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

[zaviermhigo]

Some of these issues, seem to be player base problems also. I mean yes, insta kill mechanics aren't fun, but I notice the most fun in content I can have is with all FC members, because they are always on their A game. Duty/party finder and shout groups tend to give awful players most of the time (I do get good groups, I savor them), just straight up lazy players, I get this is a game, and it shouldn't be like a job, but also put some effort into playing and don't be a jerk. Even if a boss fight started out with interesting mechanics, often the population creates strategies that sap all the fun out of the content, because we want to clear it as fast as possible which is understandable. A lot of ambiance is lost in how we speed run things though, cut scenes skipped, strategies have 1 or 2 people doing absolutely mundane tasks to make the fight easier.

Its not like SE thought "every one is going to do it this way and it will be fun", they thought "they'd do the content as intended, have some fun", INSTEAD, it became "omg fast fast fast, I'm a spammer", I get it, I don't want to be stuck doing the same repetitive thing, and have it be slow, but in a way it is ruining the immersion and ambiance of the content.

Also as a healer the fact that most fights boil down to "dps race" is extremely boring for me, adding some other mechanics in there to make sure we do more dmg to the boss is more fun in my opinion instead of "omg DD EPEEN FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I player healer, my boyfriend plays tank, we're doing our job, but the dds just can't do enough dmg, there really isn't much we can do to win the fight past that...we lose because of gimp dds, and its not just gear, sometimes its just they don't know the proper rotations, its terribly boring for most fights to boil down to this. Some are fine, but in total there should be...some fights that the dd shine, and some fights that tanks really shine, and some fights healers really shine, maybe even different phases of the same fight that do all 3.