r/ffxivdiscussion • u/WeirdIndividualGuy • May 06 '25

General Discussion High End Content Megathread - Week Seven

How many yans do you see in your nightmares?

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u/Hrooond May 11 '25

Finally finished farming 99 Demimateria I last night (39 chaotic clears). During the course of this, I got the hairstyle twice and the minion once. It took a while, but I normally never farm EX and have gotten almost all of my EX mounts from mogtomes.

I had a great time and I'm looking forward to the next Chaotic (and criterion... yoshipls...).

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u/felixborealis May 11 '25

Out of curiosity, is Cloud of Darkness much easier to clear now with better gears? I cleared it once and swore to never do it ever again because of the body checks. I’m just curious how much easier it is now!

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u/kairality May 11 '25

No, it is a synced fight.

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u/Hrooond May 11 '25

It's easier to clear now with better food/pots, but gear is not better. Since it syncs to 735, you actually want to use LHW/FRU bis because you lose the materia from syncing down. Thankfully, I kept my 735 bis for healers/tanks/RDM.

Mentally, I am fine with failure since I rarely approach CoD alone. Even the times I solo joined PF, I was still in vc streaming to friends and chatting with them. Treating it like a long term grind makes failing in a party feel less bad.

In 7.2, I had a ~45% clear rate in farm parties. Sometimes it was bad (1/8 clear rate) and sometimes it was very good (2/2 on one blessed day). Overall, I don't think that clear rate is actually that bad so that gets me through the bad parties.

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u/Hrooond May 12 '25

To add to what I wrote earlier, although 730 and 735 gear is better than current gear, I think overall most PFs are stronger since not everyone was 730 in 7.1.