The FF14 race to world first has come to its conclusion, and this time there’s nothing shut about it, though continued DDOS frustrations definitely managed to place a dampener on the occasion. Rounding out a trilogy of wins throughout your complete Dawntrail raid sequence, Japanese workforce Lucrezia managed to take residence the victory as soon as once more, and did so with nicely over an hour hole forward of second place, making it robust to argue with the end result regardless of repeated disruptions for a number of North American groups.
The FF14 7.4 savage raids have been a wonderful conclusion to the Arcadion. Its pro-wrestling theme has introduced some particularly distinctive and memorable encounters to the MMORPG, from the engaging idol Honey B Beautiful to gundam-catboy Howling Blade. Its closing tier, the Heavyweight Division, features a dominatrix (within the recreation’s personal phrases) who dramatically steps on any accusations that Dawntrail treats us an excessive amount of like a baby, and a pair of surfer bros that barrage your celebration with mixed hearth and water assaults.
The true query on everybody’s lips, after all, was what the ultimate a part of M12S – the final struggle within the sequence – can be. In conventional FF14 vogue, upon clearing the primary a part of the encounter, the boss dramatically transforms right into a second stage. This time (and here is your spoiler warning), the large Lindwyrm is reborn wrapped round a humanoid determine able to rising a number of clones. These then tether to particular gamers to unleash all method of assaults. Nonetheless, Lucrezia was in a position to determine the methods to come back out on prime, and you may head to the 4:33:00 mark within the video beneath to see the climactic moments.
After all, the race to world first is not any stranger to drama; usually this has come within the type of groups utilizing third-party plugins, that are in opposition to FF14’s phrases of service. Hopefully, we should not see any such points rear their head this time – all the groups clamoring for the highest spot had been streaming their makes an attempt reside, and Lucrezia is a well-established favourite with a trusted repute. It is only a workforce of very, excellent gamers, who managed to energy via with only a temporary couple-hour break to rejuvenate themselves.
As talked about up prime, the massive frustration this time has been disconnects, which have particularly affected gamers and groups in North America. It is an issue that is been notably persisting for the reason that finish of final yr; Sq. Enix has acknowledged these “community technical difficulties attributable to DDOS assaults” a number of occasions, most lately on Tuesday January 6 alongside the discharge of the savage raid.
In the end, whereas it sucks to see such a problem proceed to plague gamers (common raiders have been affected simply as a lot because the world-first racers), it is robust to suppose that the end result would have been any totally different. Information is usually as essential as follow, and it is onerous to cover that when the very best groups are exhibiting their progress reside on the web.
On the time of writing, greater than two hours hours after Lucrezia’s clear, the one different workforce to complete is Banana Codex, and so they did so in personal after hanging up their streaming boots for the day. With such a dramatic victory, you would be hard-pressed to argue in opposition to Lucrezia’s declare because the Arcadion’s undefeated champion.
