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How do you feel on the Stormblood Extreme trials this time around? And how would you compare them with the Extreme trials from previous expansions?

For me most of the trials are pretty fun, but some were relatively simple compared to the likes of Heavensward.

Though I do get kind of lost in thought when I see people struggle on mechanics in the easier Extreme trials (Lakshmi and Seiryu EX come to mind.)
When I compare them to the ones from HW that would correspond with them, some are easier than their HW ones (e.g., Shinryu is easier than Thordan; Byakko is a cakewalk compared to Sephirot); some are harder than their HW ones (I think Suzaku is a bit harder than Sophia... not by much, but Sophie was very easy considering she came after SephEx and NidEx lol); and some aren’t much different (Bismarck and Lakshmi are both snoozefests; I don’t think Susano and Ravana are too far in difficulty). Some actually aren’t a meme yet, like Seiryu to Zurvan, so there is that.

I’d like to see more of the Thordan/Sephirot difficulty, but we’ll probably not see it again, sadly.


In terms of the fights, I like almost all of them. The only trial I don’t like from SB is Lakshmi—it’s just boring. I had more fun with some than I thought I would (Tsukuyomi & Suzaku), and it reminds me of how I would do Thordan, Sephirot, and Sophia during HW lulls even if I didn’t need stuff from them because I liked the fights. I did NOT like the intermission mechanics in Byakko or Suzaku (particularly Byakko’s—at least Suzaku’s gives you Damage Up, and it doesn’t feel as long); I’d rather not see those come back. They made farming them very tedious (Byakko, especially).


Music-wise, all of the trials had really good music, just like HW. I’m always satisfied with the music in this game. I do hope for the last trial of ShB, they give its main theme lyrics. Seiryu’s main theme, while good, doesn’t have lyrics, and I feel like he was cheated compared to Byakko and Suzaku lol. It’s probably a conicidence that my favorite theme comes from the sixth primal (Suzaku)—my fav in HW was also from the sixth primal (Sophia).