I've got one rattling around in my head - and given how we know from DSR that dungeon bosses getting included are fair game, and from UMAD that stuff that's outside the former regular cadence is also fair game...if you were to design an Ultimate, what would you want it to be?
I've got one that I think could be fun. The Empire's Dirge (Ultimate).
Start with a fight with the Empire's Finest - Regula, Gaius, Nael, and Zenos all at once. Have some Ark Angels type mechanics with these four. I'm aware that human-sized enemies in 8 person content is generally not a thing they do anymore, but I feel like if it's four of them, it's fine.
For phase 2, Emperor Varis takes the field personally, possibly using the legati under his command for trio-type mechanics. This leads into Zenos killing him and Anima being summoned from the loyalty to the Empire. Zenos then departs the fight. This, I think, would be the mid-fight cutscene, as we never actually SAW Anima get summoned from Varis's body, so getting to see it would be a nice dramatic thing.
Phases 3, 4, and 5 are Sapphire, Ruby, and Emerald Weapon, in that order. The scaled up versions of the three legati from phase 1, and at the end, each calls out to the Emperor for salvation - and is consumed by Anima, the manifest symbol of the Empire. A ravenous, mindless beast that in the end, consumes even its own children. Do a fun thing here with the fundamental nature of the Empire, in the end.
The final phase, of course, is Anima, gorged on the simulacrum-soul Weapons and the primal power they had absorbed and given a new model befitting its place as the final boss of the Ultimate. I think this thing deserved to be a trial boss and am legitimately sad it wasn't - so this is, in part, a way to give Anima a proper 8-person boss fight.
Have I cooked, as the kids say?
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I've got one that I think could be fun. The Empire's Dirge (Ultimate).
Start with a fight with the Empire's Finest - Regula, Gaius, Nael, and Zenos all at once. Have some Ark Angels type mechanics with these four. I'm aware that human-sized enemies in 8 person content is generally not a thing they do anymore, but I feel like if it's four of them, it's fine.
For phase 2, Emperor Varis takes the field personally, possibly using the legati under his command for trio-type mechanics. This leads into Zenos killing him and Anima being summoned from the loyalty to the Empire. Zenos then departs the fight. This, I think, would be the mid-fight cutscene, as we never actually SAW Anima get summoned from Varis's body, so getting to see it would be a nice dramatic thing.
Phases 3, 4, and 5 are Sapphire, Ruby, and Emerald Weapon, in that order. The scaled up versions of the three legati from phase 1, and at the end, each calls out to the Emperor for salvation - and is consumed by Anima, the manifest symbol of the Empire. A ravenous, mindless beast that in the end, consumes even its own children. Do a fun thing here with the fundamental nature of the Empire, in the end.
The final phase, of course, is Anima, gorged on the simulacrum-soul Weapons and the primal power they had absorbed and given a new model befitting its place as the final boss of the Ultimate. I think this thing deserved to be a trial boss and am legitimately sad it wasn't - so this is, in part, a way to give Anima a proper 8-person boss fight.
Have I cooked, as the kids say?
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