How would you rank the difficulty of these raids?

[FarelTheGecko]

Hello, I have an odd question:

I am WHM/RDM player. Totally not meta, and given what changes to the meta the next expansion might bring, I won't be getting into the current extreme/savage content. I spend time doing a lot of different content first, which includes completing the old extreme/savage stuff. Right now this leaves me with 5 types of things that I could be doing:
-The Second Coil of Bahamut (Savage)
-The Final Coil of Bahamut
-Alexander: Gordias (Savage)
-Alexander: Midas (Savage)
-Alexander: The Creator (Savage)

There is an increased difficulty, because even with a full team of level 70 people, some of these fights include specific mechanics, which, if not followed, can lead to a complete wipe, and when creating a team via Party Finder, odds are that the people joining in won't know the mechanics, and in the case of some fights, they cannot be easily nor quickly explained via party chat (Why else did I need so long to get through Sophia EX? Heh).

I felt like tackling all of these, but I feel certain that it should a "one at a time" thing, to keep track of the strategy and if failed, gradually get better at it with practice. So, could anyone provide me with some opinion on what would be easiest to confront? This does factor in the recruitment of random people from Party Finder!


Thank you very much for your help!

[Crushnight]

it entirely depends if you plan to do them synced or unsynced
for synced the order of difficulty be like this:
Final coil
Creator
second coil savage/midas (Far more mechanical heavy than previous 2)
Gordias (they have nerfed the 1st 3 fights mechanically and i haven't been in synced since but A4S hasn't changed and was a gear check while possible i'll suspect highly unlikely pf will kill it, these fights were very overtuned)

for unsync(assuming party of 8):
Final coil
Second coil savage (gear nowadays they burn so fast but some mechaincs can be a problem in pf)
Gordias (only one need to sort out is A4S for royal penticle, this stuff was outgeared within it's own expansion to the point non raiders could set up a pf for A1S farm parties)
Creator (Alex still requires some communication due to his phases after his big attack at this point should be dead around crystals latest)
Midas (plenty of 1 shots and you want BJ to die fast :P)

[KarstenS]

Whats wrong with RDM or WHM? They are not the first choice for speedkills. But they are in a good spot for progression. And overall they are both in a better spot than MCH or MNK.

[Maero]

Red Mage is completely fine, while i more or less main Red Mage since introduced a friend and i have cleared fcob with just himself as Red Mage and me as Warrior.
SCOB is a different story but i plan on trying again when Blu is out.

I think you should start with coil first and progress to other raids. Not sure if people still do Wonderous Tails but i always have seen parties for coil because of it.