MSQ - Westwind Fight Phase 1

[GoldX18]

As a player who's completed up to the end of Shadowbringers, this fight was absolutely by far the most difficult boss encoutner I've ever played (apart from Zeno's, he was a pain). I rank this fight in terms of difficult right next to that one.

I realise this is a mechanics and gear check, but expecting the player to replay ALL the phases when you get overlapping AOE's that you just wont get time to dodge if your in a really bad position is just....unfair as far as MSQ goe's. I'd completely understand re-doing all phases again if this was a Raid, but its not, its an MSQ and it leaves a sour taste in a new players mouth I'd image (as it did mine).

Shaemfully, after five failed attempts and feeling tired. I just gave up and put it on Very Easy. Not fun, not fun at all . I'm going to remember this fight for all the wrong reasons.

If I could change one thing, it would be to reduce the overlapping AOE's that take up 95% of the fightable area, offering more safe spots. Or at the very least, slowing down the pace at which they are fired off slightly.

[AnimaAnimus]

As someone who just recently leveled up an alt, I thought this fight was one of the few great and fun adjustments they made, and it was refreshing to have a solo fight that required me to actually pay attention and not just spam buttons while watching Hulu. Esp considering this fight was so incredibly faceroll before this change. imo we need more things like this scattered around the msq and not less or easier.

If this game challanged ppl more in the msq, maybe we wouldn't have so many issues with ppl who still don't know the basics of their jobs at level cap.

[GoldX18]

As someone who just recently leveled up an alt, I thought this fight was one of the few great and fun adjustments they made, and it was refreshing to have a solo fight that required me to actually pay attention and not just spam buttons while watching Hulu. Esp considering this fight was so incredibly faceroll before this change. imo we need more things like this scattered around the msq and not less or easier.

If this game challanged ppl more in the msq, maybe we wouldn't have so many issues with ppl who still don't know the basics of their jobs at level cap.

I will agree that its much more interesting and engaging, even exciting! but I am mixed as far as having more difficult content similar to this in the MSQ. Lets have more interesting and engaging sure, but Westwind is over-tuned for where it is in the MSQ and the people its aiming for (post HW content), there's simply not enough room for error there's no question about it.

As an experienced player, I can only imagine how our newer players struggle (I used Dragoon and I count myself lucky I wasn't BLM).

I did however have fun with the Lahabrea fight, quite frantic and reminds me of SHB content. It was fun, well paced, and didn't have the amount of BS overlap that Windhelm fight had.

[Barachim]

I think it's fine. Went through with an alt recently. The fight is still fairly easy with very obvious mechanics. I might have gotten hit once by an AoE because I didn't pay attention.

[Jeeqbit]

That actually happened in the original version of Cape Westwind. It used to wipe at least half of the party. It was actually a really devastating fight until our low level DPS grew enough to kill it before that mechanic. Then it became a meme for how easy it was.

It was always fast, but if you saw this mech, it would delay the kill a bit due to the entire floor being aoe and adds spawning.

So the point is it was tough in this way before as well except the survivors could carry you through. There are other tough fights as well. For example, the solo battle in northern thanalan can be hard for some people. The old version of keeper of the lake had a very aoe intense fight that I used to see as a proper welcome to the game compared to all the easy fights they’d been doing.