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Now that Pandaemonium is done, what are your thoughts on the raid series? (self.ffxiv)

submitted 2 years ago by Liam_Galt to c/[email protected]

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I started raiding in Eden's Verse so I don't have a ton of experience compared to others. I will say I think as a single tier Anabaseios is the one I've enjoyed the most. 11 is a bit lame and I'm still not a huge fan of body checks, but I absolutely loved 9/10/12. Abyssos was alright, I loved 5 and 8. Asphodelos was kinda meh overall. What did you all think about it?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The fights themselves were all pretty good. I think a lot of lessons were learned from how the Eden raids interacted with all of the job changes and they took that forward into Pandemonium. People would complain about easy tank busters, Abyssos had them be DoTs. Healers had nothing to do, fine throw in Harrowing Hell, etc etc. Only big issue my group had was P8S P1. We cleared P5-P7 week 1 then spent 5 weeks on P8S....

Story wise I think it started strong then just got weaker and weaker. I was really hoping for a better story then what we got. The last sets story just felt so weak in comparison to the last set of story for Eden, Omega and Alexander. Here's hoping we get something like that next expansion.

All in all, good set. My group enjoyed our time with it!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I was looking forward to the conclusion of the story and felt a little let down as well. I understand the idea though, they wanted to tie up some of the dangling leftover loose ends.

So there were answers, but it lacked a certain satisfying catharsis. At least for me.

I feel like this impacted the theming of Anabaseios the most where it all seemed very sudden. Like a TLDR with a lot of hand waving.

It wasn't bad mind you and I probably simply set my expectations too high!