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

[Lemon8or]

The only difference in FFXIV is that the designers disguised the unpopular "death-touch" as avoidable Titan/Leviathan knockout abilities and Melusine petrification.

I much prefer the ones you can dodge with player skill than random any day. I feel that it cheapens an encounter when you're just able to outgear it.