What boss changes would you like to see In a future update?

[Astraia]

If you think any bosses are either meh, too easy, or too hard, list the boss here and mention what changes you'd make to it

If someone already made a thread about this, tell me

[ArubaroBeefalo]

ck loot and gem mechanic

pd. i like beequeen

[lavae dragonfly]

dragonfly,beequeen and toadstool.

[-Nick-]

CK needs the most rework, and actual worthwhile drops for defeating him.

[Owlrust]

It'd be cool if you could interrupt Toadstool's spawning of sporecaps with enough damage. And maybe temporary weapons/tools spawned by Toadstool as well, fights shouldn't be based entirely on whether or not you have enough supplies or the perfect kind.

[Hornete]

22 minutes ago, Owlrust said:

And maybe temporary weapons/tools spawned

This and a mechanic of mobs/bosses stealing your items to use them against you are things that I'd really love to see in DST at some point.

[HowlVoid]

NO MORE SELF HEALING

PLEASE OH MY GOD, STOP

No increased damage means Crabking and Fuelweaver can out heal all my damage if I make 1 mistake it's so unfair.

Also I've been requesting this for a long time but, Crabking Should drop an ocarina to make it rain.

[Cheggf]

I want dragonfly to go back to how she used to be. Recent change to her is obnoxious.

[Hornete]

13 minutes ago, Cheggf said:

I want dragonfly to go back to how she used to be. Recent change to her is obnoxious.

What recent change?

[Cheggf]

Just now, Hornete said:

What recent change?

Can't hit frozen lavae any more. I used to sleep her when she aggrod at the end of a lavae phase then use that sleep to freeze and kill the last lavae. She wouldn't enrage since she was asleep as she died. Now even if I freeze the lavae then sleep her she still wakes up before it dies. Makes the fight 30x harder and is very not good with any lag.

[00petar00]

Not a popular opinion but i think that Crab King is fine, just make the Strident Trident recipe accessible, it is too expensive to require 3 Gnarwail horns, it should only require 1.

DST will get bloated with subpar items with how many bosses get added to the game and need to have their own drops that make them worthwhile to fight. There could be similar items but there will always be a better option between them.

What i would like to see is change to Misery Toadstool's health or mechanics so that it is more interesting to fight so i wouldn't mind the resource sink if i had fun during the fight.

[GelatinousCube]

Give crab king a better drop, like its been suggested a hundred times a rain staff/flute/whatever would be nice. Considering most people hate fighting him maybe even a blueprint for a rain machine structure that can be given blue gems and the more you give it (to a max of three maybe) the longer it rains; one gem - one day, two gems 2.5 days, three gems - 5 days.

Only problem with a rain machine/tool is the new WX rework. Might be considered griefing *shrug* I guess crab king is rarely done that early or on pubs though (why bother?) So probably not a big deal really. 

Give Lord of the Fruit Flies a statue. He really deserves one.

I'd love for one or two items to be removed from the Klaus pool too, getting a larvae egg or spider hat feels really bad.

I already enjoy most other bosses tbh. I kinda just want more at this point.

I really want another ocean boss like a giant shark. I've been stewing on a shark idea for a while so I'll include it here.

Attacks both you and your boat. Has an attack where he jumps over the boat and smacks you with him tail. Another where he dives down and comes back up in a random direction (perhaps a shadow under the water reveals the direction at the last second) and chomps down on the boat moving forward with his jaw until he reaches halfway across the boat, if you're at that end of the boat he simply chomps you doing high damage or if you move/dodge he destroys any structures he hits and does damage to the boat (but doesn't create leaks). Final attack is him swimming in circles around your boat creating a series of waves that hit your boat and damage it. 

Has roughly around the same health as Malbatross as you could only damage him with ranged attacks during the other two attacks and can only melee him when he chomps your boat/On you.

As far as his drops I'm not entirely sure to be honest but I'd have him drop a huge amount of large fish meat, his main fin, pieces of his rough leathery skin, a crafting blueprint or two for something nice and perhaps some sort of similar item to eyebrella as one of them. Using his shark skin as rain protection, perhaps a shark skin umbrella that gives 100% rain protection like eyebrella but also gives a small speed boost, like half what the cane gives you. Cane would still be king for speed and eyebrella better for keeping hand slot free but it'd mean you could rush him so two players have full rain protection year one if you want. Would also be nice for rain in the caves you can use it with mining hat/crown to still have light while being protected by rain. I'd have it be slightly more durable than eyebrella but still requiring fixing fairly regularly if you don't want to lose it. 

Perhaps he could give a recipe for Cutlass supreme or something of similar value. 

[EighteenXVIII]

Make it cheaper to appease Antlion. 18 rocks every 6 days is expensive and a chore. You're better off building a Ham Bat and tanking him.

I know he also takes Trinkets and that you can fish for them, but they give way too little sinkhole downtime per Trinket and then you have to walk all the way back after just 6 days anyway. I don't want to spend two entire days fishing for Trinkets every Summer, neither do I want to deal with sinkholes, and neither do I want to use my precious stones on anything but Cobblestones. All Trinkets should give 2 days sinkhole downtime, and also remove the 6 day cap. I mean it's still an absurd amount of Gold that you would get from Pig King, which again makes fighting Antlion the far cheaper option.

 

[GelatinousCube]

2 hours ago, EighteenXVIII said:

Make it cheaper to appease Antlion. 18 rocks every 6 days is expensive and a chore. You're better off building a Ham Bat and tanking him.

I know he also takes Trinkets and that you can fish for them, but they give way too little sinkhole downtime per Trinket and then you have to walk all the way back after just 6 days anyway. I don't want to spend two entire days fishing for Trinkets every Summer, neither do I want to deal with sinkholes, and neither do I want to use my precious stones on anything but Cobblestones. All Trinkets should give 2 days sinkhole downtime, and also remove the 6 day cap. I mean it's still an absurd amount of Gold that you would get from Pig King, which again makes fighting Antlion the far cheaper option.

 

As a pure solo player I'm not a fan of antlion at all. His drops are useless to me and his sinkholes always catch me somewhat by surprise so i never manage to use them to my advantage for some mining or logs. His boulders in the caves are a pain too. If they gave nitre I'd love him but alas only rocks which I'm absolutely swimming in.

I'd love a lazy deserter rework so it's usable solo like many are suggesting so he isn't just a waste of time for me. 

Even just a new desert stone craftable would solve the problem. They're spiky, let me craft some ranged weapon or let Walter use them in his sling!

I do have two houndius setup outside his range so at least he's a breeze.

I've also got tons of his statues set up everywhere so I don't really need them either. 

He's just a nuisance. 

If they changed/buffed his appeasement rates I'd prob start feeding him instead to avoid the bother. 

I guess more meat is always nice though.

[loopuleasa]

5 hours ago, HowlVoid said:

NO MORE SELF HEALING

PLEASE OH MY GOD, STOP

skill issue

[HowlVoid]

1 minute ago, loopuleasa said:

skill issue

Don't you have a Jazzy video to watch? 

[ArubaroBeefalo]

5 hours ago, Cheggf said:

Can't hit frozen lavae any more. I used to sleep her when she aggrod at the end of a lavae phase then use that sleep to freeze and kill the last lavae. She wouldn't enrage since she was asleep as she died. Now even if I freeze the lavae then sleep her she still wakes up before it dies. Makes the fight 30x harder and is very not good with any lag.

is funny cuz i made the suggestion of not being able to hit frozen lavaes with ice staffs to mske the fight more confortable so cheesing with walls becomes a little less popular and klei decided to dont allow us to break them after being freeze which makes us want to use walls ._.

[loopuleasa]

41 minutes ago, HowlVoid said:

Don't you have a Jazzy video to watch? 

new jazzy video??

brb

[reallychina]

5 hours ago, 00petar00 said:

Not a popular opinion but i think that Crab King is fine, just make the Strident Trident recipe accessible, it is too expensive to require 3 Gnarwail horns, it should only require 1.

CK is not necessarily a bad fight except two problems.

 

1. Boat durability is too low so a mistake means fight is lost, resources are gone. Being able to craft a reinforced boat like SW would fix this.

 

2. Huge rng with unrelated mobs spawning - sharks, gnarwails, squids, even malbatross. While you can solve most of that with a telefocus staff, it still makes no sense since most bosses have arenas and fight is focused on them

[00petar00]

26 minutes ago, reallychina said:

CK is not necessarily a bad fight except two problems.

 

1. Boat durability is too low so a mistake means fight is lost, resources are gone. Being able to craft a reinforced boat like SW would fix this.

 

2. Huge rng with unrelated mobs spawning - sharks, gnarwails, squids, even malbatross. While you can solve most of that with a telefocus staff, it still makes no sense since most bosses have arenas and fight is focused on them

1.Does it matter if you lose 4 boards? You can use empty boat for the fight.

2.It actually makes variables where fight isn't linear and anything can happen, that is interesting for me.

[reallychina]

1 minute ago, 00petar00 said:

1.Does it matter if you lose 4 boards? You can use empty boat for the fight.

2.It actually makes variables where fight isn't linear and anything can happen, that is interesting for me.

You drown when the boat dies.

Random events that make you lose the fight is not good game design.

[00petar00]

1 minute ago, reallychina said:

You drown when the boat dies.

Random events that make you lose the fight is not good game design.

Make a another boat to escape? if the boat is about to sink or you think you can't kill crab king, just leave.

[Waoling]

If you put boat over the big blue bird when it under water 3 time it die of drowing.

[Spino43]

Allow the Twins to use the attacks they have back at Terraria. As of now separating them is the only way to deal with them without having to use massive amount of resources.

Having two machine EoT with double health doesn't really sound like a good boss concept imo, reminds me of that horrible Lud and Zallen boss fight from ds2 ice DLC.

[lakhnish]

8 hours ago, Cheggf said:

Can't hit frozen lavae any more. I used to sleep her when she aggrod at the end of a lavae phase then use that sleep to freeze and kill the last lavae. She wouldn't enrage since she was asleep as she died. Now even if I freeze the lavae then sleep her she still wakes up before it dies. Makes the fight 30x harder and is very not good with any lag.

I do this too. If you manually kill the lost larvae instead of freezing it,  it works about the same. 

But if lag its making it not possible, tell Jesse, as they are open to changing it.