"Hey, Ben, look over here! There's a BOSS!"
A group of people moved forward, but then Zack noticed a unique monster at the end of a side path on the left: Miner Johansen.
A monster with its own name, unlike the nearby foremen and miners, it was clearly a small leader.
"Let's just take it out along the way," Ben said without much thought.
Kill everything, burn everything, loot everything.
They weren't planning to leave a single monster alive in the dungeon.
Like before, Ben and the others slowly cleared out the smaller monsters.
The levels of these monsters had also increased to 17-18.
Their attack power had also increased, but they weren't a major threat.
Three or four at a time wasn't too stressful for now.
After clearing out the ordinary miner monsters around them, Ben and his team pulled the elite monster's attention.
"This monster is too weak, it's just a regular small elite," Ben thought, still taking it seriously at first.
But after fighting it, he was speechless.
Based on the damage dealt and the percentage of the health bar that was removed, Ben roughly estimated it.
The monster in front of him only had about a thousand health points.
It had a little more health than Rak'zo's two underlings, but that was it.
"Ben, go get the equipment," Zack said with a chuckle, urging Ben as Miner Johansen fell to the ground.
"Annoying! I'm not going! I'm saving my good luck for the later BOSS! I can't use up my luck early!" Ben really wanted to, but he held himself back.
Not just from a superstitious point of view, but also from a scientific one.
Rak'zo, who had so much health earlier, didn't drop anything good, so how could this 1000-health trash miner boss possibly drop anything good?
But as soon as this thought arose.
The need/greed window popped up.
[Gilded Shield (Good)]
Off-hand (Shield).
471 Armor, 9 Block, 5 Stamina, 2 Agility, Requires Level 15.
Ben was stunned as he looked at the information that popped up.
What the heck?
A blue item?
And it's a shield?
'Holy crap, it actually dropped a blue item?'
'Zack is amazing!'
Wells and Joey were also surprised as they looked at the window that had appeared.
"Impossible! This is impossible! This isn't scientific! Who are you, if you're not Zack!" Ben finally couldn't take it anymore.
The BOSS didn't drop anything good, so how did this small elite monster drop a blue item?
Even though the shield clearly belonged to him, the warrior.
He wasn't that happy at this moment.
He even had a hard time accepting it.
Because didn't this mean that he was really unlucky? And more importantly, Zack had looted it.
They used to have a well-known nickname: The African Twins.
Now he was turning his luck around?
"Ben, I think you can safely hand over the right to loot to me from now on!" Zack said with a grin, as he clicked "Pass."
"I can't accept this! Let's go, let's go to the next BOSS! I want to prove myself!" After clicking "Need" and equipping the new shield, Ben had a fire in his belly.
But at the same time, he had a very strong confidence as he strode back to the intersection and headed towards the depths of the mine.
He had stood up with the team's first blue item!
Now his health wouldn't be like a roller coaster anymore.
Next, all he needed to do was prove whether he was truly unlucky!
One minute later, a familiar scene reappeared.
There was a brief silence in the voice channel.
"Ben, can you explain this?" Zack asked.
"So, you just got a blue shield, not a whole set of blue items," Hannah chimed in.
Before Wells and Joey could continue to criticize him, Ben struck first.
"I'm giving up the right to loot from now on! Also, I'm treating everyone to Peking duck on Saturday night." As the one who caused the wipe, Ben silently took the blame.
"But even though I took the blame, I still have to say, Boss Lucas is really sneaky! When the foreman falls, shouldn't the people below scatter like birds and beasts? Why are they acting like mad dogs?" Ben said in frustration.
The scene just now was very brutal.
After getting the new shield, he had more confidence in his own tankiness, and he also wanted to prove that he wasn't unlucky.
So he started to advance quickly.
But the monsters in this area were different from before.
There were patrolling mage monsters here, and Ben accidentally pulled a patrol monster's attention. After killing it,
The rest of the miners went crazy, and they rioted.
Although they were all miners with only four hundred health points, many ants can kill an elephant!
So they were wiped out again.
"It's not a big deal, we'll definitely clear the dungeon this time! We learned another small lesson," Ben said, trying to encourage everyone again.
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At the same time, in the Nebula Games' break room.
Lucas, Hector, Anna, and Rachel were playing "World of Warcraft" together.
So after the development was completed, the company could basically relax for a while.
But even though they were playing, everyone's levels weren't high.
No one was planning to seriously rush levels, or farm dungeons for equipment.
After all, as the game's developers, if their levels or equipment were at the top, it would be easy to cause suspicion among players if it was exposed.
And even if the players didn't have any thoughts, some other game companies probably wouldn't mind smearing them.
So Lucas and the others were just experiencing the content in a simple way.
Just keep up with the progress of most regular players.
During the time they were developing "World of Warcraft," the massive project made everyone work day and night to release this great game as soon as possible.
Lucas hadn't decided on any major projects for the direct team in the short term, so it could be said that they were relatively relaxed.
"Boss Lucas, is the difficulty of this dungeon a bit too high? I just looked at the backend data, and only 13% of players successfully cleared the dungeon, according to player account ratios."
Hector, who was running around in the Barrens in the game, asked Lucas through the voice channel.
"It's okay, the game isn't just about dungeons," Lucas said with a smile, not worried, after hearing Hector's words.
Was the difficulty of "World of Warcraft's" dungeons high?
Very high. In Lucas' past life, some of the dungeons in "World of Warcraft" were extremely difficult. No one even managed to successfully complete the first kill until the official lowered the difficulty.
Because "World of Warcraft's" dungeons didn't test individual heroism.
They tested teamwork.
Just like fighting a war.
Without soldiers who obey orders, without a general who plans strategies, then don't even think about winning the war.
Basically, the first time players went to a dungeon, they would be wiped out due to certain elements if they didn't look at a walkthrough.
But although the learning cost of dungeons was high, "World of Warcraft," as an MMORPG, had more than just dungeons as gameplay.
At least that's how it was for current players.
Just like the game's name, mixing these gameplay elements made the game a world.
Class and race settings, talent builds, economic systems, and world missions.
It could be said that "World of Warcraft" completely showed the way Azeroth should look.
Even if they didn't go to dungeons, players could play for a long time just by being a fishing enthusiast, mining, gathering herbs, or running around the map doing side quests.
And the transitional equipment given by quests wouldn't cause players to be unable to beat the quest monsters of their current level, unless they sold their equipment to learn skills or do other things.
Of course, as they leveled up, players would inevitably have to come into contact with dungeons.
Because some of the more exciting quests were linked to dungeons.
But at that time, players would basically already have a good enough understanding of "World of Warcraft." Plus, there would definitely be some hardcore players who would be pioneers, and ordinary players could use the walkthroughs those players made to clear the dungeons, which would greatly reduce the difficulty.
(End of chapter)
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