huey rework please 🙏

[sacred gale]

current huey sucks to fight either solo or in a group.

• BUFF the wand, maybe a new drop from a higher level boss that gets combined with it but right now the wand is an absolute joke.

• increase the health of the tail but let us have proper damage, capping at 8-9 per damage per hit feels really bad

• the tail slams are horribly telegraphed and even when you seemingly do it right you get hit anyway.

• make it weaker to magic and specifically earth spells should always hit the tail like crush weapons do so the twinflame has more uses.

• maybe make solo huey scale down by about 30% and decrease the average loot, also in solos let us charge the pillars once before tail and once after tail instead of needing to balance them which is impossible solo.

[narrow pawn]

they said they'll revisit huey in the summer sweep-up

[steep heron]

I don't want a solo option for the boss, due to it being meant for groups. But otherwise, you have some good ideas.

It's been suggested before that the kodai insignia from cox should be combinable with the wand to make it more powerful. And I really like that idea. I would let it ignore a certain percentage of a dragons magic defense.

I would also rework Huey's tail so that earth magic can ignore the flat armor. And lowering it's magic defense overall. That would give people a reason to use magic there.

[lunar spire]

I think the only problem with penalizing solo is that we have a boss that just straight-up isn't worth doing unless you're clogging/pet hunting

That said

Huey solo is currently already viable because of the long respawn time, meaning you don't really lose much compared to trios - it just... feels really bad to do

And in the same vein, right now it's beyond most optimal to just 1+2

Which isn't really a great design

[steep heron]

It might be more worth doing if faster kills were possible. According to osrs wiki, if you're fighting it solo, you're only expected to get about 7 kills per hour.

I think the tails flat armor is what slows down kills. If there was a way to bypass the flat armor, and fight it with 3 people as intended, you would see a huge boost in the gp per hour.

[lunar spire]

I mean, based on where it's supposed to sit - as a mid-game group boss - it shouldn't be good gp/hr tbh

[sacred gale]

i dont need it to be good gp i just want it to be enjoyable to fight

i dont really like the fact that it has a solo option either, being a group boss and all but since the option is there the mechanics should at least work solo

[forest loom]

I think it needs some clean up with certain stalls and delays

Did some mass Huey this past weekend, and I hate that slight stall and waiting you need to do for the tail to retract before you can rush up

Just shorten that animation time

And also if you plan on using magic, the shield phase still has that slight delay before he becomes vulnerable again

[cedar hamlet]

Make Huey a delve boss tbh

Feels like it should already have some mechanic where the fight restarts and increases

Make it so players need to evacuate down the mountain path while getting attacks rained down on them

You bit off more than you can chew? Too bad you gotta live to get your rewards

No teleporting out

Maybe add minion spawns

Add a little bit of danger to mass worlds

Have the adds that spawn go after the lowest performing players

Cause chaos in the team which leads to more disorganized play

[lunar spire]

Phosani's Hueycoatl

[cedar hamlet]

Naw hear me out

Make em flying

You need to use mage, ranged or a halberd

Little mini winged serpents

And make her a delve boss

Fresh run it's more or less normal

Same as usual

You get to the tail break and maybe a few spawns come out

Like 2 or 3 tops

If you stay and ramp it to tier 2 she regrows the tail segments you normally kill the ascent

Can you not randomly spam AI art in discussions?

Moving on

Body sections regrow, kill em again but after every kill more adds spawn

Finish the kill, tier 3 she starts enraged and has the increased attack speed the whole time

And adds spawn constantly unless you not only kill the body segments but also cave in holes that are spawning mobs

And the body segments can regrow mid fight

Granting a damage reduction per body segment up

This fully splits the team

You need an upper and lower section team managing the body, spawns and maybe some other mechanic

You now stay in tier 3 perma enrage

And it's a battle against sustain if you want to continue with better loot drops