2008-11-26, 12:24 AM
Russt Wrote:Since when is tanking hits and spamming attacks interesting?It can be dangerous without being overkill. I personally don't find death very entertaining either. In fact it's rather frustrating knowing that Mage girl and warrior boy can fight a boss at the lowest possible level and I can't go until I'm twice that high. Nothing more frustrating for me than opening my quest log and seeing "Defeat Horntail" as a level 80 quest and knowing that the odds I'll ever be able to complete it are ridiculously low because of my HP.
Additionally, many characters can't survive a hit from PB's Zombify. Does that mean they can't go?
Geist Balrog is probably one of the most perfect boss fights in my mind. It's active, you're moving around and chasing it, using strategy to maneuver around and it does fair damage for its level. It's not over kill, but you need to pay attention.
Let's look at what warriors, then, want in a boss:
Stationary, high damage, low avoid.
What do ranged classes want in a boss?
Mobile, low KB, low damage.
There's no overlap here. You can't have a boss that pleases everyone because we want opposing things. If it's mobile then warriors are going to get hit a lot, and that puts them at risk of dying. It also makes it harder to hit. If it's doing high damage, then ranged classes can't survive at all. If it doesn't have low KB then it's going to be plowing around the map like a bulldozer because we can't keep it in control (Like Latanica).
You can't make everyone happy. Personally, I'd rather have a boss everyone can survive, even if it's not challenging, than one that satisfies either of these people's conditions and precludes the other from taking part. It's not fair nor fun to be excluding whole classes arbitrarily >_>
Takebacker Wrote:Something tells me people would be too "oh this boss sucks it makes me lose too much money!" unless they made it drop a worth it armor like TMS' boss does.What overall is this? I've never heard of such a thing.
10 to all stat, 150 w/m.def, 100 HP/MP, 10 slot UNTRADEABLE overall, anyone?
After having only a handful of major bosses, we're all pomegranateting ourselves over this glorious and well deserved opportunity.
FelixTM Wrote:Currently, there's four level 200 Bowman in GMS. But, you know. :3Whatever, I don't look at the rankings because they're stupid. I only saw Dolob in Athena's house. 1, 4, point is excluding 99.9999999999% of the class may as well be considered the same thing as excluding 100% of it.
And goodness gracious ladies, what's with all the complaining about bossing on these forums lately?


