Add a higher delay before bosses regen (Or allow you to hit them even if they’re not aggro’ed yet)
I have noticed that, since I had the stealth talent, whenever I used my conjure elementals, when they die the boss just goes stationary and almost immediately heals. Sometimes I hit him, but it does nothing, and he regens anyway.
Fixing this can be simple, either A, you could increase the time it takes for a boss to respawn, or B, allow us to hit the boss to aggro them so they don’t respawn. This shouldn’t cause any problems either way, and it would prevent some very stupid moments from happening. (Example, King Ceaser’s mega explosion killed my lightning elementals, he goes stationary them immediately reverts all the way back to phase 1 from phase 3. )
Why not just remove it entirely? It rarely ever discourages or punishes players from cheesing bosses and is more likely to screw them over when fighting normally. Being able to cheese them anyway isn’t that much of a problem, though I assure you most people resort to cheese if a fight isn’t fun to begin with, and unfortunately that applies to most of AO’s encounters.
The forced teleport to their spawn point is less problematic and more of a double-edged sword: on one hand it can be useful to unstuck them if they get stuck, though that’s more of a bandaid-fix to the problem of pathfinding; on the other hand, it can get annoying if you’re fighting an NPC far from their spawn and they suddenly teleport back there. I prefer it should get removed too though.
I’ve had the Gravy prevent me from attacking Ceasar when he was on his last 2k health because Blasted Rock isn’t depopulated enough to hide players from their notoriety (there is ONE living corpse on it, who the hell could be snitching?), resetting my progress on what is the most boring boss of the entirety of the game.
Fun!
It’s not a matter of if they’re easy, it’s a matter of if they lose aggro on you for one second (Stealth users especially vulnurable,) you literally have to restart the entire boss. Might not be much for bosses with 1 phase or are weaker, but for someone like King Ceaser? Yeah, no.
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