During festival events, defeating a number of bosses is part of the tasks. There are also leaderboard contests. What if we add a level to that, probably purely cosmetic, whereby the player who defeated the most bosses in the previous festival (or during this festival on the previous day) has a chance appear in the festival zone as a boss themselves (either in addition to the other bosses, or rarely replacing one of the other bosses)? I doubt it would be useful in any way except cosmetic, but it would add interest imo.

Um.... I don't understand. Would you be going against that player's party, or the player themself?

The player's avatar. Just like the bosses, it would be the player standing there. Kind of as a reward to them for defeating so many bosses before, they get a little shout-out in this way.

I kind of feel like this would feel upsetting to the other player. Like, the point of bosses is to defeat them so about 99.9 % of the time. And if the player went against themself...

If I went against myself, I would be amused. If I went against someone else, I would know them to have defeated the most bosses in the previous contest. Kind of like a badge of honor.

I think it's a neat idea, but probably hard to keep track of because some players may be able to defeat the same number of bosses as another player. I would be terribly amused to take myself out lol.

Also, it's pretty easy to take out all of the bosses in the fest zone.

I like the idea and concept! I think if it can't be implemented, there's plenty of derivative ideas that could also work, be easier to do, and maybe include more of the playerbase!

- Have a forum contest where players can design bosses and/or their Sylesti/Avatar companions
- Have a leaderboard-type contest where 1st place can design a boss that could be implemented in a later festival/event
- For leaderboards that are specific to each species, maybe one of the prizes could be to be a named boss in a later festival/event that cycles through each of the species, and defeating that boss could have a chance to randomly hand out an egg after defeat (ie 1st place Aurleon leaderboard winner designs an avatar and aurleon pets to be a named boss, which will be in a pool of bosses that appear at a certain point in a festival, and defeating that boss has a chance of dropping a themed aurleon egg)

Those are just the ideas I had on hand, but I like what could become of it!