Blob Boss Improvements
 

First off, before I forget, lemme throw this out there: This giant blob, being iClassics first "boss," is too significant not to hava a name. The Blob needs a name!

Ok that being said... Now there are several problems with the way this "boss" is set up. First of all, theres no way of knowing when the Blob will spawn, so its a huge waste of time of time waiting for it. I waited 5hours before I saw it. Not only that, but you arent even gauranteed to get slime spoils even if its been over 12hours since your last blob battle. And of course the large problem, the crowd of several hundred people at once creates immense lag, making it difficult to even hit the blob, and it makes it not as fun. Then of course, if the blob isnt there, the people waiting there all day for it spend their time PKing in large mobs. Really most of the people there are only there for the kills. The point of this challenge is TEAMWORK, but there is no party system. When the blob spawns, you get more kills than the number of hits you make on the blob.


Possible Solutions:
A. Turn the area of Swamptown where Blob is into nonPK, but with weapons on (similiar to Balamb). This way Graalians can actually work together to kill the blob without having to mow over eachother with arrows. This is my least favorite solution, having to turn half of swamptown to nonPK, and it doesnt fix lag.

B. Make the Blob respawn every 15min and limit spoils to once every 24hrs instead of 12. This way people wont have to wait forever for the blob to appear, and they wont come back until tomorrow, and wont have to settle boredom by making PK mobs. The first few days when York was opened, Pyrat Bay was crowded, but after a few days the crowds cleared because you can complete the challenge any time. If you can complete the Blob challenge at any time, there wouldnt be a crowd here either.

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C. *preferred solution* Move the Blob to a cave (the unopened cave to the far west swamp cliff is still unused..), but in this cave, you can only see guild members. No 4728483748287 noobs. This way you can complete the challege with your guild using TEAMWORK.

I like these ideas. Also, the slime does have a name. Big Bertha the Blob.

I think everybody is getting tired of the pk mob war that has gone on for 2-3 days straight now. I agree with making it 1 spoils every 24 hours and even posted that fix in another thread. I also agree it needs set intervals so ppl aren't camping in 1 area all day waiting for it to re-spawn. If not set intervals and its going to be hours in between re-spawns then just have it pop up in several random spots around graal and send out a global pm that it has returned.

The problem with making it a guild teamwork task is that a lot of guilds leads are more concerned with towering and getting that 1k hat then getting spoils. They wont want to give up the time even if it is just 10 minutes to go kill the blob. With my own guild i have days where i have trouble finding the time to squeeze in the pyrate bay quest because we are constantly towering.

somebody should start a thread for blob name ideas then do a poll and the most popular gets to be its name.

Ideas 2 and 3 would be awesome.

Spawn every 10 min


One hour slimy spoils cool down


Non pk with weapons


No gralat prize unless you have all the items(the furniture item and gralats would become random so people could get a few)

*Stamp of approval*

i'm going with C

No...

YES the only 2 spoils ive gotten were 300 gralats ):< (<1000gralat pyrat prize) I want a frog mount and blob pet >:l

I think it should spawn in one of several random locations so that people don't just camp the spawn location.

Do all of these.

I really want B to happen :0

Idea C is awesome, the arrows, bombs, and sword all being used in the crowd is just a big laggy cluster f*** lol. Killing the blob with just your guild sounds way more fun.

I want more blob pets because I only have one and its on my noob account and what if squishy gets lonely

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I want the bomb and from mount and a slime pet on main acc


For my noob I just want a bunch of slime pets

How about multiple slimes with different drops so you don't have to play a f*cking guessing game only to be disappointed MANY times, and wind up feeling angry and defeated- a pissed off graalian


They don't always have to drop but you can try and get what you actually want and not some random sh*t someone else wants and you'll never use or can't sell

If I wanted gralats I would just f*cking buy them

I prefer to call them puddings

I was gonna suggest the same thing as skill, I have seen the pk cluster at swamp die down a little bit here and there and less idiots yelling at ppl to get out of the puddle or the blob wont spawn. I think the best solution would be to have it spawn randomly at 1 of 5-6 locations.

I also think if it was done this way you should be able to collect spoils every time it spawns, as long as there is a good hour or so between spawns. So everybody gets a better chance to get the hat and mount before the blob gets taken away.

My first semi approved idea from you