About the final story fight...(possible spoilers)

[Zabuza]

What I wish is that "Knights of the Round" were more epic. I guess my expectations are too high from FF7. Imagine if he casted a "Knights of the Round" like that where every single member of the Heavensward attacked you, one after the other in quick succession, not like the 2 or 3 at a time we have now.

It could have been a more difficult fight, but when I look back on previous story-enders, only the original Steps of Faith was probably the hardest one, and it's now been nerfed. Fighting Livia sas Junius and Ultima Weapon were quite easy even back then when i90 was the strongest gear. Maybe you're thinking of Ultima Hard Mode?

When the first people were beating the 2.0 story, I used to hear about how Ultima would wipe people on phase 2, would sometimes see it. Personally, my party in 2.0 wiped several times on the first phase of Ultima and we barely beat it before the timer kicked us out. Here, you could go to any twitch stream of anyone playing FF14 and see them get hit by AoEs in the 3.0 final fight yet still beat the fight with ease. It'd be awesome imo if you had to use a tank LB to survive "Ultimate End" or at least force people to pop all their largest defensives(succor, mantra, foresight, etc.) Or if the AoEs actually punished you for standing in them.

tl dr I agree it's easy, but I appreciate it for that so I can finish the MSQ in peace before digging my claws into the really hard stuff. There's nothing worse than struggling to get to the conclusion of the storyline when a group wipes, wipes disbands.

I don't know, the entire package of the fight screams struggle to me. The enemy you see before you strikes a sense of intimidation. When you first see it, it's like... wow, I have to fight THEM? The music screams epic struggle. Yet when you actually do the fight it's no struggle at all, not even a little. It feels off to me, takes a little bit of the immersion out of the experience for me.

Minstrel's ballad version, coming soon to Rising Stone near you.

They definitely need to make an extreme version of this or something lol. It's just too good of a fight.