2011-09-26, 11:19 PM
Flonne Wrote:As a person who ran Zakum years ago before 4th job was out, I disagree. Just remove the boss timers and make bosses REAL bosses again. That run was 30 people and 4hr30min, with 7 survivors. 80% of 3rd body was taken out with ME. That's a real fight, screw these 5 minute speedruns, I want 1 hour to be speedrun time for 30 people again ;_;
I'd rather the boss battles be changed to be more like the bosses from retro games like Castlevania and The Legend of Zelda. To hell with all of these full screen nukes and unavoidable status effects! Screw the irritating Super Defense buffs! Do something creative, like giving bosses powerful moves that can be dodged by certain movement skills, movement paths that require the players to cycle about the room, moving platforms that can give advantages to ranged players who can jump around properly, or harmful terrains that the boss can knock players into. There all sorts of ways the bosses could be made challenging without forcing players to throw all of their money away.