VoidsKeeper
commented
7 years ago First of all - thank you for your suggestion :)
I like the initial mechanic of this: Smoke screens and hard to catch , hence prolonging the boss_battle for a chance for the enemy to strike.
But I have some questions:
1)Would the boss move around a lot (aside from the AoE/trigger)? If yes , then how fast (slow/medium/fast)?
2)For which ~ tier do you think this boss fits? Or rather , how tanky should this boss be?
3)You said this boss has no auto-attack. But then what does this boss do for the 100%-->50% HP part? Just stand in place and take the hits?
4)At 10%: if you want to limit vision "to a minimum" , then what do you see as a "minimum"? (I know it's for the balance/coding teams to decide , but I'm curious of your opinion)
Also , does the boss still keep running away? Cause if the players vision is too small and they walk in a group , then the boss might get a bit too frustrating and time-consuming.
5)Have you thought of a boss_item for this boss yet? It's not a "must have" in a [boss mechanic suggestion] , but it could help us save some time (or create something better , out of inspiration)
Overall: I think the base mechanic is a good thing (as I said in the beginning), but , as you may know, one of our requirements is for the mechanics to be obvious (so that the players quickly figure out how to beat the boss_fight) and interesting at the same time. In my opinion you made it interesting , but it might get .
EDIT: By saying " the more complicated the more near the end of the boss_fight" , I was referring to some players not understanding "why the "squid" is running away"(aka , if they don't get that there's too many players around the boss). But you must be dumb to not understand this mechanic , so I think I was overthinking stuff ;P My bad
Patrickthehuman
Haganeko
Squiggles the Squid
Arena
Arena must be medium to large as a main feature of this boss is its "Scared" nature where it runs from the players attempting to kill it. It has no interactive element or terrain features required but a squid doesn't live on dry land! So maybe it could have a little pond.
Description
Squiggles is a squid, here is a squid. 🦑
First Phase 100% - 75%
Squiggles runs away from the player quickly then stops to catch his breath and then runs again after the delay. In this stage and all other stage Squiggles swipes in an aoe behind it to attack the player on timer.
Second Phase 75% - 50%
Squiggles continues this same pattern of running from the player and swiping, but each time the player catches up to it (each time the combatants Deal X amount of damage while it is catching its breath and stationary) it leaves an ink aoe which on cast applies to all fighters then later only in the aoe around where it was standing.
Third Phase 50% - 0%
Squiggles changes colour. Player vision is reduced and Squid vision increased. It gains a ranged attack where it shoots ink at the players without the remaining aoe. (I imagine this as somewhat similar to Ogre Magi's Ignite (with multicast skilled) where the Ink is targeted on an enemy and tracks it and applies ink to unit and to units in an aoe around it)
Key Features
These are features that I believe are vital to the boss concept and should not be removed