Rage over Sophia

[Pondera]

THANK YOU, Dement and Zigabar. I saw a gif of that surprised kitty, but hadn't found the video yet.

And you are very right, Dement. I've watched videos of extreme trials before, and was always left with a feeling of "O_O oh that is 10 pounds of NOPE in a five pound bag", but I am determined to get this fight done and over with before the next member of the warring triad is released. I just....get a bit frustrated at times.

[Dement]

THANK YOU, Dement and Zigabar. I saw a gif of that surprised kitty, but hadn't found the video yet.

And you are very right, Dement. I've watched videos of extreme trials before, and was always left with a feeling of "O_O oh that is 10 pounds of NOPE in a five pound bag", but I am determined to get this fight done and over with before the next member of the warring triad is released. I just....get a bit frustrated at times.

Extremes can get very frustrating at times, Savage can be even worse. However, if you ever want to do endgame, you're going to have to dive in somewhere and this is probably the best place to in a long time since Sophia EX is so forgiving. Just imagine Sophia if you stayed dead and were no able to be raised everytime you fell off. That's what a lot of people who are saying how easy it is are used to... take Titan or Leviathan. If you dropped off the platform, you were out of the fight until the remaining members won or it reset. Now at their release they also did a lot of very punishing mechanics and had tight DPS checks too.

Sophia allows you to raise no matter what, doesn't really have a DPS check other than the add phase and that's not very tight at all, and the damage is high (especially the tank buster which hits like a truck) but not unmanageable. So that's a taste of what the people saying it's easy are accustomed to. Hopefully that gives a bit of flavor into their responses.

That being said, it's very much learnable and very much able to be cleared in the Raid Finder or in Party Finder clear parties (I tend to trust Party Finder much more than the Raid Finder.) Party Finder will also get you introduced to some of the endgame players on Lamia and starting to build those ties can prove useful in the future, especially if you are able to execute and show a willingness to learn and progress.

The last thought I can leave you with is I can guarantee you even those who think Sophia is easy, a vast majority of them were going at it for at least 2-3 hours before they were ready to clear it. Some it probably even took much longer than that to find the right party.