clearing the omega protocol
today, i cleared The Omega Protocol (Ultimate) in FFXIV.
my TOP clear screenshot, 11-21-24. |
if you’re unfamiliar with why that achievement matters,
allow me to explain.
FFXIV Ultimates are a type of raid taken on by 8 players.
they are denoted as “Ultimate” as opposed to “Savage”,
which is a different tier of raid difficulty, or “Extreme”,
which is another different tier of difficulty.
in order from least difficult to most difficult, it goes
“Extreme”, “Savage”, and “Ultimate”. not all fights come out
with all three different difficulty levels, but there are fights
released with those different designations of difficulty.
An Ultimate raid in FFXIV will have you performing in-game
mechanics such as dodging AOEs and puzzle-solving, to meeting
DPS checks, to performing proper damage mitigation,
all for a straight 19 or so minutes of concentrated effort.
it usually takes people weeks to months to clear Ultimate raids,
and our group landed at 1 month and some change.
i was raiding with my group, called a “Static”, that did the
“Savage” difficulty tier of four raids that came out with
for the Dawntrail expansion release.
three of us (out of eight) were entirely new to Ultimate raiding
and had never even attempted it in the past. overall,
i’m pretty proud of the progress we made in the short time we had.
our deadline was this upcoming Sunday to clear, and we did it.
studying this fight and practicing has taken up the better amount
of my free time for literally the last 5 or 6 weeks.
i’ve had dreams about it, nightmares about it, slacked off at work because of it,
and everything in between. it’s been a wild ride. and it’s finally over.
if you’d like to watch our clear, i uploaded our VOD to youtube.
thanks for reading today’s post.
onto Futures Rewritten Ultimate next!