People who haven't cleared Contaiment Bay S1T7 (Extreme) yet.

[Jamillion]

I'm not gonna stop pacing myself and enjoying a new patch at my own leisure just to keep up with the people rushing through everything on day 1.
One has to have priorities, and since my satisfaction level seems to be infinitely higher than most people's, I think I'm doing something right, even if it means I won't have the shiny bird first

Your satisfaction level is INFINITELY higher than most people? Do you have like an IV drip of morphine and ecstasy? Can I have some?
It's okay to take things at your own pace but don't belittle people that enjoy being first to clear, it's just not your style, different strokes for different folks

[AeraLure]

A lot of my friends I would have normally done something like this with retired, so I haven't tried it yet. Hope some time to do it with the FC.

[bounddreamer]

My static is still working on it, but we've only spent two raid nights on it. We'll go in on Sunday hopeful for good progress. Only one person in my FC has been in a party that cleared.

If we were to spend a solid 6-8 hours on it I'm sure we'd knock it down, but none of us have the time to spare on that. I'll probably try to join some learn/clear parties tomorrow if I have time.

[Confidence_Trick]

Extreme primal are a bit outside my skill level. Just clearing normal mode would be an achievement.

[Kosmos992k]

I haven't even done hard mode yet. **snip**
That's fine though - I'm not gonna stop pacing myself and enjoying a new patch at my own leisure just to keep up with the people rushing through everything on day 1.
One has to have priorities, and since my satisfaction level seems to be infinitely higher than most people's, I think I'm doing something right, even if it means I won't have the shiny bird first

Indeed.

I find I enjoy the game in general more now that I am quite far behind the 'lead group'. There is no stress or pressure, everything I do in the game now is purely for fun, and if I get stressed by it, it's my own fault, and I go do something else.

I find this is a pretty good guide for how I approach gaming and FFXIV.

Family>Health>Work>Leisure>Gaming>FFXIV

or for some people;

Faith & Family>Health>Work>Leisure>Gaming>FFXIV

Crafting, Gathering, Glamour, MSQ, there is quite alot to do in this game outside of raiding

Right. I do not need it but I'm not hurting anyone getting it or am I?

Agreed.

[Xellos2099]

IMO, Sephy EX is another kind of hard compare to Thordan EX. The hardest part about Sephy Ex is the first knockback. Imo it is one of the most flawed mechanic in the game. You are technically relying on another mechanic(punch) to dodge the pillar. It was like Titan ex, any kind of lag will get people kill.

[Vurtney]

IMO, Sephy EX is another kind of hard compare to Thordan EX. The hardest part about Sephy Ex is the first knockback. Imo it is one of the most flawed mechanic in the game. You are technically relying on another mechanic(punch) to dodge the pillar. It was like Titan ex, any kind of lag will get people kill.

Same battle designer so go figure. The Yesad + pushback is the most common cause for a wipe.

[Eul]

Maybe derailed from what people discuss about but I like Sephirot because it's skill name same with Tales of the Abyss cities name. How nostalgic they bring those name again

[mirta000]

my static had like 2 days on him. And we all had the flu, so we didn't perform great. We only raid Sat, Sun, Mon, so our next Seph ex raid is tomorrow. But I'm holding fine. Heard that worlds best already cleared all of Midas Savage, so I figured we'll manage in these 6 months. So I'm not too much in a hurry

[Alexftw]

For 1 week I kept trying to find people with same exp at me in PF.. Some had, most didnt know the right fully well. So I gave up and went with static instead. We killed it 3x within arround 15 tries last tuesday ^^(every try bellow 25% and some fails at 5%- due to deaths t_t). That boss is actually easy if everyone knows whole fight and plays well. (And soon at i230 it's gonna be totally easy mode. Atm we're i212-217)

But yes on pf.. ? Dam no chance. Thordan is easier in terms of collaboration and even so most farm parties on pf always have ppl dying, so imagine sepiroth.