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Alpha-1 early preview Pyroclastic Wyrm dungeon boss.^[1]

A Lieutenant of The Ancients 3D render.^[2]

These particular two models, with alpha one, they will be animated and present as adversaries in some of the dungeon locations within Ashes of Creation.^[3] – Steven Sharif

Bosses fall into the following types, with increasing levels of difficulty and loot tables, requiring greater numbers of players to kill.^[4]

Elites.^[5]
Hunting ground bosses.^[5]
Mini-bosses.^[5]
Dungeon bosses.^[5]^[4]
Raid bosses.^[5]^[4]
Regional/world bosses.^[5]^[4]
- Legendary world bosses.^[4]

Boss respawns will be randomized within certain windows and over variable locations.^[6]^[7]
- Bosses may also spawn based on predicates that can be met at any time, such as when a story arc or an event begins somewhere in the world.^[7]

Generally in my experiences, when you have a fixed respawn time, you run into the potential situations where the powerhouses of the server can keep a particular boss on lockdown; and you don't want to create that type of a situation; and so one of the ways that we can help to alleviate that is by having windows of respawn times- and we've all experienced this in the MMOs that we've played. It's not necessarily known when exactly to coordinate with your large guild who needs to be online when; and this can give a little bit of a leg up on the competitive advantage front for other guilds that might be more smaller knit, or more niche to organize quickly in response to the time window of a respawn.^[7] – Steven Sharif