Leaving a boss mid-fight to avoid death - some thoughts
Submitted by redstoneisgreat
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If you die to a boss, your items drop (and can be stolen by other players), you lose faction power, and (unique to bosses) you get 30 minutes of Weakness (that can't be removed other than waiting for it to expire). However, you can instantly leave a boss fight with /boss leave. You can also leave a boss by relogging.
This means that you can leave a boss fight to avoid the penalties from dying. I think 1 or 2 players may be aware you can use /boss leave to avoid death but not sure.
In terms of how this should be handled, there's a few options
1. Reduce the penalty from dying (so players are less incentivized to leave the fight to avoid death).
2. Completely disable the ability to leave mid fight. This would mean not only disabling /boss leave, but implementing a combat logging system in the boss arena - if you log out during a fight, it kills you. This may or may not be more trouble than it's worth, and also comes with the downside that if someone gets disconnected for example due to internet issues, they die.
3. Leave as is for next season (to me the way it's designed currently doesn't entirely make sense, though I think there are bigger priorities for next season)
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