Epicus Maximus

Epicus Maximus is a legacy encounter in the Brawler's Guild and requires the use of a challenge card to fight.

The party is composed of:

• Epicus Maximus, an elite flying shark equipped with two rockets and a laser beam.
• And a Dinosaur, a rare elite devilsaur. He rides on Epicus Maximus's back.
• ROCK ON, an elite Forsaken with the Arcanite Ripper, identical in appearance to Bergrisst. He rides on And a Dinosaur's back.

The trio can also be seen flying above the water wall on the northwestern edge of Nazjatar, north of Bloodfin Village and west of the Zanj'ir Terrace. They circle a large area that is mostly out of bounds, but they periodically fly close enough to the edge of the water wall to be seen by players.

Interrupt Blue Crush, kite around the Destructolaser, and don't stand in the Pure Rock'n Roll.

This encounter, like most in the Brawler's Guild, has a two minute enrage timer, so 87.2KDPS will be required for victory.

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Epicus Maximus, the Paragon of Epicosity, originally appeared in the Cataclysm beta, circling above the Maelstrom in front of Thrall and Aggra. The shark-dinosaur-Forsaken combination was added in response to a forum thread in which beta testers complained that the area wasn't epic enough. Lead World Designer Alex Afrasiabi initially replied to the thread with:

A few hours later, Afrasiabi returned to the thread to announce the addition of more epicness to the zone:

Epicus Maximus was added to the Maelstrom in the following beta build. The trio was removed before Cataclysm went live but made a cameo in the Uldum zone, where the Holographic Projector used to subjugate some cursed engineers will sometimes display the trio and play some epic background music.

An official mousepad of the Epicus Maximus trio illustrated by Greg Capullo was produced by SteelSeries for sale exclusively at BlizzCon 2011.

• Product description: Have Epicus Maximus, the mythical creature from the Cataclysm Beta, beneath under the palm of your hand! This epic-sized gaming QcK+ mousepad from SteelSeries will be premiering at this year's BlizzCon, available only while these supplies last. Guaranteed to be a collector's item!

• The laser beam attached to the shark's head is likely a homage to the movie Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, which had the film's antagonist furious that he couldn't acquire "frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads". Or Austin Powers: Goldmember where the film antagonist's son actually gets him "Sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads."

• Epicus Maximus

• And a Shark

• ROCK ON