Would you like to see an end to Invulnerable phases on Bosses?

Cosmo_Nova

No

I don't really have an issue with them in dungeons but it does bother me in the open world (World Bosses, Mirrormoor Incursions, Deadlands Portals etc.)

It's annoying having to spend several minutes fighting a boss when there's enough people in your group to theoretically melt it in seconds. Especially during events or endeavors when you need to farm these and there's 30 people doing it with you.

BXR_Lonestar

No

Ishtarknows wrote: »

BXR_Lonestar wrote: »

Some other things we will see more of if they DO remove health gating (boss invulnerability phases):

1. bosses that rapidly regen/heal themselves;
2. More one-hit kill mechanics (a dev favorite to artificially increase difficulty on bosses)
3. massive waves of minions that will overwhelm you if you DON'T focus them (alternatively, waves of uber minions that are hard to kill in their own right)
4. Teleporting bosses
5. bosses with massive amounts of health
6. Or some combination of the above.

I don't know about you, but I think I'd rather wait for the boss to stop being damage immune than face one or more of these things in a fight.

I'd be happier with any of those more than invulnerability phases. Especially those than penalise high DPS, like the boss with the Laser beams in Frostvault which can give back to back invulnerable phases with no chance to hit him in between.
Choosing between focussing the boss or clearing more adds is a much better option

That works when you are with a coordinated group who recognizes that there is a kill chain that must be obeyed if you want to pass the boss, but if you get someone who is obstinately going to treat the boss like a parse dummy, that makes the encounter miserable for the others in the group.

I want to be clear that I'm not a proponent of health gating mechanics. I absolutely hate them too. But in all fairness, there isn't really many boss mechanics people will say they love because I think people love using their characters how they were built to be used, which is often to maximize DPS against a parse dummy. Asking people what mechanics they like is kinda like asking a PVP player what they like to get killed by. Well nobody likes to get killed in PVP, and nobody really likes mechanically difficult fights, but having varied encounters with different mechanics is what makes the game interesting. If you don't like a certain encounter, you just avoid it.

Soarora

Yes

BXR_Lonestar wrote: »

Ishtarknows wrote: »

BXR_Lonestar wrote: »

Some other things we will see more of if they DO remove health gating (boss invulnerability phases):

1. bosses that rapidly regen/heal themselves;
2. More one-hit kill mechanics (a dev favorite to artificially increase difficulty on bosses)
3. massive waves of minions that will overwhelm you if you DON'T focus them (alternatively, waves of uber minions that are hard to kill in their own right)
4. Teleporting bosses
5. bosses with massive amounts of health
6. Or some combination of the above.

I don't know about you, but I think I'd rather wait for the boss to stop being damage immune than face one or more of these things in a fight.

I'd be happier with any of those more than invulnerability phases. Especially those than penalise high DPS, like the boss with the Laser beams in Frostvault which can give back to back invulnerable phases with no chance to hit him in between.
Choosing between focussing the boss or clearing more adds is a much better option

That works when you are with a coordinated group who recognizes that there is a kill chain that must be obeyed if you want to pass the boss, but if you get someone who is obstinately going to treat the boss like a parse dummy, that makes the encounter miserable for the others in the group.

I want to be clear that I'm not a proponent of health gating mechanics. I absolutely hate them too. But in all fairness, there isn't really many boss mechanics people will say they love because I think people love using their characters how they were built to be used, which is often to maximize DPS against a parse dummy. Asking people what mechanics they like is kinda like asking a PVP player what they like to get killed by. Well nobody likes to get killed in PVP, and nobody really likes mechanically difficult fights, but having varied encounters with different mechanics is what makes the game interesting. If you don't like a certain encounter, you just avoid it.

There’s people who prefer to parse and people who prefer to do mechanics. I actually like mechanically difficult fights, but not for overland.