[Discussion] How do you define a fun boss fight?

[Tupsi]

Since we're playing a FF game:

1. Exploiting weaknesses, from elemental or status - If we have a Pieste boss, why can't blind prevent gaze attacks?
2. Bosses that get desperate to kill you before you kill it - Once it hits 20% or lower, that's when it should be a desperate struggle to survive. I mean, you're TRYING TO KILL IT.
3. Requires every party member to know their job, no carrying and gliding through.

Dungeon wise, something open world where you can see other people trying to get through the depths with the boss area being the actual instance.

[Jubez187]

Since we're playing a FF game:

1. Exploiting weaknesses, from elemental or status - If we have a Pieste boss, why can't blind prevent gaze attacks?

Great idea, but this would NEVER work in practice. Here are a few scenerios:

1. Boss is fire, let's all stack ice damage (assume it's the only viable option, easy to acquire ice damage).
1.1. Boss is now way too easy.
1.2. Boss should have been balanced around the party having ice damage (similar to how bosses are pretty much balanced around protect + stoneskin on whole party).
1.3. Now we just made a 1-way decision path that did no enhance the game whatsoever.

2. Boss is fire, let's all stack ice damage (assume the boss could be beaten without it).
2.1. Overkill, boss was too easy. Balance around people exploiting the weakness.

See? there's really no way to implement it because you either make it necessary or you make it unimportant (like how resist potions are now).

[Ri_ri]

Great idea, but this would NEVER work in practice. Here are a few scenerios:

Let me give you one of my scenarios...

Shiva is weak to Fire.
But she casts Reflect in set intervals so casting Fire on her would be suicide.
You can break Reflect with physical attacks.

Done.

Right now the only division between DDs are "melee" or "ranged". It's really bland.