Can we all agree... (3.2 Alexander Spoilers)

That the last boss of Midas was the most awesomest thing in this patch right down to every little detail

- That blatant Voltron homage
- That music that sounds like a cheesy super sentai theme
- The Goblin kids cheering for their hero during the song
- The way all the heroes turn away from the explosion of the mecha when it falls
- That pose you all do at the end
- That square arena instead of a round one (Count them! 4 corners! I'm not kidding it's not round, Yoshida the absolute mad man)

Can anything top it?

They completely nailed it. They said they threw in some humour for Midas, but I didn't think I'd be in fits of laughter as we all violently wiped.

The last phase music was just too good haha. Made me laugh so much and it suits so well with the fight. Hands down the best part of the patch imo.

I agree, it was so much fun, and just hectic enough to get some good laughs. A+ for SE on Midas, all 4 floors were on point.

Honestly. I know there will be hate threads that pop up, for who knows what reason, but these were some of the best and most well designed fights I've seen. It wasn't so mind-boggling complicated that a PUG couldn't get through it, the mechanics were unique and the setting was well-defined. And that music was ridiculously epic. Our group literally died because we were too busy chatting about how great that tune was.

Everything so far in the patch has been great. I will enjoy my expert roulette, that's for sure.

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Originally Posted by RaineAmorie

I agree, it was so much fun, and just hectic enough to get some good laughs. A+ for SE on Midas, all 4 floors were on point.

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They are just 3 tho xD

It was so cheesy yet it put a great big smile on my face. Midas Normal alone made up for the entirety of Gordias and then some.

Not gonna lie, I was impressed. After doing Coil at the end of ARR, I thought Alexander Gordias was a giant let down. And I wasn't alone, alot of hardcore FC mates and members of our static quit the raiding scene and the game due to Gordias (and not much to do for about 6 or 8 months since release.)

I'm hoping that some of them will see Midas and come back to the game.

I did not have fun with Alex 7 at all, but definitely loved 8. Kudos are deserved.

I flat out loved this floor of raiding, it's ridiculously clever, all of it, and I cannot wait to see how it translates to savage.

M4 was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.

The fights are pretty fun so far but I honestly don't like the more humorous aspects of Alexander in general. It makes me feel like I'm doing Hildibrand content instead of the game's flagship raid. (Not that I mind the Hildibrand stories—I would just prefer a different tone for the raid).

I feel like they should have taken the story for Alexander a bit less seriously than they have, and simplified it a bit as well. While Midas is much more interesting than Gordias, it still failed to really grab me.

You know what did grab me? BRUTE JUSTICE. Holy cow A8. The rest of Midas was fun but A8, on top of being a fun fight in general (feeling somewhat like a mobile Titan), had amazing presentation and had my whole group of friends laughing like idiots.

While it would probably would have gotten backlash being a follow-up to Bahamut, I feel like Alexander would have been so much better as a comedy-focused raid and had more floors like A8 (and to a lesser extent with the cat, A7) throughout the entire thing. Make the plot about the Illuminati reviving Alexander to drain the world of aether to use in the creation of THE ULTIMATE CHEESE or something; make Alexander a legitimate threat to the realm, but justify it with the Goblins being dumb (Cid alluded to this when Alexander awoken, exclaiming 'that's not a toy, it's a bloody primal!'). I thought I wanted something as grandiose as a followup to coil but Midas has made me realize that Alexander is at it's best when not trying to be Bahamut 2 in terms of tone.

EDIT: Not trying to imply that the story be something akin to Hildibrand (slaptstick) but something more akin to a Saturday morning action cartoon. Make Alexander a big, scary, legitimate threat but the Illuminati using it to accomplish a really dumb goal, as it's really difficult to take the Illuminati seriously, no matter how much of a legitimate threat they may be.

My favorite minor moment was when you walk into A8 and the boss is literally a crappier, smaller version of Manipulator, with the same mechanics, then the fight becomes so much more. It deliberately sets itself up as rehashed garbage and then isn't.

Last 2 fights take far longer than they should.

I chuckled in A7 when i saw the cat had the same name as my character. Originally i thought "Oh, its targeting me i guess" then a buddy was like "Nope, cat's name is Shanoa!"

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Originally Posted by Recaldy

Last 2 fights take far longer than they should.

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Not really? We're not terribly far above the minimum gear level. Give it a week or two and we'll have people in 220-230 and it'll start going faster.

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Originally Posted by CyrilLucifer

Not really? We're not terribly far above the minimum gear level. Give it a week or two and we'll have people in 220-230 and it'll start going faster.

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You will face same in savage, special the last fight eats a lot of time...

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Originally Posted by NFaelivrin

My favorite minor moment was when you walk into A8 and the boss is literally a crappier, smaller version of Manipulator, with the same mechanics, then the fight becomes so much more. It deliberately sets itself up as rehashed garbage and then isn't.

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The entire fight is just gloriously designed as a whole, and I'm pretty sure this will get even better on Savage.

Has anyone else noticed how extremely well the music goes along with the fight? Like, there's the cheering (Goblin) kids right before the chorus part starts, and this happens at roughly the same time that Brute Justice fires its super-flashy Mega Beam, then the split robot phase starts while the chorus goes full force, and the song repeats as Brute Justice recombines after the phase. There's even more minor things such as the first Super Jump hitting at the same time the trumpets join in again after a shorter period that's relatively calm. Same thing happens when the explosion AoEs start.

You are now aware that in M4, you play the opening song of a Super Robo show for Gobbie kids in which you and your raid group are the villains. Boom.

It sort of goes out of sync after the first iteration, but I assume this is because it's normal mode. The second part of Ravana's theme, for instance, also only really works well on Extreme - where like half the mechanics line up with the song structure and lyrics.

I guess the references were lost on me (I don't know any voltron and all I know about power rangers is that they are weird dudes in colorful outfits who fight for justice or something).
The whole self-pity "story" around Midas made me loathe Alex in general even more, the goblins were still annoying.

BUT. The fights had fun and interesting mechanics which I enjoyed a lot :)
So it's still a huge step up from Gordias.

From what I hear midas has more humor than gordias which is how it should've been from the beginning, if we aren't discovering something world changing (calamity etc.) then it should have something else to compensate and humor is a good choice.

Going back to A8 again
I'll admit the fight does drag out a bit too long before you fight Jet Jaguar maybe first zords should have a bit less HP, maybe it's a build up thing to make it more awesome but kinda eliminates the point when you run it again and again

(NO NO NERF IT'S NOT HARD!!!!)