How would you compare the difficulty of Cinder Drift Extreme to other Extreme Trials?

[OvernightSiren]

The day 5.2 dropped people in my FC were saying that Ruby Weapon Extreme was on the same difficulty level of launch Shinryu Ex/Thordan Ex, but then last night people in my FC were now saying that it's really easy--some even saying it's easier than Lakshmi.

So how would you gauge its difficulty? Also, can anyone recommend a good video guide?

[Zumi]

It is on the easy side compared with other ex primals. They even split the fight into 2 parts with a checkpoint. So even if you die in the 2nd part you start at the checkpoint which only has like 5 min or so left in the fight. Also you can have many deaths the dps check isn't high at all. I seen a group with like 20 deaths and still beat the dps check.

[EaMett]

None of the ex primals this expansion are shin/thordan level. They're all pretty easy. Ruby weapon is somewhere between Titania/Immaculate and Hades I'd say.

[RyuDragnier]

Ruby isn't that hard. There are less mechanics than Hades EX, and the DPS checks can be met even with a few players dying. With the checkpoint halfway through, the fight can be pretty easy. Especially because it follows the same general pattern as Normal mode, so if you memorized the pattern there you won't have too many problems with EX.

[Sebazy]

It's not even remotely on the same level as Thordan EX and I'd say it's a fair bit easier than Shinryu EX.

The pinwheel aoe at the start can be a little tricky to figure out more because it's quite hard to keep track of how the AOES are moving in EX, teammates doing a bad job of baiting beams can make that a bit harder too.

Outside of that, eh there's nothing else that really stands out to me. The DPS check is exceedingly generous, most of the mechanics come with plenty of time to adjust and for the most part it's pretty recoverable if you lose a bunch of people.

Saying it's similar to Lakshmi is a good call really, there's a few base mechanics that are guaranteed to kill you at first glance, but with a little understanding are actually rather simple.

[RokkuEkkusu]

ShB wise, slightly harder than Innocence and Titania, and way easier than Hades.

Just like most EX trials, other players are bigger obstacles.

[Tlamila]

I haven't done it yet but I heard several people say it's even easier than the the Normal one.

[TalithaSolarien]

The fight is pretty easy, the only difficult things are the dodging the pinwheel AOEs at the start and balancing the vines using a controller, but that's a general problem using controller and not so much a Ex problem. The dps checks a very lax esp. compared to Hades Ex.

[Neoom]

Fight itself is really simple, but as other people have said other players are making it harder than it actually is. Not bating AoE's correctly or messing up the heads on P2 or tanks not taking meteors etc. But if people do it correctly it's at same level as Innocence when it comes to difficulty, really forgiving on deaths and even having check point.

[Enla]

The only mechanic I found difficult was the pinwheel mechanic, but after I started treating it like Titan's boulder explosions from E4S it became simple to find the safe spot. Otherwise it's not hard it's just bloody long.

Really, raid fatigue and other players not paying attention are what'll cause a wipe more than anything.