I usually don't like making content easier but I really think that World Bosses should not have a death penalty.  You would get more people keen to fight the boss instead of going in for a couple of hits (or 1 death) and then standing back for the rest of the fight (like I do).

you know, the whole reason for the nightmare version is so that the difficulty is up to par with the current gear, you can face tank a supposed 1 shot of the original version boss with soft cap armor.

if you don't want to die, then don't do the nightmare version, or do it with an alt, the game gave out multiple softcap sets by now, no reason not have a softcap boss alt at this point

Or just hit once and block the narrow passageway so everyone is annoyed and boss doesnt die faster

punishing =/= difficult/challenging/fun

This is punishing. And no, if you think oneshot 0.5 second huge aoe with player collision is 'challenge', you're just making fun of yourself. Not everyone is masochist who loves to throw money to PA for elion tears

Good job in advertising char slot for boss alt btw Just as PA intended 

Magic crystal economy is finaly alive with Nightmare boss and new grind spot.

So damn no. Death penalty is good.  Boss pattern are easy to follow, just learn them and don't disable your game sound. Most of important skill to dodge have a sound indicator.
0.5 sec is enough for all real gamers to dodge a skill.  Rare are the classes that do not have a proper i-frame/mobility. 

you will never have a collision problem while moving backward with your dodge.

Totally agree, the only character I put any decent gear on is Bloodstorm Nouver, because the Rez node is so far away and you can go to 3 different ones.

I put Narch gear on Karanda, just for the off chance that I survive, if I don't meh it's a 61 alt with zero xp, capotia accessories and no crystals.  I use suppressed gear (Tri boss) on a witch with Capotia Accessories, that fight is all about the dance to avoid the AOE.  Bloodstorm, I made Tri DR Accessories equiped the DR offhand and use my S3 Guardian and just hack away with DR gear, when it's not bloodstorm I throw the Pen Tuvala on and all the Tuvala accessories.  Kutum gets S2.  Offin gets my S1 who also has A5 hunting so I can equip an Artisan Matchlock and shoot the shield down.  My main goes to Cronmoth, Quint/Muraka since you don't die to Cronmoth and Quint/Muraka doesn't have a death penalty.  As for Vell, That can be any number of characters, if that gets a nightmare, i'll never go again as it stands I have not opened a Vell bundle for 6 months, Once I get 200 in the black spirit's safe, i'll open them and collect the coral since I doubt it'll be a heart.

If they made all the bosses not have a death penalty, I still wouldn't change anything in my current settup because it's so convienent to swap.  

As it was already stated, death penalty in general is required by the cristal market to stay healthy.

Furthermore, BDO is already very little challenging mechanically, I'd rather not see it being dumbed down even more than it currently is.

Besides, current quest gear associated with knowledge of boss tells allows anyone to fight all bosses without dying, except upgraded versions

The death penalty on WB is unneeded. It be one thing if the content wasn't aids an didn't spam massive one shot AOEs every second but that what it does. An all the penalty is doing is discouraging people from doing them with their mains. Seriously why bring your main to a WB have a chance to lose multiple 300m crystals for a small chance to get 100m at best (considering the RNG aids it is to get anything better), when you can just bring an alt with oasis gear and just slam your face into the boss without care of it mechanics until it dies.

Of course the penalty is needed for the cristal market health, as I stated previously but apparently this point flies about your head.

Additionally, you're lying once again since world bosses don't spawn massive AoEs every second. Try making correct statements if you want to be taken seriously.

Further more, this isn't 2016 anymore, nobody risks dying with their main given the current gear of the playerbase (except from occasional upgraded bosses). As usual you got it completely wrong: the main reason why people use alts at world bosses is to save on travel time.

You contradict yourself right in this very response, you say no one risks dying on their main because it saves time, while also saying that Crystal Breaking on world bosses is needed to keep the Crystal Market healthy.  Which is it, are world bosses not breaking the expensive crystals because no one brings their main, or are the world bosses breaking the expensive crystals because people bring their main?  You can't keep your story straight in one post let alone across all your posts.  Do you even play this game anymore?

You're just spouting bs at this point with so much contradicting content. No wonder novody takes forum seriously

1. We are talking about nightmare bosses where its instakill to even 500 DP. Your normal bosses doesnt even bother anyone at this point. Good job thinking this ehole post is talking about vanilla boss

2. Crystal market from nightmare bosses? You're telling me you put elkarr and han hoom and jin viper on your boss alt? Amaziiing why didn't i thought of that? Let me go sbkaranda with 1 bil worth of crystals and maybe by then i can get the tet boss weapon drop