Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
They did. It turns all 4 quadrants purple and all symbols in the distance purple, so that there is no safe spot, then the bird flies to the purple note and kills the party.

I did hit enrage in Stormblood sometimes, but like you said it was easy to have loads of deaths due to gear. Even minimum item level after Stormblood, you could have a lot of deaths due to how expansions changes shifted potencies and things like that. As such, having a Red Mage was a good PUG strat to carry parties through.

Unreal however gives us no such advantages. It's scaled for our job potencies right now and it's synced almost to minimum item level (scaled for 690, synced to 695).
I did see enrage during prog yes. Overgear wasn't that big of an issue for the simple reason that it was the week at release. Entry ilvl is set at -10 compared to crafted gear and most people didn't have this as it was early couple of days, so everyone was at MIL.