Worst boss fights

[Allegor]

Thancred vs Ran'jit, easily, though Hien vs Zenos is a close second, or any fight where I have to play as someone else tbh. Come on SE, even if we never played the job, I think we can handle more than 3 buttons.

*cries in healer*

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...

Also this one. Though other 'unorthodox' fights are rather fun, like Livia, or the Simon Says golem in Bardam's Mettle. I'd like more of those

[KageTokage]

I don't like any fight where the mechanics limit how quickly you can kill the boss and/or can actively punish you for having high DPS (Like Haukke Manor hard's final boss).

[Cinno]

I'd like to add the Alexander fight that's literally just endless adds. :| No one even does the bomb mechanics anymore with the gobwalkers, so its literally just kill adds until they stop spawning more adds.. Ironically this is the one i seem to get the most out of normal raid roulette, and its so mind numbing..

[Synaesthesia]

Fights with gear syncs so high that tank busters feel like auto attacks and mechanics don't even matter, it's really hard to say which one is worst. The game has tons of those.. I understand that having a sync above minimum is good so you can feel your character's power as you get better gear, but there are countless encounters where it's so lax that the content isn't even enjoyable anymore.

[KageTokage]

Fights with gear syncs so high that tank busters feel like auto attacks and mechanics don't even matter, it's really hard to say which one is worst. The game has tons of those.. I understand that having a sync above minimum is good so you can feel your character's power as you get better gear, but there are countless encounters where it's so lax that the content isn't even enjoyable anymore.

I've never really understood why they made the item sync for the final fights so insanely high that the bosses end up dying faster then the trials preceding them.

It makes for a rather underwhelming finale if you don't get them done close to the expansion's release before people outgear them horribly.

[Morningstar1337]

I've never really understood why they made the item sync for the final fights so insanely high that the bosses end up dying faster then the trials preceding them.

It makes for a rather underwhelming finale if you don't get them done close to the expansion's release before people outgear them horribly.

I'm not sure either, Other than for convenience or lack of regard when they made the max ilevel equal to that of the stronger gear in all relevant instances. Though SE at least learned to tune the mechanics to take that into account (no amount of gear will save youif you failed mechanics at Dun Scath and Orbonne)

MSQ's roulette's a lost cause though,unless they want to make ARF, Ala Mhigo and Aumarot 8 mans

[Morningstar1337]

I'd say Ifrit, Garuda nd Titan NM, not for the mechancis but because getting them in Leveling roulettes sucks for people trying to level alts. Its a waste of the exp bonus IMO.

I also think Ultima Ultimate was a missed oppotunity for not including Leviathan, Shiva and Ramuh, but I haven't touched that fightand likleynever will.

For actually bad bosses? Well when you can and had been cheesed by waiting for the enrange and then then just spamming heals, you're now exactly the mos the challenging of bosses Allagan Rave Node. On the other end of the spectrum we have Titan in general prior to certain nerfs.

Almost forgot. Deathgaze Hollow is almost bad as Titan with his Void Death sucking you in twice to endure you die unless your hardware is up to snuff.

[SpeckledBurd]

Every single boss in Neverreap.

[Gula]

Dusk/Stone? Vigil (Hard) with the Temple Knights against the armored dragon.
Ran'jhit
Bardam's Simon Says because while I thought the Indiana Jones moments were cool, that one very much was not.

[Enkidoh]

Anything with stupid Quicktime Events where it's basically "mash X as fast as possible to not wipe". If it was just a single player game it would be no problem, but when you throw in the uncertainty of internet connections and lag... a battle that until then was going fine... could go pear shaped simply because the game didn't register the button presses fast enough (and of course that is me most of the time). And unfortunately SE seems to be throwing it into boss fights more and more now, although luckily ShB it was far less used than SB was. Lakshmi, Susano, Shinryu... even Hades.... were all let down due to having QTEs. Quicktime Events are the bane of gaming.

Non QTE releated - Titan in any form is probably the worst though due to those damn landslides and being knocked off the edge... urrghhh... who thought that was going to be a good idea?