Rage over Sophia

[Kaurie]

you can get upgrade material for wep, in A10S.
and i doubt that relic will be 270, this early. it would make shire weps outdated before 99% of ppl could even get it.
but i'll hold on to my tomes until patch notes, just in case -.- if relic is 270, i won't bother buying shire wep.

The item to get the 260 is in A10S and the upgrade item is in A11S as guaranteed weekly drops upon clear.

@OP I checked your lodestone (truth be told, because I thought you may be trolling us), but then I saw your problem. You're pretty undergeared with some ilvl 225 pieces etc. Try to gear up a bit and replace those, you should have all 250 pretty easily via Alex NM by now. You can at least replace those 225 items with a bolt from A9N and A10N

[Pondera]

@Dement See, that's what I was thinking. That if I could clear this, and get my Sophic blade, I'd have the means to start clearing harder content that I was intimidated by before.

@OP I checked your lodestone (truth be told, because I thought you may be trolling us), but then I saw your problem. You're pretty undergeared with some ilvl 225 pieces etc. Try to gear up a bit and replace those, you should have all 250 pretty easily via Alex NM by now. You can at least replace those 225 items with a bolt from A9N and A10N

Are you looking at my black mage class? I just swapped over real quick to farm for some fleece. My DRK is 238 and that's what I've been using to try and clear this. Though, maybe I should put more gear toward a DPS class. Tanking in raids does tend to stress me out a fair bit and as DPS, all I need to worry about are my numbers and staying out of AoEs.

Also, I've already grabbed a fair amount of Alex pieces, but it's top on my priority list for next tuesday.

[Velhart]

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I don't know what you were expecting. You complain about a relatively easy fight. Others argue it is not, and now you are on page 9 here. The game needs challenging content and if you feel that the people around you are not sufficient enough to handle the fight, then you need to take the effort to find people that do.

[Kaurie]

@Dement See, that's what I was thinking. That if I could clear this, and get my Sophic blade, I'd have the means to start clearing harder content that I was intimidated by before.



Are you looking at my black mage class? I just swapped over real quick to farm for some fleece. My DRK is 238 and that's what I've been using to try and clear this. Though, maybe I should put more gear toward a DPS class. Tanking in raids does tend to stress me out a fair bit and as DPS, all I need to worry about are my numbers and staying out of AoEs.

Also, I've already grabbed a fair amount of Alex pieces, but it's top on my priority list for next tuesday.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...cter/15111542/

Dark Knight, 2x 225 accessories, 3x 230, 1x 230 left side and a few 240.

The added VIT from upgrading all these pieces would help you survive those tank busters.

Eh, I did this with less health lol, I wasn't even i240 (think i was around 235-238). Knowing how and when to pop CD's is more important in this fight than your HP pool, up to a point.

Kind of irrelevant. You are not the OP. I am sure you can do this with less HP than the OP can, and I am sure someone else can do it with less HP than you are capable of. What we're trying to do is help the OP get through it though, and it sounds like more HP could be beneficial if (s)he is dying to tank busters.

[Dement]

@Dement See, that's what I was thinking. That if I could clear this, and get my Sophic blade, I'd have the means to start clearing harder content that I was intimidated by before.

Honestly the means you need is just the confidence that a clear would net you. You don't really need a Sophic Blade to do it. Frustration happens a lot but you just need to work through it, put your head down and keep trying. Or take a break from it for an hour or two and come back. Sometimes you just need that time to try something different.

Another thing you may want to try is setting up a PF and getting people on your server. Set your expectations (learning past X phase, clear party) and this tends to hold everyone a bit more accountable. You can also then systematically move through people who are holding back a clear if necessary, keep in contact with the ones who perform well and try to give those not performing chances to improve. Just don't use this to make a group to clear it for you and expect them to carry you (a lot of people do this is the only reason I bring it up).

[Ghastly]

Ignore the people telling you it's an easy fight


Read the posts telling you information, good information like mine.
It really doesn't matter if it's easy or not. What should really matter is the information people can give (yeah I know there's barely anyone giving good information here sadly).
Also you should do this in PF. Raid finder is only good for practice unless you have the clear.

[Dement]

The Gear is fine, only the acc is to low.

The gear is absolutely fine to clear it, but if it was the first time you're doing a current EX primal, creating a larger buffer is probably going to be beneficial to overcome any shorts in ability or confidence.

[Pondera]

The Gear is fine, only the acc is to low.

That would explain alot. Like, the other night, I had SERIOUS issues trying to get threat on Sophia and her adds. This might be why. What should my accuracy be at this level, and, outside of mhachi matter and millions of gil for materia, how should I go about raising it? And what level would be considered "sufficient"?

[Fevelle]

That would explain alot. Like, the other night, I had SERIOUS issues trying to get threat on Sophia and her adds. This might be why. What should my accuracy be at this level, and, outside of mhachi matter and millions of gil for materia, how should I go about raising it? And what level would be considered "sufficient"?

Get beast tribe materias and meld them on all equips. Since most of your equips will be changed soon, it won't be much of a loss.

[Martin_Arcainess]

You people scare me. If this is what you call laughably simple, I think I might unsub and quit gaming for life if you showed me what you considered difficult. I mean, this is the first extreme trial that I've attempted, so maybe that factors into it?

Your first Ex? yeah stay away from the others then.

But yeah natural that what ex/savage should do. Make you play harder. All the Ex's I do find this the easiest but of course it depends on how your group plays the fight and just, well, how good you are.