Skill transparency for bosses like PB

Hi hi!

Just finished watching Eiji's vid on the first 'real' Beaters PB run and I think there were two things that really made it difficult.
A) The recently changed aggro system in ML preventing the melee attackers from consistently holding aggro. This wasn't game-breaking because there are ways to still hold aggro for melee attackers, it's just more difficult.
B) The fact that it's rather difficult to tell when PB casts Damage Reflect. I would support this claim with screenshots but I feel like the video provides more than enough vocalization of this fact. This seemed to be primarily caused by the melee attackers' attacking skills clouding the view of PB.

Now I know GMS does a lot of things differently (and in some cases, worse) than the way v62 was coded/designed/implemented, but there are some things that I feel could have a positive effect on the quality of life experience when bossing in ML, one of those things is option to give your (and others') skills a degree of transparency to maintain proper sight on the boss and it's animations/attacks/buffs.

I'm aware this is probably very difficult (or even impossible) to implement on the basic v62 client as we have it now, but perhaps it would be an option to introduce a standardized .wz edit (as users can't do it themselves) which has a given degree of transparency on attacking skills. This would then allow the players in a PB run to keep proper vision of the boss, allowing them to notice both which direction he's facing (which is relevant for certain hard-hitting attacking skills) and whether or not he's currently under damage reflect.


TL;DR: If players attacking skills (so not PB's skills) could get a degree of transparency, it'd be easier to see the boss and thus make judgments about whether to attack/stop attacking (in the case of DR) or taking the proper steps in handling the aggro (in the case of which direction PB is facing).

Am I ever going to participate in a PB run? Highly unlikely, but I figured I'd just leave the suggestion anyways.

Kind regards, sorry for the long read.

Ainz

 

That's actually a very good point. Since PB was announced I've been quite vocal about my wish for it to be a long time before the playerbase actually succeeds at killing it. I suppose that puts my suggestion in entirely different perspective!

 

Glad to hear the actual runners don't consider it problematic! Consider this suggestion void, best of luck to future runs