Add rage mechanic

[Tunda]

Add rage mechanic when boss can ignore tanks and focus on high dps or agro member (not tank) and do avoidable attacks.

Tank can have the ability to do mini game to knockout boss to remove rage

This can make tank the real savior of the team not just a punching bag

[CKNovel]

So you mean... Basic mechanics.
Share with tanks in front, raidwide that needs to be mitigated, tankbuster to grab, tank tower to soak, wide tank buster to move away from the party...

And all other mechanics that attack the party members regardless of enmity.

[Tunda]

So you mean... Basic mechanics.
Share with tanks in front, raidwide that needs to be mitigated, tankbuster to grab, tank tower to soak, wide tank buster to move away from the party...

And all other mechanics that attack the party members regardless of enmity.

There is a difference
All you mentioned is scripted with no intelligence from boss side

Just make boss smarter and can act at his own with rage mechanic

[Nero-Voidstails]

There is a difference
All you mentioned is scripted with no intelligence from boss side

Just make boss smarter and can act at his own with rage mechanic

I like the idea of a boss using its move randomly like they show them once then boom random could even add tank buster raidwide into those (could have a cooldown on tank buster and raidwide like can use it cap twice in a row)

[CKNovel]

There is a difference
All you mentioned is scripted with no intelligence from boss side

Just make boss smarter and can act at his own with rage mechanic

I strongly suggest you try to play tank role in high-end content and then come back to us.

XIV is a game about planning, mapping your resources and predicting the mechanics. Not about throwing random surprises that can happen in 1 run out of 1000.
If you play only dungeons and normal mode, your knowledge of the game is limited to the surface level.

We already have bosses targeting other party member and that's enough.
You can still queue in Rathalos Extreme to try your suggestion.

[Espon]

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. Bosses already randomly target other players avoidable attacks, they just don't suddenly drop aggro. There's also already many mechanics that tanks must deal with protect the party, like the tank towers in EX1 or grabbing tethers in EX2.

There are bosses that ignore the tank and just attack random players, but they aren't all that threatening, especially for tanks since the damage has to be low enough that it doesn't 1-shot other roles. Using 4 tanks against Rathalos Extreme was very common back in the day because of this.

What would the mini-game to stop the boss from "raging" be? Provoke it? Stun it? An Active Time Maneuver? Could use an example.

[Tunda]

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. Bosses already randomly target other players avoidable attacks, they just don't suddenly drop aggro. There's also already many mechanics that tanks must deal with protect the party, like the tank towers in EX1 or grabbing tethers in EX2.

There are bosses that ignore the tank and just attack random players, but they aren't all that threatening, especially for tanks since the damage has to be low enough that it doesn't 1-shot other roles. Using 4 tanks against Rathalos Extreme was very common back in the day because of this.

What would the mini-game to stop the boss from "raging" be? Provoke it? Stun it? An Active Time Maneuver? Could use an example.

What I mean by rage mechanic is:

You can't stun provoke or anything the boss will attack dps only that is most annoying to them

The attacks is avoidable but if tank didn't succeed to knockout the boss within the time frame.. boss attack will be harder to avoid.

How knockout will be idk but it could be a mini game that tank has to do within time frame

[Valence]

The game could definitely benefit from a healthy dose of chaos and semi random little incidents in between main mechanics (or even during them).

And hell, even without chaos, I'd kill to get back actual prey mechanics that actually require support coverage through shielding and/or mitigation. Dangerous in normal mode as it won't oneshot players, but can for example precede room wides. Absolutely lethal in challenging content however and would require support protection.

What I mean by rage mechanic is:

You can't stun provoke or anything the boss will attack dps only that is most annoying to them

The attacks is avoidable but if tank didn't succeed to knockout the boss within the time frame.. boss attack will be harder to avoid.

How knockout will be idk but it could be a mini game that tank has to do within time frame

ARR had similar mechanics based on damage inflicted to the boss, notably in Sastasha hard and Qarn hard, except it was room wide damage. But it's easily extendable to single targets.

[Tunda]

The game could definitely benefit from a healthy dose of chaos and semi random little incidents in between main mechanics (or even during them).

And hell, even without chaos, I'd kill to get back actual prey mechanics that actually require support coverage through shielding and/or mitigation. Dangerous in normal mode as it won't oneshot players, but can for example precede room wides. Absolutely lethal in challenging content however and would require support protection.



ARR had similar mechanics based on damage inflicted to the boss, notably in Sastasha hard and Qarn hard, except it was room wide damage. But it's easily extendable to single targets.

I wish if there is a version of 2.0 or even 1.0 to see what is missing,

I know they HAD to remove specific mechanic due to server tick issue,

we understand they didn't have enough money at that day.. but now FFXIV is biggest MMO of all time or close to it..

Shb and EW was enough success to revamping old mechanic and fix gameplay related issues