Raids tough?

Hi y’all, this will be my last post I promise. I’m finally enjoying this game as a warrior tank and now I’m truly worried. Before the msq quest I though to try coil of bahamut and crystals tower raid quest but I’m scared to raid thanks to wow.☹️ So my plan is do msq and beast quest but I must know are coils of bahamut and crystal tower raid hard. I’m only doing it for quest and lore so please don’t spoil the raid. But if it too hard you can tell me.

They are not hard.
I'd recommend starting with Crystal Tower.
If, after that, you're still nervous, just undersize the Coils alone or with a few friends just to clear the quests and see the story for the raid tier.

Ok I’m excited to see what happens!

coils is hard. and its not really easy to find a group for it. most do it with a few max lvl player.

If you've tanked dungeons and trials, you can tank alliance raids.
They're basically 3 8-man dungeon runs stacked on top of each other.

So I should wait with the extreme trails till I’m lvl 80 but the crystal tower raid I will be ok?

Hey, also WoW tank refugee here. Tanks are easy, especially if you find a group of people do some MINE or savages. But even pugs people seem to stay around, if anything to avoid the penalty, so don't be afraid. I am one of those people that has to do the fight 3-4 times to get the mechanics right and people seemed okay with that, so my advice is: Just go for it and see how it goes!

Alliance Raids (which involve 24 people such as Crystal Tower) are casual content, which means they are easy. People may die a lot but there are so many healers that they will just be resurrected and you will clear it.

Coils of Bahamut are very hard. You may not manage to queue for these directly, but what you can do is recruit in party finder for a level 80 to help you through them using the Undersized Party setting, which allows them to kill all of the bosses for you really quickly. The point of that is so you can see the story.

Starting with expansions, the 8 player raids have a normal version (for story) and a challenging version (savage) which is optional. The savage version is very challenging, but unless they are the latest raids they may be easier because of the way they sync unless you use the minimum IL setting.

You don't queue for savage directly because there are no roulettes that it's part of, so you need to find 7 friends or recruit for them in party finder.

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Originally Posted by Dreamsoap

Don't confuse the 'raid' part of alliance raids with difficult content. Alliance raids exist in every expansion and are purely normal level content, just with more players. Coils were designed moreso as actual raids as you know them. Each expansion after ARR (Coils were kinda unique) will have a list of 12 raids. Each tier within a set is comprised of 4 raids (4 individual boss fights.) You will go through them and unlock the normal versions -which again - are just casual level. After you've unlocked a tier, you can also unlock the savage versions. Those are the end game level raids.

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Yeah, pretty much this. There is definitely Hard group content in FF14 but it's organized differently than in WoW, and with different group sizes.

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Originally Posted by Swampking

So I should wait with the extreme trails till I’m lvl 80 but the crystal tower raid I will be ok?

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Extreme trials are always added at the level cap for each expac.
If you wanna do EX trials from, say, Heavensward, you don't need to wait for 80.

They can be a bit of a difficulty bump the first time you try EX trials, but generally the first EX of each expansion is designed to be more of an introductory one for people to dip their toes into. I'd recommend starting there.

I know but I just got kicked from titan extreme and I decided I rather wait till I’m 80 to do extreme trails and coils of bahamut but after work I’m going to do crystal tower raid quest, beast tribe, artifact weapon, and msq. And when I 60 before I go to heavens ward I might pick up dancer and gunbreaker. But I’m more excited about dark knight.

Most the raids I have done in roulette have been hard with all the new players not following the mechanics to them.

Alliance raids bring a very limited challenge. Especially the Crystal Tower is nothing to worry about.

The Coils and older extremes, to compare them to WoW as you played it, are between normal and heroic in difficulty. It's pug content, but it requires some execution. Not exactly difficult, though. This is when synced, of course. Unsynced at level 80 you'll breeze through, though you still occasionally have to do a mechanic correctly as some will 1-shot regardless of your health.

Potencies are a lot higher than they used to be and people are overgeared out their ass.
If you want hard content you basically have to go out of your way to set min-ilvl no echo and play with people who haven't done it before.

The normal and hard modes can just be thought of as '' story mode '' and even some extremes I'd argue.
I honestly dunno why hard mode even still exists it's misleading.

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Originally Posted by Kolsykol

I honestly dunno why hard mode even still exists it's misleading.

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Really just because the first three trials are those early four-man ones and it's a bit of a downer to be told that's "Ifrit (Easy)", so those are "normal" and their level 50 versions are "hard". And then the other level 50 things are also "hard" to indicate that they're on the same level.

They stopped using it once they moved further into the game.

The more I read my own comments I started to believe wow made me scared of other mmo content. When I first started wow I wanted to play tank but people kept being mad at me for not understanding tank mechanics. And healer I definitely was to scared to even choosing it. Now I’m happy playing tank and I’m working on warrior but I’m excited to try dark knight and gunbreaker. I’m also excited to try machineist, dancer, dragoon, samurai, and reaper. I’m also nervous to try astrologian but I love stars and space so I thinking of trying it. Anyway thank you all for supporting us wow fokes. Finally Fantasy 14 is my new favorite game!

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Originally Posted by Swampking

The more I read my own comments I started to believe wow made me scared of other mmo content. When I first started wow I wanted to play tank but people kept being mad at me for not understanding tank mechanics. And healer I definitely was to scared to even choosing it. Now I’m happy playing tank and I’m working on warrior but I’m excited to try dark knight and gunbreaker. I’m also excited to try machineist, dancer, dragoon, samurai, and reaper. I’m also nervous to try astrologian but I love stars and space so I thinking of trying it. Anyway thank you all for supporting us wow fokes. Finally Fantasy 14 is my new favorite game!

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For sure don't be afraid of anything in FFXIV because of your WoW experience. I played WoW myself many years on and off and FFXIV does not have the same type of players at all in it. Or ok many of the same people played both but the ones that are now still in FFXIV largely are not the a**h***s from WoW. I too was afraid of tanking in FFXIV months ago when I started playing FFXIV but I quickly got over it when I actually tried. Yes some did get upset because I didn't pull wall to wall my first time ever in a dungeon. That never was my style anyway. FFXIV is different though. Usually you won't get any problems for doing a place at whatever pace you are comfortable with and if you are messing up, someone usually has something helpful to say or if not, at least they aren't a bunch of jerks.