first tier of Arcadion raids came out yesterday, permitting me access to the ridiculous GPU tower in Solution Nine. i've never done "current" raids before!! my first time being exposed to the weekly loot limits and they seem like a lot. one token per fight each week, several of which can be exchanged for one piece of gear? pretty sure significantly better and easier-to-obtain gear is being released in a couple weeks so i probably won't bother
maybe it's because they're new and i'm experiencing them alongside everyone else but i really enjoyed these bosses compared to other raids. cool arenas fun mechanics and characters, music that is Not stuck in my head i have NOT been singing the bee girl song all day. needed a fun tournament arc after that long boring one, and yes of course there's sinister happenings behind it all, excited to wait 8 months for the next chapter
what i'm sayin like. they get to use their head gizmos to transform with the souls of ferocious beasts, so i get to fight alongside seven other fake-me's to balance it out. so i'm hailed the big uppencomer because i fight without the ability to come back to life after dying like everyone else here, but does it really count if i'm getting res'd all the time. well whatever they love me for it. show's being put on because their queen died and everyone's depressed about it do NOT tell them i'm the one who killed her
obviously this is just storybabymode right now. the savage version comes out in a couple weeks and i'm thinkin i wanna dip my toes, but i've never even done an extreme fight while it was still difficult. sparing the masses another paragraph of complaining about how this game handles progression. anyway i figured i should finally take that plunge in the meantime, eight years after i started playing. big snakebird Valigarmanda is the first extreme of the expansion and he is my prey currently
open up the party finder, almost every listing says "hector". Hector is apparently someone who makes visual guides for fights, so i look up his strategy for Valigarmanda. to me, someone who has never played content like this, it is a thirteen-minute amalgamation of colors and shapes and unfamiliar abbreviations. uh oh! the video game is requiring me to learn things eight years in! thankfully a good few of the parties plainly state they're just going in to get a feel for the fight at first, so i hop into one with a general idea of a few of the colors and shapes to expect
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ahhh. parties were a lot more chill than i expected, after the initial trying to make sense of all the tactics talk in chat from people who were supposedly going in blind (i have come to learn that "blind" means "has watched a guide and is not actually blind"). in the several groups i've been in over maybe four hours so far i only encountered one weirdo, due to whom everyone promptly left the party. forgot about the reputation this game's community has
kind of a bummer when everyone's saying "good prog tyfp :)" and the party disbands, like damn those were my homies, hardly said anything to them over the past hour but damn. especially since even after "seeing enrage" a few times (another term i have learned) i'll still only feel confident enough to join a party full of new people who don't know the fight, and amazingly end up not making anymore progress. but at the end of the day i'm just happy to be here
i hopped on this morning very determined to finish da fight but i was lagging up a storm. all EU servers went down the other day which Square claimed was another DDoS attack so i assumed it was still because of that. turns out it's specifically happening to everyone with my ISP. Vodafone is about to see my enrage
