They don't to necessarily get rid of that concept, it just can't be the [u]exact [/u]same thing every time. For instance, that's why I've never hated giant servitors in this area. Don't have a magical 'push back button' but rather actually suck your life away. Same concept but different way of doing it. And it makes sense because they can't touch the ground (unlike hydras... because Vex magic). Besides, it would be kind of cool to see a big captain or Kell grab you by neck and blast you away with a shotgun or run you through with a sword then throw you down. The enemies just need some personality besides looks. They all pretty much do the same thing... it's boring. For Vex I always thought they should use teleporting more. For instance, if you get too close to a Vex boss they simply always teleport you away. Instantly. It just makes sense and gives the Vex a little bit of personality. Obviously, you can vary it a bit. Not all Vex need to do that (for instance, giant Gatelords) but it makes perfect sense on less mobile stages of bossfights or different bosses altogether (like hydras). Cabal it kind of makes sense, but I would like to see where a cabal boss actually pulls you in so you can't escape. They kinda of slow you down, then stomp on you, but you don't ragdoll. It's just a near death experience (if at full health, of course) to make them dangerous. The Cabal are bigger than you, why should they be afraid of your tiny frame? The Hive could do anything. It's why the wizards are so different than anything else in the game because they actually debuff, slow, and attack your sight if you get too close. It's unique, different, and again does not rely on simply pushing you away physically but rather making you get out of the cloud of death.

Can we get rid of you?

the strange thing is, with or without the knockback on the bosses, it really makes no sense to be close to them anyway

The simple solution is to not get stomped. The stomp mrchanic is to stop people cheesing the boss with repeated hits. How easy would it be, to stand in front of a boss, and just keep hitting them with swords...? Destiny is dumb enough as it is, please do not ask them to make it dumber.

Close combat, like in sword fighting? You’re using a gun. I think the best thing to fix this is to cause more damage to people who get too close.

I would like to see this, ESPECIALLY on the Tree Of Possibilities Strike. I can't count how many times that boss has thrown me off the map or into lasers from the middle of the arena. It's incredibly frustrating.

You can somewhat (or could a while back) stunlock a boss with arcstrider and raiden flux. But I 100% agree with this. I love the melee aspects of mmos.

Yeah things like this are okay in moderation but obviously repetition is to be avoided. Personally I don't mind it being a simple knock back, you can easily just do something that lunges to cancel it out. The one hit kill is another thing and something that I absolutely disagree with when it is part of it. It's like you say it just ruins close quarter combat, always has. Boss design in general could use something other than bigger version of AI, with maybe a different attack, and a pause the game for a while part. Penoptes, Axis, and Oryx (raid) are really the only good bosses to me.

Oh mommies little irritated child are you getting irritated by the Nasty boss that sends you flying away.. You want bungie wungie to make it a whittle easier for you so it doesn't make u kwazy??