Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Look, I don't cry foul lightly. When I see a problem, I try to either work around it, ignore it or just find some way to deal. And initially, when I saw all the reports of too many bosses showing up in missions, I thought they were exaggerated. Bosses started showing up in mission spawns at some point, and some few, rare missions could spawn mostly a boss and a minion. But this wasn't frequent, and when it happened, most of one mission would be bosses, but you'd see almost no bosses in the rest.
Well, since I16 launched, I've been getting ever more slightly irritated at these incessant boss spawns, and more and more convinced that it was never like this even in the worst cases I remember. Before, bosses almost never showed up outside of the named ones required by mission objectives, and missions where they did show up were rare. In the last few days, probably half of the spawns I've fought have been bosses.
Right now, I'm fighting the Carnival of Shadows. Have been for some time. I HATE Master Illusionists because they're so annoying, and Ring Mistresses are dangerous for the character I'm on right now, so you better believe I remember each time I see them. But you know what? I've fought more MASTER Illusionists today than I have Illusionists, and I've fought almost as many Ring Mistresses as I've fought Seneschal. This is officially crossing any sort of reasonable boundaries and going into the twilight zone. Spawn rules have gone completely bonkers.
And it's not like I'm pushing the envelope, either. I'm playing against enemies my level, considering myself equal to two "regular" heroes, fighting bosses but not fighting AVs (or +0x0, +boss, -AV), so you can't say I'm throttling the difficulty and manufacturing my own problems. I'm trying to get as close to the old Tenacious/Malicious as I can, and while that DID spawn bosses, they were incredibly rare. Now I'm as likely to see a Master Illusionist punching her fist as I am to see a Fencer or a Strong Man. This is just far, far too much.
I don't mind fighting bosses. Heck, I was even glad when I learned they were actually spawning. But fighting THIS MANY bosses is just absurd. I'm busting my butt just trying to survive ON A SCRAPPER, and here I am planning to play a Blaster next. How is THAT going to happen when I see a Master Illusionist every other spawn and a Dark Ring Mistress every third? Bosses, especially bosses post 40, ARE NOT EASY. They are certainly a lot harder than 5-6 minions, which is what you can get if you don't face a boss, so you'd think fighting them would be more rare, but when it's rare to NOT fight a boss, something is wrong.
I know the new spawn rules don't correspond to any of the old ones and aren't intended to, but please - let's reign in the bosses some. This is just no fun.
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Just to emphasise, the universe high-fived me by giving me another boss as soon as I rounded the corner after making this post. So, yeah!
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