WoW player blown away by FFXIV Ultimate weapons 

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IDK if it gets mentioned later but in case it doesn't, the way ffxiv reuses models is often by making versions dyeable. Normal raid (casual content) gear is undyeable, and then the savage versions will be the same gear but you can dye it. Usually raid weapons are savage only. Savage gear (and the vast majority of gear in the game) is nowhere near as over the top as these, the only things in the game that are like this are these and the relic weapons (long ish casual grind depending on which expac). Endwalker has kind of broken that trend though, with the savage gearset from especially the second tier being pretty crazy.

if you want to do ultimates while progressing in difficulty i recommend doing UWU > UCOB > TEA > DSR > TOP ultimates definitely change your mindset and teach you many things that can be taken into the next ultimate also i dont know if anyone mentioned this to you, but ultimate raids' in-game lore are retelling of major story points, basically a "what if this villian or boss managed to get their way?" so you fight them in an even more powered up state. its very cool!

Yeah, the Ultimate weapons are cool, but the only weapons a monk need is The Emperor's New Fists. Join us.

is it just me or whenever WoW vets move to FFXIV they got like previlages and lots i mean lots of view same goes to FFXIV vets go to WoW, is like both MMO has a rivaly but at the same time if we just put aside our hatred a collab of these 2 big MMO will become the biggest colab in MMO history

Healers like to play limbo with health. How low can you go?

Sounds much better in Japanese haha I really wasn't feeling the English voices this feels much more natural with one piece

Ultimate raids are FFXIV's most difficult content, and reward only these cosmetic weapons and a title - so they better be good! But these raids are 20 minute boss rushes based on a "what-if" retelling of the raid/MSQ stories that they are themed around. If you wipe, you start at the beginning and go again. It's challenging, can be exhausting, but omg the adrenaline! Thanks for the video

4:54 In FF, if you sync down higher ilvl gear, the sockets are outright disabled. Depending on the fight, it's sometimes still better to scale down rather than use ilvl appropriate gear, but aside from the Stormblood ultimates, the difference is very marginal. Like fractions of a percent.

The general difficulty of the ultimates is (easiest)UWU>TEA>UCOB>TOP>DSR(hardest). Some would say TOP is harder than DSR but that was mostly for blind raiders who didnt have acceess to sim/guide/am. TEA had a similar fate and was broken by a sim

Whilst the ultimate weapons do reperesent the the most prestigious weapons a player can get, the relic weapons available at the end of each expansion are also some truly outstanding looking weapons and are available with considerably less effort if a little more grinding. It varies from relic to relic on how grindy they are, and there are only relics available for jobs that were released when those relics went live. For example, there is no Dark Knight ARR relic, but there is a Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers and Endwalker ones. Sage and Reaper only have Endwalker relics being the newest jobs. Each relic grind will feature somewhere between 4 and 8 different weapons with different levels of glowyness. Thankfully, you can buy each of these weapons as a cosmetic and pop them in your glamour dresser to use as you see fit. ARR relics are pretty straightforward barring the one step where you need to complete certain FATES (open world events) to complete books you need for one of the steps. Otherwise pretty straightforward. HW relics are by far the easiest, simply a case of using currency and time. If you do a little prep before starting on one of these you can easily knock out an entire HW relic in a night or two. Stormblood relics are obtained from a seperate zone called Eureka. I've not had much experience with Eureka, though I understand it's pretty easy as long as you have a group of people to go along with, as well as containing some interesting raid encounters and whatnot. Really should put some time into this at some point. Shadowbringers relics are much the same as Stormblood, with a seperate zone called Bozja in which to earn your mighty weapons. Again, lotta fun with a posse, some cool raid fights and a decent story in this one as well. Again, I've not spent enough time there to give a full overview, but its a pretty good time from what I know. The Endwalker relics are strictly a currency sink which makes them very easy to get, though a little time consuming. They're also tied to one of the funnier quest lines in the game, which I'm sure you'll see on your way through the story. Kind Regards, Isa.

There are other skins as well, so its worth shopping around so to speak. Like alot of people think that the best Dark Knight glam is rhe relic from HeavensWard, and it is sweet. The HW relic for Summoner is also sweet too. Stat wise they are super outclassed by now, but good glam is good glam. Dont be afraid to grind for glam, its always worth it. We take our fashion very seriously. Edit: you see, when i started i thought id never heal either... I main healer now.

One thing I've come to appreciate about FF14 over virtually _any_ other long-term game (WoW, Warframe, Destiny) is the balance they manage between keeping content relevant and accessible, while respecting the lives of the people playing the game. I think a big reason why the FF14 community is less toxic is because people aren't nearly as stressed about weaker players slowing down the progress of an already daunting grind. If I want good gear, crafting, raiding and tomestone farming are all equally viable. If I want to experience the story, then normal modes of raids can be easily done with a PUG. Rep grinds are pretty casual, and mostly give cosmetic rewards, keeping them eternally relevant. The newest cosmetics/mounts are skill locked, but not forever; eventually moogle tomestone events or unsynched farming can give people an alternative way of getting those rewards. The Ultimate Weapons will always be a status symbol. There's so much to do, even if you never want to do an Extreme Trial, Savage Raid, or Ultimate content. No endgame rush, no wall between veterans and newbies. And if a content drought means I get to play a different game for a while without FOMO or burnout, then that's fine by me. :)

Has anybody suggested Jocat's Crap guides? If they haven't I would recommend watching those...Tanks, Healers, DPS, Melee dps, Ranged dps, Magic dps is the order of release.

That video was great. Idk about chat. They said top is the hardest but I’ve heard DSR is. I just finished DSR and starting too soon. Can’t wait to see. Thanks for the video! Ultimates are my favorite content in the game other than msq.

about the sheathed looks, there are ways to get around having it sheathed and still have the effects going full blast. all it takes a short two step macro. its a temporary thing but if you are running around with a sheathed weapon for long periods of time like running around a city, you can still show off the glow.

honestly after being spoiled with the dyable gear in ffxiv, looking back at how wow does rewards of different raid tiers by just recoloring the same model it feels SO LIMITING

I am glad you are enjoying this stuff. The game is very fashion forward in some stuff. The cosmetics can be over the top in some cases, the ultimate weapons are in fact the most over the top.

Some people make glams around ultimate weapons and others will choose ult weapons to fit their glams. GlamFiends will do Ultimates, the insanely toughest content that takes weeks or months of coordinated group wide focus to get through, just for the weapon they want. They arent career raiders, they dont bother otherwise but for that glam they will pull out peak performance for any amount of time. Hell they'll do it better than the actual career elite raiders who do ultimate content just for its own sake. Theres a reason the other video said even elite raiders fear the glam fiend.

Check out relic weapons. They make wow artifact weapons to shame.

Ultimate fights looks crazy to me. I will heal a savage- but I do not think i could keep people alive for as ling as an ultimate goes on for

You should see the glowing Trial Boss Weapons that you can obtain and craft. They have great glow effects, too!

In normal raids gear have basic colour that you can’t change. The gear in savage raids is dyeables meaning you can change its colour. Ultimate as you can see it’s unique with glowing special effects. Of course Extreme Trials and Alliance Raids also have their own rewards and the Relic Weapon grinds

Don't get too caught up in thinking everyone who has one of those actually invested the time into it. The term "Paypal Legend" didn't spring up for nothing lmao. Kind of poisoned the pool, I know people who got some of these legit but rather chose not to use the glam and/or title because people these days just instantly assume RMT.

I feel I have to mention this however... due to the massive amount of players buying their Ultimate clear and then proudly displaying it in the main cities, having an Ultimate Wep kinda has become an unofficial mark of shame, like the mentor crown.

wow will never have a dyeing system because if they added it, theyd have to make more weapon and armor, they couldnt just make a Sword for questing and recolor three dozen times and call it a day. some people say XIV does the same but not nearly to the extend that WoW does it.

Oh boy, I am a sucker for clockwork stuff, those TEA ones look very cool. Too bad they aren't there for SGE...

should look at all the relic weapons from every expansion if you like shiny weapons.

Think there has been a little Math Error, you'd only have to do DSR and TOP 19 Times for all weapons cause we are currently at 19 Jobs, not 21. We will be at 21 with Dawntrail, but for now its 4 Tanks +4 Healers +5 Melee DPS +3 Ranged DPS +3 Caster DPS =19 Proper full fighting Jobs (20 if you wanna include Blue Mage, but they dont really have Special Weapons anyway since they dont even have Stats on them)

The whole rant about WoW watering-down the unique rewards etc really hits home for me as a Destiny player. D2 has always struggled (if not mostly failed) with how to handle prestigious gear and rewards. Launching the game with the 'end-game' gear looking nice, being slightly better than some of the other gear but nothing like how D1 made it's endgame gear vastly superior to everything else. Then as they tried to introduce and put better gear behind harder activities, watered down the difficulty so everything was overly accessible. Now the game's difficulty, grind/level requirements are back up to everything being tough and tedious- but hardly any of the gear really being worth it still. Imo it's never a good move to just hand stuff out to players en-mass or try to make everything accessible when the whole point is rarity and/or difficulty to obtain. Then again the community has gotten so ass-backwards with toxicity against better/skilled players in its game. Being a streamer or anything remotely 'pro' just gets you hate and mocked and it's just so sad and disheartening as a player who plays specifically to 'git gud'.

I guess if WoW did their own equivalent of Ultimate raid rewards, they would have unique weapon illusions unlocked via achievements clearing specific mythic raids, with the caveat that said raids have an ilevel cap on the mythic difficulty. In FF14 most of the Ultimate weapons are models we've seen before but the glows are new.

2 years to level to max level lol. I recently got into the game, 7 days played time for me to hit max level in my main job. It does take awhile. But to be fair I spent a little time on a secondary job, not a ton tho.

I don't get people that believe so hard in exclusivity of armor appearance or mounts saying it has prestige, but then don't get more mad about people buying a carry. Where's the prestige when there's a whole economy around buying the prestige?

I wonder what would take more time, 105 ultimate clears, or farming every A Realm Reborn relic weapon XD

I'm trying to figure out where everyone in chat got the idea that there's 21 jobs when there's 19 lol 20 if you count blue mage

You're so into the DSR weapons. I will wait for the day you prog for that ultimate raid.

Shiny :)

11:30 Its not that raiders put more time into it. Plenty of people put just as much time into the other content. It's just alot of people don't like raiding. But ya, I agree they should have more raid exclusive stuff like that. But they should probably make raids less ass before they do that. (edit) Also, even if there was an amazing mythic exclusive mount from the raid, most people sadly wouldn't even care if you had it. Since most of the community in WoW just doesn't care about raiding at all.

I really want to try to do an Ultimate one day, but I get so intimidated by other people. I've gotten up to Titan on UWU but not exactly cleanly. Edit: I think I remember hearing somewhere that they're thinking about adding weapons for the newer jobs to older Ultimates, but it's unknown if they actually will. Edit2: We actually have something like Mythic mounts. There's a special mount that drops from most final bosses of a savage raid tier (the exceptions being Coils and Midas Savage). The Extreme versions of boss fights can also drop mounts (the exceptions being Ultima's Bane, Thornmarch EX, and Memoria Misera EX)

loving your videos on ypur new FFXIV journey! 😺 ...but... that restart ur pc to install updates notification at the bttm right is distracting. ahhhhh!!! 😸

While I was healing in dungeons on a free trial account, I almost failed to heal so many times but always managed to get it off before their hp hit 1 and was complemented (with some worry) about being able to keep getting it off last second. Never truly on purpose but it does feel good to get away with that five times more often than when I was healing in WoW. (people feel too squishy)

I think there are some relic weapons that give Ultimate weapons a run. The heavensward Ast wep and Dragoon are my top two then the excaliber and aegis sheild from arr. But aiming for my UwU clear and TEA run sometime in dec

This video made me realize something, people who want to 100% the Trial now can do Ultimates.. that's interesting lol

tea having the weakest ....smhmh, wash your mouth out sir !!

Can't wait for him to see all the relics

Materia (gems) will not calculate unless you not synced it only work at your level or higher

Those WoW weapons at the start. We have something like that. Relic weapons are weapons you evolve and for a time retain the same appearance but with a different style of glow or weapon recolor. The ARR relics have the longest train of retaining the same model, but the rest are similar for like two or three steps. All are completely dissimilar models by the end of the process. The UWU and TEA weapons actually use the models from...well, UWU is based on lv 50 content, so an ARR relic model is used, and TEA is based on lv 60 content, so uses an HW relic model. Just with glows reflective of the raid.

Russ kind sound like Scripe with a different accent or ist it just me.

yay new upload!

So the max level is 90, there are 5 ultimates, 2 at level 70, 1 at 80, and 2 at 90. If you are 90 and go back to an older ultimate, your level *will* be scaled down and it will still take a lot to learn the mechanics and get over the mechanical difficulty, but with the way jobs have been rebalanced and reworked over the years, the DPS checks for ultimates before 90 aren't nearly as bad as they used to be. But yes the mechanical difficulty is still there. (I haven't finished the video yet) As chat (probably) stated : Jobs that were released *after* specific ultimates came out have not received a weapon for those ultimate. For example, Gunbreaker came out in Shadowbringers, so it doesn't have UWU/UCOB weapons since they came out in the expansion prior. SE said they might look into making weapons from older ultimates for newer jobs, but nothing concrete yet.

@JustRuss I don’t know if it’s been mentioned to you before but something with ffxiv is if there comes a time you think your not having fun… just take a break. Yoshi P has said before something along the lines of “don’t force yourself to stay, if you need a break take one, we(ffxiv) will be here when your ready to come back” And it honestly shows, yes there are some stuff that’s daily or weekly, but that’s side content or simply “you did the newest raids and got rewards, wait until Tuesday reset to claim more” deals, they don’t take away from story and honestly unless your gunning for the absolute best gear you can get with each new patch (which comes from raids and extremes) you don’t even need to stress about it. I stopped playing for three months only getting on for my house timer reset, recently decided to start playing more actively again and I don’t feel like I’ve missed anything, I just need to work my way up to date on MSQ and even that I’m just taking at my own pace without stressing.

Oooo we am I early

When you beat an Ultimate you receive a token. The token can then be exchanged for any weapon from said ultiamte fight. Currently there are 5 different ultimate raids in the game.

you should definitely check out a Limit Break 3 showcase as well

I really like DSR, TEA, TOP models

The gear sync in FF isn't perfect, it's just the opposite problem to WoW. Gear that is synced down in FF has meteria melds completely disregarded, which is weird because it would be so easy for them just sync those melds down to level appropriate materia. So if you want BIS for ultimates you have to actually get the highest item level gear for the fight that won't be synced down and meld that. Although the time it takes to do that pales in comparison to the prog so it's just a minor annoyance in the grand scheme of things.

Working on my second ult rn after pausing TEA prog, they're so unique/cool and for the most part these are JUST glam haha its just a flex for the sake of it to show you love raiding its really rewarding!!!

Yeah having an Ultimate Weapon is a badge of honor but whenever I'm doing my roulettes and I see one I roll my eyes because more often than not the ones with those weapons don't care about doing the content so they play terribly. I have seen so many horrible players with Ultimate weapons. If you have one you should know better than to die to the SAME mechanic 5 times. I stopped being wowed by them a long time ago due to this.

The savage weapons and the relic weapons are cooler imo. Ultimate weapons are to flex with for sure though.

if it hasnt been mentioned. while with raids trails and most content that is lower level you can enter the content unsync, meaning disabeling the scaling down, you CANNOT do this with ultimates ultimates will ALWAYS be as hard as they were back then cause you cannot gain any stat advantages. and due to the scaling it also disables higher level skills. so the only thing that makes a fight easier or harder is if an older skill got changed. like say if your basic lance poke got a damage buff or something.

Its not really fair to compare FFXIV and WoW models because FFXIV is from the PS3/4 era while WoW is from the PS1/2 era. There's a huge gap in technology.

If you haven’t already, I hope you check out Relic weapons too! Every expansion there is a grind for stages of a weapon of your choice (you can have multiple too) and I think there’s 6-8 stages per weapon. Each stage changes the model or makes it glow, so every other stage changes the model. (Correct me if I’m wrong I only have a few relic weapons, WoW ruined my want to grind 😅) You’ll probably hear a lot about the new relic weapons this expansion not being much of a grind because you can just buy the stages with in-game currency rather than grind FATES in specific zones (from my experience this is what most relics require). It wasn’t that hard - especially with friends - just time consuming, but I guess they wanted to tone down the grind. We also didn’t get an extra zone to grind in (the past few relics have come with an island to spend time at, you’ll definitely hear of Eureka and Bozja. I love Bozja but Eureka is not for me.) Maybe we’ll get one in Dawntrail (next expansion)!

So the Ultimate raids are a step above the standard hard/extreme and savage raids. And they can have very different rules (im looking at you Dragonsong Reprise). I usually run extremes for the thrill of the fight but Ultimates are daunting.

I don't like those over the top models to be honest. Even the relic weapons for the most part are too much for me. The one exception being the HW paladin one because the red weapon with the blue shield are great. Also the activation effect syncs with your stance and that looks dope. I favour more subdued glams and weapons. That being said, the UWU WHM one goes hard.

Actually the Weapon Modell of the Ultimate Weapons are infact reused. For the Dreadwyrm Weapons they used the same Modell from the lvl 50 Raid there are Based of. They just increased the Glow effect to over 9000. The UwU Weapons are infact Heavensward Relic Steps for some of the Classes but they added this Blue Glow on it. But some Jobs infact did a complete New Model like Redmage or Samurai for the UwU Weapons because these Jobs didnt had Heavensward Relic Weapons since they came out in a later Expansion so they needed to make a differend Modell for them. But to be fair for some Classes i prefer some of the Relic Weapons over Ultimate Weapons. But Ultimate Weapons are more prestige. The only really unique thing about the Ultimate weapons is they still glowing while sheated. All other glowy Weapons in the Game lose the glow effect while sheated but you can still recognize a Ultimate weapon from someone who is chilling in one of the Major Cities.

I need to tell RU-vid to stop recommending me this. the tourists we have are bad enough.

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