SP need to do something to make battles more like a mini game of chess rather than just 1HKOs. It would add more skill and strategy to the game, even for P2W players.

But apart from increase each monsters life by 10, what else can be done to make fights more immersive?

@Clackers

I know - how about a feature that lets us tweak our monsters to give them more life, heal, add armour, resurrect, and drain stamina when triggered by events?

@C0ntr1v3d Hell, no. Sounds rubbish.

Even forgetting about relics, if we added a 0 on the end of each monster's life without changing strength stats, then it would make fights more enjoyable.

@clackers
i'm totally with you on this issue!
sometimes i remind myself of the "hard times" in my thirties (player level ) when skeel trooper's aoe blind and burn were my most beloved moves and fights lasted four or more rounds.
now i own all these voltaik, thetys, gregorz, hackster, cavenfish n frostbite stuff that allows me to remain untouched and kill the enemy within 1 or 2 rounds.
some things should've never been brought up... but they are and pvp has in some areas of the ranking almost reached a state like usa and russia in the cold war... and the answer is: built more atomic bombs!

Add as many zeros as you want, all you'll do is make DoT a must. Make these obsolete and life runes will rule the game, and if by some miracle you find the right balance you're just making games longer not more challenging, you'll see a stamina and life regen monster in every team, add debuffs and heals and we're stuck with boring battles that last five years.
Like was said above, the Relics you've been spitting on were the answer to your wish.

@Darvys What is wrong with DoTs ruling the game?

And in my vision for ML, runes would be for skills not monsters (power, accuracy, stamina, cooldown). But that's not gonna happen anyway.

Still, I like survival dungeons because it takes me a while to complete it. I wish all fights were like that.

@Clackers

"But apart from increase each monsters life by 10"

This is the answer but they wouldn't have to multiply the life by 10.

The monsters keep getting more and more powerful attacks but the monsters' life (other than a few exceptions) hasn't gone up as much. This has resulted in many monsters one hit=one kill kind of scenario.

Give monsters more life and/or increase the power of health runes and battles will last longer.

This will help to balance out the value of runes as well. Right now, few people value health runes. If health runes turn monsters into tanks, more people will use them over the speed and power runes.

It would be interesting to see if people would start to use health runes more if they were all doubled in power?

Are we just gonna ignore relics until all their bugs are gone and dealt with? K

In wars with fully ranked monsters with the bulwark or tough trait you see plenty of life runes if the rules are beneficial for that. Does not necessarily make battles longer though. And does not really help players with unranked monsters with less powerful traits either.

Personally I like Earth/Nature wars. Shields, heals, regeneration, limited denial, limited OHK options. Battles can easily take up to 10 minutes.

@Ekto-Gamat said in Fights need to last longer - but how?:

Personally I like Earth/Nature wars. Shields, heals, regeneration, limited denial, limited OHK options. Battles can easily take up to 10 minutes.

Me too, it's the only time I ended up with a time out in a battle!!!

Although it can be a bit of a pain as you can't 'quickly' fit in a battle in a busy day....