5.2 Raid prep?

Some people were saying you need to do a raid or some ultima thing to be able to do the new one coming in 5.2, was that the ones with Alpha? Or is it something else?

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Originally Posted by LeonTrifang

Some people were saying you need to do a raid or some ultima thing to be able to do the new one coming in 5.2, was that the ones with Alpha? Or is it something else?

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If you want to do the relic, you will need to have completed the Return to Ivalice questline.

If you want to do the Eden raids, you will need to have completed the 5.0 tier (normal mode only).

If you want to do the alliance raid in 5.3, you will need to have finished The Copied Factory and the associated questline.

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

If you want to do the relic, you will need to have completed the Return to Ivalice questline.

If you want to do the Eden raids, you will need to have completed the 5.0 tier (normal mode only).

If you want to do the alliance raid in 5.3, you will need to have finished The Copied Factory and the associated questline.

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Oh! You're the go to person for healer questions lol, I've always wanted to meet you. Hi! Also, which one do I do for the one where we all teleported to Cid's resuce? Oh and the one with the giant ugly creature?

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

If you want to do the relic, you will need to have completed the Return to Ivalice questline.

If you want to do the Eden raids, you will need to have completed the 5.0 tier (normal mode only).

If you want to do the alliance raid in 5.3, you will need to have finished The Copied Factory and the associated questline.

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Okay! I see all of them now. Thank you! Only one I haven't finished is Return to Ivalice. Thank you very much! And please keep up the healing! You give healers a good name!

...Thank you for the kind words; not often found here on the OF. Assuming by "giant ugly creature" you mean Ruby weapon - that's hard to say. SE's tried to take primals out of the Main Story Quests so people don't rush MSQ just to do them. It will probably be a sidequest with the blue-colored quest icon, but we'll need the preliminary patchnotes before we know for sure. We might get those preliminary notes sometime in the next week or so.

And, same deal for Cid's thing. We know how the raids work because it's the usual pattern, and the relic was discussed in the live letter, but the other stuff is more unknown.

When the preliminary patch notes do come out, someone always puts together a guide on where to go for new content, what needs to be unlocked, and so on. So when that happens, I would recommend heading over to the FFXIV reddit and looking for that guide post (It will probably be called something like "5.2 unlock guide" or "5.2 new content guide").

Good luck with the Ivalice raids. Some can be a little harsh if too many people are netflix'ing through it. I also can't wait for the new patch.

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

...Thank you for the kind words; not often found here on the OF. Assuming by "giant ugly creature" you mean Ruby weapon - that's hard to say. SE's tried to take primals out of the Main Story Quests so people don't rush MSQ just to do them. It will probably be a sidequest with the blue-colored quest icon, but we'll need the preliminary patchnotes before we know for sure. We might get those preliminary notes sometime in the next week or so.

And, same deal for Cid's thing. We know how the raids work because it's the usual pattern, and the relic was discussed in the live letter, but the other stuff is more unknown.

When the preliminary patch notes do come out, someone always puts together a guide on where to go for new content, what needs to be unlocked, and so on. So when that happens, I would recommend heading over to the FFXIV reddit and looking for that guide post (It will probably be called something like "5.2 unlock guide" or "5.2 new content guide").

Good luck with the Ivalice raids. Some can be a little harsh if too many people are netflix'ing through it. I also can't wait for the new patch.

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Thank you very much for all the advice and info!

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

If you want to do the relic, you will need to have completed the Return to Ivalice questline.

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Uhh, proof? Maybe a screenshot from the live letter? I haven’t even completed Rabanastre yet and since I wanna get a few 4.25 relics yet this is really worrying.

Oh and not for lack of trying to complete Rabanastre, I always get a ARR raid for my roulette so and I’m not willing to do it synced.

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Originally Posted by E4EO

Oh and not for lack of trying to complete Rabanastre, I always get a ARR raid for my roulette so and I’m not willing to do it synced.

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What do you mean, "not willing to do it synched"? Roulettes are always synched.

Just queue for it when you have a good patch of time to spend in the game and eventually you'll get in. Don't leave it to the roulette.

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Originally Posted by E4EO

Uhh, proof? Maybe a screenshot from the live letter? I haven’t even completed Rabanastre yet and since I wanna get a few 4.25 relics yet this is really worrying.

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I'm not sure if this is "proof" enough for you, but the trailer featured an NPC that so far only appeared in the Return to Ivalice questline - which means that its either required OR that at the very least special dialouge etc. is locked behind completing said questline.

I also doubt that doing the SB-24-man-raids unsyched is possible, so you'll have to do them the proper way.

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Originally Posted by E4EO

Uhh, proof? Maybe a screenshot from the live letter? I haven’t even completed Rabanastre yet and since I wanna get a few 4.25 relics yet this is really worrying.

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So 5 mins of searching hasnt found me the slides from the live letter i can just link to. But i did watch Meoni's live letter breakdown video and he shows the slides. Save the Queen - the Blades of Gunnhildr is talked about and the slides are shown right around the 4:30 mark of the video. It says the ivalice quest line is required(it also said that the guy who did the ivalice raids is doing the story so it may end up being somewhat of a continuation). Im guessing that between now and 5.25 a lot of people who never finished it will be running these raids to work on their relics, so the ques should be more reasonable then theyve previously been. As far as unsyncing the raids, its level 70 content to it should be possible. But as an alliance you need players spread over 3 groups and im remembering a few mechanics that wouldnt work in groups that werent basically full. Guess it would depend on if your DPS was high enough to skip phases or end fights before certain things happened. Im guessing itd be easier just to direct que then to find enough people to pull it off, but who knows.

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Originally Posted by E4EO

Uhh, proof? Maybe a screenshot from the live letter? I haven’t even completed Rabanastre yet and since I wanna get a few 4.25 relics yet this is really worrying.

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I suggest joining the FFXIV reddit discord and going to their live letter translation channel. You'll find that info and more there.