Less is More or Less

Tomboski · February 2022

Please pardon my ignorance if this topic has already been addressed, but I'd like to talk about boss fights.
1. Millions upon millions of hp, cheap time-sink
2. Tedium, as in rotating skills with all the spontaneity of a factory assembly line
3. Lastly, I typed this while I was waiting for a boss to drop dead.

Arunei · February 2022

I don't have a problem with high-health bosses, what irritates me is when bosses have invulnerable phases, or when they jump all over the map. Those feel like cheap mechanics used to pad and draw out fights, instead of use of more engaging mechanics.

Tomboski · February 2022

I rather enjoy a good chase, but I'm with you on invulnerability. What I find really obnoxious is chain stunning/immobilization. That's about the time I start looking for chores to do around my house (so I suppose all is not lost)

Heartrage · February 2022

Most bosses can be killed reasonably fast if the group has a decent dps and do mechanics especially in normal content.

Most invulnerability phases also have you do mechanics to remove the invulnerability. Generally those are more meaningful and important while doing vet content.

SeaGtGruff · February 2022

I don't mind high-health bosses as long as they can be whittled down over time. If they also have constant health regeneration (as opposed to something you can interrupt), like some/most/all? of the troll bosses, then it's basically just a DPS check, and I hate those because my DPS isn't good enough to pass their check.

Mojmir · February 2022

Artifical difficulty was never a thing i liked either

Kiralyn2000 · February 2022

Massive HP sink + tedium (once you've learned the phases/patterns/etc; frustration before) is why I've never been very interested in "Boss Fight" games (like Monster Hunter or *Souls) or dungeons/raids/arenas/etc.

Heartrage · February 2022

Tomboski wrote: »

3. Lastly, I typed this while I was waiting for a boss to drop dead.

Out of curiosity, which boss was it?

Tomboski · February 2022

I suppose I could always swap out for more dps; but I can't help feeling like if I'm not dead in 90 seconds, it should be a wrap.

Tomboski · February 2022

@Heartrage: Most of them

Necrotech_Master · February 2022

i think this is a reason people get more into pvp, because the human AI is a lot more difficult to play against than the NPC AI lol

of course with the pvp we have the performance issues

Vevvev · February 2022

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

i think this is a reason people get more into pvp, because the human AI is a lot more difficult to play against than the NPC AI lol

of course with the pvp we have the performance issues

Pretty much, yeah. PvE is fun but like... I like a but of random and counterplay in my content. Beat that super hard dungeon and it's not going to mystically step up it's game and adapt to my strategy next time.

RevJJ · February 2022

How can less be more? More is more.

https://youtu.be/QHZ48AE3TOI