Why the hate with endgame fights?

[RiyahArp]

Actually, what is your idea of fun? School us, girl.

Fun would be endgame that an entire FC can do, with more than eight people and not reliant on a single boss's pattern dancing. Fun would actually be some variation in group comp and tactics, maybe even using all that useless CC we have to stage enemies and making tanks have real offtank duties that require tank stance and judgment on which mobs to tackle next.

FFXI Byakko: get your endgame FC cleared and able to visit an entirely seperate zone called Sky, and navigate its dangers to get the item to pop the god Byakko, who himself was part of chain of Gods all linked together to summon the big boss Kirin. The zone was actually open to other players, whether leveling (beastmasters) or getting other pops. The fight used your entire FC and had room for players of all level of skill.

FFXIV Byakko. Take five minutes to unlock a circular arena with one boss that only 8 people can enter. Beat on the boss for a week till you get his pattern, then either do it a little more to get a weapon that may last you 3-4 weeks, or do it till your sick of it to get maybe a 1-3% chance at a mount. Everybody dps's, and tanks or heals as little as possible.

The only problem I have with Normal versions is that sometimes they excluded entire phases. Ex-death and Neo-Exdeath for example. I mean it's kind of cool initially in Savage as sort of a new phase "reveal" that you haven't seen before, but only for the first time. I still think that the Neo phase should have existed in the Normal version too. Normal versions of many fights are far too easy. Too many mechanics taken out entirely and like I said before, some fights have entire phases taken out. Normal can still be easy but made more interesting by keeping the mechanics and phases from the Extreme/Savage versions.

The harder normal content gets, the more likely players will do it in statics, and vote abandon over trying to get it done. If you do trial roulette a bunch, you know people tend to do this on trials as it is; I've joined many in progress as tank.