Ultimate hiatus feedback

[Zolvolt]

I love ultimate but the number of players that actually see the content is very low. From a development time standpoint its a bad idea. The proportion of players that see ultimate past ifrit or nael is probably less than 1% of the playerbase. I really love these encounters but finding a group to work on ultimate with is very very difficult, far more difficult than finding people to do Godkefka with because most players quit ultimate before getting past Garuda and statics are quick to fill up because theres a lot of desire for players to do ultimate but not a lot of need from groups to pick up players.

Fights like ultimate would benefit greatly from the connection of data centers and from the addition of a Static recruitment tool.

[Ameela]

I'm curious as to who exactly they pulled comments from to say that odd patch releases was "too rough" when its been near nothing but positive remarks from a majority of the players who are attempting the ultimates.

Probably the team designing these fights lol :v

[Remedi]

As someone that won't be getting ultimate for the time beign I agree with the sentiment here, ultimate is perhaps the best addition to the game since inception imho.

[HaroldSaxon]

+1

I'm really enjoying this content and I hope SE do more

[Silvertongue]

Also, I hope they will not lower the difficulty of ultimate or allow unsyncing after 5.0 will be out. It is attracting already alot of raiders, but not everyone can clear it and it should remain so. The trophy by getting an ultimate clear simply should never lose it worth and can serve as content for future generation of raiders.

Yoshi said in one of the interviews that they hadn't even thought of the content from a 5.0 standpoint and that maybe they'd have to remove the content for a while and then bring it back either scaled or adjusted to accommodate any job changes that may come into play but by no means lessen the difficulty or make it more accessible than it currently is.

[Tigerlilley]

Scrubby midcore static that's been together since BCOB here. We cleared UCOB -eventually- and currently progging Ultimate Ultima. These ultimate fights have really given back what the low tuned Savage raids have been missing. We have been enjoying the challenging progression, even though its left us banging our heads against the wall a few times but hey, we survived Gordias, we beat Bahamut, we are ready!

Absolutely saddened to hear next tiers inevitable week 1 clear Savage will be our last hurrah of expansion. It's going to be very, very hard to justify weekly raiding with really nothing to put the BiS gear into. We use to NEED the gear to clear savage, now it can be done easily in crafted.

We love you FFXIV, we want to see this game succeed for a long time yet to come.

-Deathbook, Behemoth

PS: between next tier of savage and 5.0 expansion, how much time is that? Like a year? Man :/

[Silvertongue]

Probably the team designing these fights lol :v

RIP! LOL the poor devs. "But yoshida! We can't possible make this any harder!?"
*Cracks Whip* "MORE MECHANICS!"

[Silvertongue]

One of the lesser things about Ultimate is that it finally gave us a reason to chase BIS outside of just cleaner weekly kills and speedkills. I normally don't really care about bis late into a tier since we're clearing content anyways but if I have a goal to push towards because I'll want the best gear available for the next fight, what good is that gear to me if the new raid is going to make me toss this gear anyways?

[Sebazy]

Add me to the list of people that are saddened by the lack of a 3rd Ultimate.

I'd argue that it's one of the few pieces of content that hasn't been contentious in it's success and reception. It's pretty fair to say that a very small minority of people will ever clear these turns, but that doesn't give any credit to the much larger number of statics and PFs that work at it regardless. It's without a doubt the perfect mid tier content and keeps the raid community busy, often for longer than the big Savage tiers.

We'll likely see the high end raid scene evaporate a few months after 4.4, not to be seen again until the next expac hits, likely 8+ months later. That's an unfortunate and entirely avoidable state of affairs in my eyes.

[ShamelessEnd]

I wholeheartedly agree with this.

It was extremely dissapointing to learn that we were not going to get another ultimate fight in 4.5. Without one, it feels like there will be, once again, a huge amount of downtime for raiders between the final omega tier and the next expansion. For me, the ultimate series fights has been the single best feature/content introduced into the game since 2.0.

Furthermore, I feel like the players who supposedly complained that there was not enough time to clear UCoB would still have more than enough time to clear UWU before 4.5, because UWU requires significantly less time for a raid group to progress through and clear (it probably requires around half the raid hours vs. UCoB).