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I personally love A12S the most, because my WoL is named Alexander. So it becomes Alexander fighting Alexander inside Alexander, and then Alexander summons Alexander to kill Alexander before time gates open up so Alexander can go back in time to save Alexander from Alexander.
Brute justice to this day is the best designed fight in my opinion. It has trios, a clear progression, cool visuals, the 3stooges (actually it's 4 robots, but whos counting) and it just overall keeps you engaged and makes you enjoy the dance
I'm glad you showed the A8S POV with blue mage. A8S alone is already a very fun fight, how do we make it even more fun? Let's do it on BLU of course! Truly one of the best encounters in the entire game
Quick note about A7S, the alarum jail (melee jail) was actually optimal to have your warrior do it instead. Deliverance plus fell cleaves = enough burst to kill it
Great tier list! I'd probably only switch around a few. I think A12 would probably be my number 1 with A8 and then A11 to follow. All amazing. I think just the thematic theme of A12 makes it top for me. That fight blew my mind when you understood what was going on and the Savage mechanics were a blast.
a bit late to the party but… who here remembers a Bug in A9S where Eos’ Whispering Dawn counted as “enemy damage” and made people drop the Coils? 😆 interesting first week
Did Brute Justice for the first time, blind, synced (no min ilvl) this past winter with a static. It was a gauntlet. Incredibly satisfying but, boy, tough times to overcome and remember all the phases... we did beat the final fire wave starting with all dps and a healer down... I think we would not have made it at min ilvl.
Everytime someone says HW was so great... I remember this raid tiers and think... "They dont know what their talking about, probably they were mid way ARR during HW live time". I probably comment this every vídeo about HW but yeah, it gave me ptsd, and I quit raiding because of it.
creator was my first tier. i really enjoyed the chaos of random skips. i really learned the fights as fights and not as a role based timeline. still fell into massive trap holes of "advice" and "meta" i'm very glad i learned not to listen to other people's advice.
Since some of the footage in the vid is from his BLU run, I highly, highly recommend people interested in that fight go do it as a full BLU team. One of my most enjoyable progs in the game.
Thinking on A4 and A9 in particular, I think there's also an extra subconscious element adding to the Boring feeling. You just don't see the top half of the boss most of the time. It's a torso+arm or some pistons. I think that just sabotages those bosses design wise and adds to the Boring feeling. Brute Justice is quite a large mecha, Oppressor too, but they are smaller in addition to the mobility. You can SEE the entire boss. I don't think the fight would feel THAT much less boring of Manipulator and... Scrappy McScrapperton were visible in their entirety, but a little bit at least.
31:24 I was running A3S MiNe in pf this past week and those damn tethers are still just as unresponsive. One pull I jiggled between the tether 3 separate times without picking it up.
I would have to disagree on the stationary boss complaints. Most bosses in EW are pretty much stationary as the hitbox is so huge that you can almost hit it from the wall and the boss recenters itself constantly. I think the only boss I ever worried about positioning on was P4S door boss and P3S for the first devouring flame.
Well yes. And many people who has raided before EW are complaining that the bosses are too stationary in EW. Eden was already pretty stationary compared to Omega, but pandemonium really takes the cake.
when i was a free trial player, i tried a4s min ilevel. the raidwide just does so much damage I was playing sch and i fey whispered, adlo deployment tactics, iullumination and Sacred soil and together with the other healer We could not survive that raidwide.
Living liquid savage mine now feels like an ex, i expected to be in there for a while based off the rep, but we cleared it in 1 session. I must say the middle tier of alex savagr has been the MOST fun ive had raiding.
Left the game in 2.2 and came back in 3.2 and it was so funny hearing the complaints of raiding from a newb. It's like hearing the adults complain from the adult table whike you're still at the kids table. When I got caught up, Creator had just come out and I was like "oh is this what they were complaining about? This isn't bad in normal mode" lmao
I see what you did there at A11S, you clever boy! "I was kinda going FORWARD AND BACK" I see you, MrHappy! I'm now going to put on my Alexander gear and ride off on my Cruise Chaser.
I imagine during current content it was good but the first half of A6S was just so miserable to prog through on MINE blind these days for me. Half of the time you have to just stop dps and wait for mechanics to finish so you dont get one shot by them like on the first mob if you kill it before the balls are resolved bye bye. You have to stop dps on one of the robots so the pushback and hight dont happen on the same time etc and just having to sit there and do nothing as you wait for those mechanics was so boring before getting to the good parts like when brute justice splits or the last phases, and every time youd wipe you had to go through that shitty first half again. Doesnt help theres like 2 jobs which have engaging rotations at level 60 now. If it had a checkpoint it probably would have been a favourite for me but atm it sits there on the bottom with manipulator sadly. But thats just my experience as someone who progged it blind on mine way later than when it was current so. Hopefully when I get around to doing it on blue mage itll be better.
A3S will always be the bottom of the barrel raid for me. It cost me a static, cost me some people i considered friends, and ruined raiding in FFXIV for nearly the entire Heavensward Expansion. To the point I played Everquest TLR server more during this time, then I did FFXIV. Left a very bad taste in my mouth. The fact if someone died within the first minute meant you missed a dps check just sucked.
a8s is the best encounter in mmo history imo and ive played a lot of mmos. it's too bad raid design in xiv never came close to that standard ever since outside of ultimates.
I fekkin loved pepsiman, i got picked up by a static that "broke" and i changed from pld to drk for the purpose of getting to play with them. Big change, big challenge. I had an amazing time, and we cleared it.
I'm doing Alexander mil no echo blind with some guys right now. We've done everything up to A8S and we're on the Gavel phase. The fights are really fun. If I had to choose favourites from the ones I've done/seen they'll probably be A6S and A8S. I can't wait for A11 and A12 and also I really want to try Ultimate Alexander. Awesome work with the anniversary videos. Keep it up.
First T4 at the bottom and now A2 Is Mr. Haps the one who went to Yoshi P and told him to never do ad fights ever again? I miss them ;-; bring them back
Floor 1 savage was goated as a training fight. It has everything you need to make you work towards being a good raider. Everyone has a responsibility, and when it was relevant, tanks needed to plan their cd spread. Dps had objectives, healing prey damage and oldschool auto cleaves: before changes to the core fundamentals of the game? Such a good, such an interesting, first fight.
