We need world boss events like this!

Syrani

Standing around in a main city, clearing out inventory, deconning stuff, repairing, trying to think of something to do...it gets boring. It would be awesome if we had something that could break up that monotony, something epic that only happened rarely.

Back in the day in WoW, you could actually kite world bosses as far as you wanted to, as they did not reset if taken too far away from their spawn point. Now this was frowned upon by Blizzard, but I think it would have been awesome to experience something like what's shown in the following videos. Just imagine, you are standing around checking what traits you still need to research, when all of a sudden, Molag Bal shows up and starts attacking the city! Chaos erupts! A massive fight ensues, people are dying left and right, calls are going out across chat channels to come defend the city, and people flock to the city en mass to participate in the epic battle!

Please ZoS - make it happen!! It could be a very rare event, and unscheduled so you never know when or if it's going to happen. With One Tamriel, everyone could go help, regardless of faction, and it would be epic!! It would make the game feel so much more alive.

EDIT: I am NOT advocating for allowing bosses to be kited!! This would be a world event. I am NOT saying to make this an every day occurrence! It would be a couple times a YEAR.

**Please note: there is some cussing in these, both in the music they selected, and in in-game chat shown on screen**

World boss being kited to Horde capital city:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFuBmkVvUTQ

World boss being kited to Alliance capital city (very poor quality video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl0VWJdE01M#t=220.5883333

Game Masters summon several raid bosses to Alliance capital city on PTS (the skeletons are the dead bodies of players lol):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urypFztu5NQ


Make it happen!!

jaye63

ESO IS NOT WOW... IF ESO EVER BECOMES WOW I WILL TAKE MY MONEY ELSEWHERE!

IF YOU WANT WOW... GO PLAY WOW. BUT YOU ARENT THERE BECAUSE WOW SUCKS. SINCE WOW SUCKS, STOP TRYING TO MAKE ESO SUCK BY MAKING ESO LIKE WOW

vyndral13preub18_ESO

Syrani wrote: »

Standing around in a main city, clearing out inventory, deconning stuff, repairing, trying to think of something to do...it gets boring. It would be awesome if we had something that could break up that monotony, something epic that only happened rarely.

Back in the day in WoW, you could actually kite world bosses as far as you wanted to, as they did not reset if taken too far away from their spawn point. Now this was frowned upon by Blizzard, but I think it would have been awesome to experience something like what's shown in the following videos. Just imagine, you are standing around checking what traits you still need to research, when all of a sudden, Molag Bal shows up and starts attacking the city! Chaos erupts! A massive fight ensues, people are dying left and right, calls are going out across chat channels to come defend the city, and people flock to the city en mass to participate in the epic battle!

Please ZoS - make it happen!! It could be a very rare event, and unscheduled so you never know when or if it's going to happen. With One Tamriel, everyone could go help, regardless of faction, and it would be epic!! It would make the game feel so much more alive.

**Please note: there is some cussing in these, both in the music they selected, and in in-game chat shown on screen**

World boss being kited to Horde capital city:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFuBmkVvUTQ

World boss being kited to Alliance capital city (very poor quality video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl0VWJdE01M#t=220.5883333

Game Masters summon several raid bosses to Alliance capital city on PTS (the skeletons are the dead bodies of players lol):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urypFztu5NQ


Make it happen!!

I would prefer it went more the way rift did. Where dolemans spawn mobs that actually branch out from it and move to infect other areas.

Perhaps some sort of 'Epic' doleman spawns from time to time, with improved loot drops in the cest after.

The game really has what it needs to make these type of fight happen, they have just never bothered to try to make it interesting.

SirCritical

Poor me, I just can't understand what's happening in those videos.

Ah, now I see.

JD2013

My favourite boss in Vanilla WoW was Stitches.

jaye63

No. It's bad enough you got duels going in the bank. No.

Drinks-Loves

Wrong comment

Stovahkiin

vyndral13preub18_ESO wrote: »

Syrani wrote: »

Standing around in a main city, clearing out inventory, deconning stuff, repairing, trying to think of something to do...it gets boring. It would be awesome if we had something that could break up that monotony, something epic that only happened rarely.

Back in the day in WoW, you could actually kite world bosses as far as you wanted to, as they did not reset if taken too far away from their spawn point. Now this was frowned upon by Blizzard, but I think it would have been awesome to experience something like what's shown in the following videos. Just imagine, you are standing around checking what traits you still need to research, when all of a sudden, Molag Bal shows up and starts attacking the city! Chaos erupts! A massive fight ensues, people are dying left and right, calls are going out across chat channels to come defend the city, and people flock to the city en mass to participate in the epic battle!

Please ZoS - make it happen!! It could be a very rare event, and unscheduled so you never know when or if it's going to happen. With One Tamriel, everyone could go help, regardless of faction, and it would be epic!! It would make the game feel so much more alive.

**Please note: there is some cussing in these, both in the music they selected, and in in-game chat shown on screen**

World boss being kited to Horde capital city:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFuBmkVvUTQ

World boss being kited to Alliance capital city (very poor quality video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl0VWJdE01M#t=220.5883333

Game Masters summon several raid bosses to Alliance capital city on PTS (the skeletons are the dead bodies of players lol):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urypFztu5NQ


Make it happen!!

I would prefer it went more the way rift did. Where dolemans spawn mobs that actually branch out from it and move to infect other areas.

Perhaps some sort of 'Epic' doleman spawns from time to time, with improved loot drops in the cest after.

The game really has what it needs to make these type of fight happen, they have just never bothered to try to make it interesting.

Yeah, Rift had a good system in that the mobs that spawned would actually go conquer and kill people if players didn't come and stop them, too bad that game itself is usually super boring

Drinks-Loves

vyndral13preub18_ESO wrote: »

Syrani wrote: »

Standing around in a main city, clearing out inventory, deconning stuff, repairing, trying to think of something to do...it gets boring. It would be awesome if we had something that could break up that monotony, something epic that only happened rarely.

Back in the day in WoW, you could actually kite world bosses as far as you wanted to, as they did not reset if taken too far away from their spawn point. Now this was frowned upon by Blizzard, but I think it would have been awesome to experience something like what's shown in the following videos. Just imagine, you are standing around checking what traits you still need to research, when all of a sudden, Molag Bal shows up and starts attacking the city! Chaos erupts! A massive fight ensues, people are dying left and right, calls are going out across chat channels to come defend the city, and people flock to the city en mass to participate in the epic battle!

Please ZoS - make it happen!! It could be a very rare event, and unscheduled so you never know when or if it's going to happen. With One Tamriel, everyone could go help, regardless of faction, and it would be epic!! It would make the game feel so much more alive.

**Please note: there is some cussing in these, both in the music they selected, and in in-game chat shown on screen**

World boss being kited to Horde capital city:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFuBmkVvUTQ

World boss being kited to Alliance capital city (very poor quality video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl0VWJdE01M#t=220.5883333

Game Masters summon several raid bosses to Alliance capital city on PTS (the skeletons are the dead bodies of players lol):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urypFztu5NQ


Make it happen!!

I would prefer it went more the way rift did. Where dolemans spawn mobs that actually branch out from it and move to infect other areas.

Perhaps some sort of 'Epic' doleman spawns from time to time, with improved loot drops in the cest after.

The game really has what it needs to make these type of fight happen, they have just never bothered to try to make it interesting.

That would awesome

Mojmir

Server can't even handle people in epic pvp battles,no eta

jaye63

Dolmen.... it's called Dolmen.

Syrani

jaye63 wrote: »

ESO IS NOT WOW... IF ESO EVER BECOMES WOW I WILL TAKE MY MONEY ELSEWHERE!

IF YOU WANT WOW... GO PLAY WOW. BUT YOU ARENT THERE BECAUSE WOW SUCKS. SINCE WOW SUCKS, STOP TRYING TO MAKE ESO SUCK BY MAKING ESO LIKE WOW

OMG dude - these are just an example to show what kind of event I was talking about. Chill out.

Yinmaigao

Just no.

Kendaric

Not needed at all.
I still remember the "fun" when some a**holes kept pulling frost giants into the newbie zone around Halas in EQ1. It's griefing, plain and simple. There's nothing awesome about it.

Yinmaigao

Kendaric wrote: »

Not needed at all.
I still remember the "fun" when some a**holes kept pulling frost giants into the newbie zone around Halas in EQ1. It's grieving, plain and simple. There's nothing awesome about it.

Agreed.

Sounds like OP is asking for a ZoS-sanctioned way to grief players in major cities.

Might a well ask for PvP killing in major cities since there are people from opposing factions. That makes way more sense lore-wise. :rollseyes:

GrumpyDuckling

jaye63 wrote: »

ESO IS NOT WOW... IF ESO EVER BECOMES WOW I WILL TAKE MY MONEY ELSEWHERE!

IF YOU WANT WOW... GO PLAY WOW. BUT YOU ARENT THERE BECAUSE WOW SUCKS. SINCE WOW SUCKS, STOP TRYING TO MAKE ESO SUCK BY MAKING ESO LIKE WOW

The person who started this thread is requesting that one possible element of gameplay that appeared in WOW be incorporated into ESO.

That's hardly trying to make ESO like WOW. I've never played World of Warcraft so I can't speak much about it, but doesn't that game also include magic, swords, bows, etc?

Prof_Bawbag

It's bad enough when you have 2 people duelling. Chronic when you have 3 or 4 pairs of people duelling in the same area. Aye, I can't possibly see what could go wrong with implementing something like that. Good luck to anyone attempting to log into the likes of mournhold.

Dark_Lord_Kuro

Well in dcuo the game master some time make a raidboss spawn in the watchtower or give an enigma to wich the answer is a location within the game were lie a giantversion of a boss . Its on live server. Last time i was there the max level was 140 the boss was 200.

Could be fun

Syrani

Let me clarify -

*I am not asking for the ability to kite bosses anywhere. This would be an event that is part of the game.
*I am not asking for this to happen every day - I said RARELY - like a few times a year

It's not griefing - it would be the same as fighting a world boss, but a much tougher version of one that is attacking a city. A SINGLE city - not all of them, so if you don't want an epic battle going on while you are vendoring your trash, you can go to another city.

Prof_Bawbag

Syrani wrote: »

Let me clarify -

*I am not asking for the ability to kite bosses anywhere. This would be an event that is part of the game.
*I am not asking for this to happen every day - I said RARELY - like a few times a year

It's not griefing - it would be the same as fighting a world boss, but a much tougher version of one that is attacking a city. A SINGLE city - not all of them, so if you don't want an epic battle going on while you are vendoring your trash, you can go to another city.

No need for the belittling tone. Some of us stand in cities to spam our AoE's or to trash talk people into buying our CP180 gold gear.

TheShadowScout

Syrani wrote: »

It's not griefing - it would be the same as fighting a world boss, but a much tougher version of one that is attacking a city. A SINGLE city - not all of them, so if you don't want an epic battle going on while you are vendoring your trash, you can go to another city.

It would be griefing - aka, bringing a battle to people who just want to go about their normal i-game lives, in an "safezone" city.

If you want to fight a epic battle, YOU go out to another place and find an epic battle together with all those who want it, don't ask for the epic battle to come to all those people who do not want it, that would be disruptive; and especially don't ask for a way for you to kite an epic battle towards people who do not want it, that would be vexing.

Now... if the "epic city attack" idea was done as random NPC invasion in cyrodil... have a "NPC enabled" campaign where every once in a while a horde of NPCs (Imperials, daedra, whatever) attack and conquer a random keep so players have to fight an epic battle against a much stronger then usual NPC force to defend or take back the keep... that I could see, since all of cyrodil is an "don't go unless you want battle" zone anyways. But not in the PvE cities where people usualyl just want to go about their virtual lives, do their crafting, shopping, roleplaying...

Rohamad_Ali

Interactive events can be fun but sometimes annoying . I liked SWG's approach better . They had a Dev you could contact to set up events with Bosses for everyone in areas away from questing .

Syrani

SHadowScout, if you read above, you will see I said this WOULDN'T be a player kiting a boss in. It would be a world event. And like I also said, this would be a very rare event. Are you telling me that no one could POSSIBLY want to have an epic event occur *RARELY* because it would interrupt their deconning? Really? Even if you could just go to another city to do that?

I am honestly curious as to why you would think having a world event happen a couple times a year would be SO disruptive that no one would find it fun.

raglau

Stovahkiin wrote: »

vyndral13preub18_ESO wrote: »

Syrani wrote: »

Standing around in a main city, clearing out inventory, deconning stuff, repairing, trying to think of something to do...it gets boring. It would be awesome if we had something that could break up that monotony, something epic that only happened rarely.

Back in the day in WoW, you could actually kite world bosses as far as you wanted to, as they did not reset if taken too far away from their spawn point. Now this was frowned upon by Blizzard, but I think it would have been awesome to experience something like what's shown in the following videos. Just imagine, you are standing around checking what traits you still need to research, when all of a sudden, Molag Bal shows up and starts attacking the city! Chaos erupts! A massive fight ensues, people are dying left and right, calls are going out across chat channels to come defend the city, and people flock to the city en mass to participate in the epic battle!

Please ZoS - make it happen!! It could be a very rare event, and unscheduled so you never know when or if it's going to happen. With One Tamriel, everyone could go help, regardless of faction, and it would be epic!! It would make the game feel so much more alive.

**Please note: there is some cussing in these, both in the music they selected, and in in-game chat shown on screen**

World boss being kited to Horde capital city:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFuBmkVvUTQ

World boss being kited to Alliance capital city (very poor quality video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl0VWJdE01M#t=220.5883333

Game Masters summon several raid bosses to Alliance capital city on PTS (the skeletons are the dead bodies of players lol):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urypFztu5NQ


Make it happen!!

I would prefer it went more the way rift did. Where dolemans spawn mobs that actually branch out from it and move to infect other areas.

Perhaps some sort of 'Epic' doleman spawns from time to time, with improved loot drops in the cest after.

The game really has what it needs to make these type of fight happen, they have just never bothered to try to make it interesting.

Yeah, Rift had a good system in that the mobs that spawned would actually go conquer and kill people if players didn't come and stop them, too bad that game itself is usually super boring

Yes, Rift was onto something there. Would be nice to have this in ESO, where a takeover by the NPCs mean that city is off limits until you either take it back or the zone resets, it really pullled people together well in Rift. However, I fear the ESO game engine is too weak to handle it, which is saying something, as Rift's was pretty bloody awful anyway.

LordGavus

I like this idea. I've said to friends previously that a random boss attack or invasion type event would be cool. And as mentioned would be a rare event happening only a few times a year.

I am surprised by people complaining it would be an inconvenience. Really? An event once every few months that you may not even be online for.
Even if I was in the middle of decon or guild store I would be OK with this. You can always go back to what you were doing after or teleport to a different city if you didn't want to take part.

Molag Bal my be defeated for now, but the daedric hordes care not for your convenience.

svartorn

Ahh I remember kiting Teremus to Stormwind on a few occasions.

The good old days.

HatchetHaro

jaye63 wrote: »

ESO IS NOT WOW... IF ESO EVER BECOMES WOW I WILL TAKE MY MONEY ELSEWHERE!

IF YOU WANT WOW... GO PLAY WOW. BUT YOU ARENT THERE BECAUSE WOW SUCKS. SINCE WOW SUCKS, STOP TRYING TO MAKE ESO SUCK BY MAKING ESO LIKE WOW

By Akatosh, I have never seen such a thoughtful and polite post in my life. The all-caps makes your opinion so assertive and convincing, and you clearly demonstrated your ingenious ability to read and understand OP's points and reasoning. Kudos, random poster! Kudos!

sneakymitchell

I rather have a daily quest for each zone. And some people think the CGI trailer of the three alliance is going to happen in tamerial. Sadly no. And I wonder WoW has a justice system like ESO?

Rev Rielle

Pibbles wrote: »

Stovahkiin wrote: »

vyndral13preub18_ESO wrote: »

Syrani wrote: »

Standing around in a main city, clearing out inventory, deconning stuff, repairing, trying to think of something to do...it gets boring. It would be awesome if we had something that could break up that monotony, something epic that only happened rarely.

Back in the day in WoW, you could actually kite world bosses as far as you wanted to, as they did not reset if taken too far away from their spawn point. Now this was frowned upon by Blizzard, but I think it would have been awesome to experience something like what's shown in the following videos. Just imagine, you are standing around checking what traits you still need to research, when all of a sudden, Molag Bal shows up and starts attacking the city! Chaos erupts! A massive fight ensues, people are dying left and right, calls are going out across chat channels to come defend the city, and people flock to the city en mass to participate in the epic battle!

Please ZoS - make it happen!! It could be a very rare event, and unscheduled so you never know when or if it's going to happen. With One Tamriel, everyone could go help, regardless of faction, and it would be epic!! It would make the game feel so much more alive.

**Please note: there is some cussing in these, both in the music they selected, and in in-game chat shown on screen**

World boss being kited to Horde capital city:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFuBmkVvUTQ

World boss being kited to Alliance capital city (very poor quality video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl0VWJdE01M#t=220.5883333

Game Masters summon several raid bosses to Alliance capital city on PTS (the skeletons are the dead bodies of players lol):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urypFztu5NQ


Make it happen!!

I would prefer it went more the way rift did. Where dolemans spawn mobs that actually branch out from it and move to infect other areas.

Perhaps some sort of 'Epic' doleman spawns from time to time, with improved loot drops in the cest after.

The game really has what it needs to make these type of fight happen, they have just never bothered to try to make it interesting.

Yeah, Rift had a good system in that the mobs that spawned would actually go conquer and kill people if players didn't come and stop them, too bad that game itself is usually super boring

Yes, Rift was onto something there. Would be nice to have this in ESO, where a takeover by the NPCs mean that city is off limits until you either take it back or the zone resets, it really pullled people together well in Rift. However, I fear the ESO game engine is too weak to handle it, which is saying something, as Rift's was pretty bloody awful anyway.

Honestly this is what I had envisioned with the dolmen that drop. I think Development really missed an opportunity to provide some great content with it. Even if no like Rift like Oblivion at the very least would have been nice. Oh well.

Sinthrax

Syrani wrote: »

jaye63 wrote: »

ESO IS NOT WOW... IF ESO EVER BECOMES WOW I WILL TAKE MY MONEY ELSEWHERE!

IF YOU WANT WOW... GO PLAY WOW. BUT YOU ARENT THERE BECAUSE WOW SUCKS. SINCE WOW SUCKS, STOP TRYING TO MAKE ESO SUCK BY MAKING ESO LIKE WOW

OMG dude - these are just an example to show what kind of event I was talking about. Chill out.

That would actually add something exciting to the game. How dare you bring it up. Please, please just give me housing. Now that is some exciting content. Just give my house a toilet...Maybe then I can flush some gold or equipment down it to fight the boredom.

Sinthrax

GrumpyDuckling wrote: »

jaye63 wrote: »

ESO IS NOT WOW... IF ESO EVER BECOMES WOW I WILL TAKE MY MONEY ELSEWHERE!

IF YOU WANT WOW... GO PLAY WOW. BUT YOU ARENT THERE BECAUSE WOW SUCKS. SINCE WOW SUCKS, STOP TRYING TO MAKE ESO SUCK BY MAKING ESO LIKE WOW

The person who started this thread is requesting that one possible element of gameplay that appeared in WOW be incorporated into ESO.

That's hardly trying to make ESO like WOW. I've never played World of Warcraft so I can't speak much about it, but doesn't that game also include magic, swords, bows, etc?

ESO already has so many things like WoW its ashamed. Where are people getting this dont make ESO like WoW. The loot system...just like WoW. Dungeons...WoW has dungeons. Trails....WoW has Raids. I will stop.....but ya..dont make this like WoW by any means. I might not play if you do.