Quote Originally Posted by Crushnight View Post
Tbf the whole Sea of Clouds section was handled poorly.

Bismarck shouldn't have shown up but be hinted at when we 1st go there. He was a primal and we straight up put killing it on hold(heck completely forget about it for ages) despite full knowing the dangers in doing so. Heck our response to Ravana was way way faster.
If you do the Sea of Clouds part after the first Western Highlands section, then you're immediately getting dragged from that into Alphinaud and Tataru's trial, and from there straight into rescuing Raubahn, and then into tracking down Ysayle and heading off to find Hraesvelgr (which directly includes facing Ravana). You never really have time to go back to Bismark this way, so it's somewhat more understandable.

Of course, if you do the Sea of Clouds part first, then it's a bit looser. It could sorta be justified in Bismark being in a far less populated area than most other primals we've faced up to that point (all of whom were within spitting distance of a major Eorzean city), or in just not having the means to fight Bismark available (for Ravana, we pretty much just walk in and pick a fight).