Thread: Changes to Savage with 6.2

Originally Posted by Renalt

I'll take that bet. I feel my weapon alone would equate to perhaps ILevel 130 ish...so I can see it being soloable with my abilities. I'll let ya know how it goes...for better or worse.

This should be interesting kupo <3 i might do this now just go in tanking in my birthday suit and a giant zweihandler kupo <3 rofl

Originally Posted by Kaurhz

How do you figure? Doesn't the tome weapon require several weeks' worth of additional items from the normal mode counterpart? 4 weeks' worth to be exact.

The X tomestone item that you exchange the actual weapons for drops in the 2nd turn of the raid tier, and the item to upgrade that drops in the 3rd turn.

Originally Posted by MrSigy

- your A point: there was always a decision you had to make for yourself as a static do we take time to get ex weapons or do we just ignore it. All the time you would ignore it even in e8s, e12s. But you had to make a choice. Now there is no choice you farm the ex weapons beforehand to go into savage as there is nothing else to do. By this point you have already +1 wpndmg and 9 vit then in the past.

Considering that farming 10 totems took at tops, 3 ish hours both times my group did it for our week 1 clears on the Eden tiers, the choice is extremely obvious for 99.9% of groups. Save yourself potential <1% wipe headaches for a 3hr investment. The only groups this choice is a big consideration for is when they're going for World 1st, where every hour counts.

and to be technical, you always have the choice. Just convince your static not to farm them 'for the challenge'.

That, and I think you're once again severely underestimating how much health those pieces are giving you. 9 vit is 219 HP (for ranged), or an increase of 0.04% Health. When most raidwides week 1 on the last fight are designed to just straight up 1-shot without mit or shields by doing 120%+ of the average max HP, that 219 HP is effectively invisible. Damage variance alone is +/- 5% and would have 10x more impact if someone survived or not than the HP ever could. The extra HP that weapon adds is basically invisible outside of extreme niche cases, it's not making things 'easier to survive' in any discernible way, shape or form. Early weeks of savage is all about the mitigation & shields.

Originally Posted by MrSigy

- your B point: Sorry I don't remember the last time I actually bought a tome weapon for clearing savage content. You don't need it so I never bothered with it. Anyway you feed your dps gear as much as possible anyway so I don't see where this one was going.

Because now its a valid option week 1 by making the dps check easier in the event we have a Shiva 2.0, and is the only actual thing that is even a point of discussion about making Savage easier when it comes to this, since the extra defense/HP is basically invisible.

Originally Posted by MrSigy

I haven't felt a challenge as a healer in well forever even in DRU, it's just oh you have mitigation congratulation you pass.

Welcome to Final Fantasy 14 boss design, enjoy your stay. It's never been about reactionary skills or RNG, it's been always about learning the song and dance of mechanics, mitigation & OGCD heals, then executing the same song and dance consistently. Every Savage & Ultimate since Creator has been designed this way, with the occasional 'hey, lets spam tons of damage at the end of the fight to keep healers occupied'