I love the good ol' Shade of Aran encounter because of the history it holds for me. One of my first times into Kara with my old guild we were running back from a wipe and made our way back to the room. Not all of us were there, including me. Well, someone pulled too early, and Aran proceeded to one-shot me from across the instance. Not my most glorious moment, but definitely one of the more hilarious deaths. This makes Aran my favorite encounter.
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While most may not agree with me, my favorite encounter is definitely Halfus Wyrmbreaker. I love what bliz tried out with this fight, having different randomized abilities week to week. Having to adjust the strategy, even after a raid has the fight on farm, has still kept the fight relatively fresh months after we first downed him.
Nefarian, because..."I PLACE MY HAND ON THE ORB!"
The Lich King fight was really cool - It was a lot of fun taking him on. The whole fight was pretty epic and you have to be super organised too. Just as you think you have him he kills everybody. It is funny to watch people rez when they don't know Tirion rezz you anyway :P A very cool encounter with a lot of fun mechanics
If you had asked me in WotLK I never would have said this (the months of wiping would still be too fresh:P) but Algalon the Observer would have to be my favourite. Amazing mechanics and definitely the prettiest fight ever.
I joined WoW early WOTLK and so happened to have an awful computer that was completely incapable of doing anything other than Outland 5 mans. By the time I got a shiny new computer, it was late WOTLK and, of course, no one wanted me in their guilds :-(. The raid encounter that sticks in my mind has to be Heigan in Naxxramas. During one 'fun run' PUG, which I was doing for, well, fun (since no one would accept me into any guilds and I could only do ICC up till just past the gunship thanks to PUG's, there wasn't a great amount else I could do), absolutely no one knew what they were doing. Having *somehow* managed to get past the first few bosses, we arrived at Heigan. The (really nice) raid leader explained carefully to the bunch of newbies (like me!) how to perform the Heigan dance.Of course, us newbies couldn't do it, and in fact the only people who could do it were the raid leader and a healer. With only these two left alive, they nearly two-manned it. Watching with bated breath, me and all the other dead people saw the health go down. And then suddenly, after nearly half an hour, the healer died. And so we tried again.The thing that makes this stick in my mind so much is the fact that no one became unpleasant about the fact that we weren't necessarily progressing particularly fast (or anywhere, really) and that this particular fight, being quite unique, managed to be so much fun, even though we didn't ever down Heigan. It showed me that with a little tolerance and good company, raiding on WoW could be exceptionally fun, in a way that it hadn't been before for me.
My favorite encounter of all time has to be Mother because that is really where I got into raiding, that was the first encounter that I did with my guild while we were doing BT progression and it had some much to pay attention to and one single mess up could mean a wipe.
Illidan Stormrage,"YOU ARE NOT PREPARED"
Onyxia It was a classic, and will always be remembered by the voice clip that was put out.I quote it all the time in PvP."EVEN SIDE, MANY WHELPS!"All the time on Dreamwalker and Gothik the Harvester."Odd groups got left, even groups got right."It always boosts guildie morale.
I always feel bad when i read these kind of things that i didn't raid before cata.My favorite encounter so far has to be Al'akir. I love the RNG cluster in the first phase, and the last phase when you are flying is just awesome
I definitely think it my favorite encounter was the Big Bad Wolf in Kara. I always thought the fight was very entertaining, even if it was fairly simple. I loved getting hit with the Red debuff just to get to run in circles away from him.
Algalon its just so cool looking =/
My favorite encounters are the Chess event from Karazhan, and Heigan the Unclean and his dance in Naxx
My Favorite encounter has to be the Lich King because of its complextity and the team work it required.