Wow. After watching this video I went from a headless chicken who makes mistakes every other pull to a headless chicken who makes mistakes every other pull but with a burning desire to get better. Thanks strummer!
dude, legit your mention of knowing WHAT a mechanic is doing and WHY it's being solved this way is one of the things i try to explain to people all the time. i've seen so many videos of people using 3rd party tools to show them where to go, but they still fail and mess things up because they never learned why they need to go to specific places.
A few random things I'd like to add when it comes to positioning: - position slightly offset to everyone else makes it much easier to immediately tell when you've gotten marked rather than having to wiggle and jump. - pre-positioning yourself to the most likely location the next mechanic will take you (within reason). This is especially important if your position is something other people will need to react to fairly quickly. - when a (spread) mechanic is up next, do not stand far out of position unless you have a good reason to. Otherwise people who are used to adjusting around others' mistakes will now expend brain power to figure out if they need to adjust around you or not.
i 1000% agree with repetition and learning to control the camera. there's so many mechanics that become waay easier just by moving your perspective to a different point.
Never giving up is an understatement lol. Some of these ultimate raids take like 3000 pulls to clear. It takes a lot of failure before you finally succeed, and you have to be okay with that as a person.
@@NeverDiedToExas Maybe, but not by much! My group took around 2200 for DSR, but it was our first ultimate. We were baby raiders :] We were extremely confident and we had to replace some people along the way but we got there lol
Something that gets said a lot in the community is "Anyone can clear any fight in FFXIV" and that is fundamentally true. However I feel many take that as "If you can't clear this in a certain timeframe, you're bad, you should hate yourself, and you shouldn't play the game", which is fundamentally untrue. This is why I personally say "Anyone can clear any fight in FFXIV, as long as you have the willpower to do it." Anyone can, but that does not mean a clear is pre-ordained upon you. You have to do work to get it, and the reason it looks so easy for others is because they've done a lot of that work already. And you've got to catch up. So it may take more time than other people, it may have to be small hours spread out over months of agonising waiting to get back into the fight, and it may feel like you'll never see the end. But you will, as long as you want it. Put in the work to win, and the journey of that victory will be with you forever. My first journeys certainly haven't left me yet, I hope all of you get some that you'll cherish too.
I don't agree that anyone can clear any fight in ffxiv. I bought a main scenario skip because i couldn't get past a fight after trying for 400 hours and never got past half way through fight haha
A good tip that makes me able to pick up fights at bare minimum twice as fast as others; Chill. Relax. Don't focus on your rotation. Hell, don't even do damage and fully concentrate on the mechanics. Most bosses don't have DPS checks outside of the enrage. If they do, like adds, only do it then. Having to focus on mechanics AND rotation at the same time divides your attention and makes it easier to misplay or forget things. Focus on one thing at a time which should be mechanics because if you don't play them right, you won't even get further. What use is 500k DPS (exaggeration) if you die after thirty seconds in the fight?
This! This is something that the community goes against because the elitist wanna be like to put "DPS IS PRIORITY OVER ALL" and insist that good dps equals clearing the fight and resolving mechanics. Unfortunately these people are the most "influential ones" specially when a sprout or a somewhat new player tries to hop into difficult content like ex, savage, or ult. How many times have you seen PF with "parsing" and this isn't even like a savage thing only, they do it on extremes. I've always said the same: Prioritize mechanics over DPS, but sometimes I feel that falls on deaf ears, specially if you are in a static where most people try to be sweats.
my friend who does ultimates got yelled at for barely attacking when we were doing savage prog. I did ask him why later and he said this exact reason- luckily I already focused more on mechanics anyway but it's so funny how people do not know this and choose good dmg over understanding mechs
Back when we were still in ARR before an expansion. I’ve tackled the hardest fight of the game back then which was Second Coil Savage “back when the devs decided to make a harder version of a tier when it was considered a challenge already” with a group of friends, it took hours on end to beat the Avatar. Morale was low during all of it and people were exhausted. But I ended up dozing off and fallen asleep mid pull and slept for over 4 hours, and during that my group waited for me and checked up on me to see if I was okay. When I finally woke up, I wanted to go back in even if my group was concerned at the time. We one shotted. This is what made me prioritize Step 0 throughout my time of playing this game. Taking care of yourself is a major factor if not the most major and you stated it perfectly here.
I really appreciate how genuine you are in your approach to end game content and I can see your enthusiasm and love for what you're doing. I'm never going to touch an Ultimate, maybe not even a Savage but I stepped up to doing EX content and enjoyed it, but unfortunately there are just so many people who play this game that technically are "that player", but they make me not want to touch the game at all because they make it hard for regular people who don't have time or want to commit that hard.
Hey! I came across this video while searching youtube on how to improve and i really appreciate the advice, especially when it comes to taking breaks and not rushing yourself nor giving up. It really means a lot as a player newer to endgame content who has goals of clearing all savage tiers on content and (hopefully) clearing any ultimate during this expansion. I'm struggling and working on consistency and damage, and again this video really helped. Thank you very much!
Fantastic vid, definitely gonna be sharing this to my friends who struggle a lot with consistency and stuff. Also one neat tip I wanna add, Audio Queues. My favorite example of this is in Ucob with Nael. Rise of the White Raven lines up a lot with mechanics that happen in that phase, so you can use it as a way of remembering mechanics and when they come out. 3D Headphones can help a lot as well if you're listening for where certain things are coming from as well.
this 100% works too, i used to do that for bjcc to keep the tempo in my head yet in recent times i only do it in niche situations, maybe i start doing it again with FRU's songs :D
As someone who's chronically terrified of trying harder content in PF, some of those points really hit hard. Thank you for putting your thoughts on it in such a structured way!
Enjoyed the video and agree with all of it. Solid advice! Doing my first on content ultimate. Nervous but either way I’m not gonna give up on it. Gonna get the clear.
wow thank you bald strranger!! Because of this video I started to try savage nd ultimate for the first time!!! Thank you so much, you've changed my life
Kinda hard to do something everyday when you can only do the savage tier once per week. Cause if you do anymore runs you're just hurting the group cause you take away a chest by being there...same with the Alliance raid. One piece per week.
@@ReveredDead you can only get rewards from savage ONCE per week but you can redo the savage fights yet you dont join a party with weekly rewards UNCLAIMED (that would put the party at 7 out of 8 players that havent cleared), you can for example put up a pf or join one with weekly rewards CLAIMED that has the objective to practice a fight in order to go at it again to get better at it, for the alliance raid that is 1 personal loot a week for yourself so no one gets affected if you redo it by yourself, the rewards still appear you just cant roll on them
Watch Baby Steps. A nobody who's way past the age to be playing tennis picks up tennis, and improves simply through doing the basics as much as he possibly can. Sidenote, lovely Asu No Yozora Shoukaihan
The healer "rotation", I find, comes down to really being able to stay aware of your healing cooldowns. It's important to keep track of the timing so you can optimize where you place your heals and mitigations. DPS, I think to their advantage, have rotations where they're led into hitting abilities at the right moments if they're keeping on top of their rotation. For healers it's much less strict which is almost more of a challenge because you have to stay aware of all your cooldowns all the time. I'm sure my opinion is a bit skewed as a SCH main ('cause our kit locks other parts of our kit out), but good recovery in particular for healing requires you to learn how to analyze "if I use this here, will it be up again when I need it?"
Sprout here and man i cant wrap my head around raids, there sooooo much information on screen. My attention is good but man it gives me some real anxiety watching them. Hopefully once I get deeper and deeper ill have interest in raids.
My favorite Anime quote that fits here "The only thing that won't betray you is your training". Really nice video did my First Unreal and My first current content EX this week...
Gonna sound weird here but I unironically thank you for reminding me how much I do not enjoy the endgame lol 😅 You're going through the list and I'm mentally remembering how much fun I did not have chasing BiS and perfect rotations last time I played at max lvl. You have successfully convinced me to slow way down on the MSQ progression and try enjoy the ride before the inevitable quit when I'm all caught up!
@@psionicdongpunch endgame is not everyones cup of tea and thats okay, it is said “dont force yourself to do something you dont want to do” and youre doing exactly that, and that takes courage cheers to you
Glad i'm not that kind of person, I enjoy challenges and chasing that perfection because it's something video games best at if i wanna chill i'll just go watch movie or documentary lol
@@hannasaynwittgenstein-berl6931 yeah I'm like total opposite end of the spectrum lol, I like it when shit gets weird n unexpected, the fixedness of endgame rotations to me feels like I'm forcing myself to play as close to a script as possible and I end up hating it. I forced myself through p4s in endwalker because in my head I was like "this is what beating the game means" and literally after clearing it once I crashed out of the game entirely until my gf pulled me back last month. Having an absolute blast going on weird lil adventures and just noobing around lol. There's still something deep in my lizard brain that is pushing me to smash through msq, skip all the cutscenes and beat the game but I know if I do I'm going to get bitter and jaded almost the second it's done and move on to another game lol. It takes videos like this to shatter the vision in my mind of what clearing the top end content looks like and remind me it is absolutely not something I want to do!
@@psionicdongpunch eh, i already saw the endgame miles away when i saw the rotation required at lv 30 so it's weird for me seeing you pretend to be surprised about it. on top of wanting stuff to be weird and unexpected but you prob not blind progging. i honestly can't relate i beat my first savage on sigmascape and it's like dopamine rush making me keep wanting more and more. raid scene was a lot stricter back then you can't PF Ultimate and nobody accept goober with 1 tier subpar log so i just keep better myself until i join group for uwu post alphascape. i mean i play video game for challenge and MSQ is one and done experience, 14 Raiding Have Great Accessibility to their Endgame with PF stays active all the times huh that's odd? i literaly just doing MSQ without skipping anything and enjoy the raid later once im done. you know it's Live service game right? there is no"skip all the cutscenes and beat the game" because the game never ends and on top of old raid still viable anytime you want to tackle. so i don't understand for someone who self admittedly hate perfecting their craft to do that?
@@hannasaynwittgenstein-berl6931 I was playing with a few rl friends and their fc, obviously not blind prog lol. And I don't get why you think I'm pretending to be surprised???? Maybe I'm not doing a good job of explaining it ig, but it hardly matters I'm just one guy and I'll be gone when I'm caught up on msq don't worry lol
Ultimate raids are all about consistency and being motivated to clear. If you cant learn mechanics or are moving towards giving up then thats when you suck at the game The whole parse mindset unfortunately blinds people to this ans why i roll my eyes regarding logs. Logs are only ever useful for speedrun kills or proof you cleared a fight at a certsin timeframe since release like a week. And before anyone gets uppity I parse purple and oranges on average
Wow. After watching this video I went from a headless chicken who makes mistakes every other pull to a headless chicken who makes mistakes every other pull but with a burning desire to get better. Thanks strummer!
dude, legit your mention of knowing WHAT a mechanic is doing and WHY it's being solved this way is one of the things i try to explain to people all the time. i've seen so many videos of people using 3rd party tools to show them where to go, but they still fail and mess things up because they never learned why they need to go to specific places.
A few random things I'd like to add when it comes to positioning:
- position slightly offset to everyone else makes it much easier to immediately tell when you've gotten marked rather than having to wiggle and jump.
- pre-positioning yourself to the most likely location the next mechanic will take you (within reason). This is especially important if your position is something other people will need to react to fairly quickly.
- when a (spread) mechanic is up next, do not stand far out of position unless you have a good reason to. Otherwise people who are used to adjusting around others' mistakes will now expend brain power to figure out if they need to adjust around you or not.
i 1000% agree with repetition and learning to control the camera. there's so many mechanics that become waay easier just by moving your perspective to a different point.
Crucial skill for console players in learning to use your camera (I would know, I am one XD).
With a controller it's easier to control the camera, imo
Never giving up is an understatement lol. Some of these ultimate raids take like 3000 pulls to clear. It takes a lot of failure before you finally succeed, and you have to be okay with that as a person.
3000 is an overstatement bow 😅
@@NeverDiedToExas Maybe, but not by much! My group took around 2200 for DSR, but it was our first ultimate. We were baby raiders :] We were extremely confident and we had to replace some people along the way but we got there lol
Something that gets said a lot in the community is "Anyone can clear any fight in FFXIV" and that is fundamentally true. However I feel many take that as "If you can't clear this in a certain timeframe, you're bad, you should hate yourself, and you shouldn't play the game", which is fundamentally untrue.
This is why I personally say "Anyone can clear any fight in FFXIV, as long as you have the willpower to do it." Anyone can, but that does not mean a clear is pre-ordained upon you. You have to do work to get it, and the reason it looks so easy for others is because they've done a lot of that work already. And you've got to catch up. So it may take more time than other people, it may have to be small hours spread out over months of agonising waiting to get back into the fight, and it may feel like you'll never see the end. But you will, as long as you want it. Put in the work to win, and the journey of that victory will be with you forever. My first journeys certainly haven't left me yet, I hope all of you get some that you'll cherish too.
Out of all the languages you could’ve spoken, you chose to speak facts, holy BASED
I don't agree that anyone can clear any fight in ffxiv. I bought a main scenario skip because i couldn't get past a fight after trying for 400 hours and never got past half way through fight haha
A good tip that makes me able to pick up fights at bare minimum twice as fast as others; Chill. Relax. Don't focus on your rotation. Hell, don't even do damage and fully concentrate on the mechanics. Most bosses don't have DPS checks outside of the enrage. If they do, like adds, only do it then. Having to focus on mechanics AND rotation at the same time divides your attention and makes it easier to misplay or forget things. Focus on one thing at a time which should be mechanics because if you don't play them right, you won't even get further. What use is 500k DPS (exaggeration) if you die after thirty seconds in the fight?
This! This is something that the community goes against because the elitist wanna be like to put "DPS IS PRIORITY OVER ALL" and insist that good dps equals clearing the fight and resolving mechanics. Unfortunately these people are the most "influential ones" specially when a sprout or a somewhat new player tries to hop into difficult content like ex, savage, or ult.
How many times have you seen PF with "parsing" and this isn't even like a savage thing only, they do it on extremes. I've always said the same: Prioritize mechanics over DPS, but sometimes I feel that falls on deaf ears, specially if you are in a static where most people try to be sweats.
my friend who does ultimates got yelled at for barely attacking when we were doing savage prog. I did ask him why later and he said this exact reason- luckily I already focused more on mechanics anyway but it's so funny how people do not know this and choose good dmg over understanding mechs
Back when we were still in ARR before an expansion. I’ve tackled the hardest fight of the game back then which was Second Coil Savage “back when the devs decided to make a harder version of a tier when it was considered a challenge already” with a group of friends, it took hours on end to beat the Avatar. Morale was low during all of it and people were exhausted. But I ended up dozing off and fallen asleep mid pull and slept for over 4 hours, and during that my group waited for me and checked up on me to see if I was okay. When I finally woke up, I wanted to go back in even if my group was concerned at the time. We one shotted. This is what made me prioritize Step 0 throughout my time of playing this game. Taking care of yourself is a major factor if not the most major and you stated it perfectly here.
I respect the music in the background! I haven't heard Orange Range in quite a while.
I really appreciate how genuine you are in your approach to end game content and I can see your enthusiasm and love for what you're doing.
I'm never going to touch an Ultimate, maybe not even a Savage but I stepped up to doing EX content and enjoyed it, but unfortunately there are just so many people who play this game that technically are "that player", but they make me not want to touch the game at all because they make it hard for regular people who don't have time or want to commit that hard.
I'm glad you said something about the "you don't pay my sub" crowd. Loved the video man
that bleach ending music in the background is goated
Thank you for the well timed video as we head into fru!
Hey! I came across this video while searching youtube on how to improve and i really appreciate the advice, especially when it comes to taking breaks and not rushing yourself nor giving up. It really means a lot as a player newer to endgame content who has goals of clearing all savage tiers on content and (hopefully) clearing any ultimate during this expansion. I'm struggling and working on consistency and damage, and again this video really helped. Thank you very much!
@@maidmaia no ty for watching, i hope i gave you that push you needed :D
Fantastic vid, definitely gonna be sharing this to my friends who struggle a lot with consistency and stuff. Also one neat tip I wanna add, Audio Queues. My favorite example of this is in Ucob with Nael. Rise of the White Raven lines up a lot with mechanics that happen in that phase, so you can use it as a way of remembering mechanics and when they come out. 3D Headphones can help a lot as well if you're listening for where certain things are coming from as well.
this 100% works too, i used to do that for bjcc to keep the tempo in my head yet in recent times i only do it in niche situations, maybe i start doing it again with FRU's songs :D
As someone who's chronically terrified of trying harder content in PF, some of those points really hit hard. Thank you for putting your thoughts on it in such a structured way!
Enjoyed the video and agree with all of it. Solid advice! Doing my first on content ultimate. Nervous but either way I’m not gonna give up on it. Gonna get the clear.
I like the bleach "thank you" ost in the back the first few seconds.
But Arisu, what if I just wanna hit buttons?
@@rebornlink1687 hit them buttons hard
That quote sounds like something Kita from Haikyuu would say ❤
YEES Kita the GOAT
Easily one of the best characters in Hailyuu even though he had a small screen time.
Yo this video helped me a lot! You are the goat man!
All you need is "BOOM! HEADSHOT!!!"
What a heartfelt video from strummer
@@FliceTrance my queen yui yayoi
This video made me try hard content and not to be scared because I'm a new player, hopefully these lessons will help me not hold everyone back.
as long as you keep fighting nunu youre never holding anyone back nodders
wow thank you bald strranger!! Because of this video I started to try savage nd ultimate for the first time!!! Thank you so much, you've changed my life
never4get when arisu helps me to clear tea and i was in tears
Heard the music but was not expecting a haikyuu quote in a ff14 vid
Amazing video, helped me a lot
That's totally Amazarashii playing in the background, isn't it? Edit: And that next song is from MWAM
@@Zriatt bingoo
strummer is THAT player 🔥🔥🔥 HES JUST TOO GOOD 😎
Thank you Arisu-sama I am now the greatest player ever. Good video.
whats the music at 0:50 ?
@@user-vu8fk4ci8u its kimi no yozora shoukaihan by orangestar
Kinda hard to do something everyday when you can only do the savage tier once per week. Cause if you do anymore runs you're just hurting the group cause you take away a chest by being there...same with the Alliance raid. One piece per week.
@@ReveredDead you can only get rewards from savage ONCE per week but you can redo the savage fights yet you dont join a party with weekly rewards UNCLAIMED (that would put the party at 7 out of 8 players that havent cleared), you can for example put up a pf or join one with weekly rewards CLAIMED that has the objective to practice a fight in order to go at it again to get better at it, for the alliance raid that is 1 personal loot a week for yourself so no one gets affected if you redo it by yourself, the rewards still appear you just cant roll on them
Prepositioning both camera and character is huge imo.
I'd also add that we should always look to use waymarks and floor markings whenever possible.
trueee and in cases when you can get disoriented, finding that one marker or a mark on the floor is crucial
Watch Baby Steps. A nobody who's way past the age to be playing tennis picks up tennis, and improves simply through doing the basics as much as he possibly can.
Sidenote, lovely Asu No Yozora Shoukaihan
The healer "rotation", I find, comes down to really being able to stay aware of your healing cooldowns. It's important to keep track of the timing so you can optimize where you place your heals and mitigations. DPS, I think to their advantage, have rotations where they're led into hitting abilities at the right moments if they're keeping on top of their rotation. For healers it's much less strict which is almost more of a challenge because you have to stay aware of all your cooldowns all the time. I'm sure my opinion is a bit skewed as a SCH main ('cause our kit locks other parts of our kit out), but good recovery in particular for healing requires you to learn how to analyze "if I use this here, will it be up again when I need it?"
Sprout here and man i cant wrap my head around raids, there sooooo much information on screen. My attention is good but man it gives me some real anxiety watching them. Hopefully once I get deeper and deeper ill have interest in raids.
My favorite Anime quote that fits here "The only thing that won't betray you is your training". Really nice video did my First Unreal and My first current content EX this week...
@@arnarerlingsson6440 great job keep at it those victories will keep adding up :D
@@arisudffxiv unreal reclear today lets see hahaha
omg the thumbnail so cool CHILLS
HOLY STRUMMER MADE A VIDEO
8:39 100% camera angle is the most useful to me for consistency
Yo, the Bleach outro 2 in the back. Based.
if you want to become THAT player, all you need is the power of a CUTE chat LOVEWATCHERS
Gonna sound weird here but I unironically thank you for reminding me how much I do not enjoy the endgame lol 😅 You're going through the list and I'm mentally remembering how much fun I did not have chasing BiS and perfect rotations last time I played at max lvl. You have successfully convinced me to slow way down on the MSQ progression and try enjoy the ride before the inevitable quit when I'm all caught up!
@@psionicdongpunch endgame is not everyones cup of tea and thats okay, it is said “dont force yourself to do something you dont want to do” and youre doing exactly that, and that takes courage cheers to you
Glad i'm not that kind of person, I enjoy challenges and chasing that perfection because it's something video games best at
if i wanna chill i'll just go watch movie or documentary lol
@@hannasaynwittgenstein-berl6931 yeah I'm like total opposite end of the spectrum lol, I like it when shit gets weird n unexpected, the fixedness of endgame rotations to me feels like I'm forcing myself to play as close to a script as possible and I end up hating it. I forced myself through p4s in endwalker because in my head I was like "this is what beating the game means" and literally after clearing it once I crashed out of the game entirely until my gf pulled me back last month. Having an absolute blast going on weird lil adventures and just noobing around lol. There's still something deep in my lizard brain that is pushing me to smash through msq, skip all the cutscenes and beat the game but I know if I do I'm going to get bitter and jaded almost the second it's done and move on to another game lol. It takes videos like this to shatter the vision in my mind of what clearing the top end content looks like and remind me it is absolutely not something I want to do!
@@psionicdongpunch eh, i already saw the endgame miles away when i saw the rotation required at lv 30 so it's weird for me seeing you pretend to be surprised about it. on top of wanting stuff to be weird and unexpected but you prob not blind progging. i honestly can't relate
i beat my first savage on sigmascape and it's like dopamine rush making me keep wanting more and more. raid scene was a lot stricter back then you can't PF Ultimate and nobody accept goober with 1 tier subpar log so i just keep better myself until i join group for uwu post alphascape.
i mean i play video game for challenge and MSQ is one and done experience, 14 Raiding Have Great Accessibility to their Endgame with PF stays active all the times
huh that's odd? i literaly just doing MSQ without skipping anything and enjoy the raid later once im done. you know it's Live service game right? there is no"skip all the cutscenes and beat the game" because the game never ends and on top of old raid still viable anytime you want to tackle. so i don't understand for someone who self admittedly hate perfecting their craft to do that?
@@hannasaynwittgenstein-berl6931 I was playing with a few rl friends and their fc, obviously not blind prog lol. And I don't get why you think I'm pretending to be surprised???? Maybe I'm not doing a good job of explaining it ig, but it hardly matters I'm just one guy and I'll be gone when I'm caught up on msq don't worry lol
Guys these are good tips and all but don't let him distract you from the fact that he's owed us a maid stream for months now... catWait Maddies
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being a healer day 1/2 of jueno, you had to be THAT player
bleach ed goes hard
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Ultimate raids are all about consistency and being motivated to clear. If you cant learn mechanics or are moving towards giving up then thats when you suck at the game
The whole parse mindset unfortunately blinds people to this ans why i roll my eyes regarding logs. Logs are only ever useful for speedrun kills or proof you cleared a fight at a certsin timeframe since release like a week. And before anyone gets uppity I parse purple and oranges on average
GOOD VIDEO THATS MY GOAT
I am taking notes.
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where is ur bocchi shirt from
@@dahkri3515 i bought it from an anime convention in my city
I just push buttons no thinky think
Ugo jugo
Nice Boichi shirt
big fan
nice shirt strummer
qoute jdfrom the jojo fnuraj asdn wioth the important fight within
Became that player, but dont become that player that play too much and all you can do btch about the game.