How's Ultimate?

[KarstenS]

how is it?

With the announcement "prepare to see all mechanics we ever had in this game" in mind...

We had one hour last evening to take a look. Got Twintania down to 27%. Thats currently much faster than A8S progression.

What we have seen are mechanics of the original Twintania only. Not all of them. Some are missing completely.

Still waiting to see "every mechanic we have seen in this game".

[Steviejd]

With the announcement "prepare to see all mechanics we ever had in this game" in mind...

We had one hour last evening to take a look. Got Twintania down to 27%. Thats currently much faster than A8S progression.

What we have seen are mechanics of the original Twintania only. Not all of them. Some are missing completely.

Still waiting to see "every mechanic we have seen in this game".

You realise that Twintania isn't the whole fight? That is only phase 1.

[KarstenS]

You realise that Twintania isn't the whole fight? That is only phase 1.

Onslaughter in A8S was also only Phase 1 of a fight with 7 phases (8 if you count the softenrage as a phase). We needed alot more time to progress this first phase in A8S. When Coil Ultimate is really just 3 or 4 phases long, then our current progress is much faster.

[Steviejd]

Onslaughter in A8S was also only Phase 1 of a fight with 7 phases (8 if you count the softenrage as a phase).

You were complaining about not seeing all the mechanics in the game yet have only got phase 1 to 27%. And you say that your progress is faster than in A8S, making it sound like A8s is harder. There is a reason why the top prog groups haven't beaten it yet...clue? It's hard.

[KarstenS]

You were complaining about not seeing all the mechanics in the game yet have only got phase 1 to 27%.

I know what I have seen. I know what other have seen behind this point. At Twintania is nothing more happening than I've seen. Neal is bringing also "just Neal stuff".

When do you expect they will bring everything else? Within the last minute of the fight?

[KageTokage]

It honestly doesn't look that complex mechanically but the DPS checks are extremely tight, and pretty much all of the mechanics will one-shot you or even the entire party if you mess up at them, making it easily the most unforgiving fight in the game.

I think the "all the mechanics in the game" thing was an extreme exaggeration, as you're only dealing with select mechanics from each of the bosses and, but it gets hairy when you start having to deal with them simultaneously and have almost no safe zones to work with due to how tiny the arena is.

[Nihility]

pretty sure the weapons are meant to look like sparkly golden trophies. that phantom bahamut wings thing they have is really cool though even if it's hard to see.

it looks like there is a 4th phase after bahamut where your dealing with all 3 at once.
dealing with Nael while twintania is flying around creating havoc then bahamut with both of them giving you trouble seems like quite a task already

[Texa]

pretty sure the weapons are meant to look like sparkly golden trophies.

They are just shiny golden trophies, but it's interesting that they are gold and black because the actual Bahamut primal was gold

He looked like this in the Answers video too but it was really difficult to tell because of the lighting. they're very clearly patterned after the REAL Bahamut primal and not Bahamut Prime from binding coils who was blue and purple

[Coatl]

It's fun as all hell. Me and my static threw ourselves at it for about two hours before someone had to leave, but we all agreed we only wanted more of it the next day. I'm not saying ALL raids should be like this, but FFXIV NEEDs more raids like this. Very punishing, very brutal, very addicting and guaranteed to test you.

If you are a true raider you will love it. If you don't like it I'm not sure what to tell you, besides that you might actually just be a sheep in wolf's clothing.

[jameseoakes]

It's fun as all hell. Me and my static threw ourselves at it for about two hours before someone had to leave, but we all agreed we only wanted more of it the next day. I'm not saying ALL raids should be like this, but FFXIV NEEDs more raids like this. Very punishing, very brutal, very addicting and guaranteed to test you.

If you are a true raider you will love it. If you don't like it I'm not sure what to tell you besides that you might actually just be a sheep in wolf's clothing.

But the part of the community that does that is VERY small which is a major problem