Thread: Patch 2.3 EX Primal "Nerf"

Not really a nerf letting people skip the content. But I would also say Titan is easier then Levithan mainly because Levithan spinning dives and circles are random, everything titan does is scripted and you can do him all day long and not ever mess up. Levithan its much easier to get hit because there is a chance you won't turn your camera in the right spot.

Originally Posted by Zumi

Not really a nerf letting people skip the content. But I would also say Titan is easier then Levithan mainly because Levithan spinning dives and circles are random, everything titan does is scripted and you can do him all day long and not ever mess up. Levithan its much easier to get hit because there is a chance you won't turn your camera in the right spot.

There's actually a trick with this for DPS and tanks. Stand near the center of the edge of the platform on the shorter side (side of and opposite of the generator thing), your camera zoomed all the way out behind you. You will see either the spout behind you or ahead of you, whichever side he will spinning dive across. Move to the opposite part to dodge it. Sadly this won't help against that annoying spinning dive coming from the corners, but it's an 80% success rate for helping you dodge. Also, his circles are not random, he has 2 aiming at the healers while he's out of the water (smaller ones), and several giant ones he aims at DPS.

It's a lot easier for me to do him than Titan EX. Titan EX I'm constantly on edge, expecting the latency to kill me. In Leviathan Ex, I'm calm and collected, doing my job, knowing that latency will not get me killed in any way. In fact, if I were to label the difficulty of the primals from what I've seen as DPS (ignoring good king mog since I have yet to do that one), this is the chart:

Garuda -> Ifrit -> Leviathan -> Titan

Enough people couldn't beat Titan I guess, lol.

Fights like these should be done of the challenge and satisfaction, with the loot being a nice bonus reward. Requiring that players have to beat certain gates in order to see more content is a bad idea that will force them away from the content, if not the game entirely. There needs to be a means for casual players, or those who struggle to meet the requirements of certain content, to be able to continue on and not be left behind. They, and others, can tackle that older content later when they feel more prepared for it, simply for the challenge and the fun. Y'know, because this is a game and it is meant to be fun for you.

it WILL take away almost all incentive todo any one of those fights especially Titan Extreme!

Good.

/10char

Honestly, the only reason to do the original extreme primals was the Bahamut weapons. Some are still the most viable, like the Dual Hakken (until you get lucky at Turn 9, that is). Beyond that there really is little reason to run them. Locking other extreme primals behind them only served to lock content from those who don't want to bother with the Bahamut weapons.

Originally Posted by Drayf

Ofcourse its nice for those who have tried for weeks and weeks on end and just want to move on and see other content, but then again they will certainly not be able to clear those new fights either.

Just saying >.> I've been trying for months on end, keep getting stuck with the horribads who can't press 2 buttons to move out of plumes. Always the last alive, I never get hit. So no, not all the people who are stuck "will certainly not be able to clear those new fights". A good majority won't be able to, because they're just plain bad, but theres some good people who are still stuck on it too.

I hope they'll add something to the EX primal drop tables so they'll still be worth running in the future...

stuff like mirrors to upgrade related gear to an item level competitive with the current contents item levels.

As ive come to the conclusion of (which is sort of true) from another Post on this Forum its actually irrelevant how high your gear lvl is as the Fights are mechanics driven and Gear and Echo have very little effect as to how you can defeat a certain Boss because if you derp on the mechanics it doesnt matter how good your equipped you will wipe :P

I never like nerfs really, it makes me stressed to do all the new content as fast as possible so that I can do it before SE nerfs it.
The only thing I like about this is that now I can do Moggle King extreme and I reaaally want the cute necklaces.
But I guess if they nerf this I'll never get to do Titan or Ifrit Ex cause no one is gonna do them anymore. Garuda Ex is the only one I've done