LIGHTBORNEX'S PROFILE

Bosses that summon minions where you have to decide whether you let the boss heal and take out the minions that are racking up damage on you or focus more on the boss.

Bosses that exist where massive swarms of enemies keep rushing in over a period of time (Reinforcements have arrived!)

Bosses that can reflect damage some of the time- boss turns blue, all damage it is hit with gets sent back to the caster.

Bosses that hide, and you have to break boxes to find them or hunt them down.

Underwater bosses, where you have to go and keep collecting oxygen tanks to keep the fight going.

Having the boss have super attacks where you have to stand in protective areas to avoid getting hit really hard.

A boss that is only beaten by items, which makes most or all skills useless. Can add a nice novelty effect because players are forced to give up everything they have been relying on for a battle.

Having something normally harmless as a boss- like a cat- because the players were shrunk down and now normal things are dangerous to them.

If you have knockback in your game, having to knock the boss into certain spots for it to get damaged all or part of the time.

Optional bosses that come up at a split in the story- maybe someone you are trying to help is possibly lying to you, but you don't have enough information to know for sure, and now you have to decide whether to fight this other person they mention or not. It could affect future quests or at least the quest reward.


I think storyline probably adds just as much or more to the beauty of a boss fight than the actual boss' mechanics do. Even an even-level boss fight with a character in a story who backstabbed you can pull in as much sense of accomplishment/enjoyment as a super-complex boss fight.

Thanks for the input. After reflecting, I found the formula I'm looking for:

End Dam = (Atk+100) * (100/(Def+100))

This will make my numbers balanced, so that 5 def (5% boost) and 5 atk (5% boost) are equal. Unfortunately, now I'm stuck figuring out how I want to implement it, because while I like smooth numbers for people, the first 100% def reduces damage by half, and everything after that quickly drops. Perhaps I can make it so that percentage boosts to def only boost def numbers that are already present- meaning an armor has to have 50 defense in order for that number to increase. Now I really want to experiment with how to implement that to replace the standard elemental resistance 0-100 model.