Boss

Un Boss è un tratto di una creatura PNG. I boss si distinguono dal resto della marmaglia grazie ad un'aura colorata e, quasi sempre, da un nome unico.

I boss sono tipicamente più forti del mostro medio, sia per il livello più alto che grazie a tratti speciali:

• I boss hanno +3 di rigenerazione salute innata.
• In Prophecies e Eye of the North molti boss hanno Natural Resistance.
• In Factions, Nightfall e Eye of the North, i boss infliggono danni doppi e tempo attivazione e ricarica delle abilità dimezzati.

D'altro canto, sconfiggere un boss porta maggiori ricompense rispetto ad un nemico normale:

• Uccidere un boss garantisce il doppio dell'esperienza rispetto ad un mostro normale dello stesso livello.
• La squadra riceve una Spinta Morale di +2% e tutte le abilità vengono ricaricate istantaneamente.
• Solitamente un boss lascia cadere fino a quattro volte tanti oggetti e di maggiore qualità. Degno di nota è che i boss lasciano cadere pergamene d'esperienza (escluso Scroll of the Lightbringer), Tomi di Abilità d'Elite (in Modalità Difficile), e molti anche il loro oggetto unico.
• Several blessings (e.g. Blessing of the Kurzicks, Boss Bounty, and Insect Hunt), scrolls (i.e. Scroll of Hunter's Insight and Scroll of Slayer's Insight) will grant more benefit or extend their duration upon killing a boss.
• Once killed, the corpse of a boss becomes a valid target for Signet of Capture, allowing players to permanently replace the signet with any of the non-monster skills that boss possesses and the character hasn't obtained yet. This is in particular the cheapest and most classical of the two ways to acquire elite skills, as bosses in the late game usually possess one.
  • Boss corpses persist indefinitely, although for some, such as Ghost and Nightmare bosses, the corpses will be invisible.

Technobabble is a skill behaving differently depending on whether the target is a boss or not.

Aura

This table shows the correspondence between the color of the bosses' Auras and their professions.

Profession Color Example Warrior Yellow Ranger Spring Green Monk Blue Necromancer Green Mesmer Magenta Elementalist Red Assassin Lavender Ritualist Cyan Paragon Gold Dervish Grey

See also

• Category:Bosses
• Category:Boss-like foes

Notes

• One weakness that many bosses share is that they have very few (albeit powerful) skills, making many of them vulnerable to having their skills disabled and/or interrupted. Their limited skill bars often result in most of their power coming from 1-2 key skills, making skills like Distracting Shot, Disrupting Chop, Arcane Thievery and Diversion potentially devastating if used correctly.
  • Bosses in Prophecies, Factions and Nightfall typically have 3-5 skills.
  • Bosses in Guild Wars Beyond often have a more complete skill bar and are therefore less vulnerable to having their skills disabled.
• Most bosses in Prophecies share spawning locations with other bosses — you might have to rezone several times to find a specific boss.
• Most bosses are hostile, but there are several boss allies: the Veldrunner Centaur in Kodonur Crossroads, Freezie in The Strength of Snow, and Grentchus Magnus in Straight to the Heart. When they die, the party receives a standard morale boost and you can capture their skills.
• Typically, hard mode bosses use the same builds as their normal mode counterparts. (In contrast, other NPCs usually have updated builds for hard mode, even if their nearby boss uses the same build in normal mode.)

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