116607-world-bosses-whats-the-point

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So I'm pretty new been playing about a month and my highest toon has just reached 22 and is starting Whitevale.  And it's not my first rodeo.  But I've been wondering this for a while now.  Sure at the end of Northern Wilds I killed the big tank boss all by myself and up popped a list that gave me a breakdown of the fight.  But there's no loot and not EX and no achievements so why bother. So I just figure I'm missing something.  So I continue on my journey and every time one of these pops up I feel like I'm missing something.
 
Today, I hear someone calling to do a big raid on a Boss called Doomthorn in Galeras. So once again, I say why not.  It's in my area I should be able to play so I'll give it a shot. So I wait for the main player to get everyone together and it takes about 20 minutes or so and all of a sudden we got us a fight.  It takes a while and while I was not the most effective player, I was not the least either.  I hit somewhere in the high middle.  So You fight this big fight and there's NO LOOT. I ask again what's the POINT.  I hate to be greedy but Pavlov's Dog here. If you want me to run the maze give me the biscuit. For crying out loud it's better profit to just kill any old bad guy than the darn World Boss. I thought GW2 was greedy with loot but even there you kill a boss You get a big smacking chest of loot with 3- 5 items and once a day per account you get a special boss chest with 2 nice items. 
 
I'm not asking for a lot here but there should be something that let's you know you did the job. You know like you work 40 hours a week and at the end of the week your get a pay check.  So how about this no pay checks for the Dev's this week.  We appreciate the work and all but you had fun doing it. Congrats.	
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			Okay so  fair warning, I didn't do raid bosses  leveling up. When you come back as a level 50 it scales you down to the level of the boss. But I get loot from those bosses now as a level 50 so maybe it just gives you something like dyes or something?	
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Doomthorn is frequently bugged as well.  I've killed it multiple times, no achievement, no loot.  Your mileage may vary.
 
The world bosses are used for flavor and for part of the raid attuning quest (an arguably frustratingly stupid part of the attunement, but it is what it is right now.)	
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I love pounding world bosses.  They're good to get into because they're about as close as you get to puggable raid content in this game.
 
The rewards are a pretty insane amount of XP at-level and they do drop rewards.  I've heard Carbine wants to make them better and more regular since people have complained that, yes, like many other mobs, sometimes you get nothing, and that's frustrating.
 
Later, they become part of attunement (and now if you've done them, you autocomplete the stage of attunement).  Others, like Scorchwing, form a daily quest.	
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I haven't looked into all of them, but some of the world bosses have unique-skinned drops. An example would be Aggregor's greatsword.
 
Whether or not the stats are worthwhile, the skins will be an incentive for some people.	
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Aggregor is another one of my annoyance buttons.  Have completed it multiple times on my esper.  Have never gotten credit.  It has something to do with the contribution calculation I guess. 
 
Took several times on my engineer as well, and there's a nice gun skin there I use for my DPS set.
 
Seriously since the megaserver launched, that Aggregor fight is ridiculous.  I've clocked it at six seconds.  (The summary page starts when he's reforming which is a fixed 10 minutes, then the rest is the fight.)  
 
Not really asking for more health there, but along with Doomthorn, if someone hits the cupcakin' mob, give the achievement, particularly since this achievement is tied to attunement.  All I want to do is get through the final part of attunement.	
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If you’ve medaled the world boss, I believe you got something, even if you weren’t asked to roll on anything.  You might have gotten a medishot or some other triviality and if you open your bag right after the fight, you’ll notice the highlighted new loot.  Now, I can buy into the “I worked with 20 of my friends to down this world boss and all I got was this stupid medishot” argument and I won’t disagree with it.  I do Scorchwing almost daily and I get various green or blue items, all useless, and I still keep doing it.  I guess I enjoy grouping up with lots of people to accomplish something, even if I don’t get a direct benefit.  And I think that is the primary intent of the world bosses: “epic” content for people to do outside of raids.  
 
Other than fixing the bugged bosses, I don’t see much for Carbine to do here.  They can increase the rewards all they want but here will be some (maybe most) people that say the rewards are not worth the effort.  If you’re killing them for loot, then know this: they don’t drop any so don’t bother (unless it’s for attunement).  For myself, I don’t want Carbine to touch them (other than fixing the bugged ones) until after I’m attuned (6 more to go), as I’m too afraid of them *cupcake*ing them up more than they already are.
 	
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Aggregor is another one of my annoyance buttons.  Have completed it multiple times on my esper.  Have never gotten credit.  It has something to do with the contribution calculation I guess. 
 
Took several times on my engineer as well, and there's a nice gun skin there I use for my DPS set.
 
Seriously since the megaserver launched, that Aggregor fight is ridiculous.  I've clocked it at six seconds.  (The summary page starts when he's reforming which is a fixed 10 minutes, then the rest is the fight.)  
 
Not really asking for more health there, but along with Doomthorn, if someone hits the cupcakin' mob, give the achievement, particularly since this achievement is tied to attunement.  All I want to do is get through the final part of attunement.
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Actually, I think more health is probably a good solution for Aggregor.  Make Aggregor like Scorchwing: same respawn timer, same health.  With it's current respawn timer(?), I've seen it a whopping 1 time in all of the times I've been in CB; either questing or just checking to see if he's up.  
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Yeah.  Six seconds is pretty ridiculous.  That being said, it's not an arena style boss like Scorchwing.  There's not a lot of space for a lot of folks there.  So expanding the fight into something as minorly elaborate as Scorchwing I don't think is reasonable.  But.. enough health to run through more of a rotation might be nice.  
 
But that aside, credit needs to happen regardless of the calculation if it's being used for something like attunement.  Actually the trick to getting it on the engineer was just not to tank.  I am primarily a tank as an engineer.  I went in and tanked Aggregor with a party (and several other non-partied folks).  No credit.  Blew in as DPS engineer in a similar situation.  Credit.  Esper goes in as dps, shows up in the top 5 damage in the fight summary -- no credit.
 
It's bugged, and it's crazy, and it's frustrating.
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Good point on there not being very much room.  But it does need more health so that it's not evaporated in seconds by a single group without even needing a tank and healer.  It just doesn't feel epic at all.  Heck, I think I'll give it a go solo and see how I do. ;)   And I do sincerely hope that the various bugged bosses, Aggregor, Doomthorne, King Honeygrave, are fixed in the next patch.  We need too many bosses for attunement to have several of them basically "undoable".  
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I love pounding world bosses.  They're good to get into because they're about as close as you get to puggable raid content in this game.
 
The rewards are a pretty insane amount of XP at-level and they do drop rewards.  I've heard Carbine wants to make them better and more regular since people have complained that, yes, like many other mobs, sometimes you get nothing, and that's frustrating.
 
Later, they become part of attunement (and now if you've done them, you autocomplete the stage of attunement).  Others, like Scorchwing, form a daily quest.
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You know you have a dirty mind... when the first sentence of this post makes you giggle!
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