Description: We're a long-term FFXIV static focused on Ultimate and Savage, active throughout Stormblood, Shadowbringers, and Endwalker.  We're taking a hardcore Savage week 1 progression approach in Dawntrail. After Savage prog, we'll optimize and reclear to get 1.5 to 2 BIS gearsets before taking a break.

When do we raid?

• Savage week 1: 10-16 hours per day (all-inclusive: raiding, breaks, discussions, etc.)

• Savage reclears and Ultimate: 

  • Preferred raid time-of-day is 8 pm - midnight Eastern

  • Savage reclears are typically 3 to 4 nights per week while optimizing, one if just reclearing

  • Ultimate progression tends towards 3 to 5 nights per week

  • Specific nights of the week are chosen by consensus to minimize schedule conflict (once we're 8/8)

• Our timezones are from US East to Pacific

• For more details, please see the section Scheduling Recap below

Whom and what are we seeking?

• Regen healer

• Past Savage week 1 clear

• Past Ultimate clear before passive power creep (i.e. before new consumables/gear/sync)

• 95th percentile logs in at least one Savage tier

• Willingness to split-clear lower Savage floors in week 1, and to split-reclear until first-set-BIS

Short history: We formed in Stormblood, cleared and farmed the expansion's Ultimate and Savage content, and went on hiatus until the next expansion.  Joined by several new members in Shadowbringers, we cleared each Eden tier in their respective first weeks, and cleared Alexander on Dec 20 2019.   We returned from hiatus for Endwalker, clearing Asphodelos in week one, Dragonsong on Jun 9 2022, Abyssos in week one, and Omega on Mar 20 2023, meeting three new members along the way.  We cleared Anabaseios in week 2 following a 0.1% enrage on Monday in week 1 after raiding nights-and-weekends, catalyzing our move to all-day-every-day progression for future Savage.

Savage

Our old nights-and-weekends Savage progression schedule left time for us to independently study fights outside of raid.  We shared documents, slides, and video samples, which we would discuss in joint watching sessions.

Our new all-day Savage progression schedule will require most of this learning to happen together, with little fully independent study.  This will be an adjustment for us.  On the 3rd/4th floors, we'll need to watch for stumbling blocks or signs that we're not all on the same page about fight mechanics or strategy, which may signal a discussion break is needed.

We've never been a blind prog group, and we're very open to adopting other groups' strategies wholesale during progression; we want the best odds of the clear and quickest adoption, regardless of origin.

Ultimate

For Ultimate fights, our culture emphasizes preparation, consistency, communication, and documentation.  We strive to use our raid time efficiently.  Although we'll usually review video of new phases together as we enter them to discuss strategy and make sure we're in agreement on how to proceed, we also typically study the fight independently as we progress, since that tends to make the group discussions more productive.  Once there is consensus on strategy, we document and diagram it.

Sample Strat Documents

Here are some of our Omega documents, written as we progressed:

• TOP Strategy [UNLUCKY]

• TOP Timeline [UNLUCKY]

Here are some of our Dragonsong documents, written as we progressed:

• DSR Strategy [UNLUCKY] 

• DSR Timeline [UNLUCKY] 

Here are some of our Alexander documents, written as we progressed:

• TEA Strategy [UNLUCKY]

• TEA Wormhole Strategy Diagrams (we use the TpS strategy; this is our set of diagrams reflecting it)

• TEA Healing & Mitigation Timeline [UNLUCKY]

Here are a couple of Savage items, one from progression, one from speedruns:

• E9S Boss Damage-Up Mitigation and Healing Timeline

• Asphodelos Week 1 Progression Notes