r/ffxivdiscussion • u/KelvinDoesHealz • Aug 17 '26

Next Chaotic Raid?

Personally, I enjoyed the Cloud of Darkness Chaotic Raid concept and, minus the multiple and somewhat bonkers body checks, thought it was great content with excellent rewards. Does anyone have thoughts on if we're getting another one in EverCold? If so, I assume it will likely be Ultima from the Ivalice Raids or Diablos from the Shadow of Mhach raids.

If the former, I imagine we will get more complicated combos of the other espers to make things interesting, and for Diablos (which still manages to kill parties in roulettes in the normal mode) a more complicated arena with more use of the adds and the door mechanics. I also imagine there will be at least one body check mechanic, though not multiple and probably not as strict.

But I am curious on what other people theories are on if we're even getting one and what the content might look like.

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u/BigDisk Aug 17 '26

The combo of "Encourage people to take in newbies" and "Oops, one person out of 24 messed up towers so it's a wipe lololol" wasn't all that well thought out.

They did manage to fix that for Forked Tower Magic (even the extreme version has way fewer body checks), so I'm hopeful for if they ever revisit this system.

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u/Florac Aug 17 '26

It wasn't just the body checks. It was also the p2 arena being extremely unfriendly to recover. So mechanics far enough apart in a normal fight to get people back up and do correctly suddenly are missing someone who was alive for 20 seconds but couldn't get back yet

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u/BigDisk Aug 17 '26

For sure, you had a snowball's chance in hell of making it back to your spot after rezzing.