Rextroy Solos Current Tier Raid Boss Rik Reverb in Green Gear After 2-Hour Fight

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In his latest video Rextroy solos Rik Reverb, a current tier raid boss through Berserk, while in green gear!

How to Bug Works

This solo came into existence thanks to the Foul Behemoth's Chelicera iconFoul Behemoth’s Chelicera trinket from Nerub-ar Palace. It was previously used by Venn to 2-hit raid bosses for 500 million damage.

Before Liberation of Undermine, this wasn’t abusable because there was no easy way to get the endless health stacking done inside the raid. But now, Blizzard has added the NPC Globkikus, which constantly heals itself with Reglobify, which means the NPC can be used as a Training Dummy!

Rextroy also clarifies he used some Priest healing bonuses, Guardian Spirits, Divine Hymn and Death Knight’s Vampiric Blood to make the stacking of 250-300 million health take 4 hours. With this strategy, Rextroy amassed 70 million max health per hour.

The reason Rextroy went for Rik Reverb was because he could calculate his DPS with the Hype Fever! iconHype Fever! berserk. It would cause his Blaring Drop iconBlaring Drop to deal about 70-80 million damage per use. Most other bosses have annoying tank stacking debuffs that would maybe destroy the group after a while, which was not a risk Rextroy was willing to take.

Rextroy was surprised that Rik didn’t keep spamming Blaring Drops. He actually melee hits in between, which was an issue due to the tank debuff.

Fortunately, Rextroy developed a kiting strategy that makes the tank debuff go off by a very thin margin. It’s also good that Tinnitus iconTinnitus does not increase all Sonic damage taken by 100%. It didn’t increase Blaring Drops, otherwise, Rextroy would’ve been one-shot.

The Gear

It took Rextroy under 2 hours to beat the boss. He was equipped with just Item Level 606 gear from the Auction House.

The Video

You can watch the sped up version of the video where Rextroy explains the strategy below.

In addition to the shorter version, you can also watch the full 2-hour long solo!