Ye that’s the goal 🐾
Then on to M2S 🐝
Ye that’s the goal 🐾
Then on to M2S 🐝
So strictly speaking I don’t know yet if we are struggling for damage output because that fight has more body checks (5+) than DPS checks. The times I’ve gotten to the end, the previous body check has been so scuffed people have 1 or 2 levels of exhaustion due to deaths which really puts a sinker on the damage output. Finding groups at (insert whatever random time I pick up party finder and decide my evening shall be raiding) was largely my challenge. This is also my first tier running raids on-content.
Week 1 I only put one day forwards, so it counts and doesn’t at the same time for me. But I did get past baits
What I ran into mostly in 3-6 was picking the wrong time (Monday night on Crystal) to try to find groups. There was a notable vacuum of parties advertising at my prog point - it felt like (mild exaggeration) everyone was fresh, enrage, or a reclear.
So to make sure I still got practice in, I’d take an instance that was a fresh prog and help them - but we’d time out / disband right as we got to the mechanic I was on. As a result, I got really good at phase 1 with minimal “forward” progress.
Pulling stuff earlier in the week, even on Crystal there was a bit more variety if I looked closer to the beginning of reset, and last two weeks (week 7-8 if I counted right), I got clones > mouser 2 > and these past three days I saw raining cats and enrage.
So, other notes
EDIT: I counted horribly wrong I’ll fix it later.
Finally got to M1S enrage after PFing it since late week 1
Endwalker issues for me were mostly the insane login queues.
Dawntrail went much smoother and you can actually see places where they beefed up capacity, even within a server. Field areas and large cities had more instances than they did in Endwalker - up to 6, as opposed to the 3-4.
Aether I think kind of caught fire, but on Crystal it was pretty chill except for that one time the entire datacenter got dumped back to the login screen. I also heard stories of people getting momentarily trapped on Dynamis if they visited during peak, since the server also validates load when you’re coming home.
You use console to turn on embedded shell then Ctrl+Alt+Fn over to it (I forget whether it’s on f1 or f2), then you can use esxcli
and all the rest of that to fix it up.
Once you get enough networking/storage pieces sorted out you can get back into the management HTML UI and SSH
Then when you’re done fixing, turn shell and SSH back off.
And now you can listen to some cool smooth jazz and bloopers while reading the closed caption easter egg instead of watching the credits
fedora themed music starts playing
Do be do be do, bah
Do be do be do, bah