Can We Please Get an Epic Boss/AV Warning on Ouroborus Missions?

What is your obsession with refusing to provide the relevant details? Since you came here complaining about how much of a hard time you have defeating a particular elite boss, receiving strategies for defeating him (and EB's in general) is not only on-topic, they are to be expected. And I am not the only one in this thread to offer them. Nor am I the only one (or even the first) to request more details. I really don't know why you choose to single me out for hostility.




Actually, I understood it quite well. You came to the boards fresh from a frustrating encounter with an elite boss you didn't expect, and started venting that frustration. You also made several very broad blanket statements that are simply not true, like:

This statement can be interpreted as saying that the devs specifically designing that particular EB to be impossible for a mind 'troller to solo. I didn't jump on that and pull it out, because clearly it was just your frustration talking and doG knows I've been there myself. This is, however, exactly what you said, and therefore you shouldn't be surprised (or offended) at people chiming in and saying, “That's not actually true, 'trollers can defeat EB's if you change your strategy. Here's what I would try...”

Again, I was not the only one to offer those suggestions.




You also claim to have no interest in personal conflict with me, and yet you posted this:

From my side of the keyboard, that was intended to be insulting and dismissive of my first response to your post. I offered that post in an attempt to be helpful for your future encounters with unexpected EB's. I could have said “lrn 2 play” or “cry moar” or any number of other rude responses, but I did not. I understand that snarkiness is the norm here, but seriously now... comparing me to Jack? Low blow, sir.




Now having said my piece, I'm going to offer an olive branch here:

I actually have no real problem with your desire for EB warnings in Ourobrous arcs. I agree that this should be the case so that those running concept toons or toons without a lot of burst damage will have fair warning.

Also, I agree that my statement, “You insist that you want to be able to solo everything,” was a miss-characterization of your central point. It was not intended to offend you or insult you. If it did, then I apologize.

Finally, Tex, I've never had a problem with you on these boards before, and really do not want to now. I like to think that I can give as good as I get, but honestly flame wars just bum me out. I think that our conflict is simply the result of a minor failure to communicate coupled with a lack of the non-verbal cues that humans normally use (as these things usually are). We do have a fundamental difference of opinion wrapped up in this, but it's a small thing, as you said, and no reason to be nasty to each other. Let's just both agree to back away from where this is obviously going, k?

*offers hand*

Ok that made me LOL. I didn't think of it as an insult.

I'm still not going to go into detail about the specific situation where I most recently got killed, because that was not the intent of this thread. This is not the first time I've gotten into an Ouro arc only to run into an elite boss I couldn't/didn't want to handle. The reason I'm not going to go into detail here is that the minute I do this thread is going to turn into a "ohhh well just suck that mission is so easy etc etc" bashing session. It already veered pretty heavily in that direction based on the one or two sentences of information I've provided.

When I stated that elite bosses are "designed to be impossible" for some characters I thought this was literally true. It has always been my assumption such enemies were actually designed with the intent of requiring a team, and the fact that we can solo them anyway was more a game balance issue than the result of deliberate design strategy. From the sound of things that's not actually the case, although that doesn't increase my desire to deal with them on the type of characters I tend to play. Acquiring powers normally reserved for the hardest task forces in the game to get through a surprise encounters in a mission arc is not something I'm interested in doing. In any case, from I can gather from reading about it it appears a Shivan wouldn't have been an option anyway, because it requires a mission and when on Ouro arcs you can't take them. I would have had to known ahead of time and brought the power along.

That said, like you, I'm not interested in continuing to argue. I can see how we misunderstood each other. Hand accepted.

First one, then the other.

I see then i shall add tot he suggestion that this be place in the right place..in the suggestion section..

GD- i like it as it is..but it would be better if we could just add other members if needed. but then im not sure how to work the reward at the end.

I was really hoping you were going to suggest he was playing a forum troller... oh well.

I would argue that a large part of the meta "conceit" of Ouro is that a single character can't possibly do all the arcs before out leveling a few of them, so you can go back and do the ones that you've missed.

Learn to read. Most of us think it's a fine idea - *BUT* the suggestion does nothing to help the OP RIGHT NOW.

Read it like this:
"I couldn't solo this EB. We need a warning about EB's."
"Good idea and maybe we'll get such a warning in 6 months. IN THE MEANTIME, here's how you can solo the EB......"

Then report the original post and request it be moved. No one posting in here has the power to do it themselves.

I didnt mean tht it gets moved now its here and had many posts in it. it was more a future suggestion for the OP'er to post things in the right section was all

That's a great guide. Thanks for the link.