Seat of Sacrifice

[Iscah]

The QTE goes from "impossible" to "faceroll' as soon as people realize you can use more than one key/button.

Playing on PS4, I can't keyboard smash (it goes into the text box) but I find that two buttons pressed alternately is enough. The D-pad can be used as well as the symbol buttons, though I prefer to shift grip on the controller so I can hit the Triangle and Circle buttons with my pointer fingers instead of my thumbs.

[Semirhage]

The QTE in this trial is a fakeout as far as button mashing difficulty. The bar fights you pretty hard until about 20%, then a single button press gives you a generous chunk back. You don't need to finish it with the bar full, just non-empty. The top 80% of the bar exists to create an adrenaline rush, but there's a safety net at the bottom.

That part (ignoring how wretchedly bad at this game most of the playerbase is, and how one failure wipes the party) is good design.

[Rayne6665]

I really like SoS xD there was one time i was in the trial roulette for it, we wiped at the active time maneuver and the tank timing for LB3 , we all laughed about it and we did it right the second time lol i havent cleared EX version unsynced to farm for my gwib cus theres so many mechs to memorize by memory even after watching MTQcapture’s extreme guide learning and absorb all the visual mechanics into my brain but one day I’ll get my clear for SoS EX and get my gwib

[Krotoan]

Playing on PS4, I can't keyboard smash (it goes into the text box) but I find that two buttons pressed alternately is enough. The D-pad can be used as well as the symbol buttons, though I prefer to shift grip on the controller so I can hit the Triangle and Circle buttons with my pointer fingers instead of my thumbs.

I play on PC with a Razer controller, used to use an XBOX and/or PS4 controller. Same thing.. Push all the buttons. like.. ALL of them. D-pad.. errythang. Maybe not the start button.. but the rest of them count.

[weebtext]

I did it day 1 and I really liked every bit of it with the exception of the QTE. I don't mind QTEs in general but like others have already said, one person failing causing a wipe and not being able to tell who failed it is, without a doubt, the worst.

Tank LB3 being needed is always something I'll welcome.

[Jeeqbit]

I and many others thought seat of sacrifice was stupid hard and we wiped 4 times before finishing with few survivors, I managed to survive the last one but I hope I never get stuck healing in that roulette instance ever again lol

It's not very hard, but it's hard for inexperienced players that are not used to hard content. Knowing this, SE put a checkpoint in the normal version.

The extreme version is much harder (I can't speak for how it is unsynced now, I mean at release item level). A lot of what gets telegraphed isn't telegraphed in extreme and there is a quintuple cast you have to remember.

All of these mechanics are reused from older (normal mode) raids but at the beginning, it puts a Doom on everyone so healers have to heal a lot. It imbues itself with an element. Fire hurts if you are moving when the status expires and ice hurts and freezes you if you are not moving when the cast ends. The transition requires a tank LB3 to be used.

LB1 only affects a few people so they shouldn't overlap. LB2 is a stack marker on each healer, so the party should split. LB3 drops a meteor on 4 people who should go to a separate corner while everyone else stays in the middle. LB3 frequently wipes parties, so to a prevent a wipe, the tanks and healers can try to use mitigation such as reprisal, buffs and shields.

Other mechanics are frequently done incorrectly, such as aiming the bahamuts at the party or overlapping a flare and stack, but they are not as devastating like the extreme version so you can heal through it and get people up after it.

I find it fun to heal because I get to watch lots of people die.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Playing on PS4, I can't keyboard smash. I prefer to shift grip on the controller so I can hit the Triangle and Circle buttons with my pointer fingers instead of my thumbs.

Honestly, why not just hit every button on the controller?
Hold it with both hands, and rapidly circle your thumbs in a Clockwise or counter-clockwise fashion pressing the D-Pad and Symbol Keys, and then you Index and Middle fingers can press the triggers.
Simpler QTEs are done in a flash...like 1 whole second. The SoS is programed I think to make you feel pressured but so long as you keep rapid pressing in some way you are good.

[Hysterior]

Hope they don't touch (nerf) this one. It's one of the best trials we ever had!

[Jettinson]

Would be my favorite trial if some players would legit turn brain on the Quicktime event.
Great song, great boss, has a great intro and fun pace but all just makes it frustrating with players that do not bother trying a little.

Just a major turn off wiping because 1 person just does not do the easy button press for the 5th time despite people helping

[Iscah]

Honestly, why not just hit every button on the controller?
Hold it with both hands, and rapidly circle your thumbs in a Clockwise or counter-clockwise fashion pressing the D-Pad and Symbol Keys, and then you Index and Middle fingers can press the triggers.

Because I don't think it's any faster, or certainly not any easier. I think I can rapid-mash the one button with my finger faster than I can roll my thumb around the other buttons, even more so if trying to do it with two hands at once, and pressing the two buttons is more than enough to fill the gauge. There's no benefit to doing it in one second with difficulty instead of doing it more comfortably and still within the time limit.

Also I'm pretty sure the trigger buttons don't work, otherwise I would just use those.