We wanted to know from you which multi-part 8-man raid in Final Fantasy XIV is your favorite. Here are the results of your voting.
Here’s what it’s about: Like any good theme park MMORPG, Final Fantasy XIV offers its players not only quests and dungeons but also large and challenging raids. In these raids, there are not only tough bosses and intricate combat mechanics, but they also always tell their own story.
With patch 5.4, the final part of the current raid Eden was released, and to celebrate the event, we wanted to know in a survey what your favorite multi-part 8-man raids from FFXIV are.
The 24-man raids and the ultimate 8-man raids were excluded from this survey. A total of 783 users participated in the survey. Here are the results in a community ranking.
Rank 4: Alexander
- 16.86% (132 votes)
This is the story of Alexander: The great Primae Alexander is the first thing players see when they enter the Dravanian Hinterlands. Trapped in a magical barrier, Alexander sleeps until he is awakened by the malicious Goblin organization, the Illuminati.
Their leader Quickthinx wants to use the Primae’s power over time to shape the future of the world according to his desires. To prevent this, players must fight their way through the inside of Alexander, reach his core, and take him down.
Players are accompanied by familiar faces Cid Garlond, Biggs, Wedge, and the Au Ra Mide. They and their friends sealed Alexander many years ago, losing their lives in the process, with only Mide surviving.
The robot fights of Alexander and the cool boss music placed the raids at rank 4 in our survey.
Living Liquid 
Quickthinkx 
Cruise Chaser 
Alexander Boss Fight
Here’s what the boss fights of Alexander are like: With Alexander came a raid to FFXIV that had a steampunk setting. This was reflected not only in the design of the instances but also in the appearance of the bosses. In many boss fights, players face robots or mechs guarding the inside of the giant Primae.
But there are also goblins, who are the actual main antagonists of the raid. Quickthinx and his henchmen throw bombs in the way of players, saw them with circular saws, or cage them, forcing them to escape.
Rank 3: Omega
- 20.82% (163 votes)
This is the story of Omega: When players awaken Omega at the end of the Heavensward expansion from its slumber, they do so out of desperation. A powerful Primae threatens the city-states of Eorzea, and they hope that Omega can stop it.
And it immediately takes up the chase of the Primae. However, after the battle, Omega crashes in Gyr Abania, where it creates a sub-dimension for itself and begins to produce powerful monsters. Players are forced to compete in a sort of tournament against the monsters so that Omega can eventually fight the winner and evolve through that.
Thanks to the guidance of the chocobo Alpha, players repeatedly manage to win against Omega’s monsters and progress to the next round. To find out what the key to this strength is, Omega ultimately confronts them itself.
The quirky story, which offers insights into the backstory of the great dragon Midgarsormr, and the cute Alpha have brought the Omega raid to rank 3 in our survey.
Exdeath from FFV 
Chaos from FFI 
Phantom Train from FFVI 
Kefka from FFVI
Here’s what the boss fights of Omega are like: The Omega raid was a treasure trove for long-time Final Fantasy fans. Many of the bosses from the raid come from earlier FF games such as Kefka, Neo-Exdeath, Chaos, or the Phantom Train.
The FFXIV team was very careful with the story of the bosses. They implemented all their iconic abilities from old games into FFXIV in the form of mechanics in the boss fights. For example, Kefka summons the statues of the gods, and the Phantom Train uses its spotlights or abducts players from the battlefield into its cars.
Rank 2: The Twisted Shadows of Bahamut
- 25.29% (198 votes)
This is the story of Bahamut: The Twisted Shadows was the first 8-man raid released after the reboot of FFXIV. At the end of the failed version 1.0 of the MMORPG, Bahamut breaks out of its prison Dalamud in a fantastic cinematic video and causes the 7th calamity.
Five years later, players learn in the raid how Bahamut was trapped in the moon in the first place and what exactly happened during the great explosion in the video. Players explore the ruins of Dalamud together with the twins Alphinaud and Alisaie.
Especially Alisaie wants to find out what happened to her grandfather Louisiox, who in the video tries to re-imprison Bahamut but unfortunately fails and seemingly dies.
The fantastic staging of Bahamut in cinematics, epic music, hard boss fights, and the story of Louisiox have brought the raid to rank 2 in our survey.
Here’s what the boss fights of Bahamut are like: During their exploration of the Twisted Shadows of Bahamut, players fought through various bosses. Aside from the machines and security measures of the Allag who built Dalamud, there were also “organic bosses”.
The Allag experimented a lot on various living beings and locked them away. Now these experiments break free and confront players on their journey through the underground facilities of the Allag.
Players fight through chimeras, multi-headed beasts, dragons, guard robots, and other abominations that the Allag have unleashed into the world.
Rank 1: Eden
- 37.04% (290 votes)
This is the story of Eden: The story of Eden takes place on the first shard world that you travel to in the Shadowbringers expansion. After the world was saved from destruction, Ryne and Thancred take a trip to explore the lifeless desert outside the Wall of Light.
There they discover Eden, whom they identify together with Urianger as the first sin-eater. With its help, Ryne aims to restore the elemental balance in the area and breathe new life into the dead world.
In their attempt to control Eden, they encounter the mysterious girl Gaia, who has lost her memories. Despite her brusque manner, she and Ryne become good friends. However, their friendship has to withstand some challenges before reaching a happy ending.
The story of Ryne and Gaia, the plot twist about Eden, and the boss fights ensured that the Eden raid sailed to first place in our survey.
Eden 
Garuda 
Titan 
Ramuh 
Cloud of Darkness 
Ifrit
Here’s what the boss fights in Eden are like: The boss fights in Eden revolved around the different elements that needed to be awakened and the contrasts of light and darkness. For this, the FFXIV team reimagined the concept of the Primals from “A Realm Reborn”.
Thus, Ifrit and Garuda merged into a hybrid entity, the bearded Ramuh got the lower body of a horse, and Titan rolled around on its wheels in the battle arena, throwing players off. However, there were also completely new bosses that are closely tied to the story of the raid.
In the fights, players had to deal with mechanics that manipulated the various elements, as well as the time and appearance of the battlefield.
If you’ve never mastered an epic raid in FFXIV, we have a guide for you on how to prepare for it.
