World bosses

concobar

As most world bosses can be defeated by four people and some soloed and on top of this other than the achievement most drop incredibly underwhelming loot I suggest that Zeni add some epic world bosses such as a Dragon that will require dozens of players to defeat and drop better loot, perhaps items that are of a unique look.

Phantax

I spy a GW2 player...lol

Yes I have to agree it was a great sight seeing 20-30 people fighting a world boss (and still struggling to bring it down). I remember that buzz over chat when people would announce the pre-event leading up to a boss and people would just flock to the area !

World bosses being taken down by 2 people is well... kinda pathetic. Give us some real bosses ! ! !

Seroczynski

I call them 'Champions', as they are nothing more as level 2 elite enemies :-)

concobar

Guilty, played quite a bit of GW2 as a Norn Guardian.

Ulvich

Phantax wrote: »

I spy a GW2 player...lol

I was thinking more like vanilla WoW. Remember the 5 world dragons? Those were the days.

concobar

I was thinking more like old school EQ and lady Vox.

Phantax

concobar wrote: »

I was thinking more like old school EQ and lady Vox.

Showing your age there old timer...lol

crowfl56

I remember the EQ dragon raids, 75-100 people an hour getting buffs in preparation to fight. VOX for one, my very first dragon raid.

InspectorGanja

Phantax wrote: »

I spy a GW2 player...lol

^ LoL

Hexagar

What world bosses? Thos are just tough elite enemies. .. who said that u supposed to get golden loot out of them or require 20 ppl to kill em? They are fine as they are. . If u want tougher encounters w8 till veteran dungeons. .

concobar

I played EQ when it was Verant and lvl50 was cap.... I wouldnt say I am old, more like vintage.

Magdalina

I haven't played any MMOs before this. Personally, I like being able to bring down a boss alone(not without a lot of trying though) or with my bf I usually play with(also with some effort, preferably). I like feeling a challenge but I don't want to have to team up with 10 other people for it. A couple works tho. That said, I do think some of current bosses are terribly underpowered. They're not only soloable, they're EASY to solo. That while some of the bosses are almost impossible to even duo. Not very equal, is it? I prefer the latter kind, where we actually have to make up a strategy, use potions, carefully choose abilities and all that to maybe win.
...and after all of that get a soulgem and 10 gold for loot. Did I mention I hate the loot timer?>.>

Far as many-people-bosses go, closest would probably be the Trials that are supposed to come soon.

Reenlister

Hexagar wrote: »

What world bosses? Thos are just tough elite enemies. .. who said that u supposed to get golden loot out of them or require 20 ppl to kill em? They are fine as they are. . If u want tougher encounters w8 till veteran dungeons. .

eh, even outside the dungeons. At V1 the groups of 3+ are the bigger danger.. Must admit, its adding to the challenge and requires some decent thought before / during fights now.

Catflinger

Even more recent world bosses in WoW have been quite challenging; at the launch of MoP, the two world bosses (Sha of Anger and Galleon) required 40-person raids of players who didn't have good gear. Those two still need 10 -20 players even now at the end of the expac.

Not sure if world bosses on that scale fit into ESO right now, but the ones that are in place now really aren't "world bosses", just higher-level elites.

PharmaChief

Agree. There should be one super boss per zone that would require lots of people to beat

concobar

I wouldnt want to remove the current bosses, just add a few high end raid type world bosses.

Blackwidow

concobar wrote: »

I was thinking more like old school EQ and lady Vox.

Remended me of the "Troll in BoB" from Meridian 59.

Shillen

They should just bump up the difficulty (and rewards) of dolmens dramatically, IMO. And make them spawn less often. Make them epic events instead of the lackluster thing they are now.

leandro.800ub17_ESO

With the current timers on boss loot this actually could work. High level bosses and better drops

concobar

Not a bad idea ^

Aci

Imho the anchors are okay as they are. Better loot always means people will leave other options to get their stuff. There will be a boss-train, one of many things that made GW2 so boring for me, rush, rush, rush or fail. A huge world boss per zone? Im tempted to like this idea though.

vstadenerwb17_ESO

Sinmur the Ghost giant... I was so looking forward to that battle only for it to last something like 20 seconds, without any other help Now THAT was disappointing. Before I could hit the screenshot button - dead. Lame. But I'm sure Craglorn and other future patches will have killer bosses (hopefully)

FoxyAbyss

Being an old perfect world player myself, I would love to see some actual world bosses that require a full guild or two to take down. I remember the days of having 30 healers on a single tank and dps all around trying to burn the *** out of a boss who would amplify damage on everything so the backup healers would have to purify and all of the venomancers would have to purge the buffs off of the boss and use their own amplify damage while not dying at close range. Those were the days...

Morgha_Kul

I might agree with this, except that developers these days think the way to make a foe challenging is to give him a billion health and numerous unavoidable oneshot attacks (or close to it).

Many people don't find bosses like that fun.

DaveMoeDee

I wonder how many people in this thread stopped playing the game long ago.

I was soloing a world boss with my main, who is a tank, during the event. After 10 minutes it seemed clear it's health hadn't moved. Annoying.

I did enjoy soloing one of the WB in Vvardenfell during the event. The fight required my attention and it also spawned enough skeletons for me to get that event achievement for killing them. I think I have 4 skeleton kills going into the battle, so I killed at least 96 skeletons during it. My tank was having issues getting the killing shot for that achievement in group content.

MLGProPlayer

I like them as is. I enjoy the challenge of trying to solo them.

I disliked WBs in GW2. They weren't fun. Just a zergfest.

Da_Leroy

Hexagar wrote: »

What world bosses? Thos are just tough elite enemies. .. who said that u supposed to get golden loot out of them or require 20 ppl to kill em? They are fine as they are. . If u want tougher encounters w8 till veteran dungeons. .

Veteran dugeons arent that tough, you can solo them with ease

Ermiq

Da_Leroy wrote: »

Hexagar wrote: »

What world bosses? Thos are just tough elite enemies. .. who said that u supposed to get golden loot out of them or require 20 ppl to kill em? They are fine as they are. . If u want tougher encounters w8 till veteran dungeons. .

Veteran dugeons arent that tough, you can solo them with ease

In March 2014, when the post you quoted was written, veteran dungeons didn't exist yet.
Also, I think they were a bit tougher back then, when they finally have been launched.

Mr_Walker

Da_Leroy wrote: »

Hexagar wrote: »

What world bosses? Thos are just tough elite enemies. .. who said that u supposed to get golden loot out of them or require 20 ppl to kill em? They are fine as they are. . If u want tougher encounters w8 till veteran dungeons. .

Veteran dugeons arent that tough, you can solo them with ease

Necro thread, but no, most people can't.