Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
This roulette is all allowing first timers experiencing the story as intended.
before the change : the first boss dies before the room is closed or 2-3 second after, while the firsttimer is in cutscene. He didnt see anything from the fight.

After the change : the first boss dies before the room is closed or 2-3 second after, the first timer did see the boss had a healthbar... and that he is useless as fight.


So, now it is experiencing fight as intended? the story is not only seeing cutscene + healthbar... The Nero fight is nothing now, he dies before the 3rd hand (sometime before the 2nd) you can ignore all kind of mechanics. except the begining of ultima due to the -99% damages. Before the change, when we had the "newbie bonus" we knew there was a new guy. yes he didnt see all the speed run strategies to do trashs faster, (aka PACK THEM ALL) and didnt see the boss being killed faster that the time needing to take a drink. But most of time, (all except when they were silly guys) we did wait for some specific time, like entering nero fight, gaius, ultima. or even Livia for the other dongeon. Some people made sure the newcomer find how to go after first castrum boss (staying near the thing to click on) etc. . .

What they did miss was the fights, that was a little impressiv when we were less than 50 ilvl average... (impressiv for some fight... because in castrum except livia... meeeeeh) but dont have anything to show now. They die without showing even one mechanic. Even Ultima, dont show anything of his skills... And with 7 people ilvl 110 (if i dont do mistake) it is nothing surprising... Would prefer being able to skip CS and do some trash while the newcomer watch CS and have "real" boss fight because we are ilvl 60, than what we have now... i would prefer this in the name of "experiencing the story as inteded"

I would have more fun personnally also... because raping boss like we do is nothing fun... for us old players or for the newcomer...

(and the best thing "for the newcomer to experience the story" would be having both bosssfight longer than 20 seconds AND no skipping CS. )