Timeline:
00:00 - P2: King Thordan
03:12 - P3: Nidhogg
05:11 - P4: The Eyes
06:45 - Intermission: Rewind!
07:54 - P5: King Thordan II
10:54 - P6: Nidhogg and Hraesvelgr
14:41 - P7: The Dragon King
Log: www.fflogs.com...
A bit of pretext:
This was a static that ran from the 28th of May to the 4th of July, running 3 prog sessions a week, 2 hours per prog session, with the original goal of clearing before the end of Endwalker. By the very end, we had seen p7 a couple times, but we just couldn't get the clear by the original goal time. Some of us decided to try our luck in party finder during the last few days before the server went down; me being among those people. Some of us got the early clears (the two tanks, and a certain static member flaunting their weapon in front of everyone else...)
As for me... on two separate days, on two separate runs that I'd say were on clear pace, I choked in stupid ways on p7: once to premoving too quickly for the last Akh Morn's Edge and eating a tank auto, and another to popping Chain Stratagem at a wrong time, confusing myself, and then not getting heals out in time on the first Akh Morn's Edge and dying to damage.
Both those runs wiped, and thus the servers went down without a clear. Those mistakes will haunt me for a long time, and I don't think I'll ever live it down. :(
Back to the static... we all decide to keep running the fight for a bit longer into Dawntrail regardless: after all, we're all close to clearing anyways. And on the final possible run on the Thursday night, we cleared.
As for the fight itself, my p6 could use some cleanup, and my p7 was especially dodgy (as in holy shit I narrowly escaped death multiple times and my healing was also fairly scuffed), but... we cleared.
And I guess that's all that matters.
...I'm still mad at myself for choking those parties in Endwalker.
but at least we cleared, im free, aaaaaaaaaaaaaa
7 сен 2024