My hopes are still held high for the return of our favourite modes. I've somehow been able to wait about 4 years (without realising) without our favourite modes. I hope that we will finally see the long awaited changes in the Mystery Portal. 🤞
I know I've said it here recently, but it's great seeing all these posts lately!
Boss Hunts were great, although hard and crrraazzzyyy could be frustrating at times. Getting so close to victory and then failing after half and hour of work never feels good though. But beating these was ever so satisfying!
As far as tier lists and who is good for these that I've seen discussed here, there are some that are amazing, and some I'd never bring.
Toxic Brainz is practically designed for bosses, since he doesn't have to vanquish to fill his meter, just punch, and they have a lot of health to do so on! He makes an excellent candy carrier for spooky squash since he can jump to half health on his own and with a scientist with heal beam with him, he's extremely survivable. Vampire Flower and Stuffy Flower are my go-to healing plants. They can keep themselves alive very well, and stuffy also helps her allies with the heal stars that spawn from her shots. I ended up playing healer a lot of these since a lot of others don't want to do it, and I have some MMO healer experience as well. Having two of us in discord as scientists as the anchors in spooky squash and tossing the heal balls at each other with the run and throw and then get back into the circle trick was huge too, as I always use the heal beam for these, since the team has to otherwise run around a lot.
@ManicMossieIt was also the fact that the team had to split up as two would have to anchor the guardian and hoping they could hold ground while the remaining teammates were capable of defeating it while also praying the squash in his passive state doesnt take up to the top of the aquarium or else the anchorers are in trouble. It really stretched teamwork as just one player in the two pairs not doing their job harms the whole hunt for its first phase.
Sasquatch was only difficult in the garden sanctuary phase as the burgers didn't oneshot you for failure. Frankly if they just hinted at the magic gardens saving you better the hunts instructions would be fine.
@ManicMossieI've said it before and i'll say it again that gw2's boss hunt was the peak of co op in the series and its not even close.
Gw2 having them removed alongside the other portal modes made it a much worse game than what it should be and harmed its replayability.
Your points are interesting @Hieldanka and @ForeverKnights. I will pick up on these tips if we can play Boss Hunts again (or maybe even Ops). I didn't have this kind of skill back then (skill issue) so I never considered anything like this. When I reached critical health, I would just try to escape and heal up, or at least survive long enough for teammates to respawn. I'll really need to warm up again with these events to be honest, it has been a while. Thank you for the tips! 👍 I will keep these in mind if playing these hunts or possibly Ops.
@flexibleFLIMINGOYeah but boss hunts revive downtimes are twice as long and can be a hinderance in a crucial moment if you need backup or delay how long until you can go to the next step.
You make some reasonable points too @flexibleFLIMINGO and @stukapooka. I am way too used to Garden/Graveyard Ops at the moment however I forgot a crucial thing. While I do know you have 15 seconds to be revived in Ops, I forgot to account that the respawn time is about 30 seconds, so being vanquished is quite punishing in Boss Hunts unless you can be revived, as it is a massive setback for you and your team. At least you can use Self Revives though (and Team Retry in the right cases), although timing when to use the Self Revives properly would be very beneficial. Boss Hunts were so unique, so fun and I hope to see them return ... 🤞
I think I and everyone else who is interested should provide @EA_Shepard some feedback regarding the EA higher ups fixing the portal at the same time as the banning issue. I don't think this would require EA to go out of their way particularly? Do they still have the code to change it?
@TheSprinter85It seems really weird as they've stated they're not going to change it but they didn't really give any specific details so some are theorizing its something to do with the servers themselves and the game being old with no backend support as they say.
Seems like were just [redacted] either way. Its an understatement to say being a pvz fan is rough these days.
