Ultima Unreal difficulty level is for preschoolers...

[Jgarcia]

I've been hosting Unreal events for my FC since the first released. Shiva Unreal was an introductory but fun Trial. You turned up the volume with Titan and Levithan, which were a blast. And then came Ultima...
I studied the vids from front to back and jumped into the pf to give it a test run on opening day.
The group I went with had no idea what they were doing, and my co-tank couldn't time their tank swap with me which caused me to die multiple times. We had almost full party wipes, multiple consistent deaths aside from that, it was messy, and yet we didn't even hit enrage.
I am embarrassed by the insanely easy difficulty of this Unreal Trial. What happened?!

[Wissp]

The Ex version was not very hard to begin with, and it did not look like they did much to ramp up the difficulty much for level 90 jobs.

Part of the reason it is so easy are all the ways for level 90's to recover from bad stuff happening to people.

Hell, we messed up where we had to use the LB3 to raise people and STILL made it past the 3rd set of orbs by massive healing and shielding and never saw an enrage even though it took longer then usual to finish.

The fight really needs to be tuned better for all the higher abilities.

[Jgarcia]

It definitely needs to be tuned better. They might as well have just given us the original as we powered through it just the same.
During a live letter, Yoshi was cryptic when skimming over the the difficulty of this upcoming Unreal. I was so excited for the next challenge until I experienced it myself.
I have no idea what they were thinking on this one.

[Recon1o6]

its just as undertuned as before? thats a blow

Unsurprising though. SE has been undertuning extremes since stormblood more and more to the point there's little challenge in most of them in the face of a party that has basic competence

[Ayche]

Well it is the very first one after all. And last Orbs are still "LB3 or wipe" kind of mechanic for PF, so I think it is about right for Unreal.

[JamieRose]

How do you people lie about this with a straight face?

Like every Unreal, it's broken.

The 3rd orb mechanic: If you do it, you wipe. If you don't do it, you wipe.

Please explain to me how that is "preschool".

[Jgarcia]

I suggest you re-read what I wrote.
Apparently your reputation precedes you lol

[Jgarcia]

Ooo, do tell!

[VictorSpoils]

Evidently, they decided against having a mechanic-heavy fight in favor of retaining those unforgiving orbs.

[Duskane]

its just as undertuned as before? thats a blow

Unsurprising though. SE has been undertuning extremes since stormblood more and more to the point there's little challenge in most of them in the face of a party that has basic competence

EX haven't been hard since Sephirot