When she hit phase two one of the healers I did this yelled in chat "BITCH DO YOU HAVE A PAUSE BUTTON?!" and I died from an AoE from laughing too hard 😂
Have you noticed how none of her attacks, once she goes all Bayonetta, have cast bars. It's like at that point, she really is just winging it and being as fast and chaotic (free) as she can be.
@@GhostWulf70792 Shortly before ending 6.2 MSQ, while your player talks to Varsahn, the camera pans out and notice a small blob with eyes running away from the chamber and a random royal guard chase after it
@@GhostWulf70792 More specifically a new (yellow) quest given by a Radiant Scout appears, and gives lore into the two Archfiends we've taken out so far. Should be near the satraps Palace.
@@mabdam3799 a small blob with eyes? Was the small blob covered in a brown cloak and did it have yellow eyes? If so then that's Scarmiglione for some reason he's still alive.
This fight became one of my Favourites. The chaotic speed vs. Visual clarity is balanced PERFECTLY. There's so much going on, you'd expect it to be unreadable and hard to see, right? But actually, it's one of the visually highest clarity fights, while also having the pace of a speed demon. Love it
I nearly went into this fight as a Black Mage until I mentally was like "I have no idea what it might be like so lets go with SMN instead" and I am... so grateful for past me. Also the fact the random group had 2 RDMs and 2 SMNs as well as healers so there were *6* raises available.
@@cam1000123 A single decent RDM with full MP (or at least, good means of recovering MP quickly) is, in my experience, worth about *5* Raises just by themselves, and this is coming from a RDM main! There was a moment during a run of Orbonne when we were fighting Ultima and we had just gotten through the gauntlet of simultaneous Belias, Hashmal, & Famfrit chaos. Alliances B & C were pretty much fine at that point, with each having at most one person down (who were promptly revived). Alliance A (my Alliance) on the other hand? Alliance A got absolutely *DECIMATED* with only *two* of us surviving: myself (as our only RDM) and our BRD....we'd lost our Tank, both Healers, and 3 of our 5 DPS! And add to that the fact that we now had only about 15-20 seconds to get into the barrier for "Ruination" to begin. During that brief window of time, I was able to revive our Tank, both Healers, and two of the three DPS (only one I couldn't revive in time was our NIN both because they were well out of range on the other side of the map and I was totally spent on MP) all in time for us to all be in place to help during Ruination. And then about halfway through Ruination I also managed to revive our NIN. Once Ruination was over, I saw my Alliance chat begin lighting up with comments like "Red Mage Best Job" and "i think you mean rez mage". After the run was over I also got a whopping 5 Commendations for it. Getting that kind of praise and recognition felt so damn good that I had a big ol' grin plastered on my face for a good while afterwards. It's moments like that which make me love being a RDM main. Another moment that I remember (more for amusement factor than anything else) was during a Light Party instance (I forget the name atm, but it's the one where you fight the Griffon at the end), and during the final fight at around the halfway point, our Healer goes down, but I almost immediately was able to get the Healer back on their feet (I was the only RDM present again, as our other DPS I *think* was either a DRG or SAM, it was so long ago that I can't remember for certain), and that was enough to save the entire run. And then I got a good laugh when the other DPS remarked how he figured it was a wipe when our Healer went down, only for him to suddenly be very confused when the Healer was suddenly alive again....before he realized *"Oh, right! We have a Red Mage!"* :P I'm currently taking a break from the game, but I will most likely get back into it sooner or later (I play on the Diabolos server).
And all I can think of while listening to this is "Barbariccia!" "Tornado! Tornado! Woman who calls the winds!" "Totally naked!" (Cookies to anyone else who knows the reference and got this song stuck in their heads.)
I still have a hard time grasping just how fucking good the second loop is. It's just incredible. The original SNES version making a cameo is good and fun, but the part after? The drums kicking in after a brief respite? And then going absolutely nuts until the song ends?? The sheer energy in this arrangement is through the roof and back down again...with a giant fist.
I love how unexpected phase 2 is. Barbariccia’s classic fight aside, you generally wouldn’t expect the Wind fiend to be brutal physical brawler. I also like how her tornado mode leads into the most brutal Jump attack you’ve ever seen. Nice little connection with the classic Dragoon weakness.
Since I played FF4, when she did Curling Iron I was expecting her to start reflecting damage until we resolved some mechanic to break her out of her whirlwind, like how you have to use Kain's jump in the original game. What I was NOT expecting was for her to emerge from the tornado as She Hulk.
I think that's the first time that I've seen one of those phase-switch attacks just straight up 100 to 0 people, it's really funny when you see a poor red mage just looking up like :o and then they're just _gone_
And yet, this is exactly how someone corrupted by Darkness and Wind would be--this is wind at its most kinetic and it suits the story and character well!
@@AllGameNoLifeyeah, the sudden spike hit hard. Half asleep until 6.1 just to get crushed by this crazy chick because i didnt wake up fast enough. Phase 1 is rather easy but phase 2 is just a chaotic, non-casted bullet hell. Or like my friend said: "Freaking AoE Fuckfest"
This fight has really set a new expectation how dynamic the trials can be in this game. Her animations on phase 2 are spectacular, you can see her flinging the rocks from the ground, punching, kicking, it truly shows her personality through combat, which is something really rich for animations in general
This track's official title saying (Buried Memory) instead of (Endwalker) implies that the other archfiends may get new arrangements of Battle With The Four Fiends that's different from this one which if true sounds exciting
Wonder if Rubicante (I assume he’s going to get the trial treatment) will get an arrangement that leans harder into a rock vibe like what they did for Battle 2 this patch
It'll be like the Warring triad or the Aspects from Stormblood. Their first phases will have this theme, and then they get their own themes for second phase.
Was not expecting Barbariccia to both be hot as well as such a terrifying fight. The fiends got makeovers in more ways than one and I'm hyped to see how Rubicante goes
Its criminal how good JP sounds compared to english. Its the same problem I have with Azemya where while the english vas arent bad at all, they dont go nearly as hard as the jp vas do. Their performances shift my perception of the character they're voicing instead of reinforcing it.
@@Takyomi "Their performances shift my perception of the character they're voicing instead of reinforcing it." That's pretty strange considering that JP VA is literally meant to reinforce and define tropes, never ever breaking out of established archetypes under any circumstances, whereas the EN VAs are poached straight from theater where personal interpretation of characters is king.
agreed! i went into it with another blind group the day it came out and we got her to 2% enrage after like 3 hours of progging it. it was a blast, everyone was doing amazing! i cant same the same for PF lol
Theory time; So if the flood of light originated from Eden then the flood of darkness might have originated from Zeromus and Golbez' holy war is to slay him hoping to fix his world and he is the "voidsent" part of Zero who sealed him away (as the flood was already happening and unstoppable) inside herself with memoria, losing her memory while doing so. Her real name might be tied to the statue at her domain which might be Cecile (since she's a woman).
@@IaconDawnshire maybe he wants to do both, invade source, get aether and fix his world/kill Zeromus with source aether empowering him/his army. Big dude has a big agenda I'd be really disappointed if he's just a Cloud of darkness 2.0 so to speak. He was really motivated when CoD was knocked down a few pegs in the hirarchy so he can enact his plans and she just wanted to destroy the source so I think he has a bigger picture in mind even if he wants/needs to invade to make his goal reachable.
if zero is zeromus, then golbez is the wols 13th shard, and to end zeromus we must fuse together like we did with ardy to contain and use the light as a weapon
Zero never lost her memory. She died moments before the Flood hit, which is why she escaped being transformed, but her soul was cut off from the lifestream due to the Flood and eventually returned to the Thirteenth. I'm more inclined to believe her original name was Rosa :P My speculation is that Zeromus is more likely a sundered ascian that got erased when the shard fell, just like how we dealth with Emet-Selch on the First. Golbez however, correctly assumed the Source is the base of operations of the Ascians and seeks to invade and destroy them to restore the Thirteenth. But to throw open the gates to the Source, he needs a lot of aether in an aether-starved world, and an army to unleash upon the Source.
Bayonetta for having hair as weapon/armour Annie from AoT for looking like her in armour phase and Titan-esque transformation Garuda for sadistic wind elemental laughs
I love that the new content gets harder. Yesterday I helped a friend with hades and I realised how easy that fight is there is like nothing you even have to worry about in the slightest
Rubicante once said that our rage is a weakness. But the moment when his fight comes, I will be looking forward to prove *HOW* *WRONG* *HE* *IS!!* (go full Ninja)
"You are an interested one indeed. Such powers, unleashed by anger alone. But they will not avail you! The frozen winds of Hell's Ninth Circle could not penetrate this cloak of flame i wear. Come, I will heal your wounds. Face me at full strength!"
This game has had many long and complex transition scenes but this scene was fast , simple and fun to watch, i love it. She really hit us with the " Do you even lift?"
when she started talking about her hair i was expecting her to be like rapunzel, and was confused when her hair wasn't that long, then i get to her lair and i understand where all the hair went o_o
This fight can absolutely be described as “brain go brrrrrrrr”. Everytime i play it i stress during the fight but then come out of the fight super chill. cause after everything the second phase throws at you it still feels fair. 😅
Oh. Now I just realized. We might get different versions of this song, due to it being suffixed with Buried Memory patch name? Wow, now I can hardly wait for 6.3
@@Carsu12 Even if that is the theme they use for the last two Fiends, I'd wager that won't be the case if Zeromus shows up. I would be absolutely shocked and appalled if Soken didn't put hands on Zero's theme.
@@KaitoN25 Yeah they did pretty much part him out for this whole story arc, with Emet-Selch's motivations similar to Zemus, and Endsinger is obviously inspired by Zeromus. But they could easily find a way to weave him into the story with no problem. He's pretty inextricably linked to Golbez. That said, he doesn't NEED to be back for all this to work. Ultimately whether they use him or not is immaterial; I trust this is going to be well done regardless. BUT... they can't do the FF4 throwback without that theme. They just can't!! 🥴 Soken must bring it back! He brought every other FF4 theme back, why would he leave that one, right? Right?!? That'd be crazy😵💫.... He must bring it back... 😖 *screaming at the sky* YOU HEAR ME SOKEN!!!! *breaks down sobbing* ...you must...
Interesting how they give the Four Fields swords. Cagnazo probably won't have one but I wonder if Rubicante does. Problably a fire sword like a badass. Maybe Golbez can have the Ebony Sword he uses in The After Years.
God I had to babysit my poor healer during phase 2 as a tank. The sheer amount of chaos, trying to keep them as protected as I could so they can revive the party. This is easily one of the most fun trials I've experienced.
Me queueing for this the first time as Scholar, poor babby me not even knowing what I was getting into on day 1 I just had a healer geared for the time being. ...I lived? But I don't remember how. I think survival instincts brought on by the music did it.
"You've been here five minutes and you already took down two of my four best servants?! Who the fuck are you?!" "My last bbeg was an universal threat. You're a downgrade at best."
I expected a fight like the original game with a jump to break the tornado form. Instead, l've got a Jojo's fight full of Ora!ora!ora! and Muda!muda!muda!
I love this fight so much. 2nd phase feels like a real challenge dodging everything she throws at you. Hate when you need to memorize a fight, it becomes boring.
As an avid Final Fantasy IV fan I have Vietnam flashbacks listening to this and as soon as I reach Endwalker I know I'll have Vietnam flashbacks of XIV as well
Gawd...I love this song so much...I remember playing OG Final Fantasy II on SNES before it was corrected in the US. That first "fiend" transforming and then the epic boss music transitioned to this song and my expectations of "boss music" were changed forever.
huh? this fight (at least on normal, havn't done extrem) was incredibly basic. phase 1 had some things to watch out, but phase 2 is basicaly just "dodge AOE". and it is not that hard. when you can dodge all of it without problems as a blackmage, then it really isn't that hard
@@Dr.AvenVon Normal was a 1 shot, doesn't have anything special. Extreme is significantly harder, which is the one I was refencing as requiring around 2h of prog if blind.
holy crap, don't know what I was expecting when I qued into this fight the first time, but I was NOT ready for this fight. Although that being said, I wanted to jump right back in and run it again as soon as I got out because hot damn that was fun
First Cloud of Darkness, (who could have been kind of attractive if she'd just done SOMETHING with her hair.) Then Calofistori who weaponized her hair. And now Barbariccia who does the same... Apparently a hair fetish comes standard issue with being a female voidsent.
Dodging all of the AoEs as a SAM on my first time here made me feel like a badass. Unfortunately, the Main Tank Disconnected, and since I was No. 2 on emnity that Tankbuster smashed my head, hard
I wasn't expecting any of this fight to pop off as hard as it did, including barbariccia becoming short haired bayonetta in phase 2 and gomu gomu no bazookaing the stage
To prove to myself I could still heal in content after swapping to DPS for over two years, I did this fight. I had 5 newbies and we didn’t wipe. Felt great.
@@painrelief3441 geryon who follows the name scheme of the fiends. Geryon is another demon from the divine comedy. In FF4 Geryon is the Malice of the four fiends.
Had a BLM week one trying to get a clear, managed to get it down after a lot of trial and error and they went "You know what, I got my clear, I'll see ya'll later."
Someone in a Helplines TBA session said this about the Ex fight: “Everything else in XIV feels so slow once you clear- like what am I supposed to do during all these boss casts??” And like, yeah, it’s free real estate.
I'm a Black Mage main. It's the only job I have unlocked, actually. And when I got to this fight...💀 If any of you are Black Mage mains too, I'd like to hear your blind experience with Barbie Barbeque. Even if you're not, I'd still like to read about it.
They kept the tempo of the original which even the pixel remaster failed to do right and thank the stars! Worthy upgrade from the original and i can't thank the music team behind it enough!
This song is too bloody addicting. After hearing this absolute banger for the first time I can no longer get that little part at 4:26 to 4:34 out of my head too. Feels absolutely nostalgic.
As someone that hasn't played much of FF14 but did grow up on FF games (with 4 and 6 being my favorites).. trust me when I say, this song hits so hard no matter the version of it it's got a permanent spot in my gym playlist. Battle with the Four Fiends hits everything perfectly. You KNOW it's about to get rough when you start hearing it and your blood just starts rushing, heart practically matches the beat. I honestly prefer it over Dancing Mad as my favorite single track from any FF game.
This was the first EX I ever did properly and in all the hours working on this fight, I never got sick of this tune. It always felt awesome during the fight.
In my first time doing this I was so enthused about how fast the second phase was for a normal, and yet I still got greedy and barely dodged in and out of her AoEs, at one point I caught myself saying "Not fast enough!" out loud lol Actual JRPG character behavior
I feel that. Sometimes when I'm playing NIN, I kinda go into a trance where I'm doing my rotation perfectly while dodging every attack. I'm not even thinking, just doing and it's absolute bliss.
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this is one of the fights of all time when playing black mage
i went in blind as BLM and there was too much running
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I went in blind as a black mage and wanted to die thanks.
I went in blind as a Black Mage and enjoyed it.
Now BLM has the same crap with the new Ex Trial xD
FFXIV Playerbase: "We love the game and and all, but you can sleepwalk through MSQ trials."
Barbariccia: "...and I took that personally."
I think all Endwalker trials are very challenging. I have hard times with Rubicante too 🤣
Dawntrail msq dungeons and trials, raids took that personally
and even now you can still sleepwalk through this borefest
@@drago1uk2000no you can’t
@@juanpablo-co6zwHaha, yeah. My comment didn't age very well 🤣
"You're not the only one who can ride the wind."
- Estinien Varlineau. Also Kain Highwind in FF4 before the party fights the same opponent.
...Oh, god. And he even went through an antagonist arc like Kain as well when he got possessed by Nidhogg's malice and rage, too. ;_;
@@warriorofdawn876 also the HW Dragoon Armor was directly inspired by Kain's artwork.
@@warriorofdawn876 also he the whole early stages of Kain's antagonist arc in the 1.0/2.0 Dragoon Job quest
every final fantasy needs a kain, and we got a good one.
I was hoping he was going to say that line and I was not disappointed :D
When she hit phase two one of the healers I did this yelled in chat "BITCH DO YOU HAVE A PAUSE BUTTON?!" and I died from an AoE from laughing too hard 😂
While it likely wasn't me, as a WHM in that fight, I had a very similar reaction.
DODGE THIS IF YOU CAN
@@DraGonKniGht20 A TEST OF YOUR REFLEXES!
@@Mance1680 I'LL SLAUGHTER YOU ALLLLLLLLLLLL
@@Mance1680 I’ll MAKE IT QUICK
"So where are the aoes?" "It'd be easier to list where they aren't."
Have you noticed how none of her attacks, once she goes all Bayonetta, have cast bars. It's like at that point, she really is just winging it and being as fast and chaotic (free) as she can be.
When u meet an npc from the 13th, it''ll tell you about her fighting prowess and her past life
@@mabdam3799 can you eborate. I didn't find this NPC
@@GhostWulf70792 Shortly before ending 6.2 MSQ, while your player talks to Varsahn, the camera pans out and notice a small blob with eyes running away from the chamber and a random royal guard chase after it
@@GhostWulf70792 More specifically a new (yellow) quest given by a Radiant Scout appears, and gives lore into the two Archfiends we've taken out so far. Should be near the satraps Palace.
@@mabdam3799 a small blob with eyes? Was the small blob covered in a brown cloak and did it have yellow eyes? If so then that's Scarmiglione for some reason he's still alive.
I love these kinds of fights, all chaotic dodging and less things you just have to know and memorize
Kinda nice but also wait until this fight on EX.
*nervous laughter*
what they said! ive been progging the EX, 10 times more dodging than the normal, i swear. its so intense, but so fun!
reminds me of the Seiryu fight
This boss is not chaotic. It's like Hydaelyn ,100% memorize your spot pattern and clear.
@@damianek2252 its still visually chaotic...
This fight became one of my Favourites. The chaotic speed vs. Visual clarity is balanced PERFECTLY.
There's so much going on, you'd expect it to be unreadable and hard to see, right? But actually, it's one of the visually highest clarity fights, while also having the pace of a speed demon.
Love it
One of the better trials in the entire game for normal level, almost non stop action
I nearly went into this fight as a Black Mage until I mentally was like "I have no idea what it might be like so lets go with SMN instead" and I am... so grateful for past me.
Also the fact the random group had 2 RDMs and 2 SMNs as well as healers so there were *6* raises available.
If there's red mages, I'd say double the raise amount, honestly. Dualcast Verraise is amazing.
I did blind queue as BLM for this one. Never dropped my astral fire so many times in a single fight
I'm a Black Mage main, and I agree with @Arugula that never before have I dropped my Astral Fire/Umbral Ice so many dayum times in a blind fight lmao.
@@cam1000123 A single decent RDM with full MP (or at least, good means of recovering MP quickly) is, in my experience, worth about *5* Raises just by themselves, and this is coming from a RDM main!
There was a moment during a run of Orbonne when we were fighting Ultima and we had just gotten through the gauntlet of simultaneous Belias, Hashmal, & Famfrit chaos. Alliances B & C were pretty much fine at that point, with each having at most one person down (who were promptly revived). Alliance A (my Alliance) on the other hand? Alliance A got absolutely *DECIMATED* with only *two* of us surviving: myself (as our only RDM) and our BRD....we'd lost our Tank, both Healers, and 3 of our 5 DPS! And add to that the fact that we now had only about 15-20 seconds to get into the barrier for "Ruination" to begin. During that brief window of time, I was able to revive our Tank, both Healers, and two of the three DPS (only one I couldn't revive in time was our NIN both because they were well out of range on the other side of the map and I was totally spent on MP) all in time for us to all be in place to help during Ruination. And then about halfway through Ruination I also managed to revive our NIN. Once Ruination was over, I saw my Alliance chat begin lighting up with comments like "Red Mage Best Job" and "i think you mean rez mage". After the run was over I also got a whopping 5 Commendations for it. Getting that kind of praise and recognition felt so damn good that I had a big ol' grin plastered on my face for a good while afterwards.
It's moments like that which make me love being a RDM main.
Another moment that I remember (more for amusement factor than anything else) was during a Light Party instance (I forget the name atm, but it's the one where you fight the Griffon at the end), and during the final fight at around the halfway point, our Healer goes down, but I almost immediately was able to get the Healer back on their feet (I was the only RDM present again, as our other DPS I *think* was either a DRG or SAM, it was so long ago that I can't remember for certain), and that was enough to save the entire run. And then I got a good laugh when the other DPS remarked how he figured it was a wipe when our Healer went down, only for him to suddenly be very confused when the Healer was suddenly alive again....before he realized *"Oh, right! We have a Red Mage!"* :P
I'm currently taking a break from the game, but I will most likely get back into it sooner or later (I play on the Diabolos server).
i went as a BLM. i enjoyed it so much.
Whoever that JP dude was who did the lyrical meme songs for FF4 back in the 00s, that's all I can hear forever, thanks a lot.
You're thinking of Hyadain. Also, if you haven't checked out Rubicante you're in for a treat
its weird seeing a raid boss not levitating off the ground for once, yet she still looks badass and dominant by her stance with crossed arms
She eschews the Floating Voidsent Pose in favour of something more _befitting_ of an archfiend.
And all I can think of while listening to this is
"Barbariccia!"
"Tornado! Tornado! Woman who calls the winds!"
"Totally naked!"
(Cookies to anyone else who knows the reference and got this song stuck in their heads.)
In a swing of amusement, a new version was done for the new trial and it sounds heavily influenced by that version.
@@etherealsamael3211 drop me a link pleasee
@@callmesmile6434
ruclips.net/video/YBbiJhH-gh4/видео.html
You recognise it almost immediately, it's great
@@whitesonicex much appreciated 😚
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YOU'RE RIGHT!!!
Loving girls, loving girls, interested in guys NO NO. Cindy, Mindy, Sandy, what kinda girl am I up against today?
I still have a hard time grasping just how fucking good the second loop is. It's just incredible. The original SNES version making a cameo is good and fun, but the part after? The drums kicking in after a brief respite? And then going absolutely nuts until the song ends??
The sheer energy in this arrangement is through the roof and back down again...with a giant fist.
I love how unexpected phase 2 is. Barbariccia’s classic fight aside, you generally wouldn’t expect the Wind fiend to be brutal physical brawler.
I also like how her tornado mode leads into the most brutal Jump attack you’ve ever seen. Nice little connection with the classic Dragoon weakness.
@Phoenix Catabasis (aka descent to the underworld).
Since I played FF4, when she did Curling Iron I was expecting her to start reflecting damage until we resolved some mechanic to break her out of her whirlwind, like how you have to use Kain's jump in the original game. What I was NOT expecting was for her to emerge from the tornado as She Hulk.
I think that's the first time that I've seen one of those phase-switch attacks just straight up 100 to 0 people, it's really funny when you see a poor red mage just looking up like :o and then they're just _gone_
It’s fucked up because playing DRG in this fight is actually a torture method.
Holy shit fuck those Ex Tornadoes.
And yet, this is exactly how someone corrupted by Darkness and Wind would be--this is wind at its most kinetic and it suits the story and character well!
It has been a while since the story has made me have to actually be awake to play like damn I wasn't expecting all of that going in at once
This spike in challenge is wonderful!
@@AllGameNoLifeyeah, the sudden spike hit hard. Half asleep until 6.1 just to get crushed by this crazy chick because i didnt wake up fast enough.
Phase 1 is rather easy but phase 2 is just a chaotic, non-casted bullet hell. Or like my friend said: "Freaking AoE Fuckfest"
This was one of the most fights as a melee I've done in a long time. So much energy this patch
This is one of the fights ever made, for sure
Definitely is a fight in FFXIV.
Among all the trial battles in FFXIV, this is certainly one of them.
Another amazing arrangement by Daiki Ishikawa. As expected of someone who did "Force Your Way", "The Legendary Beast", and "The Extreme".
This fight has really set a new expectation how dynamic the trials can be in this game. Her animations on phase 2 are spectacular, you can see her flinging the rocks from the ground, punching, kicking, it truly shows her personality through combat, which is something really rich for animations in general
This track's official title saying (Buried Memory) instead of (Endwalker) implies that the other archfiends may get new arrangements of Battle With The Four Fiends that's different from this one which if true sounds exciting
Had the exact same thought.
Wonder if Rubicante (I assume he’s going to get the trial treatment) will get an arrangement that leans harder into a rock vibe like what they did for Battle 2 this patch
It'll be like the Warring triad or the Aspects from Stormblood. Their first phases will have this theme, and then they get their own themes for second phase.
@@smward87 im hoping so much its this. Especially since the mounts cant all have the same theme
I'm guessing 6.3 trial will be Rubicante + Cagnazzo, 6.4 being Golbez + Shadow ?Dragon?, and finally ending with ?Zero?mus
Was not expecting Barbariccia to both be hot as well as such a terrifying fight. The fiends got makeovers in more ways than one and I'm hyped to see how Rubicante goes
@Phoenix I can see him getting something with a Directional Parry, since that's a decently well-established mechanic (though not common in Normals)
@@All4Tanuki Well, they did add directional parries for the Rhitatyn fight in the ARR revamp. So it could be on the table
Bro if Rubicante gets a suave makeover I'll limit break my desk in hype.
@@SeanTheShinigami Watch him be more handsome than Hythlodaeus LMAO
@@trial_with_an_error9687 no shot
I did NOT expect to have to move so much during a trial, or for Barb to do her best JOJO impression. This was a blast to tank.
funny you say that, her japanese voice actress voices Jolyne
Its criminal how good JP sounds compared to english. Its the same problem I have with Azemya where while the english vas arent bad at all, they dont go nearly as hard as the jp vas do. Their performances shift my perception of the character they're voicing instead of reinforcing it.
@@Takyomi "Their performances shift my perception of the character they're voicing instead of reinforcing it."
That's pretty strange considering that JP VA is literally meant to reinforce and define tropes, never ever breaking out of established archetypes under any circumstances, whereas the EN VAs are poached straight from theater where personal interpretation of characters is king.
The whole time I was like damn she sounds like Fairouz Ai, but after hearing the ora ora ora. I was like NO WAY ITS HER
@@gackybass Ah, japanese dub fanboys, always so blind, always fall high...
Absolute blast going into this blind
My little AST self was screaming so much, but I had an amazing time.
Same lol my sage was crying in addersgall stacks xD
lmao that oraora phase was a pain to heal through
I cried, she was so fucking fast, i really thought how lucky i was because i didn't leveled a BLM.
agreed! i went into it with another blind group the day it came out and we got her to 2% enrage after like 3 hours of progging it. it was a blast, everyone was doing amazing! i cant same the same for PF lol
Must stop her spin! Kain! JUMP!!!
Estinien! JUMP!!!
loving girl, loving girl~
Bro, people who have played final fantasy IV are crying right now and I am one of them.
when i hear this OST i just remember Edge full triggered attacking Rubicante on FF IV
God I love that brief moment where the original track of the song plays ;w; so much nostalgia
Really like how it includes a bit of the snes version of the theme
Theory time;
So if the flood of light originated from Eden then the flood of darkness might have originated from Zeromus and Golbez' holy war is to slay him hoping to fix his world and he is the "voidsent" part of Zero who sealed him away (as the flood was already happening and unstoppable) inside herself with memoria, losing her memory while doing so.
Her real name might be tied to the statue at her domain which might be Cecile (since she's a woman).
Would be intriguing if Golbez was trying to end Zeromus but I think he's trying to invade the Source
@@IaconDawnshire maybe he wants to do both, invade source, get aether and fix his world/kill Zeromus with source aether empowering him/his army.
Big dude has a big agenda I'd be really disappointed if he's just a Cloud of darkness 2.0 so to speak.
He was really motivated when CoD was knocked down a few pegs in the hirarchy so he can enact his plans and she just wanted to destroy the source so I think he has a bigger picture in mind even if he wants/needs to invade to make his goal reachable.
if zero is zeromus, then golbez is the wols 13th shard, and to end zeromus we must fuse together like we did with ardy to contain and use the light as a weapon
Zero never lost her memory. She died moments before the Flood hit, which is why she escaped being transformed, but her soul was cut off from the lifestream due to the Flood and eventually returned to the Thirteenth. I'm more inclined to believe her original name was Rosa :P
My speculation is that Zeromus is more likely a sundered ascian that got erased when the shard fell, just like how we dealth with Emet-Selch on the First.
Golbez however, correctly assumed the Source is the base of operations of the Ascians and seeks to invade and destroy them to restore the Thirteenth. But to throw open the gates to the Source, he needs a lot of aether in an aether-starved world, and an army to unleash upon the Source.
@@1jidion Consider how Golbez is related to Cecil, and our WoL is going full Cecil in EW, so yea
Bayonetta for having hair as weapon/armour
Annie from AoT for looking like her in armour phase and Titan-esque transformation
Garuda for sadistic wind elemental laughs
I love that the new content gets harder. Yesterday I helped a friend with hades and I realised how easy that fight is there is like nothing you even have to worry about in the slightest
"harder"
as if any trial was ever difficult.
These themes really show just how amazing both Soken and Uematsu are.
Fun fact, Soken didn't do this one. Another composer for xiv did
Rubicante once said that our rage is a weakness. But the moment when his fight comes, I will be looking forward to prove *HOW* *WRONG* *HE* *IS!!* (go full Ninja)
"You are an interested one indeed.
Such powers, unleashed by anger alone.
But they will not avail you! The frozen winds of Hell's Ninth Circle could not penetrate this cloak of flame i wear.
Come, I will heal your wounds.
Face me at full strength!"
This game has had many long and complex transition scenes but this scene was fast , simple and fun to watch, i love it. She really hit us with the " Do you even lift?"
when she started talking about her hair i was expecting her to be like rapunzel, and was confused when her hair wasn't that long, then i get to her lair and i understand where all the hair went o_o
Absolutely LOVE how the arranged this music!! Brings back the memories , and this boss , chef kiss.
This was a reallu fun fight! It was well done with all those AoEs dance
I wonder how blms played in it lol
@@mlemlemmlemmlem surprisingly well, theres a lot of aoe but rarely ones where you have to move a long distance
@@mlemlemmlemmlem It looks pretty friendly for slide-casting
@@jacobkern2060 I love slide casting, I'm gonna try it! Especially with that new caster gear, ooooo shit I'm gonna be a demon
@@mlemlemmlemmlem on normal it wasn't too bad, yeah
extreme on the other hand is a nightmare of a fight
. . . "LOVIN' GIRLS, LOVIN' GIRLS, INTEREST IN GUYS IS A NO - NO !"
This fight can absolutely be described as “brain go brrrrrrrr”. Everytime i play it i stress during the fight but then come out of the fight super chill. cause after everything the second phase throws at you it still feels fair. 😅
(played ff4 twice, has Cecils paladin armor equipped, mains paladin and dark knight)
*I was ready for this.*
Did this fight today, so many of her attacks are so telegraphed that reaper’s crest of time becomes guaranteed healing
Oh.
Now I just realized.
We might get different versions of this song, due to it being suffixed with Buried Memory patch name?
Wow, now I can hardly wait for 6.3
this aged well
the extra name was because this soundtrack was originally from FFIV but makes sense why you'd say that
The whole 6.2 update has given me an itch to play the first 6 final fantasy games.
I can not WAIT to see what Soken does to Zeromus' theme. That is going to absolutely slap.
TBH by the title I wouldn't be surprised if the same theme will play every time-
@@Carsu12 Even if that is the theme they use for the last two Fiends, I'd wager that won't be the case if Zeromus shows up.
I would be absolutely shocked and appalled if Soken didn't put hands on Zero's theme.
I don't think Zeromus will be in the game tbh. Endsinger was Zeromus.
@@KaitoN25 Yeah they did pretty much part him out for this whole story arc, with Emet-Selch's motivations similar to Zemus, and Endsinger is obviously inspired by Zeromus. But they could easily find a way to weave him into the story with no problem. He's pretty inextricably linked to Golbez.
That said, he doesn't NEED to be back for all this to work. Ultimately whether they use him or not is immaterial; I trust this is going to be well done regardless.
BUT... they can't do the FF4 throwback without that theme. They just can't!! 🥴 Soken must bring it back! He brought every other FF4 theme back, why would he leave that one, right? Right?!? That'd be crazy😵💫.... He must bring it back...
😖
*screaming at the sky* YOU HEAR ME SOKEN!!!!
*breaks down sobbing*
...you must...
@@KaitoN25 in all seriousness, I wouldn't be surprised if they used it for Golbez; as a first phase theme, or something to that effect.
This has to be one of the most fast paced fights in the entire game, extreme included
Healing this was shocking but it’s one of my fights now
@@calypsodiora7890 Yeah I absolutely loved this as a healer! I felt busy, but thankfully i was on sage so moving around wasn’t hard.
I just spent 5 or so hours blind progging the extreme, this song is stuck in my head ;_;
Worth every sec
Pretty sure you regret nothing.
it took my static 7 hours of blind prog
worth it
Phase 2 of her fight was easily the most fun I've had in normal content.
Yes even more fun that Susano's sword phase.
Easy, breezy, POWERFUL!
CoverFiend!
death by thicc thighs squeezy
Interesting how they give the Four Fields swords. Cagnazo probably won't have one but I wonder if Rubicante does. Problably a fire sword like a badass. Maybe Golbez can have the Ebony Sword he uses in The After Years.
Cagnazzo has a weird swirly red thing in his Amano art that could be interpreted as a sword or dagger. Rubicante doesn't though.
God I had to babysit my poor healer during phase 2 as a tank.
The sheer amount of chaos, trying to keep them as protected as I could so they can revive the party.
This is easily one of the most fun trials I've experienced.
This is the She-Hulk I prefer ❤️
Me queueing for this the first time as Scholar, poor babby me not even knowing what I was getting into on day 1 I just had a healer geared for the time being.
...I lived? But I don't remember how. I think survival instincts brought on by the music did it.
I did this fight, for the first time, blind, AS BLACK MAGE!!!
My condolences.
"You've been here five minutes and you already took down two of my four best servants?! Who the fuck are you?!"
"My last bbeg was an universal threat. You're a downgrade at best."
Golbez may not have any great feats like other FF baddies but he is actually really strong.
"these your best? Dude... I just killed a god that's destroyed planets last Tuesday"
Golbez: .... Oh hell naw....
Nanohair, son
We are going to fight all four of them at the same time and I am
Looking forward to it
I expected a fight like the original game with a jump to break the tornado form. Instead, l've got a Jojo's fight full of Ora!ora!ora! and Muda!muda!muda!
IT WAS SO GREAT
I love this fight so much. 2nd phase feels like a real challenge dodging everything she throws at you. Hate when you need to memorize a fight, it becomes boring.
As an avid Final Fantasy IV fan I have Vietnam flashbacks listening to this and as soon as I reach Endwalker I know I'll have Vietnam flashbacks of XIV as well
I do enjoy how challenging EX is but I'm glad I don't have to do it anymore. It was very hard to find decent players who knew the fight.
Gawd...I love this song so much...I remember playing OG Final Fantasy II on SNES before it was corrected in the US. That first "fiend" transforming and then the epic boss music transitioned to this song and my expectations of "boss music" were changed forever.
I wonder if they will do the 4 at once rematch or if they will save that for an ultimate.
Are people really ready for her extreme fight?? I mean look at that mechanics even in normal mode hahaha damn i can't wait
Wasn't too bad honestly, took 2 hours with a savage experienced group. Was pretty cool to blind prog though.
huh? this fight (at least on normal, havn't done extrem) was incredibly basic. phase 1 had some things to watch out, but phase 2 is basicaly just "dodge AOE". and it is not that hard. when you can dodge all of it without problems as a blackmage, then it really isn't that hard
@@Dr.AvenVon Normal was a 1 shot, doesn't have anything special. Extreme is significantly harder, which is the one I was refencing as requiring around 2h of prog if blind.
@@idc6655 and I was not talking to you. They said that even on Normal it was hard which it clearly wasnt
A hair-raising masterpiece!
holy crap, don't know what I was expecting when I qued into this fight the first time, but I was NOT ready for this fight. Although that being said, I wanted to jump right back in and run it again as soon as I got out because hot damn that was fun
4:52 She went from Tangled to Female Titan.
First Cloud of Darkness, (who could have been kind of attractive if she'd just done SOMETHING with her hair.) Then Calofistori who weaponized her hair. And now Barbariccia who does the same... Apparently a hair fetish comes standard issue with being a female voidsent.
Dodging all of the AoEs as a SAM on my first time here made me feel like a badass.
Unfortunately, the Main Tank Disconnected, and since I was No. 2 on emnity that Tankbuster smashed my head, hard
Too bad there's no merciful eyes
you are going to emnity jail
*bonk*
Just disconnect as well so you avoid the tankbuster
Her second form gives me Alexia Ashford vibes.
I wasn't expecting any of this fight to pop off as hard as it did, including barbariccia becoming short haired bayonetta in phase 2 and gomu gomu no bazookaing the stage
Havent played FFXIV, mechanics of this seems different. But...um....do you still need Kain to make a jump and break the Whirlwind thingie?
play and find out 💪
I need more of this Barbariccia.
Barbariccia’s arrival gave me the greatest feeling of “holy shit, we are fucked” from a FF14 boss in recent memory
i remember i was laughing like an idiot fighting this boss for the amount of AoE it drops XD
This OST slaps hard. If you listen close, there are references to the GBA version of the song scattered throughout.
E.G. 1:36
well this fight certianly got us into some hairy situations
The shift to retro tho
To prove to myself I could still heal in content after swapping to DPS for over two years, I did this fight. I had 5 newbies and we didn’t wipe. Felt great.
I know for a fact that there's going to be an Ultimate where you're gonna have to fight all four fiends at once... or something to that effect.
I think in one of the rereleases of FF4, the four fiends actually combine into one. Maybe they could put that nod in there too.
@@painrelief3441 geryon who follows the name scheme of the fiends. Geryon is another demon from the divine comedy. In FF4 Geryon is the Malice of the four fiends.
i love battle with the 4 fiends, ever since ff4, this is ahem, music to my ears, its glorious and i love they incorporated the 16bit tune into it
Had a BLM week one trying to get a clear, managed to get it down after a lot of trial and error and they went "You know what, I got my clear, I'll see ya'll later."
What a hair-raiser!
The part starting at 0:49 just because of 6.3's version I can't unhear lyrics
I swear to God these guys just throw 3/4 where ever they want.
I do appreciate her take on carbon fiber muscle weave.
"You want muscle mommies? Okay, have Female Titan from AoT"
Such a great remix.
Someone in a Helplines TBA session said this about the Ex fight: “Everything else in XIV feels so slow once you clear- like what am I supposed to do during all these boss casts??”
And like, yeah, it’s free real estate.
I'm a Black Mage main. It's the only job I have unlocked, actually. And when I got to this fight...💀
If any of you are Black Mage mains too, I'd like to hear your blind experience with Barbie Barbeque. Even if you're not, I'd still like to read about it.
I wanted to die.
And then I did. A lot.
@@historiabyssus lmao
Literally unplayable
Btw she says "oraoraora" in japanese after transformation lol
“Your scouring winds only seek to feed my flames! I’ll send you back to where you belong, Empress of Gales!”
They kept the tempo of the original which even the pixel remaster failed to do right and thank the stars! Worthy upgrade from the original and i can't thank the music team behind it enough!
I know sh'e just a green Azem, but damn she's cool
This song is too bloody addicting. After hearing this absolute banger for the first time I can no longer get that little part at 4:26 to 4:34 out of my head too. Feels absolutely nostalgic.
As someone that hasn't played much of FF14 but did grow up on FF games (with 4 and 6 being my favorites).. trust me when I say, this song hits so hard no matter the version of it it's got a permanent spot in my gym playlist. Battle with the Four Fiends hits everything perfectly. You KNOW it's about to get rough when you start hearing it and your blood just starts rushing, heart practically matches the beat.
I honestly prefer it over Dancing Mad as my favorite single track from any FF game.
This was the first EX I ever did properly and in all the hours working on this fight, I never got sick of this tune. It always felt awesome during the fight.
You thought this was barbariccia the archfiend but It was me, dio!!!!
This theme is such a certified classic.
In my first time doing this I was so enthused about how fast the second phase was for a normal, and yet I still got greedy and barely dodged in and out of her AoEs, at one point I caught myself saying "Not fast enough!" out loud lol
Actual JRPG character behavior
Felt good though, right?
I feel that. Sometimes when I'm playing NIN, I kinda go into a trance where I'm doing my rotation perfectly while dodging every attack. I'm not even thinking, just doing and it's absolute bliss.
this trial makes my shitbox PC sad
Fight Designer -- Piccolo
My Dumbass DPS self running into the red stack marker >.>