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[@afroronin299]

Lol thanks Kou. I have been afraid to try the harder content honestly but you’re right! I’ll watch some people who are actually good at this and then I’ll give it a shot myself!

[@Kougaon]

Take those first steps! That's what I did and i ended where i am today :3

[@zirilan3398]

@@Kougaon Nr 8 on the list^^

[@jimmorrison4ever529]

He's right, though. FFXIV is a pretty easy game. Raids are nothing like a Mythic WoW raid of 40 players that go fast, fast, fast, and I don't even like WoW or its community. I think what makes ffxiv confusing is a ubiquitous and naive complexity of the language like, going to the market board and having to search for, "Atrociraptor Leather," or, "Phrygian Gold Ingot." Like what even is that? I just want to make a shirt, you know? The item placement for upgrading your gear with coins using NPCs in major cities takes getting used to, also. It's scattered.

[@savekillqqpsounds8473]

No! Dont shoot yourself

[@SoulOfDarkness77]

​@@jimmorrison4ever529bro what an ultimate is harder than any mithyc raid ever, even most savages are

[@cyrus1380]

"Like putting Tenacity on BLM gear" If it makes you feel any better, my static once trialed a DNC who had melded all tenacity, cause it was called Battledance

[@Kougaon]

honestly, don't blame them for that i would've done the same LOL

[@Cweepy]

That's like actually a smart assumption 😂

[@lavendertune_official]

I've been laughing at this for five minutes now

[@Dustlite]

You gotta help me at that point lmao. DNC, BB, PLS

[@barrygeistwhite3474]

Honestly that's just playing the game the right way and we should all be so lucky as to learn from their example

[@1LuvMLPFiM]

"Having a bad day? Give up. What is fucked cannot be un-fucked." -Self-help Singh

[@MaestroKytes]

If you want to practice openers, you can also just visit your targetted expansion's Stone, Sky, Sea and you can just keep trying your opener again and again without having to load into an instance. It's really great because if you mess up your opener, you can just leave the SSS trial and start again, which automatically resets all of your cooldown.

[@elixir478]

@@lartisteautravail ex trials (especially older ones that are geared out now) are the best way to get this practice imo. they are less punishing then savage but still difficult and can cause a challenge with mechanics and require a semi proper dps rotation

[@slimfastsubaru2043]

and if you are playing class that has a long rotation like monks at 6 1/2 mins and gnbs at like 10+ minute rotation you can hit a dummy in the world then pop into a dungeon solo and leave to reset cooldowns

[@DawnAfternoon]

@@lartisteautravail I recommend going Variant dungeon solo for that. Replace your Feint/Addle with Variant Rampart, and build your mitigation muscle memory with it.

[@ironbutterfly6835]

I’m still terrified from being attacked in wow dungeons ! I need to build self confidence and muscle memory

[@weberman173]

@@slimfastsubaru2043 7 months late, GNB, at no point, had "10+ minute" rotations. even at its most "cursed" state of 90s Bloodfeest it was a 3 minute rotation,.. it just had like 6 different "phases" which.. was fun honestly opener burst, main filler(0:30min) odd burst(1min), odd filler(1:30min), even burst(2min),even filler(2:30min) 3 minute burst(3min), repeat from mainfiller and now its just.. opener burst, filler, odd burst(1min), filler, even burst(2min) repeat from filler

[@apukami3643]

How to get good. Step 1 : listen to others. Step 2 : be nice to others. Step 3 : have fun. Step 4 : ??? Step 5 : get your Dragonsong weapon.

[@craigwheeler4760]

oh hell NO!!!! Did you freaking see what Zepla (a pro gamer) had to go through to master that fight? She went through hell. I'll pass on DSR. That shit is brutal!!!

[@apukami3643]

@craigwheeler4760 Step 3 : have fun lol

[@craigwheeler4760]

@@apukami3643 zepla did say that it was the most fun she ever had playing dancer. DSR makes you use the entire tool kit to its maximum. I've watched live streams of teams trying that one. I believe there's ultimate, and then there is "here's screw you' ultimate content..... DSR is in that category.

[@Lola_Greens]

Step 1 : listen to others. Step 2 : be nice to others. Step 3 : be nice to others. Step 4 : be nice to others. Step 5 : be nice to others. Step 6 : be nice to others. *2 months later* Step 6058 : BeE NiCe t0 otHeRs. step...... GOD DAM SNAP YELL AT EVERONE TELL THEM THEY ALL SUCK FOR DIEING TO THE SAME GOD DAM PART OF THE FIGHT THE SAME WAY FOR 2 MONTHS IN A ROW quit raiding quit FFxiv

[@apukami3643]

@@Lola_Greens you forgot the have fun part. Rookie mistake.

[@Glenningway]

What kind of sucks is that most first and second savage fights is that learning parties die off after a month. There's a bit of FOMO, also if you work for a living (oncall), or have family or other obligations raiding is likely out of reach. Some make it work, but I've seen marriages end over this game.

[@kiiturii]

this is why pf is great, you might not be able to do old old content, but for anything semi recent you don't have to worry about scheduling and you can play pretty much any time you want (of course depending on the content, middle of the night and early morning don't work unless you've got chars on other dc's)

[@StitchXDHD]

@@kiiturii then you have people tell you, "You should've done this week 1 you're too late now" in PF. Yes, this is something I've had said to me simply trying to clear because I did try first week. PF is just as bad for different reasons.

[@kiiturii]

@@StitchXDHD I have no idea what situation would lead to someone saying that other than you messaging a clear group trying to join them, which is something you should not do. Just host your own pf.

[@Bankai90]

@@kiiturii this lol. I came back 3 weeks ago to the game after a year break and cleared current tier in pf

[@trustytrest]

@@StitchXDHD It's PF. Learning to ignore the idiots is natural there.

[@AdamOwenBrowning]

I'm an anxious fellow, it takes me a week or more sometimes to face duties with people. i always watch guide videos! but then i freak myself out watching the guide and give up. when i finally do the quest duty, it's always easier than i was stressing it would be. it kind of amazes me that there are people who have been playing for perhaps fifty times the length of time I have done (i started 6mo ago) but are comfortable/confident enough to go into new content blind. I'm always scared of annoying someone or making someone feel like i'm slowing their progress down.

[@MikuOlliet]

If i struggle with some content i haven't cleared before i just say "sorry first time doing this" in party chat and so far nobody has been mad for it lol

[@MikuOlliet]

For context i just recently got to Endwalker MSQ

[@Demonsta]

I also feel really anxious about slowing down other players. I've been playing for much longer than you, but now it almost feels worse to die knowing I have so much experience hahaha! Knowing your class inside and out definitely helps to adapt to new situations, try other classes too, you might find one that's easier to learn on! Blind runs are incredibly fun! It's not about being skilled enough to handle things blind, the point of a blind run is actually that everyone is blind, so you fail and learn together without pressure! If you can get up the courage, I highly recommend trying brand new content as soon as it drops, for example normal raids right on patch day. Literally no one has any idea what's going on, many people will die, and everyone is excited to see what's coming next. It's scary but it's the lowest that pressure will ever be when joining a new fight! I know anxiety is a fickle beast so "just do it" isn't great advice lol, but I wanted to offer a different perspective on blind runs at least. Shifting my perspective helped me a lot, and also finding friends I trust to support me when I'm not feeling brave. FFXIV is a great community and most players are super forgiving especially on new content. Whenever someone pipes up in chat to say they are new or not very good at a fight, I feel inspired to look out for them. Good luck!! ^^

[@Ishkaria]

If you need someone who don't judge dm me I m scared myself with savage content but I know the feeling and it's always better with friends to play

[@magamisic5924]

I was nervous because i heard mixed things about people being toxic in clear groups if people make mistakes and mostly stuck to practice groups.

[@luxorien]

Yeah, I finally gave up on raiding when a PF group that said they were "teaching people how to raid" dissolved their group and reformed it without me because I was so bad. I'm interested in harder content but I just don't have the time. I like to solo older content so I can learn some of the mechanics of the older raids at least without the pressure of a group. xD

[@Oreboat]

I accepted I was bad at the game when I crossed the 1000 hours marker, the only thing keeping me from doing raiding is I just don't have a group to make my lack of skill their problem

[@LunaGer]

I play at least 4 hours a day, reference the optimal rotation for the jobs I play, am very interested in playing correctly-- but here's the thing: being 50 years old, unmedicated ADHD (girls in the 70's and 80's weren't on the ADHD radar, and heart conditions that run in my family mean no stimulants for me), and my first real video games (aside from the original Atari console) being SWG and EQ2 have me at a disadvantage. Those games didn't exactly prepare me for ffxiv lol, specifically all the movement and quick reactions required. There's a reason I play SMN lol. My dps is good, but my reaction to mechanics is a struggle. I can finally do Aglaia and not die and not just follow the herd. The knockback bull bird thing in P7N is my personal nightmare. I would love to try an extreme, and savages look like so much fun-- but I will never inflict my slow learning style on strangers. Now with several classes to 90 and no real interest in crafting or pvp, the game is starting to stagnate for me a bit and I feel stuck, especially when people talk about how "faceroll" dungeons and raids are, my primary sources of fun and challenge in the game. I'm hoping someday I'll stumble across a group of geezers who want to form a static to limp through content together.

[@shemac1482]

I'm 31 and while I don't have the health or ADHD problems, I'm in the same boat as you when it comes to actually being decent in my job or role but sucking at mechanics. I will die so, so much but if I didn't die to mechanics every second I'd be killing it. I main DRG through the story but I like healing.

[@motherofsneks486]

I am 35 but am ADHD and on the autism spectrum. I also have a lot of health issues and what you said really resonates with me. I sincerely hope you get the chance to be a part of a raiding group that allows for your learning style. I know they may be few but they are out there as I am in one. Best of luck!

[@Yamidoragon]

We need to form the ADHD Crew~ Asphodelos 2 was either easy or pure hell on norm, depending on how tired I got from work that specific day. Btw people who say ‘dungeons and norms are faceroll’ usually f*cking die to the first pull on Brayflox hard in a tomestone farm so don’t worry too much about them. Good players don’t feel the need to flex

[@TheArnoldification]

If you want to get into some entry level harder content I personally recommend trying out hydaelin ex. The fight isn't gimmicky at all like zodiark/rubicante and has a lot of moderately challenging mechanics like light waves or resolving chakrams. It will also help familiarize yourself with some norms of extreme+ content like prepositions (though I don't recall if hydaelin ex in particular requires clock spreads) and light parties. Something important to keep in mind about these fights is that, while yes, the mechanics you see in savage or extreme are definitely harder than in an alliance raid like aglaia, the players who do extremes/savages are better on average and the flow of savage prog is grinding through and resolving individual mechanics. You will notice continual improvement and the "scary" notion of harder content goes away pretty quickly when you realize everyone is in the same boat to some degree. Extreme/savage fights are also WAY less random than alliance raids where you can die for pretty stupid reasons (for example, I play dragoon and do pretty good damage; in the new alliance raid, the second boss is a pair of bosses and I often have one of the tanks die early into the fight where I get aggro, none of the other tanks notice and I literally die because I did my job too well lol) Also, if you wanted to create a group I encourage you to try using party finder. Depending on the content you're trying to clear it can take a while for parties to fill but you have a lot of control in party finder tailoring it to your preferences between posting a custom description to having ilvl/job/role restrictions (or lack thereof, outside of minimum duty ilvl requirements). It's very achievable Bonus tip for entertainment - me and my friend have recently been running guildhests to make fun of commendation farmers and it's been a joy so far lol

[@LDrosophila]

46 yo geezer here blind as a bat

[@llamatoddtv]

Thanks for the big shoutout Kou, you should get that paypal soon! I'm happy to help the new raiders out, it can be an intimidating first step, but you can do it, especially the ERPers! :3

[@Kougaon]

I hope you’re ready to teach all the new players :^)

[@cherrydragon3120]

Got any hints for someone who never tried a savage before but might be interested in trying? :D

[@thomasnguyen4427]

2:17 AND I would add: the more stubborn, inflexible, defensive, irresponsible your mindset is, the more other players don't want to play with you. You gotta be open-minded, and take advice for improvements wherever and whenever you get the chance, or go and make that chance! look up a 3rd-party job guide, read the basics, practice on a dummy, and practice some more! and be sure to think for yourself, a guide is a guideline, not gospel. Adapt & adjust to downtime/uptime and MITIGATE THOSE RAIDWIDES TANKS AND DPS!!! this applies to other content to. in other words, life. Plus, Kougaon, if your definition of "fun" is causing back breaking harm to others, you may want to reconsider your definition of fun.

[@Kougaon]

no i love causing harm to myself that's fun to me

[@thomasnguyen4427]

@@Kougaon weird, can't edit my comment. I wanted to edit from "your" to "someone's" cuz I want you to know I'm not trying to call you out specifically or anything, but we've all had that one DF roulette where you asked if some healer or tank could press more healing buttons and do AoE over single target, and some rando {Intervention}{Cover} saying "let them have fun" as if we had just violated the sacred commandment of God, Yoshi-P.

[@aurumvale9908]

the only real difference between a Raider and a casual is the amount of time spent bashing your head against a wall. it hurts, it sucks but sooner or later either the wall will collapse or you

[@cherrydragon3120]

Yeah, i know people who do savages as soon they release and spend literal 2 weeks of figuring the mechanics out.... Meanwhile i was getting impatient after 15 wipes while learning P1S wich basicly is semi old content by now

[@vanessacys]

Imagine having a group. Purely progging and clearing via pain finder.

[@soonnah9521]

For me personally, I don't care enough to go and do research for fights and overthink every single rotation down to the exact second - because that's where a game loses its fun for me. I've done my years of serious gaming, with competitive modes so I'm tired of it. However the people I play with - especially one of them - are hardcore raiders and are waiting for me to hit lvl90 to drag me into them as well. I've explained that I'm only here for fun and not here to hard mode the extremes/savages/ultimates, I don't wanna be on the receiving end of toxicity just because I'm not try-harding like others. I prefer much more chill vibes. So the moment someone expects me to go and actually research something for a game? Nah, I'd rather learn through trial and error than treat it like an exam I'm studying for.

[@x3AnimeFanXD]

I thought the main way to clear anything is ...having friends xD Cuz HELL NO will I play with RANDOMS! I have all mental illnesses! You can't force me!

[@Kougaon]

I got mental illnesses too but you can do i trust me LOL

[@MrWaseph]

Always love the memery that you put out there, Kou, but I really appreciated this video on a whole different level. We need more people to just go ahead and give raiding a shot and the way you put it here I think should be a huge encouragement to those that are on the fence about it! At the end of the day, every god-tier raider was a scared little sprout at some point but as long as you put in the work, you can become a legend too! Thanks for being kind ❤

[@Kougaon]

Exactly 😭 everyone starts somewhere

[@Mr.OJ17]

So true! He has a point Kou! I just started ffxiv Im maining lancer/thaumaturge at lvl 11 rn so im a SUPER SPROUT (😭😭) but your videos and others have helped me understand the game! It’s really fun thank you so much for being kind! ❤

[@genisay]

I would love to get into raiding, but my biggest hurdle is not having the time to dedicate to it. xp There is also some lingering poor expierences from playing WoW, where even getting into basic dungeons and trying to learn them was like people expecting you to just suddenly know how to perfect run a fight you've never even touched, screw even being able to touch mythics. You died too many times in content that was unfamiliar to you, and you'd just get kicked from party. How are you ever supposed to learn it?

[@Sev3nn20]

Love the video Kou and good work as usual, it's great to see how far you've come (I'm an og sub since your LDS days) I definitely been having fun with the harder content and as long as you set a goal and have the patience, anyone can definitely learn it and enjoy themselves

[@Kougaon]

Omg not the LDS days 😭 and good luck with all the content Ghost you got this !

[@soxirhtribal1414]

That is exactly what my friends told me when I wanted to dip my feet in Savage last year xD ! They made me learn my opener properly and the one thing that I believe made quite the difference is that we started from the older content, unsync, and then worked up to the newer ones. (I will proudly say that I was able to clear P5S in less than a month in PF \o/) We don't have a static together, mostly because I don't have a proper schedule thx to college :v , so they have their own groups and when we can we PF stuff nowadays. To those who are still afraid, it's ok. If you need someone to hand-hold you, find a friend you know will have the patience to go step by step with you, be it by teaching you or by learning with you, it makes a world of difference. And you will get out of it having a lot of funny memories (yes speaking from experience. I don't think I'll ever forget when Sis just turned off her stance during O4S's after we pulled and said "hey, you're mt now, have fun" or when my whole group on call started saying I was dead and goodbyes during O12S' beam and I survived because I was 1 pixel out of the AoE thx to BLM bullshit powers). Just remember that the aim is to have fun :D and just like Kou said, you can always just wait a while then unsync/leave it be if you are not having fun.

[@EorzeanArchons]

It's definitely a mentality that a lot of new players can have. When I hit endgame, I thought I'd never be good enough to do ultimates so I mostly focused on savage fights for the dyable glamour and mount. But then someone told me that if you can clear Shiva E8S, then you can probably clear UWU and that was the encouragement I needed at the time to try that next level of content. It's just sorta taking each level of difficulty one step at a time to gain confidence and practice :)

[@Kougaon]

I’m proud of you trying harder content

[@dddaaa6965]

How do you do it because I make party finders and nobody joins so I can’t do harder and harder :/

[@liteknight]

@@dddaaa6965 I recommend finding a raiding / content completion discord for your data center and organise a group there. Cheers

[@cherrydragon3120]

Well ultimates are deffinetly not for everyone. But savage can be. I done my first savage a few weeks ago. YES i was nervous as hell, but i had a good and patient teacher, we had 15 wipes and 3 hours of learning and we were able to clear P1S with basicly 2 new people in the group. (Myself included) I havent done savage since cuz this was just a trial from my FC as an introduction. But if they do it again i deffinetly join in

[@AliDraws]

and this is why i will stay a filthy casual. im already a burden to everyone, i dont need to drag the team down Edit: "As long as you're having fun, that's all that matters" wrong. I've been yelled at and insulted for taking a step to the left. a single step. raiding isn't fun. at all. its for die hard players.

[@ToMaSsS10]

Yep

[@yaboi2500]

Maybe you should join an FC static. PF groups are notorious for being toxic cesspools. Your chances of finding nice people who want to help you skyrocket in FCs. That’s what happened with me; I was in the same situation as you for a long while

[@norightturn7047]

I am bad and I will never quit. I am A Bard! I will only do Savage/Ultimates with gathering/perception melds. I still have a retainer full of elemental resist materia and I'd use them if I could. I will assert my dominance over all other bad players and show them what true horror is. Honestly I'd love to do them but I just can't sit for that long atm due to an injury but that's okay because every minute wasted in a raid is a minute people don't get to hear my sweet sweet music in Limsa. 😃

[@Kougaon]

As long as you're enjoying Limsa that's all that matters. This video was mainly designed to help encourage people to get better :( I hope you recover soon so you can terrorize PF with your melds LOL

[@norightturn7047]

@@Kougaon Oh no, don't feel bad for me. I have a blast in FFXIV. Once I'm feeling better I can't wait to try Savages/Ultimates and i like videos like these. If it wasn't for content creators like you I never would have improved when I first started. Heck, I was too scared to even do normal raids back then so keep up the good work. :D

[@slimfastsubaru2043]

im not trying to be a dick I do this as well. I can't sit for very long due to a nerve injury so I got a standing desk. I can't sit for like an hour or so then I needa stand for an hour. its kind of awkward getting used to it but you do, get used to it.

[@norightturn7047]

@@slimfastsubaru2043 That's actually a really great idea. I never even thought about a standing desk. Thanks so much.

[@rivervaughanmusicstuff5771]

All very good pieces of advice. I only have one gripe. Nobody addresses the players who are new and want to clear the old stuff with min IL no echo blind. That's right, I'm that player. Nobody ever wants to raid with someone who hasn't watched the guide on how to beat the boss or how to solve the puzzle. If you want to play the game blindly, you're better off rushing through everything and getting to the new content when it comes out and pray you are playing with someone who hasn't touched the new content yet. Except, when you actually want to enjoy the story, it doesn't work that way. When you want to experience every raid or dungeon blindly, it doesn't work that way. Unless you're extremely lucky to have found a group who wants to experience it the same way... Which I have not. And I've been trying for a hot minute. And it's so freaking painful to be that guy who hasn't watched the guide and have to act like you have or be silent in chat to only then be kicked unless you are good at making up excuses as to why you died twice in 30 seconds. Because NOBODY wants to play with the blind guy.

[@quququmi]

old blind content... that's more than Ultimate lvl to find such group. Sad thing ppl in ff are not into blind things:(

[@rivervaughanmusicstuff5771]

@@quququmi and it makes no sense why that's the case, at least it doesn't make sense to me.

[@comyuse9103]

@@rivervaughanmusicstuff5771 certain kinds of MMO players aren't good at games. by that i mean they don't understand how to have fun, they have to perfect away the actual fun parts in a game and damn anyone who doesn't do the same. i'v heard game developers in other genres talk about this problem and how they try to stop it, but i think MMOs are pretty much stuck with those kinda people at this point.

[@rivervaughanmusicstuff5771]

@@comyuse9103 I can agree with that to an extent. After thinking about it for some time, there's also the fact that a lot of MMO players don't have a ton of time to play and would just like to have the bragging rights of "I have BiS gear" without having to spend months on learning and clearing stuff. To each their own, but I'm still in the camp of "Let me go in blind and throw me to the wolves!" 😁

[@BabyPholol]

Opener and rotation is a huge part of being okay at the game. You can go into any fight with this knowledge.

[@cherrydragon3120]

Tis very simple indeed. Step 1: Main 1 to 3 classes at most Step 2: learn your class rotation Step 3: learn the duty mechanics (whether dungeon or trial or raid) Step 4: get better at all of the above Step 5: for the love of god people... TANKS PULL... NOT DPS!! HEALERS PLEASE HEAL! YOU'RE NO DPS! Damage is fine but KNOW WHEN TO HEAL! (Frustrations enacted by a Dark knight main being kept on near death by healers and have dps pull for me)

[@nobody-xh6ii]

​@Cherry Dragon PREECH! dear fucking LORD the amount of times samurai and summons became floor tanks due to this stupid shit. Then of course healers not healing which makes me have to pick up the slack. It sucks..

[@andrewdesalvatore7262]

4:17 Spite is a very powerful motivator :D A really good push for me was to out-do a friend of mine... they beat E5 E6 E7, so one time I invited her to a E5 PF with me & some other friends. She was the one failing constantly, cause "PFpartys dont do callouts". Earlier she was mocking me for not-being good enough, and she was being prettymuch being carried by the shotcaller... which I don't really like hypocrites AT ALL, sooooo I did E5 E6. Then work got in the way and i just didn't have the ability to do E9+. But when Endwalker came out, i was able to do/learn the first 2or3 fights of each tier VIA PARTYFINDER & 0 callouts. So I'm happy now. ((Friend ended up being manipulative & deceitful, which caused her to leave the FC/discords/groups... and last i heard she went back to WoW with her tail between her legs.))

[@HeiwaJiyu]

Tried it once and got flamed as hell by random ppl. I watched a bunch of guides beforehand and even told them that its my first time tackling content like that. Of course I fucked up a bunch of times and I could tell that my random teammates got annoyed by me which resulted in a few of them just plain leaving and others flaming me. I got so discouraged by that experience, especially bc up to this point the FF14 community was always super nice and helpful. Ofc its possible that I just got unlucky with my group, but that experience made me not want to try content like that ever again.

[@JoSan3]

Wrong DC, wrong group of people

[@zesian5823]

The most important thing top tier players have is not their skill, abilities or knowledge. It's the want and drive to be the best. That carries you from the most dogwater player all the way to rank 1

[@muajin]

That's...not true. If you have no skill or knowledge of the top tier raid your guild is doing, you'll be replaced for someone that does. They'll just tell you to get better/learn the fights and come back after. You need knowledge about the fights you're doing. *it's not uncommon for progression raiders to spend hours reading up guides and watching about the fights in the current raid your guild is doing*

[@Creedlane]

@@muajin My man you sound like a wow player. Also, hours reading guide? Well, I mean, maybe if you read reaalllyyy slowly, but in general a toolbox or even a pov explained by bald man or something is fine.

[@viskar1477]

Top tier players are the most patient people in this game

[@anthony26812]

It's all 4 of those things actually, drive alone definitely is how you improve upon yourself, but if you want to push further you're gonna need to git gud

[@Jordonzo]

Eh I'd say top tier players are 60% raw ability, 20% knowledge and 20% experience. I've met people who will pick up a new game and be absurdly good at it after just a few hours. Like for instance in overwatch no matter how much I played and practiced my peak was platinum, some players pick it up and are top 500 within a week.

[@FlavorsomeMusic]

thanks to your guide, I cleared ERP (Savage) yesterday. o7

[@r2dezki]

You're right, I should definitely give a shot at quitting the game.

[@Kougaon]

I...

[@mavfin8720]

Just because someone is not interested in savage/ultimate content doesn't make them bad. Fact is, if I wanted to go back to raiding with a bunch of tryhards, I can go back to the game I no longer play. It's much more suited for that. I didn't come to FFXIV 3 years ago to be a hardcore raider all over again. My favorite thing about FFXIV is the fact that in the content I do, no one gets up in my face about whether I'm playing it exactly right or not. So, you can keep your tryhard attitude in Savage/Ultimate where it belongs, please.

[@anteprs7908]

ty ppl need to understand doing hard content doesnt make oyu more skill then ppl who dont do it.

[@yaboi2500]

Sorry bud, but FF14 has tryhards everywhere. You think crafting, Eureka/Bozja, deep dungeons, or even island sanctuary doesn’t have them? There’s always gonna be someone talking shit, and you should do your best to ignore them.

[@anteprs7908]

@@yaboi2500 i doubt island santuary and only toxicity crafters have is when they beef over market prizes

[@yaboi2500]

@@anteprs7908 If something can be optimized, it will have toxic tryhards. It’s a fact of life, and something we as MMO players have to deal with. Island sanctuary and crafting can both be optimized.

[@anteprs7908]

@@yaboi2500 true but the question is who does most mid maxing and who is often the most vocal and toxic i say it raiders.

[@KairuFreestar91]

doesn't matter how much I want to clear endwalker savage tier for the really cool glams. between being so anti-social I'm glad they finally added more solo content and not having more than 2 friends who hardly even play xiv, there's no way I have time to commit to the time required to do savage tiers. on top of that I'm an old school gamer that prefers to not "study" a fight but rather learn on the go! where's the fun in knowing how a fight is gonna go down before hand? that being said, I also enjoy trying to solo old content and I hope they (SE xiv devs) keep up the trend to make those fights become "easier" as time goes on. there's nothing wrong with always trying to improve yourself and get better, and this is just one way of doing that. personally as a solo player I'm doing a lot of potd/hoh and the new dungeon from 6.25. I just wish that you could get some of the cooler rewards that are locked behind that content right away. like if they added in a toggle (like the new 6.25 dungeons) where I select that I am a solo player and the fight scales to that. but that is of course after they finish all the work they need to do and take time off as they should to live their own lives. and I know that will probably never happen so I will stay satisfied with the solo content I have for now. but also keep hoping for the future!

[@FluffyTailedPrince]

A friend said 'just enter when the raid comes out, you'll get there'. At the time I had the free time to actually do it and yeah, it worked. Times have changed unfortunately, so.... yeah unless I find a group able to play in that exact window I'm free, a lot of the raid content isn't going to go anywhere

[@blackcatte9268]

Maaan, I work 9-5. I'll just stay trash and craft to rake in that sweet sweet gil from raiders.

[@Kougaon]

nah crafting is the real endgame, you keep our economy going :(

[@blackcatte9268]

@@Kougaon My retainers say thank you for validating the pain I put them through💛

[@grim_a7680]

Lalafell Pokemon Battles?!? Say less, I'm TPing already

[@Kougaon]

see you see grim o7

[@daisyaran2084]

I feel like for me and probably a relatively decent number of people that are interested in raiding (despite xiv's overall reputation for being pretty accepting of people's mistakes and not being needlessly horrible) there's still that massive hesitancy to jump into something with the name Savage or Extreme, or even something as notoriously difficult as an Ultimate, especially with random people in a PF group. There's a part of me that wants so desperately to get into raiding and do the more difficult content since a lot of the rewards are Mega Tasty, but being my first mmo that I've actually gotten up to current content with (WoW was literally just. following an ex-friend around to do older content *they* wanted to do for transmog or mount hunting and never doing anything I wanted to do) makes me feel like despite my 1600+ hours in this game that I don't have the, I guess, "credence" to just walk in and try to do Savage content, much less ask to join/form a group considering the only Savage content I've touched is the Alexander raids at current max level for some glam pieces I wanted. I'm sure it's a minority view among the playerbase, considering how often I actually do see Legend titles or players with rare shiny weapons/armor wandering around doing things that aren't just raiding, but stepping into the harder content from only doing MSQ/older content at current max level is extremely daunting and keeps my hand hovering over my mouse and just never clicking the button to join groups out of fear of being ridiculed for not being Good Enough or for not understanding the 30 different raiding terms and shorthand they have in the PF descriptions. This video does help alleviate that feeling a bit though, and it's come at a time when I've been trying to push myself more and more the past few days to actually take that first step and get over all this negative baggage I've put onto myself so thank you for making it. ^u^

[@tibowmew]

The sheer number of times I've not clicked on a PF group because I have no idea what all the shorthand in their description means. I feel the same way. It seems a bit of a leap from normal to something like Extreme, Savage, or Ultimate. I'm a sort of slow learner, and I dont have regular amounts of time I can play, so I found this tier that I can join a beginner group at the start, but with my limited playtime, people blast past me and are way ahead in progging and I can't find groups for where I am. I want to start trying harder content though, because it looks really fun

[@liteknight]

2 months on... How you going now? Did you make the leap?

[@nobody-xh6ii]

Jumping into raiding in any game is hell. No matter what someone or some people will get mad if you aren't already perfect Uber super duper awesome at the rotations and treating said person as a god that is telling you what to do

[@adamkmet8936]

I will never be able to do savage+ content for one reason. I refuse to do them non-blind because i find watching a guide/listening to leader extremely unrewarding. (NOTE: we are talking about first clear not reclears when you know/ should know the mechanics from your blind finished prog) Then you may say just find a group of people that want to do it the same way. HOWEVER. There are some impactful problems which are the key reasons why i will never do Savage and UP. 1. Find 7 people other people who want to the same thing (Blind prog - And I am not talking just about current tier - I am talking about savages + from Stromblood onwards on min Ilvl no Echo. 2. This one makes it high nigh impossible. Find a schedule that works for all 8 of us for a minimum of 2-3 hours of raiding. We say that FF is a great MMO because the old content doesnt get destroyed (Can always do old fights thanks to min ilvl as an example) and yet when i see most of the time comments online about people wanting to do them the general response is: JUST WATCH A GUIDE. This one sentence destroy the FF doesnt negate the content. Because I really really want to do the fights and am willing to spend hours of wiping just to get that satisfaction of beating the boss because I/my group figured out how to do it. - hell W1 raiders dont have guides to rely on so why should I? (WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT PUGS). I think i even have the capacity as a good visual learner when i am able to get most mechanics from normal to ex get figured out on 1-3 tries so I am not scared to do it but the "Paragraph" that i just wrote sumarized why i have basically 0 chance of doing savage aka hard content in a way that feels rewarding and satisfying for me.

[@BiofreakAM1]

No shit, saaaaaaame. I've only done E4S about a year ago and I had watch and study a guide, which I did. We cleared it sure and others were happy but I didn't feel any excitement since it was only following my role for the guide and listening to call outs. I felt carried and I hated it. I am much better at the game now than I was then but I don't feel like I will ever be good enough since I am holding others back by not watching a guide. I don't want to spend hours hoping someone joins a blind prog party when I can just do my own thing with deep dungeons.

[@kevinmiller8111]

This is why I'm just doing casual content and maybe some extremes. I hate the idea of doing insane amounts of external homework, it feels so unsatisfying. I play for the story, running casual group content, and get that harder boss fix from single player games where I can go in blind and learn via trial and error.

[@WilliamTheWatchful]

I looked at the thumbnail alone and was expecting a Lucy Pyre video... I'm sad...

[@Kougaon]

im just filling the void until she gets back :(

[@0rphax]

"make sure your hotbar is set so you're playing confortably" Proceeds to show to most unreadable hotbar ever imagined lmao

[@Chibi-Luka]

If my internet was more stable I'd gladly play the harder content. Sadly, where I live now my net can just randomly dip just long enough where it could wipe any team I play with. But that's the amazing thing about 14, I don't feel like I'm missing out because you can still mim ilvl and sync down old content. Almost nothing becomes impossible to play and there are always people out there who want to try older raids out there.

[@Iowsbub]

I love all of your Content, please make more such great videos! ❤️

[@Kougaon]

thank you ;w;

[@SynodicScribe]

The secret to clearing content is lore and nobody can convince me otherwise!

[@azza5332]

The two things barring me from raiding is time and guides/mechanics. Time wise, I work a 9-5 which leaves me somewhat tired at the end of the day, my weekends are less busy but 2 days is not a lot. The second being guides. I'm a kinesthetic learner, and struggle with retaining information, I also easily suffer from information overload so my brain just crashes when reading a guide, or someone explaining things to me. I learn by doing, which unfortunately in a raid sense isn't ideal and is a lot slower. This means dying several hundreds of times before I understand what to do. I also heavily rely on callouts, as my brain cannot process doing a rotation while figuring out complex mechanics. I can remember simple mechanics but more complex ones such as Aglia boss fights stall my brain, so I'd rather stay away from the raid scene to avoid being a hindrance. I just don't have the mental ability and capacity.

[@hennyzhi2261]

Something I've noticed going through a handful of extremes is that even when I've studied ahead of time for some of the added mechanics, I often stutter my character around a bit as I anxiously try to either look for the cast bars or visual tells for things. So while I might not die to many things which is good, I think that's been clipping my rotations. I'd hope anyone with more raiding experience would tell me if I'm crazy thinking about this? Like, are you supposed to think about your actions like they are in snapshots just like you would with AOE circles (it's an yes or no at a certain server tick, in this case a few seconds before or after a GCD)? If this is the case, I hope I can become less anxious the more experience I get and just move less unless absolutely necessary.

[@zirilan3398]

The best advise I can give you is practicing your opener/re-opener. All jobs are designed with the 2min burstphase in mind (except PLD but there is probably an adjustment coming in 6.3). If you do your opener and rotation correct the majority of your dps-cooldowns will be back up at the 2/4/6...min mark. Once you can do your rotation blind you have way more time to focus on the fight themselfs (this also helps with anxiety of fucking up your damage by fucking up your rotation) and you`ll be overgeared for most fights anyway after week 1 and therefor even a little fuck up in the rotation is not really a problem. Also mechanics > dps, once you know a fight only then you can optimize your damage. The main problem I encounter with PF-people on new content or in learning groups is that they greed way to hard shifting the focus on the healers from the group to babysitting them and dying to vuln-stacks or oneshot-mechanics anyway and probably wiping the group. Whenever you watch a video of a fight and wonder why it looks so easy for them, it`s 1 of 2 things: either they have done that fight 20-30-500 times OR they have several thousand hours in that kind of content. If you practiced singing the same song for 300 times you will be good at it. At the end of the day it really is just practice.

[@halmyrach]

It's totally normal, the more familiar you get with the rhythm of a fight the less you have to think about looking for things and you feel your rotation becoming more natural while mechanics are being thrown at you. So it takes a lot of wipes and clear before you lose that feeling of being always on the lookout for what's next. How many depends on the player and experience. Just hang in there and enjoy the content you already do :)

[@mondo6875]

meeee 😂

[@Cellybeans]

That’s normal. Just practice, practice, practice. Join fresh prog groups so you can practice over and over again until you get the rhythm to the fights. You will get a huge confidence boost when you realize you’re the one instructing other players on the fight mechanics, people looking to you who will think you’re hella experienced when in fact you’ve just had experience dying to the same thing they just died to twenty times already. Fresh prog groups people are super chill and expect to wipe for hours. Don’t go expecting to clear. Go in expecting to die a lot, die so much our monkey brain pattern recognition kicks in and you see the tells you’ve been too panicked to brain-parse before. Ask your party if something’s not making sense. I’ve also acknowledged to my party I’m frustrated with myself because I’m freezing and hesitating due to anxiety and most of the time people have been really supportive and it helped me calm down and I did better, knowing people weren’t judging me for it like I was afraid of. Go in minimum ilvl if it’s old synced content, just to expose yourself to more mechanics. Even regular raids, trials, and dungeons. Most raid mechanics are first seen in dungeons to bosses that have 1-2 mechanics per fight, so there’s less to keep track of while you learn the raid language and pacing to fights. If you’re on Aether my home is Sargatanas and I run minimum ilvl everything at every opportunity because it just slows fights down enough to where I can see the whole fights mechanics. Best of luck to you :)

[@Machinist_Main]

One of my first times playing blackmage was in halatali. I remember when we were fighting the last boss somoene asked me why I was only casting ice spells and of course I was like "Cause it's a fire monster, DUHHHH" lol. Long story short, I still suck at blackmage but I'm an okay Dragoon or Machnist at least.

[@ReyOfLight]

I’m not yet raiding but will eventually as I always have the mindset of wanting to be as good as I can get at the game I play. November 1st marks 7 months for me of playing FFXIV, I’ve finished all of MSQ, my boyfriend and I cleared all versions of the Variant dungeon (he carried me a lot though, he’s a 1.0 player who’s also cleared some Ultimates in the past, so yes, I do have a good teacher, but to me he’s most importantly the love of my life!) and I do now have 4 jobs at lvl 90: BLM, RPR, SGE and as of yesterday GNB. I’m pretty comfortable on RPR and SGE but do still need to learn more about rotations and optimizing, am however starting to feel more ready to try my hands at Savage now thanks to having improved a lot when it comes to avoiding AoE’s and reading the battle, so I’m becoming pretty solid in regular content now unless it’s bad hair day from 6.2 because F that battle XD

[@Kougaon]

I love that mindset, you can do it !

[@ReyOfLight]

@@Kougaon The only reason I’m not already raiding is because of me holding me back as I just don’t feel my skills are there yet, and I do deal with performance anxiety and don’t like to be totally carried by others

[@AlexSkylark]

I've been a raider and a static leader in this game for years. However, I got really disillusioned with how people everywhere only resorts to cookie-cutter ready-made strats from the "accepted norm" in Party Finder, even inside statics they expect you to follow every paradigm of a party finder group. Nobody thinks outside the box, and if you have any kind of different approach everyone - and I mean EVERYONE - will just betray you, leave your group and then talk smack behind your back to anyone you dare invite to your static. Haven't touched the game for anything other than MSQ or the occasional Alliance raid for more than a year now.

[@SmartBatto]

What puts me off from doing high-end content is when people tend to try and Maximize their DPS when the PF is a *Clear* Party. Let me explain... I have had multiple times where people have ignored the basis of a "Clear" Party for the sake of Pushing DPS. When I tried to learn and clear Sophia in Stormblood (I was trying to do it syncd for some reason, I think it was for the BLU spell before they allowed for unsync. Me and two other players were the only ones needing it. but other people were needing clears and learning.) Anyway, I had put no Dupes (Making sure to restrict classes to what we didn't have to be safe) Just for the sake of building LB III Quicker. Eventually I got my spell and switched to BRD someone dropped and a RDM switched. Me being paranoid, I was watching the list. I queue us up and I see them switch to BRD. I sighed- making a public statement in Party chat and the person was like "I mean, I'm better with BRD and I want to see how far I can get." We wiped every time with them. Once they left we started doing good again. Now onto something more recent: Similar situation but just a simple clear party for Sephirot UR. Everything was fine until the SAM decided to jump to the from (I had the close tether and they had the back tether so when they jumped, it went back to them.) back to the front. Dying to the explosion. They decided to start attacking me in the chat about how I didn't take their tether (The PLD saw everything and agreed I wasn't at fault) naturally I told them that they died because they didn't do their mechanic correctly and they told me "I was trying to push DPS, not my fault you screwed up your mechanic!" (Nobody had even mentioned pushing DPS until now so nobody even knew about them doing it as far as I know. Later when snapshots where coming they started attacking me about "running around like a chicken with my head cut off". I just simply stated I was dodging mechanics. (since I was RPR and didn't want to get smacked by the snapshots, keep in mind this was a clear/learning party) and then they started arguing with me about how I was doing everything wrong. Funny enough this happened in one run and if they didn't leap forward during tethers, we would have cleared. I just don't like people trying to "Push DPS" when it's a party for a specific reason- if people *want* to try pushing in a clear/learning, then they should ask since everyone's goal is just to get through it and pushing dps/clean-up's can come after.

[@Mardukson]

You mean turn the game, I'll faff around, unspecified amount of time (depends on day), into a second job? I'm good brother, will remain filthy casual, that clears only normal 😏

[@Kougaon]

you can do it brother believe

[@lethaltoconcrete2194]

You don't need that much time to get into Savage. If you don't want to do it, that's obviously cool, but you can do it less than other people and still make progress (even if more slowly).

[@shirouamakusa1826]

I'm confused. Why did Kougaon list Extreme Raid Progression 3 times as alternative activities for people who aren't into raiding?

[@Kougaon]

:) :)

[@Deus_Star]

On behalf of someone who has been raiding for a long time but scared to go into an Ultimate, you have lit a flame in me! Thank you for making this video! I really am grateful to you!🎉

[@grimacetexas9719]

There are only 2 things needed to do ultimate. 1 a brain whoch u already have since you've been raiding. 2 dedication. Thats all you need

[@txmits507]

Why wipe in a raid when you can wipe on silkie now!

[@Kougaon]

hamtaro's got hands

[@sneakytrip6594]

Materia, apparently.

[@alfianna2578]

I am brand new to the game. I installed it a few days ago but I admit I have been grinding it a little. I am interested to learn more about the game but also a little nervous. I just finished the boss fight with titan. I had no idea what his abilities were and I kept getting stuck in some rock for some reason.

[@Kougaon]

You can do it :( I felt the same way and got better!

[@alfianna2578]

@@Kougaon Thank you so much! that is so kind of you to say. Is it ok that I'm a basic cat girl?

[@HaykInWonderland]

Are you still bad, or

[@ushinkou8569]

That open world trick of going into a dungeon to reset your cooldowns is actually a really useful tip.

[@YuushioChan]

GREAT VIDEO KOU! I want to be part of the lalafell fighting club :^)

[@Kougaon]

great we'll have you go against a dragoon >:(

[@YuushioChan]

@@Kougaon you really choosing the one job that is known in the community to die first? LOL?

[@ValentinesMindBand]

One of these days I'll create a static dedicated to blind progging with friendly people. Any skill level. If first timers wanna join, so be it! I think it'd be a cool project to prove anyone can actually beat the content. I myself progressed a lot thanks to someone who actively searched new players to teach them. It'd be nice to do the same!

[@Kougaon]

This is the kind of stuff I love to hear, I wish you luck o7

[@Riju_Yuuki]

I was thinking about doing that too..idk if id be a good fc lead, though😂🫠 never been a leader Did you create one? If so, how is it going?

[@GrimViridian]

My main problem with this game is socialization. Im really bad at it, i tend to try to socialize with people but have trouble getting to know new people these days, so i get quick social anxiety and dont talk too much, and all of my friends have either stopped playing before i started, or dont play and wont play, so its just me and my wife lol i wanna raid and do endgame so bad, ive never been so interested in an mmo but man do i suck at socializing XD

[@iiOmarSP]

(Which day the battle is being shown at? Ill come over) I personally prefer blind runs myself since you get to learn the more you do the fight, but checking a guide beforehand on said content would make things much better and faster to do than blind.

[@obliviouschipmunk6539]

I remember one time I accidentally applied a tenacity on RDM because I was unprepared for raid and was hastily trying to get things together and it presumably saved me from a raidwide since one healer was dead and the other was basically brand-spanking new.😅 I chalked it up to 5-brain foresight.

[@inaban]

Does being a better player help me with my goal of getting a house in ishgard?

[@genisay]

Probably frowned upon because so many people do learn their opener by memory, but one thing that worked for me, someone who has bad memory when it comes to certian things, was to set up my buttons for my opener on a seperate, smaller hotbar that I could then place somewhere that would still allow me to keep my eyes mostly up and off my hot bar. That way, all I had to do was remember when I needed to hit certian abilities more than once in the chain, and I could run through my opener with very little to no misses or down time. Also, after a while, you start to get a feel for when your opener will be up again for full usage. Often I have noticed, that as long as you are timing the initial opener correctly and your team isn't being super slow about moving the fight along, your openers will re-up at ideal points in the boss's phases. Such as being able to get my opener re-up during Saline Spit on the last boss of Aether Font and having a super easy attack to dodge while I fire off opener round 2. Or, having it up again as the bosses go through phase transition animations, such as Sephirot Unreal falling off the stage to get ready for phase 3.

[@JS-kr8fs]

"What do you see between you and a hardcore raider?" A certain bit of extra assistance named after the mascot of the Gold Saucer. >.>

[@Ink_T]

I like going in blind, love being surprised and figuring things out.

[@apharys8921]

Unless you're super new and have no idea how your job works I'd highly recommend practicing in max lvl normal or alliance raids over a training dummy, they're both extremely forgiving and offer far more opportunities to improve than a dummy. When doing any max lvl content enemies will not let you go through your rotation at your leisure, knowing how to handle interruptions at different points of your rotation is very important. Things to keep in mind while practicing: ABC (Always Be Casting, keep that gcd rolling at all times), don't overcap resources, and make sure your cds are being used when available unless there's a good reason to hold them. Handling mechanics will always be more important than hiccups in your rotation, don't stress but think of what could be done better for next time. For tanks and healers don't blow everything at once, make sure you're both using your powerful cds and always have something available when it's needed. Something to note: Enemy attacks are completed when their cast bar is full whether or not the telegraph for that attack is visible. You can be out of a telegraph and die or in a telegraph and live, it's very awkward at first but very helpful to understand. If you're a caster you're able to move slightly before your cast finishes, this is called slide casting and is very helpful to keep casting while avoiding mechanics - it can be practiced from as early as lvl 1 and I highly recommend doing so at all times - during the msq, dailies, roulettes, whatever.

[@Oblivionic]

Casual for life. all extreme and savage content is just memorizing dance routines. I don't find that fun.

[@JuliTheBee]

Thanks mate. I will rewatch this whenever I feel discouraged from savage again and doubt myself.

[@LordO-thPalace]

Biggest obstacle for new/not so new to get into raiding/extrial is to find a group even in party finders its all rp stuff. i try q for The Howling Eye ex four hours i just gave up -_-

[@rivervaughanmusicstuff5771]

That's the freaking worst because everyone will just say "Get a tank to 70 or a dps/healer to 80 and solo it" and it's like what if I want to do it now at level 50 and experience the fight how it was meant to be experienced? Are we just screwed because we didn't start playing when ARR came out?

[@jasmink1611]

What should be mentioned, too is that, progging in pf or progging with a static is also very different from each other. In most of Times you get the kills you want with half of time investment when you join a static. But tbh i play 7 years now and never seen a static that sticks togehter very long(atleast in european servers). Argues, the high pressure you have, cause of dps, expectations to other players and fix days you HAVE to be there for static...Most ppl dont have fun with that kind of playstyle very long. But even so it still has a few more benefits. I dont want to be mean or something, but i know a lot of static players, who trying hard doing normal content all by Themselves, but get savage down easily with their static. Thats cause if you do it with 7 other players in ear talking to each other, explaining or calling out mechanics Happening next, some ppl get so much routine in this fight, they dont even need to concentrate anymore. For example i had a friend who always died to evry mechanic in ridorana, cause He didnt get the mechs, even after a few month of release, but still was able to kill the first 2 savages of the current Tier with his static. I helped friends out with kills and farming sometimes where i did the whole callouts. If i missed one callout 4 of 5 ppl who were in there with me died, cause they were used to the callouts. What i want to say some Fights can be done braindead if you have 1 or 2 persons doing good callouts in vc. i formyself never joined a static and i killed my savage and ex always via pf, it does work though. Pf Has pro and contra aswell ofc. Pro is, you can choose for yourself which days a week you wanna go practice. If you wanna do this 7 days a week you can do and if you only wanna do it one day then just do it once a week^^ the progress is a different thing, if you are a fast learner helps alot for joining grps in pf. There are many different strats in pf and its very Hard to practice with all the strats around if you are Not flexible enough to do fast switch of your Position you normally practice on, or just run different direction you ran last run. This can be really confusing. Also sometimes you join partys where not evryone is on the same step of practice than you are and you have to practice earlier steps again and again, which needs alot of patience.Pf gets more easy the longer time has passed since Release of the content, cause ppl have better gear and dont die so easily and dont hit the enrage so fast. But there is the contra, that finding grps for that after a month of release is far harder. Fazit: Pf: is harder to get your kills(often takes double time to kill), but the time you wanna spend in the content is completly up to you and you dont have any pressure except you make it yourself^^.(recommended for shiftworkers or players who have family or just dont wanna bind themselves to the game) Static: getting your kills way faster, with half amount of time needed. And Getting the kills constatly more easier cause of gpr dynamic, callouts and fix strats you play. To the price of fix days you have to be online(which are decided before you start practice), if you want to or Not doesnt matter for most statics around. If you have a date or your mother is ill, go and find replace for you,or you will be kicked after youve been missing the Fights too often, whats understandable too, cause other members want to make prog. If you alrdy spend much time in the game and dont have problem with that type of playing its the best and easiest way to get your kills:) This are just the experiences i have made in all of my years around. And evryone has to make their own. But guess most of ppl would say the same.

[@HectorHectorson]

Thanks for the shout out! Big fan of your videos!

[@Kougaon]

As am I Hector! Keep up that content :D !

[@crescentdarklight]

I think for me, watching videos always sort of cluttered my overall understanding of things because there's so much going on. I think what a lot of people fail to realise is that everyone learns differently and at a different pace. Sure, you can try your best and know all the things here, even take the extra mile and research, and still die to a mechanic you knew was coming. It's not a matter of being "better" as much as allowing yourself to absorb what's happening. That's how you get better. To have the experience, it's not about how much you know, it's about how much you've experienced content and your ability to react to various kinds of mechanics. I've died to stuff before that I knew was coming, simply because I have bad reaction time. Yeah it's better than it was say six years ago? But like..it happens? Dying is part of the game. I try not to think about how I'm "failing" because it sets up an idealism that if you die then you fail or aren't good at the game. Then when people bombard you with negative comments, try to make you feel bad for your failure at completing something, all it does is weigh down on you when you could just laugh it off as a mistake and continue doing what you can. There was a player once who got angry because I accidentally died to a mechanic because I actually pressed the backward button when playing RPR. I admitted that I did this, that it was a mistake, laughed it off. They actually proceeded to mock me, tell me to uninstall. I didn't respond to this, they further tried to harass me via friend request and PMs, I ignored it, and just went on doing what I do. Does it give me anxiety when it happens? Yes, absolutely, but you know what? What's more important is that you enjoy your job, you enjoy the game, and anyone who tries to pounce on that and make you feel bad for something that's supposed to be fun? It sounds more like they've invested so much time that they need a break. You don't fail the game at being "bad", in fact being "bad" really just means that you're inexperienced. There's no such thing as a bad player, unless you have a bad attitude, or you refuse to learn from anyone or anything. The more positive you produce in this game and give to other players, the more we'll be able to improve this mindset that dying equals bad, because it isn't true. Imo, being a bad player means you're an asshole to people who have zero idea what they're doing or how to be better, and they trample on people and humiliate them for their own satisfaction because they have a superiority complex. But guess what, anyone can be good! Anyone can treat people fairly, and anyone can know their job. Just try to be a good person and know how the game works, I feel like if we do that, the game would be a better place because then we can pass down what we learned to others in a more productive and stable environment that supports all kinds of learning. Final Fantasy XIV isn't just for raiders, it's for everyone who plays, and being kind to newbies is just another way we can make the experience we have with this game better for ourselves, and better for others who who play too.

[@johnsonspark171]

I finally gave up on FFXIV after three years and am excited to get back into WoW.

[@cosmicbrownie2312]

This video is fantastic, it is basically my mindset as I began to raid at the beginning of Abyssos. I dabbled in some ex prog before-hand but now I wanted to prove that even casual filth like me can clear content (also I want the Abyssos rod so bad I s2g). This started because of some parse-junkie in a... venue rp server I shared who had the audacity to gatekeep savage raiding, making fun of parses from casual people in the discord just happy to post their improvement, and going as far as telling my friend who was struggling with P5S "Maybe this is a wakeup call that you should quit raiding. the sooner you do the better :)". Me and my friend both got clears and are well on our way to finishing 7s, and even though I had anxiety about swapping to BLM from WHM (I got bored of healing) I can confidently say ANYONE can savage raid, you just need to invest the time for it and learning your class'.

[@Riley1393]

i cleared the first 2 endwalker extremes when they were new i cleared up to p2s but due to burnout of pf it became not fun for me anymore but ive come back and im currently doing ifrit prog for uwu as im more intrested in doing ultimates than savage as i have no real motivation to do current savage content

[@Blade23445]

Honestly been attempting to find a static for ps raids. As a summoner it's a bit difficult especially with how late I am attempting to get to it but won't stop me from trying!

[@Kougaon]

Keep trying and hey maybe I’ll open up a group to get people into things!

[@Blade23445]

@@Kougaon honestly sounds like a lot of fun XD

[@zsoltlang2144]

So let me get this straight, people are sweating over not being good enough on a content that doesn't give you sufficent rewards for your time invested. And I thought I was the dumb for trying to get to series lvl 25.

[@WingedGlider]

small note, don't go into a dungeon unsynced, go into a raid. You have a cap of 100 dungeons you can enter per day! While unlikely to hit that cap in most situations, it's nice to know

[@londov1]

I'm trying to get better at that erp content you are talking about, but have been unable to find any streamers or resources on the balance discord to help with my prog. Strange.

[@ZetLeonhart]

I've been playing this game for 12 hours a day since last year and I still don't feel Good Enough for extremes lol

[@kimothy0192]

Anyone can clear any content! It really just depends how much time you put in to it in the end. GOD I'm so tired of these top parsers not willing to have anyone in their static if they parse less than 50. I ran a UwU static with most of us being casual players. Those that took the time to learn their class fully and study the fight outside of prog were the ones that cleared in the end, compared to those that just showed up for prog! I find that PF has been an enormous help, since you can always open your own party and say its just from the start and chill practice. The community is also willing to help most of the time :D

[@kimothy0192]

Also!! Fflogs is good for one thing, and thats XIV Analysis, to see what you can improve and think about. THAT I think for me has by far been the most useful tool!

[@Sarakani]

Its nice that you mentioned "Epic Raid Preparation" in a Raid video, so no one forgets it.

[@SyFa666]

lol iwas called brainless several times in my static doing the first tier of this expansion (Endwalker) and was excited to raid too, and i just quit raiding all together for a few months now turned almost year because my nervousness i couldnt' take it, no support either and did all my studying too =/ lmao got pretty discouraged from pf and have a massive nervousness to talking to people. which also affects my friend making skills (i have only talk to literally one person for about a year now) my experience from the moment i picked up this game having never played mmos or even this heavily online invested games in my life didn't help at all, this hasn't been all that ff14 community friendly to me. I love raiding a ton but fck does it feel terrible when you put so much effort into studying and practicing and still can't manage to do good and even getting called brainless and stupid

[@Salence]

While parsing and dealing the max amount of damage isn't important in clearing a fight, dealing a set minimum is. If you can count the amount of dps you deal on a single hand, then there is no possible way the other 7 people can deal additional damage to clear the fight carrying you. And by minimum, i mean: Are you cooking a meal for 7 in between casts of Fire 1? Do you walk your dog after every Auto Attack? After getting your basic rotation down, there's special Dummies that can emulate a boss's HP and resistances so you can test yourself and your rotation for dps. These are called "Stone, Sky, Sea" challenges. The first instance of this is after Heavensward Expansion and quest to unlock the first one is called "A Striking Opportunity"

[@peger]

1:23 the amount of addons in game :D i couldn't resist myself with this one ^^

[@inguss27i]

No won't quit i just don't raid.

[@Melo.maniak]

This game is all about memory and patterns. You learn the pattern of anything and you are pro. It really is an easy game.

[@LuckyRyo9989]

"Do you feel confident about your own rotation and job?" Me-Nope "Have you read all your tool tips?" Me-Nope "Have you studied and researched the fight ahead of time to see how you'll deal with mechanics?" Me-....nope :D ~~~ On a real note, actual good video, would love to do savage but don't have the free time for a static and me personally i can not watch videos...my mind wanders, i do better blind cause if i die to something im gonna remember what it is haha But honestly if that faithful day happens, i will get better Ngl tho best take away i learned from this video was you can put a timer on the training dummy....I didn't know that

[@Kougaon]

Understandable Roy :( I hope you can find enjoyment in the other content in this game at least

[@octapusxft]

Recommending Streamer-raids, is probably one of the best pieces of advice in MMO games. Participating in streamer raids in WoW, had saved my sanity and morale. I bet it is the same or better in FF14.

[@Puggle-bot]

I just started playing this year! Beginning of January. I cleared ARR a week or two ago! Since then, whilst taking a break from fetch quest and back and forth simulations that is part 2, I've been crafting (got all to lvl 50 earlier this week) and doing the hard, and then extreme trials! I've beaten up to Ifrit! And believe me. I was BAD at my job. I'm a paladin main, and there were so many mechanics I just didn't understand going through the msq about my job. I'm still getting the hang of it, but I have enough of a grasp that I can clearly see when I mess up now. While I still do terribly some days, enough people are patient and explain things properly that I never feel like giving up because I got us wiped (which just happened on the Titan ex trial I completed just hours ago - got us wiped once early, but then saved us at the end!) I love this game, and the vast majority people have been wonderful so far (minus a few). I never knew I should be looking for specific foods though. Of course I've been crafting my own, but I never really thought of looking for optimized dishes beyond a few (maybe) obvious ones. Openers and skill weaving is something I need to get better at for sure. I never thought to use the practice dummies though! Seems so obvious now 😂 I've been getting by just puttering along. But I definitely want to get better! I think this video was exactly what I needed! So glad this popped into my feed!

[@nebula8851]

It's a time investment, always has been. That, and the Best of the Best World First Sweaty Tryhard 99 Parse Day 1 Raiders know that SE LOVES reusing mechanics in Savage and Extreme fights. The biggest obstacle in Savage Raiding is usually coordination, as the mechanics themselves are often fairly easy.

[@steveodude]

You can use stone sky sea instead of dummies and timers. SSS has it built in and is meant to show you if you can pull your weight.

[@Yuu-Ki-Oh]

I put Fire materia on my whm as a point to prove that materia didn't matter as much as knowing your job. Sadly some people are stubborn, and want to stay "bad" the convo was something aling the lines of stats because she wanted to pump all spell speed materia onto her whm. But hey we only were in Hades EX for 7 hours in a day to finally get a clear lmaoo

[@Nidrog]

Kou spitting facts, and just to show it. I've gathered the sample size of 231 encounters from all my raiding with my favorite raid group, from Mid Stormblood to mid Shadowbringers. Loved the guys. Still do and even if we don't raid we talk on occasion. Either way, 231 encounters and I had 40 9% logs... That is 17.3% of all my fights ended in gray parses. And that's just the nines. Because that was a huge meme in our raid group. Another fine addition to my collection! Those were for some of our earlier clears though not always. It takes time, you'll have to learn sure. But that's part of the fun, well at least for me. If your fun comes from just being there with friends, then that's great. Enjoy that as well! Once you find the right group... Man raiding becomes fucking amazing.

[@hextechmagikarp4610]

What if you're that player that logs in to press buttons and hope you don't die to pass content?

[@plantmessiah]

Raiding ain't for me. It's not that I don't have the time, I just simply don't enjoy it. That kind of content is not fun, and I'd just be pissed off the entire time. I'll stick to extremes.

[@Kougaon]

Even clearing extremes is impressive so nice job!

[@momoyakugu]

As a solo player, who barely communicates with anyone besides "gg". I'm far too self conscious to try hard content as it's a personal issue feeling like I'm wasting peoples time.

[@Kougaon]

Sometimes most people go into groups quiet, it’s normal dw. I hope you work up that courage to get out there

[@mondaiji679]

Thats the best video on raiding I have seen in a while. As someone who might just have finished his "last round" with Raiding this tier due to most of my friends not playing FF14 anymore and me raiding in this game for 8 years, I honestly (not trying to be mean just stating my thoughts) cannot understand why people are scared of it. If you show you have even a mildly drive to improve or clear no one will get angry. Some static may or may not "kick" you out of the party...but while that sucks, it doesnt mean anything in the end. You weren't fit for that group for whatever reason. There is another you will fit in! As with everything in live practices make you better. If you are willing to take the time you can and will clear content. You might not finish the 4th fight of a tier on content your first time trying...But you will. But if there is one thing I want to say again: Search for a group with similar goals then you. Most statics I saw that split up or kicked people were statics/people that did not talk about their goals properly. different goals will sooner or later lead to being a problem as a team. I might sounded more negative then I actually meant those things. I just want people to enjoy raiding

[@eisenblume8848]

Another great tool is ffxiv analysis cause it'll tell you certain things you are missing or mis using in your rotation too it helped me start to maximize my damage when iI was still getting used to a new job and all you need to do is copy and paste a link from fflogs into the url and it'll pull up that fight and tell you how to improve and it'll cover your rotation for the whole fight. You can also look up some higher end parsers/players and see what they are doing in certain fights for their rotation.

[@novavimj5148]

I was called out for being suck for causing 1 wipe in a clear party, and another guy caused 3 wipes but no one said a thing, so, I asked them why they only harassed me. They just laugh and told me "you should uninstall the game, king" I feel that was so toxic and unfair to me so I quit ff14. 5 months later my friend dragged me to play ff14 again, I told him about what happen before and he suggest FFlog website to me. Yep, I was 8 percentile that fights and the guy who caused multiple wipes was around 60+ for that clear, now I understand the reason. (the one who mocked me is 95+ savage raider :P) Thanks to them that I git gud now

[@jaylenochin8552]

"Just invest an ungodly amount of time into whatever you are trying to clear". Going on 3 years of actively progging TEA... clearly I need to invest more time XD.

[@Kougaon]

yeah dude 3 more years and you def got this

[@CenKyne]

and you just cleared Baldasean Arsenal :p I know. I was there :D

[@Kougaon]

Thanks for accompanying :)

[@yukimiasma9590]

When it comes to parsing, for me it is just a meme right now, since it heavily relies on gear with a few on optimization for that specific fight. As long as you get the clear it doesnt really matter what parse you get. All that really matter is whether you can do mech or not, which you can easily look up on youtube with hector's guide