Quote Originally Posted by Firon View Post
As someone who did everything in XI fully equiped 75 pld with Aegis shield shadow mantle and the works. Garuda and Darnus (hardmode) was harder than anything that XI had to offer. I actually think Darnus would stomp XI players easy cause they can't use the 3 golden tactics for this fight and that is Kite, burn, and throw tanks at it.
Grats on your cool gear and I agree XI went the way of zerg it or bust but thats not much different then speed run or bust. Darnus wasn't too bad It just depended mostly imo on quick heals, a non squishy tank and fast BLM's
(Okay maybe he was bad but I had the whole fight system down right away.)
Garuda is a **** and a rl break for my father in laws passing had me miss the nerfed garuda blm burn experience so I never actually beat garuda but truthfully the ifrit/moogle/garuda fight I was so turned off by spamming them back in the day I was loathe to even care to fight them anymore. Salvage I wanted to do it. Primals felt like a migraine for me. I dreaded hearing people ask me to do them after a while.

Perhaps in a way yes they are harder then some XI stuff but in other ways they aren't. In XI im sure it would have been a lot harder to get that relic and shadow gear with one party, not a alliance. However in XIv's way of hard it seems less fun. XIV It takes a lot of time but only because your pt cant beat it on time or cooldowns to enter and really crappy drop rates. I was pointing out a system where rather then entering a dungeon 20 times a day till your puling your hair in fustration, I would rather take the timesink way of "Beat this get that" like salvage then the current XIV system.