Who was your Favorite FFXI Boss? (was game=268)Follow

This can be anywhere from mission bosses to HNM's. List why you liked the fight(details, details, details!)and also say what you would like to see from the boss fights in ffxiv. My personal favorite fight (although some of you might find me crazy) was the P.M. 4-3?? It's been awhile fight. It was the mission where you had to fight on the airship the different waves of bosses until you got through omega and ultima. It involved such careful timing and execution from every group member and really tested the limits of that level cap. I remember that fight taking me hours to complete but when we finally pulled it off(this was pre-nerf), we were so excited! Post your thoughts! :)

U/O was an epic fight.
AN was a great sense of accomplishment.
ACP 11 and the last CoP fight were the most visually appealing to me.
DM was memorable but not in a good way.
Ohat run was probably the best night of my life in game. 12 hour run I was the last to get mine It was light when I started it was morning when I put it on lol.

gods and kings were never nearly as impressive or as fun nor were limbus/nyzul/dyna/einherjar/salvage bosses either imo.

Divine Might... took so many attempts back in the day and to this day it remains one of my favorite battles. Also hiding in a corner as my friend RDM solo Fenrir for me, was quite the spectator event lol

Promathia
(pre-ToAU)

The difficulty level was not a facet of luck or rock-paper-scissors of specific class's attributes or abilities.
No class was excluded from the fight by virtue of say, having a piercing weapon. The ability to let prishe act as a tank presented an interesting choice for players.

The theatrics were spot-on; Good character design, good environment design, nice music, good introduction, good resolution. You liked going into it, you liked being there, you liked leaving.

The gameplay mechanics were similarly well handled; The NPCs had good AI, there was some required reactions in response to the color-coded shields, there were some unique abilities in the form of an unecho-droppable silence and amnesia (until ToAU came out anyway), and there were no silly grind gimmicks like Shumeyo salt or CCB Polymer. The fight lasted long enough to get comfortable, but didn't overstay it's welcome.

The fight was solid in every category, with one exception. Taking you out of the fight for a cutscene and then plopping you back in again complete with re-buffing time is jarring. I can't tell if this was a result of not being able to switch out an actor midfight, or art direction. But it's something I could do without in XIV.



Edited, Feb 21st 2010 1:06am by Zemzelette

It's due to the game being online and people progressing through cutscenes at different paces (see also: the 56k cap on this game, to be fairer toward people with weaker connections). Pretty much every battlefield in the game with multiple phases works this way, not just this one. So I wouldn't expect this to really change.

Edited, Feb 21st 2010 12:26am by Fynlar

Definitely Divine Might. That was such a fun fight, especially with a kite setup. Though my fond memories might be biased from going 1/1.

I was really excited to do the 6-4 Airship fight, and it ended up being really....easy. Went 1/1 on that as well and it was sort of a let down after hearing all the horror stories. (in before "ZOMG you did it after nerf vs. they didn't nerf that fight etcetcetc)

Odin, I just find it to be a really fun fight to tank, hands down my favorite event by far.

Promathia

Best. Battlefield. Ever.

I'd have to go with Promathia, if not just for the arena you fight him in.

CoP - Promathia
ToAU - The Black Coffin (Mission 15)
WoTG - The Jeuno BC (Mission 14)

The three I mentioned have really cool looking battlefields, and the WoTG one I liked specifically for the use of unconventional strategies to beat the main boss. I liked how you had to run around the battlefield saving all the soldiers from the small waves and then letting them pound on the main bad guy for you, fun times.

Yeah, Promathia was a fun one. I ended up doing it twice back-to-back because one of our party DCed in the CS you get afterwards lol. The arena is definitely one of the coolest in the game. Plus, fighting a god! You've been hearing about him for the whole expansion and you finally get to see him, gives quite a sense of awe. Especially since he turns out to be this massive, ancient being - he looks nothing like his statue in the Hall of the Gods. It kind of makes me wonder what Altana really looks like. I'd imagine she's pretty much a massive aern, like AV.

My favourite mission battlefield is probably U/O though. Again, really cool battlefield, and while the Promathia fight has this sort of otherworldly, outside-of-time feel to it, U/O has a really tense feel. The combination of fairly strict time limit and all the horrible things you hear about it before going in really racks up the nerves, and then the elation when you win is awesome.

A lot of CoP is really well done in that regard. The fights manage to be challenging but usually still fun, and they're often a lot more interesting and unique than other fights in the game. Diabolos' falling floor tiles require a high level of care and precision. You fight Ouryu at a level when most people have never even *seen* a wyrm before. Mammets change job and weaknesses on the fly. The Snoll Tzar is just a massive zerg rush, again at a level most people have never zerged anything down before. Etc..

I also really like fighting wyrms. There's something very satisfying about squaring up against something that's just so much bigger than you and then trying to stay alive as it tries to eat you, while everyone around you tries to kill it faster than it kills you. The combination of feeling badass and seeing loads of people cooperate to take down something so huge is pretty good. I think basically any fight that allows me to get battered around by something huge and impressive is fun :D Behemoths, Kirin, Bahamut, Alexander, ...

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Edited, Feb 21st 2010 5:22pm by FartaruOnSeraph

In a group setting for me its a tie between Alexander fight and COP airship fight (pre cop nerf) Both took good teamwork and skill to complete and both had a good balance of difficulty without feeling too impossible...and both felt REALLY good once I got them done.

Solo however...well I would say maat since I did him on RDM back in 05 and it took me 7 tries to finally beat him down...but nothing satisfied me more than kicking Laila's a$$ in DNC genkai 5... yeah I was 75 already and I didn't need to do that fight...but I really hate that b*tch...XD