Rathalos EX

[AxlStream]

Hi all,

Does anyone think its a little bit much to have to grind this damn fight 50 times for the mount? You only get 1 scale+ per fight? That doesn't feel right for an event. 10 times is understandable, but 50? Who the hell thought that would be ok? An event should be something almost everyone can do, not a raid like reward. Feel that they need to reduce it.

It's not an event, it's a crossover. A permanent one at that. Rathalos ain't going anywhere and will still be around for 6.0 where you can probably solo him. Wait until then if 50 fights instead of our regular 99 is too much for ya.

[Mixt]

Nope, this isn't possible.

Every single party fails miserably.

Oh yeah, and when i get the marker the first time at the last phase? I hallowed ground it, negating the first two hits completely, and can easily take the third solo.
Every last party insists on running up and stacking on me anyway, causing them to take damage needlessly.

DPS is really low in most groups too, even when Rathalos get's downed we barely even chip him.

And the group of adds in the first phase is severely mismanaged by every party as well.
Yeah sure guys, pull the mobs away from the boss and DPS them down individually, bloody brilliant idea...
The only one you should be actively trying to kill yourselves rather than let the boss do it is the Couerl, mainly because that cone attack is bloody dangerous when the big add comes around, let the rest of them keep hitting the boss and be killed by it in turn.

[Canadane]

Yeah people stacking when they shouldn't has been an issue.
I had a tank ragequit on me because we only stacked two people max, he thought you required all four or sonething. We did it fine with 2, healer was happy they didn't need to esuna as much, but when we eventually wiped for unrelated reasons he cussed us out and dropped. We kinda laughed him off and found a killer pld right after and had a blast farming without issue.

[Kahnom]

Finally got mine.
And...all of my skirts glam’ve got clipped pretty bad.
Dunno about other races’s sit animation though.

Just FYI for any fem Au Ra out there.

[Kusanagi7]

ive cleared it 6 times now by just pugging it i enjoy it definitely better than pagos.

[Odstarva]

I haven't had half as many issues, but it might have to do with the fact that me and my sam friend know how to play our classes properly, and we've been farming together.
We've had a healer or a tank here or there who didn't do as well as we'd hoped, but we've been pulling through pretty well. Probably helps we aren't farming it 24/7, that would get boring fast.

I was lucky to get a mount drop, my friend is sitting on 42 tokens so he's not far off now.

[Mixt]

And more failures.

The healer wouldn't use Esuna to remove the fire stacks, people were running around with 5+ DOT stacks and running out of potions and dying.

Sigh, at this rate i'm not going to clear it before the next gear tier comes out.

[Tsalmaveth]

And more failures.

The healer wouldn't use Esuna to remove the fire stacks, people were running around with 5+ DOT stacks and running out of potions and dying.

Sigh, at this rate i'm not going to clear it before the next gear tier comes out.

This is why I want to find a dedicated group to run it with... but I just don't know people. And every duty finder I see up lately is 'Duty Complete' only. I run heals and specifically practiced on the NM to learn my role... it 'vexes' me that there are so many players that just don't do this out there. -_- I have no clue if I'll even SEE the EX at this rate. XD I'll just wait and poke the people I do know once they've finished running it with their buddies. Tch.

[Rainyaviel]

In the same boat here. The fight really isn't all that hard, but I simply can't find people to clear it with. I've had zero luck with the parties from pf, and non of my friends or fc members are even remotely interested in clearing/farming it. Apparently if there isn't a huge orange floor marker screaming "DON'T STAND HERE" people just can't dodge it. Also, dps checks. Most parties I've been in can't even kill the Garula in time...

If there are any people on the EU data centre who want to put together a dedicated group to farm this, feel free to message/mail me ingame! At this point I'm just done with the pf -sigh-

[Coratanni]

Maybe. The groups I've played with have enjoyed it and want more like this. I thought this was what people wanted. Least as far as harder content. Difficulty is a hard thing to scale tho, even harder when your base is as large as xivs.

This is definitely not what i wanted. Five duty find tries so far and only one pull close to clearing. It's a pain as a healer.