I'm not sure if it goes under most favorite, but Barbariccia Ex was a lot of fun as dancer, weaving in and out of all the aoe attacks as everything comes at you from the small slow moving wind orbs to her constant dashes and line aoes. I just really felt awake in that moment and felt really good dodging all that came at you.
SAME! 1st time i did it has sage tho, but i had a black mage on my party doing it for the 1st time also and dodging everything while not letting that black mage die (i saw them at 100hp at one point) was satisfying
Yep. This was a fight where Dancers and Sages could really shine and make the most of all of their abilities and movement; even the niche ones had a place.
barbie ex is tied with p4s for my favourite fight this expansion its so good, so fast and healing it is actually fun which I cant say for most extremes
For me it would probably be Tsukuyomi, both normal and ex. From the visuals of the arena and how it shifts, all the symbolism of passing and mourning, and Wayward Daughter...it will forever live rent free in my head, and I wouldn't have it any other way. That song comprises both the theme of Yanxia Day (A Father's Pride), and Yanxia Night (A Mother's Pride), which is brutal considering her backstory. There is so much storytelling and emotion packed into one encounter.
You said exactly what I came here to say. My favorite character and fight in the whole game, for sure. Every time I play a fight with a long cutscene in it, I remember how Tsukuyomi used its add phase as basically a playable cutscene. The music perfectly sets the mood, too. Honestly it's difficult to avoid tearing up a bit when I even THINK about that fight. Tsuyu deserved a kinder fate...
Up until Endwalker's EX5, 100% was right with you there. Tsukiyomi is a gorgeous fight, visually stunning, mechanically satisfying, and that music is just so good. If not for how much I absolutely loved playing through EW EX5, she'd still be at the top of the list. Now she takes a very close and very honored second place.
My favorite non-raid fight is Baelsar's Wall. Not only because "Sloppeh", but every mechanic in the fight feels so fluid. Raid/Trial: Seat of Sacrifice, each part feels great, slightly frantic, and cinematically pleasing. To The Edge is phenomenal and still gives me shivers when I hear it.
E8S has yet to be dethroned as my top fight partially because it was my first on-content savage clear but mainly because even after solving them, clearing through light rampant, wyrm's lament, and icelit dragonsong felt so incredibly satisfying also the fight was really really pretty and the 2nd phase music was such a banger
100% agree. I love that fight and it is in my eyes the best 4th fight ever made. Progging felt so good because the hardest mechanic was done quite early and after that you could adjust to prevent a wipe. I also dont like fighting 2 bosses as a "last" fight.
Mine's Sephirot. And not just because I met my wife in a Sephirot EX pug back in HW. The music, his falling down and coming back up massive, the mechanics being a hyper laser focused heavy execution fight just felt so freaking good when you do the fight without getting hit.
TEA's soundtrack and sound design are so well done. The renditions of the raid tiers music done in a rock tone by The Primals makes it hit much deeper and much more hype.
Might be alone in this but UWU, it's my comfort ultimate. The way it layers 4 different sets of mechanics during the last phase is just incredible. It's very boomer of me having started in 2.0 but it's still my favourite fight.
Shadowkeepeer, or as I like to call it, the Oracle of Barkness. The shadow mechanic just felt so satisfying to pull off, and the design is super sick. No wonder it eventually got added as a mount.
I really love Seat of Sacrifice and Tsukuyomi, but I was slightly shocked no mention of Halicarnassus! O3S had a lot of dynamic phases and mechanics that were very identifiable and in the last phase, I think animal farm was such a good mechanic since it required you to reverse-solve mechanics that occurred earlier in the fight. Also I personally liked that there were various adds in each different phase, and there is plenty of times in the fight where there is more than 1 solution!!
I love the cool factor and storytelling of Seat of Sacrifice where you get all the players' abilities thrown at you, the speed and engaging healing of barbaricia extreme, nice introduction to savage of P5S carbuncle, fun factor of hallicarnasses savage, and UWU's tight movement though it's probably that I like untimates and haven't gotten around to any of the others yet.
I'm absolutely a casual but I ran Titan in Eden Savage on a whim in PF and it is probably the most fun fight I've ever been in. It was hard and definitely a skill jump for me, but I had a great party who kept the mood light and encouraging, and when I made it to the clear without dying I felt like a goddamm champion. I haven't run any savages since then (been really busy irl so no time to dedicate to it) but if you're a casual player like me who feels like they want to improve their skills with the job they main I really recommed giving it a whirl. You definitely will learn a lot, and possibly get a car.
It is absolutely criminal that e12s only got a passing mention here. The incredible design of phase two, the relativity mechanics, the tank buster becoming a party buster if they don’t pay attention, single, dual, and triple apocalypses entire gimmick of the aoes moving around the arena to the speed of different clock hands. It’s absolutely brilliant and hearing the music flare up for the first time as soon as the actual fight starts made me actually giddy like a school girl
the only bad thing about Gaia is that if ure not tanking, you dont dont do anything for almost half of the fight. Apocalypses are too dumb dumb for the rest of the party imo . Apart from that, best "modern" part2 boss from both ShB and EW
Mustadio, and tbh the whole of Orbonne Monastery is amazing, in fact Ivalice as a whole is my all time favourite Alliance Raid. But I really like Mustadio, mainly because it's fun to see sprouts running around all confused when he does his Last Testament, and they get one-shot. To be fair, Stormblood is a goldmine when it comes to excellent encounters, everything about STB is good.
I really loved p8s, it felt fast and had a good dps check so it felt good to pass it, and high concept was just so much fun to mix. Progging TEA now so might change my mind, Alexander is perfect
The final fight of the Heavensward Alliance raid series is by far the best of all the Alliance raid series, because the whole bloody raid is about reaching Diabolos. The first fight sets the tone: this isn't your average raid, mechanics matter! Then when you finally get to the Life Gate, and you all, collectively, are holding back the darkness, you all feel like goddamn heroes in that moment. A Dun Scaith party finder is an instant sign up for me.
Similar to your feels for Brute Justice, my favorite fight is P8S. It was the first raid tier i beat on-content, and I love everything about it. The phases, the music, the mechanics, the gear, the mount... i love it all. My friends and I worked so hard to beat the tier together and it felt amazing to see us finally succeed.
A rare one: O11S is my favorite encounter in the game. I love how fast it can be. There's so many things happening so fast, I had so much fun progging it MINE in EW and Im forever sad I never got to do it on content each week.
A fellow O11S enjoyer! I had gone through it on a MINE blind static in EW, and learning how to deal with its chaos was really fun! (Also facepalmng at missing the tank lb3 cheese strategy to Red Fists) Pantokrator 2 is definitely top 2 mechanic in all of Omega for me, besides Kefka's Forsakens.
Kugane ohashi. its great. the big reveal, greg using susanoo's big hitty, the time changing over the fight, the big fireworks at the end. i fuckin love it
I grinded Rathalos EX for the mount and if I ever have to step into that fight ever again I'm gonna set all of my barrel bombs at my feet and set them off. As for something I actually like: Barbaricia is up there because of her sheer speed in phase 2 and making sure you can swing right into another pull if you miss positioning during the hair chain attack or something like that.
Randomly finding on of my clips in this video (I'm the dead WHM at 1:55 lol) made me feel old, not gonna lie. The Eden raids still feel so recent to me, yet here I am staring at my old horrible UI and a party list with people who changed their names or aren't even playing the game anymore. I had such a blast back then! It's hard to pick THE favourite fight in the entire game since there are so many to choose from, but O4s is definitely high up there. It was the first final Savage turn that I progged and cleared on content so I absolutely wear my nostalgia glasses writing this, but there was so much going on to overcome for baby AST me, the phase transition is just AWESOME to this day, it just sucks that the second fight had to loop halfway through.
Proto Ozma. Not only is it an iconic FF boss, the bum clenching tension of knowing that if you mess up you'll get black holed and the entire run will be for naught... just epic, amazing music too.
I haven't done a lot of raiding or trial running compared to the larger playerbase, but I think out of all of the fights I've done, my favorite fight or most memorable one has to be T7S. Something about the Savage Coils really makes them interesting, and doing that fight and actually clearing it feels like such an accomplishment, because it's so demanding of everyone to be on top of things. It's really annoying to do and hard to recover from, but it feels good when all the pieces fall together, everyone does their job, and it works out.
Nahhhh you can't do this to me, saying "Getting past Heavensfall in Party Finder" I will remember this, mark my words! But no awesome video, it's always a joy to watch!
E11 has been my favorite fight. Being a fantastic check on everybodys ability to move with precision, relying on quick meaningful ways to communicate, and even offering my favorite soft enrage sequences to wrap it up. It felt so good to run and made me genuinely excited for 3rd turns
Delebrum Reginae Savage Just going in week after week with the Adventure discord, learning the fights, getting deeper and deeper every time, as well as farming the lost actions and using particularly insane "mimic chain" strats. It was the best MMO encounter I have EVER played through.
For me it's Crown of the Immaculate EX. The music is one of my favorite songs in the game, and I have done the fight over 200x because I just love the experience of it. It's one of the easiest EX fights, but the sound effects and the presentation are so satisfying. Honorable mention to T9 cause it was the fight I felt most proud to clear on content.
i fully got into this game in the past year and JUST missed being there for the release of the final pandaemonium tier, i really love base P12 and i need to experience that savage one day.
My favorite fight is Final Day. The fight against Endsinger is just so epic with amazing visuals and even more amazing implications as you deal with actual planets being thrown at you while you fight existentialism itself. It is the perfect blend of fun mechanics, interesting theme, and great story.
Golbez EX is the first that pops into mind for me, might partially be it being my first on release extreme I got to do, but the stored sword mechanics, gale 2/3, void stardust, and even the knockback meteors was just really fun to figure out and engage with. Also getting to hear "YOU WRETCH" just after the first meteor mechanic.
Really niche pick here, but the pre-6.3 odin fate was stupidly cool imo. Coolest part is definitely tanking the tank-stack vuln-up auto-attack every three seconds, healers needing to constantly have esuna on hand, to dps managing the gungnir adds he throws under thresholds of health and more even lower so he doesn't kill everyone with his raidwide, so tough but so damn fun.
A8N was also my "This is the game" moment. For a giant robot with no face or voice lines, Brute Justice felt so dynamic and alive compared to all other stiff boss fights.
Hades EX "Had-e-sEX" Is still the coolest extreme in the game. What with all the other ascians you fought showing up, the savage mechanics showing up and scaring the crap out of everyone who never did a savage raid before, the raw determination and voice from Hades himself... fuck it's so cool.
My stand-out fights that I got to do on-content was O3S and A5S, they both build beautifully on their mechanics while being really unique even today. I wish we could see such a thing again.
DSR was my first ultimate and thematically, difficulty, and the memories I made for my first ever ultimate and first ever expansion can never be topped for me.
i have a lot of love in my heart for sigmascape because it was the first savage tier i beat on content (i'd done a few savage fights in hw but didn't consider myself a skilled enough player to actually try raiding for real until i got invited by a group in stormblood), but i think my favorite fight to date is seat of sacrifice ex. i think it's cool, i think it's fun, i think it's challenging, and i love the parallels to player mechanics that he uses. as someone commented on an upload of to the edge: it's him. mr finalfantasy
I haven't gotten into Savage raiding yet, but I love O11N, eScape pumping you up as you get left and right confused will never stop being fun. I think I have to mention my first ever extreme, Titan Extreme in my list of favorites as well. It took a good 45 minutes because we went in there synced, but getting to learn the mechanics and having to be good at off-tanking really made me love the tank role as a whole. man this game is so fun!!!!!
Probably related to the fact that it's during the time I started raiding in ff, e4s is still my absolute favorite savage fight. Was challenging enough with a number of different strategies flying about, where you could really shine with knowledge about how each specific mech functions when something goes wrong; the puzzle aspect forced you to keep a cool head even when the tempo of the fight increased with each phase. However, that was eventually surpassed by tea, where it's mostly the fact that I am a sucker for time mechanics (and no, it's not because I started raiding then - I started progging tea much later, shortly after ew release), but it's also a properly challenging encounter with interesting and diverse mechanics and probably the most epic enrage sequence ever.
I really enjoyed the variant dungeons when they came out, I absolutely love puzzles, and solving all the puzzles in those dungeons before guides even come out is a pretty amazing feeling Maybe they don't have stand out fights, but the rewarding feeling of finding all 12 paths is fun
i recently Cleared TEA and i haft to say its a fantastic fight so would definitely put it up there probably and most likely top 3, another one of my favourites was P2 Hippokampos was such an interesting fight from the design of the arena and design of the boss itself and then to the mechanics! and always get happy to see it again during Normal raid Roulette :)
I've only been playing since late Shadowbringers. Eden's Promise was my first raid tier, and I've done each tier since. Recently, I cleared DSR after two years of progging on and off between raid tiers, and insane static issues. I love that fight so much. It's such a masterpiece.
While Marx from the Copied Factory will always have a special place in my heart, I genuinely feel like Garuda Normal (yes, the Level 44 trial) was the first time I realised that I would *love* FFXIV. The second the sick as hell guitar riff kicked in, I knew the game was going to be special.
my personal favorite is also brute justice savage, even though I joined in endwalker. It was my first savage content experience and I was trying to do it unsynced as solo blue mage. Very rewarding 10/10 would do again. In fact, I even uploaded the clear on youtube because there was no guide on doing it at level 80 and I had to figure it out myself
TEA was such a fun fight to prog from start to finish. I cleared it maybe a month ago now and I remember the absolute joy I had on my face when I first say that PA transition cutscene and Moebius kicked in. The fight is so well structured and I appreciate fights where you can clear a mechanic without ever seeing it yourself by just watching and studying someone else explaining or doing it. I studied so much that once I got to fate cal A and B I knew them like the back of my hand that I was able to do it perfectly and consistently everytime. I love TEA for everything and while some things can be a bit finicky (*ahem* Nisi pass ticks) it's still an overall enjoyable fight that I'm sad I didn't get to experience on content since I joined back in 6.2
Edens Promise 12, Endsinger. I often replay them just for the hell of it. Such phenomenal fights. I especially love in Endsinger if you get someone new, and everyone is like "SHIT WE NEED LB3, DPS GOOOOOOOOOO"
I have had exclusively poor experiences in organized group content, so I've come to find enjoyment in the things I can do solo. Capturing moments in time that can't really be recaptured is soloing old bosses that are just on the edge of possibility, figuring out how to adapt group mechanics to a single person, and triumphing over these unique challenges. God Kefka is an amazing fight, and I think figuring out how to solo him has probably been my most memorable personal raid experience, and I'll miss it once Dawntrail comes out and that delicate balance of power is lost.
Golbez EX is definitely my favorite, even if it wasn't the hardest fight. Mechanically, it's always got something going on, and holy shit the voice acting during it is fuckin fantastic, especially during phase transition. Outside of that, I'd probably go with TEA, been progging it lately and it's been sick so far. Just in general I love the Alexander raids' aesthetic, and the music schlaps
MOM I’M ON TV!!! It’s so interesting to see everyone’s choices, love mr twinkle’s mention 😂 I never gave an answer for an actual endgame raid but it’ll prolly be Endsinger, E11S (I know I know but I genuinely love the mechanics and miti checks) and maybe UCOB for the memories and the mechanics. Can’t wait to see if Dawntrail will topple any of these 🎉
Honestly, I think Proto-Carbuncle is one of my favorite fights. Aside from the Devour memes, it had decent mechanics, an okay Abyssos-era dps check, and used the arena in ways that we don't often get to experience. I do also want to give a shout out to P2S's water slide mechanic. If you didn't blind prog that then you missed out on something special. The eureka moment when my cohealer and I tried to wipe the party after a bad mechanic to actually survive was great.
E4S has been my favorite fight for awhile now. I did it towards the end of Shadowbringers, a last ditch effort to try and get into raiding for that 4-seater in particular, not having a static (still even) led me to get a PF farm going on Crystal (miss when I didn’t have to go to Aether for everything), and it. Was. Amazing. As a Scholar Main, I figured out mechanics so well that even people who had cleared were dying more than I did. To the point I realized the delayed timing on the animations and took that to my advantage instead of complaining, actually liking the mechanical reward that gave me in spite of the artificial difficulty. And I even saw Enrage once thanks to a poor party, though that one time was also the only time I ever saw Phase 3 as the rest wiped or killed before. After 3 clears, I got the mount, yet I weirdly kept wanting to do it more.
There is a few fights i hold in special regard, SoS EX as my first on content EX, TEA for its intricate positioning requirements and puzzle mechs, e8s for fight design, pacing and thematics, o12s etc. I love raiding
I started playing back in 2014 but didn't start savage raiding until ShB. It was alot of fun and made me progress as a player. Then for EW I lead a static for all 3 raid tiers and did call outs. It was my personal goal to beat an entire raid series while it was current. When my static finally beat p12s, not gonna lie I teared up a bit. The whole experience definitely made me grow as player and just as myself. As for fights, P8S phase 2 has to be my favorite! I really enjoy High Concept 1 and 2 as mechanics, since they're so puzzle based and just fun to do! I also think they're one of the few savage mechanics that feel like they could be an Ultimate mechanic due to their puzzle nature.
I joined in mid-ShB, with Eden's Gate off-content being my first savage tier. I've since done every savage from then on and 4 ultimates, and TEA still stands as my absolute favorite piece of content in the entire game. It's a masterpiece from top to bottom, what I consider to be the peak raiding experience. That aside, my second favorite encounter is E12S, which was so fun and well put together. (Not to mention, "Promises to Keep" still remains my favorite track in all of XIV.) I also have a huge soft spot for O12S as I made many friends and fond memories there. The phase change cutscene from E8S will forever give me goosebumps, the fast-paced action of E4S will always make my heart race, and back in the day nothing was better than clearing E6S, or Memoria Misera EX, (which was such a fun fight whose design deserves more praise than it gets!).
I started playing when endwalker released and watching the world first race for TOP made me want to grind the msq just so i could do ultimates and now im currently progging p6
Zeromus EX is my favourite. FF4 holds such precious nostalgia for me, and while Zeromus EX is beyond easy, it was my first on-content EX I ever got to clear and Zeromus remains one of my absolute favourite endgame bosses in the franchise! I know a lot of people don't like that FF4 was so obviously hammered on peoples' heads for engame in EW, but I have SUCH nostalgic adoration for it that my first time getting to do patch content current? Just cannot hate it. I practically live in ZeroEX and actually genuinely LOVE teaching this fight to people! A close second is honestly P10S. It's one of the fights that I was able to really push myself. It's also special to me because it's the first fight I was able to confidently grasp, write a guide for (for friends), actually teach, and do callouts effectively in for my static. It really tested my abilities and helped me improve significantly as a raider and healer.
I've only started raiding in the past year, and I haven't done any of the older content, so I dont really have a "favorite fight" yet so to speak. I do, however, have a favorite mechanic: Superchain Theory 1. The mechanic when you first get to it can feel overwhelming, but when you understand it, the execution just flows very nicely.
Casual here, but there are so many amazing fights in this game. I might have to go with Dun Scaith, though, partly because the first boss reminds me of how much I’ve grown as a player, and for the no job stone run my FC did of it recently. Diabolos Hollow is also just a great boss encounter.
Normal Raid: A12N, the transition sequence at 70% is peak, IMO Alliance Raid: Dun Scaith, The chaos of doing this in DF is really enjoyable Extreme: ALL OF EXISTENCE, BENT TO MY WILL! Savage: Hephaistos, despite the trauma of Snakes 1, its a fucking fun fight Ultimate: Perfect Alexander my beloved
The dying gasp both regular and extreme are both still a favorite of mine to this day. It feels like a good conclusion fight to Shadowbringers but also the what we thought was a send off to such a great villian.
E6s is probably one of my favourites. Something about it just feels so flashy and epic in nature, with all the massive explosions, and getting launched far into the air on a mech failure, not to mention the 2 bosses fusing into one super primal. I might have a soft spot for it with it being my second savage raid clear, but it’s just such a cool fight for me.
Castrum Fluminis, both normal and EX, is top tier storytelling. The way the mechanics relate to her backstory and personality is *chef's kiss*. The mechanics for EX are also just demanding enough to be a challenge without being overly complicated for people doing it somewhat blind in PF. Similarly, Nidhogg EX is an epic fight with banger music and atmosphere. The phase change where he says "Thy final verse is sung!" and Nidstinien shows up, is super hype. And then the final phase really feels like he's pulling out all the stops and trying to kill you with his sheer rage. UWU was fun for me to learn, and the phase transition to Ultima still gives me chills sometimes. I haven't tried any of the other Ultimates yet, but from watching streams/videos and glancing at guides, I think those will be among my favorite content once I clear them. Puppet's Bunker might be my favorite alliance raid in terms of mechanics. I like fights designed in a way where they introduce mechanics one by one, then combine 2 of them, then combine 3-4 that you have to solve all at once.
A3S - Living Liquid. After literal months of trying, I beat him a few weeks before the launch of Midas and it was the most gruelling but fun prog I've ever had. Seeing that final Cascade cast when you're just praying for a clear has never been topped for me and probably never will be. I also thought the mechs and how they demand responsibility from every player was great.
I don't wanna list them all but there's Hell's Kier EX, Orbonne Monastery, Dun Scaith, most of Alexander, HW/SB minstrel's ballads, T9/12/13, Omega, and beyond
The Dead Ends is my favorite dungeon and I think Shiva EX is my favorite fight to do, not because of the mechanics or anything like that but actually because I LOVE being that guy that hypes up the experience for the sprouts by letting them know to put their favorite emote on their hotbar and use it after she casts diamond dust. The fun of being frozen solid in any weird or awkward position you happen to be in when it goes off, even if that's in mid-air lmao is just so satisfying to me. :D
May I ask why you like Dead Ends? I personally think that dungeon is horrible, the trash packs are boring, and the bosses are awful, non of the bosses have interesting mechanics, and it doesn't have a cohesive landscape, it feels like they had 3 ideas for dungeons, and then merged them in to one.
E4s in terms of savage is probably my favorite. i was really amazed with the go up and go down mechanic when it first appeared, sad they never used anything similar with verticality in any other savage since. my favorite ultimate is probably ucob just because of how epic it is, the hardest to prog/clear was for sure TOP, but i never felt it was thaaaat epic. its just brutal and really fun, but a guy with a chicken in his chest cant be as epic as bahamut. haha
7:11 i really got into monster hunter and did great hunt extreme a ton for the mount, rathalos however is a bitch my hatred for both behemoth and rathalos came from different games instead of where they are from which is honestly pretty funny
It's hard to pick one as the fight that I love the most since I've done all the ultimate's. All that are incredible by design, so instead I will have to give this title to the fight that made the biggest impression to me when I was still a young sprout who didn't know what a stack marker was. The Final Steps of Faith (Nidhogg) was the moment that made me fall in love with FFXIV and made me want to play even more. It wasn't the hardest fight but it left a impression on me, I'm a DRK main so of course I wanted to farm for the Nidhogg DRK sword so I had to learn the extreme version of the fight and as I ran around like a headless chicken I begin to learn what it takes to play this game on another level.
I was part of the bombardment of TEA tweets LOL - so TEA is deffo my fave. But for Savage, I have a soft spot for P8S since it was my first final fight of a tier, and I reallllyyyyy like High Concept as a mechanic.
My favourite fight... For extreme: Shinryu. I love running across the tail as the music swells and it's just so good, then getting on his back for the enrage. Savage: E8S without a question. I was progging it when I was the happiest in my life, and I love the dance of it. That said, E4S is very close, and O4S is my favourite to solo. Final Omega also feels visually like peak FF raiding to me. But E8S overall is just... I want to be in 5.2 again. Normal mode alone: The Final Day. I don't think I need to explain this one. Normal+ex combined overall: Suzaku, actually. I love the music and visuals, and the Phoenix says quadrant stuff. DDR giving a damage buff is cool too. Ultimate: TEA. Getting kicked from my second group ever for the fight led to me meeting my best friend, and when I finally got the clear two years later, I did it to prove her right that I could do it. PF was way kinder to me than the various statics I tried, where even in one where 5/8 had already cleared, we couldn't reach Gavel after a few months, to clearing in two weeks from start to finish in PF. I know you'll never watch this video or read this comment, but that clear was for you, Thalie.
Oracle of darkness is by far my favorite. Second raid tier I ever did and it balanced nostalgia for old FF games and FF14 low perfectly I think. Plus, doing the time mechanics perfectly is still one of the most satisfying mechanic resolutions to me.
My experience is very *very* tiny But my favorite raid at the moment is Soul of the Creator. It's the first content in the game where I got to go through the process of learning the fight, and that's really satisfying. I also love the way the music shifts perfectly with judgement.
I didn't play during Heavensward but I did A8S on Blue Mage during Shadowbringers and it was a blast. Very memorable fight even if Blue had to cheese some stuff.
O11 is my favorite normal raid and O11S is my favorite savage, it's just such a fun high energy fight that manages to keep me engaged throughout all of it. Larboard/Starboard shenanigans, the intermission phase in savage with the rotating tether and towers, when my group hit enrage for the first time and the music stopped, only to start back up again for the next pull in one of the most memorable moments in the game for me. I could do that fight every day for the rest of my life and not get bored. T9, A8S, and O8S are my other favorite fights and they all hold a special place in my heart but O11S in particular is just the best of the best in my opinion. Currently blind progging O12S with that group and hit P2 recently which is very fun, excited to see what Eden and Pandaemonium has in store when we eventually get there, and excited to do current content finally once Dawntrail comes out.
My favourite fight in FFXIV still has to be E11S I'm slightly biased since E9-12 was the first tier I ever did in Savage on content, but something about the combination of the music, and the mechanics involved in that fight just tickle something in my brain, and I love it.
i like zeromus ex, its a fun yet challenging fight that also really drives home not dying a lot, one persons death can easily domino into everybody else's, theyre fights ive done where even as a dps if i died it didnt feel like a lot was lost but in this one there are so many stacks and spreads to worry about that you cant afford to be on the ground too long
For me it normal Tsukuyomi during the main story. Mostly for 2 reasons but they are reasons that hit hard: The music, and the story that happens during the mid-point with the ADDs.
Any fight where the boss constantly says stuff through the encounter, so far (as free trial pleb) Orbonne Monastery final boss, Suzaku, o4s (that doest say anythign but the moving aoe attacks sounds+music is just mwah) and my fav so far Byakko
DRS... sure its easier than some other savage content but it was just so much fun to do with everyone. The actions make you feel like a big dick vet and its just so satisfying to get the clear.
Love me or Hate me but it's Titania! The music, sound design, voice acting, mechanics, that fight was so much fun I did the extreme so many times over even after I got the gwiber. Makes me want an Oberon fight.
now i feel kind of stupid lol.. my favourite fight was o12n. my first time clearing it i clutched it as a paladin after nearly everyone died. great stuff
Idk if it's my favorite overall fight but the rolling balls phase of A7s remains my single favorite phase in this game. Midas is my favorite tier by far but the sheer chaos the ball phase instilled the first time we reached it with my static is burned in my memory and I love it
Whenever I approach Count Cidolfus Orlandeau, the headphones are coming off and it's going over the speakers. And somehow, The High Seraph manages to be an even bigger spectacle. Also: Barbariccia is a joy every time. Edit: honourable mention to Shishio in Mount Rokkon, solely 'cause of that one attack. You know which one.
