~Poll~ Longer fights <Do you want it?>

[Jocko]

Now, if you were saying a group takes on a flock of birds.

Sorry, I should have specified, I was thinking on the terms of 3 or so birds (Although preferably, I'd love for group encounters to be mixed, similar to single player FF titles, instead of the usual MMO standard of having specific mob camps)

I'm sorry. That thing should be dead no greater than 15 seconds in. It's a bird, and not a dangerous one.

This sort of logic has always bothered me. Why does a mob have to be easy because it's not grand in presentation? A Dodo has it's own unique characteristics, and looking at it as "Well, it's just a bird" detracts from that in my opinion. I understand that the first level Dodo's are used to ease players into things and that later versions can expand upon that, but my example encounter is what I would consider 'easy' or 'basic', the standard for which progression, well, progresses on.