Thread: Primal battles in 2.0

Would be great to fight the primals as roaming NM's, but they should leave it as open world fight, for example with ifrit, as soon as you engage him a big circled area would form with nails that comes from the ground and fire, so other players cant join but may see how you take him down, outsiders nearby the party that claimed it, are ousted from the area, idk with some kind of animation like them running away or making an emote the party members to him that everything is under control and the outsider walking away, with this only a player or alliance can take down the primal without any outsider disturbing them.

The best of it is that they can leave the same fight stage setup that we have now or make it even harder, to solve elements like trees they should put the spawn area free of objects.

That i think is far better than instance, in Sky you were locked away on an island but everyone else outside the party could see the fight from the other side, and it was great trying to see what were they using, real time strategies and of course the recognition of the comunity.

As I understand it, there will be roaming versions of all Primals, but these are just used for GC summoning battles.

Primals will still be fought as they are now, although the entrance to their battlefields will be in different spots.

(again, this is speculation based on bits of info I've seen)

I prefer the primals to be a roaming NM that once claimed your group will be taken to their instance realm like how Yoshi-P described. If it wasn't instance there is chances that other people will try to sabotage your fight, and large group of by standers can lag you.

Originally Posted by Andrien

I prefer the primals to be a roaming NM that once claimed your group will be taken to their instance realm like how Yoshi-P described. If it wasn't instance there is chances that other people will try to sabotage your fight, and large group of by standers can lag you.

If SE makes the claim system different there's no room for sabotage to be honest, since the whole purpose of the new server and client is to negate poor performance. Though the enmity generation in this game is kinda screwy so who knows.

Originally Posted by Elexia

If SE makes the claim system different there's no room for sabotage to be honest, since the whole purpose of the new server and client is to negate poor performance. Though the enmity generation in this game is kinda screwy so who knows.

I agree. its 2012, the technology is out there to have decent servers and better optimized engines to combat lag. it should not be a problem.

Here is what we know from an interview from Japan Expo:

[Someone's voice] : You said that the primal will only be summonable by Free Companies. Will they be roaming all over the map when they reappear? Will they always respawn at the same place, or will they respawn anywhere?

Yoshida : Anywhere, you can find it anywhere.

[Someone's voice] : It's better that way, else, a huge Free Company will always be keeping the primal.

Yoshida : It will not happen. You need to be lucky to meet the primal. You need the luck the primal first, and then you need the power to defeat it. As long as you have those two, it'll be yours.

[Someone's voice] : And then, will the battle happen on the world map, or will it be instanced?

Yoshida : It will be instanced.

Not much, but its something!

Yep. They'll be set up as roaming NMs which takes you into an instance (which defeats the purpose of making them roaming...)

like the old school JRPG's random battles