Heyo Oozefesters!
Things have been going pretty wild with the new boss who launched today. The day is just over half over and we're sitting at 44,939 / 75,000 HP (59.9%). I expected a jump in damage, but definitely not like this.
Typically, I do not want to make changes to a boss' health in the middle of a fight because I don't believe that feels good for anyone. However, we've only seen a dozen folks come and take a swing at the boss which means others have missed out so far and although I highly encourage everyone to visit the site multiple times every day, I want to make sure we can get some extra swings in for a couple of days. This also gives everyone more opportunities to get drops that come from bosses, so, I'm increasing the health of The Bone Broker.
As of right now, the boss will die right after the reset on October 10 with the way things are looking. Yeah, we have an entire stats dashboard internally to look at this kind of stuff :)
I would like to add an additional day to this so the boss is gaining an extra 25,000 health, bringing the health total up to 100k.
There will still be a couple of days where people are able to save up their supplies and make sure our trebuchets and militias are firing at full throttle, so going into Boss 3 on the 14th will be comfortable.
I'm also going to implement a set of system-wide private messages to let everyone who has participated during the event that a new boss has spawned when new bosses spawn to make sure people get their attacks in ASAP to join in on the fun. I also was planning on putting out an Oozefest newsletter tomorrow and I would like to make sure people have a chance to see it and attack the boss.
A job well done to everyone for progress though! It's been great to see how everyone has been interacting with Sidequest & Oozefest and it is going to help shape how things work in the future with balancing and new content.
I might be pushing an update out tomorrow that includes some more things to play with. It was a system being held back for November but I kinda want to get some testing in earlier since everyone is being so active and it is clear you're going to be itching to fight with stuff.
The boss health adjustment will arrive at some point before tomorrow's new day.
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