Echoes of Vana'diel FFXI Alliance Raid

[Avoidy]

All I want are new-feeling experimental mechanics, i.e. things besides stack/spread, or at the very least hide it behind a cool aesthetic so I don't just feel like I'm doing the same thing over and over again. Euphrosyne was so overtly guilty of this. My deity, the final boss of that place, was such a disappointment. Literally just a left/right style floating-lady boss with a reskin of the eden dog boss. Hell, it really was just a mix of E9N and E10N, wasn't it. A floating lady. A dog. Left/Right arena cleaves. Who made this? "Group of young devs," according to the interviews. And, no offense, but it showed. There was less a sense of "let's build on what came before and do something unique" and more a sense of "it's our first time making one of these, so let's just do what normal raids usually do."

Remember Ozma? Or TG Cid? Or hell, the giant rotating aoes in the puppets bunker? Remember when the 3 teams got split up and had to handle mechanics that could affect other groups? Remember stuff that felt like "wow, I've never seen this before" or stuff that felt like "wow, this chaos would really only be possible with 24 people," now it's just "everyone gets an aoe", god damn man.