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Boss fights that are more progressive and less tedious

Boss fights need to be less boring and have more depth. For a dungeon crawler, the boss fights are pretty lackluster and invariable, especially compared to the bosses in vanilla minecraft, which isn't even in the same genre. Every boss literally just has powerful attacks and summons a few mobs, and this doesn't change throughout the battle. In vanilla minecraft, there is at least progression in the dragon and wither fight. Take down the ender crystals, then defeat the ender dragon. Use the bow first, then the sword, for the wither. As for dungeons bosses, they are basically super-enchanted mobs. They should at least get more difficult as their health lowers.

But to take progression a step further, nerf the weaker attacks, buff the stronger attacks, and make the boss use more powerful attacks as the battle progresses. To balance this out, some bosses (like Corrupted Cauldron, Lil'lager and Heart of Ender) would have more health. This would make bosses more difficult, while preventing them from showing all their cards instantly. When bosses become progressively more powerful, it gives a mysterious and exciting vibe to the fight.

This would fix particularly monotonous boss fights by making them more difficult, surprising, and thrilling.

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     "This would make bosses more difficult, while preventing them from showing all their cards instantly"

    Here's an idea: when a boss hits, let's say, 3/4 of its HP, it shows a new attack. Then at 1/2, another new attack, and same with 1/4.

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    Maybe the bosses summon attack gets progressively more devastating. For example: the arch illager can summon a Redstone golem, a ring of vindicators, and a line of pillagers. well, lets change the Redstone golem to only be summoned when the arch is down two-thirds of his health, he can also summon a evoker and four enchanters in the four corners of the boss arena when he is down one-third of his health, the Heart Of Ender can also summon hoards of ender mites, and their numbers go up the more health The Heart Of Ender loses.

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    Bosses are definitely lackluster and once you get their patterns down it's really simple. Voted.

    Also "Lil'lager".

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    The fight is not really pressing, or long.
    We see a restone golem we say "shit, we will have to move back and shoot arrows".
    The bosses are not impressive.
    I was on it especially at the last level, the boss fight was very borring

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    Ideas

     

    Arch-Illager -

    Spawns only vindicators, pillagers and redstone golems. How about that he can summon skeleton vanguards, redstone cubes, wraiths, slimes and cave spiders. Maybe some powerful attacks.

    Heart of Ender -

    When on half a life, it will spawn necromancers or mob spawner. That is hard.

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    The tempest golem was decent, and although it had a strategy for defeating it, it still wasn't too progressive. I think any future bosses should change stages as you fight them, like the wither and ender dragon do.

    Every boss should be unique and have a strategy to defeating it, instead of just being a bigger necromancer, and the tempest golem is a decent temp-late for future boss fights.

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    I made 5 posts for each non-dlc boss in Minecraft Dungeons and how to make them more interesting:

    1. Corrupted Cauldron
    2. Nameless One
    3. Redstone Monstrosity
    4. Arch Illager
    5. Heart of Ender

    I decided to leave the mooshroom monstrosity alone because it's an easter egg boss.

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    I also made 2 posts for each Hero Pass DLC boss for more inspiration:

    1. Jungle Abomination
    2. Wretched Wraith
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    I just fought the Ancient Guardian from the Hidden Depths DLC, and it was actually really good. It had many various attacks, but it also didn't show all of them right at the start of the battle. My favorite thing about the Ancient Guardian is that it revealed more abilities as the fight progressed, and I would love to see something like this for future bosses.