I think that ship bosses would be really cool idea to add. I did hear mention of them, but not much else.
But when they do get added, I feel like they should be a raid boss where multiple people team up to defeat it. The boss ships would be much larger than normal and have a health bar. When a boss ship is destroyed, the contributing members of its destruction will earn a badge and the ship’s figurehead.
On the ship, there will be a large crew with a mini boss captain. The mini boss captain has unique boss drops for weapons and armor.
Once the ship is cleared, there should be golden sealed chests onboard that have a high chance of dropping the boss ship’s parts (other than the figurehead).
This is more something for later updates. I don’t expect anything anytime soon, but it’s a thought that I wanted to share
Once they’re added, I hope they fly around your character similar to how sirens work.
It would be so annoying to fight a miniboss on a moving boat or in the water
it would still be annoying to fight a ship captain with enough size to cover half of the ship in their attacks,
this is why we should scrap this idea and make a sunken warrior boss in an underwater cave instead, and give everyone there infinite waterbreathing and decent swim speed so you can actually dodge their attacks. It’s basically a boss fight but you’re flying but it’s in water
Prominent underwater bosses will most likely never be a thing, this is due to certain methods of attacking being rendered useless underwater. Plus, water movement is absolutely horrendous to fight in even with a speed boost.
just make it a gimmick fight where you’re given poseidon’s trident which works for every build as long as you’re in the arena
water movement isn’t that bad tbh, the main bad part is the fact that you can’t dodge, but you get to move around more freely in return
also I really don’t like fighting regular ships because the captains will just m1 you to death as soon as you get within reach. so if a ship captain miniboss was a thing, it should probably have a set attack pattern similar to how most other bosses work.
His final phase at 10% of his health covers his own ship with 3 explosive barrels, blowing it up completely leaving just the sealed chests in the water
hear me out, peacekeeper if he was canonically accurate to me. fire/sun/phoenix with absorption curse and a completely decked out rowboat with a ram and all