[Spoiler] T13 Final Boss

[Balipu]

Well since we only have gameplay videos of turn 10 and 11 it is hard to judge. Maybe it is the child of the big bahamut in the coil. Or perhaps Big-B transformed Louisouix for the final fight. It was riddiculus to assume that we will be given the chance to fight something as big as a city state so a compromise had to be reached.

[Asierid]

Tiny, heh. No one can see the size of the arena, or do the side by side comparison. The assumption is real.

...Bahamut was never "huge", BTW. I fail to see where this is coming from. This seems about right in comparison to character models in other FF games. (No. No one cares about XI. He was the right size in the majority of the FF series, your special snowflake of a game is wrong.)

He was just a big dragon thing. This isn't Alexander or something.

[Necato]

Tiny, heh. No one can see the size of the arena, or do the side by side comparison. The assumption is real.

...Bahamut was never "huge", BTW. I fail to see where this is coming from. This seems about right in comparison to character models in other FF games. (No. No one cares about XI. He was the right size in the majority of the FF series, your special snowflake of a game is wrong.)

He was just a big dragon thing. This isn't Alexander or something.

The fact we fought in its hand in T5 probably misguided everyone...
But sure, we will fight Bahamut-egi, to save Eorzea, again !

[Muzetta]

There's also the thing about this being called Bahamut Prime. Obviously must be a story-related thing there.

As for being disappointed, you all knew we weren't going to get a full-scale Bahamut fight, so there's not even any reason to be disappointed. Sure beats having a certain old dude as final boss for Coil.

[Tiggy]

Some of you guys have some seriously out of whack expectations for what was realistic and especially considering they already said a large scale battle like this was not going to happen as recently as the fan festival.

[Lord_Zlatan]

Some of you guys have some seriously out of whack expectations for what was realistic and especially considering they already said a large scale battle like this was not going to happen as recently as the fan festival.

I agree with this here... I haven't even cleared second coil yet but the expectation that we would have a battle against a giant dragon when the precedent in every other fight in coil has been 8 people... doesn't really make whole lot of sense. Its better than fighting one dude. Also, this picture is taken with zero context or further lore taken into account.

[Danbo05]

Only in FFXIV can you be considered tiny if you're a dragon 10x the size of the largest player in a party, with a wing span covering nearly half the arena.

[saber_alter]

bahamut in XI


meanwhile bahamut in xiv is almost the size of a small city

have fun downing that with 24 people. you could take said people, and almost everyone in toll and ride it with them with room to spare

[Tupsi]

have fun downing that with 24 people. you could take said people, and almost everyone in toll and ride it with them with room to spare

As much as I hate the lore excuse (because it lets SE be lazy), you forget that it'd be:

24 "Warrior of the Light", meaning they could take down bahamut quite easily, since they take down primals that not even a nation's army can dent.

[saber_alter]

As much as I hate the lore excuse (because it lets SE be lazy), you forget that it'd be:

24 "Warrior of the Light", meaning they could take down bahamut quite easily, since they take down primals that not even a nation's army can dent.

if there is a lore explanation, it's not lazy. your assuming its lazy because we aren't fighting city-dragon. there is a reason why he's like this. we succeeded at least. we stopped him from being completely rebuilt. that was the entire point of the coil expedition after coil 1: stop bahamut from regenerating.

true, but anything like that would also be somewhat insulting...like a zergfest ala XI.

or it would just be fighting a single part of his body like WoW did with deathwing...

the echo pretty much just gives us resistance from primal influence, and a nice boost in strength under certain conditions along with the occasional headache. otherwise its just hydaelyn influencing the world in ways that benefit us...but we haven't heard her since 2.0, have we?