Guild Wars 2

I am really enjoying GW2, especially WvW.

Any chance of being able to play as a monster/boss someday? (I HATE scripted boss fights)

If you want truly dynamic events, have players control the monsters (you could still have bots fill in the gaps). I would absolutely love to chase people around killing everything in sight until enough people show up to kill me. You could have a separate leveling system for monsters all the way up to the dragons or whatever.

This is something I first thought about during my WoW days. Raids always felt more like puzzles than a true fight.

I’m 100% sure people would abuse such a thing to farm boss drops.
Besides, an AI would know how to play a “boss” better than a player who is handed a few skills he’s not familiar with.

I should also point out that the essence of a well-played fight is, indeed, one that involves strategy, and not brute-forcing everything. Besides, if you hate scripted boss-fights, then what are you doing playing video games?

Chances of this idea ever being implemented is pretty much 0%; the closest you’re going to get of this is costume brawls.

Why not add this as a form of PvP? Monsters vs. Heroes, haha. Or let two teams of boss monsters / other mobs duke it out arena-style. So that if you know what the bosses do, you’d be good at it, or you could just have fun and improvise. I donno. :P

Yeah, this sounds like a special form of PvP. I’m not sure how well it’d work in practice though – balancing tends to go such that eventually the deck will be stacked heavily in either side’s favor, once people work things out.

cool idea esp. for pvp