Quote Originally Posted by reflettage View Post
Watching the boss's castbar is integral to modern FFXIV fight design...
Agreed on the Amon fight, but with respect to the actual content being discussed here:

It's entirely possible that I missed something, as I only did the fights on the first night (and boy were they fun, even the handful of wipes): but aside from Brute Bomber's green mist breath, it looked to me like most/all of the other attacks had some sort of physical telegraph.

Black Cat's half-room cleaves were prefaced by her claws charging up, mouser had the square pattern in place, the knock-up (whatever it was) was blatantly obvious with several seconds to position, etc.

Honey B. straight-up stole the slash indicator from Barbariccia with the line and donut sweeps.

Brute had the arm charging on the lariats, and the bombs had (fairly) simple, easy to read indicator (*cough*after the first wipe*cough*).

Thunderhorselady was super-telegraphed. Only thing I could think of that might have been difficult was the 4x3 arena-shattering cannon, but that wasn't a "look at the castbar" so much as a "see which 3/4 of the arena was being hit and have plenty of time to run to the safe 1/4."