drop boss announcement universally

I agree with that. Sometimes it's nice to stumble across a boss rather than rushing when an announcement comes up. Because then it's a game of who gets it first over who finds it throughout their adventure.

I always thought part of the game is going to check if the boss is up. Never liked the announcing. I got shot down early on about turning it off

Adding @Leigion and @Wis/Faker so you guys get updates since I gotta remove the reaction for the status thing (sorry)

🇷 - Marking as under review for now while team investigates further.

Thinking about it more. Its especially bad for toi bosses. Once it announces the people with a charm rtele up the floors and if you don't have a charm you have no chance to go after it

Isn’t charms 1 time use or am I mistaken?

on this server for example, if you use a 21f charm, it puts you on 21f and then you can rtele on every floor except the rest floor

cooldown on the charm?

dont think there is one

I think it's a perm thing to use

that allows you to also rtele here

and here I thought announcements were to keep the economy moving...

As a new player I've appreciated the announcement. I don't think I would have taken the opportunity to hunt some of the lower tier bosses without it

Folks who have been playing private for 20 years really take a lot of things for granted... like knowing exactly where and how often each boss spawns

I mean, you are absolutely correct. I haven't touched lineage in so long that I forgot pretty much everything. They did help quite a lot, and sometimes even late it is nice to stop what I'm doing because one is announced.

They definitely arent keeping the economy moving. If anything they are hindering it. I can name about 5 players who will lock down key bosses and utilize the announcement to direct them.
Have you seen a rich robe for sale? Hand of raper? Tarak boots/gloves? How about a silver cloak, something not that rare? Ask baranka how his search for a baranka claw was. Rare and exceptionally good items have never made it to market unless event forced it.

I'd be curious what the ratio of spawns:announcements is... 1:1? 10:1?

Id be curious on specific bosses, but the ones that matter like I said, l4, yahee varlok its close to no announcement at this point and 2 of those 10 dont announce toi I feel is probably high because theres a lot of bosses

As far as I know, all bosses will be annouced if they are up for more than 60 minutes.

So the bosses you dont see annouced are just being killed within the hour after their spawn.

For sure. My opinion is to remove any announcement

With the 1 hour delay, this seems to be like the best of 2 worlds.
1- If you really wanna farm a boss, you figure out his spawn and find it within 1 hour. Not that many bosses are being camp daily.
2- If you are lazy and dont wanna put the work to check bosses, you wait for an annoucement and then you run!

But in the end, as you previously stated, most of the end-game bosses are being killed before their annoucement (big exeption are L4 bosses, I see them annouced all the time). So annoucement or not will not really matter in the long run.

l4 is never announced unless its middle of the night, yahee, varlok dont announce because their first phase is listed as non boss