How's Ultimate?

[Enjuden]

If people want to put in the effort to get better, they will put in the effort and look up the relevant info. Some jobs are admittedly much harder to find BiS and why said items are BiS (IE Samurai), but the information is there, and out in the public to look at. It's internet 101. I hate to say it but what keybinds are good and what isn't is not something a guide is useful for. That's for you to figure out, and only you can say what's comfortable for yourself. I had to nearly ditch the keyboard entirely for a gaming mouse in order to be useful in XIV and other mmos I played.

Are people going to post things on the official forums for optimal rotation? Maybe, but look at what happened to Dervy. He got banned for trying to help people. He posted tools that he used, why x was better than y, what rotation did more dps compared to another, and he got banned for it. That's why you won't see things on the official forums and most of it is hearsay, or worse, blatantly wrong. The forums are good at telling you what to do, but never why, and that's the difference.

As for people who are dismissive? That's hit and miss. I've seen people that are willing to invest a lot of time in people who are inexperienced from the top end raiders, as well as what you say you see. I hate to say it, but pugs are just as much of a team as a static. Are they temporary? Yea, but they're still a team. The only difference between a static that cuts people loose for poor performance and a pug is one is temporary and the other isn't.

On topic: It's hard. Real hard. Twin took about four hours to figure out how to do and get to enrage, and that's with help from streams. I haven't gone to Nael yet, but I hear bad things from the people I'm running it with. They're pugging it, by the way. I'm going to try it again after the raids are done and hopefully see Nael. I've been through the coils when it was relevant, but from seeing what videos there were of the Nael portion of the fight, it will probably take me a while to wrap my head around what's even going on in that phase. 6-8 hours, maybe? Boss mechanics that act like that are a personal weakness of mine. It also made me realize how important being self sufficient is in XIV. Not being able to make your own food and potions is costly, so that is something I'm now working on. So far my answer is yes, it definitely lives up to the moniker of Ultimate. It's orderly at first, then grows chaotic near the end with Twintania. Nael is a special case of chaotic though from what I'm hearing.