How Hard is TEA in Endwalker? | Xeno Clears Old Ultimate Raids (FFXIV)

[@redghost289]

I know everyone likes reactions and drama, but I appreciate the raid content! Cool music and nice clear!

[@CineGoodog]

Oh yeah, bro,. You are so unique. kudos

[@eftultima]

Xenos is the reason im a proud War main

[@Atlas-eg5gu]

Grats on the reclear, looking forward to the PFCOB vid

[@mathewlau1733]

Someone in my FC said TEA was impossible after the stat squish, so that was a lie.

[@THiiro]

I haven't done it in endwalker yet but I believe it's to do with the P4 transition you need LB3 plus shields and maybe a bit of mitigation. It's not hard to avoid either way even if it's true

[@bophadesknutz7798]

One extra mit at P4 transition is not impossible 🗿

[@THiiro]

@@bophadesknutz7798 That is what I said lol

[@CriminalCannoli]

it's literally just a meme in the ultimate community that people take seriously.

[@NateTheGreat101-c7l]

It was impossible first week of it, we wiped P.4, with our normal mits we would usually do, after that we had two extra, and still died, (we took 10k more than usual) a week after it was perfectly fine with just normal mits.

[@Demi_Nguyen]

The tongue 🤣

[@ZeroScope100]

I had always thought those were lips 😂

[@ifaeriewraith]

Such a big goal and dream for me to clear this raid. Literally don’t care about anything else in-game besides this. Watched so many clears and seen so many gposes after clears. Going in and clearing it would be so damn awesome…

[@XelaShade]

I believe in you! you can do it :) just find a group and work towards it

[@ifaeriewraith]

@@XelaShade need to pull myself out of the shyness probs I have. I’m still searching for people to give me a chance. The day will happen. Thank you for the kind words. ❤

[@connorb8056]

@@ifaeriewraith I tend to only play ff with 1 other person and dont try and branch out looking for more people to play with, but when my friend got me into FF i saw 3 things i wanted to get, Demi Ozma mount from BA, Cerberus Mount from DRS and the TEA weapons. Ive managed to get both mounts and recently found a static for TEA, never thought i would be able to get them but my last goal is so close but now i dont know what to aim for if im able to clear TEA ;P

[@rtiq270]

@@ifaeriewraith Did you ever find people to clear it with?

[@ifaeriewraith]

@@rtiq270 no I haven’t, unfortunately. ☹️

[@kugelschreiber5678]

The timing on this video is impeccable. I'm progging TEA rn with a solid group, and on day 1 we were basically kissing LC on the ass. The DPS check for pepsi man and hand job seems pretty lenient too. P1 is basically done post protean 2 - so I'd assume the same, if not easier than SHB. Based on y'alls kill time in P1, maybe it is the same.

[@Ashariii]

That is pretty much the same, but i’m surprised because most good groups know how to skip protean 2 altogether and it confuses me why they didn’t here. Unless like, they’re padding or something.

[@villaniousmustache4898]

@@Ashariii any padders in chat

[@DawnAfternoon]

From experience, they do hit just a touch harder

[@kugelschreiber5678]

@@Ashariii 3 month update. Ended up clearing in 7 days with another group lmao. I've also been Pfing clears on my alt, and it's a toss up as to whether or not we skip most of protean 2. Fastest I've done it is killing right after initial baits. But the average seems to be a kill as 2nd nado baits come out. People are definitely padding, ESPECIALLY in PF.

[@markalterado88]

What does padding mean?

[@TonyKabooch]

Makes it look so easy, love it.

[@rasmachris94]

I have no idea whats going on, but good job killing the mecha city silver surfer

[@fm6036]

Why did Xeno pull arms length there? Was it a missclick or can u slow something there? Or is there a knockback? Starting with TEA today, so i have no clue.

[@XenosysVex]

its a knockback if you get hit by protean wave

[@fm6036]

@@XenosysVex Thanks, i noticed that when i saw my MT flying into the wall a few times :D

[@crazypizzadiamond]

Merry Christmas strummer!

[@ulltramagnus85]

So I'm watching this and trying to see if I can understand the mechanics just from the visuals... I have no clue what is going on.

[@4everMaxty]

Same happened to me with any FFXIV content before I actually started doing it. Feels easier to understand once you're the one doing it, and well, once you're the one dying to the mechanic. After that everything that happens becomes more clear, lol.

[@featherless2524]

For those that don't know much about TEA it's pretty much the same. The only real DPS check was Final Alexander, which was only tight if you got specific RNG(stillness first/blackmage+light beacon). They only had the DRK die(tank deaths aren't as bad as dps) near the end and ended up the same time as my group with no deaths. So the end is slightly more forgiving, other ultimates the dps checks are jokes(think Cape Westwind). I suspect the potency culling made it so TEA didn't get hit as hard as them. Personally I don't mind people getting their clears now even if they were to nerf it more, it's old content for cosmetics and people still have to run the whole Nisi gauntlet.

[@voidtalongaming4637]

Even if the DPS is far more forgiving the older ultimates are still quite taxing on coordination. I've been in plenty of re-clears on UCOB since patch and while I personally have not re-cleared yet it still snowballs pretty quick on deaths.

[@e2k220]

"Personally I don't mind people getting their clears now even if they were to nerf it more" that's a given what reason would you have to care lol

[@Zephhi]

@@e2k220 Cause people have egos over shit like this meanwhile I run around any end game city and like 40-50% of people have the title

[@wolfwyvern3662]

What's the name of the song used in P2? Slaps hard

[@Skadus1114]

Do you need some bis for this or is lv 90 gear enough?

[@NarcissusUlt]

You don't need BIS.

[@Flockin1217]

When Tank Versus video?

[@okgo3763]

Dumb question: what do people mean by TEA?

[@XenosysVex]

The Epic of Alexander

[@visha0203]

The Epic of Alexander its the name of the fight.

[@okgo3763]

@@visha0203 thank you. I've always been so confused

[@kzkaa.]

@@okgo3763 tea is pretty good fight. It's also a good drink too

[@fettbob14]

Wonder who this BokChoy gig-chad is...there used to be a player with that moniker in WoW that played with guild i think. wonder if it's the same person?

[@espasmemuscular]

So I recently started doing savage for the first time (been playing for under a year) I'm progging p4 and building a static at the same, so I thought hey let's check an ultimate maybe I'll give them a shot. So here I am checking an ultimate out and wtf is going on? how many mechanics are going on at the same time? its a mechanic machine gun

[@Kenzaii]

answer is Yes, its awesome isn't it

[@ryanrpg3617]

grts it was harder in shb tho BUT CONGRATS

[@LeonV777]

Whats the song?

[@Talgese99]

Tracks are by an artist called "Vogel" - name of the album is "Hologram"

[@younger544]

Xeno facecam looks a little different... Is he growing some hair?

[@hywolfgaming8932]

I think sage is trivializing a lot of content right? I preordered endwalker and have yet to play out of laziness

[@waterscape8198]

nova KEKW

[@RyuNoZero]

why do I get illegal FFXIV Booster Ads from Singapur on this Video, after I reported that ad again!?

[@levhariusheinz]

I really wanna attempt this, wanted to for years, just afraid to be that guy that screws it up for everyone

[@gmb3682]

you need to lose this fear. everyone is going to mess up. these fights aren't easy. in fact, it would be weirder if you didn't die alot during progging lol! i assure you the raiding community isn't scary. don't base the community off of a couple of douchebags. any team would love to have you

[@norightturn7047]

.....But Congrats. All joking aside congrats on the reclear. I was wondering if much had changed since Endwalker.

[@deyon100]

im definitely too casual for this content lol gratz to anyone who clears it I just don't have the time

[@Zephhi]

I just don’t have the people to do it with. And I don’t want to play with people I don’t know. Well rather, I want to play with people that I would tolerate and like to talk to vs just randoms.

[@deyon100]

@@Zephhi I agree you need a nice friendly group who are firm but fair I would learn so much better I hope it keeps it’s difficulty I don’t want it nerfed in anyway that would be a mistake each ultimate should feel like an achievement so if you even clear one you can be proud all should be equal in difficulty

[@deyon100]

that looks insane

[@openreceivedfile]

kiss pekora now Madge

[@sanosukesagara6104]

No Star Wars celebration after the clear pepeW he is not even trying anymore sadge

[@lakie92]

Bok and chet healing, real shit 🤤

[@magnoelcabiadito]

well what is it then? holy shit watched the holy thing dude never gave an opinion on the thing. nice click bait.

[@Atlas-eg5gu]

It's more forgiving in damage you have to deal, that's about it. He didn't give an opinion at the end because I assume he considers it obvious given the fact that the boss died not even 40% through enrage.

[@effiehowardxiv]

​@@Atlas-eg5gu that's a normal kill time for perfect, you could do that in shb even with one death, so it's basically the same

[@Atlas-eg5gu]

​@@effiehowardxiv Ah good to know, I didn't know you'd have the same even with deaths prior to ew

[@justaman4887]

Something's wrong with the strummer today but i can't tell what...

[@Kzar5678]

(TEA was harder in 5.x) BUT congrats :)

[@neonija21]

Yeah it was ;^)

[@KyvannShrike]

Probably a controversial opinion, but I wish they would hold ultimates and rescale them to current level, and make the ilevel the same as unreal, then rebalance the DPS checks to be tight again. Some of the mindsets that have infiltrated the ultimate community concerning damage is becoming "well damage doesn't matter, it's an old ultimate" and I really hate that, because damage is part of the game, and part of what made these fights hard. Getting your ultimate clear now is still very deserved, but you can understand why people would be toxic and say it's not when the damage check is easier.

[@ich3730]

but damage really does not matter, it never did. Every ultimate was killable with 1-2 deaths at any point. This game is about doing the dance, if you do the dance, you clear.

[@FatalFatalisFtFts]

I guess that would be too much work and that work gets bigger the more ultimates they create.

[@Andoxico]

@@ich3730 They were only clearable with 1-2 deaths if everyone else was doing high damage. You can clearly see here 2 deaths meant nothing. They killed it with loads of time to spare without even using LB3. Damage is (or at least used to be) extremely important in ultimates. Also, balancing damage is *literally* a mechanic in the first phase of TEA

[@ZfanzockerHD]

The problem on the "two ultimates per Expansion" in combination with the rescaling is, that they have to rescale every ultimate anew with a new expansion and level cap And even one ultimate has a fuckton of math going on, thats why they only have the resources to design two ultimates per Expansion, otherwise other content would suffer from it, because it would take them so long. Instead of designing "two ults per expac", it's like " two new ults and (in ew case) 3 rescaled ults". And next expac it's like "two new ults and 5 rescaled ults". That would be pretty heavy work. But I'm not saying it's impossible, they could theoretically outsource the entire rescaling to another company, but that would be an entire thing on it's own in their production pipeline that could explode in a wrong direction.

[@doomdeathxx]

@@ich3730 bUt mY bArSeEeEE..... :,(

[@ORenIshiio]

GG ezz!! Nova was trapping the fight!!! Jk!! she did amazing!!! 😆💕 I could never tank that fight!

[@hesssy]

This is how you know endwalker didn't release with enough content. 3 days after the new raids release, and about 3 weeks weeks after new expansion release, and these dudes are already reclearing old content.

[@sird31mos]

That ain't it. The raid release schedule has been the same since Heavensward, has nothing to do with any particular expansion. The normal raids aren't actually raiding content, they're just a stepping stone for gear and a side story for casuals.

[@hesssy]

@@sird31mos Just cause it's the same doesn't make it good. The lack of end game has caused a video like this to spawn this early.

[@DawnAfternoon]

The staggered release was by design as well as it gives enough time for the playerbase to level multiple jobs to see what sticks their fancy the most (not to mention hardcore raiders will want to level all of their crafters and gatherer to cap)

[@khonsu7603]

It's been the same cycle of content for 6 years, they're giving people time to adjust to the expansion before releasing Savage.

[@hesssy]

@@DawnAfternoon Crafters and gatherers take less than a week to get to 90 from 80. Getting a few combat jobs to 90 takes less than a week as well. Once savage comes out, and it gets cleared, its once a week content. There's nothing else to keep you logging into the game. If you're not a savage gamer, you do your weekly normals, and then you log out till next week. Just because it's the same cycle does not make it good. This is why you have people like Xeno here already reclearing ultimates from last expansion. Because he has nothing better to do 3 weeks into the new expansion. Not good thing, very bad thing.

[@4thwall826]

i understand u guys got purple parse and want ultimate to be exclusive to ur community but wishing them to upscale old ultimate so all the casual cant get lucky clear is kinda a bruh moment

[@geekwars3998]

This is the dumbest crap ever... I'm a casual raider by definition, and still find nerfing Ultimate to be a terrible idea. If you want nerfed Ultimate, then maybe just stick to Savage until you're ready for more. The game offers multiple levels of difficulty for different player skill levels. So, why nerf the hardest when you can just slowly walk your way to its skill level, at your own pace? People want the only three fights that are actually hard to remain hard for the sake of future players who reach that level and would want to go through the real challenge and feel rewarded. As someone who joined the game around 5.2, UCOB and UWU felt like trash to me and were nowhere near as satisfying to clear as TEA. It took us three months to clear TEA and it was an amazing journey, by the end of which we felt like we mastered every mechanic and earned the clear. It only took a couple weeks to clear UWU and it felt unsatisfying (we skipped a lot due to the massive DPS, and I personally didn't even understand some of the mechanics by the time I cleared - it just didn't feel like Ultimate).

[@aword3213]

Ultimates are supposed to be the highiest teir of challenge. It's stated by developers themselves. If you're casual and don't want to dedicate your time and effort to hone your skills, it stands to reason that you should be gated. There's nothing wrong to be casuals, but the mindset of wanting to clear the hardest content as a causal is kind of self-contradicting. Devs has been making Savage tiers more accessible to more causal players as stated in LL. Ultimate should remain as it is. While it's good to make content more accessible to players, it sometimes ruins the fun for others.

[@XenosysVex]

Wtf did I just read

[@eternalinsignia]

The only wish I had is they enable ultimate for full team of BLU and the reward basically for BLU only. I bet it will be fun.

[@sillytrash8502]

If you want the clear, just put in the work ? Can't be handed everything.

[@joem3082]

Ultimates are bad raid content Forcing people into long pointless retries just to get to the same point they are progressing at isn't difficulty it's a test of patience and waste of time. They need to add more bosses and spread out the difficulty ramps on the mid and high end (ie harder bosses but the difficulty scales slowly). 4 more bosses per tier would be ideal Instead they give people this game design atrocity and the community pats them on the back for it. All while also clapping because the devs "respect their time" , because nothing says respecting your time like a stretched out fight in place of actual difficulty (kind of hard to up the difficulty i know, since they dumbed down all the classes.....) and filling the game with insanely long grinds for mounts and other cosmetics. It's like if a math teacher said they were going to add more difficult questions to the next test but instead just adds 3x of the same type of questions.

[@southstar66]

they dont force you to do any ultimates

[@jin6186]

Just git gud and stop crying, don't wanna waste a lot of time doing them? then git gud and do it FASTER

[@ampur2]

somebody didn't clear ultimates

[@joem3082]

@@southstar66 Clearly no one forced you into learning how to parse basic sentences either.

[@joem3082]

​@@ampur2 Let me know when you get more than 2 functioning brain cells and can actually address my points.

[@justaman4887]

Something's wrong with the strummer today but i can't tell what...

[@Dopey661]

I think he got a hair cut

[@aaronastra7938]

Gets boring doing the same thing over and over again for years.