Diablo 4's beta came with a taste of one of the game's new challenges: Ashava the Pestilent, a world boss that can only be defeated once per week and spawns at limited times. It cropped up four times during the open beta, which was of course more than enough for the more dedicated min-maxers out there to have a crack at beating it in the most ludicrous manner possible.
Ashava is a giant dragon meant to be fought by up to 12 players, and does scale slightly depending on party composition, but one thing it is not meant to do is be solo'd. Naturally that's all that the Diablo lot wanted to do, and one rogue in particular got so agonisingly close I almost want to say he did. But that wouldn't be honest because, right at the end, a necromancer pops in and performs perhaps the most perfectly timed kill steal ever.
The player Wudijo was streaming what became an attempt to solo Ashava on hardcore difficulty (thanks, Icy Vein(opens in new tab)), using a max level Rogue build tricked-out with all sorts of legendary gear and outputting absolutely wild range damage (the player has various other videos on his channel exploring his min-max builds, including this one).
The fight begins around 40 seconds into the video, at which point Wudijo basically starts dashing around while simultaneously outputting huge damage numbers, and just keeps going. Ashava is a very large and very grumpy dragon who relentlessly attacks players with claw swipes, AOE dashes, and various other attacks, but our boy Wudijo floats like a butterfly while stinging like an ICBM, and after around 10 minutes of this it's abundantly clear he's about to solo this thing in impressive fashion.
Then, just as the dragon's health reaches an infinitesimal sliver, in waltzes
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