Do you think FFXIV will ever have bosses like...(FFXI spoilers, maybe?

[Queezy]

In actuality PW didn't take anywhere near 18 hours to kill, but the fight plus the way the battle system worked it was possible, but that's not the devs faults that is the 18 people who decided to do that fault. The difference between most MMO's now and ffxi was that you "could" recover any fight, if u decided to. Whereas current MMO's simply create an instance and if you begin failing or fail to meet whatever dps check its just an instant wipe>reset of fight. In FFXI is you got a mob down to 20% and then started to wipe and die, you could have people kiting it or zombie pulling it to prevent a reset. Which is pretty much what those people did for PW. PW has many Wipe mechanics which then forced you to zombie/kite it for upwards of 15mins ( raising/waiting for weakness to wear/buffing) to start trying again.

Also don't get things twisted, whatever FC is getting world first in the Coils/Alex Savage is putting just as much time into those fights if not more, its simply broken up because you HAVE to start and restart over and over. I don't keep up with stuff much anymore but if the final floor of alex savage hasn't been beaten I'm sure whatever FC is trying to beat it has put more than 18 hours into it.

PW never required 18 hours to kill it COULD just take that long if you chose to be that dedicated