Anyone else thinks Proto Ultima is fine?

[Yonanja]

For all those saying that it's a prototype, so of course it's weaker than the normal Ultima... Just because it's an early stage of the the thing, doesn't mean that it's weaker, it could just as well mean that it's more volatile and harder to control than the "finished" Ultima weapon, meaning that it could have very well been alot more dangerous. Isn't Ultima also supposed to grow stronger from consuming aether, as it did when consuming the primals in the earlier game? There's no telling what the Proto Ultima might have devoured since it got lose.

Overall, a very lackluster fight.

[LineageRazor]

I was grudgingly entertained by the encounter. I thought that the mechanics were interesting enough, and the difficulty on-par with what a Dun Scaith midboss should be.

The problem is, Proto Ultima has been a fight teased since 3.0. Folks could watch him emerge from the ship in Azys Lla, fly around, and eventually spawn the Prey Online FATE there. I was confident that eventually we'd actually be facing the thing in combat, and that it might even be the climactic battle of the expansion - possibly even the lead-in trial battle for 4.0, much as Steps of Faith was for 3.0. For it to be implemented the way that it was was kind of a letdown; I expected more. I'm not gonna lose a whole lot of sleep over it, though.

[Lunafreya]

Do you mean the content or this thread?

The thread. This can't be real. They advertised it as a 24 man trial and the OP is ok with a 80 second trash fight.

[thegreatonemal]

just another thing that the community hyped up for no real reason. all the devs ever said about it was "hey know that fight you could only do at fanfest? Well now we are gonna let everyone do it." That's it not sure why people were expecting a hard fight with there fully geared out classes. This community really needs to stop building hype trains until an actual reason to build one is given.

[LuckiGoLucki]

I am super ultra ok with it! Thank you for giving me a way to get 270 accessories (and I like the way that chest piece looks) onto my backup classes!!

To the people saying it was falsely advertised: as stated before Yoshi made it pretty clear it would not be a stand alone trial. When my group and I first did it was a welcomed surprise and a very fun fight. Def more fun than the mini boss that is usually there. Thank you FFXIV team!

[Alistaire]

The thread. This can't be real. They advertised it as a 24 man trial and the OP is ok with a 80 second trash fight.

Sure sets the bar low for future content if SE thinks people are ok with it, huh?

[ADVSS]

Its not the worst thing thats ever happened. I honestly dont even get the lore unless dun scath somehow is in azys lla (no it isnt) I mean a trial probably wouldve been better, considering the reward is at least ex worthy but thats fine, makes grinding scripture less necessary...

[Kallera]

Sure sets the bar low for future content if SE thinks people are ok with it, huh?

This is why people worry for Stormblood.

[Alynn]

Free glamour which is true end game so why not? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Remus]

Nope.

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