Boss instances

Why doesn't Nexon instance boss rooms? it'd make it a lot easier for anyone who'd like to boss, but cant because their realm's got a schedule to adhere to, even with 3 channels, its impossible for my guild to get a good Zakum slot, anything that'd be a good time for us is taken, every day of the week (often by the same guild each day, but I wont get into that). Since it requires 10 people to sign up to get in for major bosses, that pretty much weeds out hackers for the most part as is, so this really couldnt hurt too much, and I think it would take away from the "business" of bossing a lot more, and bring it back to the concept of you and a group of fellow maplers teaming up to defeat something powerful, not organizing a time and having to be done within a certain timeframe for the next group, thats just bull.


tldr; Boss only channels, is it plausible?

It'd be a dream come true, which is why it will never happen.

Latales has this feature.

Couldn't this potentially screw up the economy more, though?

Latales has this feature.

*Latale



And yeah, lots of MMOs have instances. However, Latale's instances are still based in thier own invisible "channels" of sorts, so when too many people are in the instances, people cant enter and start up a new one, which is well and good for LaTale (unless you're farming the Hyunmu set, then it sucks). Anyway, back on topic, as I said many MMOs have some form of instancing, and while channels are probably our closest thing, a game like Latale has both channels and instances, I dont see why Nexon couldnt pull it off too.

I personally really like Lunia's system - each "chapter", or the equivalent of our maps, is made in a unique "channel" for each player or party. As soon as you break a rock barrier, nobody else can enter.

*Latale



And yeah, lots of MMOs have instances. However, Latale's instances are still based in thier own invisible "channels" of sorts, so when too many people are in the instances, people cant enter and start up a new one, which is well and good for LaTale (unless you're farming the Hyunmu set, then it sucks). Anyway, back on topic, as I said many MMOs have some form of instancing, and while channels are probably our closest thing, a game like Latale has both channels and instances, I dont see why Nexon couldnt pull it off too.

What the hell are you thinking? Having Nexon put in boss channels would require them put effort into their own game for the benefit of the higher level community, god knows we can't have that.

Couldn't this potentially screw up the economy more, though?

They could make it so the bosses don't drop anything, or have a lower drop rate, drop crappier stuff etc.

They could make it so the bosses don't drop anything, or has a lower drop rate, drops crappier stuff etc.

Lower rates would probably be fine, but there still has to be insentive to fight them.


Honestly though, you just restrict people to X amount of times per week, with the 2 per day rule still in effect, so maybe they can only enter 3~4 days a week into Zakums Lair or something? The way the zakum tables in Khaini (and probably every server that came before it) are now, they're so full that this couldnt possibly deflate Zakum drops any more than they already are,

all this would do is allow people to Zak with friends and guildies because all the good timeslots are taken.

tldr; Boss only channels, is it plausible?

Definitely possible... it's been done on private servers, for both PQs and bosses. (The map appears on the same channel it's initiated from and tracks as such, since it was somewhat of a hack)

Whether they'll do it, highly doubtful. That would take actual work

They did it with the mini dungeons, so why not with bosses? They could also do this with PQs, never having to look for a channel anymore would be great!

But knowing Nexon they don't care and just keep trying to take our money.

They did it with the mini dungeons, so why not with bosses? They could also do this with PQs, never having to look for a channel anymore would be great!

Exactly. The mechanism of "instances" is already in place for the mini-dungeons. They won't have to do a lot of work to apply it to other exclusive rooms.
It could be a really cheap way of keeping the high-level users happy - let 'em Zak or HT whenever they feel like it, maybe they'll stop bugging Nexon for new training areas.

As for the economy... well, since I'm not a merchant, I'd be quite happy to see the prices of Boss drops plummet.

Unlimited boss instances would ruin the value of the items dropped from each boss.

No.

From what I'm hear, like some PS`s have Boss Rooms in the FM?

They did it with the mini dungeons

They didn't, they just made 20 identical copies of the map. If 20 people are on a channel, it's still full. On PServers it was unlimited (except by user limits due to server load)

They didn't, they just made 20 identical copies of the map. If 20 people are on a channel, it's still full. On PServers it was unlimited (except by user limits due to server load)

Make 20 maps per channel. That's 380 maps on servers with 19 channels. Seriously, if 380 instances aren't enough for you...

Unlimited boss instances would ruin the value of the items dropped from each boss.

No.

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Unlimited boss instances would ruin the value of the items dropped from each boss.

No.

Again, Zakum is already wh0red all day around the clock on 3 channels, I doubt his drops would lower anymore than they already are. And as a mechanism to prevent this, you could allow people to only enter the instance every so often, twice a day, but only on a set number of days per week.

Its not fair that people cant fight a boss with their friends because another guild has apparently reserved some timeslot.

go away pendant seller. we don't like you.

QFT. Maybe F/ps would actually be allowed on runs, screw ranged classes.

maple needs more bosses like pap