I haven’t done Suzaku or Suzaku Ex yet (probably will this weekend though; been a bit busy with school and life throughout the week), but I did do Alphascape NM on Patch Day, and farmed the floors a bit Wednesday evening. And I had far more fun than I thought I would.

I wasn’t really looking forward to Alphascape Savage, simply because there was no Ultimate to gear up for and I much preferred just spending time doing Ultimate content instead, but after going through the normal mode raids, I’m hyped again for the Savage version (especially V12S). I love how the normal modes finally have some teeth to them, and even though I know it could be because we’re still in old gear from the previous patch, they just feel like they’re stronger compared to Deltascape NM and Sigmascape NM. Plus they have actual DPS checks in 3/4 of them, and V12N even has a soft enrage from what I’ve seen! That’s probably my favorite thing about that fight, as it miffed me that things like Guardian NM and Kefka NM could go on literally f o r e v e r.

I’m glad to have more 8-man content that actually requires players to pay attention. Please make more normal mode 8-man raids like this one.