Not sure how difficult this would be on the programming level, but why not have times where world BAMs in a few areas were actually controlled by the devs? I think it would add a dimension of unpredictability and challenge that people would love to have to opportunity to take down.

Obviously you wouldn't want devs rampaging an area and wiping people, so they would want to wait for a player to engage them. But that would be an interesting approach to random challenges that I've never seen in a game before.

Based on a lot of the feedback people have been giving on how "easy" the game is, this concept could open the door to a whole new aspect of MMO gaming that no one has tried before.

Just a though...

at one point in time (in EQ) devs could actually take control of mobs. i know the first ever kill on the dreamer (the sleeper?) was due to this.

interesting idea, however i dont think there are very many devs (EME dosnt -make- the game, they jsut edit it for the most part). if you throw in BH you have to add in korean servers and i think they would have their hands full then.

i would like something like that though, all of the bam's attacks have CDs so they cant just spam spin or anything, but i think he amount of effort/coding it would take wouldnt be worth it :-/

It would also be pretty brutal, simply because a human player can ignore taunts/aggro issues. The healers would be the first to die, followed by the melee dps. Then it's just a question of how long the tanks can go without making a mistake, or how long the ranged dps can successfully kite.

It would have to be a custom-designed BAM, methinks. Something where the human controller could actually try hard, but leave the players with a fighting chance.