In all honesty I think everyone will tell you the following: we all agree to congratulate them, we all agree a 12 hour timer is way too much, and we all agree that it's not the same victory had they done it in 1 hr, albeit the fact that it's a victory nonetheless.
Dustin made a great point a few pages back that several others have commented upon/agreed with by saying the aspect of PB that makes it new, exciting, and truly challenging is the time limit. But what does that really say about the boss as a whole? It's still the same-old style of boss; hell, throw Wheel of Destiny in the mix, and it's nothing but HT x 3, another button mashing, patience test with a required dash of skill. In other words, another Nexon or whoever created it styled boss. The fact that all Maplers can't unanimously agree on an appropriate amount of time for the run (eg. "1:30 hrs, 4:00 hrs, 3:00 hrs) shows how much this debate really isn't going anywhere because of how poorly designed PB is.
Let's step back a minute and look at the big picture. Timer fixes don't solve the problem of poorly designed bosses and supplement CS items that make the battle easier; what we NEED are difficult, challenging bosses that are creatively difficult in new ways that don't require NX whoring to beat, but strategy. The strategy behind PB is wholly centered around the 1 hour time limit...imagine a boss where the whole strategy was actually centered around how to KILL it. In this sense HT was a "first step," but wasn't enough to satiate the appetites of strong Maplers.
What I think we need are more bosses with the same general design of your typical Zelda boss, the stereotypical "find it's weakness and exploit it using the appropriate weapon/skill." I think the best example of this would be in The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past DX, where one of the most challenging bosses was nothing more than a black blob that changed shapes and could only be affected by certain weapons at certain times. The goal then is your simple, general notion of staying alive while trying to find the weakness and, once found, exploiting it until the boss is dead or changes in a way that forces you to rinse and repeat. Time is not a worry, but rather how fast your mind can work through the puzzles presented. Bosses like this in MapleStory would be amazing since it would solve the issue of classism: while you don't NEED, persay, "2 of every class to get in, 1 of every class to do a jump quest," you could have sections of the changing boss that require the Elements, etc.
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I hope you read all that, but hey, it's a forum, and lord knows most of you didn't. For the lazy readers, in a nutshell, PB is a great boss for the new and challenging notion of formulating a strategy around the time limit in which to defeat it. However, truly great and challenging bosses, the ones we need more of in MapleStory, take from the general design of Zelda bosses where one must work on surviving while simultaneously concentrating on solving whatever puzzle is presented by the physiology, battle style, and the whatnot of the boss in order to discover the effective method of dealing damage to that one part/section/etc.
Dustin made a great point a few pages back that several others have commented upon/agreed with by saying the aspect of PB that makes it new, exciting, and truly challenging is the time limit. But what does that really say about the boss as a whole? It's still the same-old style of boss; hell, throw Wheel of Destiny in the mix, and it's nothing but HT x 3, another button mashing, patience test with a required dash of skill. In other words, another Nexon or whoever created it styled boss. The fact that all Maplers can't unanimously agree on an appropriate amount of time for the run (eg. "1:30 hrs, 4:00 hrs, 3:00 hrs) shows how much this debate really isn't going anywhere because of how poorly designed PB is.
Let's step back a minute and look at the big picture. Timer fixes don't solve the problem of poorly designed bosses and supplement CS items that make the battle easier; what we NEED are difficult, challenging bosses that are creatively difficult in new ways that don't require NX whoring to beat, but strategy. The strategy behind PB is wholly centered around the 1 hour time limit...imagine a boss where the whole strategy was actually centered around how to KILL it. In this sense HT was a "first step," but wasn't enough to satiate the appetites of strong Maplers.
What I think we need are more bosses with the same general design of your typical Zelda boss, the stereotypical "find it's weakness and exploit it using the appropriate weapon/skill." I think the best example of this would be in The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past DX, where one of the most challenging bosses was nothing more than a black blob that changed shapes and could only be affected by certain weapons at certain times. The goal then is your simple, general notion of staying alive while trying to find the weakness and, once found, exploiting it until the boss is dead or changes in a way that forces you to rinse and repeat. Time is not a worry, but rather how fast your mind can work through the puzzles presented. Bosses like this in MapleStory would be amazing since it would solve the issue of classism: while you don't NEED, persay, "2 of every class to get in, 1 of every class to do a jump quest," you could have sections of the changing boss that require the Elements, etc.
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I hope you read all that, but hey, it's a forum, and lord knows most of you didn't. For the lazy readers, in a nutshell, PB is a great boss for the new and challenging notion of formulating a strategy around the time limit in which to defeat it. However, truly great and challenging bosses, the ones we need more of in MapleStory, take from the general design of Zelda bosses where one must work on surviving while simultaneously concentrating on solving whatever puzzle is presented by the physiology, battle style, and the whatnot of the boss in order to discover the effective method of dealing damage to that one part/section/etc.