The most amazing thing about the TEA fight is that the lore behind it is that Alexander isn't actually trying to stop you. He's testing you. He literally fights you an infinite number of times, his complete control over time against your Echo's ability to simply do-over indefinitely, until he finally realizes that he cannot actually defeat you in the end, and he deems you worthy and lets you win.
My favorite part is when Metal: Brute Justice Mode starts. Hands down my favorite song in the entire game, especially the Primals' special version of it.
As a RDM it makes me mad. Summoner is way too strong in TEA, and making it so that they also have the advantage of DoTs making it possible to physically do damage for a much longer period of time than non-DoT classes are allowed to just makes it even worse. Fuck SMN.
Just play/practice BLM. Decently potent DOT and rewarding high damage almost all the time. Good balance imo, though play what you want, all is viable in the end
Nope. no matter how hard the individual teams may try, Alexander and Bahamut are almost impossible to screw up in terms of spectacle. Even FF13 wasn't able to do it, and those were hands down the least impressive summons in the series. Oh sure, their individual models were intricately detailed, but their size left much to be desired, plus the exclusion of Ifrit and Titan from the Eidolon line-up was irritating, to say the least(although, their appearances elsewhere in that game did make up for it, especially Titan).
Shame you couldn’t get any tank POVs in this but well done putting all this together. Clutch kill and great job on finishing within top 10 world clears
I looked forward to this video since your upload of the Moebius (Orchestrated) music. Plenty more things I wanted to say since then too, as well as a note at the bottom for those regarding doubt over Moebius as the final music: 1) I still cannot get over how close your victory was simply by Damage-Over-Time. I do not remember any such close calls in any video game I have ever played or watched, let alone unscripted. 2) A small portion of The Primals' remix of Metal (Brute Justice) (i.e. ~3:51) reminds me of Lu Bu's music from the Dynasty Warriors franchise. 3) I can also say that with this video, the sound effects throughout the Perfected Alexander Phase are gorgeous; from his transformation, his attacks to the slowing ticking noise during Temporal Prison. I only wished that the ticking lasted much longer and became more distorted up to the enrage activation to emphasis how little time you literally had left. 4) A special note about the skybox of the Perfected Alexander arena. There is of course the black hole behind normal Alexander, but there is also the white moon-like object behind your party during your victory. Judging by how everything is radiating away from it, I would say that it is actually a 'white hole' - the hypothetical counterpart of black holes where everything is being radiated away from the body. Considering this would be presumably be connected to a black hole to form a wormhole, I would imagine that it is connected to the aforementioned black hole in the arena - producing a cycle befitting somebody like Alexander. Finally, for those who are confused or frustrated on why Moebius plays instead of Rise during Alexander Perfected, allow me to explain why this might be the case. First of all, this is not the first time that music from the Eorzean Symphony played at the very final boss of ultimate - an orchestrated version of Ultima plays at the last phase of the Weapon's Refrain ultimate (the Bahamut trail only stands out possibly because it is the very first ultimate trial included in the game). Considering that another Eorzean Symphony performance had concluded this year, I will imagine that this will apply for future ultimate trails, with new much to match. Then there is the nature of Moebius and Rise in terms of their theme and circumstances. Though Rise does play at Alexander Prime's phase 2, the lyrics however refer to the Illuminati (or at this case, the 'Blue Hand' in the lyrics) and is essentially about them and how they will use Alexander to complete their goals - not really befitting Alexander's real nature. On the other hand, Moebius does fit, since this concerns Alexander himself and his deity-like nature. That, and it contains elements from 'Locus', which is something of an Alexander leitmotif as well. Finally, this version of Moebius has an inspirational tone - as if egging on the Warrior of Light to defeat this Iron Colossus once and for all. Anyway, forgive this long rambling comment. Congratulations on the clear, and thank you for this non-commentary for the 'Epic of Alexander' upload. And I will look forward to uploads like these in the future.
@@georgewashington7982 Epic of Alex syncs you down to 475, that's why the gear is better than 500 since you get meld slots (combine good stats from 470/475 for best results potentially)
How poetic that an enrage called "Temporal Prison" is cleared AFTER the fact by damage classified as "Damage Over Time". Seeing as this was an enrage mechanic that deliberately lets him take damage after it ends, I do wonder if that was intentional
Im sure it was, same reason ultima’s dots still tick even after he kills the last person for a few seconds, they want to allow for clutch clears like that
That ending reminds me of that time myself and some randoms beat Odin while he performed his Enrage. Not charging, PREFORMED. The symbol appeared, it cut in half and JUUUUST before damage could be calculated he died. It was by far the most butthole clenching moment I've had playing this
I really want to do this fight, but from what I have seen a wipe at any point means starting right back at living liquid and getting to Alexander prime and going back to that would crush any kind of motivation I would have.
All of the ultimates definitely have a pretty big learning curve. The greatest motivation is to enjoy the journey however, to beat all the mechanics and getting consistent enough at them to reach the last phase and then finally getting the clear after the hard work feels twice as good.
Illythria no Mae the black cat is called Shanoa. She’s important to the Alexander story line, was in one of the Alexander Midas raid encounters and is tied into ultimate for the Inception Formation mechanic with the true heart that turns gold
@@YUXKE Its also been called Schroedinger, I finished Alexander raids XD Was mostly saying it like that for comedic effect, but thanks for trying to be helpful! :)
correct, however note that anything longer than 15mins already means you only get 4 full attempts an hour to clear and that time quickly adds up over time. In terms of current mmo fight lengths the ultimates are pretty high up there
@@SgtChrisCross Considering that (I think) he likes to do events chronologically, it will take a lot of time untill it comes to this. But even when it comes, it will be a question if he'l try to blindrun this or not. This one isnt fun.
i know this video is already 4 years old and the chances are low to get an answer but @4:26 citrona ceres dps meter wich one is that? it looks so clean and i'd love to have that too
Anything within the game is a joke compared to the ultimate fights. Even if you compare titan maximum savage to an old ultimate fight like Bahamut Ultimate.
wow, whoever edited this together should be ashamed. random PoV switches for no reason that just look jarring? not putting the PoV of tanks or heers during t/h focused mechanics? yeah sure was great seeing the Paladin die and the camera was just facing the floor the whoke time. these camera angles make Blair Witch Project look like a marvel movie.
Here's the thing: The Epic of Alexander *is 100% optional.* You're not required to beat it for anything in the game. It does give a rare title and an item you can exchange for one of the weapons, but that's about it. Basically bragging rights.
@@lazernor Trust me when I say that the game will be much, much, *much* more simple when you actually play it. The sweaty gamer interface here is the World of Warcraft level of nonsense (not to mention an addon of I see it right), but the only people who use it are the ones that specifically do raids like these. I'd say try out the free trial, but it has been... temporary suspended beacuse the colossal player numbers ._.
@@tibik.8407 and to add on to that: if it's all the combat effects covering everything and making it hard to see at times, those can all be turned down/off entirely
Alexander: I am the perfect lord of time!
Poison damage: I'm about to ruin this primal's whole career.
Summoner dragoon and white mage dots
Imagine.
The primal of time.
Defeated by damage over TIME.
The most amazing thing about the TEA fight is that the lore behind it is that Alexander isn't actually trying to stop you. He's testing you. He literally fights you an infinite number of times, his complete control over time against your Echo's ability to simply do-over indefinitely, until he finally realizes that he cannot actually defeat you in the end, and he deems you worthy and lets you win.
How do you know he is aware he is doing that?
@@shawnscouten5184he's literally the god of time
@@shawnscouten5184stasis mechanic proves that theory.
FINALLY a video that prominently features the soundtrack!! I love the remix of Rise so much!
My favorite part is when Metal: Brute Justice Mode starts. Hands down my favorite song in the entire game, especially the Primals' special version of it.
Every other raider: I need at least 3 full bars, probably even 4.
Rai Geki: haha funy 2 bar
As a SMN player, seeing those dots being the last thing that kills it was intense to see
As a RDM it makes me mad. Summoner is way too strong in TEA, and making it so that they also have the advantage of DoTs making it possible to physically do damage for a much longer period of time than non-DoT classes are allowed to just makes it even worse. Fuck SMN.
@@Princessk8 lol RDM Player
Just play/practice BLM. Decently potent DOT and rewarding high damage almost all the time. Good balance imo, though play what you want, all is viable in the end
_rip in peace DOTs_
@@BlazeLibra Glory to actually invoking primals!
I guess damage really is over time huh?
You did NOT just.......
YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
There are at least three layers to this joke, and I love it.
No matter the Final Fantasy, Alexander and Bahamut never disapoint
Nope. no matter how hard the individual teams may try, Alexander and Bahamut are almost impossible to screw up in terms of spectacle. Even FF13 wasn't able to do it, and those were hands down the least impressive summons in the series. Oh sure, their individual models were intricately detailed, but their size left much to be desired, plus the exclusion of Ifrit and Titan from the Eidolon line-up was irritating, to say the least(although, their appearances elsewhere in that game did make up for it, especially Titan).
@@thehighwayman3122
If there was a titan eidolon in ffxiii, it would be probably something close to eden titan.
@@NuclearRaven13 Titan in XIII is the fuck-off-giant Fal'Cie in Pulse that recycles the wildlife. So they got at least that one right
Shame you couldn’t get any tank POVs in this but well done putting all this together. Clutch kill and great job on finishing within top 10 world clears
The dot clutch tho. Lol
Blassty: Eternal Darkness
Alexander: Divine Judgement
Brute Justice: SPIIIIIINNNNNN
Was hoping to see this after the Ultima multi pov one. Thanks a lot!
Alexander: "Activating temporal prison..."
Players: "Take all the time you like, because OMAE WA MOU, SHINDEIRU."
I looked forward to this video since your upload of the Moebius (Orchestrated) music. Plenty more things I wanted to say since then too, as well as a note at the bottom for those regarding doubt over Moebius as the final music:
1) I still cannot get over how close your victory was simply by Damage-Over-Time. I do not remember any such close calls in any video game I have ever played or watched, let alone unscripted.
2) A small portion of The Primals' remix of Metal (Brute Justice) (i.e. ~3:51) reminds me of Lu Bu's music from the Dynasty Warriors franchise.
3) I can also say that with this video, the sound effects throughout the Perfected Alexander Phase are gorgeous; from his transformation, his attacks to the slowing ticking noise during Temporal Prison. I only wished that the ticking lasted much longer and became more distorted up to the enrage activation to emphasis how little time you literally had left.
4) A special note about the skybox of the Perfected Alexander arena. There is of course the black hole behind normal Alexander, but there is also the white moon-like object behind your party during your victory. Judging by how everything is radiating away from it, I would say that it is actually a 'white hole' - the hypothetical counterpart of black holes where everything is being radiated away from the body. Considering this would be presumably be connected to a black hole to form a wormhole, I would imagine that it is connected to the aforementioned black hole in the arena - producing a cycle befitting somebody like Alexander.
Finally, for those who are confused or frustrated on why Moebius plays instead of Rise during Alexander Perfected, allow me to explain why this might be the case. First of all, this is not the first time that music from the Eorzean Symphony played at the very final boss of ultimate - an orchestrated version of Ultima plays at the last phase of the Weapon's Refrain ultimate (the Bahamut trail only stands out possibly because it is the very first ultimate trial included in the game). Considering that another Eorzean Symphony performance had concluded this year, I will imagine that this will apply for future ultimate trails, with new much to match. Then there is the nature of Moebius and Rise in terms of their theme and circumstances. Though Rise does play at Alexander Prime's phase 2, the lyrics however refer to the Illuminati (or at this case, the 'Blue Hand' in the lyrics) and is essentially about them and how they will use Alexander to complete their goals - not really befitting Alexander's real nature. On the other hand, Moebius does fit, since this concerns Alexander himself and his deity-like nature. That, and it contains elements from 'Locus', which is something of an Alexander leitmotif as well. Finally, this version of Moebius has an inspirational tone - as if egging on the Warrior of Light to defeat this Iron Colossus once and for all.
Anyway, forgive this long rambling comment. Congratulations on the clear, and thank you for this non-commentary for the 'Epic of Alexander' upload. And I will look forward to uploads like these in the future.
Love the concept of Moebius egging on the Warrior of Light, since we learn during the normal raid series that Alexander orchestrated his own defeat.
Love your multi PoV videos. Been watching your savage and ultimate. Good job!! Keep it up :)
God damn. That’s the craziest dps check mechanic I’ve seen lol. Time to get geared up I guess
You can make it a little bit easier now by using the heroes gauntlet dungeon gear, as you get to keep melds up to i475
Dworim I mean I’m 486, but still wanna get 500
@@georgewashington7982 Epic of Alex syncs you down to 475, that's why the gear is better than 500 since you get meld slots (combine good stats from 470/475 for best results potentially)
Dworim ohh that makes sense! Ty
Dworim guess I’ll farm idealized gear cus you get like 5 slots per item haha
What an elegant whm hotbar.
I like the ending.. I was ready to be a grumpy bastard XD.
How poetic that an enrage called "Temporal Prison" is cleared AFTER the fact by damage classified as "Damage Over Time".
Seeing as this was an enrage mechanic that deliberately lets him take damage after it ends, I do wonder if that was intentional
Im sure it was, same reason ultima’s dots still tick even after he kills the last person for a few seconds, they want to allow for clutch clears like that
I love your 3 Ultimate videos
Hope for a new upload after the new Ultimate :D
That ending reminds me of that time myself and some randoms beat Odin while he performed his Enrage. Not charging, PREFORMED. The symbol appeared, it cut in half and JUUUUST before damage could be calculated he died. It was by far the most butthole clenching moment I've had playing this
I just want to take a moment to appreciate there's a DPS player named Tunnel Visionary and a WHM named Rai Geki. I see what you did there!
I love the entirety of it all. It's just bad for newbies like me that I don't know all of the classes of the team. Still, an excelent work guys
Sees 3 bosses
Me: Oh 3 bosses this is gonna be hard
Sees perfect alexander
Me: OH GAWD HE'S HUUUUUGE AND AWESOME
How the music kicks up for final stand is so epic
I'm curious how the arrows work. Congratulations! The BJ colours too. Always cheesed that back in the day.
I really want to do this fight, but from what I have seen a wipe at any point means starting right back at living liquid and getting to Alexander prime and going back to that would crush any kind of motivation I would have.
All of the ultimates definitely have a pretty big learning curve. The greatest motivation is to enjoy the journey however, to beat all the mechanics and getting consistent enough at them to reach the last phase and then finally getting the clear after the hard work feels twice as good.
@@Dworim I'm so slow when it comes to learning savage mechanics so idk how long itll take me to learn this fight
@@rinnnnnnnnnnrinRinOnishi if you work for it and have fun, you can do it!
I was really yelling at the end for him to go for the Ruin IV instead of the Ruin III 😭 I was about to be so mad
two things, I will likely never complete this fight, and two his final form has butt wings!
I will do all in my power to complete this fight. I want that Scholar book.
@@thehighwayman3122 I honestly dont know what I want from this fight yet cause my God everything looks so good
nothing short of amazing
You vs. The Father, The Son ... and The Holy Spirit. :P
God of time bested by Time itself?
just like fire with fire, it's time with time xD
Wow tunnel visionary has a horrendous ui
god...just watching this video gave me heart throbbing...i don't wanna know how hard he was xD
this is considered end game for many players. and yes.
he is *brutal.*
The summoners revive hotbar is really smart
That was amazing.
holy shit that was clutch
Did...did you guys edit it on purpose so that when Claire is onscreen, the quick cooldowns roll on beat to Locus in the first phase?
That is the most incredible kill I have ever seen in any raid, did that really happen? lol
Good job!!!
Anyone notice the black coerl at the Alexander stage? Before perfect Alexander
Illythria no Mae the black cat is called Shanoa. She’s important to the Alexander story line, was in one of the Alexander Midas raid encounters and is tied into ultimate for the Inception Formation mechanic with the true heart that turns gold
@@YUXKE Its also been called Schroedinger, I finished Alexander raids XD
Was mostly saying it like that for comedic effect, but thanks for trying to be helpful! :)
Timestamp?
Wait a damn second, does the entirety of TEA fight done with no wipes from beginning to end take only less than 20 minutes?
correct, however note that anything longer than 15mins already means you only get 4 full attempts an hour to clear and that time quickly adds up over time. In terms of current mmo fight lengths the ultimates are pretty high up there
(without Kirrana) except he's piloting Elithe
ok, now do it with blue mage only party
What are Claire PC specs her/his PoV extra crisp and clean
Hey, they are: CPU i7-8700K, GPU GTX 1070 Ti, 16 GB RAM, and for recording, Nvidia Shadowplay 50Mbps bitrate and 60FPS!
@@Dworim thanks for the response and grats on the clear
Wow, intense
Can't wait to see asmon raid this.
ok
@@i5m5bob ok
@@SgtChrisCross Considering that (I think) he likes to do events chronologically, it will take a lot of time untill it comes to this. But even when it comes, it will be a question if he'l try to blindrun this or not. This one isnt fun.
Asmongold is NEVER doing this context because he doesn't have the skill to do it.
What does your Parse need to be for this?
i know this video is already 4 years old and the chances are low to get an answer but @4:26 citrona ceres dps meter wich one is that? it looks so clean and i'd love to have that too
hey, it's a modified Rainbowmage overlay, the plugin targets a miniparse file that you can edit with html to change what it shows
@@Dworim alright HUGE thanks,gonna look for that c:
このゲーム面白そう！
I'm late to the party but aren't DPS meters/logs bannable?
Generally just using it is fine, if someone uses parsers as tools for harassment it becomes bannable.
@@Dworim got it. Thanks!
They're technically against the TOS, but they unofficially tolerate them as long as they're not used as justification for harassing other players
Wow
Edit: WOWWWWWW HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THAT BOY
th-cam.com/video/1DTxwE8LCAo/w-d-xo.html Great play! White mage refresh his dot at the last second.
Titan is a joke compare to this.....
Anything within the game is a joke compared to the ultimate fights. Even if you compare titan maximum savage to an old ultimate fight like Bahamut Ultimate.
Wait how can you keep track of the dps like that in 13:26 ??
don't tell daddy yoshi but it's a funny lil' thing called a parse and a funny lil' app called ACT
@@lyxivia Yea at this point i already know i was completly new when i wrote that comment.
@@Remu102 xD, have you tried progging TEA?
@@lyxivia yea indeed, at wormhole currently and dsr on p7 xD uwu ucob cleared so came a long way from this comment until today haha
@@Remu102 :DDD i've only done UWU and UCoB, phase 2 of TEA but don't have time to play anymore :p
DSR looks really fun! also crazy intense !
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wow, whoever edited this together should be ashamed. random PoV switches for no reason that just look jarring? not putting the PoV of tanks or heers during t/h focused mechanics? yeah sure was great seeing the Paladin die and the camera was just facing the floor the whoke time. these camera angles make Blair Witch Project look like a marvel movie.
I don't play this game.
...and judging by how incomprehensible it all is, I don't see that changing.
Here's the thing: The Epic of Alexander *is 100% optional.* You're not required to beat it for anything in the game. It does give a rare title and an item you can exchange for one of the weapons, but that's about it. Basically bragging rights.
@@ReesesBees That does not begin to address the problems I have with the game.
@@lazernor Trust me when I say that the game will be much, much, *much* more simple when you actually play it. The sweaty gamer interface here is the World of Warcraft level of nonsense (not to mention an addon of I see it right), but the only people who use it are the ones that specifically do raids like these. I'd say try out the free trial, but it has been... temporary suspended beacuse the colossal player numbers ._.
@@tibik.8407 and to add on to that: if it's all the combat effects covering everything and making it hard to see at times, those can all be turned down/off entirely
@@lazernor what exactly are your problems that you have with the game perhaps people van address them properly?