Byakko Unreal

[Arohk]

Can we maybe skip this one?
I find this fight so dull, especially the airborne phase when you just fall and pretty much nothing happens for a minute.

[SeriousPan]

I didn't enjoy a lot of the Stormblood trials very much, even in EX Form. I think it's the theme they all share. It just doesn't do it for me so my enthusiasm for them being made into Unreal form is kinda low. I'll still do 'em since WTF else am I gonna do. lol

[NightHour]

Don't worry, we will probably get Lakshmi in the next few patches and that fight is dull also.


I'm sad we never got Nidhogg or Susano unreal, those fights are bangers.

[AnjouMaaka]

If they started with Byakko, then they are doing the four lords and probably ending with Shinryu for the final DT unreal. Which means we'll get to do Dance Dance Revolution again.

[ExiaKuromonji]

Don't worry, we will probably get Lakshmi in the next few patches and that fight is dull also.

If they stick to the formula they kinda setup in EW we'll probably get Suzaku and Seiryu in the next 2 patches and Shinryu in 7.4.

A bit sad myself we got no Nidhogg though

[ExiaKuromonji]

Can we maybe skip this one?
I find this fight so dull, especially the airborne phase when you just fall and pretty much nothing happens for a minute.

"Skipping" simply isn't going to happen since it's already here. Even if this was a suggestion 1-2 months ago it'd probably be too late to implement depending on when they adjusted and tested everything. You'd get Byakko or nothing.

I think what I'd like more is to simply have Unreals not be a temporary thing.

[LibitIncarne]

If you don't want to do it, just don't.

[chip793]

If they stick to the formula they kinda setup in EW we'll probably get Suzaku and Seiryu in the next 2 patches and Shinryu in 7.4.

A bit sad myself we got no Nidhogg though

Look on the bright side though, no Bismarck.

As for this topic, I've been saying for a while that I wish they'd just give us 2-3 trials to pick from each patch, that and make Unreal available from the expansion's release. That way when a boring or easy one rolls around we could still opt to go for a more engaging fight. I know I'd really not want to do Endwalker's first EX again since that fight put me to sleep farming the cat on content, but the second one was super fun on release. Stoa is almost on EW1's level, but since it's not an arena boss there are at least a couple mechanics that the tanks could botch, having to catch the add if the OT doesn't mit is pretty fun as a melee.

I'd also like it if they gave us the new one and the pick of a couple of re-runs. Singularity Reactor was a blast, so was S1T7. I even enjoy getting most of the ARR EX trials on mentor. Overall, just having one fight you breeze through 20m a week is a little bland. Some variety would definitely incentivize me to do it more often, more so than the exclusive rewards. 5 patches for 6-8 trials simply isn't enough when we skip over some of the more fun ones like Nidhogg.

[VictorSpoils]

You go ahead and skip it, but I still need a bunch of leaves and this fight is consistently clearable unlike the last few.

[Toutatis]

Considering that it’s meant to be cleared twice per week and repeated several times to get the new mount and minion (1000 faux leaves) I don’t mind much that it’s on the easy side this time. While Thordan was fun, finding a decent group with PF could be a real pain sometimes, especially if one was not available to do it early in the week as there were fewer groups and waiting in PF could take a long while.

As for what comes next, we will see as they don’t necessarily follow the initial order of release. Thordan came after Sephirot, Sophia and Zurvan in EW. Same with the 5.x bosses: they started with Shiva and then went back.

I'd also like it if they gave us the new one and the pick of a couple of re-runs.

Some sort of rotation would be nice but considering that the previous unreal were lvl 90, they would need to be updated. They could at least have something like a mid patch weekly rotation of bosses when more are released for current expansion. Thordan was the only boss for almost 9 months and no matter which boss, it gets old.