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Been a while now, but i think the time is ripe for some frontpage News ~
I think most of you already know it, but for those that don’t, Shadowflame isn’t what you might call an „Endgame“ group anymore.Since any and all Endgame content is currently maxed at 8 Players and new content with 2.1 still only being 8 man Content with the rest of the group being put together by the Duty Finder i decided that it’s time to build a static group to enjoy Content with without the need to always explain strategies to new Members.

When i started this game i was expecting to see content that actually would’ve allowed me to enjoy it with all of my friends at the same time.But it turned out that we only got very restrictive content that at the same time locks you out once you’ve completed it, making you unable to help others or simply enjoy it again untill it’s resetted.

There are many Free Companies out there that start building multiple groups within their FC, but i don’t see the reason why i should do that.in the end i’ll be leading a whole FC but only play within my own static group while others do the same.i rather have a strong group of people that i know and play with daily.i don’t want to think of Members as „backup“ or „reserve“ players that can jump in just because i miss one.

So, untill SE finally starts to actually offer me content that requires more than 8 players i won’t bother leading more than 8 players 🙂

On a different note~
We’ve built a static to do The Binding Coil of Bahamut weekly and so far we’ve been very succesful.
After having cleared Turn 1,2 & 3 within a week we’ve already started working towards Turn 4! sadly we lost one of our static Members (Mosark Yonkou) to Real Life and now require a new SCH to fill his place.But i’m sure we’ll get one soon, in the meantime we’ll try to fill the last spot with randoms, tho, a static member would be way better ^_^

There also is a new Video of us doing Coil Turn 3 (yea we missed recording Turn 2 and we even did a first try win!!!! >_<) and a few new Pictures, enjoy~

Update :

in addition to last weeks Turn 3 Video Fidi recorded this weeks Turn 2 so i could update the News.

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1 Month has passed, time for another news update!

After a good month of doing Titan after Titan, we’ve finally decided to switch our Raid focus over to the Binding Coil of Bahamut.We’re not completely new to BCoB, yet we’ve never really put any focus on it, seeing how 2.1 won’t bring much new Content besides the Crystal Tower and also there is the the weekly lockout of BCoB.

Many might argue the usefulness of this Dungeon considering the fact that currently you might aswell just grab your AFv2 equipment, upgrade your Relic to +1 and call it a day, but is still an interesting dungeon that has yet to be beaten by a group of Players that wasn’t using a glitch.
It also is a continuation of the main story, so there is that reason to actually beat it.

Currently the Binding Coil of Bahamut is built of 5 Floors, or also called „Turns“.
Floor 1,2 & 5 have boss fights, while 3 & 4 only have regular monsters in them, once you beat a floor you and your groups IDs will update and allow you to enter the next Floor, but forbid you from entering a lower Floor untill the weekly reset, which happens every Monday @ 17:00 (CEST)

So far we’ve managed to advance to Floor 2.That’s not so bad considering that we just started doing BCoB, but still, BCoB is a very hard dungeon with alot of frustraiting deaths heh.

though, personally i’m still looking forward to the Crystal Tower alot more than BCoB even if it’s supposed to be easier Content next to BCoB.
I just favor Content that allows bigger groups, allowing me to invite everyone in the Free Company to have fun at once, instead of just going with 8 Players.I wish FFXIV had more unrestrictive content like FFXI had, where i could choose the size of my group.Oh well, maybe we’ll get more Open World content at some point 🙂

Anyways, Binding Coil of Bahamut is in and Titan is out (that doesn’t mean we won’t do him if a Member needs him though XD)

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First week after returning to regular Event times has passed and alot has been done.

Our plan was to finish atleast our first Relic Weapon we have started working on with during 1.0 and after alot of deaths and high repair costs we’ve been able to finish this task just on our last Titan fight before we had planned to log-out for the day.

We’ve already been prepearing for the Primal fights in the background before actually planning Events again, killing Chimera / Hydra & Ifrit of random occassions as our fingers got numb from all the Amdapor Keep speedrunning.

Garuda & Titan kept us in check for quite some time, but thankfully to our previous Garuda experience and a little hint by Luke & Don we were able to finish off Garuda without problems.
Titan on the other hand was a pain in the ass untill the last minute.Saying we’ve wiped atleast 50 times to him would probably be an understatement, but what i can say is that we used up atleast 15 hours + fighting him to finally finish him off once.

Though, with Titan finally dropping to his knees, a portion of our Endgame group has finally finished off their first Relic, Congratulations.
This doesn’t mean we stop here tho, we’ve still got to run this a few times for our remaining Members to finish their first Relic and probably do another right after.

Mentioning this, now there also is Bahamuths Coil to add in to the Endgame mix.
Not quite focusing on it yet to be our main Event, although, Bahamuths Coil is something i’m looking forward to do, to keep a good mix between working on our Relics.

While i don’t have a Video of our Titan win (which i will surely record tho another time) i can still present you with one from Ifrit & Garuda tho.

And lastly, under a plethora of screenshots showing me while i drop from Titans platform or lying on the ground, i have taken atleast one screenshot of our Win.

UPDATE :

finally managed to get a Titan Video of our 2nd Win.

Hello everyone!

As promised, here is my new post with all the informations about our Free Company,Raids, Times and and and you’ll need~

I’ve taken no break in trying to push ahead and clear content quickly to provide you with accurate informations about how things will work from now on.

By pushing thru all of that content i’ve noticed one thing, most of the content doesn’t require more than 4 Members, but than again, most of the content is practically useless, besides Amdapor Keep to farm for Darklight / AFv2
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The only 8 man content currently ingame are Primals (Hard mode) & Bahamut.
There are 2 more fights that are done with a group of 8, which are Chimera & Hydra.

Of course, this leaves me with some trouble, as i can’t organize for 4 man groups, that is something that everyone can do for themselfs, all i can help with, is to provide skilled players within our Free Company to farm 4 man content.

Apperantly, Ebuu, Arkune, Shadow and I have already farmed plenty of points from Amdapor Keep to buy some Darklight and save for our AFv2 pieces.
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As for Primals, Relic quest fights & Bahamut, we will have a bit more of organization.

Those Events on the other hand require some kind of rule to
be present so everyone can enjoy them equally.

We’ve previously had discussions about the Loot ingame, but after seeing how things work out now, we might need to scrap all of our ideas and start anew.

4 man dungeons basically drop nothing, but give you Token which can be spent on buying Darklight and the new Artifact Armor which is refered to as AFv2.

Primals (Hard Mode) only have a single chest for a whole group, which actually only contain 1 Weapon (i haven’t seen them drop more yet),
so we will talk about a way to share them along our Members (for those that require an upgrade for their Main slot apperantly)
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I’m still unaware of the Bahamut Dungeon, as it requires you to first clear all the Hard Mode Primal battles before being able to join, that is something i haven’t been able to accomplish, but than again, all i had to work with so far were randoms from the Duty Finder (duh).

I also couldn’t find any informations on any loot or whatever within it yet.
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So what’s the plan?
Well, some of our Members still haven’t been able to completely finish their Storyline
(SE and their crappy Servers played a big role in delaying our plans i guess).
I’ve originally planned to resume Endgame activities during this weekend,
but we’ve only managed to do some 4 man farming together.

The Voting for our Raid days will remain open untill the 8th August, if you haven’t
voted yet, go ahead and do so @ Shadowflame – Free Company (Discussions)
You can also find the Loot Discussions there.

We will soon resume our Endgame activities like we used to and we’ll rock once again,
please stay patient untill than and make sure to finish all the important things ingame.

Untill we’re fully back to organizing fully fledged Endgame activities you’re allways
free to use this time to plan any Event you wish with our Members at any given time.
We don’t want you to get too lazy anyways 😉

English summary for Free Company will follow below!!!

Nach 3 langen Jahren ist FFXIV endlich aus der Beta Test Phase!
(hat er das echt gesagt?), {ja, das hat er!}

Durch die Level 20 Content Blockade war es uns zwar nicht möglich alles zu Testen was wir uns eigentlich vorgenommen hatten, jedoch war SE so nett und lies uns schon während der Open Beta mit dem Hermetiker spielen!

Aber nicht nur der Hermetiker und ganz offensichtlich seine Fähigkeit eine komplette Gruppe
bestehend aus – Tank, Heiler und DDs – zu ersetzen,
gab es auch viele andere neue Dinge.

Ich bin ja ein Fan von Erkundung und dingen freischalten.
Da blieb es mir nicht erspart natürlich auch die neuen Pets oder auch Minions genannt zu sammeln!

Aber abgesehen davon wollte ich euch nur schnell mitteilen das am Samstag die Early Access Periode beginnt und somit endlich der komplette Content zugänglich ist.
Das bedeutet natürlich auch das wir (Freie Gesellschaft) auch wieder langsam zu unseren gewohnten Aktivitäten zurückkehren werden.
Keine Sorge jedoch, wir werden alles ganz langsam angehen, ich will natürlich das jeder zuerst die wichtigen dinge Ingame erledigt bevor er sich Hals über Kopf in den Endgame Content stürzt!

Wenn wir gerade von Endgame sprechen, möchte ich erneut auf unsere Diskussionen bzgl. Loot & Raidzeiten hinweisen.
Falls ihr noch nicht abgestimmt habt, oder noch Ideen habt, teilt sie uns mit.Den bis wir aktiv anfangen zu Raiden möchte ich noch Meinungen einholen!

Shadowflame – Freie Gesellschaft (Diskussionen)

Ich wünsche jedem noch eine ruhige Woche,
und man sieht sich dann wohl das nächste mal am Samstag!

ps.:
wer möchte kann im Forum auch noch kurz bescheid geben falls es Ingame seinen Namen geändert hat!
Ich z.B heiße nun Kite Twinblade!

English Summary :

Beta is over, everybody is happy, besides Fidi.
he had to endure the 3102 Error untill 30 minutes before the Server actually closed!

This coming Weekend the game will resume its Service fully once again but with all of the Content being unlocked.Take your time to finish whatever business has to be finished (class quests, Story, etc.)

Once everyone has settled and is ready for Endgame again,
we will resume where we have left off at.

Untill then i’d like to ask everyone once again to take a look at our Discussions and give us their opinion/votes.Some of you surely have some great ideas, and untill we’re back to raiding fully i intend to leave discussions open.

Shadowflame – Free Company (Discussions)

ps.:
if you had a name change, let us know!
there is a post on the Forums where you can leave us a reply with your new name.
Mine changed from Black Rose to Kite Twinblade!