Primal Battles Preview (12/10/2013)

[Scribe]

On my server at least there's only a handful of people that have ilvl90 gear. From what I have seen anyways

My FC has about 8 people finished gearing out their classes in ilvl90, and if I go to Revenant's Toll, I would say around 70% of the people are running around in nearly full ilvl90.

Edit: I personally have a PLD with 8 ilvl90 pieces of equipment, with a DRG in full DL/Relic as well, and I am currently finishing getting DL for my WHM right now.

[Taruranto]

I hope the "difficulty" in Ifrit fight won't just be the inability to kill all the nails easily without mage LB. Titan seems the hardest one since you can permanently be removed from the fight again.

[Tupsi]

I hope the "difficulty" in Ifrit fight won't just be the inability to kill all the nails easily without mage LB. Titan seems the hardest one since you can permanently be removed from the fight again.

Meteor is big but not that big.

[Vantol]

Well, yeah, from what I see, ~70% of people have already full or close to full ilvl 90 sets, so if those fights are really ilvl65-70, they will be pointless.

[Johnist]

So in reality of being able to defeat them (for the majority) it's more like:
Garuda EX -> Full DL + Relic/Mog
Titan EX -> Partial CT + Relic/Mog
Ifrit EX -> Full CT/Partial Myth + Relic+1

Well, yeah, from what I see, ~70% of people have already full or close to full ilvl 90 sets, so if those fights are really ilvl65-70, they will be pointless.

Less than 10% of the game's population has Full IL90... I don't understand how you can assume that ~70% have it... Less than 10% of the game's Subscribers are actively attempting Coil... (That's a whopping 60,000 still... 3 times the number of Subscribers for 1.23)...

[Taruranto]

Meteor is big but not that big.

Well yeah, but still huge massive aoe damage.

[Feilina]

If I would've been the dev... we never could have interupted his (Ifrit) attacks!

[Tupsi]

If I would've been the dev... we never could have interupted his (Ifrit) attacks!

You couldn't in 1.x outside of the wrist flick oversight, it's why certain end-game shells that won't be named used out of ring position hacks to avoid attacks

[Vydos]

Also Ferne, major props to you and the localisation team for the quest names. "Quake Me Up Before You O'Ghomoro" had me chuckling for minutes and humming Wham!.

Lol, I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one that chuckled when reading the quest XD. I even sang it instead of reading it.
Interesting to see that the order of primals changed. Quite curious to see what the reason to this is, storywise.

[Feilina]

You couldn't in 1.x outside of the wrist flick oversight, it's why certain end-game shells that won't be named used out of ring position hacks to avoid attacks

To be fair, the challenge to date is absolutly fine. You get a better weapon and have some kind of movement to do. Garuda is the next step, well done SE.

...Trivializing a challenge via cheating is, lame at best. I did that fight from germany in 1.x shortly after release and the delay was horrible. It was so intense that it took weeks for the first kill. But it was doable, and to be fair here too, the delay was the only problem. But destroying the challenge? How lame... just for a weapon...