I'll be casting the Savage Race to World First starting tomorrow, so here's my breakdown of a first look on Normal! Hope you enjoy. Also streaming all day today - come say hey! -> www.twitch.tv/justruss
Warrior of Light: "I have defeated countless Primals. I have felled large, imposing beasts. I have killed literal GODS. But that cute idol girl cosplaying as a bee scares the shit out of me."
This was my first Day 1 Raid experience (logged in at 3:00 am on the dot) and it was without a doubt a very fun experience, I got to talking with a group the day after and the one thing we agreed on is that the savages for this raid series is likely to be "easier" by virtue of the mechanics being more structured and less randomized, more organized chaos if you will and I think this will especially be the case for the Honey B. Lovely fight
In my opinion that's a better way for them to go! I personally love fights which feel like a dance and you can make consistent over more pulls. Feels very satisfying when everything falls into place and you execute it perfectly
Wow it's so cool seeing my favourite streamers like you and Psybear Underscore TV get to cast the world race! :) Jokies aside, it's genuinely awesome to see you getting involved in this community event, I hope you had a great experience! It would be really cool (if it's something that you want, of course) to see you back for future casts like the upcoming ultimate, hopefully for a race that actually lets everyone get some casting in. 😔
Something that wasn't shown in the videos and I don't think many people know or have noticed: on the map on the 4th fight, there's a 2nd platform just out of view of the minimap that has presence on the full map. I'm hoping that'll lead to some split party shenanigans.
something that needs to be remembered dying in 14 is a DPS loss, died once you get 25% stats reduction means 25% damage loss for 3min died 2x or more is a 50% on week 1 a single dps if having brink of death weakness or the head empty sign is already a sign you will not going to pass enrage, if a 2 DPS death well might as well clean up since you are not passing enrage
As you asked about playing on controller during the Honey B fight: I'm a controller player (on PC) myself ever since I picked up the game for the first time 10 years ago. It plays VERY nicely on controller actually, and scrolling through the party is super easy. I main Warrior but I've levelled all available jobs so I've done my fair share of healing (arguably the role where you have to scroll through the party list the most) too. You get so used to it that eventually you won't even do single clicks anymore, but literally just hold down the button to get where you want to be within a split second. It's all muscle memory. I also feel the need to point out that Brute Bomber has an Austrian accent in the German dub and it's hilarious xD
I’m genuinely really glad for you to hear that you’ll be doing casting for the race to world first Russ. I know it’s probably easy for you having prior experience, but I think it’s cool you get to participate in it all the same.
one thing you gotta remember that while you were watching this, you were pausing the video to identify mechanics and lines, when actually in the fight you got like 4 seconds to identify what the mechanic is trying to tell you, move to the safe spot, and keep your rotation up
Absolutely, agreed! I tried not to pause too many times on those moments with memory games once I understood what the telegraphing was actually for, so that I could test to see if I'd be able to identify a safe spot in real time. Also im obviously not having to worry about a rotation too :P
man the arcadion is just SO FUN. been playing sage a lot lately and i got the mechanics down for this tier so it feels great to be able to tell what's about to come up and not only anticipate hard hits with shields but also set up everything to seamlessly transition into scraping the dead off the floor. that last multi hit section in m4 is so much fun, i keep queueing for that fight as sage to feel alive there
Wait, you've beaten Coils MINE *and* Alex MINE? Respect, man. My static's been doing Coils MINE for the past year, and we're still working on T13. And from what I hear, Alex MINE has some fights that are just as nasty.
Yep! I'd say alex was much harder execution-wise. Very punishing and a lot of mechanic vomit at some points but overall still very fun! Coils was just great fun overall and loved the story it added too!
The main thing not seen in the video of Wicked Thunder was melee dps charging the boss after she destroys the platform and falling out the ring, their uptime greed betrayed them
15:10 One thing I've done for healing on controller is I enable WXHB for another hotbar outside of the 2 normal I use and made macros to target certain party members so I don't have to spam dpad
I'm the WHM who provided the M2 video. I've tried enabling the WXHB, but I've personally found it more difficult to use when I'm trying to do things quickly because the trigger controls aren't particularly intuitive to me. Regarding the target macros, I have Lucid Dreaming macroed to echo a sound effect (you can actually hear it go off at that timestamp) to let me know when it's off cd, so if I were to make targeting macros that would render my LD macro basically useless. I've been doing party targeting using dpad since late SB when I first picked up WHM, so it's not typically a real issue. Using the dpad also allows for soft targeting with boss target snapback, which (to me) makes it more convenient.
I have a hunch that first raid with knock out mechanic, we'll have to share platform just like what we did with E9S with Cloud of Darkness. It will have precise timing where you barely will make it to the platform when you are knocked out plus she'll do a left or right slices.
idk if you'll see this in time but a bit of FFXIV raid history that you don't have much if any context for, the first 2 fights are usually *mostly* complete on normal mode and savage adds more permutations of things you've seen already on normal and it makes sense basically immediately, so there's very little solving going on for those 2. Rarely there will be an entire extra mechanic that might take a pull or 2 to understand but they're pretty simple on their face. Floor 3 on normal mode feels very sparse, with a bunch of very basic mechanics, but it's because floor 3 is also usually waaaaaaaaaay more pruned down in normal mode compared to their savage counterparts. there are all sorts of designs on the floor that arent related to any attack he does in normal mode, there will likely be at least 3 or 4 basic mechanics things (and then permutations on those, combined with the mechanics we see here in normal) that are just completely savage only. Also stuff you can easily assume like the AOE damage things he does will be way harder to heal through etc floor 4 is much of the same but there will either be an entire second form we don't know about or just like 7 minutes of brand new shit we can't really predict, except if you open the map there's an entire platform to the south you can see that normal mode never uses, so some people are probably gonna get knocked onto their own platform to deal with their own shit at some point. hope you have fun with the cast! god speed my friend edit: I typed all this out then you went and said it yourself in the video, so I feel silly now, but I still hope you have fun! also my next sentence might be considered lore spoilers so don't read on if you don't want, but the 1st and 4th boss are sisters in lore, so them both having similar half room wide cleaves that seem identical is thematically appropriate! they also both make clones of themselves to pile the mechanics on at the same time!
@@JustRuss MNK main chiming in: I almost always sit next to the boss and I've had very good experience with it and it also makes the mechanic super active and fun since you have to deal with the floating hearts immediately and the ones from the outside right after. It's hard but some focus and you can get away with either minimal uptime loss or full uptime. This'll be a good first raid tier for you to see 2nd-hand with commentating.
Thank you, Mr. RussStallin. My apologies. I probably misunderstood this part from video description: "I've started my first playthrough of Final Fantasy XIV over on Twitch. I hope some of you will join me on this adventure! Will be streamed LIVE at: / justruss VODs will be uploaded here: / @justrussvods "
Casting for savage will be a lot of fun, I'm gonna be crafting for a group at server launch I think the fights are better with English voice acting... so I can understand them lol
@@JustRuss yep, myself and 3 others will craft a dps gear set, then a support gearset. Afterwards crafting a ton of food and potions lol. Busy busy busy
honey b sounds so much better in japan dub. her English dub voice makes me think of firecracker from the boys. with japanese dub now i understand why her singing voice is so much higher pitch
People saying that m3 is easy haven't done it with casuals. I've had both m3 and m4 disband multiple times now because people just can't seem to learn. That and co-healers just parsing during heal checks...
I'll be casting the Savage Race to World First starting tomorrow, so here's my breakdown of a first look on Normal! Hope you enjoy.
Also streaming all day today - come say hey! -> www.twitch.tv/justruss
Warrior of Light: "I have defeated countless Primals. I have felled large, imposing beasts. I have killed literal GODS. But that cute idol girl cosplaying as a bee scares the shit out of me."
I fear no man, but that THING, it scares me
This was my first Day 1 Raid experience (logged in at 3:00 am on the dot) and it was without a doubt a very fun experience, I got to talking with a group the day after and the one thing we agreed on is that the savages for this raid series is likely to be "easier" by virtue of the mechanics being more structured and less randomized, more organized chaos if you will and I think this will especially be the case for the Honey B. Lovely fight
In my opinion that's a better way for them to go! I personally love fights which feel like a dance and you can make consistent over more pulls. Feels very satisfying when everything falls into place and you execute it perfectly
Wow it's so cool seeing my favourite streamers like you and Psybear Underscore TV get to cast the world race! :)
Jokies aside, it's genuinely awesome to see you getting involved in this community event, I hope you had a great experience! It would be really cool (if it's something that you want, of course) to see you back for future casts like the upcoming ultimate, hopefully for a race that actually lets everyone get some casting in. 😔
Something that wasn't shown in the videos and I don't think many people know or have noticed: on the map on the 4th fight, there's a 2nd platform just out of view of the minimap that has presence on the full map. I'm hoping that'll lead to some split party shenanigans.
Yep i saw those, but i can't remember if i included it in this edit haha
Congrats on your commentary seat!
i wish you luck and hope everyone has a great day 1 for world first race
Thanks, good luck in the raid if you are playing savage!
something that needs to be remembered dying in 14 is a DPS loss, died once you get 25% stats reduction means 25% damage loss for 3min
died 2x or more is a 50%
on week 1 a single dps if having brink of death weakness or the head empty sign is already a sign you will not going to pass enrage, if a 2 DPS death well might as well clean up since you are not passing enrage
Yep absolutely! I expect the tuning will be very tight
As you asked about playing on controller during the Honey B fight: I'm a controller player (on PC) myself ever since I picked up the game for the first time 10 years ago. It plays VERY nicely on controller actually, and scrolling through the party is super easy. I main Warrior but I've levelled all available jobs so I've done my fair share of healing (arguably the role where you have to scroll through the party list the most) too. You get so used to it that eventually you won't even do single clicks anymore, but literally just hold down the button to get where you want to be within a split second. It's all muscle memory.
I also feel the need to point out that Brute Bomber has an Austrian accent in the German dub and it's hilarious xD
Sounds awesome! I certainly need to give controller a go sometime!
But........YoshiP took your gig already. This tier has an announcer :)
I’m genuinely really glad for you to hear that you’ll be doing casting for the race to world first Russ. I know it’s probably easy for you having prior experience, but I think it’s cool you get to participate in it all the same.
Looking forward to it, although a little nervous because it'll be my first FFXIV gig
@JustRuss where can we see this? Did it happen already?
one thing you gotta remember that while you were watching this, you were pausing the video to identify mechanics and lines, when actually in the fight you got like 4 seconds to identify what the mechanic is trying to tell you, move to the safe spot, and keep your rotation up
Absolutely, agreed! I tried not to pause too many times on those moments with memory games once I understood what the telegraphing was actually for, so that I could test to see if I'd be able to identify a safe spot in real time. Also im obviously not having to worry about a rotation too :P
These situations here are probably why healers don't have a rotation. Makes them more likely to survive and then bring back the DPS.
man the arcadion is just SO FUN. been playing sage a lot lately and i got the mechanics down for this tier so it feels great to be able to tell what's about to come up and not only anticipate hard hits with shields but also set up everything to seamlessly transition into scraping the dead off the floor. that last multi hit section in m4 is so much fun, i keep queueing for that fight as sage to feel alive there
Enjoy the cast! Looking forward to it.
bro is going to be yammering literal nonsense on stream
LMAO you're not wrong
Wait, you've beaten Coils MINE *and* Alex MINE?
Respect, man. My static's been doing Coils MINE for the past year, and we're still working on T13. And from what I hear, Alex MINE has some fights that are just as nasty.
Yep! I'd say alex was much harder execution-wise. Very punishing and a lot of mechanic vomit at some points but overall still very fun! Coils was just great fun overall and loved the story it added too!
The main thing not seen in the video of Wicked Thunder was melee dps charging the boss after she destroys the platform and falling out the ring, their uptime greed betrayed them
If you didn't die to that on your first time in the fight, you aren't a *real* melee DPS.
15:10 One thing I've done for healing on controller is I enable WXHB for another hotbar outside of the 2 normal I use and made macros to target certain party members so I don't have to spam dpad
I'm the WHM who provided the M2 video. I've tried enabling the WXHB, but I've personally found it more difficult to use when I'm trying to do things quickly because the trigger controls aren't particularly intuitive to me.
Regarding the target macros, I have Lucid Dreaming macroed to echo a sound effect (you can actually hear it go off at that timestamp) to let me know when it's off cd, so if I were to make targeting macros that would render my LD macro basically useless. I've been doing party targeting using dpad since late SB when I first picked up WHM, so it's not typically a real issue. Using the dpad also allows for soft targeting with boss target snapback, which (to me) makes it more convenient.
@@shiroikami2690 Valid, I just have a hard time cycling with D-pad. Every control layout has it's advantagesd and disadvantages
wow looking forward to it!
See you there!
I have a hunch that first raid with knock out mechanic, we'll have to share platform just like what we did with E9S with Cloud of Darkness. It will have precise timing where you barely will make it to the platform when you are knocked out plus she'll do a left or right slices.
Arcadion 2040 NoteD
Seeing the healer pov where they can extract a bunch of materia made me sad
Hahah the passive triggers
idk if you'll see this in time but a bit of FFXIV raid history that you don't have much if any context for, the first 2 fights are usually *mostly* complete on normal mode and savage adds more permutations of things you've seen already on normal and it makes sense basically immediately, so there's very little solving going on for those 2. Rarely there will be an entire extra mechanic that might take a pull or 2 to understand but they're pretty simple on their face.
Floor 3 on normal mode feels very sparse, with a bunch of very basic mechanics, but it's because floor 3 is also usually waaaaaaaaaay more pruned down in normal mode compared to their savage counterparts. there are all sorts of designs on the floor that arent related to any attack he does in normal mode, there will likely be at least 3 or 4 basic mechanics things (and then permutations on those, combined with the mechanics we see here in normal) that are just completely savage only. Also stuff you can easily assume like the AOE damage things he does will be way harder to heal through etc
floor 4 is much of the same but there will either be an entire second form we don't know about or just like 7 minutes of brand new shit we can't really predict, except if you open the map there's an entire platform to the south you can see that normal mode never uses, so some people are probably gonna get knocked onto their own platform to deal with their own shit at some point.
hope you have fun with the cast! god speed my friend
edit: I typed all this out then you went and said it yourself in the video, so I feel silly now, but I still hope you have fun! also my next sentence might be considered lore spoilers so don't read on if you don't want, but the 1st and 4th boss are sisters in lore, so them both having similar half room wide cleaves that seem identical is thematically appropriate! they also both make clones of themselves to pile the mechanics on at the same time!
on honey B. line you*can* keep melee uptime without getting hit if you space it absolutely perfectly but it's not worth it
I must witness this peak gaming!
@@JustRuss MNK main chiming in: I almost always sit next to the boss and I've had very good experience with it and it also makes the mechanic super active and fun since you have to deal with the floating hearts immediately and the ones from the outside right after. It's hard but some focus and you can get away with either minimal uptime loss or full uptime. This'll be a good first raid tier for you to see 2nd-hand with commentating.
My suspicion is that M2S will be all debuffs management. Also Thundercat Centaur over a bee, thank you 😊
Yep I think the same, maybe even some way to become broken-hearted to reset your heart containers
WOOOOOOOOO GG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr. Russ.
In description, it was mentioned that the vod with your castjng will be posted.
Will it happen?
I don’t remember promising that but I will say the vod is probably still available over on the mogtalk twitch channel, now renamed frostymog
Thank you, Mr. RussStallin. My apologies.
I probably misunderstood this part from video description:
"I've started my first playthrough of Final Fantasy XIV over on Twitch. I hope some of you will join me on this adventure!
Will be streamed LIVE at: / justruss
VODs will be uploaded here: / @justrussvods "
@@Kairax Ah yeah, i thought that might be the case! Just meant that all my vids and stuff is streamed live for those interested
Casting for savage will be a lot of fun, I'm gonna be crafting for a group at server launch
I think the fights are better with English voice acting... so I can understand them lol
Hell yea! so you'll be funnelling them item upgrades as they progress?
@@JustRuss yep, myself and 3 others will craft a dps gear set, then a support gearset. Afterwards crafting a ton of food and potions lol. Busy busy busy
@@syaojyn Sounds like a really fun way to be involved without doing the actual long hours or the raiding yourself!
honey b sounds so much better in japan dub. her English dub voice makes me think of firecracker from the boys. with japanese dub now i understand why her singing voice is so much higher pitch
Thank god he didn't have to get the complete whiplash that is Honey Bee's english voice.
People saying that m3 is easy haven't done it with casuals. I've had both m3 and m4 disband multiple times now because people just can't seem to learn. That and co-healers just parsing during heal checks...