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[Radacci]

To be clear, this is still in the MSQ ... and the proper response is to use the antidote, which you are given as a reward in an earlier MSQ. It's the ultimate battle for you at level 14. They didn't nerf it, because people can still die if they don't pay attention.

There isn't as much 'nerfing' as people like to believe. Most of that is outleveling or overgearing at this point.

Sure, but before you were guaranteed to die, at that level, now you can pass it without. I saw the fight as a tutorial to use items, because later fights might need them, but now it's not. Anywhere it's deadly, esuna don't work, and it's tied to some mechanic to get rid of it.
Actually, i need to go revisit that fight, as a new character

[DPZ2]

Actually, i need to go revisit that fight, as a new character

I ran through it a week or so ago. I've been popping the antidote since 2014 -- you put it on your bar and click once.

Never found a use for Ether or any of the other early 'potions', though. Seems like the mechanics that required them just don't matter.

[ItMe]

Never found a use for Ether or any of the other early 'potions', though. Seems like the mechanics that required them just don't matter.

Even so, I'd keep using them at higher level (just for the extra cushion / the extra bounce back if I die)... if I had the hotbar space for them.