The Omega Protocol

[Amarande]

The sad thing, is that people have been asking for an increase to the Buff Cap since Delubrum Reginae Savage.
And were completely ignored.

Now the current Ultimate fight has the same issue, watch it get patched to cater to the 10% of people that run it.

That's assuming that working with the buff cap isn't actually an intended mechanic here.

On the other hand, that's worrisome. It literally means that we're looking at a future where certain classes simply need not apply at the high end (DNC and SGE having too many buffs to be safe has been mentioned. As a WHM main, I guess there's a small smile there in that it might mean WHM can seriously be considered over AST for once in a lifetime?), i.e., SE has finally decided to join Blizzard in the "bring the class, not the player" paradigm. Which seems contrary to how things have always supposed to have been in the past (note them bending over backwards to try and fix P8S where "bring the class" became a serious issue, including nerfing a currently relevant boss in that manner for the first time in what, ever?).

On the other other hand, this is ultimately a JRPG superboss fight, and I've played enough JRPGs to know that obtuse gimmicks like this are practically de rigeur for superboss fights (although this seems more common in turn based games like Shin Megami Tensei and Persona; action-oriented ones, like 4D Freya in Star Ocean and even Yiazmat tend to be more straightforward) ...

[Asari5]

or it just might be tbeir reasoning to remove more and more buffs from the game. in the name of streamlining, button bloat, balance and the buff cap

[TempusFinis]

Of course this is harder than DSR with dynamis.* Omega has always been a superboss of the final fantasy franchise, so it is no surprise this will be an extreme test of the most elite of the hardest core players in the gaming community.


This could actually be the fabled and rumored 'Unobtainable' legend….

[Graeham]

Smart potion it is out of the stock on the General Disgust forum. Must look in other place if want to use it in the TOP.

[TempusFinis]

After witnessing the great online streamers today and fierce battles of the top teams, I believe TOP will take more than 11 days, and most likely unseat UCOB of the title, "Longest time to achieve 'Worlds First'"

[TempusFinis]

Until it's confirmed by Square Enix, the race is still on.* We don't know if the twitter picture is a deepfake, photoshopped data mined hack, blender rendering, and etc.


If 3rd party tools were used, it's against TOS. * Obviously, if the TOP achievement shows up on their character profiles on the lodestone, I dont think it will bode well for them with these incriminating TOS pictures.


We shall see….

[Kyrj]

That's assuming that working with the buff cap isn't actually an intended mechanic here.

On the other hand, that's worrisome. It literally means that we're looking at a future where certain classes simply need not apply at the high end (DNC and SGE having too many buffs to be safe has been mentioned. As a WHM main, I guess there's a small smile there in that it might mean WHM can seriously be considered over AST for once in a lifetime?), i.e., SE has finally decided to join Blizzard in the "bring the class, not the player" paradigm. Which seems contrary to how things have always supposed to have been in the past (note them bending over backwards to try and fix P8S where "bring the class" became a serious issue, including nerfing a currently relevant boss in that manner for the first time in what, ever?).

On the other other hand, this is ultimately a JRPG superboss fight, and I've played enough JRPGs to know that obtuse gimmicks like this are practically de rigeur for superboss fights (although this seems more common in turn based games like Shin Megami Tensei and Persona; action-oriented ones, like 4D Freya in Star Ocean and even Yiazmat tend to be more straightforward) ...

If this is intentional than SE is stupid as shit. I don't think it is or they are, but hey I've been proven wrong before.

[TempusFinis]

A lot of lodestone profiles are time stamped and I would venture to say if we see another 8 characters with the 'The alpha legend' title or the TOP achievement without incriminating photos or evidence, they would be the legitimate world first.


The twitter photo with the list of players names and home servers can be verified and will most likely not be recognized or even acknowledged if the TOS reports are verified to be true…..

I would highly recommend teams to keep going and keep time stamps when they clear without breaching TOS and see those 'the alpha legend' and TOP achievements on lodestone.

[Xelanar]

I reported Omega for abusing ingame mechanics that prevent me from playing my job properly.

[Deveryn]

So, with Ultimates on their way out, maybe folks can have that midcore content they've been asking about.