Odin Fight

http://www.twitch.tv/ffxiv_fanfestival_na/c/5353616

From the premium stream.

No tank swaps? Is this hard mode? Will there be an extreme mode?

Without tank swaps this fight seems too easy :(. Odin needs to be more badass.

That Odin fight was designed for the Fan Fest. It's highly likely it will change a bit for the actual game. The talked about it while commenting. They wanted to ensure people would have a chance at winning in the limited time, with randoms, not playing their preferred class, etc.

The trial is only 15 minutes. It's a fight supposed to be done in ~ 7 min, not on your preferred setup or class and -completely- new. No one knew what the fight was really going to be like until the first people in line started to do it.

Also, based on earlier responses on their earlier challenges like Levi and Ramuh, these fights are generally made just as easy as "story mode" challenges in the game. They're made so a large portion, if not all, of those attempting them at these Live events will win.

I was actually at the fanfest and the way it was set up, you literally had to stand in a line of up to an hour or more on the first day, get to the front possibly get paired with people you may or may not know, have premade characters possibly on an unfamiliar class and have only 5 min to set up the hotbar, camera etc, so yeah, I assume they made it a bit lite with that in consideration. It was fun as heck though, can't wait for everyone to get to play the real fight. I'd say that with the additional handicap in mind it was on par with the average hard mode iteration of the current primals when actually playing it.