Whats your most hated mechanich in this game?

[KuroMaboroshi]

Mechanics that punish me for other people messing up a mechanic without wiping the group.

Looking at you, e10s doggo, with your bloody "please stand in the stack with 3 people, if someone isn't in the stack the other two who did it correctly get a damage down" mechanic.

[GeminiReed]

Insta-death mechanics, in particular twice come ruin. Bad enough when it's my fault but now I also have to worry about net glitches and other people dropping mechanics on me. Extra fun when you get several rezzes and no healing.

A shame since without it CLL/DR/Dalriada would be really fun instances.

[Avatre]

Anything that either doesn't telegraph, establish any kind of marker, or does one of those .5 second telegraphs. We're all trained to use our eyes to detect/interact with what is marked in the boss chamber's floor or what is displayed above our heads for THE ENTIRE MSQ. If we can not see it, we have no idea how to react and then we eat the floor.

talking about you, Alphascape 3.0. Tanks spinning that boss are bad enough because I'll even look at the cast bar and STILL get it wrong more than half have the time because I didn't realize I was staring at the boss's ass instead of his face. Fuck that raid.

There is a level 70 story dungeon that's final boss requires you to watch how he is positioned for his attacks.

[RyuDragnier]

Mechanics that it's not easy to tell who caused the wipe. Looking at you, Light Rampant!

[novamare]

The stupid orbs in the Nier raids.

I loved those when I was playing Nier: Automata, because evading/dodging around them felt like a real dance, and taking the damage from them when I got hit felt deserved.

But in the xiv raids, idk what exactly the issue is--janky hitboxes or my eternal ping issues or a lack of dodge/movement abilities that don't threaten to fling me into more bad--I get hit by them even if I don't see myself getting hit. And it just feels shitty, because from what I could tell, I was dancing. But from what my healers can tell, I've got two (or maybe three) left feet. ;-;

[AnnRam]

Having to deal with 6 bahamuth's in PVP or spending 90% of my time in frontlines with my entire screen covered by big unkillable blue dragons.

[Lauront]

Surprised to see so many people disliking forced movement mechanics (like arrow in end of first ivalice raid). I quite like them. I just tap mouse til I'm pointed where I need to be and I'm off

It's not so much that type. You retain control over your character with that, more or less. They're referring to the march type ones I believe.

[Catwho]

Server ticks and snapshots in battle. That'll never change.

A very specific niche complaint: We have an ability that can let us catch a fish at any time under the right weather conditions. But we do not (yet) have an ability that lets us catch a fish at any weather under the right time conditions. Thus, my fishing log remains incomplete.

[RitsukoSonoda]

I only have two, one minor, one major.

The minor: Stacking vulnerability up debuffs. The reason why this is the minor one is, it's not a bad thing to include, I just feel like when almost every single attack from every single boss does it, it's overused.

The major: Misdirection. I'm sorry, but anything that messes with my ability to control my own movement is a cheap shot. It's fake difficulty, and flat out p---es me off every time they do it.

The stacking vuln down mechanic seems to be a step towards trying to get players to more consistently do fight mechanics as a stack applies when a player fails to avoid an avoidable attack. Though I've seen 4 player duties still cleared while the tank was sitting at 8 stacks. DR took it one step further with the twice come ruin debuff that just outright killed players if they failed 2 mechanics within the span of a minute.

The only real issue I have with the misdirection mechanic is that it doesn't effect all jobs equally. Jobs with targeted move abilities that select party members or a floor location can just about ignore it.

[Misplaced_Marbles]

I'm not sure if you'd consider phase changes mechanics but i despise anything that causes the fight to come to a screeching halt.