Worst boss fights

[BluexBird]

Steps of Faith sucks. The fight in itself is boring. The extra stuff that spawns is annoying, using the cannons is pointless and annoying. It's just a boring fight.

Copperbell Mines (Hard) has a boss in the middle where you have to generate bombs in order to kill. It's just extremely unfun. I don't get why they thought anyone would want a boss like that.

And Bismark has got to be the most ridiculous primal fight. You don't fight him, you fight a bunch of soldiers that appear to attack you. Compare that to literally any other primal in the game. WHY?! JUST... WHYYY?!

[Theodric]

Pretty much any of the boss fights in the MSQ roulette dungeons. They're meant to be the finale for ARR though they lack any actual weight due to how quickly the bosses melt and how little threat they actually provide.

[Enla]

Cape Westwind beyond a shadow of a doubt for me, because there's really no other boss these days where you can so utterly ignore mechanics /AND/ beat the encounter in a minute or two flat. It really needs a retune at this point because it's just easy EXP when you get it in the Trial roulette.

Beyond that the new version of Steps of Faith. While that encounter was always going to become easier with age, the fact that they nerfed it into the ground just after releasing it has certainly not helped matters. You actually had to think in the original version. Now it's just 'hurr durr don't bring the dragons into the cannon fire, it doesn't matter anymore'. The only time this instance is even remotely 'challenging' is if everyone agrees not to touch the dragon piercers and even then it just makes it longer.

[Rasikko]

Oh, trust me, depending on the group, the mechanics STILL matter lol

[Kuroka]

Is "the other 7 randoms on every Ex trial" a valid boss? :3

[Shinklet]

Every single fight with a cut-scene or transmission phase lasting more than 10 seconds. For some reason SE keeps adding them in. They're terrible design.

Progging a fight with a 30+ second long intermission accompanied with a boring add-phase, obviously referencing shiva here, is enough to make me want to not bother.

[Nestama]

Every single fight with a cut-scene or transmission phase lasting more than 10 seconds. For some reason SE keeps adding them in. They're terrible design.

Progging a fight with a 30+ second long intermission accompanied with a boring add-phase, obviously referencing shiva here, is enough to make me want to not bother.

Honestly, yeah. I wouldn't mind it much if it was just a one and done thing and the fight checkpoints after it, but because it doesn't and you have to see it every time, it's just really annoying and feels more like a punishment :/

[RocciaSolida]

In no particular order: A2(S), Garuda in every iteration, Steps of Faith, Howling Atomos, Cuca Fera, Towering Oliphant, Hades (NM and Extreme) because of the excessive cutscenes and O10S.
Honorable mentions: E3S (Black Smokers dude), Titania (NM and Extreme) and basically every solo duty, always longer than needed and boring.
There are many bad fights now that I think about it (but many good as well fortunately)

[ElazulHP]

That dumb slime from Copperbell. You just sit there until you can blow it up (with the super slow spawning bombs) into small enough chunks to kill it. ZzzZZzZzZzzZz...

[StriderShinryu]

That dumb slime from Copperbell. You just sit there until you can blow it up (with the super slow spawning bombs) into small enough chunks to kill it. ZzzZZzZzZzzZz...

All of the bosses in Copperbell are pretty terrible. The worst part of them, though, is that they are actually all potentially interesting. There's an interesting idea in there for each of them that could/would actually make them better than the vast majority of cookie cutter bosses in the rest of the game but not because they're stuck in ancient, low level content.