The title more or less says it all. The last few months I've been trying to practice builds that I spend a lot of LE on in an attempt to become useful on the battlefield (raids and anni).
The main thing I have to practice in raids are the bosses, which take about 4-6+ minutes to get to depending on the pfinder team and rooms (and that's not even counting the queuing downtime), if I'm running a new build, the last thing I want to do is charge headfirst into a boss, die, and either watch one person attempt to carry the rest of the party through the boss fight(s), or fail the raid because "i'm learning", it doesn't feel good to fail unprepared.
That said there were only 2 endgame alternatives I can try: Qira, and Legendary Island
Qira is by far the best and cheapest source of practice because it costs nothing to fight her, but because you can't respawn at The Hive, and Qira is an older boss with very annoying attacks you won't ever see yourself dealing with in anni or raids (Push/pull spell + web spell), it becomes genuinely exhausting when you have a low WS character return to Qira after losing to her.
Legendary Island.... No. A forced 12EB to enter and if the best you can do is in the bronze tier with a new build, that's a HORRIBLE way to practice and go even more broke if you don't come out of it with something to suffice for the multiple instances of 12EB you spent to get in there.
Wynncraft needs a best of both worlds for this. We need 1 endgame boss that's easily accessible that we can respawn at like LI, and costs absolutely nothing to fight like Qira. I would more than appreciate it if this was something considered in the future. There has to be more to practice on than a rune-burning activity (that takes 4-7 minutes to fight the actual thing you want to practice on), a free boss that's a walk-of-shame to get to should one fail, a gauntlet that has a irritating fee to entry that makes a player with "skill issue" go even poorer than they likely were, and a static damage sponge that you can spawn on a housing island for 32EB.


