New Unreal is a an all around miserable experience.

[Issaella]

I'm willing to concede Ultimate Weapon may have been under-tuned, but this is straight up awful and i hate it.

Four hours last night with nothing to show for it except missing clumps of hair and cracked teeth. Saw repeat of p3 mechanics twice, in 4h, 38% best run. Numerous insta-wipe mechanics, hard to see telegraphs (the ****ing flash before the pillars!). It might as well be 2 entirely separate fights, because p3 has no mechanical overlap with the previous phases.

Unreal was the one piece of high end content I could do reliably on a weekly basis without wanting to smash my head against my desk. What purpose does this massive ramp up in difficulty serve? Chase off all the people who were doing UW reliably in PF last patch? Because I sure as hell don't want to waste another 4h trying to get a clear, I did Sav in PF last tier where weekly reclears were a complete crapshoot, I have no desire to repeat that.

Thanks for giving me one less reason to log in. I bet 1mil gil that my fc wont even be able to fill a group next week after last night without 4/8 PuGs. I don't want to do it again, that's for sure.

[Padudu]

When people ask why we can't have difficult/hard content, this is why lol.

[Issaella]

You have Sav, Ultimate, and Ex. Why can't we have 1 piece of content that people can do without hours upon hours of misery?

[Bukachu]

You have Sav, Ultimate, and Ex. Why can't we have 1 piece of content that people can do without hours upon hours of misery?

Isnt there plenty of content where you can play without any reasonable difficulty?

[Vrankyl]

You have Sav, Ultimate, and Ex. Why can't we have 1 piece of content that people can do without hours upon hours of misery?

Unreal Trials are EX level difficulty. They were always supposed to be. The design concept behind them is supposed to upgraded versions of the original Ex fights tuned to max level. It's supposed to be difficult, and it is no surprise that Sephirot is harder that Ultimate Weapon. At release Sephirot really did a number on groups in the Ex mode.

[Padudu]

You have Sav, Ultimate, and Ex. Why can't we have 1 piece of content that people can do without hours upon hours of misery?

Unreal is supposed to be a little bit difficult?

It's literally the first week of the patch. Keep progging and keep up the practice, in no time you will get it. Some savage/extreme fights are not even that hard too bro.

[kaynide]

I'm not trying to assume anything as I basically don't touch Unreal, but I was always under the impression that Unreal is supposed to be hard; essentially as hard as the ex boss was when it was brand new.

I also thought it was exactly the EX fight, but scaled up.

So... Are you able to clear the fight on regular EX with minimal iLVL? Or maybe run the old EX fight unsync'd and just study the mechanics with your group?

[Issaella]

No, because there isn't anything between braindead 1-shot clears (Expert, Normal raids) and miserably hours long wipefests with minimal chance of success. Like I said, last Unreal I could at least make the assumption that if I had 45 minutes to set aside I could get 2 clears for the weekly reward. There is no way that's happening this time.

[Padudu]

No, because there isn't anything between braindead 1-shot clears (Expert, Normal raids) and miserably hours long wipefests with minimal chance of success. Like I said, last Unreal I could at least make the assumption that if I had 45 minutes to set aside I could get 2 clears for the weekly reward. There is no way that's happening this time.

You're giving up before you can even try to see the fight through tbh. Like I said, give it time for people to even touch unreal and grasp the mechanics fully. Sorry this unreal actually has to make you do mechanics and think. :/

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

It's sephirot. This is how he was during 3.x when he released.

The while point of unreal trials was to make old ex fights on the same level as they were then, but at level cap.