World Bosses Rework [Patch 11.1.3.1000]

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General Information About Content

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We are going to remove natural spawns of each worldboss that possess Proof of Myth, and instead, making them spawn with a preannounced schedule. Rotation will be like, next boss will always spawn at the beginning of defined hour, and 15 minutes of timer will start for server to kill it.

Boss will have HP regen, damage reduction and extended HP pool to make it challenging for damage dealers, their offensive abilities will stay as is. But for every player within vicinity, boss will lose slight portion of these defensive abilities except HP pool. There are other various factors thats affecting difficulty of boss as well, but player amount is the main factor, and effectiveness of this factor will increase with every 5 minutes passed ( up to 2 times ) after boss spawn time, so boss will be weakest at minute 10.

Each boss will have its particular Treasure that is given to every participant* for free every week. Weekly cooldown is per boss, so you can get 9 Treasures within 7 days technically. These treasures will contain basically many stuff, from repair hammers to end game equipment. They will be bound so you can't trade them.

If boss is defeated within 15 minutes, every participant^* will receive Proof of Dread at random amount from 1 to 3. Proof of Dread is tradeable material that can't be stacked, provides 40-70 Proof of Myth currency upon use. When boss is defeated successfully, challengers^** will have chance to receive extra Treasure, but not guaranteed.

Added option for free transportation at every Snoop as long as there is a world boss spawning soon, to ensure every player is joining who are willing to participate.

Tactics of each boss is revised and weakened/strengthened by aiming to provide comfort to also new players instead of frustration, so consider that this content is not supposed to be very challenging, but should demand many players, even the weakest ones.

Superficial Change Log for Bosses

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General: Added damage reduction to everyone except strongest challenger^**.

Zalkenrys: Removed invisible object to provide fluent ranged gameplay.

Targonharl: Changed phase transition to per 25% HP instead of 5%, reduced amount of damage on certain fatal spell to 80% instead of 101-110%.

Lagusen: Changed extensive damage over time to be applied only to strongest challenger^**.

Wodjin: Increased power of adds.

Kolanda: Changed damage over time to be applied only to strongest challenger^**.

Sismond: Extended fight area, increased amount of Energy Storage Rune kill needed to defeat boss.

Mandara: Increased power of adds.

Taren: Increased visibility of tornadoes.

Hackman: Increased power of adds.

Example Reward Distribution

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50 Players in vicinity

Raid 1: 20 Players

Raid 2: 10 Players

20 players are not in a group

Group 1: Raid 1 inflicts damage equal to 50% of boss HP.

Group 2: Raid 2 inflicts damage equal to 30% of boss HP.

Group 3: One player inflicts damage equal to 10% of boss HP.

Group 4: 10 players inflicts damage more than or equal to required damage threshold.

Group 5: 10 players inflicts damage lesser than required damage threshold.

Group 1 is strongest challenger

Group 2 and 3 are challengers

Group 1, 2, 3, 4 are participants

In this scenario,

If they didn't receive within last week, everyone in Group 1, 2, 3, 4 will receive their weekly Treasure.

If boss is defeated successfully:

- Everyone in group 1, 2 and 3 will have chance to obtain extra Treasure.

_{^{Whether they have received weekly Treasure within week or not, Group 1 will have highest chance to receive extra Treasure, while Group 3 will have least chance. Group 4 will not be eligible for extra treasure.}}

- Everyone in Group 1, 2, 3, 4 will receive Proof of Dread up to 3x.

Wildcard

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^*Participant: Everyone who inflicted enough damage. If you are in a raid, total damage of your raid will be considered instead. _{Damage inflicted to every object, which boss summons during fight will also considered while calculating this required damage value.}

^**Challenger: Players who are in top 3 damage dealer rank will be considered as a challenger. If you are in a raid, total damage of your raid will be considered as one challenger in rank.

_{Chance of obtaining extra Treasure for challengers is highest for #1 damage dealer, while lowest for #3. Within same raid, you can get extra reward but your raid member may not. Dice will be rolled for everyone individually.}

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If someone whose main class is heal can't get a reward because they can't DPS? That's why even those who enjoy playing HEAL need to have a DPS class. I think it would be nice if an advantage was added for heal.

Or you could do Vice-versa for healers " the amount of total heals they done instead of DPS "

Why are all the changes only focused on DPS?

Well, let's say "nice try".

but 0.5fpm is the result of players participating. And I am not saying many players like 1k-2k, just maybe 100 ppl, and it is absolutely unplayable.

I am actually in Wodjin kill raid, and for the last 2.5 minutes the client does not even respond anymore....

The idea is not bad but it´s literally unplayable. Server can´t handle that amount of players.

Wie schaut es aus, Aldo ist ja auch ein Boss, kann man den nicht mit einpflegen in die Kill Tabelle.

Why not make a separate room for each raid of 36 people, for example, as was done with Zhargos, maybe this will improve the situation.

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Why not make a separate room for each raid of 36 people, for example, as was done with Zhargos, maybe this will improve the situation.

Bad choice, if we cant do raid of 36 ppl. Everyone should participate in one location. And of course, how should work wb mechanic?

I think a really huge performance improvement would be if it were possible to disable the aura effect from other players. When I disable my own, I already get about 15 FPS more, but many people still have theirs active. Even if you have other players disabled, the small ball still has the aura effect (see pic).

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I think this problem is already in the base game, and always was. There are not many occasions when so many players gather...

However, it is really paingful.

I did not even see the Boss, the screen just freezes, no movement, no reaction from game client.

might not affect all players, as many player do damage and can play, but it is unplayable for many as well.

You should maybe consider deactivate all effects from skills/char modification, in this specific zone/area.

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I think this problem is already in the base game, and always was. There are not many occasions when so many players gather...

However, it is really paingful.

I did not even see the Boss, the screen just freezes, no movement, no reaction from game client.

might not affect all players, as many player do damage and can play, but it is unplayable for many as well.

You should maybe consider deactivate all effects from skills/char modification, in this specific zone/area.

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I think the guild resource orbs also pose a big problem.

Danke erst einmal für den Versuch wieder etwas neues ins Spiel zu bringen. Finde den Ansatz gut, da ja auch kleinere Spieler die Möglichkeit haben an Belohnungen bzw. Mats zu kommen. Das es da bei der Einführung Probleme geben würde war zu erwarten und man sieht ja auch, dass versucht wird diese zu verhindern.

Da ich kein Profi bin beschäftigt mich ein nur Gedanke: Warum funktioniert es bei Sathkur ohne Probleme?

Kein Absturz, FPS und MS ohne größere Probleme.

Hi, could you please seperate world boss pull from npc to 2 different items. If I'm not mistaken , the ring that cost 2850 PoM have both Titan and Colossus possible stats on it. It would be better if there is one item for Titan stats pull (that would cost half of actual price one, so 1400 PoM) and the actual one at 2850 that only drop colossus.

Can you just remove the hp regen on wb ? This is just a waste of time tbh , even with 2/3 raids full , bosses stay at 100% until few minutes when %regen start to drop down. The damage reduction itself should already be enough and could also solve the pb for late night wb when there is not as many ppl as there is during the day.

Feedback about a non-functioning world boss system, ping beyond playable, players are constantly told it's getting better, but the ping is consistently over 1k-2k. If you look at the performance, it's simply terrible. Even in instances during world bosses there are lags. At the same time, you're told that it's your add-ons that are causing these problems. But that it's simply your changes is not possible? Loot via a crate, good idea, what's the point if you participate in the fight and get the answer, not qualified for the crate. Group, enough damage done and scored as afk. Respect. Leads to endless discussions with GM/DEV's or support every time. The simple fact is, since the introduction of this worldbos system, only problems have arisen. Cooldown system, backports (I am not affected, but experience it too often with other players.) Reward system that has simply lost the connection to the game (rewards from the game only for already achieved game content, that's how it should be). What you give away from your store is your decision. But the fact that everything can be in there by luck is simply laughable. Where is the incentive to achieve anything in the game?