Guild Wars 2

Make your own little crazy changes to bosses that would make encounters chaoticly fun

Grawl Shaman FOTM:

Instead of elementals, now summons spinning versions of Mini-Kholers (reflectable)

Lupicus now spawns mini Lupis instead of Locusts who try to kick you.

Nah, just being silly… I’ll see if I can think of something good.

Archdiviner now bubbles everything not in its hitbox ?

Any boss counters LoS and/or knows how to avoid AoEs?

Mai Trin and Horrik no longer teleport away during cannon phase. Also cannons shoot during the whole fight (reduce their frequency if impossible to beat).

Clockheart, spews Toxin and the gears strip boons, which have twice the density. In addition, you have to kill randomly spawning Toxin canisters before they detonate or they’ll start to fill the room with Toxin gas.

The Spider Queen uses venom on melee players…oh, wait.

Dual.8953:

Clockheart, spews Toxin and the gears strip boons, which have twice the density. In addition, you have to kill randomly spawning Toxin canisters before they detonate or they’ll start to fill the room with Toxin gas.

I don’t see how that’d stop a party from FGS’ing it down in 10s?

Aleth.9630:

Dual.8953:

Clockheart, spews Toxin and the gears strip boons, which have twice the density. In addition, you have to kill randomly spawning Toxin canisters before they detonate or they’ll start to fill the room with Toxin gas.

I don’t see how that’d stop a party from FGS’ing it down in 10s?

Make the room an open platform, pretty much like the Thaumanova Anomaly.

What I wrote about Lupi hard mode earlier:

You find 4 sub 1k AP pugs (not some rT or SC player on their alts). Your group should be made up like so:
1. Bearbow Ranger
2. Staff Guardian
3. Rifle Warrior
4. Yourself
5. Staff Necro
Equip them all with Nomad’s armor and full defensive traits. Tell them to range it. The whole time.

That could work, but they’ll probably die in P2 even in nomad, so it may end up like a solo. Wich isn’t really something new.

Zhaitan now crushes your ship instantly like the bug it is and you all die a painful death

Mai Trin’s attacks cannot be blocked, reflected, dodged, destroyed.

Adelburn’s Foefire destroys the world

Foreman Spur using Defiant Stance @ 75-50-25%hp, his aoes won’t disappear once dropped, nor they have red circles.

Mobs have 50% more health, Thick skin and hit twice as fast/hard.

- Hardmode summed up by Anet.

All adds in arah have been replaced with champion grubs

Painbow.6059:

All adds in arah have been replaced with champion grubs

I like this.
What about… all adds in Toypocalypse have been replaced with Lupici.

oxtred.7658:

That could work, but they’ll probably die in P2 even in nomad, so it may end up like a solo. Wich isn’t really something new.

have you ever tried doing lupi in tanky gear?
I was soldier warr with zerk trinkets and I could facetank the whole aoe/single target drain.

Hard Mode:

You enter the dungeon with four other players who have been selected by the game.

Setting One Let me tank this:
All your selected team mates are running PTV builds.

Setting Two My dps is better for long fights:
All your selected team mates are running full condition builds.

Setting Three It’s all about skill, not builds:
All selected team members are playing how they want. Bars filled with racial skills, GS mesmers bouncing around, flame-thrower engis, staff necros, hammer warriors, bowbears you name it.

Setting Four reminisce days past :
Magic find armour, weapons and accessories are now forcibly placed onto your entire team’s gear setups. All traits are removed.

Setting Five I can outheal all the damage and carry my party:
Your selected party members are in full Nomad’s gear.

Setting Six Prepare your kitten:
Your selected party members are graded to be more likely to be grouped with you based on the increased amount of times they have mentioned the following words and phrases in their forum posts and in game:

• Toxic
• I play how I want
• Condition damage actually outdps’s Zerker in 5 man dungeons.
• Everyone else in my party dies except me, I’m always the one ressing. That’s how I know my tank build is good.
• Axe mainhand ranger is only 10% less DPS than the meta and it’s really strong.
• Ranged DPS is good.
• Check out my burning build, it’s amazing.
• Elitism
• I got kicked out of my group at the end of the dungeon and I don’t know why. It’s all a conspiracy hatched up by this toxic community to stop good people like me playing the game.
• Nerf zerker gear please.
• Skipping is exploiting.
• Using reflects is exploiting.
• Using Zerker gear is exploiting.
• I play the game the way it was intended
• Stacking is exploiting.

I don’t know how I’d manage to get through my days without you, people.

deSade.9437:

oxtred.7658:

That could work, but they’ll probably die in P2 even in nomad, so it may end up like a solo. Wich isn’t really something new.

have you ever tried doing lupi in tanky gear?
I was soldier warr with zerk trinkets and I could facetank the whole aoe/single target drain.

I don’t know, P2 aoe could probably kill a non-warrior nomad. I need more money to craft my nomad set and test it myself!

J Eberle.9312:

Hard Mode:

You enter the dungeon with four other players who have been selected by the game.

Setting One Let me tank this:
All your selected team mates are running PTV builds.

Setting Two My dps is better for long fights:
All your selected team mates are running full condition builds.

Setting Three It’s all about skill, not builds:
All selected team members are playing how they want. Bars filled with racial skills, GS mesmers bouncing around, flame-thrower engis, staff necros, hammer warriors, bowbears you name it.

Setting Four reminisce days past :
Magic find armour, weapons and accessories are now forcibly placed onto your entire team’s gear setups. All traits are removed.

Setting Five I can outheal all the damage and carry my party:
Your selected party members are in full Nomad’s gear.

Setting Six Prepare your kitten:
Your selected party members are graded to be more likely to be grouped with you based on the increased amount of times they have mentioned the following words and phrases in their forum posts and in game:

• Toxic
• I play how I want
• Condition damage actually outdps’s Zerker in 5 man dungeons.
• Everyone else in my party dies except me, I’m always the one ressing. That’s how I know my tank build is good.
• Axe mainhand ranger is only 10% less DPS than the meta and it’s really strong.
• Ranged DPS is good.
• Check out my burning build, it’s amazing.
• Elitism
• I got kicked out of my group at the end of the dungeon and I don’t know why. It’s all a conspiracy hatched up by this toxic community to stop good people like me playing the game.
• Nerf zerker gear please.
• Skipping is exploiting.
• Using reflects is exploiting.
• Using Zerker gear is exploiting.
• I play the game the way it was intended
• Stacking is exploiting.

Painbow.6059:

All adds in arah have been replaced with champion oozes

FTFY.

shudders

Ashym conjures a wall behind the players and proceeds to FGS into it.

J Eberle.9312:

Setting Four reminisce days past :
Magic find armour, weapons and accessories are now forcibly placed onto your entire team’s gear setups. All traits are removed.

inb4 HM#4 farming. “God I love all these blues and greens!!”

oxtred.7658:

deSade.9437:

oxtred.7658:

That could work, but they’ll probably die in P2 even in nomad, so it may end up like a solo. Wich isn’t really something new.

have you ever tried doing lupi in tanky gear?
I was soldier warr with zerk trinkets and I could facetank the whole aoe/single target drain.

I don’t know, P2 aoe could probably kill a non-warrior nomad. I need more money to craft my nomad set and test it myself!

if you range there won’t be enough bolts that even hit you let alone kill.

IvanTheGrey.2941:

What I wrote about Lupi hard mode earlier:

You find 4 sub 1k AP pugs (not some rT or SC player on their alts). Your group should be made up like so:
1. Bearbow Ranger
2. Staff Guardian
3. Rifle Warrior
4. Yourself
5. Staff Necro
Equip them all with Nomad’s armor and full defensive traits. Tell them to range it. The whole time.

5 condi staff mesmers rangeing

Painbow.6059:

All adds in arah have been replaced with champion grubs

make them champion ozzes that apply a kittenton of vuln

You get revealed if you step within 300 range of any mob.

Only auto attack is allowed.

synk.8762:

Ashym conjures a wall behind the players and proceeds to FGS into it.

Wouldn’t make a difference, he already kills one player 100=>0 with just 1-2 patches of fire hitting. His add should get an Ice Bow instead.

synk.8762:

Ashym conjures a wall behind the players and proceeds to FGS into it.

A dev read that, was afraid, and nerfed FGS just in case.

hard mode fire effigy

Bosses are not stackable in the corners and remove the defiance buff from them.

Lol, bosses without defiance would be so easy.

oxtred.7658:

Lol, bosses without defiance would be so easy.

That is because Anet are crappy programmers.Every other MMO has interuptable and non-interuptable boss’s spells.Only GW2 doesn’t have that.Anet are just ’’great’’ programmers.Instead of going up they are downscaling the game

moiraine.2753:

oxtred.7658:

Lol, bosses without defiance would be so easy.

That is because Anet are crappy designers .Every other MMO has interuptable and non-interuptable boss’s spells.Only GW2 doesn’t have that.Anet are just ’’great’’ designers .Instead of going up they are downscaling the game

FIFY

deSade.9437:

oxtred.7658:

That could work, but they’ll probably die in P2 even in nomad, so it may end up like a solo. Wich isn’t really something new.

have you ever tried doing lupi in tanky gear?
I was soldier warr with zerk trinkets and I could facetank the whole aoe/single target drain.

they will probably die to the single-target autoattack and shadowstep + swipe (both of which won’t be dodged) combo

guanlongwucaii.3162:

deSade.9437:

oxtred.7658:

That could work, but they’ll probably die in P2 even in nomad, so it may end up like a solo. Wich isn’t really something new.

have you ever tried doing lupi in tanky gear?
I was soldier warr with zerk trinkets and I could facetank the whole aoe/single target drain.

they will probably die to the single-target autoattack and shadowstep + swipe (both of which won’t be dodged) combo

That’s because you should RANGE in p2.
Duh. Everyone knows that. Oh… Also p1.
I got told so by a very pro huntar… ranger that joined our party the other day.

deSade.9437:

That’s because you should RANGE in p2.
Duh. Everyone knows that. Oh… Also p1.
I got told so by a very pro huntar… ranger that joined our party the other day.

Please call pug rangers by their rightfull name. You’ve comitted heresy by not refering to them as huntards

Bring back Alphard’s insta-party-down 0 cast time Big Ol Bomb. That was definitely fun when it was there. I was very sad when they “fixed” it.

Also, add instant-party-down attacks with similar cast/wind-up times to the final bosses of all the dungeons. Yes even asura sized bosses.

That should make the whole party pay attention to boss tells.

Tom Yzf.5872:

Bring back Alphard’s insta-party-down 0 cast time Big Ol Bomb. That was definitely fun when it was there. I was very sad when they “fixed” it.

Also, add instant-party-down attacks with similar cast/wind-up times to the final bosses of all the dungeons. Yes even asura sized bosses.

That should make the whole party pay attention to boss tells.

Because I can watch an Asura with two types of burning on him while he’s being sandwiched by 5 characters who are norn or charr in the worst case. They’d have to fix that first, then I’d be somewhat fine with it.

it adds flavor

What they should do is have her pull only 1-hit the person who failed to evade. The rest of the party doesn’t need to suffer the consequence of that person. If not 1-hit, then make it a very heavy-hitting attack instead or perhaps triple the cc duration.

What they could to for a hard mode is remove/limit the things that allow people to play the normal mode so easily. For instance, increase the amount of endurance a dodge consumes, ensure a fraction of downed status time for some encounters, invite chaos by stripping stats, forcing ranged/melee, whatever. The only reason it’s so easy is because everything is predictable, anticipated.

I really enjoyed duoing that “bugged” Alphard.

What they should do to make that Alphard change more reasonable is to reduce the amount of visual clusterkitten that affects bosses.

I mean seriously, no one needs to see a bright pillar of neon light that indicates he is burning! It removes vision from players and therefor makes it more like a guessing game where the main challenge is to look past all the other effects so you can spot a movement in his arm indicating the attack.

That is the worst kind of “difficulty” they can provide us with.

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

visual clusterkitten

Wooooooahhhh clusterkitten, my new favourite word!!
I shall rename you grandmaster Clusterkitten.
Here’s my blessing.
/throws blessing nosferatu