We really need some big and i mean BIG encounters in the open world.

[Akujin]

GW2 did this right. I believe nearly every zone had something akin to this, but a few strike my memory more. The crystal and ice dragons. The swamp zombie dragon near the last couple of levels. These guys were Massive and it took hundreds of players to take down. I know we currently have Behemoth and Odin to do this, more or less, but seriously. Once they get this whole server priority thing fixed, I hope they can start bringing out some big, nasty, challenging stuff with the potential to wipe the floor with entire squadrons of players at once.

This comes from doing some fate farming for the hell of it and I realized just then..wow, this is kind of sad.

Tell you one that comes to mind. You seen the FFXV video they showed at the TGS a few months back? The one with the enormous Iron Giant with the sword that could basically cleave through an entire building? Yeah. Lets bring that on.

[Arriverderci]

I dunno, Odin and Behemoth is a lag fest and people can't even see them.
Any bigger you'll see people teleportin and flying high in the sky.
I can't...maybe because I'm on PS3?

[Liger]

Behemoth is a fun large encounter if it was not for the lag and it would be nice to know when it will spam. ;P

[HumsterMKX]

We have enough of Odin and Behem already... 1/2 the time we can't see them at all.

Can't select PT members for Res or heals, luckily Eor or Selene can still heal them.

[Nuinn]

They are visible, you just need to know how to make them visible.

This broke my brain for a second xD

No, they're definitely not visible if they're not drawn on your screen but, yes, you can make them visible if you play around with your positioning.

[Aegis]

GW2 did this right. I believe nearly every zone had something akin to this, but a few strike my memory more. The crystal and ice dragons. The swamp zombie dragon near the last couple of levels. These guys were Massive and it took hundreds of players to take down.

Hundreds of people set ranged ability to auto-attack, go make a cup of tea and come back for the chest? GW2's zone bosses are not the most engaging of fights.

[Xenobius]

No.
Not the way "big" fights are designed in FFXIV anyway.
I even stopped coming to Odin/Behemoth events because last thing I want is to wade through a blinking, disappearing crowd again and again to get hit by attacks I can't see coming and in best case scenario, *hope* that someone in my group keeps the boss targeted long enough to contribute something. It's a zergfest, lagfest and anything but an "epic fight".

Plus, FFXIV in it's current form is simply incapable of handling fights on the scale of GW2 - nor client-side (thanks SE for deciding to release it on that outdated PS3 platform), nor server-side.
So, no. You want HNMs - make the fights instanced, like current Primal trials.

[Little_Lulu]

The whole reason I quit playing GW2 was because it was sooo easy and casual... Don't get me wrong it was beautiful, fun for ahwile, and great... groundbreaking even but those world events you are bragging about weren't as fun as you make them out to be. For example.... those dragons that the entire storyline is hyped up to be the ultimate evil... stay in one spot.... don't aggro anyone in peticular and can be abused by standing in a safe spot... and spamming auto attack... so that no one has to take any damage from them at all... Seriously where is the challenge in that?

[GabrielK]

The game's engine and server barely supports Odin and Behemoth... Until thy either upgrade the engine and/or servers and people shift away from PS3... neah.
Also the engine is not optimized at all for large groups of players, it just breaks apart even on powerhouse machines.

[Akujin]

Hundreds of people set ranged ability to auto-attack, go make a cup of tea and come back for the chest? GW2's zone bosses are not the most engaging of fights.

I've ran those encounters. It's true you could catch a niche and stick to it at max range, but that's still dicey because the patterns were the same but they had adds coming out to make matters worse. So you could go afk, then come back to a corpse.