I’m a newer player (Started in Late October) and have been enjoying my time playing so far, however, the seasonal events need work.
Let me start by saying that I appreciate that these things exist. It’s nice to have something a little special periodically throughout the year. But there need to be some tweaking.
For the first few days of these events everything is fine, people are participating in the bosses, this makes their massive amounts of health not a big deal as the zerg pops from PoI to PoI killing, getting their loot and moving on. But then people get tired of it, or get all the things that they want and suddenly the content is dead almost as quick as it arrived. Occasionally interest will be drummed up and people will show up only to realize what and utter slog it is to take down these damage sponges of bosses, and then the interest very quickly dies out again.
At least with the Turkey it didn’t pose much of a threat and the group could simply plink away at it with their damage coatings. But the Winter Warrior constantly charges around the snowy area, spawns more adds (Which need to be dealt with and are fairly ‘healthy’ in their own right). It takes forever and it’s not fun.
Many other MMOs when they have open world bosses, in order to combat zergs they will have some kind of dynamic scaling. Such that as players come and go the bosses HP adjusts (Typically having an upper and lower limit to prevent soloing while still making it take a little time for a zerg.)
But that doesn’t seem to be the case in New World or if it is, the numbers need some serious scrutiny.
I get it, it’s optional content, but it feels lazy and I’m sure it feels bad for the people who weren’t able to join the zergs in the first few days to farm up ample hailspikes to get all they want.
I hope that in the future either the events are made in such a way that can help prevent them from dying off so close to the start of the lifespan, or if dynamic scaling technology isn’t there, consider changing the bosses as the event goes on to help account for this diminished interest.