I was finally able to join a Von Leon run and got through almost all of it. However, the whole time I was annoyed... Not because of the boss difficulty or needing to git gud but the lack of clarity throughout the boss fight. It's probably been asked before but let me reiterate: Please add Debuff status messages for Slow, Dispel, and Confuse/Crazy Skull in order to provide clarity to boss runners for current and possibly future bossing content. We already get messages for buffs such as seduce, stun, weakness, seal, darkness, and zombify. I think it'd be fair to add messages for the three other debuffs for clarity purposes due to the fact that Maplestory has no Debuffing animations and it's hard to read the amount of debuffs on your character if you're afflicted with multiple debuffs. The debuff status message will at least let you know what you're afflicted with rather than having to guess when too many random elements are happening at once, overwhelming you. Example of messages: You've been Slowed, decreasing your movement speed. Your skills have been Dispelled. You have been Confused, reversing your movement inputs. OR You are in a state of confusion, so your movement inputs will be reversed (from other server). Also, if you're able to, I think adding a timestamp to the side of a debuff would be helpful (not talking about a specific debuff, but all of them). Example: "You've been stunned, making you unable to move. (16:48:08)". This would help in situations when you're hit with the same debuff multiple times and can better understand the refresh of a debuff or anticipating a debuff wearing off soon. I know another good QoL is if you could add a debuff icon but I think that's unlikely for pre-bb clients and probably too much work compared to a timestamp.
It would also be helpful if you could capitalize the first letter of the debuff rather than it being lower cased. Also fix "You skill has been sealed up, making you unable to use it." to "Your skills have been Sealed, making you unable to use it"
Might not be the right place to put this, but in addition I'd like to ask this: - Make crazy skull on other players not visible - Make slow on other players visible (maybe a slightly edited icon to be easier to see too) This is because crazy skull isn't dispellable, but slow is. As a bishop it'd be very helpful to know.
Thanks for your feedback! We will also look into making slow visible for other players in a future update! Edit: looking into a bug that dispel messages get sends to everyone and not only to the player affected