The Royal Menagerie

It was an awesome fight. It's a lot harder than the final boss of ARR and SB and I could see people getting stuck unless they get carried. It's about on the par with Shiva Extreme when it was new.

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Originally Posted by DinahDemiurge

This is the kind of difficulty we should expect for normal fights. This is the bar for the future, SE. Don't let us down with another awful Zurvan monstrosity, please.

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Zurvan got already beaten by Lakshmi. Solo tank strat for Lakshmi was a PF thing after a few hours. For Zurvan it took like a day or two to come up with the solo tank strat.

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Originally Posted by SDaemon

People said this about Steps of Faith and Final Steps of Faith. Sadly I can see SE nerfing it if enough people complain about the difficulty.

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Did Final Steps of Faith get nerfed or did people just out gear it? That's a pity if it did, Steps of Faith was just boring and tedious, Final Steps was/is a flipping amazing fight.

It was alright. I could do without the active whatever mechanic as part of its ultimate. There's no point to it.

I like the fight a lot, with one caveat: QTEs have no place in MMOs. It's a stupid mechanic in single player games, it's a more stupid mechanic in MMOs. There's so much stuff you can do aside from it.

After Thordan was essentially a giant punching bag in HW, I was kind of expecting a bit of a faceroll final boss after the Ala Mhigo instance, but I was very pleasantly surprised.

Shinryu was a brilliant fight - challenging mechanics with new twists on old moves, a decent DPS check and the epic rendition of the Stormblood theme song in the background - really got me pumped!

I can't wait for the Minstrel's Ballad version, personally!

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Originally Posted by Pence

A wipe on P2 should put you at the start of P2. There's no reason to make you redo P1. It's boring and easy and just makes death feel more insulting than it should. I've ran it a few times helping friends and even then I nearly rage quit because of having to sit through P1.

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Originally Posted by IllyriaKnotfred

Welcome to MMOs. Enjoy your stay? You must be new here.

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Diablos says hi.. he starts you on P2 if u finish P1 ..

This fight only solidified how important I feel as RDM in a party lmao

I had to save my whole party a few times with the rezzing! Oh gosh there was so much healer death. But that fight was incredibly fun, and I can't wait for the extreme version!

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Originally Posted by silverhope

Diablos says hi.. he starts you on P2 if u finish P1 ..

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I'd argue an exception in a 24 man (Is there any other fight in the whole game that starts on P2?) is different than the overwhelming majority, especially in a basic story fight. The point still stands that most fights are a start to finish scenario.

They probably added it to the 24 man to help with the number of chimps that just AFK in the sea of bodies in conjunction with Diabolos practically serving as 2 seperate fights than take longer than the other bosses each.