Why can boss fights be started while first-timers are watching the cutscene?

[Duuude007]

What/Where is this Inn?

I don't care too much if people kill off trash mobs but OP was outside the boss area and was locked out when the encounter was started. I think most of them are like 15 secs. A lot of the story mode main quest line cut scenes are longer than that.

There are three inns, accessible via the innkeepers in each city's Adventurers' Guild.

The lockout policy for bosses (once engaged) is exactly 15 seconds (according to the popup), which means 15 is enough... that said, if an agreement is made at the beginning of a dungeon, as the GMs suggest, such a thing shouldn't be such a surprise to any involved.

[Flett117]

It will be solved if they didn't lock out the fights. The vets can play while the new players watch the cut scene and when their done watching they can join the fight.

[Callinon]

It will be solved if they didn't lock out the fights. The vets can play while the new players watch the cut scene and when their done watching they can join the fight.

The reason for this is to prevent "zombie" strategies on difficult bosses. Additionally it prevents degenerate tactics like pulling a boss out of its room and say.... up a hill, with the intention of negating several of its mechanics. I'm looking at you, Dhorme Chimera.

[Flett117]

It could set it up like other MMOs do, where the location you travel too to fight the boss basically drops you into a boss zone but if your outside of the zone you're to far away to interact with the fight.

[Sientia]

It could set it up like other MMOs do, where the location you travel too to fight the boss basically drops you into a boss zone but if your outside of the zone you're to far away to interact with the fight.

A simpler solution would be to simply move anyone watching a cutscene to the other side of the boss gate when the cutscene begins. That way it basically circumvents all the issues people have with getting locked out of a fight should they decide to watch a cutscene while the rest of the group pulls without them.

With the exception of the first and final boss in the Praetorium, none of the cutscenes in Castrum or the Praetorium are long enough to have you completely miss out on an entire fight.