Raid Dungeon Puzzles

[AceofRains]

Hello everyone just wanted to share a thought I had about future raids being introduced, and wanted to know whats your preference on dungeons.

I understand that raids are being introduced with strategy in mind, but does that mean hack and slash while keeping healed, or will there be also small puzzles to solve through out the dungeon. I thought last night, an interesting concept would be if the dungeon branched off into two paths where the party of 4 or 8 would have to spit up and help each other get further into the dungeon. When they get to the final room, or certain points in the dungeon, the party comes together to fight bigger battles.

The pros: Elements of Strategy, more than just walking through a place, killing things.

The cons: Relying on people you can't see on the other side of the dungeon. This stresses communication.

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Please, I'd like to hear more thoughts on raid dungeon puzzles I'll try to put your idea on the main post with credit to you.

Feedback:
->Zelda Esque Puzzles (moving blocks, hitting switches) -Greencactuar
->Indirect Boss Fight (Such as Ursula's Cauldron in Kingdom Hearts) -Swev
->More environmental immersion (Boulders, Swimming,Climbing, ect) -Swev
->Certain monsters solve puzzles (Bring a Bomb mob to a wall to have it self destruct) -Elexia

Relevent Pages:

Treasure chests, hidden items/rooms, switches/puzzles for current and future dungeons
-By Teknoman


Random Disclaimerrr :] (I currently do not play FFXIV. I own a copy but my computer isn't good enough to run it. Please, stay rational folks, I may not be a player but I suppose everyone is allowed input right?)

- Sincerely
Rai Raymont of Trabia

[viion]

I think they will be a lot like Dynamis where you have to go kill X Y Z Nm in different parts of the zone to be able to get access to the final NM. I'm just basing this judgement of how the zones are designed.

Also judging by the 1 hour time limit, it does not seem like there will be a lot to do other than run around killing everything.

[AceofRains]

Yeah your probably right. Though different dungeons for different folks. It could be possible on later raids that different dungeons could have larger time limits.

[Zenaku]

I think they will be a lot like Dynamis where you have to go kill X Y Z Nm in different parts of the zone to be able to get access to the final NM. I'm just basing this judgement of how the zones are designed.

Also judging by the 1 hour time limit, it does not seem like there will be a lot to do other than run around killing everything.

did you forget ffxi nyzul isle? 60min time limit and each floor change and they had lot's to do it was away about killing X,Y,Z mobs but they had lamps which was not killing anything and that was harder then killing the mobs it self lol.

[viion]

did you forget ffxi nyzul isle? 60min time limit and each floor change and they had lot's to do it was away about killing X,Y,Z mobs but they had lamps which was not killing anything and that was harder then killing the mobs it self lol.

I did not forget, but I dont think that will happen, theres no floors and i dont see how it would work. They've already said though you have different paths and depending on the ones you take will depend on .. something else i forgets. But all dungeons have big doors which could open/close depending on path you choose.

Sad thing is everyone will just pick the best path and that feature be made redundant.

[Perrin_Aybarra]

Sad thing is everyone will just pick the best path and that feature be made redundant.

Maybe those paths will be random so that you cannot plan which way you go really.

[AceofRains]

Sad thing is everyone will just pick the best path and that feature be made redundant.

Thats why I thought spitting up would be a good idea, it avoids that redundancy by making the party HAVE to take all paths.

[ManekiKanji]

I do hope they bring in puzzle's in the same sorta vain as Nyzul was, 30 mins 5 floors , puzzles galore, never know what you would get so it felt alot mroe unqiue than the same maps, mounsters and puzzles all the time, great short event with plenty of vairty even with the short time limit to not just go on a mounster Burn.

[Rentahamster]

There's a lot of good ideas involving puzzles in this thread:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...uture-dungeons

It even has a dev post, too.

[AceofRains]

There's a lot of good ideas involving puzzles in this thread:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...uture-dungeons

It even has a dev post, too.

Thanks, I'll check it out. :] Doesn't mean my thread has to die though :/ it's tagged with a different dev number