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Roar

Last wiki revision 2022-04-22

Roar is a tigon boss in the Wizard of Oz encounter in Karazhan, accompanied by Dorothee, Strawman, Tinhead, Dorothee's pet Tito, and followed by The Crone.

The show had to be stopped on more than one occasion when Tito and Roar would lock eyes, resulting in an extended chase around the Karazhan Opera House.

He also appears backstage during the Return to Karazhan.

  • Basic Melee - Hits for around 3000 on cloth.
  • Frightened Scream - Instant. Lets out a scream, causing up to 3 nearby enemies to flee for 2 sec.

As befitting his inspiration, Roar is rather cowardly, and susceptible to fear.

He can be feared by either the fear spell itself, or by a Hunter's Scare Beast ability, or by Howl of Terror or Psychic Scream. As of the 2.1 patch, Roar is also vulnerable to horror effects, i.e. Death Coil (warlock ability).'''

He is immune to snares and Hibernate.

A thing to note about fear is that he runs into the walls while he's doing this he can not be targeted by a fearer, so a suggested strategy is to have the tank not worrying about, grab enough aggro on Roar that once fear breaks he turns to the tank rather than a squishy.

  • Aggro
  • yell
  • Killing a player
  • yell
  • Death
  • yell

You know, I wasn't *really* scared all that time on stage. I'm just a good actor. Really.

  • Roar is a homage to The Cowardly Lion of The Wizard of Oz.
  • He uses the lion skin of the tigonmale model. It was possibly specifically made for Roar.

Given the nature of the opera event, it is unclear if Roar is an "actual" tigon, or merely an actor in a costume.

Categories

  • Tigons
  • Karazhan mobs
  • Bosses
  • Easter eggs
  • Unique voices
  • Pet Journal characters
  • Return to Karazhan NPCs

Source

https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Roar · retrieved 2023-11-13 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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