Typically, it is these fights that test a player’s skills the most. These skills include DPS output, facing the boss away from the party as a tank, healing party members quickly, dodging AOES (Area of Effect), and quickly learning the mechanics.
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Some bosses are way more epic than others. The top-tier fights are the kinds of fights that players wouldn’t mind tackling over and over again. They love the difficulty, the music gets them hyped, and/or the boss, and its attacks are beautifully designed. With all that in mind, here are the ten most epic trial bosses in the MMO, from least best to best.
A warning, there will be spoilers for the game ahead.
10 Hells’ Kier
Suzaku is a boss that is unlocked in the Four Lords’ questline. She is a phoenix but will transform into a humanoid form during the fight with her, and her design is gorgeous! She was in love with Tanzen and yells about that a lot while players fight her, which makes the fight have an emotional weight to it as well.
Her attacks are also pretty, using a flute to summon flames as a humanoid being, and flying around in her phoenix form.
9 The Pool Of Tribute
This level 63 boss is a product of the Stormblood expansion. Like many of the bosses in the game, he is a Primal. His music is fun, and the boss’s personality is one of chivalry. He loves the fight and loves that the player can match up to him.
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If someone plays as a tank, they get one of the most epic fight moments with him. At a certain point, he swings down a giant blade and it is up to the tank’s tiny form to block it from killing them and the rest of the party. The player will feel cool and all the other party members will be jealous.
8 The Singularity Reactor
It is hard not to feel something when one hears the haunting chorus music at the beginning of this fight. Past the beginning, the music turns into what feels like an awesome rock concert, so the soundtrack lends a lot to this fight.
Other than the chorus and rock music though, players are fighting giant armored giants. They come at their opponents in pairs at various moments in the fight and then try to attack the player altogether. The one reason this fight isn’t ranked higher is that many players have mentioned that the fight is too easy.
7 The Royal Menagerie
This is basically the final boss of the Stormblood extension. Shinryu is a giant primal dragon controlled by Zenos and it is up to the player and their party to stop it from destroying the world. It is more a fight with decent difficulty as well. There is a lot of dodging AOES and trying not to fall off a platform.
There is a cool quick-time maneuver where players jump on and ride the dragon while it destroys the platform they were standing on.
6 Eden’s Verse: Refulgence
The players’ characters’ friend, Rhyne, loses control as she summons the Primal Shiva. The design is pretty and keeps changing throughout the fight to resemble the Goddess Hydaelyn more and more.
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One of the best parts is towards the end when Gaia suddenly jumps into the fight to help the player, who has a time limit to stop Rhyne from going all out in a final attack. Her fight is also not the easiest.
5 The Final Steps Of Faith
In this trial, players face the final boss of Heavensward: Nidhogg. He has possessed one of the player characters’ close allies and plans to go to war with humanity.
Like Shinryu, he is not the only epic dragon boss fight in the game. The music is epic in that its solemn. It is a fight that makes the player feel more reflective than scared or hyped.
4 The Dancing Plague
Titania is the prettiest boss of the series. They ruled as King of the Il Mheg before becoming a Light Warden, therefore the boss has a somewhat tragic backstory.
The boss is not only pretty, but they have pretty epic magic. They change the castle around the players into a forest where they have to fight plant-based monsters. The music is also quite unique, and fairy-like.
3 Cinder Drift
The Ruby Weapon is horrifying. The longer one fights it, the more strange and monstrous it reveals itself to be. After the fight, players learn there was a young soldier in there that seemed to have been transformed into a monster by the weapon. So, that is disturbing.
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The music is hard rock with a chorus, giving it the same sort of top-tier epic music as The Singularity Reactor. Unlike The Singularity Reactor though, this is a decently hard fight. All players also need to punch away meteors back into the sky in a similar fashion to tanks with the giant sword in The Pool Of Tribute.
2 The Dying Gasp
Hades is the final boss of Shadowbringers and a favorite character for many players. Most Ascians have pretty forgettable fights, but not Emet-Selch. He is unique, transforms, and attacks the player with dark magic and masks.
The music does a lot for this fight, as its the same music from the Shadowbringers trailer. The build-up to this fight is very cool as well, as the Crystal Exarch summons other players to come to your aid
1 Castrum Fluminis
Castrum Fluminis is a fight that is not considered the most important story-wise. However, between its story, mechanics, and design, it is considered one of the epic boss fights in the whole MMO.
The boss is a primal, Tsukuyomi, who is summoned by Yotsuyu after regaining her memories of being a villain in Stormblood. Her heart is split into two, and that is shown in the primal’s design. She realizes that the primal feeds on her suffering, so she literally summons horrible memories and the players have to defeat the phantoms of those memories. It is an amazing piece of storytelling melded into boss fight mechanics and design. Her music goes from solemn to empowered as she summons the spite to fight the users back.
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