The disapointment that is Alexander

[VitalSuit]

Somehow T5 being on Bahamut's hand makes it better than A1-A4. That makes no sense, T5's arena was the most boring crap you could even look at, it was just an orange/brown ground with some large claws at the ends.

I'll go back and see if I can find a recording anywhere, but I strongly believe they never said seconds lol. But even if they did or did not, I still feel that come the next batch of floors we'll see the impact Alex is having on the area.

Actually they did say seconds. Alex just moving enough to breach the water was enough to drain the hinterlands of nearly all it's aether in seconds and it stopped moving because it ran out of aether to use.

[HReincarnate]

^ VitalSuit: But it gave you a good indication of how big bahamut is. I remember being awed by the size of his hand and being excited as hell for the next installment in the raid. Can you honestly say that the arena of A4 is in anyway comparable?

What does this mean? Can you expand on "artificial difficulty?"

For A1S at least that the majority of the difficulty is the dps requirement - and while it is a legitimately difficult, the reason I call it artificial is because it doesn't have to do with the number of mechanics or their execution but just the raw numbers. You could nerf the mechanics to hell and back but most would struggle still to beat the fight because it's all about the dps. Meanwhile, for lack of a better word, more organic difficulty would be more akin to previous raids which had a nice mix of mechanics and dps checks to make them difficult.

[SDaemon]

Actually they did say seconds. Alex just moving enough to breach the water was enough to drain the hinterlands of nearly all it's aether in seconds and it stopped moving because it ran out of aether to use.

Where you find this at? I don't recall that in any of the dialogue while doing the quests and the journal just makes mention of Y'shtola's estimate of a few moons running the hinterlands dry.

Re-watching the cut-scenes in the inn didn't help as no mention of his draining are in those. Like-wise the youtube video I found of unlocking Alex just shows Y'shtola's comment on many moons. :/

[HReincarnate]

Where you find this at? I don't recall that in any of the dialogue while doing the quests and the journal just makes mention of Y'shtola's estimate of a few moons running the hinterlands dry.

Re-watching the cut-scenes in the inn didn't help as no mention of his draining are in those. Like-wise the youtube video I found of unlocking Alex just shows Y'shtola's comment on many moons. :/

I've done my own research too and it seems I may be mistaken. It would take a few moons to completely drain the area from what the journal says - but I do remember the use of the word 'seconds' so she must have just said the aether drain was massive considering he'd only been active for a few seconds. Regardless, my point is that despite the fact that this is the starting raid - there is little to seriously establish him as a threat.