People fear what harder content has in store. Others are extremely gatekeepy. Others somehow worse. But at the end of the day, is just doing the content you want to do.
This video is mostly me encouraging for Ultimates, but this can be applied to anything. What matters is that you try, and have fun doing it.
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Maybe one day I’ll play this game again and give this a try
I started harder content when 6.4 released and attempted savage. got to p10s and PF was absolutely making me lose my mind, so, despite the social anxiety, motivated just by stubborness and hating to leave things unfinished, I started looking for a static in the European Raiding Central and found one. We got through the tier and are now progging UCoB, out first ultimate. I don't know if we will do it, but for now I'm enjoying it. I find raiding… therapeutic. I don't have friends irl and I'm so tired by 9-7 life, so evenings where I can work with other people on some goal that requires a lot of cooperation and effort, in a nice atmosphere, are just so great.
If you're having doubts just start with extreme 7, then do extreme 6 (current EW extremes, and yes, do them in that order). if you get past those, you're ready to smash some ultimate booty
I used to be a super confident, lead the pack kind of guy but events over the years wore my confidence level down and made me withdraw and stop pushing myself. This game as well as videos from Wesk and a couple others have helped me get back in the swing of challenging and pushing myself and it has bled into other aspects of my life with my confidence rebuilding in all areas.
While it may sound foolish to some to take life lessons from a video game or any other form of entertainment, I say only a fool ignores wisdom and learning no matter what form it takes. Im still a new player and am only in 5.4 but i genuinely look forward to challenging myself in the hardest content.
Thank you for what you do Wesk. Believe it or not, you make a difference in people's games, but also sometimes our lives too ❤
The subtitles in this video are kinda difficult to read when most of the video has TOP gameplay on the background. Maybe its just my player that doesn't make them visible.
On the subject of the video, I'm close to finishing my EW EX grind with only the mount from EX6 remaining, and I feel I'm at my limit. If not from a skill perspective but more from an internet conection issue. I already have problems double weaving and sometimes I just get random lag spikes and I feel like those are huge setbacks on content that reward precision like savage and ultimates.
For ppl like me who want to do harder content but still don't want to interact with other players or feel the pressure of having to stick to a schedule in your statics, give solo deep dungeons a try. Overall they are just as challenging and time-consuming as savage raids and to some extent some ultimates.
I've tried lots of content but barely anything comes close to the adrenaline rush i got when floor 180 boss in potd started dropping meteors on me and i had to dps it down quickly so that i didn't lose 8 hours of progress.
I play on Primal but I'm from Brazil
I really wanted to try but I'm afraid of the ping (160ms with a VPN service)
Does anyone know if it's possible and if I should try it? I'm afraid of getting in the way…
I've thought about trying harder content (For me, that would be doing an EX fight instead of just normal) but the thing that scares me the most is not any game mechanics, but other players. I'm not at the level where I can consistently execute a rotation for a full fight, let alone while dealing with complex mechanics, but I could deal with my own mistakes relatively easily. The thought of letting other people in my party down, or worse getting yelled at for my poor play, is what really holds me back from trying though. And Ultimates remain a very distant dream
I started playing in October 2023, and I’ve found an FC willing to teach us noobs Savage content. So far, we’re at P9S, figuring out the limit cut, and I’m having a blast!
Thanks for the guides and the confidence boost!
I'm going in to UWU for the first time in about 10 minutes, and the first thing I see on my feed is this thumbnail. This is a sign.
I never think im good enough to do harder content,but recently started trying new more difficult content and im loving it,also found out i love healing where before i was terrified,tldr try new things have fun
the bit about ultimate being the place where you 'git gud' is so true. Ultimate was really the place I started to really get good at mentally lining up my buffs and abilities with specific mechanics, like, oh, the boss is casting that mechanic, that means 2min window is in 5 seconds, better get ready
another piece of advice is try to join a static i know some people can clear in purely in pf its really not worth it especially for the more recent ones the time spent waiting around for pf to fill just to go in and wipe and disband after 10 mins is not worth the headache to get better you really gotta wanna be obsessed with getting better finding out how to do rotation better reviewing logs pov and stuff anybody can clear an ultimate given enough time and effort abyssos was my first savage tier and now at the end of the expansion i cleared abyssos anabaseios uwu and top something that i would not even think possible at the start of the expansion if you wanna do ultimate you just gotta jump in and do it
I dunno, I've got a lot of baggage coming from WoW raiding and I've never even considered doing the harder stuff. Maybe I'll give it a shot, maybe I won't. Nice to hear this stuff about it, though.
A major thing for harder content though is like groups and boy oh boy is it hard to find a group with like people my age. Idk I’m only 18 but holy crap is the age gap between players so big like I’ll be talking about homework I have and then someone in the group will talk about how they’re a teacher 💀 idk it’s just hard to find people who are near my age
I think the biggest issue I found was trying to find people willing to teach. Even for extreme or savage
What I always told my groups that worked on UWU is that ultimates are a marathon, not a sprint. It takes time, and that's okay! Thank you for making this video Wesk, I always tell people that if I (with a number of disabilities that work against me doing this kind of content) can prog an ultimate, anyone can. 💜
took me all I had to consistently clear zeromus to farm it, then learned it was the easiest extreme of the expansion. Hardly could keep up with most other EW extremes for the clear, still didn't manage to get golbez and barbariccia.
kept struggling to even comprehend and still failed mechanics in all the old salvages that I only cleared for the mount through unsync. Hard stuck at P4S phase 2, those mechanics are WAY more complex to solve -on average-, the "comparable" only holds if you use the hardest EX mechanics of a whole fight as a metric.
Yeah something tells me I'll never be doing ultimates.
I do get the message and I don't disagree with it, but there's definitely a curve of escalating difficulty in content before getting there, and if you're being walled earlier… maybe suggesting to go straight for ultis isn't the best advice.
This is good encouragement right here allot of ppl i know are afraid of trying hard content without really giving it a try i hope a vid like this gives them a bit more open mind to try and see at the least if its for them
My only issue with most content in ff14 is kind of the underlying combat system. When you boil it all down, a fight in ff14 be it a normal, EX, savage, and especially ultimate, you are following a script. If you deviate too far from that script, you die. How much you are allowed to deviate depends on the difficulty of the combat. You press your rotation, you stand in the right spot, you target the right enemy, and that's it. Winning a fight is about trying to understand what the script is, and making sure you can follow it. In short, combat isn't dynamic enough for me, and ultimates are kind of a crystalization of that to me. You could program a tasbot for all 8 players and they would clear ultimate 100% of the time doing the exact same thing every single time. I am not a bot, and I don't enjoy my measure of skill being equated to how closely I can follow a bot script. Kinda why I don't like speedruns for games that have been out long enough that there isn't any new tech to discover
I literally just beat my first Savage last night on my first prog session and while I made mistakes I enjoyed it a lot
💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 I always try to join pf whether it be to help people farm for mounts I already have or to learn the new runs myself. I want people to have a good experience and not be judged by mistakes that are made. We learn from them and grow, stand up and press on again. It's just about communicating when needed, ask questions, help people learn with advice or showing what they do, etc. Just have fun.
The biggest obstacle for me is finding people and matching schedules.
Love your video and I defo appreciated you giving a shoutout to Saus. People talk down those who cleared and I was shamed my clear was with Saus.
Got 2 TOP kills on pf by myself. Helped to the point I have every TOP weapon. I started to tackle the other ultimates for myself. TEA and UCOB easy knockouts. DSR was a challenge but I came out on top. And a week later 2 new kills by myself 1 day difference between kill 2 and 3.
People say Saus traps. I still remember a run a progger was doing Sigma prog. We got them a clear. Or how our wipes in another was all on P1. Soon we got out? Cleared
I started doing UCOB about a month ago. We're on Bahamut now and the fight is long, but the group is so much fun I don't even care. I'm having a blast.
I spent 4 months with 7 other bozos progging ucob. It was collectively all our first times going into savage doing p1s-p4s as a majority had came over from WoW, and getting slapped by twisters for weeks. If you want to do this content you'll want to meet 7 other people who you can vibe with and enjoy content with, who have a good attitude and can be work towards the same goal.
I'm about to start watching this video but already feel it's going to be really good and tbh I need this.
My story started with Zeromus EX and I did it in PF in like a week casually progging. It was something for sure, I've never tried anything above normal stuff so the pacing was quite fast. But I did it anyway, even tho i died 2 times in my clear run ><
Now I'm progging uwu (titan gaols) and it's constant battle with myself. I love the fight, I love the dance and puzzle, but sometimes it's hard to get over myself and my fear of making mistakes. I know it's a prog and you should die N times to learn mechs but still.
I'm going to watch this now, thanks! And sorry for my rumblings
It's too bad you have such a cavalier attitude towards "tools". Call them what they are, cheats. I'm all for having fun, I'm not all for trying to keep up with people loaded to the brim with "help".
Fuck schedules, fuck other people
I'm never touching anything beyond EX because of those issues
I became a double legend even tho i suck at this game : D if i can do it anyone can