New Tier

[AvoSturmfaust]

Even when People will now call it again "DDR" Raids but i need to say it, good job square for a NORMAL RAID tier, its already fantastic if savage is only half so funny then normal was then we will have a great tier again.

in particular m7, that fight was a whole cinema, never had so many wipes in a normal raid.

[Valence]

I hated it as expected. It's indeed full DDR and look at simon says, which makes me want to gouge my eyes out. I'm not even sure this tier has a single new unique mechanic to it.
But, I'll grant a lot of points for the effort of trying to offer more than just a static arena on M7 and have an actual moving decor like in O5. We need more of this, if our lot is doomed to never go back to actual environments like back in Coils or Alex.

[Mawlzy]

I hated it as expected. It's indeed full DDR and look at simon says, which makes me want to gouge my eyes out. I'm not even sure this tier has a single new unique mechanic to it.
But, I'll grant a lot of points for the effort of trying to offer more than just a static arena on M7 and have an actual moving decor like in O5. We need more of this, if our lot is doomed to never go back to actual environments like back in Coils or Alex.

I solo those occasionally for WT and actually slow down because there's so much to look at.

[Arohk]

Just cleared the normal mode, yeah i had some wipes on the third boss until everyone understood where to go, and that was exactly the right difficulty i'd expect for a normal raid, R4 was a bit diappointing, but that was only half the fight as always on the 4th boss.

[Mawlzy]

Just cleared the normal mode, yeah i had some wipes on the third boss until everyone understood where to go, and that was exactly the right difficulty i'd expect for a normal raid, R4 was a bit diappointing, but that was only half the fight as always on the 4th boss.

FFXIV encounter design summarized in a single clause.

[Arohk]

FFXIV encounter design summarized in a single clause.

not really, i could do most of the other bosses (including the trial) and got by hit by almost nothing just by observing whats happening, the Brutalo had some "gotcha" moments withe the stone aoe where you had to hide behind a plant and and the platform switch .

[Mawlzy]

not really, i could do most of the other bosses (including the trial) and got by hit by almost nothing just by observing whats happening, the Brutalo had some "cotcha" moments withe the stone aoe where you had to hide behind a plant and and the platform switch .

Funnily enough, in my younger days this frequently happened to me in restaurants.

[Grimr]

m2 to m4 are acceptable m1 is not. Of course then you without my knowledge remove the counter to unbral ice and fire which is a bug or on purpose. But some of these attack are poorly presented. Right now i have no idea how the stone quarry attack works. When you look away from the boss it should not affect you that how petrification has worked so far. Someone thought it was the adds and so we placed them in front but then it went back to how it normally works in phase 2. Giga slash off shadow lord is poorly presented too. That knockback during the fire arena stage. I have no idea why the group is going all over the place to avoid the move. Really don't know why you would double down on this new way of doing things rather than modify to how things were before.

[Valence]

I'll need to go watch an actual guide to see what the visual tells are for M6 and some in M7 because I'm really not good at noticing this. I tried looking but it just felt frustrating after seeing twice or thrice the same mechanic and still not seeing it. I want my buffs and debuffs back. Those I can hover over them and use my actual brain to understand them.

[Skubator]

I second this! I think this is the best set of normals they've done in a while. 7 especially stole the show for me. It took a few wipes for everyone to get the mechanics figured out, but we all learned it inside a single lockout and no one got salty or frustrated. Really, it's peak fight design and I hope they keep this energy moving forward.