FFXIV Omega is one of the best raid series I have ever played in any game and I wanted to share my live reaction doing these for the first time! Including all bosses and the ending.
Everything about the Omega raids just felt perfect; the story of alpha and omega, the Omega bosses and how different they were and the pacing between each section felt much faster than Alexander of Crystal Tower.
I would easy say that Omega was my favourite raid series in all of FF14 so far and I definitely want to do it again!
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1:50 Deltascape
15:50 Sigmascape
26:25 Alphascape
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I remember when phantom train came up, i tried to heal it, rezzing it, and a Phoenix Down I had in my inventory… just in case lol (unsuccessful, of course)
Wish you could suplex the train.
When you do Savage, don't fret about necessarily using min ilvl/no echo. find some combination that can make the prog challenging, but not too punishing. E.g. Not undersized, no echo, not min ilvl. or something. These savage fights took the best players many, many hours to clear. If you give yourself a bit of a boost, you can clear within an hour or two, which is a reasonably fun amount of time. You will still have to do the difficult mechs correctly, but you will be able to hobble through the savage. It'll be so fun! You could also "semi-blind it." Where you don't use any guides or get tips from your pals for idk the first 30 minutes of attempting a fight.
Oh what you got the easter egg fight during Phantom Train! Normally you fight a ghost there, but randomly someone can get paired against Siegfried as some kind of a reference (I forget what, FFVI is not my strong suit). Don't think I've ever seen it in action myself.
(Skipped fight 6 by the way, so not all bosses)
Was the painting boss was so boring he didn't make it in the video? QwQ
These raids really show how little you know about Final Fantasy
Oh yeah on Savage, the beetlebot Omega has a funny enrage. It doesn't do the usual unmitigatable lethal damage, instead it spews a bunch of programming text and runs a kill command on the raid, just deleting everyone. There's no damage, everyone's just gone. Back in the day we joked about it Alt F4'ing the pull.
You've now also encountered the reason why some longer-time raiders get triggered by "starboard/larboard" – that fight has ingrained it into our minds, having done Normal and Savage (where there is no marker, just a cast bar – and I think it doesn't always turn in Savage, but it can, not sure on that part though, been a couple years for… obvious reasons) week after week. :p
One nickname for the double humanoid Omega boss was at one point Gender Fluid. Because it turns into liquid to swap sexes.
So just in case you weren't told, most of the Omega fights are all callbacks to previous Final Fantasy game bosses or enemies:
Deltascape: Alte Roite, Catastrophe, Halicarnassus and Exdeath are all the main badguys from FF5.
Sigmascape: Phantom Train, Chadarnook, Guardian and Obviously Kefka are all from FF6.
Alphascape: Chaos is the final boss of FF1, Midgardsomr has shown up in a ton of FF games, and then you have the Omega Shell / Omega Prime fights, which itself is argued to be a callback to Chrono Trigger, of all things.
(I had suspected for a long time that we'd get a Lavos fight in this raid sequence. I was disappointed, but c'est la vie.)
Streamer Luck, get's Siegfried first try.
First time doing Phantom Train and he gets Siegfried, the special rare enemy
Did I just hear a Zoolander line? Mugatu would be proud!!!
Hey, did you knew ? Now you can find Alpha and Omega almost everywhere ! You can cross them at many locations (where they will not always spawn) and see them on their're adventure ! <3 (You can saw them for example in the kitchen in Mor Dhona, upstair in Rowena's shop)
The amazing story of a little cute chocobo, finding is way in life, open a kart-based business in Chocobo GP for the Switch.
The best raid series… SO FAR!
Personally I think Eden was slight better in terms of fights and the actual story, it may not have the cuteness of Alpha (a tough hurdle to clear to be sure) but the characters involved seemed a lot more engaging to me. But you'll see for yourself soon enough, however I would recommend doing each tier after the patch in which they were released though otherwise the story get's a little screwy as Eden somewhat ties in with the MSQ.
Alpha is based on the Chocobo Racing/Mystery Dungeon spinoff games. Fairly sure Chocolina is the only Chocobo that talks.
ED: Also the laugh! Nearly 30 years and I can still never forget it.
Some People must have already told you about this, but almost all fight are from previous Final Fantasy (and mostly 2). All Deltastice is from the final dungeon of Final Fantasy V. All all Sigmastice is boss from all overt Final Fantasy VI. Alphastice v.01 is from Final Fantasy I, and Omega (the v.03 version) is a very classic Final Fantasy secret hard boss first appearing in Final Fantasy V and being remade in a lot of games.
Our raid recently completed the last fight of omega as Blue Mage raid in Savage mode to get our The Azure and Omega title. Because Blue Mage has no role, anyone and everyone can get any mechanics. So it was pure chaos. It took us 3 weeks to clear and it almost cost our friendship lol
Marty just casually getting Siegfried on his very first O5 run. I was there and it was hilarious.
I did not know Siegfried was a thing in the doom train fight. Learn something new everyday.
Ooh, during the Phantom Train fight you encountered Siegfried instead of a regular ghost. That is pretty rare.
"That's its face, and that's its ass… and they kinda look similar"
…well that's just RUDE.
Wait, is the omega raid full of old ff bosses? I am in stormblood so I am approaching these raids. If that is true I am going to have SO much fun. I've played every numbered ff except 11
Hell yea, Omega is awesome; I love all the old FF boss battles.
Marty's luck is unbelievable, not only he fought Siegfried in the train (which I haven't seen and I played the raid since launch) the way he evades AOE just by the width of a hair all the time is almost unfair.
18:52 MARTY YOU ARE STILL A LUCKY SON OF A GUN FOR THAT!
Dude he got Siegfried wth. That is a very very low chance, you normally just get a ghost.
Holy shit, getting Siegfried's room first try is some insane luck.
Why is Sigmascape V2.0 (O6N) missing? Chadarnook, the painting fight.
the cool looking boss is 'Ex-Death', one of the final bosses in Final Fantasy V. In fact, those were all past FF bosses. Omega is one of the hardest optional bosses in FFV as well. And those background music, bring back memories.