siren

[Gilraen]

My only complaint (aside from the absurd difficulty of the original dungeon) is that Siren wasn't a primal. She acts the part in spades and, for a while at least, had the power to back it up (seriously, she was just as strong as Story Ifrit if the fight had been straight strengthened to 50). I still consider her an unofficial primal as, at present, she's still as strong as Story Ifrit. Her dungeon is also the only 4 player dungeon with three scut bosses so she's got alot going for her. You could say Square wanted to give Siren special treatment without making it look like they were.

[Lethallin]

My only complaint (aside from the absurd difficulty of the original dungeon) is that Siren wasn't a primal. She acts the part in spades and, for a while at least, had the power to back it up (seriously, she was just as strong as Story Ifrit if the fight had been straight strengthened to 50). I still consider her an unofficial primal as, at present, she's still as strong as Story Ifrit. Her dungeon is also the only 4 player dungeon with three scut bosses so she's got alot going for her. You could say Square wanted to give Siren special treatment without making it look like they were.

I'm not sure I can count the fight before her a 'boss'. It's more like a regular trash monster that drops a chest.

[Nestama]

My only complaint (aside from the absurd difficulty of the original dungeon) is that Siren wasn't a primal.

She's more of a FFV reference. Anyway, Siren isn't a Primal in this game because the siren are a race. We may see more of them in the future.

From the Triple Triad card: Once feared across the five seas, today sirens are but the stuff of legend, due in part to a thorough culling of the creatures some years past by the renowned pirate Mistbeard. Recent sightings of the seductive she-devils, however, once again have sea- and landsmen alike exchanging tales of sirens entrancing entire ship crews with their accursed songs, then feeding on their captives' souls until all that remain are lifeless husks.

[Laerune]

Pharos Sirus and Ultima have the best soundtrack, imo. The background song fits her.

[Nadrojj]

The music in Pharos is incredible.

[Saseal]

Agreed with the majority here - I love Pharos' BGM. It's one of the few I don't play my own music over (that, and Ramuh/Titan/Shiva/Ultima/Garuda and WoD... but thats about it).
The opera-esk SFX she does in mid-fight is a bit odd to me, but I would think it's hard to sing beautifully for any length when you have a bunch of people smacking and blowing you up... xD;
j/k probably has to do with wanting to keep the sound bytes brief and easy to hear. Make it sound too eerie and it sounds too much like the dungeon BGM's chorus. Which can easily be taken as her haunting singing from the top of the tower, echoing down throughout it.
The pick-up of the melody is the part I love the most - like an epic to get to this dangerous but beautiful creature.

I will agree with the fight itself, though - it is a bit underwhelming compared to the mood of beautiful danger the dungeon music sets. Mechanics-wise, same with Fenrir..... especially Fenrir. There's more pattern to his fight than plaid. ~_~ His mechanics felt lazily or uncreatively planned.
Diablos was at least unique with the doors (that is, before people learned/geared to mechanic-ignore them.... I still mark them when I heal that dungeon, though) the other two..... not so much.

The bird part of her design... yeah, not a fan of her 'hair' (and not particularly a fan of those particular parrots. Too unpredictable for me. I'll take my conures). They would probably be better off designing her after a canary (since they're typically thought of as 'signing like a canary').

[Mercutial]

One of the best things SE ever did in a patch was expanding that music and putting it on a loop.... It's a shame that so many players had moved well past it to ever get to hear it that way. I only discovered this when going back for my Zodiak and was soooo happy. Always thought that awesome intro was too short and basically wasted.

[Yamimarik]

Well I concede on the mermaid thing, I only know English and some Spanish, that's my limit in the area of languages. So I'm sorry, I didn't know.

As for her look, I stand by that I find her look much more appealing here, I enjoy her design here much more than VIII, again my opinion. To each their own.

I also stand by what else I said, her music fits her and her dungeon, and what gorgeous music it is and shall remain! <3 <3

[Byonka]

You mean this song?

[Exodus-E]

You mean this song?

As a healer myself, I HATE her song so much...