Teleport to Final Boss

[Karishi]

I understand the programming behind the Shortcut only sending you to the last boss you cleared.
However, when you get killed by, say, the Mist Dragon in The Burn and you have to trek back across the white desert for a few minutes it's a needless nuisance. It's an outlier in FFXIV as a game that generally does a great job of respecting the player's time.
I'd recommend using the location for the "Mapping the Realm" unlock as an extra teleport point for the Shortcuts. This would make it so that if you die on the final boss you can Shortcut back to the room immediately outside the boss arena, rather than retreading empty ground for no reason.

[LilimoLimomo]

This is something I've thought about from time to time, but I always come to the conclusion that the game is likely better with the run-back than it would be without it. The run-back has a few benefits:

• Mitigates false starts
• Facilitates communication
• Fosters reflection and strategizing

By creating a sizeable distance between the boss fight and the player respawn, players can generally intuit that if a player hasn't arrived at the entrance of the boss chamber, that suggests that they aren't ready to start the fight. Maybe they are typing questions or strategies about the fight, etc. If everyone appeared at the entrance of the boss chamber, it would be easy to simply assume everyone is ready when that may not be the case. The utility of this is that it facilitates communication while mitigating false starts that would lead to increased player frustration and disharmony.

Beyond that, the run-back gives players a mandatory period during which players can reflect on the failed fight, try to identify what went wrong, and try to come up with what to change to do better next time. Making this duration mandatory mitigates the possibility of hurried, less-skilled players beating their head against a wall without actually taking a step back to think about what's going on, which is all the more important when that player's actions could result in taking the rest of the party down with them.

So while at first blush it may seem counterintuitive, I actually think that requiring the time it takes to run-back is an important tool that mitigates the potential for players' time and energy to be wasted by consecutive failures.

[Karishi]

Most of the problems you describe are already mitigated by the players being returned to the start of the level. If they go back there and the Shortcut leads to just outside the boss arena, they can type their piece from the start of the level and if the tank pulls while the healer's doing so that won't be the healer's problem; They're still on the other side of the dungeon.
I admit I'm mostly encountering casual content, and playing on console besides (so the amount of typing of strats between fights is pretty limited) but I haven't seen the level of post-death strategy outside of a few where there's an actual bug (i.e. Halicarnassus in Haukke Hard) to be explained.
It seems like the devs agree with this, too, as newer dungeons put the output of the shortcuts closer to the end of the dungeon than before. I just wish they could go back and update the older shortcuts to do the same, if that's their stance.

[jdtuggey]

It works like that in dawntrail, but afaik, all earlier dungeons have you run back to boss from the last boss you beat.
Teleporting you directly to the boss is a new thing in DT. Maybe they'll adapt all older dungeons to that standard, maybe they won't.
I don't think it should be a priority.

[MegaOddly]

It works like that in dawntrail, but afaik, all earlier dungeons have you run back to boss from the last boss you beat.
Teleporting you directly to the boss is a new thing in DT. Maybe they'll adapt all older dungeons to that standard, maybe they won't.
I don't think it should be a priority.

This may be a thing they fix through the patches like they did adding duty support to all MSQ dungeons. But we will see

[Volgia]

I liked the little walk of shame you had to do before going back to the boss, though...