Favorite mechanics in a fight

I'd say my favorite mechanics ever in fights are

• Archive Peripheral, from the last fight of Savage Omega, and
• Mindjack, when Halicarnassus (Savage) last uses it

Both are intuitive, geometric mechanics that you set down and watch play out.

What are other mechanics you'd like to see being used more?

Mechanics that are like a dance with the positioning. Pantakrator from o11s and Forsaken 3-4 in O8s come to mind. It’s rough the first time but once you learn them and everyone moves perfectly it’s so satisfying to watch.

Fun wise suzaku ex DDR... i love it so much!

A11S Cruise Chaser (Savage)'s 1-8 mechanic.

I really enjoyed the lightning jumps from Susano on a personal level but god I hated doing them in a group. It's not as bad now but it would drive me insane seeing people try to sneak in just one more GCD and nearly wipe the party because of it. Still, whenever I get Susano for Trial Roulette or hop into an EX farm I have a blast.

Also although it took awhile, the dance that is Titan EX is just plain fun to me now. I hated it back in ARR but now it's just a blast.

Got a lot of them.


O2S - the entire up-down concept
O3S - Book Phase
O4S - Black Hole (Fire III + Holy version)
O8S - Forsaken 2
O9S - Four element phases
O11S - Level Checker + Pantokrator 2
O12S - Target Analysis + Hello World 2
E1S - Vice & Virtue
E2S - Spell in Waiting
E3S - Tsunami 2
E4S - Tectonic Uplift

Shinryu EX - everything :3
Tsuku EX - Supreme Selenomancy

No particular order in terms of actual favourites tho.

As Pld now, every knockback mechanic like in e4s or o4s.
Just love it that I can ignore it and just dash back to the Boss while I get knockbacked.

I also enjoy every kind of HG cheese to ignore any deadly mechanic.

I liked the maths one from Ridorana. Quick puzzle, get in position and continue the burn. The sniper one is good too.

I prefer ones that essentially mean, if I mess up, I die. Raid wipe deaths when an individual messes up aren't very fun.

Spell in Waiting is up there, just because of how mindbending it can get. I'm not good at thinking and doing rotations at the same time.

Hmm.

T9, whole phase after first heavensfall
T11, tethers and add phase
T12, basically the whole fight
T13, the whole fight

Midas 2 savage, the whole fight (4 bosses in one fight with different mechanics each was so much fun back then)

O3s, whole fight
O4s, grand cross omega
08s, third forsaken
011s, pantokrator2
O12s, hello world2

E3s, tsunami2

24raids have fun mechanics too but they are all too easy imo.
Still ppl failing them

I like mechanics like O3S's Queen's waltz especially last phase version where you have to pay attention but you have seen all version so it is reactionary without throwing random curveball out of nowhere, basically mechanics that interact with their arena Tsyukiyomi is another good example same with Nael's Heavensfall(i have an instant death wall i better use that XD), it makes me feel the boss belongs there and only there due to how they interact with their arena.

Lame..I'd be the only one to list a favorite from a dungeon that isn't savage or extreme, so I'll just narrow it down to this: Stack mechanics. I don't know why, but I like stack mechanics.

Suzakus Merry-Go-Round of EXPLOSION comes to mind, Byakkos Free-Fall-Phase and Susanos Jumping Dance was fun too. I also like some of the older stuff, like Snowcloak where you have to build snowballs out of spriggans and throw them at the boss. Or being a bellyache to Cerberus.

Welp most of my favorites have been listed already. Namely being eaten by the boss, falling from the skies while dodging stuff and the verticality of o2s (I wish we had more fights with verticality)

The 3 I haven't seen yet but are in my top 3 mechanics:

Anything where the boss tilts the arena you're fighting on. Somehow I find that far more fun than sliding on ice even though it's basically the same thing. I love Leviathan and i get a massive kick for dodging death beams while sliding in Sophia.

Being blasted into the sky so I can dodge Sephirot's massive arm. Rope jumping mechanics are oddly fun.

Alexander's time stop.

i liked Chaos elemental mechanics
i thought it was really cool how they did it

like the earth healing mechanic
very fitting for the Lich in FF1

Anything that makes you remember than a second tank is there for more than just a backup.

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Originally Posted by Rasikko

Lame..I'd be the only one to list a favorite from a dungeon that isn't savage or extreme, so I'll just narrow it down to this: Stack mechanics. I don't know why, but I like stack mechanics.

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As WHM, I like stack mechanics too. Gives me a reason to use Cure 3.

Easily Suzaku Ex. Easily.

Baldesion Arsenal: Raiden - Ame-no-sakahoko + whirling zantetsuken. I don't know why, but the boss leaping back and thudding hard onto the ground into a one-shotting ability just always strikes me as cool. It's not very hard to resolve, but it just looks neat.

The Avatar: Towers + charges that also trigger certain mechanics. I think this is the only fight that has this? It's not quite the same as the goblin with the injectors as it followed certain mechanics. The Avatar, you could have mechanics go off differently as the resolution was simply don't have two towers go off at the same time.