HOW IS THIS FOR MY FIRST BOSS?

A better idea that allows you to use the counter-intuitive strategy is to make only one member highly resistant/immune to sleep (maybe the healer) and have him "cure" the sleep status by beating up the rest of the group. It doesn't only invoke your planned tactic but is also incredibly funny.

i geuss it depends on your charactor's overall attack strength and current level. but he sound sa bit hard for a first boss...

author=Thiamor
Well they are playing it, right? Yes. Then they either play it, or shut it off. They are not forced to play the game, so who cares how the boss fights pan out?

You should. A good games developer should care about every aspect of their games! You're right in saying that players are not forced to play your game, especially when they're released for free on the internet (as most of our games are). In fact, most people around here will practically BEG you to play their game, and why? Because that's why they crafted it in the first place, to have people play it!

It'd be like drawing a comic, or writing a novel and saying people don't have to read it. It's pure lunacy! You should never say "Well, they'll just turn the game off" because if they turn your game off, you've failed as a designer.

That post alone makes me never want to go within ten feet of any of your games.

author=GreatRedSpirit

author=Feldschlacht IV

author=DE
This whole concept of a boss healing himself so much sucks. No boss EVER should heal himself, it's a virtual middle finger to the player and his efforts to kill the boss. "HAHAHA you've spent 5 minutes chipping away at the giganto beast, but now it's going to recover half its health and you'll have to do it all over again!". FUN! (not!).

I don't agree with this. Personal preference I guess.

A boss that can heal can totally work. It forces the player to act more aggressively and take chances dealing damage or a way to prevent the healing instead of trying to turtle and attrition their way to victory. Like everything it has to be done right; It's easy to make a healing boss well overstay it's welcome and make the fight become boring and drawn out with too much staying power or no intuitive way to stop the healing.

Example: In FF9 Ozma could do a self-heal counter for 9999 and you could counter it via reflect or using the ability that could do a lot more than 9999 (Charge!). FF10 had enemies that did the same (for less healing) where you could use steal to remove their ability to heal and the boss that did heal itself for 9999 could be hit by Zombie Attack so it would hurt itself instead. Megaman ZX has a boss that can magically heal itself and it forced the player to use stronger but dangerous to use attacks instead of the quick but weak attack because the longer the fight went on the more likely you'd fuck up and the boss would fuck you up if you made one.

Yeah, is ok when some boss heal himselfs. But what about the final boss on the tower of yutai on ff 7?????????? That kind of boss is a fucktard. First, when you reched the point he start to heal himself youa re fucked. You cant hit more than him heal,s if you hit him with 1700 or so he is gonna heal himself for 2100. And that happens everytime you attack. You know how i killed that boss??? I killed him because he ran out of sp o-o