Former WoW player: Suggested changes to FFXIV Raiding end-game

[basketofseals]

What if one was a tunnel that you descended, or facing a boss while you scaled a tower? Another example is the Phantom Train fight in Sigmascape. That's still one of my favorite fights, but it would've been such a unique boss if you also had to traverse the train as part of the encounter. Instead, it's just another square arena.

Unfortunately, the FFXIV engine does NOT handle elevation difference in any way that's considered reasonable. They did more fun arenas in early coils, and that ended up with stuff like being able to cheese Twintania's dive bombs. If a boss were to try and do an AoE, it would just not hit people that are a certain distance up/down a ramp.

Although thankfully we're not at the level of spam clicking through "Target is too far above you" errors and praying you don't see "Target is too far below you."

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Unfortunately, the FFXIV engine does NOT handle elevation difference in any way that's considered reasonable. They did more fun arenas in early coils, and that ended up with stuff like being able to cheese Twintania's dive bombs. If a boss were to try and do an AoE, it would just not hit people that are a certain distance up/down a ramp.

Although thankfully we're not at the level of spam clicking through "Target is too far above you" errors and praying you don't see "Target is too far below you."

Those errors were so much fun. My favorite was "target not in LoS" because it was behind a pebble on the ground....