FFXIV: Just do that harder content 

This is your obligatory Mahjong joke when talking about the harder content in FFXIV.

Thanks for this video. I don't consider myself a skilled player, or even good at remembering or reading mechanics, but thanks to inspiration from content creators like you, I was able to clear my first ultimate, The Weapon's Refrain, with 4-5 months of progression and help from the community, as a relatively new player who started in the summer of last year, and with zero savage experience apart from unsyncing the necessary raids. (Special thanks to the Ulti Project, and Sausage Roll especially, they're a great group that can provide support and resources even in the early stages of prog). Ultimate is a hell of a challenge, but one of the only things keeping people from clearing, from my perspective, is the determination and willpower to keep going, even when it feels like you're hitting a wall. I ran into this especially after the static I was part of broke up due to scheduling issues, and was forced to jump back into the final phase in a Party Finder scenario. Even then, all it took was determination to become solid on the final mechanics and along with some help from the Ulti project, and after that, finding a good reclear party (due to an unfortunate incident regarding a full inventory) to achieve this dream that I had been practically mainlining the story to get to. I firmly believe that if someone like me, who isn't very skilled or experienced with the game at all, can clear an ultimate, anyone can with the right mindset.

The problem is actually having fun with it. When you have a mixed group of people who have or haven't cleared, half the people aren't having fun because they aren't getting to where they want in the fight, half aren't having fun because they're getting flamed for trying to learn. Ultimate pf is just rough sometimes. I have fun playing the game tbh, so I'll power through. Luckily, there are discords for this stuff. Makes it easier to find good people, even if you aren't a full static, and only group up for pf every now and again.

It is time commitment content, the luxury thing I don't have. That why I play only EX, at most one week of 1-2 hours play a night is what I can afford.

And this is why I subbed to this channel. Thanks. I needed to hear this. It's been a disheartening year for myriad reasons, but this helped.

I used to be a super confident, lead the pack kind of guy but events over the years wore my confidence level down and made me withdraw and stop pushing myself. This game as well as videos from Wesk and a couple others have helped me get back in the swing of challenging and pushing myself and it has bled into other aspects of my life with my confidence rebuilding in all areas. While it may sound foolish to some to take life lessons from a video game or any other form of entertainment, I say only a fool ignores wisdom and learning no matter what form it takes. Im still a new player and am only in 5.4 but i genuinely look forward to challenging myself in the hardest content. Thank you for what you do Wesk. Believe it or not, you make a difference in people's games, but also sometimes our lives too ❤

W vid as usual. I finished Endwalker around 6 months ago and set my sights on TOP being my first ultimate. I found a static that i was comfortable with and we did our first pull. I hadn't been properly prepared tbh because those tankbusters hurt and if I messed up my mid I got clapped. But having people there that just wanna improve without being mean or not getting booted for failing mechs we did previously helped tons. I've since cleared all the ults on Drk and i'm learning SGE and AST to take those in next. TLDR: Take a chance and you'll be surprised how far you can go. Just remember to leave your ego at the door and don't get upset at dying tons because it happens.

I started FFXIV 7 months ago, 2 months after starting playing I tried doing my first ultimate. Obviously being a sprout i knew right away nobody would like me or even consider me for a static so I simply queued in PF and picked up a guide in youtube while i was waiting. I cleared in 2 weeks. Then I did Ucob, then TEA. Finally I ran out of things to do so only then I finished MSQ to unlock DSR. People said I should do all savage before touching DSR or I wouldnt make it. That was a lie as well. Cleared in just under a month. Then I decided to go for the big one, TOP. People said either parse purple in savage or dont do it. I dont even have anything installed to record logs lmao. Tempered by the fires of Ult progging in PF i cleared that as well. Turns out someone uploaded that log and i did ok with green for a first clear. Moral of the story, dont ever let people dicate you what you can do or when you should do it. If you see something you like, jump into it and do it, you dont need permission from anybody to do what you like. Just persist and work for it and it can be done.

I haven't been playing for a long time and always thought that I was trash at the game, extreme and savage was for God players and I would never achieve something like that. But, the friend that got me into the game urge me to play savage so I gave it a try. To go from "this will never be for me" to "I just cleared P9S" was extremely fullfiling. Is a great experience that maybe only fighting games have managed to replicate. Of course none of that would be possible without the beautiful people that make guides, your channel included. I have taken your advice at heart and I believe I'm a better player because of it. Keep up the good work.

I started harder content when 6.4 released and attempted savage. got to p10s and PF was absolutely making me lose my mind, so, despite the social anxiety, motivated just by stubborness and hating to leave things unfinished, I started looking for a static in the European Raiding Central and found one. We got through the tier and are now progging UCoB, out first ultimate. I don't know if we will do it, but for now I'm enjoying it. I find raiding... therapeutic. I don't have friends irl and I'm so tired by 9-7 life, so evenings where I can work with other people on some goal that requires a lot of cooperation and effort, in a nice atmosphere, are just so great.

It's just such a massive time sink. I don't even mean the fights. I'm in the Oceania servers and parties for current savage fight literally take almost an hour to fill.

As someone struggling with getting into the Extreme and savage level: could you do a guide for stuff like food, pots and item level? I've looked around and haven't found such a guide and it kind of gives me further anxiety wondering if I'm virtually griefing if I don't prepare these things.

I started doing savage at the start of Endwalker and bowed out of frustration with PF getting me stuck at P2S for weeks on end. With only those two floors done I felt like I wasn't truly a raider and found myself adrift churning through roulettes ad nauseam. Then I decided as a joke to try doing UWU since I felt I was too late in the tier to start doing P9S and was bored to tears of the regular content. Fast forward a few months later and I've gotten multiple clears of UWU, TEA, and even DSR via PF and getting C41's from organized clear groups. I'm working on unlocking TOP now and I couldn't even imagine I'd already be this far along last year. Hard content is where I feel this game truly shines and I think more people should give it a shot and find how they can appreciate the gameplay when the devs take the gloves off and push you to the limit.

thanks for your help throughout my ffxiv journey, i found your guides when i started playing back in 5.3 and didn't even understand how combos worked. and now i cleared tea, and working my way through top and uwu, you helped a lot. now in this slow period for the game i just go into pf to help people get their tea clear. it's fun, even tho it can be frustrating at times lol, but hey, if that's what it takes to get more people to clear, then i don't really mind.

Ironically I tried my first Ultimate tonight. I was soooo hesitant to go in, but I was super glad I joined. It was a blast! I have high end raided in other games before, and I forgot just how much fun the challenge is. Listen to WeskAlber and just go for it!

Just about to finish the post endwalker MSQ and been wanting to try extremes but man it's intimidating. Hoping to have the courage to try soon!

This is good encouragement right here allot of ppl i know are afraid of trying hard content without really giving it a try i hope a vid like this gives them a bit more open mind to try and see at the least if its for them

Seeing background footage make me wondered. Does The world smallest violin and the big bang theory are the same song?

While this isn't on the same level as getting into Ultimates or Savage, I was for a while hesitant on even joining unsynched Extreme mount farms. But I recently decided on a whim to join one for Innocent and ended up getting the mount from it. While I haven't done any other ShB+ Extremes yet (too busy with a Zodiac relic), I do think that the step I took was a good one.

Honestly, my IRL friends have been trying to get me to join them for UWU for a while now but my anxiety has held me back. This video might have given me the motivation to join them finally. Thanks Wesk!

I have been trying. For some reason, the idea of starting harder content and in some cases, while DOing harder content, I sometimes get so stressed and full of anxiety that I HAVE to get up and walk and breathe, like it is too much. But recently, I've been trying a lot. And most of the time I am successful. I've recently started clearing pandaemonium savage from the start and it's been so fun. I've also been tackling the Endwalker extremes, Ruby being my most recent and favorite one Another wall for me though, is time. And the fact I have too much of it and often want to play at really dumb hours of the day or night that many will not. I often can't even begin to start something because there's no one available for when I'm playing. Usually very early in the morning or late at late, like past midnight. I feel like I could have been a multi ultimate legend by now if I was just able to summon people at will to play when I want to and keep trying as long as I want. That's very unrealistic to expect of others and I don't, which is why I tended to stay away

I know i made a comment a month ago, but I wanted to follow up with the fact I am taking my first steps as a healer into Ultimate. Still don't have access to endwalker Ultimates due to struggling to get the P4S and P8S clears in partyfinder so I'm taking the advice of starting with Legacy Ultimates, Because even if i did get my Hephastos clear in PF tomorrow, TOP statics probably won't take a player with no previous Ultimate experience, and the same would probably apply to P4S and DRU. I have all 3 older expansion ultimates unlocked, but I'm not sure which i should focus on, if i should focus on one at a time or just try all 3, i've been looking for a static for the older Ults for a bit and so far it seems difficult for find a static recruiting for them, compared to TOP and DRU. There's seems to be less of them and the ones i've found also have some strict requirements, like TEA statics requiring experience the same as TOP or DRU.

I was terrified of doing harder content in this game when i first started playing about 2 years ago. But I also knew i wanted to do it, so like you say in this video, I just went in and did it. And it's the most fun i've had in any MMO. I think what really helped me is putting together two statics that are running everything minimum item level and no echo. Going through every fight in order from ARR onward has helped increase my skill, and now that we are working on doing Omega savage, my confidence is at a point where i no longer fear going into fight, instead I'm excited about what's to come. I can't wait to do UWU and UCOB hoepfully once we're done with Stormblood. A6S and A8S were especially good fights for me as far as teaching perseverance and consistency.

There are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and twister memes

I've been trying to clear UCoB for a few months now, but I haven't made much progress. I'm stuck in Heavensfall and none of my veteran friends have any desire to lend me a hand... I don't know if the problem is me, my inexperience, or if I wasnt just lucky enough to find a good group on PF... I swear I'm trying, Wesk, I didn't want to give up, but it seemed like the only option :(

I never thought I could do ex let alone ultimate when I was early in FFXIV. I spent like 4 months trying to do UwU and finally got through it early this year. I agree to not let self doubt stop people from trying ultimates or even other high level content.

Great video! Practice harder content makes you better. Its not just about the fight progression, your class and your personal progression as a player gets better. Ive started playing with some friends doing a blind prog of criterion and even though we just went half past the second boss of AMR, the thrill of it keeps us going. And I'm getting better as a summoner as im going. Maybe a ultima refrain would be nice someday, since smn is broken at 70

Thank you for this. I really want to get into harder content but I know I’m not a great player, and I know some of my health issues can impact my abilities as well (memory/reaction time/processing speed mostly), but things like this really make me want to try. (And I’m just talking EX and savage!)

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 I always try to join pf whether it be to help people farm for mounts I already have or to learn the new runs myself. I want people to have a good experience and not be judged by mistakes that are made. We learn from them and grow, stand up and press on again. It's just about communicating when needed, ask questions, help people learn with advice or showing what they do, etc. Just have fun.

I started playing in October 2023, and I’ve found an FC willing to teach us noobs Savage content. So far, we’re at P9S, figuring out the limit cut, and I’m having a blast! Thanks for the guides and the confidence boost!

I also Enjoy doing Ultimate and would like to do the new ones and old ones but finding the right people who have the same time Frame as me.

I'm about to start watching this video but already feel it's going to be really good and tbh I need this. My story started with Zeromus EX and I did it in PF in like a week casually progging. It was something for sure, I've never tried anything above normal stuff so the pacing was quite fast. But I did it anyway, even tho i died 2 times in my clear run >< Now I'm progging uwu (titan gaols) and it's constant battle with myself. I love the fight, I love the dance and puzzle, but sometimes it's hard to get over myself and my fear of making mistakes. I know it's a prog and you should die N times to learn mechs but still. I'm going to watch this now, thanks! And sorry for my rumblings

I never think im good enough to do harder content,but recently started trying new more difficult content and im loving it,also found out i love healing where before i was terrified,tldr try new things have fun

Great vid and like others are saying in the comment section, I too also needed this. I have both Necromancer and Lone Hero because they're both titles I went for because I was too shy to interact with players and felt I still wasn't good enough for raiding, even as a Necro. Vids like this make me really excited to actually go out with my best friend and try to form a static so we can actually go for Ultimate raiding. Great content and W vid as usual.

I had started playing in 5.4 and always considered myself to just be a bit bad at the game. Extremes never really interested me, nor did current savage because of the long grind for gear optimization. But then one night I randomly watched the guide for UWU, and started thinking to myself "hmm.. I think I could do this". Well I studied the heck out of a few mechanics at a time, going back into party finder each time to prog a little further, and sure enough 8 days after I started with about 7 hours spent in party finder and at least that much time spent studying between attempts I had cleared. I'm no where near perfect at the fight yet, but am now having fun trying to get better at the mechanics that still give me trouble because my new goal is to have a perfect run.

It wasn't that long ago that I thought I'd never clear a savage raid. About 2 and a half years ago I decided to just try e9s. Ended up loving it and I've never looked back since. Last night, I cleared my third ultimate, tea. The only way to truly know if raiding is for you is to just do it.

you caught me while contemplating throwing my hat into some friend's ultimate group. they just cleared uwu for the first time last night! and after a short break, they want to tackle TEA. i've only ever done whm for harder content like EXs but have recently fallen in love with how busy and smooth ninja is, and im gonna ask them if i can join from what you said today :) sure, i may not be the best but its more a test of endurance than of skill past a certain point. it'll be good to cut my teeth with

Awesome video! Ultimate is a mental and resistance challenge, the mechanics become natural by the hundreds of wipes. A lot of people can clear, the only difference is when, some take longer, some are faster, but that heavily depends on the amount of time you spend inside those gauntlets

I haven't tried EW Savage or Ultimates but I have tried doing Coils Savage and Omega Savage. They still take a lot of work. The ppl I ran with had previous experience running Savage unlike myself and we still wiped. I found I enjoyed the challenge and ppl weren't as judgemental as I thought they might be. After watchng this I might actually go try an EW Savage or Ultimate. Thanks again for another video that makes me want to try more things.

Did uwu for about 20 hours, got unmotivated, left the ultimate group because I wasn't feeling like it, the group fell apart. And I don't want to do ultimates in pf, got sick of pf with progging savages at the start of the tier. I got a lot of feelings I want to say about trying hard in ffxiv, but I am not going to start rambling.

It's not that I'm unwilling to take on hard content in a game, I'm just one of those people who learns through repeated failure. In a single player game, or an independently competitive game, this isn't an issue, but in a cooperative multiplayer setting it's completely different, and I'm simply not willing to deal with the anger of other players at me taking too long to get the hang of things. This is why I wish FFXIV had some sort of practice/tutorial mode for harder content.

The biggest obstacle for me is finding people and matching schedules.

What I always told my groups that worked on UWU is that ultimates are a marathon, not a sprint. It takes time, and that's okay! Thank you for making this video Wesk, I always tell people that if I (with a number of disabilities that work against me doing this kind of content) can prog an ultimate, anyone can. 💜

I find the most annoying part about Ultimates is finding people to do it with. Many of my friends have progged/cleared Ultimates and while I'm a huge fan of PF, PF specifically for Ultimates seems like a nightmare I don't want to deal with.

This is an amazing video and strikes true for how I felt getting into harder content. I was terrified of messing up. I got so fed up of everyone doing the fun thing and me missing out that I just said "fuck it" and joined a static through ERC. Guess what? Nobody berated me. We just.. progged, cleared, recleared and had fun doing so. We're nowhere near finished with all the content we set out to do, but everyone's enjoying themselves in their own way. Static aside, I've also had my fair share of bad experiences in PF, but so does everyone. Try to take it in strides. Fuck that guy who joins a practice party and goes "this isn't a farm party", then leaves. Guy's probably in a bunch of people's block lists already. Find another member, go again. At the end of the day, especially if it's prog, people are happy to at least get some practice in, I feel. And when you clear, it's SO rewarding. I guess the point of this comment is to just reinforce what the video tells you. Just do it. Just get in and see if you like it. If you don't, that's cool. If you do, keep going and keep aiming higher. This shit is fun as fuck.

The problem I have with Ultimates, is that no matter how well you understand the fight, if other people in your group don't know what they are doing, you're done for. And finding a reliable group or people is close to impossible, which leads to PF being just a complete gamble if you find people with a brain, or end up in a zoo. And yes, I do mean that in insulting in some way. If the PF suggests "Titan goals prog" (as I am currently trying to clear UwU) and 5 people just mess up at both Garuda and Ifrit Mechs for literally 40 minutes straight, they either just are literally too bad, or thinking ahead of themselves when it comes to performance, and cannot deliver. These fights aren't even hard. I personally had to give each primal a max. amount of tries of 10-20. Ifrit took the longest because Dashes confused me, Garuda was only a problem as I switched from OT to MT now, and Titan is ... really just easy as hell. Edit: I mean, there's a SPEEDRUN category for UCOB with the most DEATHS and they still clear, yet I am sitting here with 7 other people, which cannot even draw a Z shape for Ifrit nails as an example. Like .. are my expectations for a human being really THAT high or?

I just started playing last week. One of my goals is to solo the Deep Dungeons! After seeing videos from people who have done Ultimate raids, I'm actually really excited to try them too.

I ended up joining a static for p9s... for all of 1 session. The mechanics were just so obtuse, I basically had no idea what was going on, or why I was doing anything. If I was very lucky, I would get to the part where they called the 'limit cut'. To me, it looked like the boss was playing soccer... but he was going by Calvinball rules, so it made zero sense whatsoever. I did not enjoy my couple of hours doing it. The only good thing I took away from this is that it inspired me to make a new dancer glamour. A ballerina, as it felt like going to a dance practice. Though a dance practice where everything was explained in fancy french terms, and no explanation as to why I do something, just simply do that and you might survive. That's just something I don't think I have ever cared for in ff14 is more 'obtuse' mechanics. That fight was a prime example of exactly what I don't like. I don't mind games where I have to think. I don't mind games where I have to dodge. But just like RTS games, I have a frustratingly difficult time doing thinking and dodging at the same time. It's just not for me. Necromancer however... well, I have gotten to floor 40ish in ADOM, beaten Tales of Maj'eyal on hard mode, and do enjoy my rouge-likes. I probably could get it with enough determination and restraint. (from doing some dumb yolo plays thinking I am hot shit unkillable.)

Maybe one day I’ll play this game again and give this a try

I play on Primal but I'm from Brazil I really wanted to try but I'm afraid of the ping (160ms with a VPN service) Does anyone know if it's possible and if I should try it? I'm afraid of getting in the way...

I consider myself somewhere between a casual and hardcore player of FFXIV. I know I CAN do savages and ultimates, but I just don't feel any interest in doing it. And then Another Mount Rokkon showed up with that fabulous mount and music. I spontaneously decided to join a blind prog pf and it was sooo fun. But the main reason for my fun is because I went in blind. I don't like watching guides and the like because it takes the fun out of it for me. Unfortunately, this also means a lot of people don't let me join in groups since, by the time I feel like doing the content, everyone wants you to watch a video/guide beforehand. I don't wanna drag anyone down, so I just leave it be until the mood strikes me and I make my own pf, or the fight is so easy that guides are practically irrelevant. I'm patient though. I'll get my blind Rokkon clear one day! TLDR; It is a game. To have fun. Don't do the thing if you don't have fun with the thing.

My issue is I don't want to screw up and waste everyone's time. If I had a static to run with that were relaxed and chill about things, that might be different. I guess I should try Savages more, though, if they aren't harder than Extremes (I do PF Extremes, but have NOT been a fan of the body checks this expansion; too many PF groups falling apart because some people can't survive Gales 1 OR 2). Though this is why I do PotD and HoH type stuff more - if I screw up, the only time I wasted was my own. : )

I started doing UCOB about a month ago. We're on Bahamut now and the fight is long, but the group is so much fun I don't even care. I'm having a blast.

I’ll probably gonna take this to heart and try to get the Axolotl mount from P12S

I'm still only at Heavensward, but I've really been wanting to do the ARR Extremes, plus the Coils of Bahamut. I've just been too nervous to try them out, too afraid of holding the other players back. So I think this was a really nice watch, I can't let myself not experience that content purely out of fear.

Just don't want people to flame me xD

I saw you're playing P3 Reload on BlueSky so essentially the Ultimate content is like the final boss of that game. It's a battle of endurance and knowledge. You're gonna make mistakes but that's a big part of the challenge and appeal is that feeling of finally winning the fight.

Okay, Yes Of course I want to do it. But how Where do I start? sprout for 3 years because I didnt wanna finish the story until my wife did, Just polished off 6.0 last week More than anything I want a TOP clear, but even getting that started is so daunting

As someone who only just a few months ago NEVER thought they'd be doing Ultimates, I can vouch for enjoying them, I didn't know exactly just how much I enjoyed Dark Knight until I took it through UWU, these fights are just.... absolutely magnificent to experience, regardless of whichever one someone chooses.

I like the idea behind this video. For me, getting into harder content was just seeing a WAR with the Asphodelos hammer from P4s and deciding to do it. Yes PF is a nightmare, yes, you have to put a lot of trust into strangers without a static, but it was all worth it for the bonk, and the occasional questions I get about where I got my hammer.

I literally just beat my first Savage last night on my first prog session and while I made mistakes I enjoyed it a lot

Like I want to do ultimate, but problem is the fact that I have a language barrier issue on JP

From my experience of PF where parties break up after 3 or so mistakes my worry has always been that I wouldn't be able to find a group patient enough to prog with. I'm not a good player and I prog SLOW. I'd love to try ultimates one day, but I don't think my tiny heart could survive a static booting me out for being crap...

Fuck schedules, fuck other people I'm never touching anything beyond EX because of those issues

this is good general life advice.

When I really wanted a P9S clear before a static picked me up, I was forming learning parties every day to teach people Levinstrike. Figured the more people I helped, the more players exist who can help *me* clear. Still was pretty exhausting defending the whole group from the inevitable a-hole who joins and flips out at people. At some point I had macros just to inform people “this is a learning party, the pf clearly states this is for people who haven’t cleared and haven’t progged this specific point, you will be kind and patient or you will be gone.” Then I got burned out after a few weeks of clears and stopped playing. Just can’t imagine going through the motions now with a new full time job.

i died at 180 boss and never went back in.

I like the sentiment and agree fully that you should try content before actually not liking it. I've tried most things and honestly I hate and despise doing ultimates, but that doesn't mean I stop others from doing them or hate that they exist. I implore people to try achievement hunting, or relic farming, or gil farming since those are the things I enjoy the most and people just hear "grind" and assume its awful. These people out here playing an MMO and no wanting to put hours in I swear

i thought this was going to be about trying extremes and savages. i gotta get in there huh

I've done uwu, but that was with a static. I feel tremendous anxiety just thinking about upsetting a stranger in PF for making a mistake.

After playing the game for 10 years and being at the point where I'm probably done doing ultimates and such due to life stuff and having more responsibilities. I can definitely say Wesk is right go for it while you can because one day you might not have the time do it. If I didn't *just do* T9 back in the day I probably wouldn't have done all the cool stuff I experienced.

100% agree Im so glad I tried ultimates, and have now cleared 2, will be starting to work on my 3rd. I love ultimates now, and have so far helped 3 people get clears of UCoB, part of me promising Sausage Roll (who helped me get my first clear) I would help at least 7 people get their clears. It's the best battle content in the game. And really... It is hard, but once youve seen it 100s of times, its not that bad. It's not that spooky. There's nothing to be afraid of, it is just a video game. No joke, if you are working on UCoB now, and are at adds or Tennstrike/Octet. Gimme a shout. I'll help.

i just got an insane raise at work. time to resubmit to the greatest game of all time.

If you asked me two years ago if I would do an ultimate I would have said no! So glad I finally started! I’m a month and a half through ucob and already heavensfall! You’re a much better raider than you think. JUST DO IT

the bit about ultimate being the place where you 'git gud' is so true. Ultimate was really the place I started to really get good at mentally lining up my buffs and abilities with specific mechanics, like, oh, the boss is casting that mechanic, that means 2min window is in 5 seconds, better get ready

A major thing for harder content though is like groups and boy oh boy is it hard to find a group with like people my age. Idk I’m only 18 but holy crap is the age gap between players so big like I’ll be talking about homework I have and then someone in the group will talk about how they’re a teacher 💀 idk it’s just hard to find people who are near my age

I've thought about trying harder content (For me, that would be doing an EX fight instead of just normal) but the thing that scares me the most is not any game mechanics, but other players. I'm not at the level where I can consistently execute a rotation for a full fight, let alone while dealing with complex mechanics, but I could deal with my own mistakes relatively easily. The thought of letting other people in my party down, or worse getting yelled at for my poor play, is what really holds me back from trying though. And Ultimates remain a very distant dream

The subtitles in this video are kinda difficult to read when most of the video has TOP gameplay on the background. Maybe its just my player that doesn't make them visible. On the subject of the video, I'm close to finishing my EW EX grind with only the mount from EX6 remaining, and I feel I'm at my limit. If not from a skill perspective but more from an internet conection issue. I already have problems double weaving and sometimes I just get random lag spikes and I feel like those are huge setbacks on content that reward precision like savage and ultimates.

I'm going in to UWU for the first time in about 10 minutes, and the first thing I see on my feed is this thumbnail. This is a sign.

*gets blown up in Eden raids normal Ayup…

Super casual here, I'm just going to substitute the word SAVAGE for ULTIMATE and take the encouragement. It's a bad time to try to dip my toes in savage, but I'm going to just .... try it lol.

For ppl like me who want to do harder content but still don't want to interact with other players or feel the pressure of having to stick to a schedule in your statics, give solo deep dungeons a try. Overall they are just as challenging and time-consuming as savage raids and to some extent some ultimates. I've tried lots of content but barely anything comes close to the adrenaline rush i got when floor 180 boss in potd started dropping meteors on me and i had to dps it down quickly so that i didn't lose 8 hours of progress.

I'd love to try ultimates, but I live in South Africa and get something like 400ms ping. So 😅

I'll speak to the solo deep dungeon content since It's something I've been doing a lot of since taking a break from savage this expansion. Getting those solo clears is some of the most rewarding content I've ever done, but that's because yeah, there is a lot of grind to get there. You will fail, and it will be because you made a mistake, or didn't handle something appropriately, or forgot about something a mob does, or just didn't play fast enough and timed out, or even got super unlucky and disconnected mid-run. And it SUCKS. You put all that time and effort into a clear and die single digit floors from the last and it's the worst feeling because it's all you, it's you disappointing yourself. But it's not something you just go in immediately get your clear and title. Every one of those failures is progress. It's something you'll know how to handle better the next time you get there. Maybe you don't get as far the next time, but all it means is you saw something else that you didn't see before, and again, that's more experience. And that experience grows until you're going in there like any other seasoned veteran, blazing through those early floors, handling everything in the later ones. And when you do get that clear, and all those hours, days, even months of grinding is finally behind you, it's an emotional high you'll want to chase again. That's the reason to do the difficult endgame content, at least for me. Can't have the reward without the challenge. The neat gear and titles are just the reminder you did it.

Brother, this shit was prophetic. I was literally thinking about this today. I just dont want to waste other people's time, you know?

It's never been the difficulty that's stopped me from doing difficult content, it's the endgame gearing system that has. I'm stuck with two options: level all the crafters and gatherers so I can make my own crafted battle job sets day 1, or slowly grind tomestones for tomestone gear which will take ages just to gear one job and then I get burnt out and not want to play XIV anymore.

I would do the harder stuff if i could ever have fun with it. I don't have the patience to have fun with dying hundreds of times only getting not even 2 seconds each time.

Started following your page recently, following up the "endwalker bad" discussion. You're a legitimate voice of reason and force of actual positive behaviour for this sometime hysterical community.

I always worry that my colour blindness will be a hinderance to my group like it was way back in Alexander Savage. Even though that group made accommodations for me, I could tell it was a bother for them and could feel their increasing frustration when slip ups occurred. It really put me off of serious raiding, especially with people who don't know about my condition. But.. maybe I'll give it another go.

I dunno, I've got a lot of baggage coming from WoW raiding and I've never even considered doing the harder stuff. Maybe I'll give it a shot, maybe I won't. Nice to hear this stuff about it, though.

Your voice is so cute omg 🥺

I genuinely don’t try harder content anymore purely cause I mentally cannot believe I will achieve anything more than one EX clear an expansion. I had to force myself to learn Zeromus(yes I know it’s easy) because I truly don’t believe that I am good at this game or ever will be.

Tbh I jumped to FFXIV from wow way before the WoW refugees became a thing and since then I did every single Ultimate up to DSR but sadly I quit the game and that has nothing to do with the game itself, its more the community. Finding a static for ToP was just so miserable and I had to deal with some crazy delusional static recruiters that just made me not wanting to try the raid even.

Insert Shia meme here

took me all I had to consistently clear zeromus to farm it, then learned it was the easiest extreme of the expansion. Hardly could keep up with most other EW extremes for the clear, still didn't manage to get golbez and barbariccia. kept struggling to even comprehend and still failed mechanics in all the old salvages that I only cleared for the mount through unsync. Hard stuck at P4S phase 2, those mechanics are WAY more complex to solve -on average-, the "comparable" only holds if you use the hardest EX mechanics of a whole fight as a metric. Yeah something tells me I'll never be doing ultimates. I do get the message and I don't disagree with it, but there's definitely a curve of escalating difficulty in content before getting there, and if you're being walled earlier... maybe suggesting to go straight for ultis isn't the best advice.

ucob is the only fight worth doing #cobbersforlife

I just can't, I am too burned out from previous MMOs top end raiding over the years. I just don't have the life energy left for it.

I became a double legend even tho i suck at this game : D if i can do it anyone can

I die at least once on every run of P7N (I hate that fucking tree.) I am *not* doing harder content.

Tried Ultimate, it's not for me. It's not fun even if I can make Childs-Play out of Savage... The problem I have? is " the Jobs ". The metaphor I can give is driving the Car I fell in love with through the most boring street or the most treacherous volcanic mountain with hundred steep curves... I care not for the scenery, I care about how joyful my Car drives. Not even Ultimate, makes me want to do the Content more vs my Job being as fun to play? that I can apply " To all PvE Combat Content " because " Just go play Ultimate " didn't work for me