O5-12 predictions

[Rocl]

I have to echo previous sentiments that I'm somehow annoyed by the prospect of just implanting old Final Fantasy bosses, but at the same time was perfectly okay with the current tier. That is, the idea immediately disgusts me, but the team usually handles it in a way that's palatable to me. That said, I still love and want to fight them.

Omega lends itself to anything too which opens the door incredibly wide. I originally thought that, like, the next tier would be finishing off the demons of the Rift (using the same excuse as Halicarnassus for any duplicates) culminating in Neo-Exdeath in O8 but then ... Savage ... so ...
Another thing I think Omega lends itself to, which is pretty exciting, is reviving old XIV "bosses." Neo-Bahamut or Neo-Shinryu doesn't seem unreasonable if Omega tries to create a being based off the expectations and 'recent' mythos of them by Eorzeans. (Funnily enough, Neo-Bahamut is dampened by Unending Coil for me, lol, but there's Bahamut-ZERO and Neo-Bahamut and Bahamut-SIN in the FF7 canon [maybe more] and we know it's Yoshida's favorite!) [another pet theory of mine, before the Unending reveal, was that Omega might pull memories of 'Twintania' from "some adventurer" or Alisaie to create the Rift Twintania, lol]

Also with someone asking about Scarmiglione, I always thought it'd be neat to do it like our now finale Exdeath fight, his cloaked form is the "first form" then he falls off the arena and jumps back up as his "undead" form. :P I think it's difficult to keep Rubicante's "fully heal the party before the fight" thing, but I'd be interested in seeing them try. (That's what makes Rubicante Rubicante to me, not the fluttering cloak)

I also have to echo the idea that Midgardsormr is XIV's actual Shinryu and that Omega will recreate him to spar with us. If we're doing the Interdimensional Rift and we don't have a Necrophobe/Gilgamesh scene I'll pretty disappointed too...

FF7's weapon or even protagonists from previous Final Fantasies could work, I agree. The "humanoid bosses are too small" can instantly be handwaved by Omega making them larger than life (also I really hate small bosses in terms of hitting positionals so...). They needn't be Syrcus Tower level huge either, but I'm not sure where the perfect middle ground would be.

Man this expansion has really thrown me for a loop in terms of speculation. We sort of knew that we'd be fighting dragons, allagan machinery, Darnus and then Louisoix (though not how!) in the 2.0 raid, and the 3.0 raid you always figured it'd be Quickthinx, Alexander, goblins, robots etc. but this raid series? No idea! "Probably fake recreations of other bosses from maybe other Final Fantasies made into Hydaelynic [sic?] myth"