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Crazy messy for Bismarck lol

Toni here to report that i never did find that jumping spider 🕷

1:48 what is the arrow pointing to?

neatt

this is not m2s

it's an extreme who cares

Congrats , happy for you and your hard work you put in. Gold to grey a clear.

This was super helpful - thank you!

This guy showing Square that he's using mods... Smart

I feel like I'm back in school listening to teacher explain math formula [: Thanks!

Thank you for posting this i've been looking for a recent tank PoV of this fight. Smooth playing :)

Very nicely done! As a "blue" parser would love to know what you prioritized on gear. I'm basically CR/DET focused and very little DH, and wonder if that's my problem... plus I can't hit 9 GCD in darn No Mercy window.. (2.40 GCD time). Have 710weop/acc and one raid 710 chest, but maxing around 14.7k (on dummy.)

Damn nice friend!

Pink = gay

aren't addons against ToS ?

just curious, how do you move your character if you have WASD on your hotbar? lol

Helpful video! But maybe next time mute ff so we don't hear the ping spam 😅

can have wondrous tails prep with 2 line for more tomestones as long as it not 2 week old

this raid tier is so fun

That slide to your death though~

The thing that got me the last two tiers was the burnout. I'm pretty casual when it comes to raiding. My group gets burned out on the first three fights while we are working on the last one. It would be great if Yoshi-P decided to lift the reclear requirement on the odd number patches. Being able to do the raid at a reasonable pace for me helps with the anxiety.

My worries always come from what I feel is my skill level. Just Don't think I'm good enough at normal content to jump in, plus I still have some difficulty seeing all the info on my screen that I need. Despite that, I just got myself into my FC's static, told them my worries and we're gonna jump in and give it a shot this coming tier! Very excited

yall recommend PF or finding static that only does weekends? I have limited play hours.

tbh it wasn't awful back then. Obviously it was worse than old Holmgang back when it was on a 3min recast timer but LD was created back when healers still reguarly used GCD heals and this was true even through stormblood. And healing potency just hasn't kept up with player HP counts as the expansions went by; in other words you needed more and more resources to heal a DRK to full as time went on. Back in SB you just needed a SCH excogitation and AST Essential Dignity and if either of them crit then the DRK was pretty much at full HP. But in ShB and especially in EW before the rework, you just had to sink so many cooldowns or GCDs into the DRK to get them up to full health. Also in 6.0 WHM was really REALLY bad so there were less WHMs around to benediction the DRK, and all of that just came to a head in 6.1 when they finally changed it.

LETS GOO FANA

xD

Back then and even now on my alt i did Novice Hall for the gear it gives and the xp bonus ring, but sadly thats the only reason, the actual info there is lowkey even bad sometimes, like singlepulling tanks or healers that pop up hp of teammates rather than DPS

FFXI was a whole other ballgame, my dude. And yeah, literally half of the HNMLS bailed on XI for 1.0....ans it didn't take long before they all came back. I started ARR in the PS3 beta, and I made two chars, because my XI friends split between two legacy servers. Being able to solo level thm/blm so easily was a gift after XI leveling.

We were also fighting against the pre-QoL changes. We had accuracy and stamina. Enmity was far more chaotic without proper planning. And for the first raid tier, I vividly remember food disappeared after each death. Not to mention our spells and skill did not reset upon death. Also, don't forget, AION turned F2P right around ARR beta. There were quite of few exAION players present at beta.

The proper response to "it was harder back in the day" is "Sucks to be you, then."

Maybe in another 10 years, But currently the only real reason for a classic server would to be for 1.0.

you can play min ilvl, no echo. or synced down. go do ultimates.

ffxiv arr is really nastolgic for me, but it honestly was super clunky and would just feel like a massive waste of time lmao

No just no lol

Older player here. No - things weren't more difficult. More convoluted and over redundant. Secondly - I feel like the game has always been somewhat evergreen in terms of content. Gear scaling makes things much easier is all but you can fix that with the ilvl settings or changing your gear.

I personally went back and ran old extremes on MINE synced with some of my FC mates. not related necessarily, but do you not worry about being banned for showing using mods/addons in your videos with your player name displayed?

I don't feel there is any reason to have classic in FF14. I feel that FF14 does a really great job at having you experience each expansion fairly completely regardless of what expansion is out. Yes there is some gear farming and things like that which you miss, and yes the raids are easier when you have higher item leveled people but overall I feel it's very close or at least it's still fulfilling experience.

Nice seeing ur videos on my home page. good content. I remember you from a p12s reclear before echo haha

I know you probably don’t understand why a3s was hard back then but the gear check was extreme to the point where statics disband. It literally took months for people to clear a4s let only a3s.

You saying you "dont care about the potency change" doesn't make any sense. It literally broke the game turning some dungeons into a utter cake walk even close to solo-able. Try playing Bard and Machinist when they were "casters", or the fact YoshiP's team apologized for over-tuning the fights. It is easier, BUT you still need to do the mechanics as intended its just you have much much more room for error. Oh and then TP...that mess of a DPS loss.

You're not entirely wrong, many people who did them when they were current think that T7S was more difficult than Gordias but many of those people also outgear'd their way through A3S and nisi cheesed A4S as well. You're comparing 4 second coil savage fights that are all tuned to be more difficult than turn 9 at the time. Also they giga-nerfed A3S in patch 3.21 so A3S MINE isn't what people actually went through even if you handwave away job changes. As you know Second Coil Normal was the equivalent of today's savage fights and second coil savage was the equivalent of modern-day ultimates so it's not really a fair comparison when savage SCoB fights can only really be compared to A4S in terms of tuning. Just for comparison T9Normal took 16 days to clear, second savage took 30ish days, and Gordias also took 30ish days. You also have to understand that final coil brought tons of people into raiding because it wasn't tuned that difficult and was killed in like 5 days, so many people got into raiding only to experience the biggest rugpull in xiv history with insane difficult job design on top of gordias mechanics. But hopefully you get the idea that nobody expected or wanted a savage tier to take as long as savage second coils, essentially 4-mini ultimates, to clear. And gear progression was much slower back in those days and you didn't get coffers like you do now, so you could have a BLM that doesn't get any raid drops for a month straight and they flat out don't have the HP to survive a Nisi pass+AoE overlap unless they do truly degenerate things like drink a Vitality Pot to live through the damage. There was almost no raid mitigation buttons like there are now; nowadays you can just press phys ranged buttons and tank through the AoE+Nisi ticks after killing all 4 legs but back in the day that was not an option and the non-tank player that had nisi during that AOE was just dead meat without boles (bole used to be a shield card that ASTs had. Also, AST was a shitty job until around 2.3 so that's not an option), vit pots, or stoneskins (single target WHM gcd shield). Go youtube Klops and his A4S commentary if you want an idea of how the game used to be, he was part of the world first group and one of the only groups that did Nisis legit on-patch. Honestly it's kinda funny to re-watch those videos nowadays when almost everyone heralds SB as the best period for raiding in the game nowadays, meanwhile all of those world prog raiders from the ARR/HW days, 5 years ago when that video was released, were shitting on Stormblood outside of UCoB.

As someone who's been doing savage raiding since gordias, it's both "people were worse in general" and "the raids were unreasonably tuned", which combined with how fight/class design didn't have the "full uptime" mantra as much as raid design does nowadays, got kinda bad sometimes. It's worth mentioning that A3S is one of the few savage fights in the game that's actually been nerfed after being current, because where other fights were easy enough to go back to with OP gear and clear easily, A3S was still really obnoxious (even with just midas gear, it was very easy to get a group of buds together to stomp A4S for the mount because it was real easy to teach, A3S was still a pain though). A4S was tuned to higher numbers, but honestly it was much easier mechanically than A3S originally was. WRT machinist being harder back then, I think the main thing was that their DPS stance required them to stand still to cast (same as BRD), which made certain mechanics that are laughable now much more annoying back then (for example, the tiny AoEs that show up on 4th leg of A4S when you're killing dolls + trying to feed), because HW era was a lot more limited in regards to ranged movement options. I can't really say anything WRT 2nd coils though because while I did do them in HW, I didn't do them back when they were current. edit: Also, I know you don't like "potency creep" as a response because it doesn't really change mechanics, but potency creep has actually affected how these encounters play out. Because they're not just HP sponges like nowadays and had actual DPS check phases (hand of pain+healer hand in a3s, dolls in a4s), there was more consideration needed about which cooldowns you would save for certain DPS checks, what your group could afford, how that would affect group alignment for group buffs on the main boss+your rotation, etc. But nowadays this doesn't really exist, because you can just stick to your standard 2min rotation regardless + burn the things down anyway, which reduces some of the necessary braincells.

Unless you played the game when TP was around, and other very restrictive mechanics, playing the older fights doesn't mean anything since you cannot experience them like they were intended.

arr was when ffxiv actually felt like a mmorpg. the game has jsut been copy pasted formula for like 10 years now. Also im not talking about story... fucxk that shit. Im talking it still had remnants of 1.0. Jobs were distinct... Hunts were new, we got 2 new dungeons and 1 hard mode so 3 dugneons per patch and 2 trails(1 new and 1 extreme). The fates had meaning... like Vendor NPC would be kidnapped and odd 1 off fates could be triggered to rescue that vendor back. Yosheep would of never created shit that cool without the inspiration the devs still had from FFXI.1.0. Like sylph tribes dailys were actually challenging and sometimes you had to rely on people in the zone. Bro i quit in stormblood. thats when i really was like this yosheep is jsut copy and pasting the content and people praise his bitch ass all because of the story and his 1 trick pony success story 10 years later(because nothing new and exciting has happened in current XIV) about how he revived a game. The game hasnt felt like a mmorpg since 2.x... that was the best time to play trust me. maybe 3.x HW comes close or can beat it in ways... The real problem and one that your video addresses more is gating content through main story. FFXI did this so much better.. it had story but made you a no name adventurer like everyone else so it was player driven and storys could be done in a variety of order. Making you and evryone around you the main hero is fuckng lame... and creates a problem but the big one is the game is just too long and centered on story like its a single player jrpg. wtf? ffxi was so much better when it came to being a "mmorpg". wasnt just a single player game thats online

I just did arr for the first time and I didn’t even notice it’s the same thing 3 times in a row

Hey thanks a lot for the guide! I had to slow it down to .75 to understand it though so in the future talking slower would be great! Thanks :)

Omg ? How did you get to have chat bubbles in ur group chat!!?

now its time to go for deathless gotta get the title

is there a way you could scan the CD drama? aparantly the ''Watashi no omoi, Anata ni tokote'' CD drama is nowhere to be found online with full booklet inserts, which im crazyy to see

We are having these types of issues in our semi static raid group for destiny 2. Our Raid Lead does not pick up the slack. He is a fantastic player and very knowledgeable, but the petty shit kills our group. Means people fighting over petty shit. It's his Discord, tho. So I don't know how to go about it. I want our group to stay because I like the people, but if nothing gets done then I am wasting my Time. Don't get me wrong, I did my fair share of Bullshit and not performing, but at some point it's just wasted time...