Can we please get rid of square and circle arenas for every trials and 8 men raids?

[DrFlesh]

A lot of WoW's raids also use circles and squares. Here are the arena shapes for Sanctum of Domination, the most recent WoW raid:
Tarragrue: Circle
Eye of the Jailer: Oddly shaped
The Nine: Circle
Remnant of Ner'zhul: Circle
Soulrender Dormazain: Circle
Painsmith Raznal: Square
Guardian of the First Ones: Circle
Fatescribe Roh-Kalo: Circle
Kel'thuzad: Oddly shaped
Sylvanas Windrunner: Circle, then Oddly SHaped, then Four Squares

you forgot to mention, in wow encounters you can also find: vehicular combat, teleports to secondary/terciary arenas for specific mechanics, changing platforms, obstacle courses and other things

LOL i just realized ffxiv hasn't even used the jump button for a savage encounter in 7 years

[Sicno]

vehicular combat

Like the Gobwalker in A2, where someone doesn't get to play their job?

teleports to secondary/terciary arenas for specific mechanics, changing platforms

Like Quarantine in A4, Timegate in A12, the ghost cabins in O5, the add phase in E8 and the platform switching in Diamond Weapon?

[DrFlesh]

Like Quarantine in A4, Timegate in A12, the ghost cabins in O5, the add phase in E8 and the platform switching in Diamond Weapon?

you mean the part when you go from a big square to a small square? or like diamond weapon where you stay on a spot and magically jump to another platform without doing anything?

i love the white knights trying to defend shit raid design

and no, with "changing platforms" i mean things like the elerethe fight on "that game" when you have to run against the wind jumping between poison puddles and walking on a twig to try and cross a precipice while you have adds munching your ass, i didn't mean afk into a square to get pushed to the platform in front of you

[Sicno]

you mean the part when you go from a big square to a small square?

A platform is a platform, dunno how shaping it like a flower or an '&' would make the fights more fulfilling.

or like diamond weapon where you stay on a spot and magically jump to another platform without doing anything?

You know there's a lot of limitations in the engine they inherited from 1.0, where there wasn't even a jump, right? While not ideal they're dealing with what they have. Passing tethers can be a nightmare already, I don't want to imagine how finnicky it would get if they threw jump detections and collisions into the mix.

[Sicno]

and no, with "changing platforms" i mean things like the elerethe fight on "that game" when you have to run against the wind jumping between poison puddles and walking on a twig to try and cross a precipice while you have adds munching your ass, i didn't mean afk into a square to get pushed to the platform in front of you

I just remembered that running over Shinryu's tail while dodging lasers to reach another platform could be along those lines (this in the EX version).