Reward Merits GM Lusca

[Sir Zues]

GM Lusca

Windows: GM Lusca should be worth more than 6 Reward Merits. Lusca should be worth 12 or 15 Reward Merits. A lot of players have been saying that. Even back on live players were saying it should be more than 6. If you can raise it that would be awesome.

[TheZag]

I would like to see 1 per tentacle and 5 for the head.  That gives 13 total for a fairly long battle and gives players a reason to join early and not wait till near the end to join.

[srmalloy]

2 hours ago, TheZag said:

I would like to see 1 per tentacle and 5 for the head.  That gives 13 total for a fairly long battle and gives players a reason to join early and not wait till near the end to join.

Ummm... Lusca is a hexopus, with six tentacles, not eight; that would make the total 11, not 13. Also, the length of the fight is dependent on the team/league you have fighting; I was in a league of nine total heroes taking Lusca down this evening, and we almost spent more time waiting for it to resurface than on killing each tentacle.

 

It would require special mechanics -- which is in itself an argument against it -- but if you're going to increase the merits you get for defeating Lusca, I'd prefer to have the game 'bank' two merits for each tentacle you help kill, with the merits you bank for the tentacles awarded if you help defeat the head. So if you got in at the start, and fought all six tentacles, you'd get 12 merits when you help defeat the head. You leave without  helping defeat the head, and you get nothing. Join after two tentacles have been defeated, you only get 8 at final defeat. Wait until all six tentacles are down, then jump in and hit the head once (and I've seen people do just that), and you get nothing, just the XP fraction for the damage you did.

[LKN-351]

I came into this post hoping that someone had won a battle with a Game Master while they where "AFK" and was hoping to get some merits. Well dang lol

[TheZag]

Perhaps someone killed a few tentacles when you were looking at 6.  I was mainly including resurfacing time when i said the fight is long.  Start to finish is way longer then other GMs for the same reward.  Im not sure about the merits but the badge is awarded to everyone in the entire zone even if they never helped.