How's Ultimate?

[Texa]

The ultimate carrot on the stick in this game is glamour that can be shown off and I don't know anyone who isn't super into one or two of the Bahamut weapons.

I don't care about the stats on this baby, it could have parry retroactively out of spite and I would walk barefoot through the snow for a glimmer of a chance to rub it on my face. If I had a facebook I would be in a relationship with this specific ast mainhand. Spread this baby on a cracker it is a hot dish.

I love it.

[Enla]

Honestly speaking I'm fine with them using Ultimate as a template for hardcore content going forward. It's recycling assets so it keeps the actual development costs low and it isn't like it's locking you out of progression gear with Savage now standing as the current midcore content. It's just a nice little something to keep raiders interested in the game, which even though it's not my cup of tea I can very much applaud.

[Yudzster]

it's bswpayton again my dudes

[Nestama]

Ultimate has nothing to do with 4.1 being empty. Let hardcore players enjoy something in a catch-up patch for a change (chances are I'll never do Ultimate and I'm fine with that).

[NanaWiloh]

I am perfectly fine with the hardcore community having content aimed at them. I've been watching one team in Japan work on it, they just got their first nael kill about 15 minutes ago as of this post. They lasted a good 90 seconds against Bahamut and got very little damage in during that time cause they have no strat for mechanics yet.

[Unaki]

I am perfectly fine with the hardcore community having content aimed at them. I've been watching one team in Japan work on it, they just got their first nael kill about 15 minutes ago as of this post. They lasted a good 90 seconds against Bahamut and got very little damage in during that time cause they have no strat for mechanics yet.

Are you talking about 5150 on Tiamat? If so then they've been getting to Bahamut like every fourth pull for the past day.

[DaulBan]

Everything I've seen is cool, haven't had a chance to go in with the static yet aside from a random Twin pug. It's cool I guess? Seeing Coil stuff with a bit of meat behind it is nice.

My only complaint is that from what I've seen / played this is one of those fights where the tanks just... Don't do anything. Don't get targeted, don't have a mechanic to do... Just tank swaps. Could be wrong, not a lot of tank PoVs out there aside from Xeno but I'm sorta disappointed. I guess we got all the fun stuff from Neo so I can't complain all that much

I'm also just glad I'm going to have something to chew on during the off patch. I usually don't get to do much aside from grab gear for alt classes, but this should be hard enough that I'm going to be working on it all the way until 4.2... Slim chance I beat it.

[Dualblade]

My only complaint is that from what I've seen / played this is one of those fights where the tanks just... Don't do anything. Don't get targeted, don't have a mechanic to do... Just tank swaps. Could be wrong, not a lot of tank PoVs out there aside from Xeno but I'm sorta disappointed. I guess we got all the fun stuff from Neo so I can't complain all that much .

To my understanding just in Twintania not tank swapping at the right time is an instant death, and thus 9 times out of 10 insta group wipe. As well what I have heard from Nael she does not only a lot of damage with auto attacks but that + plus things like 5x Bahamut Claws (I think its called) pretty much wrecks you.

On whether Ultimate should even be a thing since only a small fraction of players will do it: Sweet, keep doing that! The skill gap between players is there, this isn't even a bad thing because there always will be such. Much of the game can already be cleared by a majority of players so long as they have the time. Savage has been a wall but even here some players have found themselves wanting more of a challenge. SE clearly believes they can provide that while still delivering content for everyone else, and I'm all for it.

Honestly I don't think there would be as much complaining if Eureka hadn't been delayed. But it is what it is, and if Eureka ends up being good even more for the better.

[Remedi]

Can't really consider ultimate a trial it's more like a boss rush style encounter tbh

[technole]

Ultimate is fun because it's a remix of the best raid this game was ever graced with all packaged in one trial. The good type of head banging after each wipe.

Can't really consider ultimate a trial it's more like a boss rush style encounter tbh

A6S was the same method, four different bosses and no check point. Gauntlet-style fight, same as this one.