2:50 that reminds me of my first playthrough, where I got onetapped by a level 50 A-rank on the way to do the level 20 Sylph MSQ and sat there like "?????????????????? That thing got hands I guess..."
It's weird to hear Warrior and "Not enough healing" In the same sentence. But I forgot that the big heal skill is locked behind unlocking heavensward zones.
Okay so you mentioned the hunt positioning, right? Apparently when the Korean servers launched, they were already in like 2.2 or something. That meant hunts were implemented when the playerbase was still completely fresh - and so naturally there were agressive level 50 mobs camped right in the middle of areas with important quest objectives that players had to massively band together to either beat or bait away so others could do what they needed lol. oh and congrats!!!
@@rathgamesDuring the intial release of the materia DC there were massive groups of new characters trying to take these things down, all level 1-15s just going at it
"That was a 26 minute fight!!! Are you crazy?!?!" *Looks over at my 27 minute Chaos fight, and my 21 minute Sync'd Twintania fight on Blue Mage* *puts fingertips together and leans back* Perhaps. /\
I've followed this since about the beginning, and watching you repeatedly overcome seemingly impossible challenges is always so great. CT is just another challenge to beat!
I am constantly impressed by your skill at overcoming challenges that simply aren't meant to be overcome. And I really adore your use of background music, it's fun to hear Dragon Quest tunes over Final Fantasy gameplay.
Melvina's cameo and Benedictgg's animation are so incredibly witty and clever!! And the ending chorus of voices just got me feeling some kind of way :'^) Looking forward to CT!!! Though I'm betting my shinies you can't solo it ;)
I genuienly had no idea that the tear phase extended buffs like that, guess doing challenge runs really does teach you a ton of obscure facts about the game
Notably this also applies to debuffs, which is why when the warp spawns, you're given a 10 second DoT. If you resist the pull until the final pull pulls you in, the DoT will expire right before you get sucked in, so there's no extra damage for healers, but if you run into the warp as soon as possible you'll have a DoT for the whole phase. Back when it was relevant content, that used to be pretty significant for healers if everyone decided to take it into the phase.
@@tciddados Fun fact about that debuff: not only is it a DoT, it's also effectively a mega vuln down. I tested this unsynced at level 90 (testing this w/ random PF groups seems a bit trolling/griefing, so this is all I got, but from what I remember this should be somewhere in the right ballpark for synced runs), and it roughly DOUBLES damage taken. And that's before factoring in any well-timed extended mitigation. The meteors (the only damage taken inside the rift apart from the DoT afaik) that plenty of people in roulettes will absolutely lose their minds about "STAY OUT! ONLY TANKS CAN SOAK THEM OMG"? Yeah, not a problem even for healers to soak if you don't speedrun getting into the rift.
I love that I saw this after the CT video, but i am SO PROUD OF YOU!!! I teared up a little at the end when you finally got it, it's been 6 long months but you have ABSOLUTELY surpassed your own expectations, I'm sure, and what a wonderful feeling it must be!!!
how did he do it? you can't even enter those duties solo I think? and even if you could you wouldn't be able to get past the atomos bit after the first boss.
Holy shit. Way to fucking go, Rath! Never knew about Nabriales' rift phase extending buff timers like that- I may actually take advantage of that next time I find myself fighting him.
It also extends the debuff that he puts on you right before the rift. That debuff not only does a small DoT effect, but also roughly doubles the damage you take. If you resist getting pulled in for as long as possible, the debuff falls off right as you are forced in, so it has no timer left to extend. :)
Congrats on the MSQ completion!! I love the storytelling of this series. It's been a blast watching you on this journey as you engage with...so much of this game I didn't know existed. The ending scene was really good, too. Looking forward to Jan 20 :D
You know, back with the online fanfest cosplay contest, I cosplayed as Nabriales. And when I dressed up, we had to have a sign, and mine reminded people to take down the tear. (well, to LB/save LB for it.) I still wear the collar I got from it. It's fun seeing him be as threatening as he felt even in-party in 2.55. And you've inspired me to have my own silly challenge character. (I wanna see how much can be done without doing MSQ.)
This series is so fun to watch. Your narration is super fun to listen to and i am genuinely sad i cant continue binge watching this xD (at this point in time) Excited for more :D
I binged this whole series in a day. Very interesting challenge but you're a great storyteller for making dungeons and bosses that people bulldoze through effortlessly actually seem like substantial challenges to overcome. You seriously have me considering to attempt this myself. Looking forward to seeing more of this!
Hero's Challenge was so fitting for that final ARR fight ! Sugiyama really outdid himself on that one. DQ final boss themes encapsulate perfectly the spirit of the final ordeal with the world's at stakes marking the journey's end. This one and The Time of Decisive Battle especially never fail to bring me chills ! Unrelated, but i picked the game back up after hitting the 6 minutes mark on your video yesterday _(and catching up on the previous episode)_ and guess what my first trial roulette landed me in ? Thats right, Garuda Hard, haha Thank you so much for that amazing serie, i cant really afford to tune into streams, but your storytelling and montage perfectly capture how much of a journey the challenge is, its really been a blast to watch, and an uplifting one at that, i definitely owe you for lightning the flame back up ! Still eager to see DQXII released as well from all that OST, you really are a premier Square Enix ambassador haha
Oh sweet I just got caught up. And only have to wait 1 day for how you beat Crystal tower. I've been playing this game since ARR, and this has been the most fun series to watch for this game. Keep up the good work
Congrats on the completion, it's been a blast to watch this series from the beginning to now, literally the best type of content I enjoy watching from this game :D I am excited to see how the crystal tower goes, there has to be some kind of rule because you cannot even queue for it alone. If fights that require 8 players make up 30 mins, how are you gonna beat 4-5 fights that require 24 in 120 mins?!?!? And I'm most excited for the Atmos in the Labyrinth of the Ancients were you could at minimum beat it with an alliance of 12. looking forward to it
Great job, also i'm contractually obligated to point out that Einhander as a boss is a reference to the 90s Square PS1 title Einhander, a shooter about a robot that swaps guns on the fly. In the OG version of the third phase another dragon shows up named Astrea which is the name of a ship variant in Einhander too. This is the second shmup reference in FFXIV, the other is Cruise Chaser, who is a reference to the game Cruise Chaser Blassty from their pre-FF days.
that sabotender hunt mark was the first thing that killed me in the game xD iirc it was down by that bar you end up heading to early on and I was taked with checking out a barrel nearby. One shot in the back of the head while I was checking it out lol
Right after I found a binged the series you drop this as an early Christmas present!! You're amaaaaaazing!! Love the dedication! I'm always super impressed on all the ways you go about completing the challenge!
Well fought and well done!! I can't wait to see how you take on the challenge of the Tower. But for now: rest, lonely hero. You've proven yourself worthy several times over.
3:00 The quest before you fight ifrit, well a little earlier than that, it was being camped by a hunt target and i kept being killed when i tried to complete the quest.
one thing I really love about this series is how it makes me learn about really obscure mechanics in the game. before watching this I thought the hard variants of the ARR trials were just copypasted with extra stats added on top. but now im learning garuda can heal herself? I didn't know any boss in the game could do that! and I've been playing since stormblood!
Congratulations!! Been following along for a while, so hyped that you finished ARR! But how dare you make me wait until January 20th for the CT raids, why you gotta tease me like that, bro?!
"It has been half a year of my life to get through A Realm Reborn" - after almost 3 months still Ravana. Well, the completion of Heavensword will be funny time.
I love these videos, but I worry for Susano in Stormblood. You need to catch the sword, and I'm going to guess that even a 90 ninja's doton can't reliably kill that sword, due to the time the swing takes to wind up after you initiate the attack...
It's definitely the most interesting part for the challenge on my end as well! Love to see new stuff in this decade old game that I just never knew about.
Having done Titan with Blue Mage synced, I figured that would definitely be the one to break level sync. Gaols are just too insane Didn't expect Garuda to go that way if I'm being honest, nice job!
I used to love Keeper of the Lake as a dungeon, especially the final boss, so I do have to say: you mentioned that Keeper was harder with Ironworks gear because of when it was designed, but the DPS check in the final boss is actually completely new to the rework they did during the Endwalker patches, for Duty Support compatibility; previously, Animadversion was an attack you had to survive by killing an add that dropped an interactible object that you would use for a temporary invincibility bubble.
The dps check itself is new, but even if it had been the older version of the fight, we likely would have been overwhelmed all the same by the scaling gear level. Even just the 2nd boss killing us is the first time in a long while that a dungeon has caused a death
Phenomenal job, been watching since the first episode, so glad you stuck with this, always been a big fan of the Runescape Ironman challenge and applying it to ffxiv was a crazy, yet great idea. Looking forward to the future of this series! Just one question, what theme was that you played for your Nabriales kill clip?
I can't wait to see your plan for Bismark, I honestly can not think of a way to do it without 2 people minimum due to having to spread out the big dragon adds or they become super tanky, it is certainly doable if you can burst them down before they move but you doing it no echo... I dunno, looking forward to that though. Also solo using both chains is doable but you have to sprint it, just a heads up there, I have done it unsynced enough to know that one. The adds may only be EX version I honestly cant remember, but if it is, then I could see you making it all the way to Thordan but for the same reason possibly having trouble there. Been a fun run watching you clear all this though.
Hey rath, just wanted to ask, titan doesn’t seem to auto you when you’re gaoled, if that’s the case, is it possible to run and get gaoled further away from him, then use rough divide to dodge the weight of the land when you get free? Great video as always ❤️
Th- wha. That's genius. I know he /tries/ to auto you during the gaol, he'll still use his tank buster even though he can't hit you, so I'm not sure it'll work, BUT, an amazing idea all the same. I wish I had thought of trying that out.
I figured Titan would give you some trouble, and while I can't remember a two person mechanic in Heavensward, I do know the one thing that is probably going to be a wall is probably Susano and his big sword attack. Congrats on everything thusfar though, it's been a wild ride to see.
@@rathgames Unfortunately Susano is pretty much a hard wall, you need one person grabbing the sword and another damaging it at the minimum - perhaps you could use a similar work-around like you did with the CT series and gather 7 other solo-only players to help you?
I just know that the buff timer extend when you're sucked into those rift thingy... At that point the only thing in my mind is hope that that single sprout melee DPS knows that he has to use the LB and that another sprout ranged didn't use it just before entering the rift.
Re - The hunts directly on the roads in newbie zones: YEP. I got killed by one the other day on an alt. I had to ask the novice network for someone to come kill it so I could complete my hunting log. This level 100 WAR came in and smoked it. Good times.
I love trying to solo things but I’m not sure I’d want to do this myself. I think the most challenging fights for me have been rathalos on sam back in shb and Bismarck same expansion but on whm. Current hardest for me has to be savage exdeath and I know what needs to improve.
A curiosity, asking if someone followed garuda attempts live : its still a free hit and not worth risking it ,but wouldnt garuda's auto wake you up right after the satin put you to sleep, making it not 30 sec but 3 at max?
It might've been nightmare, not sleep. That debuff won't wake you from receiving damage, you'll be slept for the full duration or until cleansed by esuna.
@@iPlayOnSpica oooh i see ty ! unfortunately i'm not that much familiar with that fight , but i've been progging uwu with some friends and in the occasion garuda goes wrong and one satin is alive and put us to sleep i remember waking up after an auto since i MT that, that's why i asked ^^ curious how the fight is different
Aggressive hunts... I once finished up Titan, was walking back to the camp... That tonberry was just outside the cave entrance, hiding around the corner, just waiting to shank me. And it did. Quite swiftly.
There's probably other stumbling blocks if you went through all of Heavensward, but I can't help but think about how impossible it'd be to get past Susanoo if you made it that far.
I believe it was optional if you already entered hw content. I was part of the huge wow player migration before endwalker and it stone walled me into doing it before hw
Yeah like theundeadwarlock said it was optional when that shadowbringers patch released, but as soon as it came out if you hadn't gotten past ARR it was no longer optional.
I am still sad you missed the perfect opportunity to go full "Mad Scientist" at the end there "I'll show them" ... yeeees...... then no "I'll show them all!" so sad T_T
Also, it's sad that you cannot really do a solo challenge without dying, because it would be an Iron man run if you tried that. lol And an Ironman run is too hard. 🦭
@@rathgames Cannot wait to see the edited version since 2+ hours raiding Crystal Tower by streaming was too long to watch in some cases. But I think I saw like the first tidbit of that stream. lol
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I'll be streaming after this premieres at www.twitch.tv/rathgames! If you're watching it the day it comes out, why not stop by? :^)
2:50 that reminds me of my first playthrough, where I got onetapped by a level 50 A-rank on the way to do the level 20 Sylph MSQ and sat there like "?????????????????? That thing got hands I guess..."
I can see it now. The next challenge series. "Can you beat FFXIV without playing Kupo Kupo Adventure (Savage level challenge)"
Also fun fact: Titan Hard Mode gaols used to just reset the fight if you were alone / last alive and got gaol'd.
Yep. I accidentally queued Hard instead of Extreme once for WT and was so confused.
It's weird to hear Warrior and "Not enough healing" In the same sentence. But I forgot that the big heal skill is locked behind unlocking heavensward zones.
The raw intuition dream
Seeing you keep overcoming challenges that seemed impossible has kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. You're an absolute madman!
Thank you Bene :'^)
And thank you for the amazing animation as well.
Okay so you mentioned the hunt positioning, right?
Apparently when the Korean servers launched, they were already in like 2.2 or something. That meant hunts were implemented when the playerbase was still completely fresh - and so naturally there were agressive level 50 mobs camped right in the middle of areas with important quest objectives that players had to massively band together to either beat or bait away so others could do what they needed lol.
oh and congrats!!!
It was the same for materia haha
Why. Why be so cruel. Villains, all of them.
@@rathgamesDuring the intial release of the materia DC there were massive groups of new characters trying to take these things down, all level 1-15s just going at it
@@rathgames Why? Funi
@@TheGeneralSkye i love that
"That was a 26 minute fight!!! Are you crazy?!?!"
*Looks over at my 27 minute Chaos fight, and my 21 minute Sync'd Twintania fight on Blue Mage*
*puts fingertips together and leans back*
Perhaps. /\
Yeah, Ive had so many 30+ minute fights trying to learn spells solo with Blue Mage, 26 mins for a hard trial seems perfectly reasonable, lol
My Suzaku level sync solo with blu took 25min with 30% echo (after intentionally wiping after 3min to stack echo)
I've followed this since about the beginning, and watching you repeatedly overcome seemingly impossible challenges is always so great. CT is just another challenge to beat!
Thank you for being a part of this :'^) I'm glad you've enjoyed so much you stuck around.
I am constantly impressed by your skill at overcoming challenges that simply aren't meant to be overcome. And I really adore your use of background music, it's fun to hear Dragon Quest tunes over Final Fantasy gameplay.
Thank you very much. I'm glad you enjoy it, and happy to have another DQ enjoyer :^)
Melvina's cameo and Benedictgg's animation are so incredibly witty and clever!! And the ending chorus of voices just got me feeling some kind of way :'^) Looking forward to CT!!! Though I'm betting my shinies you can't solo it ;)
You may just win that bet. But who knows :^)
I genuienly had no idea that the tear phase extended buffs like that, guess doing challenge runs really does teach you a ton of obscure facts about the game
And force you to use them, it's been crazy just how much I had never heard of before.
Notably this also applies to debuffs, which is why when the warp spawns, you're given a 10 second DoT. If you resist the pull until the final pull pulls you in, the DoT will expire right before you get sucked in, so there's no extra damage for healers, but if you run into the warp as soon as possible you'll have a DoT for the whole phase. Back when it was relevant content, that used to be pretty significant for healers if everyone decided to take it into the phase.
@@tciddados Fun fact about that debuff: not only is it a DoT, it's also effectively a mega vuln down. I tested this unsynced at level 90 (testing this w/ random PF groups seems a bit trolling/griefing, so this is all I got, but from what I remember this should be somewhere in the right ballpark for synced runs), and it roughly DOUBLES damage taken. And that's before factoring in any well-timed extended mitigation.
The meteors (the only damage taken inside the rift apart from the DoT afaik) that plenty of people in roulettes will absolutely lose their minds about "STAY OUT! ONLY TANKS CAN SOAK THEM OMG"? Yeah, not a problem even for healers to soak if you don't speedrun getting into the rift.
I love that I saw this after the CT video, but i am SO PROUD OF YOU!!! I teared up a little at the end when you finally got it, it's been 6 long months but you have ABSOLUTELY surpassed your own expectations, I'm sure, and what a wonderful feeling it must be!!!
A wonderful feeling indeed.
how did he do it? you can't even enter those duties solo I think? and even if you could you wouldn't be able to get past the atomos bit after the first boss.
It shall be something you'll find out on jan 20th :^)@@alexjones50
I literally scrolled over the time of the video right when you called me out. Thank you, I needed that laugh.
Holy shit.
Way to fucking go, Rath! Never knew about Nabriales' rift phase extending buff timers like that- I may actually take advantage of that next time I find myself fighting him.
You should, it's crazy fun to have damage buffs for 2+ minutes
It also extends the debuff that he puts on you right before the rift. That debuff not only does a small DoT effect, but also roughly doubles the damage you take. If you resist getting pulled in for as long as possible, the debuff falls off right as you are forced in, so it has no timer left to extend. :)
Congrats on the MSQ completion!! I love the storytelling of this series. It's been a blast watching you on this journey as you engage with...so much of this game I didn't know existed. The ending scene was really good, too. Looking forward to Jan 20 :D
Please look forward to it :^)
You know, back with the online fanfest cosplay contest, I cosplayed as Nabriales. And when I dressed up, we had to have a sign, and mine reminded people to take down the tear. (well, to LB/save LB for it.) I still wear the collar I got from it.
It's fun seeing him be as threatening as he felt even in-party in 2.55. And you've inspired me to have my own silly challenge character. (I wanna see how much can be done without doing MSQ.)
The Wanderer, saving the realm is someone elses job
This series is so fun to watch. Your narration is super fun to listen to and i am genuinely sad i cant continue binge watching this xD (at this point in time)
Excited for more :D
Okay the animation at the end was SOOO GOOD!
Right? It's amazing:'^)
CONGRATS!!!!! I was tearing up at the end. So close with the tear and just. You’ve done it! And it’s amazing.
Just watched this entire series so far in one sitting
Thank you Rath Games, very cool.
I binged this whole series in a day. Very interesting challenge but you're a great storyteller for making dungeons and bosses that people bulldoze through effortlessly actually seem like substantial challenges to overcome. You seriously have me considering to attempt this myself. Looking forward to seeing more of this!
Hero's Challenge was so fitting for that final ARR fight ! Sugiyama really outdid himself on that one. DQ final boss themes encapsulate perfectly the spirit of the final ordeal with the world's at stakes marking the journey's end. This one and The Time of Decisive Battle especially never fail to bring me chills !
Unrelated, but i picked the game back up after hitting the 6 minutes mark on your video yesterday _(and catching up on the previous episode)_ and guess what my first trial roulette landed me in ? Thats right, Garuda Hard, haha
Thank you so much for that amazing serie, i cant really afford to tune into streams, but your storytelling and montage perfectly capture how much of a journey the challenge is, its really been a blast to watch, and an uplifting one at that, i definitely owe you for lightning the flame back up !
Still eager to see DQXII released as well from all that OST, you really are a premier Square Enix ambassador haha
Small Appendix, but i'm also super exited to see you smash HW and beyond with Raw Intuition, its gonna be so good, i cant wait !
JAN 20th Crystal tower???!! Finally I have something worth living for in the new year
you are actually insane! This is impressive beyond belief! Well done!
Thank you :'^)
Oh sweet I just got caught up. And only have to wait 1 day for how you beat Crystal tower. I've been playing this game since ARR, and this has been the most fun series to watch for this game. Keep up the good work
Congrats on the completion, it's been a blast to watch this series from the beginning to now, literally the best type of content I enjoy watching from this game :D
I am excited to see how the crystal tower goes, there has to be some kind of rule because you cannot even queue for it alone. If fights that require 8 players make up 30 mins, how are you gonna beat 4-5 fights that require 24 in 120 mins?!?!? And I'm most excited for the Atmos in the Labyrinth of the Ancients were you could at minimum beat it with an alliance of 12.
looking forward to it
Great job, also i'm contractually obligated to point out that Einhander as a boss is a reference to the 90s Square PS1 title Einhander, a shooter about a robot that swaps guns on the fly. In the OG version of the third phase another dragon shows up named Astrea which is the name of a ship variant in Einhander too. This is the second shmup reference in FFXIV, the other is Cruise Chaser, who is a reference to the game Cruise Chaser Blassty from their pre-FF days.
I absolutely love that.
Einhander is also when chat taught me that Zweihander is german for two-handed. Which blew my mind
Seeing the ending bit has me genuinely so hyped, cause the next part just legit drops on my birthday. We do be gaming
Happy almost birthday :0
Congrats for beating ARR! Very looking forward to Crystal Tower!
im still surprised uve not blown up in subcount especially after this series got so popular
That's very kind :'^) maybe one day
that sabotender hunt mark was the first thing that killed me in the game xD iirc it was down by that bar you end up heading to early on and I was taked with checking out a barrel nearby. One shot in the back of the head while I was checking it out lol
Truly the villains have struck at our weakest.
Right after I found a binged the series you drop this as an early Christmas present!! You're amaaaaaazing!! Love the dedication! I'm always super impressed on all the ways you go about completing the challenge!
Thank you :'^) Im glad you enjoyed.
Oh my god I love the ending animation, this was a great video and I can't wait until the next one!
If you want to check out more of his animations its BeneG :^)
I genuinely didn't think it was possible for you to get this far
Love this series!
Well fought and well done!! I can't wait to see how you take on the challenge of the Tower. But for now: rest, lonely hero. You've proven yourself worthy several times over.
Thank yoou :'^)
Excellent video milord. Can't wait for the next one!
please do look forward to it onz
Hero's Challenge for the final fight of ARR that isn't CT. Perfection using the 3rd best DQ final boss theme for this
3:00 The quest before you fight ifrit, well a little earlier than that, it was being camped by a hunt target and i kept being killed when i tried to complete the quest.
one thing I really love about this series is how it makes me learn about really obscure mechanics in the game. before watching this I thought the hard variants of the ARR trials were just copypasted with extra stats added on top. but now im learning garuda can heal herself? I didn't know any boss in the game could do that! and I've been playing since stormblood!
It is truly magical.
Congratulations!! Been following along for a while, so hyped that you finished ARR! But how dare you make me wait until January 20th for the CT raids, why you gotta tease me like that, bro?!
Lmao. Please look forward to it.
All I have to say is, Impressive. Most Impressive. Now I can't wait to see you burn down labrynth of Ancients/Crystal Tower/World of Darkness.
Congrats on beating ARR! This series is so good, I can’t wait for the crystal tower
Thank you! Please do look forward to it
I miss the old midgardsormr fight w/ admonishment
"It has been half a year of my life to get through A Realm Reborn" - after almost 3 months still Ravana.
Well, the completion of Heavensword will be funny time.
:'^)
Nice to see another Kupo Kupo Adventure fan. I too would buy a whole game of it.
I dream of more kupo kupo adventure
resident lemon eater and vinegar drinker here, excellent work! I'm glad i could watch this go down! :D
R-resident what?
Most anticipated vid of this week
Lets goooo
I love these videos, but I worry for Susano in Stormblood. You need to catch the sword, and I'm going to guess that even a 90 ninja's doton can't reliably kill that sword, due to the time the swing takes to wind up after you initiate the attack...
You actually did it. Congratulation!
Thank you :'^)
one of the most interesting parts of these videos for me is seeing mechanics in arr fights that i never knew existed cuz the fight ends so fast
It's definitely the most interesting part for the challenge on my end as well! Love to see new stuff in this decade old game that I just never knew about.
This was so inspiring!!
Having done Titan with Blue Mage synced, I figured that would definitely be the one to break level sync. Gaols are just too insane
Didn't expect Garuda to go that way if I'm being honest, nice job!
I used to love Keeper of the Lake as a dungeon, especially the final boss, so I do have to say: you mentioned that Keeper was harder with Ironworks gear because of when it was designed, but the DPS check in the final boss is actually completely new to the rework they did during the Endwalker patches, for Duty Support compatibility; previously, Animadversion was an attack you had to survive by killing an add that dropped an interactible object that you would use for a temporary invincibility bubble.
The dps check itself is new, but even if it had been the older version of the fight, we likely would have been overwhelmed all the same by the scaling gear level. Even just the 2nd boss killing us is the first time in a long while that a dungeon has caused a death
Dragon Quest music highly appreciated! 10/10.
Huge W funny solo man proud of you.
Phenomenal job, been watching since the first episode, so glad you stuck with this, always been a big fan of the Runescape Ironman challenge and applying it to ffxiv was a crazy, yet great idea. Looking forward to the future of this series!
Just one question, what theme was that you played for your Nabriales kill clip?
The End from dragon quest 4, by the tokyo suite orchestra
@@rathgamesthanks for the reply man, love your content
I forgot steps of faith was a duty now I wanted to see you solo that 😭
I also wanted to solo it. :'^)
good job on finishing regular ARR, Kupo!
Kupo :^)
I love this series so much
That's incredibly kind of you :') I'm glad I can make something you enjoy so much.
I can't wait to see your plan for Bismark, I honestly can not think of a way to do it without 2 people minimum due to having to spread out the big dragon adds or they become super tanky, it is certainly doable if you can burst them down before they move but you doing it no echo... I dunno, looking forward to that though. Also solo using both chains is doable but you have to sprint it, just a heads up there, I have done it unsynced enough to know that one.
The adds may only be EX version I honestly cant remember, but if it is, then I could see you making it all the way to Thordan but for the same reason possibly having trouble there. Been a fun run watching you clear all this though.
kupo kupo adventure is a pretty fun minigame yeah
The best if the best
wow steps of faith is all of a footnote
I wish it was the trial again, what a cool fight. The cinematic is nice but I really loved going up the towers.
Hey rath, just wanted to ask, titan doesn’t seem to auto you when you’re gaoled, if that’s the case, is it possible to run and get gaoled further away from him, then use rough divide to dodge the weight of the land when you get free? Great video as always ❤️
Th- wha. That's genius. I know he /tries/ to auto you during the gaol, he'll still use his tank buster even though he can't hit you, so I'm not sure it'll work, BUT, an amazing idea all the same. I wish I had thought of trying that out.
3:00 Yoshi P is the monster. If he's to be exalted for every success, then he is also to blame for every failure.
ohohhoho....I happened to have been there for the CT stream....
**this'll be good**
Congratulations!
Thank you :'^)
I figured Titan would give you some trouble, and while I can't remember a two person mechanic in Heavensward, I do know the one thing that is probably going to be a wall is probably Susano and his big sword attack.
Congrats on everything thusfar though, it's been a wild ride to see.
It will be fun to see when we get there, who knows what we'll figure out. Maybe it is simply a wall, or maybe we find some cool thing to do
@@rathgames Unfortunately Susano is pretty much a hard wall, you need one person grabbing the sword and another damaging it at the minimum - perhaps you could use a similar work-around like you did with the CT series and gather 7 other solo-only players to help you?
@@OnyxShard1 well, even if I did, I wouldnt do 7, and thankfully, we're not at susano yet, so we have plenty of time to figure it out
Babe wake up, a new Solo Only vid 🔥🔥💪
I just know that the buff timer extend when you're sucked into those rift thingy... At that point the only thing in my mind is hope that that single sprout melee DPS knows that he has to use the LB and that another sprout ranged didn't use it just before entering the rift.
You know they used it before entering. They always do
Re - The hunts directly on the roads in newbie zones: YEP. I got killed by one the other day on an alt. I had to ask the novice network for someone to come kill it so I could complete my hunting log. This level 100 WAR came in and smoked it. Good times.
Congrats man!!! What a great feat 🎉 but what music did you used for Nabriales fight?
Hero's Challenge dq11, and The End DQ4 orchestrated by Tokyo Suite
@rathgames thank you! I'll be looking forward with what you have planned for the Crystal Tower. All the best and Merry Christmas!
great video, kupo!
oh sabotender ballarina did kill me as a little below level 20 sproutling, i just... walked too close orz
Impressive. Well done!
Thank you :'^)
I think my favorite part of this episode is the Titan fight!
here for the amazing Kupo Kupo content!
My main content really. I should've started out as a kupo kupo adventure streamer
I was so terrified hed have to level a healer for titan
I love trying to solo things but I’m not sure I’d want to do this myself. I think the most challenging fights for me have been rathalos on sam back in shb and Bismarck same expansion but on whm. Current hardest for me has to be savage exdeath and I know what needs to improve.
A curiosity, asking if someone followed garuda attempts live : its still a free hit and not worth risking it ,but wouldnt garuda's auto wake you up right after the satin put you to sleep, making it not 30 sec but 3 at max?
It might've been nightmare, not sleep. That debuff won't wake you from receiving damage, you'll be slept for the full duration or until cleansed by esuna.
@@iPlayOnSpica oooh i see ty ! unfortunately i'm not that much familiar with that fight , but i've been progging uwu with some friends and in the occasion garuda goes wrong and one satin is alive and put us to sleep i remember waking up after an auto since i MT that, that's why i asked ^^ curious how the fight is different
@@damascar3639 I wouldn't know, either. Never played Garuda hard or ex with MINE, so it's common to skip so much
He's done it.
We have won
Aggressive hunts...
I once finished up Titan, was walking back to the camp...
That tonberry was just outside the cave entrance, hiding around the corner, just waiting to shank me.
And it did.
Quite swiftly.
Im so sorry.
What version of garudas theme plays at 7:25?
It's "Primal Angel" from the Eden raids
Yeah, the eden garuda song :^) thanks Matthew
the irony of wanting to add Solo to my friends' list, but then that would defeat the point. 😂
18:22 MOM IM ON TV
Ngl, didnt know Garuda's adds heal her
Can’t wait to see “can Post ARR be solo’d?” :D
T-this was post arr :'^}
There's probably other stumbling blocks if you went through all of Heavensward, but I can't help but think about how impossible it'd be to get past Susanoo if you made it that far.
We shall see once we get to Susano I suppose, as with all things :^)
@@rathgames On account of the "literally impossible to solo" mechanic, this would fall under the same logic (and thus the same solution) as CT, no?
If i recall about crystal tower alliance raid its optional untill shb endgame unless they changed in a certain patch
I believe it was optional if you already entered hw content. I was part of the huge wow player migration before endwalker and it stone walled me into doing it before hw
Yeah like theundeadwarlock said it was optional when that shadowbringers patch released, but as soon as it came out if you hadn't gotten past ARR it was no longer optional.
I am still sad you missed the perfect opportunity to go full "Mad Scientist" at the end there "I'll show them" ... yeeees...... then no "I'll show them all!" so sad T_T
Didn't you already do Crystal Tower?
Or are you going to release the video shortened down.
Since you did stream Crystal Tower already. lol
Also, it's sad that you cannot really do a solo challenge without dying, because it would be an Iron man run if you tried that. lol
And an Ironman run is too hard. 🦭
The video for it, yeah. The proper edited version :^)
@@rathgames Cannot wait to see the edited version since 2+ hours raiding Crystal Tower by streaming was too long to watch in some cases. But I think I saw like the first tidbit of that stream. lol
I remember you doing titan as a ninja. Was that titan normal?
Yeah Ninja was titan normal. Ninja wouldn't be able to live the tankbusters for Titan hard
I forget, why is the MSQ locked? Been way too long for me to remember the prerequisite
It' was added in shadowbringers, patch 5.3.
@rathgames I still don't see quite how that's obstructing it. You have the expansions, don't you?
Kupo Mi'lord, kupo.
Kupo :'^)
Am I the only one that got irrationally angry when the one NPC at 17:58 appeared? If you know, you know.
So Coils is next, right? :)
No :^) I love myself too much for that
I think old keeper of the lake would have been easier to finish
Oh, definitely.
Aren't you glad steps of faith is no longer a trial?
Nooo I wanted to fight the big dragon again :'^(
Who did the animation at the end?
BeneG, they're in the description :0