Overlord Boss Ideas

[TechSY730]

Whenever you start implementing some of the tougher bosses, here is one idea for an Overlord tier boss (or whatever the highest rank of boss is)

Anyone play Final Fantasy XII? Anyone remember Yiazmat? Yea, basically the idea is that.

Something like, even if you are 10 levels above this new boss, it still would take you like 30 minutes at best to take out. (You would be able to leave the room, heal up, and come back later)
Even if you are 10 levels above it, it could still kill you in 8-10 hits.
It would be able to inflict debuffs (burn and/or freeze and/or other debuffs to come along)
It would be immune to death touch or any other instant incapacitation spells.
It would be able to self regen after 20 or more seconds of not taking damage (though at a VERY slow rate compared to its total HP, though with that kind of total HP, that still would be quite a bit)
It would give ludicrous EXP on death (even by overlord standards)

Yea, this would have to be a very rare encounter, even by overlord standards, but I think it would be epic.

Any ideas for less "insane" high level bosses?

[KDR_11k]

Doesn't sound fun.

Also Death Touch is simply a strong melee spell, not an instakill. It's for people like me who like to stay just in front of the boss and wail away for maximum damage.

[TechSY730]

Doesn't sound fun.

Also Death Touch is simply a strong melee spell, not an instakill. It's for people like me who like to stay just in front of the boss and wail away for maximum damage.

For me, I liked the Yiazmat fight in final fantasy XII. 50 million HP in a game with a 9999 damage cap. World record to defeat is around 40 minutes. However, I realize that lots of people didn't find that fight fun, but annoying. I guess I was one of the few who found it fun and epic.

As such, why I requested more "sane" high level bosses.

[x4000]

I think that sort of thing can be really fun if it's an epic side quest, more or less.  There was a side boss like that in SMRPG back on the SNES, too.  Not quite so epic, but it was something where the boss was way over-powerful compared to anything else in the game, and your level was capped at I think level 31, so even when your stats were completely maxed it was an insane fight.

I'd think that this sort of fight would be something where the level of the insane boss would always be equal to or higher than the civ level, so you can't ever over-level it.  It seems like a fun side quest sort of thing, just not like an overlord.

Worth going in mantis, I'd say.

[c4sc4]

Well I never got far enough into XII to encounter this boss but in Final Fantasy X-2, yes I am one of the few people who actually like that game, there was this one optional boss in the desert called Angra Mainyu which was a really difficult and long fight which I found to be incredibly fun. So some kind of side quest with a hard boss in AVWW might be cool.

[Hunam]

There was a side boss like that in SMRPG back on the SNES, too.  Not quite so epic, but it was something where the boss was way over-powerful compared to anything else in the game, and your level was capped at I think level 31, so even when your stats were completely maxed it was an insane fight.

Yes but he was no match for Princess Peach with her Lazy Shell armor and Frying Pan!  Good times...

[TechSY730]

OK. Added to mantis, with a few revisions.

http://www.arcengames.com/mantisbt/view.php?id=5053

[x4000]

Thanks!