Lol @ Melee vs Leviathan

lol @ complaining about a fight before it has even been fought

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Originally Posted by MACEenyo

lol @ complaining about a fight before it has even been fought

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I'm more confused by the claim of knowing how it works from a 26 second video.

I can't imagine, considering it's already been done with the tail of Toto-Raks boss, that it would be too hard for them to make the target a specific part of Leviathan (his face, yo) with everything else floating behind him and only really being for show. If that's the case, he sticks his head over the side just enough so the DPS can get behind it. Wouldn't be terribly difficult.

Of course, the fight could also work in a completely different manner too, sort of like the Copperbell Hard midboss; you don't directly damage Leviathan, instead you do something else to damage him.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

I'm more confused by the claim of knowing how it works from a 26 second video.

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Same way we knew how Diabolos's fight worked when SE teased it back in 2004. You can get a basic idea, but that's still obviously in development and SE is a fan of god mode unless they wanna show how hard something is by killing themselves on easy mechanics >.>.

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Originally Posted by EdwinLi

depends on what tanking is for Leviathan fight.

From the look of the video Leviathan will randomly pop up on one of the four sides of the boat and switch over time.

Tanking could be mostly just to make Levi attack the tank for some skills but most of his attack could be random targeted or direct attack at the boat.

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Don't get too ahead of yourself, I merely meant that tanks obviously can hit him from melee range as the vid you linked later clearly shows. So i'm guessing melee can too, right?

Melee can't hit Demon Wall in the back but since when have they ever been useless in that fight?

We've seen very little of the battle itself, got to love these lol melee threads though.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

I'm more confused by the claim of knowing how it works from a 26 second video.

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It's clearly a solo fight from the video, so melee will only be able to get behind with a stun.

Or hell, who says that Leviathan's back needs to be in the same place his front is?
Have you seen how long he is? Could well be head and tail are different targets and the tail always has the back facing towards the party from a different direction. It'd have some eventual tail swipe attacks while the head does most of the heavy damage.

He moves them around the ship, the tank tries to keep the head on him so he doesn't obliterates the party while the DPS focus on the tail.

People are so eager to complain they will anticipate melee issues from a 20 second teaser video.

Forums... Forums never change.

Luckily, melee don't need to be behind the mob do their job.

Also, Demon Wall says hi.

Fighting a water boss from the edge of a boat/shore/whatever isn't anything new in Final Fantasy.