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Every dungeon boss is exactly the same.
thesuperd
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I'm so glad I didn't buy one of the founders' packs. I like MMO's for doing dungeon runs & raiding, but this game is a sore disappointment. Every single dungeon boss... Every. Single. One. just has nothing but a huge HP pool, standard monster attacks, and SWARMS and SWARMS of adds. Is this really the best they could come up with? Having to gear up by fighting the exact same boss (in slightly different surroundings) over and over and over again is boring. I've never played an MMO with such a mindless lack of variety in their boss encounter design. I feel bad for anyone who's spent money on this game.
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First of all boss doesn't hit constant auto-attack.. boss mobs has only some sort of ability attacks with cooldown and can easily avoidable by DPS players.. There is no need for tanks since 1 more dps or 1 more cleric always does the job since nobody gets major damage from boss..
Secondly adding 100x add to an encounter doesn't make that encounter "Epic" or "Hard" or "Challenging" not to mention ADDs doesn't considered BOSS mechanic unless its an ADD like WoW Vanilla Majordomo Executus encounter.. So bunch of adds that can kiteable, or knockbackble or whatever doesn't considered boss mechanics.. its just trash mob
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egTc2D4XQZA
Here's a good example
6 mobs that must die in assigned pairs at the same time
adds that spawn in response to player action like a member dying
2 boss that must be kept apart and die at the same time
unique boss attacks and debuffs
The point I am trying to make is that they did not make the mode challenging but instead just stupidly hard / not enjoyable. This is the feel I get from bosses in this game, it feels like instead of taking their time and making each and every battle challenging they just went with the "make it hard / enjoyable". I would LOVE to see a dev team with 1 class of each trying to run T2 dungeons in this game.
I'm guessing you've never played any other MMORPG (non-Perfectworld ofc).
In other MMORPGs, the differences between boss mechanics and the details of the encounter tend to be very diverse and often very important, at least in the endgame. They may not be WoW-level of extreme detail and diverse mechanics, but they are much closer to that than *any* dungeon in this game.
NWO = kill the adds then the boss OR nuke the boss before overwhelmed with adds. That's it, period.
Every boss is extremely easy to kill, the adds are the only problem with the current bosses.
There's a difference between bug free, and good encounter design. This is neither, the boss fights honestly are boring.
They all look the same to me.
Even on WoW, it was "Don't get hit by fire, don't let the boss smack you. Zzzz.."
I guess I just adapt innately to mechanics and don't notice anymore.
for the rest who quote me, thks, really. I play MMO from RO, Xian, Lineage, DN, C9, RF, Aion, Asda Story, and so on, also good video there, nice sample. true, have so many "variety", but you guys must remember, how many arsenal you can bring in to that shortcut skill compare to this game? you can see on the video there, that probably doesnt include macro-style skill, the under-6-sec-skill-cd which supported by mana that can be boosted by pot. not to mentioned, that kind of bosses is pont-click base game, not an action base, the reason I pointed out on C9 because it is a action hack and slash too. hey, I dont mean by your idea is bad, no, your Idea is GOOD guys, i dont like only die because killed by adds either, but too much in variety attack style in bosses will make some player will also want more shortcut for skill too someday. beside, isnt in this game there are dungeon that you can kill boss after kill mini bosses too, CMIIW
Don't feel sorry for me...I'm RICH!!
You do realize that in the Epic version most of the encounters have additional mechanics, right? Also, are very Team work heavy. There are instances where it is just a burn fight, sure, but in most cases it requires some sort of strategy to manage the fight. I personally feel the only issue right now with any boss fight are the hate calculations appear to be broken all to hell.
Name one...
More adds! lol
When you only have 5 people to work with, your options become more limited.
Could they add different mechanics? Sure... different sorts of AEs, radiating debuffs on players so they have to move away from the group until they expire, immunity or damage reflect, hell even environmental obstacles could go in.
I would expect more to be released as new content comes our way -- with Gauntlgrym being set for a 20v20 PvP zone perhaps the dungeons it unlocks are also raid-style dungeons for multiple groups, allowing for more variance in mechanics.
Personally though I have to say that, so far, despite it's shortcomings, I am enjoying the game much more than I initially expected to... so... I guess it's all a matter of perspective
D.
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Instead of that crappy Add2Win strategy of the bosses around here. They are WEAK, they need their minions to kill you because they can't possibly do it by themselves.
I've never seen crappier bosses in my life.
No offense.
I want this class in NW.