Rivenroad (Hard)

[Req]

17:48 kill with seven deaths, on pace for ~12-13min kill without any deaths. we'll see what we end up with when we try again wednesday

but i can pretty much confirm that he will always jump and megaflare as soon as he takes ~2500+ damage. leading with buffed thundagas and going all out with 3 drgs, we weren't able to do more than 2500 damage. we just did it faster (15-20sec), and that still had no influence on damage taken.

most of us can survive without lunar curtain, but that's mainly because we start with HP food and HP gear, have aoe sanguine rite and stoneskin and battle voice. lunar curtain was still necessary for our bard.

Man thats pretty fast. Did you guys use 3 dragoons? We killed it with about 8 minutes left on the clock in both of our wins but our party setup has consisted of 2 monks for golems and their damage output just can't compare to a dragoon. Even my dragoon which is crappily geared compared to someone who is a career dragoon did like 23k more total damage over the course of the fight to darnus against people who have heavily geared monks. I didn't even notice that he uses the golems after dalamud dive until the other night in the fight we won because I have only actually been apart of the fight like 10 times since I have been so busy with school so I would like to try the whole intentionally letting him dalamud dive right before golem phase and burning him down with 3 dragoons and also eating a majority of the dalamud dives to see if we cant shave off 3 or 4 minutes.

On a side note to that, I also noticed what you were pointing out with the whole surviving without lunar curtains thing the other night. My Drg had like 300ish hp left after megaflare in 2 out of the 3 attempts I didn't use a curtain but I did get one shotted in one of the attempts and I have no idea why since I didn't do anything differently, so maybe it was a fluke or maybe the damage fluctuates or maybe he some how got a crit megaflare on me? I also found that it worth popping dread spikes right before megaflare happened because like 50% of the time he likes to follow it up with an iron chariot and you can get a good amount of HP back from that while only sacrificing a power surge that is only like 3 or 4 weaponskills in.

[Meatdawg]

If no one gets hit by Dynamo the fight can go very fast because he is not healing himself.

The damage does indeed fluctuate. It may do more based on if your hit from the front/left/rear but I have seen people live/die with the same hp.

[Leoheart]

Plasma Acoustics is a pain in the ass if you're mid combo ><

[fusional]

got a couple 13 minute kills tonight, but we're still not playing perfectly. pretty sure we can knock the time down a couple more minutes if we bring our 'A' game.

definitely the most fun i've had in XIV in quite some time, though

[Jacien]

got a couple 13 minute kills tonight, but we're still not playing perfectly. pretty sure we can knock the time down a couple more minutes if we bring our 'A' game.

definitely the most fun i've had in XIV in quite some time, though

Damn, I'm jealous. I'm just trying to convince people to do it. Because of a few wipes, everyone loses morale, lol.

[Ryans]

I feel your pain, My LS will only do certain fights as static only, meaning people who want to do them are excluded. (It's so bad I'm thinking of dropping that shell completely.) It's not right that people do this, and it only hurts the community in the long run.

Have you ever tried to learn how to do content with a group of 5 static people who are cycling in 3 new people every day? (Just an example of numbers, not actually being specific) It makes the first win take an undeniably longer amount of time and, in my experience, only makes people who participate less interested in the content because of the constant wipes. There are seemingly plateaus for every piece of new content that people have to overcome by experience with the fight and while there is normally room to carry a few new members passed that point, the "veteran" members need to learn the entire fight to do so.

So unless you are dedicated enough to possibly spend hours dying day after day to learn a single piece of content, you will have to wait for your static members to master the fight and then pass on their experience by rotating in a few new members at a time.

Now if they aren't taking any new members in for content like Moogle or Skirmish then you have a valid point, but Garuda, Ifrit (Extreme) and Rivenroad (Hard) are still difficult content for a lot of LSes.

[Alhanelem]

Not saying you are lying but is there any source that the White Raven's won't be in 2.0? Their "all items from the umbral era" was kinda broad and not very helpful. Garleans still exist in 2.0 and I'm assuming that a "White Raven" of some sorts will still be there, maybe not, so just wondering if there is anything really support them not being in 2.0. I'm on board with you though definitely wanting to get that fight done then if the item won't be in 2.0 anymore.

The white ravens are specifically tied to the character and a battle that won't exist in 2.0.

The item won't be removed from the game of course, but only people who have it will have it when 1.0 shuts down.

[Shougun]

The white ravens are specifically tied to the character and a battle that won't exist in 2.0.

The item won't be removed from the game of course, but only people who have it will have it when 1.0 shuts down.

who said the character wont exist in 2.0 or that a re-envisioned battle wont?

People said the same thing about primals and got owned in the face..

[TheFatHousecat]

Damn, I'm jealous. I'm just trying to convince people to do it. Because of a few wipes, everyone loses morale, lol.

Tell them not to lose hope~ Hahah. We're still working at it, and got an 11 min. 33 second kill tonight :3 We're still not playing as well as we could, and we're also going to change the strat in this video to try to get closer to our goal of a kill in ~8 minutes.

BRD view:
http://youtu.be/b54gZklxHeo

BLM view:
http://youtu.be/rnlrfeW0aFg

DRG view:
http://youtu.be/R2DSS5ucS7Q

[Meatdawg]

Tell them not to lose hope~ Hahah. We're still working at it, and got an 11 min. 33 second kill tonight :3 We're still not playing as well as we could, and we're also going to change the strat in this video to try to get closer to our goal of a kill in ~8 minutes.

Here is the fight from BRD point of view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b54gZklxHeo

Nice job.

I liked how you blew through dps wise on the phase 2 golems phase(not letting them spawn). Makes the monk useless and the extra drg much better dps choice. The one blm going up for phase 1 60% was nice as well, sometimes im up there for way to long yelling at people to pick up the dps.

Very nice run.