Sophia Unreal

I have a question to players who cleared sophia ex back during HW and have done the new unreal trial:
How close in terms of balancing did they get to the original difficulty?

I think the adds have way more HP, the tankbuster debuff doesn't hurt as much as when it was live back then. The boss itself could have more HP, I think it dies a bit faster. What feels similar is the boss aoe damage and if more than 2 people fck up the bleeding white/blue rings it is almost a wipe. On warrior the scale mechanic is super easy as you have so much Inner Release knockback/drawin immunity and people have so many gapcloser, that there isn't that much danger anymore and lots of time to react.

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Originally Posted by Saraide

I have a question to players who cleared sophia ex back during HW and have done the new unreal trial:
How close in terms of balancing did they get to the original difficulty?

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Pretty good. It's really just like I remember. Including how you would sometimes phase skip and not see a tank buster and sometimes see it especially when people died. I've been seeing these phase skip issues elsewhere as well and it's something that seems to be tackled better now.

You could always get to enrage pretty easily with lots of deaths, the question is if you had enough DPS. We didn't have red mage rez then so that is one way that it could be easier.

I think the other reply has a good point about mitigation though. We had much less mitigation then. The 30% mitigation cooldown was longer, many tanks didn't have a short-cd pure mitigation or the degree of self-healing they get now. DRK didn't have TBN, PLD only had a one-time use physical sheltron, many of WAR's mits were based on things like physical defense or parry which block physical, you couldn't just use Shake It Off as a WAR to help out, so it was much more on the healers to be on top of absolutely everything including mit and heals.

These advantages affect all the unreals though. Many of these same things could have been said about Ultima Weapon where we had a lot of advantages that let us take strain off the healers compared to level 50.

fwiw: BLU was my intro to this and it more or less feels the same. It's ultimately the mechanics that do people in.

It's tanky but exactly the same as it was.

It's really easy to get a clear if people stop messing up.