In this video I talk about the gwib farming experience in ffxiv. Each shadowbringers extreme trial drops a gwib mount and if you collect all 7 you got the Landerwaffe mount. In 2023, farming these gwibs is much easier than many players may think, so in this video I give mini guides on each of the unsync extremes while sharing my thoughts on them.
Chapters:
0:00 – Intro
1:26 – Innocence
3:30 – Titania
6:25 – Ruby Weapon
8:15 – Diamond Weapon
12:29 – Emerald Weapon
17:32 – Hades
21:20 – Warrior of Light and Closing Thoughts
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I am 12 totems away from 99ing emerald… the cutscene is burned into my brain.
Also floodray in diamond was my first "limit cut" mechanic so it will always hold a special place in my heart. I'd definitely recommend running it MINE if you get the chance.
Great Vid, i remember farming those last year too and my personal hell was Emerald Weapon since i had to do 99 times for the mount so yeah it was 'fun'. I'm glad that current extremes don't have so much downtime and cutscenes so it's more bearable to farm. Also, i believe the reason some fights drop 2 totems is because, in Diamond case it's the last trial of the expansion and for Hades is the last trial of 5.0 MSQ (even though i think the EX came out in 5.1)
Grats welcome to the waffle club
Fantastic editing! 👍 Great looking video! 🤩 Those mounts are the only reason I would farm extremes. Not for the challenge or the excitement, just the mounts. 😆
man, i remember doing a lot of these on content years ago. It's so strange seeing all those mechanics being skipped nowadays.
Thanks
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I'm stuck farming Hades and Innocence, Hades groups on crystal are a hit and miss because a lot of groups I go in die to the tethers in phase 2 or 3. Then for Innocence I've just been bad with rolls already at 68 totems.
Diamond weapon.. light on mechanics.. How the times have changed ;-;
The most painful part of SHB trials farming are cutscenes.
Little correction for hades farm. You dont need a single healer for that fight as ascian primes doom falls off like the other debuffs if you kill him before they expire. And as for the party being low health after, the only ones who need the health anyway are tanks and they got self heals for days unsync so its w/e
Glad you made this guide! I get super anxious about messing up in fights but these seem pretty simple!
Emerald weapon on content was so bad to farm, cutscene, and parties not being able to do Terminus and disbanding was one of the most depressing thing ive ever done in this entire game and one of the only times ive seen true toxicity in my 5 years of playing
I still have Innocence and Seat of Sacrifice awaiting me on my gwib grind — Innocence I've just been lazy about because of how easy it is, but I'm glad to hear some tips for SoS since everyone calls it the hardest.
My worst grind was actually Titania, and by no fault of the fight itself. I made the timing mistake of still being on my Titania gwib grind when the patch that introduced her shiny weapons dropped, and oh boy. I don't know if it was just Crystal PF, but everyone seemed to think "these mats sell for a lot of gil" and "I've heard this takes zero brain cells, so I can join a room easy peasy and clear without effort", so people came out of the woodworks. So many rooms had folks who didn't know to stand in their puddle, or really to stand in any puddle. They didn't understand the concept of slowing DPS at the % thresholds mentioned in the PF (even when someone sound-effect macro'd "STOP DPS"), or tanks didn't realize they had to take tethers. Plus, there were a good number of people trying to join a farm party with their freshly-lvl-80 char who was still wearing a mishmash of lv70-80 gear. It became such a shitshow that I had to implement ilvl min requirements to try to weed out some folks, and get my FC in on the farm so we had a couple of people I could guarantee were competent.
I'm not sure why the material was mentionned so often, but that Innoncence will forever be worth lil is mainly since it is the accs EX while all others drops weapons. So people can "Invest" by getting the one without Glowy weapons for when the glowy comes out, big money!
Seeing the Diamond Weapon EX visual you provided, for me it was my first ever EX in FFXIV, I love the fight, I respect it, and then I see this super curse stuff at how everything is just being IGNORED xD My baby floating shunk of diamond used to be so much more menacing nooooooooo 🤣🤣 I remember being SUPER LUCKY for it. Back on content, so the mount drop is stupid low 1%. It was my last gwib I needed, it dropped first run, i got it first time. I was done 😎
Oh no Hades… I slayed that thing around 200 times… I got my mount at around 90 totems, so 40 kills. BUT THE MAT. THE MAT I NEVER GOT (For context I own a house and my pride and joy is to fill the main room with every single EX housing item trophy. So it's my adventures treasure room! I got all EX housing items 🙂 Showing I've cleared them all) But ye, getting a singular Hades mat was so painful 😭
Also was surprised to not see the "Dodge everything marker". Usually, back then, people would have a C marker that if stand in it perfectly middle you'll dodge EVERYTHING for that last phase [Except tank having to move for soaking towers]. I guess nowdays you just skip so much
HOW LOW AS WARRIOR OF LIGHT DROPPED!?? WHAAA
Gosh farming him was the WORST. Adds were always SO MESSY and the quintruple cast was hell to remember sometimes. Gosh and now Meteors mess some people?!?!?!
dang
I did all these back during the ShB Content drought, so couldn't skip much if nothing. One thing is I never saw enrages.
Crazy to see fights I did on content or on Expansion being done like they are JOKES 🤣🤣
Congrats on your Waffle dragon! [Check his name, he's a waffle >:3]
I've been getting all the current EW EX mount, hoping I'll be able to get the big mount at the end 🙂
I did these unsynced and knew beforehand how annoying ruby and emerald weapons could be. Got super lucky and got both of the mounts in less than 10 runs. I wish I could say the same for farming Ruby Weapon TT card so I guess karma struck back. WoL took the longest, maybe close to 40 runs or so, but it felt the most fun to do luckily (plus farming the card so maybe 50 to 60 rubs in total). On a side note, I wish Memoria Misera had more collectibles to farm than just the TT card since mechanically I really like that extreme.
Cloud Deck EX is prolly the first time they did a "2-totem-per-run" EX, that's why all the others don't. In Endwalker, so far only the first 2 EX drops 1 totem, the other fights drop 2 totems having CS in the middle or not. It seems that SE will normalize 2 totems per run now.
Edit: Oh, ignore me, Hades EX drop 2 as well. But either way, it was not a common thing until EW. In EW, SE seems to be normalizing dropping 2 totems
I had to 99 Hades, oh man… a few people began to recognize me running Hade runs for like a week to get the totems. Because I was being nice and help teaching new framers the mechanics. The only luck I had in running Hades was getting three of the crafting materials, which I’m keeping to make into stuff once my crafters are high enough levels
I had to run emerald 120 time while it was current to get the gwib and the sos 99 time still in the shb expansion
If I recall emerald weapon when it was relevant was shorter then diamond weapon, even with the cut scene. Though emerald weapon was harder in the 2nd phase and was more likely to wipe so was a longer grind typically.
Also regarding SoS ex, you can do dps LB, BUT the WoL has to be mid cast for you to be able to LB him
That's a nice mecha dragon.
I checked some old logs from when I farmed these in shb, emerald and diamond at their longest both took around 11 minutes, but their shortest was something like 8 minutes emerald and 7 minutes diamond.
The reason for ruby and emerald weapon only giving one totem was because there was a checkpoint.
Got 4 during Shadowbringers, absolutely adored the Hades fight ; it was a beautiful dance (and of course sitting on the D, iykyk). Nice to know that Ruby, Emerald and SoS should be reasonable to go back and go for, always ended up just too busy…
How very Gwib.
Just finished watching through all your content, except the ultimate videos since I have yet to do them yet myself. Thank you for making analysis content on FF14, which is shockingly rare considering the size of the game. The ranking of alliance raids for example, and the recent videos on Savages/Extremes especially. It feels like FF14 content creators focus on making guides more than actually talking about the content, perhaps because they blast through it in one week due to their experienced guilds. In any case, my personal input is that I would like to see videos similar to your trial rankings, except done for extremes. I was somewhat disappointed that your existing trial videos were just for normal mode, since I don't even perceive those as actual content. If you could get a semi-static together just for trial EXes it would probably just take a month or two to blast them down at most, and that would be quite a bit of content. One bit of advice would be to use off-class accessories in ARR/HW, and lower ilevel weapons for SB, in order to lower DPS and make the trials survive longer (thereby making the content more rich), but that's just something to consider. Anyway, I have subbed and am looking forward to more analysis content / in-depth reviews.
6:53 Hi, I am the unlucky one on Ruby Weapon.
I got my Ruby gwibber after NINTY FOUR runs of Ruby Weapon. One day I progged it for six hours and didn't see a single horn drop. I have not been back to Cinder Drift (Extreme) since I got the mount, it left such a poor taste in my mouth.
I had to buy the Diamond Weapon gwibber too, but Diamond was infinitely more tolerable because it dropped two totems AND I STILL DID DIAMOND LESS THAN RUBY.
Really would have liked to hear how many runs the titania fight took for a full group to get their mounts. It'd give a much better indication of drop rates than the individual notes on it from other parties.
And I'm amazed meteors is the only seat of sacrifice wipe mechanic you saw. Some parties I've been in fine incredibly creative ways to fail that fight repeatedly XD
As someone that did all of these fights when they were current and got almost all the mounts (only missed having Titania and Ruby's, but I did farm them a lot during the expac), it is interesting to see how these fights look now when someone comes in to farm these nowadays.
For Innocence, even on content he wasn't a threat. He was actually my first EX that I did and it actually got me over my tanxiety that I had about doing harder content with random people.
Also you would be right about the Emerald Weapon fight taking longer than Diamond, and I do remember personally being extremely confused when I saw Diamond drop 2 totems as opposed to either Ruby or Emerald only dropping 1 per kill. That said, Emerald stuck out as my favorite fight in the expac and I did actually end up doing well over 100 runs on that fight as I helped friends grind out their mounts when they wanted to
Hades I remember it took me the full 100 totems to get the mount, and i'll always remember that fight for the fact that I helped teach a friend that fight and then he ended up getting the mount on his second run, he also then stopped playing the game shortly after so that still kinda hurts to this day :') (Also fun fact, PF actually had markers that I remembered saving for the last phase of the fight where there was one marker that was set on the arena to be a safe spot for the exaflares. Like, everyone stacked on it dead center of it and wouldn't move and the exas would miss everyone entirely)
It is interesting to see that even now that Warrior of Light needs a classic setup of 2T, 2H, 4DPS but given the way his LB mechanics work I can see why you can't really cheese it, also still cool that you have to do the tank lb3 to survive his LB4 though I expect that by next expac that probably won't be the cast anymore lol. Also while you don't need this tip anymore since you have the mount, you actually can use DPS lb on the boss but you have to wait until he's in the middle of a cast to do so. It's the only way to hit him with an lb without him using hallowed ground.
Overall, really cool video- and since you asked at the end of the video i'll say I ended up needing to go to the full 100 totems for Hades and Emerald, almost had to for Ruby but got all the others easier. I would definitely say that people disliked Ruby and Emerald the most for farming (I remember people complaining about how long they were in there which is understandable) just because of the cutscenes, but at least they were nice to prog when they first came out since they had that unique benefit of having a checkpoint. Just wish there was a way to skip the cutscenes on them lol
WOL is either wow this party is really good and clear like 5-10 times but someday I can't even get 1 clear.
I totem 3 of the longest fight WOL, Hades, Emerald.
Hades the bane of my existence running him 50 times was painful and I didn’t get the material so I need to go back as I like the weapons.
15:00 Diamond Ex on current took on average 9:30min, Emerald 9min + cutscene so they where about the same in length (according to my logs from 2021)
I had to buy Hades, Titania and Emerald. The most annoying to farm for me was Ruby cause of the Meteor-rock placement mechanic at the end of phase 2. Hades was imo the best to farm since you got a lot to do while smacking the boss which was fun. Emerald was also a lot of fun but that`s mostly cause I`m a huge sucker the sorrows of Wherlyt-story as a whole and the black wolf stalks again (Emerald phase 2) is my favorite song in the entire OST
I have most of the mounts already but I'm missing both Emerald and Diamond ( looking forward to suffering :') )
I started with chronological story trials first. Titania was okay when we got the mechanics down and the farm was relatively quick for me since I rolled high on the last mount to pop up, same with Innocence, just about everyone got theirs from what I remember. With Hades there's actually a spot where you can stand on and avoid all of the exa-flares and dps the boss so that made farming quite easy. WoL's mount I remember being painful to get due to grinding but I managed to get my mount soon after, Ruby weapon was the same but my group made sure to stay and everyone got their mount during a good 2-3 hour grind. Here's hoping the other 2 fights wont be as bad and I wish everyone else a happy-ish farm.
Yup. Diamond was pretty much mandatory light party per platform back in ShB bc Diamond Rain does damage proportional to the amount of players on each platform.
Wasn’t too bad until someone died so you’d Raise them and hop to the other side to keep a 4-4 balance and then they’d hop after you. >.>