One Boss Leaves: Moorabi outgores Trollgore

Two Bosses Enter ... but only One Boss Leaves, in WoW.com's series of fantasy death matches. This season's bosses come from the five-man instances of Wrath of the Lich King.

It was a bloody job, but someone had to do it – and that someone was Moorabi. The High Prophet of Man'toth made a mammoth mess as he gored Trollgore in this week's Two Bosses Enter, One Boss Leaves. Sixty-five percent of readers handed this week's deathmatch to the Ice Troll. Spectators Heilig, Rowan and Grinton mulled it over from the stands:

Heilig: You're all forgetting the adds. Moorabi has no way to deal with the adds. If he ignores them, Trollgore gets buffed dramatically as the adds stack up and the Consume stacks to ridiculous levels. If he kills them, he gets raped by Corpse Explosions. There's a reason you tank Trollgore away from the person handling the adds, you know. Moorabi has no way to deal with this. Trollgore wins by a mile.

Rowan: He has Quake and Ground Tremor -- that's two AoEs! With adds being non-elite, he can easily pulverize them before they get too close to Trollgore. Moorabi wins this, hands down.

Heilig: Ground Tremor is close range, and Quake is primarily a stun. The adds wouldn't die until they got to Trollgore, whereupon he would explode the corpses right into Moorabi's trunk. Game over.

Grinton: What this fight comes down to is a battle of tusks. And though Trollgore would start off with the upper lower-bite, it's hard to beat what that pachyderm is paching (badum-tish!). Also, to respond to Heilig, Moorabi has two abilities to control adds. So between the stomping and the tusks, Moorabi wins by a long shot.

The most entertaining reply of the week definitely came from Arbitor.

Arbitor: Why are so many people voting Trollgore? Think about it. The only abilities Moorabi has is a pitiful Stab (he huge; howzat gonna do much to him?), a cast time-reducing shout (useless, maybe enough to get Trollgore to flinch for a millisecond or two) and finally an AoE earthquake ability (this could actually help him as it would quickly destroy the other Drakkari and give him more corpses to explode).

This is how I see it going down. Moorabi runs at Trollgore, hits Mojo Frenzy to speed himself up and get a couple of stabs in and a Determined Stab. Trollgore gets hurt by this, but not much (tiny stabs, remember), and slams him down to the ground with both arms with Crush, completely pinning him, then Infects the open wound now in his leg and knocks him away like a rag doll.

Meanwhile, loads of Drakkari Trolls run into the room and swarm Trollgore, jumping on him and grabbing him, distracting while Moorabi manages to get to his feet. He took a lot of damage in that crush, along with smashing into the wall; he wouldn't be surprised if something was broken. He notices Trollgore plucking the Drakkari Trolls off himself, while they futilely hit him with the maces and spears, and realizes this is his last chance to get at him. He runs at full speed towards him and uses Ground Tremor to try and give himself a good opening.

Trollgore, having completely forgotten about Moorabi, is caught off guard at this and gets knocked off his feet by a jagged rock that juts out of the ground, with the Trolls falling on top of him and boulders falling and crushing them on top of him.

Moorabi thinks he has won and stares in disbelief at the pile rubble. Then suddenly, the rubble starts violently moving, and Trollgore smashes straight out of his earthen prison! He had Consumed the Trolls as they died on top of him, and as he destroys the rubble, the bodies fly out in all directions of the room -- a couple of them straight at Moorabi!
Trollgore detonates the corpses in mid-air, and the resulting explosion brings Moorabi to his knees.

Trollgore smiles as he see the life draining from his eyes, but then the ground begins to shake violently. With the last of his breath, Moorabi screams, "Get ready for somethin' ... much ... BIGGAH!" Moorabi morphs into the mammoth aspect of the Troll gods and charges straight at Trollgore. Trollgore ain't the brightest fellow and starts to panic. He holds his out in front of, and Moorabi's horns make contact with Trollgore's chest. He gores him straight though his chest. Trollgore gasps for air as he takes his final strangled breaths and collapses.

Moorabi changes back into Troll form and then proceeds to absorb the Mojo from the Dire Troll's body, leaving him shrivelled and rotting. Moorabi walks away triumphant, limping. He feels the wound spreading to the rest of his leg. He better go see one his women for some healing quick -- wouldn't want to die minutes he'd destroyed this for. How would that prove himself to the Ice King?

That was a wall of text spawned from WoW lore and a love for epic battles. (Betcha didn't think Moorabi was gonna win after my comment at the start [ ;)