Ultimate hiatus feedback

[Kitfox]

I hope SE will keep releasing ultimate fights and we don't suffer from a content drought before new expansion. Having a 3rd ultimate would also be good for building up the hype for the expansion and keeping attention on the game to bring in new players. These are also fights that can stay relevant for a long time through ilvl and level syncs for future raiders to challenge, so just because not everyone gets to clear them in the first two weeks doesn't mean they're a waste of time. The ultimate series has been the most exciting thing in the raiding scene in a long time. I hope SE keeps its development in high priority.

Lynn Nuvestrahl, Odin

[cgbspender]

+1 here ! Ultimate series is the only content I watch on streams everytime. I don't raid myself, but as mentionned in the thread, this content is refreshing and leaves me with full admiration for the hardcore community that tackles on it. It would be a great loss for all if the frequency Ultimate series is released is to be reduced.

Honinbo Dosaku, ragnarok

[Tigerlilley]

I hope SE will keep releasing ultimate fights and we don't suffer from a content drought before new expansion. Having a 3rd ultimate would also be good for building up the hype for the expansion and keep attention on the game and bring in new players. These are also fights that can stay relevant for a long time through ilvl and level syncs for future raiders to challenge, so just because not everyone gets to clear them in the first two weeks doesn't mean they're a waste of time. The ultimate series has been the most exciting thing in the raiding scene in a long time I hope SE keeps its development in high priority.

Before we went into Heavensward, we needed to replace a few members in our group and FCOB had long become boring and over done. We took our new group through the original second coil savages in the down time and had a helleva lot of fun doing it. Actually, a few other groups on my server went and did the same thing. Yeah, we were late. Yeah, we had more gear than the original clear teams had. But it was a challenge to go back to and it kept our team busy in the LONG hiatus that was between ARR and HW.

I imagine a lot of people will be wanting to do the same with these Ultimate fights.

[Remedi]

One of the lesser things about Ultimate is that it finally gave us a reason to chase BIS outside of just cleaner weekly kills and speedkills. I normally don't really care about bis late into a tier since we're clearing content anyways but if I have a goal to push towards because I'll want the best gear available for the next fight, what good is that gear to me if the new raid is going to make me toss this gear anyways?

I would like to add that it also gave a reason to pursue some dungeon gear or even eureka gear if you wished to push faster kills

[Brachiosaur]

Please add ultimate in patch 4.5!

[InkstainedGwyn]

I don't do ultimate and I will never do ultimate, but I'm glad it's in the game. I fully understand that whereas I prefer simpler fights and more story, I, and others of a similar mindset, are not all there is to this community.

As for "is there enough content", given how many primals, trials, boss battles, boss fates, and S ranks are in this game, three ultimates per expansion is not going to scrape the bucket.

Keep it going.

-Souji Hanamura, Exodus

(And @ the "but you guys are just wanting to sell your clears" I'm pretty sure that stuff is aimed towards the midcore stuff like EX and savage. I'm really not sure that Ultimates can function with someone being carried.)

[meTYE]

I dont raid, tho i like to see the ultimate continue for the sake of the hardcore raiders and for me who like to watch it on twitch and other streaming media

[CreinCrein]

Hands down two of the best fights I've ever experienced in any game, period. Extremely disappointed with their decision to remove it from the future patch cycle; it was an excellent piece of filler content that filled the hardcore raider niche absolutely perfectly while still providing midcore groups with a long-term goal to strive for. 4.5 + is going to be incredibly dry with it gone. Please bring it back!

Crein Crein - Behemoth

[Rixas]

I lasted a grand total of 25 seconds in ultimate so this content isn't made for me. Yet with my experiences from other MMOs a "hardcore" raid allows for free advertisement through 3rd party sites like Twitch where people watch these races. With wow having an upcoming expansion I personally feel it will be a loss of exposure if Square allows Blizzard to have an oppressive amout of exposure especially when the next ultimate would probably align when warcraft's opening patch is in a lull of content.

I fully endorse allowing these raiders to have their content.

[jaesang19]

Speaking personally, the only reason I even bought stormblood was the promise of ultimate fights every odd patch. The savage fights are enjoyable at first - but they have very little replay value compared to the ultimate fights. I'm still enjoying doing UCoB to this day, and not having an ultimate fight for potentially upwards of 17 months gives very little reason to resub to the game until next year. Just watching clear videos of UWU that have been coming out, you can tell how excited everyone is for the content and how accomplished they feel when they clear. Watching along on twitch alone brings a good amount of hype to the game.