Can You Solo FF14? - Storming The Vigil

[@rathgames]

I hope you enjoyed the video gamers. Maybe join our little discord discord.com/invite/vG7QBGW

[@lord_shadowstar8651]

Next time on this series: This cutscene cannot be skipped

[@SacredDaturaa]

Ohh god lol.

[@yaitsoo]

I love when Garuda says "It's storming time", definetely my favourite part of this Trial.

[@bobpoop6076]

What about Gilgameshing time?!

[@iPlayOnSpica]

Tip: for Stone Vigil, Chudo-Yudo's Lion's Breath and Isgebind's Frost Breath are very easily dodgeable with minimal movement. Stand inside the boss's hitbox, near the center, and as soon as you see the cast bar, move behind that boss hitbox's centerpoint. Congratulations! If your reaction time is good enough, you've dodged a strong tb with a short press of the W key!

[@Scorchlette]

Oh god, if Stone Vigil and Garuda were this bad, I can't imagine the struggle that will be the final dungeon+trial gauntlet.

[@italianradio6148]

I think the "swift" part of "swift first-time completion" was removed, but they left the verbiage in. If it's your first time you get swift 🤷‍♂

[@flagrama]

I would expect that to be mentioned in patch notes, but no patch notes mention this ever changing.

[@loranpayne840]

I think it’s always been “as long as you finish in 60minutes.” Pretty sure if you are in the last 30minutes of the timer you won’t get swift completion, but anything quicker you will!

[@drochot]

@@loranpayne840 in this very video he clears stone vigil with 14 minutes left, taking 74 minutes to do it, and he still gets "swift completion".

[@sunnyraine9110]

Something I think a lot of people don't realize is that Mistral Shriek is just a very large AoE around Garuda, so you can just easily move to the side across from Garuda and avoid the damage entirely. It's not the huge cone that Mistral Song is. I think that can be super helpful info for anyone attempting their own solo run

[@momoatsuko727]

im loving this series, it brings me great joy to see someone having fun with a difficult challenge and to see people come together to come up with cool solutions. good luck with castrum and dzemael!

[@rathgames]

Thank you so much.

[@fliteless8116]

The feeling of second-hand satisfaction these videos give me is amazing. It's so cool seeing you get as geared and prepped as possible and then barely clearing the content!

[@Drsmiley72]

im honestly impressed you found a way past titan as it was. but now taking down garuda, thankfully i dont think her initial story fight has her 2 sisters. so good job. your almost there!

[@rathgames]

Gamers today is no exception, it is Thursday, so I'm streaming if you want to come hang out after the new video :^) kzbin.infoGsL0Pg0gBWs

[@gr_avery]

Absolute chad back with another video. Good job as always

[@abserd01]

This series makes me wanna start leveling crafting and gathering for some odd reason

[@Kynrelyra]

Awesome as always Rath! Thanks for the great video!

[@faeemi7228]

have loved following this series and lurking in the streams whenever i see they're live! great job rath :)

[@rathgames]

Thank you so much.

[@lizzymalefic138]

BILL BILL BILL BILL *class goes wild*

[@ChelloMold]

I'm so happy you found a little buddy! Love Steve. This series is amazing and the amount of work you put in to both doing this challenge and editing these condensed videos is bonkers. Rooting for you!

[@IkersDarko]

Thanks for doing this. I know it's a lot of work, but it's very entertaining to see what's possible with motivation and hard work!

[@Here4loki]

Rooting for you, dude! This series is a lot of fun to watch!

[@hexocshade7225]

God, it feels so nice to have all the DQ music for this

[@meilline3616]

Great watch, it did cover a moment of my harvesting today !

[@oromain]

yoooo a new Rath Games video, sick

[@ChuCannon]

I love your vids, you've definitely earned yourself another subscriber. Your writing is entertaining, and most of all I love seeing content creators that try to do something interesting with FFXIV. Runescape has tons of youtubers really thinking outside the box with the way they play the game and make videos, and it's a shame we haven't seen more of that from Ffxiv. Keep it up, man!

[@miaomiiao]

Can't get enough of this, best current series on youtube! Excelent job. 🥰

[@rathgames]

Thank you so much. That really means a lot. I'm glad you enjoy it so much

[@miaomiiao]

@@rathgames Keep up the good work, never expected to see an "ironman" type of series for XIV, here's hoping the game itself allows you to go far beyond ARR 😇

[@jayspare]

this is my favorite ffxiv content right now

[@litlark]

Really loving this series, awesome job!

[@WhyMeTimes]

A great Video and thank you for sharing this journey with us

[@azmakikian5400]

4:32 I love this, I got a chuckle

[@bystormswake]

I'm actually so invested in this it's almost embarrassing. Please keep up the good work, this series is one of few that I go out of my way to watch. Much love

[@pyrotius]

Love the series so far! As a note for grand company turn ins: I believe they scale off of your class' level. If you outlevel the patch your in - meaning getting above 50 in ARR, 60 in HW, etc. - you might lock yourself out of turn ins, that got me when I was starting out. Be careful with your leveling!

[@swapertxking]

congrats on the garuda clear! though i think the normal plan for main classes is at its end. it may now be time to unlock the Blue Mage, that might be the only hope to clearing castrum/prae/ultima. good luck dude! Snowguard is still cheering you on.

[@rathgames]

I can't actually unlock blue mage until after ultima sadly, though I'll definitely make use of it when I get it.

[@uwuMiki]

Found your channel today and been watching through them all, these are very good!

[@rathgames]

Thank you that's very kind

[@Crasuk]

I'm still very impressed that you are doing this challenge.

[@guffels]

I just realized Praetorium is getting close... I love this series.

[@berger8100]

this is one of my favorite ff14 series of all time. amazing idea, great commentary and execution, and a showcase of an entire side of 14 I've never gotten to experience ;w;b insta sub

[@rathgames]

Thank you so much for the kind words.

[@NoraNoita]

At least the boss got a rework, and no more trying to use those damn cannons when there's a tornado below them.

[@MarthSR]

Well I learned something! Didn't know about the two cycles strat for the Halatali boss. Sounds like speedrun strats to me! :D

[@rathgames]

I would love to see more people doing it honestly it's a very fun little strat.

[@asraeth11]

I was a bit worried you would stop the condensed series for the livestreams, I know it takes you a lot of time, thank you so much for your work

[@rathgames]

Thank you for enjoying it. I'll always continue to do the videos, it can just take forever to edit them is all. I think this one was around 60 hours total for just the post-recording work

[@egg-vf6st]

Keep up the great vids bro!

[@deameo6525]

I'm loving the series but I just realised nabriales will probably be impossible

[@KhenbishM]

Thanks for the videos, been super fun to watch! Have you tried spinning any bosses or monsters yet? It's kinda hard to pull off even with legacy controls, but it might save you from a few undodgeable hits here and there. All you have to do is run circles around the boss hitbox and stay even with the arrow 90 degrees behind where they are facing. So if you're spinning clockwise then you want to stay in line with their western arrow. You can find tutorials by Aethertruck and some Deep Dungeon youtubers for better reference :)

[@rathgames]

This sounds amazing I'll take a look

[@freili11]

Thanks for the Halatali tip!

[@denzeldenzel6377]

Brooo you are making me feel like runescape Iron mode.

[@akajouu]

oh can't wait for the next video :D

[@leuxy2158]

So Awesome

[@determinators]

nice, i successfully snuck into the video. >B)

[@ghostkpz]

That was a amazing video

[@trustytrest]

I understand not using Inner Beasts for more Storm's Path heals, but holding onto Berserk for that long was killing me

[@rathgames]

I held berserk to deal with adds at the start, and at the end I was dancing around a bit. I cut the audio for it but I was stalling while I polled chat on if we were happy to take the silence echo clear. :^)

[@jannemakela8107]

Thank god, thought i was the only one pulling the lizard to the door in halatali.

[@tenroy6]

I HAVE BEEN WAITING for this. Omg Stone Vigil timeeeeeeeeeeeee Sirius dungeon is TERRIBLE. Now please do it :)

[@rathgames]

I guess I have to

[@roxasdrayheart5561]

*sigh* god all of this crafting and gathering is reminding me of when I got all of my crafters and gatherers (plus a few combat jobs) to lv 60 in free trial....so...so much gathering......*eyes glaze over with a thousand-yard stare*

[@nolchannel4950]

For the sake of interest I would put an exception at the last MSQ dungeon. That DPS check might be undoable, but obviously its worth testing first.

[@Scenery___]

Wake up babe a new Can You Solo FF14 just dropped

[@rathgames]

:'^)

[@femroenjoyer]

Yippie!

[@jamescrafar3921]

great video

[@AaronWGaming]

Still shocked that Apple juice was a leve turn in I suggested it not knowing that... it is just what I usually use cause 1 item crafts are good for powerleveling

[@leuxy2158]

i NEEEEEED THE NEXT ONE

[@karotconcarne3325]

I'm afraid the big chalange that's coming your way now will be the stack markers. Good luck.

[@ANexus21]

Ah yes, the Virgil that is storming😂

[@EvelynV123]

Interesting, I take it the heals from Storm's Path are more valuable than the DPS from Inner Beast? The gauge will probably be more useful with Steel Cyclone / Decimate when you need some swift add clear. Stone Vigil's Isgebind certainly would have been a lot more annoying before the lingering ice fields were removed. I did not know that Halatali cheese tho! Neat.

[@rathgames]

Yeah giving up the gcd for inner beast seemed to get me killed more, though sometimes it's better to do big number.

[@vince8901]

just at the start of the video but as i know from experience that stone vigil is kinda surprisingly difficult damagewise from levelling healer on it, im expecting it to be a bit of a pain

[@iPlayOnSpica]

Garuda's Slipstreap had a shaking cast bar, meaning you could've used Interject to interrupt it.

[@rathgames]

If I interject and interrupt it she doesn't do the animation. Animation gives more time to heal since I can just walk out of slipstream instead.

[@iPlayOnSpica]

@@rathgames May just be marginal optimizations then. You could hold off executing interrupt until the cast bar is almost full, but you'd almost inevitably pause your gcd, delaying your next self-heal. But, interrupting does briefly stop the target from doing any further actions.

[@duraeusentenu]

My first time seeing ur vids. O.O I didn't know people were doing Iron Man runs of FFXIV!! I gotta do it now. Question, can I use a new game plus file? Or do I have to make an alt and start fresh?

[@rathgames]

Do whatever you think will be the most fun for you. If you want the full crafting gathering experience you'll need to start fresh on a new character.

[@roxtao7691]

yayyyyyyyyyy lets gooooooo

[@HeartySnicker]

Love Steve.

[@soldierorsomething]

Lol, people would think that you were building a space ship with all that crafting, but instead you were preparing to clear stone vigil

[@umbranex9274]

Siren confused me a lot the first time I played. I thought she was related to Garuda because what are the odds you come up against 2 giant winged booba ladies so close together in the MSQ xD

[@d3athmate]

chad

[@ReyReyzzz]

I feel like this is what unnamed npc adventurers in eorzea have to go through lol. It’s a really different perspective, not being the warrior of light.

[@helionus8539]

Love your videos, but i realized recently that, since CT is necessary for msq now, you probably need to bend the rules to at least enter the raid because you need at least 3 people - 1 in each party. Although i guess it somewhat possible to complete them with overleveled BLU

[@Mondrak666]

You actually need 12 for Labyrinth. 4 per pad to defeat the Atmos

[@billyjoecook4362]

I wonder why he doesn't use the Warrior guaranteed critical buff, does he explain it in another video or is it just an extra thing he doesn't want to worry about?

[@ThatHomestar]

yeah i was wondering that too, i get not using inner beast to keep doing the storm's path combo, but berserk is free every 60 seconds

[@MillhiBiscotti]

I think he just tunnel visioned and forgot at the end of Garuda, he's been using it otherwise.

[@rathgames]

Yeah there are uh, times where I tunnel vision and forget :^) Just like with true north on the titan clear.

[@LadyEmilyNyx]

Solo(+steve) only :D

[@Redthewolf2012]

I feel like this would have been easier at the start if you weren't wearing a DPS chespeice

[@BBrawler101]

Man, I know this has probably already been said, but I can’t IMAGINE how more difficult this challenge would’ve been prior to the ARR reworks. Koschei required you to use CANONS to deal with mechanics, which were completely unusable bc autos alone would cancel your interaction with it. I have no clue what you would’ve done there…

[@rathgames]

It definitely would have been a lot of fun. I almost wish I could try the old instances.

[@bahamut416]

I still find it slightly heretical that you do these videos to Dragonquest music instead of FF music lol

[@kelmirosue3251]

I kinda want to attempt this with a new character

[@rathgames]

If you do we have a channel in the discord for people doing the challenge. Its a nice place to share advice and strats

[@victorinosparkajen9405]

Reminds me of 1.0 😵‍💫

[@scarface51393]

I feel like this was the way to play ffxiv at lv50 but not anymore lol it’s fine

[@RaddyC]

Any particular reason you don’t seem to be using inner beast or steel cyclone?

[@rathgames]

The gcds spent on those rather than hard focused healing through storms path combo can't handle auto attack damage.

[@belowaverage3451]

Wait couldn't you just use interject for garuda's slipstream

[@rathgames]

You can but interject stops her immediately, so she goes back to auto-attacks. If you just walk out of slipstream it gives more time for healing.

[@belowaverage3451]

@@rathgames Ohh I see alright thanks for that

[@xotterfluffx]

all skill, no luck clear! 😂

[@IssicheaV]

Prediction, either Prae or Porta will be the end of the series since both have enrage

[@katnerd6712]

Yeaaahhhh...about Pharos Sirius...you can skip that one. Trust me.

[@momosteponme3996]

If you've never done Sirius you're not missing much it's bad and pretty boring 😅

[@katnerd6712]

That blur you use is painful to look at. Maybe it's just because I have only one eye...but it literally gives me a headache every time you blur the background. Great video series otherwise.

[@rathgames]

Oh I apologize. I can try and find a better solution for it

[@katnerd6712]

@@rathgames It's probably just me that it bothers, hardly worth changing your set up over. My eyes don't adjust like most peoples so that's probably what's causing it. I just look away or scroll down while it's blurred :)

[@rathgames]

@@katnerd6712 just you or otherwise if its painful to 1 person its worth it for me to fix it. I'll give it a look.

[@katnerd6712]

@@melvina_jones Probably, I think the problem is there's nothing for my one eye to focus on. It's probably just an issue of my monocular vision as opposed to normal binocular vision. I'm also farsighted instead of being nearsighted, so my eye doesn't adjust to different focus points as quickly as most people do.