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Time to ditch 6 world bosses per new chapter?

  • MudcrabAttack
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    Maybe they could just nerf them over time
    Edited by MudcrabAttack on June 30, 2022 4:55PM
  • _Zathras_
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    Arato wrote: »
    I guess low enough to discourage people it looks like.

    Low enough to encourage outright buying them in the Cash Shop. That's been the model for a while now, at least since Summerset. Long grind, abysmal drop rate, or..just give up and buy it.

  • Necrotech_Master
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    i found all of the WBs in high isle to generally be easy and had no problem soloing them

    there is not a huge amount of reason to farm the bosses because of item curation its very easy to fully collect all items in the zone now (i had 80% of the gear collected in the zone after finishing all the quests, got the rest through doing the WB dailies)
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  • kieso
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    I actually enjoy soloing these bosses. With that said I always see other people killing them. 🤷‍♂️
  • Arato
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    I'd recommend learning from the basic alliance zones. WBs there have plenty of activity because if you are the only one there, you can still probably solo it. DLC WBs? I generally cannot solo them so I totally ignore them.

    Being able to solo them isn't the issue.
    I can get them done every day.

    It's just not fun doing it solo.
    I'd much rather have other people there with me, it's just more fun.
  • Arato
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    Nah, 6 is fine. Most people will come to help you if you put out a call in ZC.

    I call out and .. not a peep, prime time,.. or just after reset when you think they'd be busiest.

    Unless you're talking
    just keep shouting into the vacuum for half an hour

    nah I'm not patient enough for that, I'll finish soloing it before then.
    but I never had to do that for bosses in Deadlands, Clockwork City, Southern Elsweyr,, or even Murkmire, like.. just mentioning that a boss is up (not even offering to share the quest) is always guaranteed to get some responses or people just showing up in zones where there are only 2 WB's.. it just concentrates the people who need the daily quests instead of spreading them out.

    But in zones with 6 WB's? Be prepared to just sit there for a good while while the boss is alive, shouting into the vacuum and not getting response.
  • Arato
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    DigiAngel wrote: »
    I've been soloing WB's with a high dps DK and a healing Mirri. Has worked well for a bit now.

    why do people assume that the issue is whether or not I can solo them?

    I solo them every single day.
    It's just not how they're intended to be done and it's not fun.
  • Necrotech_Master
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    Arato wrote: »
    DigiAngel wrote: »
    I've been soloing WB's with a high dps DK and a healing Mirri. Has worked well for a bit now.

    why do people assume that the issue is whether or not I can solo them?

    I solo them every single day.
    It's just not how they're intended to be done and it's not fun.

    to each their own, i kind of find WBs less fun when they melt in 10 seconds lol
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    i have my main house (grand topal hideaway) listed in the housing tours, it has multiple target dummies, scribing altar, and grandmaster stations (in progress being filled out), as well as almost every antiquity furnishing on display to preview them

    feel free to stop by and use the facilities
  • dinokstrunz
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    There's multiple factors at play here
    1. There's 1 Vent active per Instance so of course players will converge on that site
    2. High Isle has gone quiet pretty fast and didn't galvanize as much hype as people would've thought
    3. Once everyone finished the bosses & got what they wanted people just went back to what they were doing prior to chapter release
  • Marto
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    I'll gladly trade 1 less WB and delve in Chapters if it means getting an extra one in Story DLCs. I like the idea!
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  • Zulera301
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    NA-PC, the Deadlands bosses are still hoppin' despite High Isle, partially because they just recently released the motifs that go with the dailies. I also think they might have leads? I'm not sure about that part since I didn't keep track.

    as for rewards for farming a boss over and over, yeah there's nothing really too compelling for that anymore.
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  • Arato
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    There's multiple factors at play here
    1. There's 1 Vent active per Instance so of course players will converge on that site
    2. High Isle has gone quiet pretty fast and didn't galvanize as much hype as people would've thought
    3. Once everyone finished the bosses & got what they wanted people just went back to what they were doing prior to chapter release

    Yeah the thing is.. for other chapters there was good activity for weeks if not a solid month in the zone.
    But this one.. it was dead by day 2
  • Arato
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    Zulera301 wrote: »
    NA-PC, the Deadlands bosses are still hoppin' despite High Isle, partially because they just recently released the motifs that go with the dailies. I also think they might have leads? I'm not sure about that part since I didn't keep track.

    as for rewards for farming a boss over and over, yeah there's nothing really too compelling for that anymore.

    still huh? yeah I should probably go back and try to get that motif.
  • Jpk0012
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    i found all of the WBs in high isle to generally be easy and had no problem soloing them

    there is not a huge amount of reason to farm the bosses because of item curation its very easy to fully collect all items in the zone now (i had 80% of the gear collected in the zone after finishing all the quests, got the rest through doing the WB dailies)

    The other 90% of us need help, and find the content BORING AND UNREWARDING.
    How does High Isle help us achieve anything? It doesn't.

  • Jpk0012
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    mekops_ESO wrote: »
    Jaraal wrote: »
    Difficulty needs to scale with players with the minimum being 4 players and maximum difficulty aimed at 12 players.

    Yeah they hit the sweet spot with adjustable geysers. Not sure why they abandoned that concept.

    yea that was awesome. if your dps was super low it would just spawn you a beefy yaghra instead of a full blown boss. i thought this scaling was pretty clever

    The problem was we had a bunch of trolls show up whining for harder content. Funny, how these guys aren't at harrowstorms. Yet, ZOS has clearly catered to these whiners.
  • Arato
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    To be clear I'm not asking for easier world bosses.
    I'm just wanting there to be people at them so that the zone doesn't look totally dead all the time.
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