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starcher
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I always liked games where I could spend time hunting for rare monsters or taking part in a huge world boss fight. I remember playing some really old MMOs where the GM would spawn ridiculously tanky and powerful bosses and the whole server would gather and help kill them. It felt like the whole server would come alive and no matter if you were level 5 or 5 levels below the monster (always made to be higher than the cap) you could help and receive rewards just for participating. Does this game have anything like that?
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I used to play a game called Grand Fantasia that had world boss spawns 4 or 5 nights a week as well as GM hosted events every week inside one of the cities where multiple world bosses would be spawned , no doubt it was a zerg fest but it was also so much fun as well as the fact it got the community together , players would start to gather up to a hour or more before the spawn and chat and have a laugh and duel and stuff.
Then again that game was a lot less graphically intense than NW and the servers were a lot more stable so hosting such events didn't cause huge amounts of lag plus I'm not even sure world boss type monsters even exist in the Forgotten Realms universe .
Do you mean GWFs?
I'm pretty sure the Tarrasque exists in FR, and it's practically made for this kind of thing...
If a system could be implemented that could prevent this kind of behavior, and make sure that everybody got a fair shot at any rewards associated with these world bosses, then I'd be all for it...
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They could handle things the way they do the Mega-D/Viper-X/Bloodhound Fights. They pop every hour or so, are readily visible on the Map, and anyone who feels like it can participate or not.
Or try the TSW method. These things are simply too powerful for a small group to beat. You HAVE to put together a large group to take them down, in some cases over 100 people.
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Champions actually had a system to prevent it, but it got removed. Maybe because it never worked properly.
When a cosmic enemy was defeated it would put a debuff on the people who fought it. If you fought the cosmic again while you had the debuff on (which lasted for 3 days) you would get instakilled by PBAoEs.
Cosmics also had the problem that the team that did the most damage got the rewards and everyone else got nothing.
How about making special lairs in which the bosses spawn? You could enter the lair from any of the instances of the map and they could host a great number of players. These lairs could be open spaces, or any kind of cave, or castle, or whatever else the devs can come up with. They could come up with a whole bunch of reasons why the entrances to the lairs is closed outside of the event time. They could do one event a night, or one every two days, and the bosses need to be hella strong so the OP players don't just kill them in a minute. Like with CTA events the bosses could do/take damages based on the level of the character that's attacking. The drops should be separate for each player with a small chance of giving something substantial and the rest should be small things like gold, professional materials, potions, maybe 100AD-1000AD and refining stuff.
To prevent things like bioshrike was talking about there could be a server wide message that let's everyone know in advance what's gonna spawn and where, with a big sign on the map to let everyone know where the event it's taking place.
Sounds like something that Champions Online is working on right now. 10 man instances that are boss fights tougher than what a normal party should be able to handle. They also rotate between them so only 1 is active at a time. They are using the queue system there though and are also introducing a new private queue system.
http://co-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=259651
I would like to see some special Elites that spawn in random places across the different maps. I think they could be a bit stronger than single-player Bosses. The drops have to be useful, but nothing too fancy - maybe a few enchantments, blue gear and potions with a chance to get gear specific to the map they are in, like the single-player bosses.
I think that adding these random spawning Elite mobs would make the game more dynamic while we're leveling, and would also give us a bit more to do at level 60.
The spawn-point were also indicated on the map, so theoretically it should be possible.
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Cant tell if troll comment. Diablo has 4 people MAX. A group in NW can hold 5 an instanced zone 50+
I loved that game. It was great fun, having 20+ and more people killing an ultra hard boss. Any level can take part, although if you are low level, you die a lot!
Don't know if NW can handle it in PE. Most likely not since normal game play right now causes lag for some already. But wish Cryptic adopts this idea of world boss and somehow come out with something that works.
-Edit-- dang, I started typing this after reading BioShrike's post.. I guess I got distracted. lol
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So? You have what, 15-20 players per instance? More than enough, I dare say!!
Spawn a BIG BAD monster in Dread Ring/Sharandar. In each instance, yes. One that hits like a truck, and has tons of HP on top of heavy CC. Give him also huge knockbacks. Yeah, there you have, one scary dude you will need no less than 10 guys to beat. And, when he falls down, let him drop something valuable, like a mark or a ward. Maybe even one of the basic artifacts (around 5% of the time)
Oh, and the boss does not despawn, so if the players do not fight him, they are going to get eaten alive, one by one
In Shaiya, the GMs did the same except for it was really high level dragon monsters. They spawned 2 and made it a race between the two main factions on who could kill their dragon first. They changed the dragon to only AoE once in a great while, at which point it would massively wipe everyone and we would all have to run back and race to kill it. In order for players not to get a hold of god-tier otherwise unreleased items (due to not even the most powerful guild being able to even put up a laughable effort before wiping) the GMs would wait until the monsters got down to 10-percent and then kill them in order to get the loot.
It was really fun and got all the players together for a single cause. It was also nice to meet GMs.
It would also be great if we could enter Epic Dungeons alone, or with an incomplete party.
Hardly an epic 'world' experience. You'd just get guilds camping the areas and leaving everyone else to hang.
In a decently designed open world MMO its possible but I very much doubt in this small scale game. Don't get me wrong, I like Neverwinter a lot. I just do not see it as an anyway epic experience and certainly not capable of large scale open world gameplay, i.e. no world boss type gameplay possible that requires a lot of people to come out to play.
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