Since the normal mode of Pandaemonium has no enrage, Aka also didn’t have to worry about his DPS. He could take as much time in the fight as necessary.
“Healers are just a recommendation”
These are the reactions: As is often the case, the strong self-healing of the Warriors quickly became a meme in the FFXIV community. Many jokes have been posted about how overpowered the ability Urge is since the release of Endwalker and its job upgrades.
Warriors have seemingly secretly converted into a healer role. White Mages or Scholars would therefore be completely optional when a Warrior is present in the group. The HPs (healing per second) of a Warrior would far exceed those of any actual healer.
Others posted their chat logs from dungeons with requests like this: “Can you stop healing yourself so I have something to do? Perform your rotation wrong or something lol”
However, reading between the lines indicates the expectation of a nerf. While the Warriors neither received a nerf in 6.01 nor in 6.05, Director Yoshida announced patch 6.08, which is supposed to bring further balance changes.
What do you think of Aka Ada’s performance? Do you think the Warrior should be nerfed, or should other tanks receive buffs instead? Let us know in the comments.
How is Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker doing 1.5 months after release?
The player Aka Ada has achieved an impressive feat in Final Fantasy XIV. He defeated the first boss of the current raid Pandaemonium (normal) completely alone and without a group. He played the job Warrior, which is currently known for its extremely strong self-healing.
Aka Ada accomplished this: A Warrior made waves in the FFXIV subreddit by soloing the new boss fight against Erichthonios. He is part of the new raid Pandaemonium at level 90, which was released with Endwalker.
These raid bosses are (normally) designed to be defeated by a group of 8 players. It doesn’t have to be the classic role distribution of 2 Tanks, 2 Healers, and 4 DPS, but more than just one Tank is definitely… advisable.
Accordingly, many players in the subreddit found Aka Ada’s achievement astonishing, even though it was “only” the normal mode and not the epic mode of the raid. Many comments noted that they often experience wipes in the fight even with full groups:
- “Wtf Man, you are insane.” – Ok_Concentrate5128
- “What a champion. Absolutely impressive.” – El_Rey_de_Spice
- “It’s definitely impressive, but I really have to ask: Why?” – ChisMorray
Some players also joked that he would now be “responsible” if the Warrior gets a nerf and jokingly asked him to please remove the video of his kill before the FFXIV team sees it. You can check out the video here:
This is how Aka did it: The big endeavor to take down a current raid boss solo succeeded for Aka thanks to the incredible self-healing of the Warrior. While the Tank had solid abilities in Shadowbringers to keep himself alive, this went to the extreme in Endwalker.
Alongside regenerative skills like Berserk, Equilibrium, the Shield Detachment, and various defensive cooldowns, the new ability Urge plays a key role:
- It reduces damage taken by 10%
- Creates a shield that absorbs damage
- Heals the Warrior by 400 HP per hit
During large pulls in normal dungeons, where 3 or more enemies are attacked simultaneously, the Warrior receives HP back for each enemy hit.
The duration of the ability is “only” 8 seconds, but the cooldown is also just 25 seconds. This means that a Warrior can fully heal every 17 seconds, as Aka demonstrates in his video. With just over 77,000 max HP, he can heal for up to 9,500 HP per hit.
According to his reddit posts, the biggest issues were the right timings for using the defensive cooldowns, as well as the “stack mechanics”. Players in the group have to position themselves in a small area and absorb damage together.
Of course, this is not possible alone, but Aka figured out through calculations that he could reduce the damage enough by skillfully juggling his cooldowns to survive the mechanic.
Since the normal mode of Pandaemonium has no enrage, Aka also didn’t have to worry about his DPS. He could take as much time in the fight as necessary.
“Healers are just a recommendation”
These are the reactions: As is often the case, the strong self-healing of the Warriors quickly became a meme in the FFXIV community. Many jokes have been posted about how overpowered the ability Urge is since the release of Endwalker and its job upgrades.
Warriors have seemingly secretly converted into a healer role. White Mages or Scholars would therefore be completely optional when a Warrior is present in the group. The HPs (healing per second) of a Warrior would far exceed those of any actual healer.
Others posted their chat logs from dungeons with requests like this: “Can you stop healing yourself so I have something to do? Perform your rotation wrong or something lol”
However, reading between the lines indicates the expectation of a nerf. While the Warriors neither received a nerf in 6.01 nor in 6.05, Director Yoshida announced patch 6.08, which is supposed to bring further balance changes.
What do you think of Aka Ada’s performance? Do you think the Warrior should be nerfed, or should other tanks receive buffs instead? Let us know in the comments.
How is Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker doing 1.5 months after release?
