Are the DPS checks for Nidhogg EX excessive?

[Hyperia]

After several weeks of failed groups that try to get past the DPS check, I am starting to wonder if the DPS requirements are excessive in regards to the player base. What is the needed ilevel to clear it? Everybody in 235+? Do I need to wait a few months for people to get better gear or should I break down and buy a clear from a server first FC?

[AskaRay]

Where's the fun in buying a clear?

[Hyperia]

Where's the fun in buying a clear?

So I am not blocked from doing the future EX encounters and I hope they will be tuned more like Sep EX.

[Brian_]

I don't get how you could think Nidhogg EX is harder than Sephirot EX -- especially if DPS is your issue.

[Greedalox]

Nidhogg is considered easier than Sephiroth. Maybe it's one of those quirks people have in games where something "simple" feels harder for an individual. Like me versus Ultros and Typhon. I still don't know what's happening in that fight.

[ErryK]

So I am not blocked from doing the future EX encounters and I hope they will be tuned more like Sep EX.

None of them have been blocked, except back in 3.0 where Ravana EX was blocked behind Bismarck EX, however all recent EXs (Thordan, Sephirot, and Nidhogg) are separate from each other. You don't need to complete one to unlock the other, not since 2.3 where they split Garuda/Ifrit/Titan EX from the 2.2 primals, then 2.5 where they started splitting the EX's to not be locked behind Mog EX and Levi EX.

[Ryel]

This is why we can't have nice things.

[Phireblast]

No. People are just garbage.

Also, when's the last time an EX primal was nerfed? Ramuh's Titan-egi's tanking?

[Marxam]

No. People are just garbage.

pretty much this. Sad but true reality of NA servers.

I'm doing 1275 dps and I'm only ilvl 222 with eso i230 weapon mnk. I know it can be better since I'm not using pots or food. No the dps is not excessive but a lot of it is proper execution of mechanics which a lot of people can't seem to do. I'm especially baffled when people die to the dashes in phase 1. It's like these people never did Leviathan EX.

I'm currently working on my clear with my fc but I'm an ex raider so I learn fast though this game has some what bored me with the grinds so I've been taking my time doing end game stuff.

[mosaicex]

Not really. The DPS check is even more lenient than Sephirot EX and Thordan EX.