Boss Fights

Imagine a boss fight where the strategy changes every attempt. Where everything is random. One try "don't stand in the fire", the next attempt you die if you don't. A fight without any logic to it. Wearing shadow resist gear against a boss that does shadow damage, may sound logical, but here it may help, it may hurt and it may do nothing at all. Oh and that will also change every time you try the boss.

Does that sound like a fun encounter? Hardly. The basics of great game design is that it is challenging, but that you with practice can get better and better and up the chance of beating the boss.

Sometimes comforting a crying baby feels like a boss encounters as described above. Just as you think you have found a surefire way to get your little munchkin smiling, it fails horribly and instead turns a slight wimpering into fullblown hysterics.

I thought I had the magic solution trinity down. Feed, Change or Carry. But now that my baby girl is almost 3 months old she seem to delight in being inconsolable at times and to make matters worse she is giving off completely deceiving clues.

Sometimes she will be making sucking noises, but go completely hysterical if you try to feed her. Other times her eyes will be so small she can hardly see out of them, but she still insists in keeping herself awake. The fact that she is colic and that her stomach pains gets worse in the evening does not help.

As you will probably know wiping over and over on a boss can be very taxing and you start looking for help anywhere you can get it.

If someone comes to you and says that in their old guild, they were using a tactic that never failed, you will be very likely to jump on it.
That is why when a doctor told me that she would prescribe some drops for my little girl that could sort out the issue, I happily accepted.

The only problem with those kind of miracle solution is that they rarely work.
The reason they never wiped in the old guild was not because of the tactic, but rather because they were overgeared for the encounter. And the reason other babies stop fussing when using the drops is because.... well I don't know, but they did not work for my baby girl, so it is back to the old tactics and to just keep going until I succeed in soothing her. There has better be some epic loot when I finally have this bossfight on farm!