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#2  Edited By Marino  Staff
@Mercanis:  Definitely.  Neither is deletable currently, but the Form page is way more substantial.  I'll tag the Phase page for deletion, but go ahead and move the associations over if you can.
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#3  Edited By Ignor

What!? We've been through this before!
The MPB page are for bosses that change their abilities as the battle goes on,
and the MFB is for bosses that transform (upgrade) into much more powerfull beings near the end of the combat, triggering yet another battle.
 
In short; Those pages serve different purposes.

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#4  Edited By StarFoxA
@Ignor said:
" What!? We've been through this before! The MPB page are for bosses that change their abilities as the battle goes on, and the MFB is for bosses that transform (upgrade) into much more powerfull beings near the end of the combat, triggering yet another battle.  In short; Those pages serve different purposes. "
I think both could be covered in a single page easily enough. No need for two pages.
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#5  Edited By Ignor
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#6  Edited By Bones8677
@Ignor: Dude, relax.
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#7  Edited By Ignor

What?

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#8  Edited By Marino  Staff
@Ignor: I see where you're coming from at least.  Originally when I looked at the two pages I'm thinking of the boss itself.  If the boss character itself has separate phases or forms, that's the same thing to me, or at least similar enough to be on one page.  If by phases you mean the boss fight has multiple parts involving different enemies all together, then that's something different.
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#9  Edited By Ignor

Yes, I think that may be confusing to a lot of people. But there are many pages on Giant Bomb that do that.
Sorry if I sounded a little harsh BTW (I've got a dry cough that kept me awake all night)
 
I've tried to improve upon my explanation:
Multiple Phase Boss:  Enemy Boss who changes weapons or attack patterns completely after certain conditions are met.
Multi-Form Boss: Enemy Boss who changes shape at will during the fight or after certain conditions are met.

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#10  Edited By emkeighcameron
@Ignor said:
" Yes, I think that may be confusing to a lot of people. But there are many pages on Giant Bomb that do that.
Sorry if I sounded a little harsh BTW (I've got a dry cough that kept me awake all night)
 
I've tried to improve upon my explanation:
Multiple Phase Boss:  Enemy Boss who changes weapons or attack patterns completely after certain conditions are met.
Multi-Form Boss: Enemy Boss who changes shape at will during the fight or after certain conditions are met. "
Two separate pages sounds logical to me, though admittedly it's a pretty fine distinction between the two.
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#11  Edited By Ignor

 Perhaps a solution to this is to find a replacement word for the controversial term 'Phase'?

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#12  Edited By Tasus

Maybe a name change would be appropriate to straight things out? like Transforming Bosses instead of Multi-Form Boss.

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#13  Edited By MattyFTM  Moderator
@Flaime said:
" Maybe a name change would be appropriate to straight things out? like Transforming Bosses instead of Multi-Form Boss. "
Brilliant idea. It is now renamed.
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#14  Edited By mracoon

I un-marked the Multi-Phase Boss page for deletion.

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#15  Edited By Tasus

Maybe add Ability Changing Boss as an alias on the Multi-Phase Boss page? :P 
 
I don't know, Multi-Phase Boss is still a little unclear to me, even though I've played a lot of WoW.

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#16  Edited By Karl_Boss

I'm feeling some deja vu here...