Cleared Shiva Unreal but

[Fynlar]

I don't know about the rest of you people but whenever I get Garuda EX in a mentor roulette (generally it appears more than the others, possibly because it's the first one to become available and therefore it probably gets more newbie attention), the tanks always manage to colossally screw up the add phase, no matter how much the party tries to instruct them. It certainly ain't no Ramuh EX (where if your tanks don't know the fight and aren't in sync with each other, you might as well go home, because you aren't winning), but it tries to be.

There's been some groups where we only managed to beat it by not giving the tanks a chance to screw up the add phase, and simply having all the DPS go ham on one of the adds and kill it before they gain their "defense+ based on proximity to the other add" buff. That can work when the DPS are i130 and overpower the fight. I don't see it working as well in Unreal.

[Vyrerus]

Personally I can't wait for Ifrit Unreal with his suppuration tank buster that just happens 4~5 times in a row, and that sweet sweet tether, not too mention all those nails. Like yeah, he was easier than Titan or Garuda ultimately, but not by a lot, and that damage was sick.

[Charisma]

It's funny how confused people seem to be about the difficulty of ex fights back in the day... i still remember the outrage on the forums because shiva ex was cleared so fast. It was insane how quick people started solo healing garuda ex and titan ex was just a battle against random lag spikes thanks to datacenters being located in canada.