Here’s Our Experience Battling Asura at Final Fantasy 14 FanFest 2023

29.07.2023

Queen Asura poses with her many arms and blades in a promotional image for Final Fantasy 14

At Final Fantasy 14 FanFest 2023 North America, guests were provided the possibility to obstacle Asura, the upcoming Primal Trial that will certainly show up via a brand-new material spot. As one such participant, I took this possibility in hand and also combated my method via the FanFeast on-line line (which needed guests to uninstall and also re-install the application to obtain it functioning appropriately) to note my area in accordance with various other possible Warriors of Light to tackle this brand-new Trial.

For those not familiar with Trials, they’re successfully 8-man manager battles gamers can join. These circumstances are probably my favored component of Final Fantasy 14, so I was very excited to combat Asura and also see what she’d offer the table comparative to previous Trials such as Heavensward’s Nidhogg, Endwalker’s Golbez, or Stormblood’s Susano. Waiting in line I wound up gathering a team consisted of James Galizio of RPGSite, and also the adhering to Warriors of Light: Thallan Gildeford, King Ma, Ishtar Valentine, Worstluck NA, and also Kini Solis. The last 4 because line-up are five-time Legends, which indicates they’ve removed all presently readily available Ultimate battles — several of the hardest items of material in the game.

Waiting in line we reviewed what Job Classes we would certainly be playing, and also I appointed myself the duty of White Mage, because it was what I was most comfy with and also had one of the most experience in. While I do take pleasure in playing Tank as Gunbreaker and also DPS as Summoner, I entered as a White Mage as I had for previous Battle Challenges (significantly Thordan and also Susano at Gamescom when those battles specifically showed up). After establishing our hotbars, seeing to it we had the ideal abilities in the ideal areas, and also talking among ourselves, we prepared to delve into the battle and also remove Asura.

The unique fight experience at Fan Festival 2023-2024 will certainly be…

The Gilded Araya! ✨

Attendees will certainly have a possibility to attempt it early prior to it’s formally applied right into the game at a later day! pic.twitter.com/Q5ox8YZNKM

— LAST DREAM XIV (@FF_XIV_EN) May 12, 2023

However, as soon as we got involved in the battle, it coincided track and also dancing as previous tests. Asura was barely tough, and also in spite of my below expiring for upwards of 3 months, I had no problems co-healing along with our Sage. Maybe it was since he was very efficient the game, or since White Mage is very easy to return right into, or perhaps this also mentions exactly how you can swiftly return right into the groove of points in Final Fantasy 14, however Asura was very easy. Extremely very easy.

She included every one of the characteristics of a requirement Final Fantasy 14 battle: Telegraphed assaults, Tank busters (very compelling assaults booked just for the Tanks), and also orange AoEs on the ground that would certainly occasionally show up in big circles or rings. There was additionally an auto mechanic where she would certainly direct a bigger variation of herself to after that generate orange rings on the ground that we would certainly need to lack prior to obtaining hit and also getting a minimal quantity of damages and also a susceptability pile. I can’t talk on any one of the songs, since for one reason or another the sound wasn’t benefiting my configuration. And prior to we understood it, the battle mored than.

Asura was dropped, and also we arised successful. All people were quiet, practically shocked it had actually finished as swiftly as it started, however after that we piped approximately praise each other. We traded info and also split methods. I desired my group well on their following Ultimate clear, and also informed James I’d be heading back to my resort area to cool off.

Part of me questions if Asura was very easy as a result of the team I remained in, or if Asura is a presentation of Creative Business Unit 3’s devotion to making material extra friendly for all gamers. If the last, they accomplished. Unlike when Nidhogg launched at the tail end of Heavensward, I can’t see individuals obtaining stuck and also needing to utilize Party Finder to get rid of the battle. If anything, I’m interested to see what her Extreme battle will certainly be and also what various other technicians will certainly be layered on. In completion, it was a great experience and also an excellent method to bond with various other gamers, also if it was simply 5 mins of their time.

Source: Polygon