Rage over Sophia

[Lan_Mantear]

Okay, but how do you see where it is without taking your eyes off, by the time I see it its already about to hit.

You don't really need to count so much. With enough practice you'll be able to tell from a glance. As you are learning there are a few things that can help you:

1) You should know when a tilt is coming, before it does position your camera to see one side.
2) Always run away from blue, if you see all red, run towards it.
3) If you see 2 blues, that will always be a large tilt, run as far away from it as you can.
4) Pay attention to the rest of your party, if everyone but you is bunched up in one area, you are probably at the wrong place.

[Jhett_Magnum]

Sophia is on the weak end along with Bismarck. The hardest fight for me was thordan ex. I'm not gonna complain how easy Sophia is before Zervun becomes manipulator 2.0.

[Lunafreya]

Zurvan should be much more difficult.

[Fevelle]

Zurvan should be much more difficult.

No thank you. Zurvan should be the same difficult as Sephirot or Sophia, EX primals are not supposed to be content so challenging that majority can't clear (like Savage is).

[bardaboo]

I was in a clear party... we had about 10 deaths or so and still beat it.. it is a very forgiving fight.

[MaikoRaines]

this is not a laughable fight. It took us a good few hours for our group to get a rhythm down. The next week (this past Saturday night) we farmed the living garbage out of it. It CAN be done and if you think we're all pros, we aren't. It's just repetition and decent gear (especially for the tanks) and a massive DPS check. We still had a few mishaps, but our group is far from hardcore.

Now... if you want to bang your head against a wall, I suggest Thordan EX. A sadists wet dream...

[technole]

It's "extreme" for a reason, to eat your lunch if you don't do job mechanics. I tank all the extreme primals because it's fun.

Nidhogg without cooldown on Ala Morn. You could die.
Sephirot without cooldown for his telegraphed fists, you die.
Sephirot without cooldown for towers, you die and likely wipe the party
Thordan add buster, you don't pop a cooldown, you die.
Sophia green buster, you don't pop a cooldown, you die. Oh and you get knocked back too so positioning is important.

You see the green, pop Shadowskin or Shadowall. Done. Foresight is also good when its up because the buster is physical. Other tank should have already voked and have threat when you get pushed back since you stop hitting it.

It's not tank-and-spank land, if you want that the fine normal modes are there for that junk.

[Nicobo]

....or am I just having seriously bad luck with the raid finder? ...

Yes you were. So don't be depressing.
I killed it around 100 times(solo queue), and on the same day of you posting, I got 3 fail groups in a row.
One group really low dps, one group almost no heal and one group failed black and white.
Each group had retried for 3 times and same result. ^^; remember there were no first clear bonus!

[Felis]

What kind of sadist in Square Enix came up with this?!

The same who came up with Leviathan battle and Ozma battle, if I remember it right from the Las Vegas stream.

[LineageRazor]

Sephirot without cooldown for towers, you die and likely wipe the party

Actually, the tower doesn't explode if the tower damage kills the person inside it, so the party is just fine (at least, as long as they get the tank up again before the next time the tank is needed). "Saccing" a tower (tossing a weak player in and letting them die) is a valid strategy to prevent the tower from exploding. Though, to be fair, if you ever need to sac a tower, chances are things are spiraling so badly out of control that you're likely not gonna recover anyway. XD