Re: FREE GAME: Black Desert

Zaghadka  <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:

My problem with it was that it was an MMO where you solo, and then you
can go to a boss fight where six other people are fighting the same boss,
in the same place, you can see all of them, and nobody can interact.
>
Did I miss the point, or is it still like that?

Well, the point of fighting a world or field boss is to get the loot
that drops when it dies.  Boss loot drops are tiered by damage done,
with the top X players getting better rewards than the next lower tier
of players, so there is a competition element (and a reason not to just
hit the boss once and wait somewhere safe for it to die.)  You could
join a party and potentially get healing from other players, but it
doesn't make much of a difference in practice.

However, you are still working together with other players to kill
the boss.  You only have a certain amount of time kill world or field
bosses before they despawn.  World bosses that despawn still give out
half rewards, but field bosses drop nothing if they don't die.

(If you don't want to see other players when figthing these bosses,
there's a button that will appear during these fights that will make
them disappear, but this is intended to reduce the graphics load on
old computers.)

There's another kind of boss, rift bosses, that can only be fought solo.
They spawn in the same place for everyone, but other players disappear
when fighting them and each player fights their own instance of the boss.
The point of fighting these bosses is also to get the loot they drop.
They exist as an alternative that less you choose when to fight them.
They never despawn, and repear about a week after you defeat them.
World bosses only spawn at certain times on certain days, field bosses
spawn at random times.

Fighting bosses that appear during the main quest works similarly to rift
bosses, but you can fight them as a party and they don't respawn after
you defeat them and complete the related quest.  The point of killing
them is to just advance the story.  (Most of the bosses you can encounter
during the main quest are recyled as world, field or rift bosses.)

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