am i the only one who really want more "human size" epic boss fight?

[gumas]

maybe because i play too much RPG or i just bored with it but, giant enemy boss fight didnt give me that "impact" anymore, sure it worked 1-3 times but over and over?

i actually had more fun when the story unfold and put me into "human size" enemy boss like estinien back in vanilla or zenos in SB, i actually got goosebumps when i fight zenos in Ala Mhigo DG, when the fight is over and zenos run to backyard, i though we going to have an epic story mode one on one boss fight as finale.

but instead we got the usual giant enemy boss which bumped me out.

[Belhi]

Variety is the spice of life. Honestly I think a mix is good. Human sized bosses are often problematic for raids due to it being harder to track them under all the players but in dungeon fights and such they can be pretty cool. The last boss of Doma Castle was another example I think.

[Cilia]

As an MMO, major fights are designed around having a party since no one class can do it all (tanks can take a lot of punishment, but can't heal themselves and have below-average damage output; damage dealers can dish out a lot of punishment, but can't take much or heal themselves; and healers can heal themselves, but can't deal too much damage or take much punishment). While individual class battles are easy to design and balance, a storyline boss that everyone fights regardless of class would be a nightmare to implement while still making it challenging.

Case and point: during my short time playing Star Wars: The Old Republic, I had a very rough go of many of the storyline bosses.

Each class had its own storyline and act bosses, which was cool. The problem was that each class also had two (maybe three?) specs, and the story act bosses were tuned only for one specific spec. This made some of the act bosses an utter nightmare if you weren't using the tuned-for spec; maybe it's just because I suck, but I absolutely could not defeat the Jedi Knight Act 1 boss (tuned for tank, played as DPS) and had to resort to kiting the Sith Inquisitor Act 1 boss (tuned for ranged DPS, played as melee DPS) for a win.

You'd get very much the same problem with a solo boss here. The "Brilliant Conviction" buff does allow for these sorts of fights, but in my experience it makes them laughably easy if they're intended to be won.

So... the big bosses that 4 - 24 people can see are just a necessity of the genre, I suppose. Even Zenos is bigger than just about any player character (due in part to his armor making him look fat, but I digress).

[Theodric]

Zenos doesn't look 'fat', though...

[Lauront]

Lmao

Someone hasn't seen many fat people.

[Theodric]

Zenos' physique is similar to his father's build. They both wear armour, too, though it's clear they're heavily muscled with broad shoulders, a beefy chest and thick limbs. Even Cid, who is rather short for a Pureblood Garlean is possessed of thick muscles.

[Keever]

Has the Garlean devil's advocacy gotten so strong that you're gonna make a fuss about someone making a passing comment about a character's extreme bulkiness?



Zenos' posterior is pretty darn big. (Image from Reddit)

[Theodric]

Has the Garlean devil's advocacy gotten so strong that you're gonna make a fuss about someone making a passing comment about a character's extreme bulkiness?

Now, now - let's not blow things out of proportion or resort to false conspiracy theories! It was a passing correction at most.

[Keever]

It was a passing correction at most.

Three posts in a row about that single issue, from two posters. Sure.

Now, now - let's not blow things out of proportion or resort to false conspiracy theories!

Blowing things out of proportion is what you're doing by accusing me of "conspiracy theories". Holy Dickens.

[zuzu-bq]

Designing those kind of suck because the combat limits itself on party positioning for possible spread and stack mechanics while being possibly frustrating to melees due to target's small circle and potential boss movements and spins. On top of that you kill most if not any freedom to make visual queues from the boss for attack predictment. All this in a boss you're supposed to fight over and over and die a lot before killing it would probably frustrate people. You see a lot of smaller targets on raids and trials to be just fodder for AoE or being one single enemy with a slightly bigger target circle than their model. You also see many clearly human sized enemies scale up in the whole game to force their circle to be bigger.

Having those enemies limited to Story dungeons and instances is a good way of still having them on the game but not making the downside of this type of enemy to be too present.

On top of that, the epicness of an enemy is usually brought by their setup that can happen inside the fight of the story itself. The Bahamut prime is just a fraction of the size of the big one but the whole story of the Coil and the Calamity makes even that small version of him to be threatening. Zenos had a whole expansion to sell out how dangerous he is that pays off on the ends of the 4.0 MSQ. The encounter at the end of the Doma castle has a somewhat nice build up that many people either didn't care or were too angry on the Great Raubahn wall to understand how actually frightening that was in the concepts of the story (the 4.0 MSQ not being very good also didn't help much) and it was a foreshadow of what was to come. The sense of epicness is built on the storytelling that comes before or during a fight. The sense of non-epicness on most of the human sized bosses is at mostly fault of the lack of it.