...it is clear that globes drops all the time when you fighting groups of monsters so you dont have to break the fight...but what when you are fighting one big boss and there is no smaller monsters around you to suplly globes.

Imagine fighting the Siegebreaker assault beast in single player, and there are no globes around you....

Will we end up like that barbarian from the video?

Chopped in half?

There are a lot of different ways to do it, and it's likely that the way we give health will be tailored to the style of the encounter and behavior of each boss.

lol

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Wh..what ? do we have to understand that health will flow in a scripted manner ???

Like, dodging Leoric's enraged mace swing when he's at 30%, mace landing in a big pillar which collapses thus releasing health Orbs ...etc ??

I really hope it is not what you mean...

Health regain has to be, for the most part, managed by the player. Not by scripted events.

Hell, people cry's about WoW possible influence on D3 but they should watch out for God of War ones.... Add WoW drop lists for each boss and you've got the worst case scenario, no replayability.

Dont take me wrong, GoW is very good game, but one you play once, maybe twice and thats it. You dont watch a film, even a really good one, even your favorite one, more than a few times every few years.

While im at it, chances for orbs to drop 'on hit' is imbalanced toward fast-hitting skills, thus penalizing slow and powerful strike/spells.

Else they do it ala Proc Per Minute, but then you have a **puke** constant and predictable flow of Health Orbs which kills the excitment.

Screw scripts ! Let things in the hands of players ! and in the hand of Randomness too !

You dont give us health, you give us the means to manage it. Its very different.

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Well, regardless of what the end product is let's just agree that you'll be negative and immediately critical of it.

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Even if i know that D2 Diablo is going to Red Lightning Hose me, Cold Touch me, i dont know exactly when, how many times etc..

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I hope you're not calling that an interesting fight, or saying Diablo II was replayable because it had no mechanics beyond the boss' abilities.

In Diablo III we want at least some boss fights that aren't defined simply by having a creature with more health, unique art, and more powerful abilities. We want there to be something more to them, tell a story, have more unique mechanics that make sense for the boss.

As far as the original topic, when health globes could be delivered during a boss fight, there's really no limit for how they could be delivered. Take the King Leoric fight, they were delivered through creatures that he summoned, normal skeletons. Every boss could essentially have the same thing, normal enemies around him that can be killed for the potential at getting a health globe drop. Or, you could have something more interesting ... like a boss that does a special attack that has the ability to break open some large corpse storage tanks that are in his lair. The player has to lead the boss to the tank and try to invoke the special attack so he'll break the tank open, which unleashes some health globes. You could even treat the tank (code-wise) as a normal creature, meaning abilities and items could augment the number that drop and amount they heal, etc. giving some control to the individual player. If you don't need the health you can ignore the mechanic, but it could be a way for players to try to game the boss and make sure they can survive the fight. Totally hypothetical, we don't have a fight that resembles what I described, but it's a possible delivery system.

I disagree that having bosses that do something more than simply cast the spells they're given to cast kills replayability.