Final Fantasy XI Boss Takes 24 Hours to Beat?

This is just ridiculous. I played FFXI for 4-5 years and I must say, besides a few friend I made on there it was the biggest waste of time. I did all that endgame stuff, Sea, Sky, Sea, Kings, Dynamis, etc. Got most of my end game equips for that smooth killing of bosses here and there. Definitely not worth the time it takes to get the things, waiting a few days for some things that don't even drop an item 100%, or even 25% of the time is bad.

This boss is no different, it's going to drive those hardcore player of the game to try and take it down. Wasting more of their lives for something that probably drops crap. It's all pretty sad.

Anyway the best thing I EVER did in that game was, well, quit.

Duoheero

Jack Bauer can definitely find a way, within 24 hours, to defeat this monstrosity. If not Jack, I'm sure Kate can. Wait. That's right, she sucks.

QMarc80

First of all... this isn't WoW. Players in FFXI do not get gear to beat out other players because the gear is used to make fights like this much easier and faster. Such as: Gods (Sky - Rize of Zilart), Assault, Salvage, Missions (Zilart, Promathia, Treasures of AU, Campaign battle) as well as meriting.
For the longest time no one in the game could beat Absolute Virtue, but SE stepped up and gave the players a video of the them beating the NM successfully. Soon after players were able to take it down a little smoother. Once again we are presented with a new NM that challenges players and HNMLS (high notorious monster Linkshells, not Guilds...) to find a strategy to defeat it.

Meical

this game is def. a joke, i somehow played 40 hours of the game, and it had its good points, but overall just didnt feel right and you are correct, Square-Enix did nothing to really tie this together and to remind people, hey its Final Fantasy, COME PLAY!!

Tough boss battles in MMO's are good if they are done right. You want them to be tough, you want people to die trying, you want there to be a challenge, but this is too much and to me its ridiculous.

Voyou San

But think of it this way... this new idiot boss is like a dangling piece of candy in front of a bunch of cavity ridden children. They know it's a bad idea.. but they HAVE to have it!

Besides, part of that accomplished feeling when beating a FF game is destroying the ultimate bosses, like Ultima Weapon. It's like, you don't have to do it, but it's a tease, and to me at least, an FF game doesn't feel completely done until you do it. Square-Enix is once again failing miserably to remind people that this junk game is still an FF, even if only in name.

Like I said earlier, I'm definitely not a fan of the Square-Enix Final Fantasies, and this is no exception at all. I hated this game.

So my final response? I blame Square-Enix yet again for succeeding in another ridiculous and failed attempt to pretend what they're doing is interesting. Instead, they've just annoyed me more (as if that was even possible) and validated every point I've made about this joke company.

Lisa