Praise for the current alliance raids

[Gemina]

I very much enjoy the Myths of the Realm series of raids. I find the Aesthetics of all the bosses thus far to be well done, with the exception of Menphina, which is a shame considering she is my chosen deity. I am a bit of the opposite mind when it comes to the mechanics because I feel Aglaia is far more braindead than Euphrosyne. I need to be running as a melee and try to keep uptime for them to be challenging. The latter has me paying attention to mechs in all four fights. My only gripe is the boss HP values are far too low. Mechanics are already being skipped, and Althyk and Nymeia's enrage timer is a total non-factor.

The music is also really, really good. My only disappointment here is that Halone should have got her own BGM. She deserves it, especially considering the design of her fight, and the hype leading up to the release of our encounter with her. All of them should really have their own BGM, but Halone in particular is the biggest opportunity that was missed here.

The designs of each of the heavens thus far and the VAs have all been nothing short of amazing. The gear dropped in these raids are also very beautiful. I haven't seen one I really dislike. I am really looking forward to Thalia. So far away though.

[CidHeiral]

Aesthetically they're amazing but gameplay wise they're pretty braindead unfortunately. Alliance raids are casual content but I don't think they need to be a total pushover. Ivalice was the sweet spot in my opinion.

[Striker44]

I just came here to say that I am really enjoying the latest alliance raids (the raids themselves, although I like the quests around them as well). They are mechanically engaging to me, have fantastic music to accompany them, are visually stunning, and I just overall find them really fun to do.

I wanted to thank the devs for their work on Myths of the Realm. I really enjoy it so far, and it's likely to become my favorite alliance raid series of the game. I hope others are enjoying them as much as I am.

Same! Aglaia was awesome, and Euphrosyne actually topped it for me. Both of them have amazing music, and I like the unique mechanics they've brought into the fights (especially in Euphrosyne).

[remiff]

The euphrosyne raid mechanics are so bad that i felt disappointed the whole time i was discovering the raid the only cool fight is Halone everything else is totally tasteless.

[SillyCrow]

For a game that wants you to hear, feel, think... I don't really feel challenged into doing so.

[NymeriaEld]

Aglaia was awesome. As others have said, however, though Euphrosyne is a visual spectacle in terms of the arenas, boss designs, and boss animations, mechanically, it sure was braindead. I don't know how much longer they're going to keep recycling the same handful of mechanics for literally every encounter (in/out AoEs, half-room AoEs, triple puddle drop AoEs, etc). They do at least try and make it interesting with Halone since she combos Dynamo/Chariot/Haircut. But I was actually shocked when I saw that Menphina literally has a basic yellow stack marker for the whole raid. The only newish sort of mechs in the raid I can think of are in Althyk and Nymeia with Hydrorythmos (basically Rubicante's Flamerake) and the speed up time mech.

I think the raid would be more enjoyable mechanically if the bosses were at least a bit more punishing or had more health. I still enjoy running it, I'm just sad it's so easy. Ivalice difficulty would be nice, and also even though I hear a lot of negative reviews of the NieR raids (I love them), I think those are the most mechanically interesting raids out of all the series. I wish we could have more creativity like that.

[iVolke]

The raids are pretty but that's about it. Euro added no new mechanics basically and the bosses have low hp. Day 1 and we aren't getting to lb3 at all is wild to me.

The final boss is essentially "half-room cleave" with 1 or 2 things added alongside it. That's boring and kinda poor design for level 90 content.

[Asphhar]

Honest opinion about the EW 24 man stuff? Boring. During my first time through the second one, Eurovision or w/e it's called, not once did I feel challenged. It was painfully obvious what each mechanic was telegraphing. The first raid, Aldi, was alright. Never blew my dick off or anything though.

[CaptainLagbeard]

The biggest challenge in Euphrosyne is not falling asleep. Aglaia at least had good music to help against that.

[Novae]

Euphrosyne is sooooo braindead, it hurts. With the free relic (another great SE decision), we can't even have the LB2 ready for trash mobs now.
I've seen more interesting mechanics in variant dungeons ( the easy mode version ) than in this raid.