Is Bahamut big enough?

[Yrusama]

I read somewhere in the letter Yoshi-P mentioned killing Bahamut, but it sounded like a hypothetical concept. I'd love to see one of those boss fights like in one-player games where you have to kill individual body parts and make your way up to the head. If they just size him down I'll be disappointed.

Also, imagine yourself standing on one of those bridges. Even a Roegadyn is ant-sized by comparison!

[DantesAmore]

/nod i'd prefer 15 max 20 mins of fight challenging and dynamic.

Fights too long, can be repetitive.

theres nothing wrong with the current 30 min fights >.> 1-5 hour long XI bosses maybe alittle much but to have a bunch of super easy 6-15min fights gets old fast too(garuda 6min wins >.>). being able to kill it within 30mins is just prefect imo, its long enough to satisfy the "don't fuck up and wipe us noob" criteria as well as the "lets spam this fight all day" criteria also. They are boss fights so shouldn't they be hard? part of the difficultly is staying on your A game for the extended period of time and not derpping over and over screwing the party over in the process lol :P

i still feel though somethign as godly powerful as bahamut should be about an hour long fight i mean come on he made the 12 (well technically 13 since 1 of them is a set of 2) look like fleas he backhanded their seal like it was a joke anything under 45m-90mins would kinda make his appearence and extreme power featured in the video kinda lol'able. Hes no mere boss hes like a mega boss and thus should take much much more then 15mins to kill ... he's more powerful then 13 gods combining at once.. a 15min fight would be as pathetic as us killed 1 of the 12 in like 90seconds.. >.>

[Shougun]

I will man my rage face :O if Bahamut is only a 15 min fight. lol

Bahamut is freaking huge - bigger then all past Bahamuts. If he doesnt take an epic fight of multiple 30 minute stages I will be extremely dissapointed with the beast that "lulzed" at the 12's efforts. (can "save" quest at each stage to restart and reduce frustrations)

Following a specific formula would be bad for nostalgia and overall uniqueness of the fight as well - so perhaps some are 15, 30, 1 hour, dungeon fight on his body, 1,2,4,8,32 (player #), world server events w.e We can make a thread of suggestions for SE. But I am sure Yoshi already has an idea of how the fight will go down.

[Raubahn]

Shinryu fight XI if you remember how big was he and we were hitting its belly guess bahamut area or fight would be same as XI shinryu

[Maxwell]

Take bahamut down ? Simple.

[Beowolf]

active time event

[Warlock]

Make Bahamut be in FF14 like Acnologia is in the Fairy Tail world ..you know he exists and he could appear any moment and put an end to your era. Hes out there somewhere dormant He can be a live event super HNM unbeatable of course

[Delsus]

I would love a long fight against him (1hr+), with multiple stages, I imagine a full alliance fight.

I found Kirin fun in XI, which could take 2hrs to kill, never got to fight JoL/AV or PW before so I can't comment on those long fights.

[Shougun]

I would love a long fight against him (1hr+), with multiple stages, I imagine a full alliance fight.

I found Kirin fun in XI, which could take 2hrs to kill, never got to fight JoL/AV or PW before so I can't comment on those long fights.

I wouldn't mind a 24 hour fight in nonconsecutive time. But there is "hardcore" and there is "unhealthy" lol a couple hours should be a max consecutive moment (you can follow each stage immediately by choice but you are not "forced" to).

JoL/AV where the 5+ hour boss fights weren't they? I remember hearing SE released a 24 hour boss but then nerfed it / players learned how to kill it and it turned to like a 10 hour boss fight or something.

[Genjuro]

Well, Dalamud was the size of a small moon so it's no surprise that Bahamut is the size that he is.

Regarding battle. I think that he should be one of the top tiered battles. Don't just make have lots of HP, but have him do random stuff that would really challenge the alliance. Have him instantly kill 2 party or something just for kicks and then let the others try and reraise them up to full, while keeping damage on him.

Final Fantasy boss battles have always been unique in that the producers and directors have always been able to implement unique ways of killing bosses. Odin in Final Fantasy 4 with the spoon kill. Asura from the same game and having to cast reflect on her in order to stop her crazy cures. Final Fantasy XI and having to /bow to Odin otherwise he kills everyone.

Having said that I don't think that one hit kills should be the answer to the bosses either. It should just be something that would reduce his HP or maybe weaken him for a certain time. They should implement stages of when to do what, otherwise things would be too easy. Think of Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts at the colosseum, but add little tidbits of hope for every stage.

I honestly wouldn't mind an Absolute Virtue, pre-nerf, for the insanely hardcore players.