Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Caeden said:

So I haven’t touched bahamut, Alexander, or omega. I assume the regular 8 mans are about on par with the hard mode trials? I assume they’re intended to pug rather than static. I enjoyed the HW alliance raid. Somehow missed it before. Easy as shit, but at least the first boss made me feel like an idiot not reading it. Missed that feeling.

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Raids are slightly harder than the early story trials, but about the same as the story trials later on, the ARR/HW trials were kinda designed to be super simple but as they add more mechanics to them they get more in line with normal raids. You can queue in DF for them and most boil down to "dodge shit" or "do the one mechanic", and you can either look it up, ask someone in chat or just try to guess/die and it won't matter. They have pretty cool stories too that are touched upon or directly linked into the main story later on.

Exceptions as noted is Coils of Bahamut, in ARR they didn't have normal/savage, they did savage as an experiment only for 2nd coil, and so the normal difficulty raids are "savage" difficulty, kinda, but since they're old they're not really as hard as any current savage, but much harder than normal raid. Something like Extreme trials difficulty or so. Because of this you can't DF queue these, unlike the others, so you either get carried, or solo them once you're high lvl enough.

The story for Coils of Bahamut is very cool so definitely worth doing, but I'd recommend either getting a friend to carry or doing it yourself, so you can go at your own pace and watch the cutscenes and stuff. I think all of it can be soloed, although for some you have to do weird shit(like coil 7 or 8 or whatever, both parties have to step on buttons to open the path for the other party, so you have to recall and go back to the entrance and take the other route and such). With modern ilvls I assume any class can solo everything, but tanks tend to be the easiest. Blue mage will also shit all over that stuff, can one shot most bosses(although you don't get to see the mechanics and stuff which for some fights sucks, Bahamut is a lot cooler going through the phases and seeing the music changes as the fight gets crazier).

Caeden said:

So about where can I solo bahumut? Seems about like at end of shadowbringers per my google search. I main DK so I bet that does fine.

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Since they did the stat squish I'm not entirely sure, but in poetics gear from early ShB should be fine. If you're one of the shittier classes for this(BLM for example) then maybe end of ShB yeah. A bunch was soloable at the end of Stormblood before the stat squish but not sure now, and some of it was rough/impossible, iirc only one person soloed T9 in SB, or at least I've only seen one kill, and the strat used back then doesn't work anymore since it relied on summoner pets offtanking. T9 generally is going to be the issue if any as it requires a good amount of burst to skip the autokill in the last phase.

Folanlron said:

Stat squish doesn't matter for unsynch.. cause even as a blm when I go into coil I have 300K+ HP rofl and Ahk Mourn tickles.. still gotta worry about tetra flare though..

and also that Phase Transition for Hephaistos is fucking awesome..

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It does for some stuff because the scaling is weird, but iirc yeah not for ARR, ARR is actually easier than it was before or something. But HW scaling isn't the same(I think you have less hp in unsynced Alexander than unsynced Coil for example for whatever reason) and not too sure about SB. But yeah haven't tried much in EW, I've done most of the stuff back in SB/ShB so no reason to go back other for khloe's book every now and then.

Folanlron said:

I've been making a killing off Answers Orchs , really easy too farm up..

The only Savage I haven't tried yet is Alexander him self.. the rest I've been able too solo as a blm at 600 Ilvl.. Haven't tried anything from SB yet but I'm pretty sure Omega Savage would destroy me ..

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Alexander was soloable last expansion as WAR, so should be soloable by more classes now too, don't know about BLM though, there's a lot of tank busters. And yeah can make decent money off scrolls if you can be bothered. Faster on BLU though usually, cause you can final sting stuff for like 70-90% of their hp. Bahamut I think was the trickiest since you needed to push him close to the add phase to reach 0% with it, but if you overdid it(due to random crits and what not) then you'd have to do the add phase which takes a while. Nael is the same, if you push too hard she goes into meteors before you final sting, so you have to be careful, but if you do it right you kill her in 15seconds.

Can't wait to see what lvl 80 BLU is able to solo. One thing that'll be nice is faster ShB FATE farming for bicolor gems to buy all the shit. I have everything from ShB vendors but still missing a bunch of EW vendor stuff even though I already 3starred every zone, so could use a bunch.

Man they sure made crafting even easier somehow. Scrip gear has materia slots now which is pretty crazy, I don't even need to craft the crafting gear anymore, can just min stat with scrip gear and 100% HQ anyway, with barely any materias worth. Usually I'd have to buy scrip gear to craft the crafter gear then min meld that to craft stuff but now I can just skip the middle step and just stay on scrip gear. Don't even need real food either, using NQ happiness juice which is like 300g each on the market.

Mostly been doing busywork stuff as I'm playing total war, just capping tomes, doing customs, cleared the story, farming some raid chest tokens and working on my sanctuary stuff, almost rank 9 then it's basically done for now, doing a setup where I use almost only granary mats for workshops while still keeping the 4-4-4-4-4-4 for 2days and 4-6-6-8 for 3 days optimal setup, just not caring about market bonuses, so the crafting stuff helps since I don't have to spend a lot of time to think about it.