Warcraft history. Kel’Thuzad was a powerful lich from Warcraft 3, and servant of the Lich King. Kel’Thuzad’s in-game model during Wrath of the Lich King Image: Blizzard Entertainment
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