Design A Primal Battle!

[Yrusama]

Here's a rough idea. Feel free to alter or expand it.
Shiva:

Arena is the standard Primal size. Shiva will call pillars of ice that need to be broken continuously. The party will need to dedicate one or two party members to this task for most of the second phase. These pillars are strong against piercing strikes, but very weak to Fire and Blunt damage. They will go down after a few weapon skills. Standing too close to one for too long may cause players to become bound until the pillar is destroyed. The damage of Diamond Dust will depend on how many pillars are still standing.

Meanwhile Shiva will bombard the rest of the party with Heavenly Strike (giant falling icicle dealing area damage) and other ice abilities. The tank will need to continuously move her around because the position of the ice pillars is entirely random (not dependent on enmity list).

[lolodin]

Thanatos and Hypnos




Party: 16 members

Thanatos Skills: Chaos Blast - Deals 1,200 of Area Damage

Plague of Sin - Inflicts a deadly poison that last for 90 seconds

Corruption - Random Effect placed upon players inside a frontal cone

Black Death - Instantly Kills players with low health

Shroud of Darkness - Places a mystic boon upon Thanatos

Resurrection - Summons minions to fight along side Thanatos

Hypnos Skills: Requiem - Charms a player who has the most hate

Lullaby - Puts players within 1 yalm to sleep for 90 seconds

Gamma Burst - Does 1,200 of Cone damage

Birth of a God - Temporarily makes Hypnos invincible for 60 seconds

Requiescat - does 1,000 of Area damage

NOTE: Hypnos may warp around the whole area to aid Thanatos

Either Hypnos or Thanatos will rage when the other is killed increasing damage and slightly health

The area is ridden with traps! be mindful!

[Aish]

Not really primals, but if I remember correctly it sounded like the ARR team was going to make some nods to previous FF titles. So, why not implement some of the main bosses from other titles, or maybe even battle the hero parties from previous titles? Reimagined in the context of an MMORPG of course.


I'd also like to see some non-standard fights too. Many of you will probably hate where I'm pointing too, but I still think these were good ideas, at the very least in theory.

Take the WoW boss Flame Leviathan from Ulduar for example. Everyone hops in a vehicle and uses the vehicle's weapons to defeat a boss while doing whatever is needed to avoid/reduce damage taken from the boss. (In many ways it's kind of similar to the Leviathan battle in this thread)

Even something like the....Dreamwalker? Or whatever it was in ICC where the Healers had to heal an injured NPC, (the NPC couldn't move and didn't retaliate, so it was basically one big punching bag) that had as much HP as a boss, to full, collecting heal-power powerups to make their heals stronger while waves and waves of adds come to attack your group and the NPC.

[GinTama]

Thanatos and Hypnos




Party: 16 members

Thanatos Skills: Chaos Blast - Deals 1,200 of Area Damage

Plague of Sin - Inflicts a deadly poison that last for 90 seconds

Corruption - Random Effect placed upon players inside a frontal cone

Black Death - Instantly Kills players with low health

Shroud of Darkness - Places a mystic boon upon Thanatos

Resurrection - Summons minions to fight along side Thanatos

Hypnos Skills: Requiem - Charms a player who has the most hate

Lullaby - Puts players within 1 yalm to sleep for 90 seconds

Gamma Burst - Does 1,200 of Cone damage

Birth of a God - Temporarily makes Hypnos invincible for 60 seconds

Requiescat - does 1,000 of Area damage

NOTE: Hypnos may warp around the whole area to aid Thanatos

Either Hypnos or Thanatos will rage when the other is killed increasing damage and slightly health

The area is ridden with traps! be mindful!

sounds awesome

[Tonkra]

Carbuncle:

Area about the size of Ifrit fight.

Carbuncle pops his head out of the ground whack-a-mole style.

Everybody comes on WAR with a mallet.

Everyone covers 5 holes in the ground

Person with the highest score in whack-a-carbuncle at the end gets to ride him into the sunset and become a summoner.

i doubt that carbuncle is going to be a prime fight.

i mostly thing he is going to be "just" a pet you start with

[JDR388]

I'd also like to see some non-standard fights too. Many of you will probably hate where I'm pointing too, but I still think these were good ideas, at the very least in theory.

I get where your going with that. I have a problem with super out of the box fights though. they are fun the first few times but after doing them over and over the gimmicks get old fast. The best bosses combine clever gimmicks with the well worn strategies.

I liked the polarity thing for Ramuh HM .. it reminds me a WoW Wotlk boss (i suppose you played it :P )

I did not play WotLK but I know what you are talking about. I never had a chance to fight that boss so I am only vaguely familiar with the idea.

[Yrusama]

@Devs: I would LOVE to see the Magus Sisters at some point. Primal or not. The FFXI minor reference with the Shikaree Sin Hunters wasn't quite fanservicey enough because they alluded to the Japanese names that only half the community knows.

[Duuude007]

Shiva battle concept:

Setting: Glacial Fissure

Top & side views:


Concept: Battle takes place at a cliff-like cutout of a great glacier, with a fantastic view of the landscape outside. Shiva is first encountered sealed inside a cocoon of her own making. The party will choose someone to wake her by approaching. This person is inflicted by an instant frostbite, as the shell over her cocoon is shattered. The frostbite is a blessing and a curse, as it causes the person inflicted to become immune to the 2hour Diamond Dust, but also creates a degenerative DoT which reduces the player's max HP gradually for the rest of the fight, even if killed and reraised.

During the fight, the party must both avoid being cornered by Shiva and avoid falling stalactites, as either can spell disaster... With one exception:

The most effective way for a party to survive the 2-hour, Diamond Dust, is to have the party lined up immediately behind the one affected by frostbite. However possible as it may be to do this, the simplest place to pull this off without fail is in Shiva's own cocoon, with the frostbitten player blocking the entrance (and the party). Party may be required to "kill"/shatter any new ice that reformed over is entrance during the fight, in order to take advantage of it.

Thoughts?

[Riv]

Cool thread. That Ramuh concept is quite detailed and challenging lol. And i like the Leviathan one involving craft and gather, though i doubt they would do that at this point since craft/gather seems to be going towards solo play only now.

[Duuude007]

Cool thread. That Ramuh concept is quite detailed and challenging lol. And i like the Leviathan one involving craft and gather, though i doubt they would do that at this point since craft/gather seems to be going towards solo play only now.

Hamlets are an exception. Its possible they will have new activities like or better than that in the future.