Boss Fight Mechanics

[Koenignovi]

I'd like bosses that made us think about our skill utilities; having bosses be immune to everything really ties your hands as a player and shows a lack of depth to the current encounter design.

Paladin: Silence, Stun, Pacify, Blind
Warrior: Stun
Bard: Silence, Bind
Black Mage: Slow, Gravity, Sleep, Bind
Summoner: Stun, Bind
White Mage: Stun, Gravity, Sleep, Knock-back
Scholar: Silence
Ninja: Silence, Stun
Dragoon: Stun (x2), Slow
Monk: Dispel, Stun (x2), Slow (Frontal)

Lots of skills listed here either don't get used or they're piled on as free extra damage (if they have a damage component) because the boss is "immune" to status effects and debuffs.

Though it is just one debuff, I don't see Pacify used too often against bosses or in strategies for meaningful fights... I also feel the same with the debuff Slow. Both of these abilities are nice to have for trash but again are not used to help in many meaningful fights in the game.

[Limecat]

I would like to see more dynamic platformish things going on during boss fights. Like maybe you fight some ancient horror that's chained up in a vault, but it's on a platform that has to be raised periodically by spinning these giant gears, and to do that people have to jump up on them and start running in place as the gear turns, while other people deal with the adds.

[Dhex]

Though it is just one debuff, I don't see Pacify used too often against bosses or in strategies for meaningful fights... I also feel the same with the debuff Slow. Both of these abilities are nice to have for trash but again are not used to help in many meaningful fights in the game.

That's the point.

They're not used because they have no effect; devs. made bosses immune to them because they can't have "interesting" fights if you're able to Slow cast bars, Stun abilities, or prevent abilities with Pacify. They are purposefully limiting our ingenuity and agency to directly control endgame encounters and impose a choregraphy style of play - rather than allowing us to utilize our abilities and force them to create a more in-depth set of mechanics or complex game-play meta.

[Ultimatecalibur]

Though it is just one debuff, I don't see Pacify used too often against bosses or in strategies for meaningful fights... I also feel the same with the debuff Slow. Both of these abilities are nice to have for trash but again are not used to help in many meaningful fights in the game.

Pacify's main problem is that the current only source of it is tied to RNG. If Pacify wasn't tied to RNG it would probably join Silence in how it is used. In several boss fights a lucky Shield Swipe proc can be in effect a 4th Stun.

Both Blind and Slow suffer primarily from how resistance builds. A 20 seconds out of 80 up time does not make applying them very worthwhile.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

More Dynamic fights with randomized strategies and more dynamic play. Not so static, always the same. There should be many ways to kill the boss and players should be rewarded for finding different ways to kill it.

Example: Raiding/Grouping in EQ2.

Fights should no longer "lock" you in the room, but you should get penalties for rezzing.

[myahele]

I want it so that all members shared HP. Meaning if someone gets hit then everyone gets hit. If one person dies then they all die

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I want it so that all members shared HP. Meaning if someone gets hit then everyone gets hit. If one person dies then they all die

So Dark Souls MMO?

[Darra]

I would like bosses to insta kill any whitemages using Medica 2 more than once every 3 minutes.

[gamesmart]

I would like bosses to insta kill any whitemages using Medica 2 more than once every 3 minutes.

If that were the case, wipes in Final Coil would be that much more common. Just sayin'.

[nuyu11]

Boss in this game more into muscle memory, this is from my personal perspective.
Once you remember the step, you can dance