What boss/dungeon mechanics would you like to see ingame?

Was talking to a friend about how lalafells have a problem with target selection and PVP terrain obstacles and thought about how PVE would be way more fun with terrain mechanics.

Example:
A boss would be set in a hedge maze like layout and the party will have to look for the boss and adds. The tank will tank the boss and the party has to kite adds and go to each corner of the maze to destroy the maze or something and continue to phase 2.

I love hiding behind walls and shooting at things :p

I would like to see a boss that gains in strength/mechanics based on how many key rooms in the dungeon were left unclear, there were no gates throughout the dungeon to force a specific route, and that the route to the boss was short and already open. Further, the boss chests at the end offer more loot options based on how many rooms were left uncleared. With an achievement for beating the boss with all key rooms left uncleared.

Made a thread with the idea, even asked for others to share their ideas for dungeons/mechanics though no one ever replied to it.

What i dont want as a in game boss mechanic is the idea of destroying a set items to survive the blast ie ilfrits nails. tired of the mechanic. what i do want is akin to monster hunters Jhen morhan fight. phase one is similiar to bis fight minus the adds. boss is right next to you and you have to fight him as your going along the terrain be it sky sea or land. destroy the parts to weaken him NOT TO SURVIVE THE BLAST. then phase 2 we go into a last stand type thing where the boss fights you but also doesnt give a f akin to steps. yea sure it sounds like steps i know but if done right it can def be cool but thats just my idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjBA6p1zunw = jhen morhan fight for those interested

Like the Monk Job quest lv60! That was awesome!
You have to get a certain boost so you do 10x more damage as usual, cause that boss was so damn powerfull!
Also it was needed to beat all those nonstop coming adds attking your befriended NPCs! O:

Or how about this: (I just had this idea)

Schoolars Fairys Eos and Selene want some "fun"!
Boss fight: Battle Arena turns complete in dark due Bad Selenes'. Very small view and Some traps everywhere.
Also: that means: cant target the boss, nor can see the whole arena, just 1-2yards :P

Tank have to keep boss his attention! And prevent party gets hit by boss AoE that gives negativ status: Fear! (Tank is imun)
4-6 friendly Eos's appear around the arena. You can see there glowing everywhere! But look out for traps! They are hurting and makes you slow (Weight, Paralyze) :P
DPS's and/Or healer have to negotiate with all Eos's so they bring the light back for a certain amount of time ->
Boss is weakend and can be attacked by party, but that monster is a being living in the dark, so its blinded -> Cant atk the party!
But those mean Selene's(not targetable!) will atk party instead and giving annoying negative status'! ;o

And so on: Light turns out and the mechanic starts from new!
Untill... Boss have 25% HP left and starting to get desperate and angry... Arena is getting dark again.
But no Eos's appears this time though. Because Selenes captured them! :P
Meanwhile... The Boss turns into a bright glowing red monster and gets damage/defence/speed boost and is rampaging! ->
But party can atk him!

I have tons of ideas! @.@ ...to bad I dont work for this game )=

Lb 4 for healers "auto life".
A boss fight where everybody dies if lb 4 gauge hasnt filled up Yet for healers. And you have to actually Do something to fill up the last lb4 cuse it has to require something. Like leviathan debuff on healers it is interesting and makes u not spam alot of heals. So if 1 healer
get 10 stack u loose the lb4. It all should depending on the situation and make it harder for healers to heal and tank and dps to survive.

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Impossible, rather, given what you've just described. That aside, given the requirements to get an LB meter filled, this could easily work against groups that are already ilvl capped for a dungeon. Not to mention LB 4 doesn't exist.

I'd love to see a boss damaging/danger mechanic that isn't solely dependent the usual schtick of "avoid the marked aoe locations". While I understand the urgency to nail this into the player's mind that these are danger zones, and they'd do better in the game to avoid them, it's a draw back to see that it's so much a point needing to be made, it's almost always the primary mechanic in any given fight. I rarely ever see them try to stray out of this, with the exception of raids.

Hm maybe something like Hodir from WoW where there are different buffs that you can collect/share with allies that greatly increase your stats, for example, one that increases DET, one that increases Skill/Spell Speed, one that increases CRIT, and the only way to beat the DPS check is to stack those buffs (but obviously with some boss mechanics that make stacking buffs difficult).

One that inverts all the partys actions. Healing moves would do damage and offensive moves would heal.
Boss would do massive damage, the DPS would have to heal the party and the healers would have to do X amount of damage to the boss (using healing spells) for the debuff to be canceled.

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Originally Posted by nexas506

One that inverts all the partys actions. Healing moves would do damage and offensive moves would heal.
Boss would do massive damage, the DPS would have to heal the party and the healers would have to do X amount of damage to the boss (using healing spells) for the debuff to be canceled.

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*Dragon Kicks white mage* Don't worry, I'm helping!

I'd be so for that. *-*

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Impossible, rather, given what you've just described. That aside, given the requirements to get an LB meter filled, this could easily work against groups that are already ilvl capped for a dungeon. Not to mention LB 4 doesn't exist.

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huh? don't we already have something like this with the Elemental Conversion meter in Leviathan? it would just be more specific what makes that meter go up/down.

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*Dragon Kicks white mage* Don't worry, I'm helping!

I'd be so for that. *-*

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*gets up*

*casts Benediction*

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*gets up*

*casts Benediction*

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*Benediction went on CD... but it was too late... like always.*

1.0 toto-rak

different paths with different bosses and different loottables

Its just an idea pls think outside of the box. <.<

A Big Mirror
At 90%, he creates a copy of healer and of one dps . We need to deal with them.
At 60% he created a copy of tank and the 2nd dps. We need to deal with them too.
At 30%, he creates a copy of the full team. We need to deal with them too.
For each copy on the field, the mirror gains a damage buff and a defensive buff.
If you don't kill the copies when he invokes the next, that will explode and do 75% damages to the life of the character who has been copied.
The copies attack with auto-attack and have ours skills, so be careful :)

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A Big Mirror
At 90%, he creates a copy of healer and of one dps . We need to deal with them.
At 60% he created a copy of tank and the 2nd dps. We need to deal with them too.
At 30%, he creates a copy of the full team. We need to deal with them too.
For each copy on the field, the mirror gains a damage buff and a defensive buff.
If you don't kill the copies when he invokes the next, that will explode and do 75% damages to the life of the character who has been copied.
The copies attack with auto-attack and have ours skills, so be careful :)

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so the mirror knights from dark souls 2 basically
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/...20140328001820

A biomechanical boss that regenerates hp faster the less health it has. Its hp bar has ~5 brackets (80-90%, 60-70, 40-50, 20-30, and 0-10). Once its hp enters a bracket it starts a soft enrage which ends after x seconds of its hp staying within a bracket.

The first one for example wouldn't require a lot of dps to keep the boss's hp in the specified range, just some dots, and an increasing number of adds will spawn until the timer ends making it a dual dps check - maintaining just enough damage on the boss while dealing with adds. The last one would require a lot of dps and would deal increasing damage to the group making it a dual healer check - dpsing and keeping the group up.

After a bracket timer ends a chunk of the boss breaks off and it becomes weakened, lowering its max hp (making the lower brackets a little easier) and giving the group a chance to stabilize.

Finally if the group outgears the boss they can skip brackets so they don't have to throttle their dps for each phase.

Similar to a dungeon in WoW where everyone gets a HUGE power upgrade to deal with the last phase of a boss. Everyone getting dps/heal numbers with a few extra digits.

Perhaps there could be a mechanic in this game that involves a raid member getting such power upgrade and other players have to support him with abilities (cards, tp/mp, crit buff, Stoneskin, devensive buffs, debuffs on boss) so he can take down enough boss health and survive it until the next phase. While supporting, the other members also take care of minor adds and trigger some environmental buffs of which there is a limited amount.

I also vote for this:

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Originally Posted by nexas506

One that inverts all the partys actions. Healing moves would do damage and offensive moves would heal.
Boss would do massive damage, the DPS would have to heal the party and the healers would have to do X amount of damage to the boss (using healing spells) for the debuff to be canceled.

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It reminds me of a boss that had a light/darkness swap and the boss had to be healed during one phase and damaged in the other.

Can I list mechanics which I would not like in-game? Number one would definitely be any and all kinds of vehicles. Gobwalkers, gorilla suits, cannons and such things are not fun at all for me. I prefer not having to read tooltips mid fight when I already have abilities of my own that I could be using. Why can't the bombs be pushed back by Aero instead of a gorilla fist?

I'd like to see a boss with multi-layer mechanics. Kind of like how the first boss of Weeping but have it be 3 levels where each team has their own job to take care of. For example person on the lowest floor needs to activate switches to allow the other teams to climb higher or just being so massive that we each take a platform and the boss having 3 sides spins from time to time switching mechanics based on the side facing that alliance.

Another mechanic I would like them to look into is a stone-shatter effect. We already have some bosses who make use of the perma-death such as Titan and Leviathan. Have it where you get turned to stone but if your not freed from it you'll be smashed to pieces basically killing you for the rest of the fight. Idea of how it could work could be that once stoned you become a target and each attack pushes you around. You need to be pushed into a special light or AOE to free you before your killed but you could also use that player as a shield. Kinda makes me think the player could get a massive DEF boost but should his HP reach 0 the shatter will occur and can not be healed during that time.

How about a boss fight that isn't 100% scripted start to finish?