Echoes of Vana'diel FFXI Alliance Raid

[LordTimmy]

I kind of understand that people are worried about this becoming a joke of no-much-thinking like Aglaia became but:

1. That is not precisely raid's fault, is what this unbalanced way of vertical gear progression entitles. It can be fixed with bosses HP adjustment taking in mind the ally ilvl, I suppose is not that hard. Other thing is if SE cares or wants to address it. Also when a content becomes no-brain-use-whatsoever, a lot of the player base will not have it hard like on its launch. In example, Crystal Tower and now Aglaia. That is why SE tends to do nothing about it. Because is the """fastest and effortless""" way to level.

2. Since is casual content, ppl will eventually learn it and have very few casualties, so nothing new on that regard, honestly not worried about it.

3. I like they are raising the bar regarding difficulty.

And as I said previously, I cried over the fan service, to me brought so many fond memories.

[AnimaAnimus]

The raid was ok, it tickled the nostalgia, but all it accomplished was making me want a graphical update to FFXI even more. It was tilted quite into the easy side of things again, gear choice was...interesting and the fights felt completely disjointed, taken from different expansions and just had no cohesion between them. About 2 hours after the patch, with a completely new group of 24 and we wiped twice during the entire run.

Honestly FFXI is in a much better place right now than FFXIV and is much more entertaining, which speaks volumes.

[LordTimmy]

There are a plethora of combat music in FFXI franchise, imho. Ark Angels music was my favorite in this raid.

But yeah, adding more chill music would be better if they actually add San d'Oria and other places as areas to be and play that specific music there.

[Kaurhz]

A raid that actually felt somewhat like a raid..

Always nice to see, just a shame it took near 7 years. That's my personal thought on it anyway.

[hunter2]

I love love love the Ark Angels encounter. The rest was solid, really fun on the first day but as usual probably won't age amazingly.

[Roda]

The first three encounters were really fun. The last one was alright, but doesn't really have that chaotic fun spark of the firs three.

[Rinoa_353]

Only problem with FFXI's music in a 24man raid is most of FFXI's most iconic songs are town and field themes... definitely not the hypest for a fight. Like don't get me wrong Ronfaure and Sarutabaruta are super good but imagine the weird tonal dissonance of listening to that while doing a boss -- doubly so if you don't have the nostalgia for those songs.

Hopefully they add the orchestration rolls for those songs to collect like you did with the Nier raids.

[Borgan]

Anyone else get 2/2 with the checkmark, reward already received, under the raid Duty without getting an armor drop ?
Didn't get an armor drop, but that should mean I did right ?

Saw some people talking in chat about it in game.

Nothing seems to be on the forums or bug reports about it.

If it's a glitch am I out of luck this week to keep farming for an armor drop ?

[Powercow]

Anyone else get 2/2 with the checkmark, reward already received, under the raid Duty without getting an armor drop ?
Didn't get an armor drop, but that should mean I did right ?

Saw some people talking in chat about it in game.

Nothing seems to be on the forums or bug reports about it.

If it's a glitch am I out of luck this week to keep farming for an armor drop ?

It's a UI glitch, I had the same thing, went back in, and got an armor piece.

[mallleable]

I never player XI, but this is wild, raids, and the story. lol

I really enjoyed them!