Boss mechanics

Bosses have to be relative to how many people are fighting them, anything else will make the game unplayable to some people making them leave.

Would these dungeons be like side quests or the main objective? If they are side quests, then they can really be anything. If they are the main objective, then they should relate to the plot/storyline of the quest, which is dependant per quest. But in general, a good "boss" fight encompasses everything you fought previously to get there, so if it had all the abilities of the previous monsters you fought + some, that'd be good.

 

Bosses .. hmm

It shouldn't be something that can be easily killed. Since it can be played by party/guild team
I suggest having a complex boss mechanics that would engage players to form parties that would consist of all the CLASSES dyescape offers like a real mmorpg parties.

Example:
Imagine an enderdragon with 1,000,000 health and can only be attacked on its tail
it also has a weakness that once its health goes below 50,000 .. it should be killed in 5 seconds or else its Health will regenerate to 100,000

with this mechanic, the party or team shalt have a team consist of:
a Knight (preferably for aggro, it is has that kind of skill) to lure the enderdragon
a Cleric (for healing and other blessings)
a Mage for Burst damage
a Warrior for constant DPS (damage per second)

so the strategy would be for the knight to lure the enderdragon while others are damaging its tail, then once its health goes below 50,000 .. the Mage and Warrior can now boost and throw all their damages with the blessings from the Cleric (of course the Mage and Warrior must make sure that all their skills are available and mana has regenerated well).

This kind of mechanics would not only form parties with all dyescape classes but also engage players to kill a boss in a strategical way.
This would also help Dyescape manage the kind of classes the players would take. We dont want the server to be filled with 95% warriors and 1% mage, right? or a Cleric party on a boss with huge hp


PS:
Of course, all classes should have their damage skills
We should also consider that even though we have that kind of mechanics, all classes should still be able to survive on their own. No limitations and discriminations that Clerics is only for healing, etc.. etc..
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This is just my idea, ya'll free to add,suggest or complain

 

We wont have any problems then ...
and we still have lots of time to do the balancing. You can do daily updates or weekly updates during alpha.

 

Probably already thought out but for world bosses please make them scale with the amount of players. If you can easily beat the boss with a large group they become very easy to farm. World bosses should also need a lot of cordination and need complex-ish mechanics (Not all of them of course). For a good example in GW2 there is a world boss called great jungle wurm. You have to deafeat the three heads off the boss at roughly the same time or the boss will regen. The heads are scattered far away from each other so people from other groups cant help your group. Before being able to damage each head you have to complete a fairly easy but cordination requiring task, be it carry and lay bombs, weaken their armor, create an antitoxin etc. Due to the cooperation needed with everyone involved there are guilds whose soul purpose is to help people run the world boss.

Tl;dr: Make world bosses scale with player count and make world bosses require cordination and mechanics completion

 

This is already a part of our Dungeons and Bosses mechanics.