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Yea that was a mix of me laughing / crying at the end :D. I didn't think we were going to meet the DPS check so I was pleasantly surprised!

Hey, congratulations yourself for clearing AMR Savage and getting Epic Hero! That's awesome! I'm glad you managed to find a 4th and that my uploads helped you figure things out :D. As for the different tanking plan here, I actually reused my old plan from 2022, when I cleared ASS normal for the first time. I did want to do savage but never got back to it until now. Anyhow, when I finally did get back to it, we just agreed to stick with the same thing while de-rusting. It was still working so no need to make a change!

The color saturation is an HDR issue unfortunately :(. I don't use reshade.

Yes, that concern is understandable. With Cactbot, one could put the robot speech on a separate audio track and then completely remove that track during editing; or in a streamer's case, simply exclude that audio track from the broadcast or recording. The technique is commonly used to prevent copyrighted audio (i.e. music) from being uploaded to TH-cam. That being said, I don't use Cactbot; I don't have it installed and never have and never will. Funnily enough, if someone accuses me of it, I would take it as a compliment! In the end though, I have nothing to gain from using Cactbot but pretending that I don't use it. I have no interest in getting fame or clout, and this channel will never be monetized so there's no financial benefit to be had either. My uploads are primarily to save memories and share with friends or whoever else out there might be interested :).

I'm glad the PoV helped. Aether PF is definitely different than how it's done on Light or was done on Primal back when Primal was alive

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Sure - it's been a minute since this pull but I was definitely using the ShB relic weapon, with stats set up for UWU, i.e. maximum allowed Crit / Det / Ten and with leftover points in skill speed for some free haste. Though honestly, this only amounts to about 1% more damage at best so we'd be looking at a DPS increase of less than 25. I wouldn't worry about this too much. Anyhow, on the opener, I modified it to 1-2 FoF etc. for two reasons. The first is at level 70, we don't have Atonement, so for the ~8 GCD's we get in the FoF window, we want to guarantee that we hit 5 Holy Spirits (4 from Req, 1 from Divine Might), 1 Goring Blade, and 1 Royal Authority. The remaining two hits are combo filler, so I deemed it better value get the Royal Authority up front rather than risk losing it by pushing to the end of the FoF window. Second reason is so I can use Spirits Within 1 GCD sooner. If you look carefully, this gives me a chance to use Spirits Within again on the Spiny Plume. I've had odd pulls where everyone holds back a little too much and this plume doesn't die at a comfortable time. The modified opener gives me a chance to nuke it right after its second tankbuster hit in case I still need it dead in the correct spot. Candidly though, I wouldn't worry too much about parse because nowadays we have to play sub-optimally on purpose. You'll notice I only potted twice on this kill, but if you think about it, for a 14 minute fight, we could theoretically pot 4 times: Garuda Opener, once on Titan, and twice on Ultima. But we don't! Because potting on the Garuda means you risk killing the Spiny Plume too quickly and griefing the party. As always, it's more important to do what's best to get the clear and as you do more ultimate prog, you'll discover it's often better for others to draw out phase kill times on purpose to give space for others to build resources and have their cooldowns ready for the next phase. These are the kinds of things you learn as you go and the more you dig into ultimate parses, the more you'll discover that people's top performances usually came with significant assistance from their party, i.e. others holding back their damage so that others can do more. I'd say, for your parse, as long as you're hitting your FoF as much as possible, and getting your Goring Blade, Royal Authority, and 4-6 Holy Spirits in every one of them, you're doing very well, honestly better than the vast majority of PLD's out there. Stay focused on that and you'll pound out lots of respectable performances over time. Also, though, about those shield lobs, it can't hurt to learn melee uptime for Titan landslides :) .

I see, thanks for the info.

@@IronCurry I forgot to ask 1 more question, does the dps on garuda adds count towards the parse?

@@vanja2338 yes, it counts, honestly another reason why they are so many garuda wipes in pf (:

That's awesome! I'm glad this vid was able to help you :)

Awesome, I'm glad my PoV is helpful! Best of luck with prog!

hi Tiger what's up 🙂