Enrage timer visibility

[DiaDeem]

Well, this is already in the game. Althyk and Nymeia have a timer buff below their HP bars (I think it's 6 minutes?) which marks a hard enrage timer, and though I've never seen it go off, having something like that pop when you're in the last phase of a SVG, EX or Ultimate is far from farfetched.

[Azuri]

That's sort of a different kind of enrage.
A "do this mechanic before the timer or you'll wipe" rather than a "if the boss isn't dead by the end of this cast you'll wipe".

The former tends to be mid-encounter, where the latter is the full stop end of the fight.

Vast majority of those gauges are "kill X thing before the bar is full". It is no different than a full fight enrage.

[Iyrnthota]

Vast majority of those gauges are "kill X thing before the bar is full". It is no different than a full fight enrage.

Fair, but it's not always so. The mid phase in the Eden Shiva phase comes to mind.

I'm just not sure what adding a full fight enrage timer actually adds, you know?

[Ryvaku]

Maybe it's needed if you keep playing with people that get wiped a lot.
When you got a actual squad you don't even get there.

[CelestiCer]

I guess, though not necessary.

Often its clear when you hit Enrage. Players also use " Forbidden-Allagan-Technologies " to see the fight duration time while knowing when the fight ends i.e at Enrage, making a digital countdown for an Enrage bar maybe overkill? I can see the appeal though. What I much rather would have? is a visual upgrade of the Enrage Cast bar to differentiate it from a Normal cast. Atm there's no difference. Have the dev's adjust the Enrage Cast Font to increase in size and back to normal like a slow " Heartbeat " that beats faster as it nears the end of its cast, putting an extra emphasis that " This is the Final cast ". Bonus for extra immersion and that Yoshi also likes visual indicators that he said once in an interview.

[Frizze]

Well, this is already in the game. Althyk and Nymeia have a timer buff below their HP bars (I think it's 6 minutes?) which marks a hard enrage timer, and though I've never seen it go off

My first run of the new alliance raid was a little less then an hour after the servers came online on patch day in what i assume was a full blind run(it was early enough that it would have been hard for someone to have run it once and still made our que, but i acknowledge that it wouldnt have been impossible). You saw what felt like a couple deaths on every mechanic from every boss. We only had one wipe though, and it was to the A&N enrage. One or two of the healers disconnected early in the fight, and the rest of the healers were dying a lot. Low mana and lack of healing lead to even more deaths, and slow ressing(if i remember the makeup right, we didnt have a single RDM and only one SMN in the entire alliance to help) meant we saw that timer hit zero. I was dead on the ground at the time, and had been for a fairly long bit. As the timer was ticking off the final seconds, the people still standing seemed like they might have given up. But everyone respawns, we use the telepod to return, and the second try was much cleaner and we easily cleared with plenty of time to spare.

[Bsrking5]

The real way to play the game is blindfolded. All you need is the audio ques

[Deveryn]

The real way to play the game is blindfolded. All you need is the audio ques

There are legally blind people clearing this stuff, so you're not wrong