Hardest XIV fight possible

[Obysuca]

So, I figured with all the dead horse beating topics (early pulls, XIV's lack of content/variety etc), something fun? could be posted. Mostly from a conversation with a FC member earlier as a joke on what could be the hardest possible fight in XIV, I thought, why not see what other people can come up with, so throw your best ideas out there.


- Multi-directional divebombs(4-8 in a row), no indicators.
- Akh Morn stacking.
- Ability to fall off arena.
- Vulnerability-/healing potency- lightning bolt chasing the stack, to avoid people just taking an AoE.
- AoE's that splash and create more AoEs.
- T9 meteors and earthshakers.
- Leviathan sliding mechanic.
- Mixed in with the high/low platforms in Alex and just to screw with you, they shift every 2 seconds.
- Twintania twisters

All at the same time and a variety throughout the fight at random times, non-scripted. Try to top that >_>

[Israacf]

Dive bombs are enough to wipe most of the playerbase.

[Obysuca]

Dive bombs are enough to wipe most of the playerbase.

Sadly lol

>_> Reward them with a large house and some exclusive untradeable glamour and I'm sure some people might actually put in effort lol

[Zojha]

Hardest fight possible?

One with frequent but random one-shot mechanics whose telegraph requires lightning fast reaction times even if you have no latency and a one-shot mechanic that auto-triggers if you move while the other mechanic isn't happening.

No need to add anything, really. Technically, it's a simple check of one's reaction time skill and most definitely possible under the right conditions, but it also doubles as a great demonstration how this skill is highly restricted/enabled by technical restrictions.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Add anything to DF. Bam. Instant hard fight.

[Obysuca]

Add anything to DF. Bam. Instant hard fight.

Well, you win lol

[HakaseNyan]

The hardest fight is between each other.

[Mahri]

Creating a good difficult encounter is more than just tossing a lot of bs into a mixing bowl that's just meant to spite players. It actually requires a lot of clever thinking.

Paradoxically, the most difficult content is frequently called "easy" by players who've beaten it, because very few people seem to realize that if something seems easy to them it's because they've gotten good at it.

In any case,

The hardest fight is between each other.

[Morningstar1337]

Adding debuffs that all amount to the same thing? The party being unable to act or move. Enhance paraysus that works like Stun, Petrification, eep Freeze, Ozma Assimilation attack, etc. Then have them all at the same fight last for 5 mins and essntiualy be the enrage for a fight that causes a long but agonizing wipe.

Oh an Make the boss invincible during this phase so no DoT will ever kill him off

[Mahri]

I would say, very broadly speaking, that any sort of scenario is fair game for an encounter, be it one-hit kills, spammed attacks, unavoidable AoEs, extreme debuffs, etc. in any combination are fair game, with one rule: There must be a tell. It doesn't matter if it's a glowing ground indicator or something as subtle as the boss flashing a split-second middle finger before doing it; as long as players exercising the correct amount of situational awareness are equipped to deal with it, then encounter designers can go nuts.

Gamers nowadays can handle a wipe or twenty when trying to overcome.