Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

[Bizniztyme]

I have nothing against one shot mechanics.
Just don't make them scripted to occur at the exact same point in every fight. Or, if you're going to make the one shot mechanic scripted, that's fine... but, don't have all of the other mechanics on a script as well.
Let us demonstrate true skill and adaptability, not just run on a treadmill for 8-14 minutes and then get our little reward when we're done.

Dude, This would never fly in ffxiv. the amount of people that can't get past scripted fights and get stuck on fights where there are no surprises and very detailed walk throughs would have no chance beating some of theses bosses that could use all their moves when ever they wanted. Then they will be back here complaining even more. lol

[OSUBuckeye4]

Dude, This would never fly in ffxiv. the amount of people that can't get past scripted fights and get stuck on fights where there are no surprises and very detailed walk throughs would have no chance beating some of theses bosses that could use all their moves when ever they wanted. Then they will be back here complaining even more. lol

Obviously things would need to be tuned to adjust for this.

I'm not suggesting that SE put in the possiblity of Titan EX having the ability to use 5 mountain busters in a row, with the same tuning that the fight currently has. That would be impossible.

I'm just saying... maybe create additional possible scripts for Titan where Titan has a different pattern. Mix things up a bit. Ditto for the other hard bosses. I mean, they are suppose to be hard.

Just make it so that every darn time I go into that instance, it's not the exact same thing. It's boring. It's the opposite of challenging. The only challenge after you've run it 20 times, is finding 7 other people who have put in the work to memorize the pattern as well.

[Bizniztyme]

Mix things up a bit. Ditto for the other hard bosses. I mean, they are suppose to be hard.

Just make it so that every darn time I go into that instance, it's not the exact same thing. It's boring. It's the opposite of challenging. The only challenge after you've run it 20 times, is finding 7 other people who have put in the work to memorize the pattern as well.

I agree that they should add some variety to content and battles. I'm not going to argue that but I'm not going to agree that it's boring and not challenging. I enjoy the fights quite a bit and feel it's really challenging but as I said I really do suck and I admit it. But read this thread, they don't want it hard. They want to make it easier. As I said, people are already having a hard time dodging already even if they have it memorized. Randomizing it, even fined tuned, will make it even harder for them to dodge and I'm not even talking about just one shot mechanics.

[Yukiko]

Impossible (brutal) Mode confirmed, we will get Primals and coil as it was original planed - zero state prebalancing!
We can achive a title to show we won content even devs could not win...

It was before they scripted it to make it easier - more random stuff