We've been trying to decide what the best way to make him fun to fight is. Nobody really likes being forced to play what is basically the role of bandits versus someone doing a Skyrim stealthy assassin run. We have a few ideas, though more input couldn't hurt.
As I have stated many times before ingame ( despite you not being around ), I enjoy paper bag Mocheeze's moveset over the possesion idea. Yet, I still enjoy the possesion thing. Mocheeze has been my favorite boss for as long as I've been playing Boss Battles. In fact, he's the only boss I use ( but when he's temporarily removed, I use Badspot. )
I'm not saying Paper Bag and Possesion should be seperate bosses both available at the same time, that'd be tacky. The best way to do this in my opinion would to beat the middle of the stick and combine both bosses into one. In other words, make left-click fire the ghost fireball thing from Paper Bag Mocheeze, and right click would possess people. Then again, we still have the problem of people either always using right click, or people only using left click. Plus, that would mean cloaking would need a new key.
I've also noticed that Mocheeze's jumping has been severely nerfed. My copy of Mocheeze jumps 96 bricks high ( script not edited ). I think new Mocheeze only jumps around 3x to 4x a normal player's jump. I understand this is likely because the slate arena(s) is/are not nearly as tall as the bedroom, but if this map rotation thing is gonna happen, Mocheeze's jump will need to be buffed.
If you don't want to completely give Mocheeze the axe, I'd say take a poll over which Mocheeze people prefer - paper bag's moveset ( shooting the ghost fireballs and such ) or new Mocheeze's moveset ( posession ). If one recieves far more votes than the other, that is how Mocheeze should be. If the votes are near, or exactly a tie, find some way to combine him, or get rid of Mocheeze altogether.
But if there can only be one, in my opinion, you should go with Paper Bag's moveset.
And of course that's just me ragging on how I like to play Mocheeze. Ugh, Part 2.
Paper bag is more fun to fight. Why? Because you can actually choose a class against this guy. When you're battling a new mocheeze, you can't choose a slow class or a miniboss because you will be annihilated instantly because Mocheeze is almost guaranteed to target you first. In 90% of all new Mocheeze battles I've faught, the first person to be possesed was either an overweight or a juggernaut. This includes an event that happened on either February 24 or March 3 ( I can't recall for sure, can anyone that happened to be there too enlighten me ) that I refer to as "Mocheezathon 2014", where, for about 3 hours straight, nearly
everyone was a Mocheeze. I know this for a fact, I counted at least 25 Mocheeze fights during that time, and I was Mocheeze myself 6 times, totaling a minimum of 31 Mocheeze fights during those 3 hours. It ended when everybody just started going as Runner, because they were too fast for Mocheeze's possesion, nearly every round ended in a draw, or mass Self Delete.
Of course though, I'm not saying Runners are impossible to grab. I've possesed a runner or two. But the worst part is when you are possessed within ten seconds of joining the fight. If you don't want people to dread fighting a new Mocheeze, don't make possession do any damage at all. When the possessed player takes a certain amount of damage, they are, uh, what would you call it, unpossessed? Depossessed? and the only damage done to them is damage taken from people attacking them while they were possessed. New Mocheeze's possession, if I recall, is insta-kill.
Another possible workaround for possession is to make the zone that causes possession larger, meaning that people are easier to grab, and more likely to walk into on accident. Would also help with getting fast classes.
I'm sorry I wrote a novel for you to read just over my opinions of Mocheeze. I think I've given enough input for you to fully determine Mocheeze's fate, haha. I apologize for any grammar or spelling issues too, I'm writing this at midnight. You can criticize my grammar/spelling in the morning.
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