FFXIV: The Shadowbringers Trial Experience

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In this video I take a look at each normal mode trial from FFXIV shadowbringers and rank them from worst to best.
Previous rankings:
ARR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Q7FPDOvCQ&t=48s&ab_channel=BigBluePurple
Heavensward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwj81WMludU&t=33s&ab_channel=BigBluePurple
Stormblood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo_gKPljYXQ&t=124s&ab_channel=BigBluePurple

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4 thoughts on “FFXIV: The Shadowbringers Trial Experience”

  1. Overall the ShB trials are amazing, but after farming the EXs for a while, the mid fight cutscenes become a pain, looking at you Emerald Weapon, worth doing them for the vibes and fun, even unsynced

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  2. Titania's music drops that trial right down to the trash, the weapon trials hit hard, mostly due to their story, Warrior of light and Innocence compete for the top position.

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  3. Emerald Weapon is my least favorite trial in ShB, When it was current content, farming this on extreme for the weapons and mount with the phase change (and terminus swords party finder memes) was just miserable. But as always, visually very good. Diamond Weapon, Seat of Sacrifice and Titania are my personal top 3. Hades is also quite epic and maybe its just the extreme farms im baseing my own opinion on, but it was very very tedious to farm as current-content and party finder for it was also a big bait.

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  4. Ruby Weapon is my favourite boss of the weapons series. All of your criticism for it applies to Diamond Weapon for me, which feels like a way more boring fight than Ruby Weapon. RW has some really cool mechanics you didn't mention in the video like where you need to stand on the lines on the ground to not sink into the sand (which is an mechanic exclusive to this fight I think), the part in the second phase where you need to stand in specific spots to block the attacks from above and then other players need to defeat the adds (similar to Susano but with multiple targets) and the visual (and mechanic) of dalamut crashing in phase two which is one of the best look set pieces in the entire game.
    My ranking: Titania -> Diamond Weapon -> Emerald Weapon -> Ruby Weapon -> Innocence -> Hades (only slightly ahead) -> SOF

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