Suggestions, Feedback, and Requests

Way to many bosses in this game is not fun to fight to the point that doing certain bosses every week comes down to whether or not you can quickly kill the boss to avoid the suffering of the fight.

Very few bosses are actually fun to do outside of these parametres such as Slime, Gloom, Lucid, and new Lotus are enjoyable to fight without needing to nuke them down quickly - though new Lotus does have no chill moments which can be problematic.

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Black Mage:
Delete This Boss!
Make a new Black Mage in its place.

Some truly awful sins of Black Mage:

1. Losing lives without actually dying.

2. Losing more than 1 life at a time.

3. The no chill bullet hell being constant.
(New Lotus does the bullet hell boss battle better since attacks have more clarity to them and you do not lose lives without dying and cannot lose 2 lives at the same time.)

4. Terrible visual clarity.

5. Terrible clarity of knowing what to do and where to go.

6. Learning and needing to know about a new mechanic in Phase 4 of the boss fight (knowing about Interact Key usage and knowing about white shield and black shield).

7. Having a different monster level for every phase of the boss fight and not being consistent with the same monster level for the entire boss fight.

8. It was not, is not, and never will be fun or enjoyable to fight!

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Kaling / Limbo / Baldrix (upcoming level 290+ boss):
Remove aspects from every boss fight that has no regular lives and lose the mechanic of some weird gimmick you have to learn.

What I am saying here is just give these boss fights normal life counts and if you lose all your lives then you die out of the fight. I don't want to learn some weird mechanic and especially this far deep into end game!

Also, knowing what to do and/or the visual clarity of the fights are not good. Example: the attacks blending into the background/foreground and not being able to see properly if there is a floor or no floor is not good.

If someone cannot go into a boss fight knowing nothing about the fight and cannot figure out what is happening while within the fight, then you need to improve the fight drastically!

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Verus Hilla:
Difficulty is too extreme.

What I would do to make this more enjoyable:

1. Cleansing becomes a combination of party and solo. Cleansing, regardless of the party size, will always function like you are playing it solo to determine whether or not an alter spawns in and only that person can see and cleanse that alter. The party aspect is that if ANY party member successfully cleanses their alter, then it applies that effect for everyone in the party.

A big problem to Verus Hilla is that solo/duo play is significantly easier than party play when it comes to longer fights.

2. The hands and red strings are doubled in size.
This means that there will be half the amount of hands and red strings as a result, but the importance of this is both make the gaps between the strings twice as a wide and the strings themselves are twice as thick making them easier to see and get hit by and make it less pixel perfect gameplay with more freedom to move around with the wider gaps between strings.

3. Normal Verus Hilla the damage of attacks reduce by roughly 50% and for Hard Verus Hilla by roughly 25%.

4. Reduce anti-healing from 100% to 80% so that classes where their main survivability is healing can still utilize their kit.

5. With anti-healing being reduced from 100%, potions can now be used all of the time with a cooldown of 10 seconds. Need to cleanse still to completely remove the anti-heal curse temporarily.

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Will:
Needs several improvements to make this fight enjoyable for all stages of the game and drastic improvements to the boss fight's lack of visual and audio clarity, and know what to do in any given situation.

Improvements to makes for Will:
For Phase 1:

1. The "tornado" skill that glides across the room, reduce this damage by 80% (so it deals only 20% of the damage it currently does).
The problem with this skill is not it existing, but how cheap it feels and dying to it always feels like an unavoidable death that does not feel deserved.

2. Remove the text prompt for when the check-point "test" occurs and instead replace it with a very obvious audio queue that gets more and more intense to give the player a sense of urgency and act as a timer to get to the right dimension in time.
~ The other part is make the correct and incorrect dimension to be a lot more obvious visually. Example: Wrong dimension is black and red, with poisonous smoke everywhere, and death skulls of varying sizes while the correct dimension can be greens and/or yellows and looks more tranquil and safe.

3. Remove the segment where you must collect the yellow balls and wait in the yellow safe bubble. This is not difficult or adds to gameplay, it is just a waste of time, especially when you done this boss fight hundreds of times already, your character is super strong, and just want to kill the boss and get your mesos for the week from him.
~ Once test is passed, you immediately move on to the next segment of health and/or complete phase 1 entirely. No more waiting around do nothing, wasting time. The hardest part to phase 1 is not dying to boredom.

4. Remove moonlight from Phase 1, you can just teleport between dimensions as many times as you like.

For Phase 2:

1. Reduce anti-healing from 100% to 80% so that classes that rely on healing to survive can still do so and for everyone is able to realistically not die. Need to consume moonlight still to cleanse the anti-healing effect to gain full benefits from healing.
~ You can always use potions with a cooldown as a result.

2. The start of "test" to gain a very obvious audio queue that it began with a lot more obvious visual queue than it is now.

3. "Test" needs to be a lot more obvious that it is happening, what to do, and an appropriate amount of time for anyone to respond to the "test" mechanics. Every player, regardless of their experience and knowledge of the boss fight, needs to know what is happening and know what to do to succeed.

~ The strikes are more delayed and instead of going bop-boom, they go bop-bop-bop-boom giving more time for players to respond and stand at the correct location to not take damage.

~ Where to stand of where is safe and what is dangerous to become insanely obvious utilizing very clear and contrasting visual effects and colour usage. To the extent that safe areas got to almost look like that area will heal you and the dangerous areas looks like super threatening death.

For Phase 3:

1. Reversal debuff is removed entirely so that the player can properly position themselves in the correct location. This avoids the feeling of any cheap and undeserving deaths.

2. The stomp attacks that Will performs is reduced to one type only AND the attack will have a very obvious audio wind up queue of Will about to do his stomp attack with very obvious visual indicators of where to stand of what is safe and what is dangerous, both with visual effects and colour usage that contrast each other.

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Damien:
Less problematic, more just boring and frustrating at the same time.

1. Reduce how much Damien moves around and remove entirely his ability to vanish from the fight and not be targetable.

2. Remove cleansing alter entirely, but there are still the stacks that can lead to death if you accumulate the maximum.
~ Cleansing is simplified into simply removing 1 stack at a time for not getting hit by a Damien attack for 8 seconds.

3. For Phase 2: The blue balls of annoyance reduce in size by about 50%, make them move 50% slower, and their final damage and healing penalties reduce from 90% to 50%.

4. For meteor shower attacks in phase 1 and 2, reduce the cone spread of these attacks by roughly 50% to make it easier to attack Damien while he is doing this attack. Other words, attack area is more narrow allowing you to get closer to Damien.

5. For Phase 2: When Damien does his stationary ground attack sending two rows of fireballs on both sides of him, make these balls move 50% slower for players can more realistically jump over them to dodge them rather than defaulting to either invincibility skills or running out of their maximum travel range all of the time.

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Seren:
I'm always stunned.

1. For the super stun effect for when the metre becomes fully filled, remove the anti-heal mechanic entirely and allow the player to be healed normally while in this state.

2. Make the metre that causes the super stun effect to charge 50% slower, it takes twice as long to get stunned by this resulting in less of these super stuns.

3. Reduce the quantity of attacks going on all the time, it is to much going on constantly and only causes stress. The sheer quantity makes it ridiculously hard to realistically avoid these attacks for most classes.

4. Seren's dash attacks, increase the delay before she strikes / dashes by 200% and make the animation and visuals a lot more obvious for when she does this attack.

5. For Phase 2: During the sunset phase, reduce the anti-healing aspect of this phase to 50%.
~ Reduce the damage of all attacks during this phase by roughly 40%.

6. For Phase 2: For the shortest part and the shield part of this phase... What?
~ (What to do and not to do is not obvious or clear whatsoever. This needs to be remade entirely.)

7. For Phase 2: During all transition "test" periods, increase the time players have to get under the correct beam of sunlight by at least 100% or longer. This is currently way to fast giving players no room for error. In other words, play perfectly or die.

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Darknell:

There is way to much stuff going on constantly and the problem gets exponentially worse the further into the fight it is.

I would have preferred if you removed at least 90% of the stuff going on, and kept the random meteors that fell down post visual clarity and colour upgrade change.
(The giant sword swipe attack can stay as is as well.)

This boss fight is a visual mess, has zero visual clarity, I have no clue what is happening and how I died, and only feels cheap, undeserved deaths, and pure frustration constantly.

Edit: I would make it where only one attack or summon can be play at a time. As the health bar goes down, instead of more stuff spawning in or more attacks going off, the summons or attacks become quicker and quicker, resulting in more frequent attack patterns, but the player only needs to worry about one thing at a time.

~ The return of the improved version of the random meteors probably would need to come back. The fight would be more enjoyable with one attack or summon at a time with random improved meteors than the current no meteors and a million things going on at the same time, feeling like constant cheap death.

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