No patch today?

[q 3]

I'd also like to make a suggestion for Horatio: change him to a multistage "revives" boss that cycles through a variety of different abilities. This is a little more appropriate for the final boss, and for the vicious mode it would get rid of the "need to have BYSSEPS" problem since not all his forms will have resistances.

I like that idea. That, or have a gauntlet of powerful sub-bosses that each have different abilities, and when you finally kill them all you get to fight Horatio... who is a standard level 1 goat.

[Wargasm]

I'd also like to make a suggestion for Horatio: change him to a multistage "revives" boss that cycles through a variety of different abilities. This is a little more appropriate for the final boss, and for the vicious mode it would get rid of the "need to have BYSSEPS" problem since not all his forms will have resistances.

I like that idea. That, or have a gauntlet of powerful sub-bosses that each have different abilities, and when you finally kill them all you get to fight Horatio... who is a standard level 1 goat.

Isn't that pretty close to the Namtar encounter in spirit?

[Darvin]

I'm thinking a bit closer along the lines with Anoobis. Namtar gets progressively weaker with each form, and all except his last few forms are high-damage terrors with a unique assortment of abilities. I'm talking maybe one or two special abilities per form and much tamer stats for Horatio.

We don't really have a whole lot of multi-stage bosses in the game right now. Namtar and Anoobis are pretty much it. Besides, it's not like there isn't a strong similarity between Dragon Isles, Demonic Library, and Naga City forcing you to fight through a string of "bodyguards" before fighting the big bad.

[The Avatar]

Or the weak bad in most of their cases.

I like that idea. Have basic Horratio have 3 or so random forms (just like 3 random floors) and Vicious Horratio have all 10 of the possible forms (like floors).