Create your own raid bosses and even raids

asneakybanana · January 2018

Hi all,
Came up with a crazy idea the other day and figured it would be worth sharing. The idea is that you use the target dummies already in the game, mainly the centurion, and either buy or craft "programs" that you can then install into the centurion.

These programs would consist of one mechanic and would cost one, two or 3 "power" and depending on the boss it would have a different maximum amount of power. So for instance a centurion would have a cap of say 18 allowing 6 3 point programs, 9 2 point programs, 18 1 point programs, or want combination of the 3. Am example of a 1 point program would be a single target tauntable attack. A 2 point program would either be an untauntable attack, an aoe or an attack with some sort of effect whether it be heal debuff, stun, shield or reduce damage. A 3 point program would be an aoe/untauntable attack with secondary effects such as stun dot or heal debuff or a different mechanic the at might do 2 effects but be interruptable. This would allow you to mix and match countless mechanics to create pretty much any type of boss you can think of.

Combining multiple of these bosses throughout a house to create a raid like instance with multiple boss encounters. Set it as a challenge for your friends to take down your bosses and see what interesting and creative ideas other members of the community come up with for their bosses. This would basically allow you to have unlimited pve content as everyone can design their own raid if they want.

Please let me know what you all think of this idea. If you have ideas for how to improve this idea feel free to share as I would love to see become a reality sometime in the distant future. Potentially if you like it get zos' attention.

FloppyTouch · January 2018

So like give them a personality with mechanics...

asneakybanana · January 2018

FloppyTouch wrote: »

So like give them a personality with mechanics...

Yea something like that. But you would be able to make a boss that does a rotating lightning and fire aoe or fire and poison as well as it does some sort of channel to the tank or gives them a heal debuff or does an aoe stun all the while there are random ground targeted stun aoes that must be kited properly. Would be really interesting to see what players come up with.

Valkysas154 · January 2018

Everquest 2 had a dungeon maker it was very fun at the start i made paths for the mobs even Text chat but in the end
it became just another easy way to level up with large groups of mobs and aoe them down for fast exp i just can't see them getting the balance right it will ether be to easy to level or to slow and no one will use it

asneakybanana · January 2018

Valkysas154 wrote: »

Everquest 2 had a dungeon maker it was very fun at the start i made paths for the mobs even Text chat but in the end
it became just another easy way to level up with large groups of mobs and aoe them down for fast exp i just can't see them getting the balance right it will ether be to easy to level or to slow and no one will use it

Well they wouldn't give xp just like the current target dummies don't xp or loot right now. I have thought about this and the potential problem if people getting bored and feeling like there is no rewards to it but I think people would be more interested in seeing the unique bosses people make and work on killing them rather than just farming xp or loot from them.