You do realize that if he's getting hit for 21k and only has 20k health, then those i225 right side pieces are in fact a detriment, especially when he can just buy i250. And rezzing main tanks is always miserable for healers.
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I believe it's nothing about the difficulty or your skills, it's about what kind of your way to play this game. I don't think you will play this game for long, you have nothing wrong about yourself, this game is just not for you.
So I just cleared Sophia EX yesterday, only done it twice before never gotten past the adds phase, it was like not bad lol. It to me was the same difficulty of the last alex( normal) [btw I healed it]
I don't think Sophia is very mechanically challenging... In fact, I think she is very easy once the mechanics 'click' in your head... particularly how the tilts work. I won't get into that because someone already offered a very comprehensive explanation earlier in the thread, but I will say: if you aren't sure about the tilts, make sure to look at both the amount of tethers (odd or even) and the side that has the blue meteor. That's all you need to know for that. For the tank crunch, I agree that, while your gear could use a little help, I think the people trying to offer you help might not have been 100% knowledgeable about what the problem was. There is a reason people use tank swaps in this fight, and I have seen a lot of tanks drop... even in farm parties where we are getting consistent clears. Actually, the thing that shocks me the most is how many parties I'll get with really bad damage... to the point where we'll hit the enrage. I can only assume it's because of all the deaths or people have low damage because they are focusing so hard on the mechanics they don't fully grasp.
This comment has zero relevancy to what I said. There's almost 20 pages of this person receiving "educated" help and the person is still failing at page 15 (where I stopped reading). That's why they should quit. Because the FFXIV playerbase has unskilled players that don't (or can't) take advice and become skilled. Okay, then quit so people who don't bitch and moan on the forums can play the game. This is quite possibly the shittiest and most nonsensical response I could've received to my comment unless maybe a monkey smashed its ass into a keyboard.
Because I love the irony the OP has cleared Sophia as evidenced by the Sophic blade in her main hand. So Congratulations OP I hope the more reasonable people in the thread helped and good luck in continuing to progress.