Summary
Summary
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Description: We're a long-term FFXIV static focused on Ultimate and Savage, active from Stormblood in 2018 to Dawntrail today. In Dawntrail, we adopted a hardcore Savage week 1 progression schedule, but we raid in the evenings otherwise. After Savage prog, we'll reclear to BIS and optimize, though that's optional (week-1-only interest is welcome).
When do we raid?
Savage week 1: 10-16 hours per day (all-inclusive: raiding, breaks, discussions, etc.)
Savage reclears:
Preferred raid time-of-day is 8 pm - midnight Eastern
Savage reclears are typically 3 to 4 nights per week while optimizing, versus 1 or 2 if in reclear-only mode
Specific nights of the week are chosen by consensus to minimize schedule conflict (once we're 8/8)
Our home timezones are from US East to Pacific
For more details, please see the section General Scheduling Preferences below
Whom and what are we seeking?
Tank (strongly preferred) or Ranged Physical
Past Savage week 1 clear while doing hardcore progression
Ready to split-clear lower Savage floors in week 1
Depending on your preferences, this spot can run as short as week-1-and-done, or as long as the Savage tier
Short history: We formed in Stormblood. Raiding weeknights and occasionally weekends, we cleared and farmed the expansion's Ultimate and Savage content, and went on hiatus until the next expansion. For Shadowbringers, we cleared each Eden tier in their respective first weeks, and cleared Alexander on Dec 20 2019. Moving on to Endwalker, we cleared Asphodelos in week one, Dragonsong on Jun 9 2022, Abyssos in week one, and Omega on Mar 20 2023. We cleared Anabaseios in week 2 following a 0.1% enrage on Monday in week 1 after raiding nights-and-weekends. This catalyzed our move to all-day-every-day progression for Savage prog. In Dawntrail, we cleared Light-Heavyweight on Wednesday, Futures Rewritten on Jan 6 2025, and Cruiserweight on Friday.
We are recruiting because one of our longtime tanks is unavailable for week 1 progression in January. He wants to return for Ultimate, and would be available as early as Savage week 2. But how that goes depends on your preferences; many strong players with hardcore week 1 prog experience will also want to farm to BIS (or optimize past that), which is also fine.
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Progression Approach
Progression Approach
Savage Prog
During all-day-every-day Savage prog, we try to balance getting additional pulls with occasional timeouts to discuss what's working and what's not. Between floors, we use shared watch sessions from footage of groups ahead of us, to both familiarize with mechanics and attempt to get on the same page strategically. When troubleshooting, we find sharing our own POV clips helpful, whether viewed through a stream or a screenshare of a local recording.
We've never been a blind prog group, and we're very open to adopting other groups' strategies wholesale during progression. We just want the best odds of the clear and quickest adoption, regardless of origin.
Ultimate Prog
For Ultimate fights, our culture emphasizes preparation, consistency, communication, and documentation. We strive to use our nighttime 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 Ultimate documents from the group, written as we progressed:
Omega:
Dragonsong:
Alexander:
TEA Wormhole Strategy Diagrams (we use the TpS strategy; this is our set of diagrams reflecting it)
Here are a couple of Savage items, one from progression, one from speedruns:
Roster, Openings, and FFLogs
Roster, Openings, and FFLogs
What We're Seeking
What We're Seeking
Jobs:
Tank (strongly preferred) or Ranged Physical
We each intend to bring the job that maximizes damage potential in the final encounter of week 1 of Savage. Repeating "Whom and what are we seeking?" above:
Past Savage week 1 clear while doing hardcore progression
Ready to split-clear lower Savage floors in week 1
Although our current members have cleared all Ultimates, that's not required.
Static FFLogs (includes some alumni)
Static FFLogs (includes some alumni)
General Scheduling Preferences
General Scheduling Preferences
Savage Progression in Week 1
We intend to take time off to play 10-16 hours per day during week 1 until clear. This will not be precisely nailed down until we are back at 8/8 and can re-establish consensus. We are not attempting to race, but we do want to commit plenty of time to each Savage tier in week 1.
Savage Reclears and Optimization
We typically play between between 12 and 16 hours per week when optimizing, eventually tapering to just a single set of loot reclears (about 2 hours per week). Our preferred timeslot is 8pm - midnight Eastern, with days set by consensus. This might not be relevant if you don't want to stick around, though, which is fine either way.
General Scheduling Notes
In all content, we try to make our schedules stable, consensus-based, and predictable in advance.
Outside of week 1, to make a consistent space for discussing static affairs, we reserve the time immediately after the final instance of a night for "raid business." This is when we determine or confirm scheduling, and when anyone can raise suggestions, questions, or concerns that benefit from having the whole group on voice together. When all items are exhausted, we "close business" for the night, allowing everyone to socialize or head out at their own pace without potentially missing an important topic. We generally close business within 5 minutes, but it can occasionally take significantly longer if there's a big and unresolved group decision to hash out. We will stop an instance early and/or punt longer discussions when it poses a time hardship. We will likely skip or abbreviate this during Savage week 1, when the only crucial thing to check before everyone logs off is the next day's start time.
Contact Info
Contact Info
Discord
Discord
Username: bkot
Formerly blackout#7790, before the Discord username rework; main character in FFXIV is Prize Patrol
Group History and Highlights
Group History and Highlights
We formed just before Sigmascape. We were originally known as Inner Degenerates in Stormblood. We chose the name UNLUCKY for Shadowbringers and beyond.
Cleared Sigma on a light schedule in week 4
Cleared UCOB between Sigma and Alpha; farmed 11 kills total in this period
Cleared Alpha week 2, after about 40 hours of total raid time
Cleared UWU after Alpha; farmed 11 total kills in this period
Farmed four more UCOB kills, bringing the total to 15, then went on hiatus until Shadowbringers
Cleared Eden's Gate in week 1, after about 22 hours of total raid time
Cleared Alexander on Dec 20, 2019, after about 88 hours of total raid time, and did 8 weekly-reset kills
Cleared Eden's Verse in week 1, after about 24 hours of total raid time
Farmed an additional 12 TEA kills (for both totems and practice) shortly before Eden's Promise
Cleared Eden's Promise in week 1, after about 28 hours of total raid time
After farming and optimizing Eden's Promise, and after a brief diversion to clear Delubrum Reginae Savage together, we went on hiatus until Endwalker
Cleared Asphodelos in week 1, after about 24 hours of total raid time
Cleared Dragonsong on Jun 9, 2022, after about 108 hours of total raid time
Cleared Abyssos in week 1, after about 32 hours of total raid time
Cleared Omega on Mar 20, 2023, after about 136 hours of total raid time
Cleared Anabaseios in week 2, after a 0.1% enrage on Monday night
Cleared Arcadion Light-Heavyweight in week 1, on the day after release, after about 22 hours of total raid time
Cleared Futures Rewritten on Jan 6 2025, after about 72 hours of total raid time
Cleared Arcadion Cruiserweight in week 1, on Friday after release, after about 35 hours of total raid time
Futures Rewritten Highlights
Futures Rewritten Highlights
We progressed through Futures Rewritten in 18 raid nights, each roughly 4 hours long, or roughly 72 hours of overall wall-clock raid time. This includes instanced time, breaks, and occasional watch2gether or screenshare sessions to synchronously discuss strategy as a group. Futures Rewritten was quicker in progression than Omega. Summary stats:
415 pulls
18 raid nights, totaling about 72 hours of wall-clock raid time (includes out-of-instance and group discussion time)
Omega Highlights
Omega Highlights
We progressed through Omega in 34 raid nights, each roughly 4 hours long, or roughly 136 hours of overall wall-clock raid time. This includes instanced time, breaks, and occasional watch2gether or screenshare sessions to synchronously discuss strategy as a group. Continuing a trend, Omega took us longer to clear than Dragonsong, which in turn took longer to clear than Alexander. Summary stats:
974 pulls
34 raid nights, totaling about 136 hours of wall-clock raid time (includes out-of-instance and group discussion time)
Dragonsong Highlights
Dragonsong Highlights
We progressed through Dragonsong in 27 raid nights, each roughly 4 hours long, or roughly 108 hours of overall wall-clock raid time. This includes instanced time, breaks, and occasional watch2gether or screenshare sessions to synchronously discuss strategy as a group. Our Dragonsong prog was about one-fifth to one-quarter longer than our Alexander prog. Summary stats:
763 pulls (636 pulls from checkpoint)
27 raid nights, totaling about 108 hours of wall-clock raid time (includes out-of-instance and group discussion time)
Alexander Highlights
Alexander Highlights
We progressed through TEA with one replacement (our former Scholar, who was succeeded by a player with excellent overall FFXIV raiding experience, but less progression in TEA at the time than the rest of our group). Including the time spent finding a new SCH after our first left the static, and including watch2gether sessions for review and collaborative preparation, we cleared the fight in 22 raid days, accounting for roughly 88 hours of raid time. Summary stats:
648 pulls
22 raid nights, totaling around 88 hours of wall-clock raid time (includes out-of-instance, group discussion time, and both of our trial nights)
UWU Highlights
UWU Highlights
We progressed through UWU systematically and quickly. The chart below covers our entire UWU progression. Summary stats:
13 raid nights (each 4 hours or less; one night was affected by a developer-acknowledged server DDOS)
306 pulls
6 people entirely fresh, 2 already cleared; no churn or substitutes
Our healers had already cleared together. We augmented this significant advantage with intensive preparation:
Held two "fight seminars": one healer streamed a kill video to the rest of us, pausing frequently to narrate and point out strategic details and pitfalls, and with everyone freely discussing in discord together. This was very time-efficient.
Kept our mitigation planning spreadsheet consistently ahead of actual progression
Drilled Suppression in Coil Turn 4 as a group
Independently studied video, logs, and guides, as we do for any any established content
UCOB Highlights
UCOB Highlights
Here are our UCOB pull statistics (spreadsheet) for the 10 raid nights leading up to the clear. This is also embedded below. Summary:
On the first night, we started barely seeing Grand Octet, wiping to it twice
On the next eight nights, steady progression, usually ratcheting the prog high-water mark
On the tenth night, we cleared on the sixth pull, with good overall pull quality (five of six pulls saw at least adds)
Our group grew stronger and more consistent during UCOB progression. Conversely, early UCOB prog was more challenging for us; we entered with a completely fresh group that had never touched Ultimate, and sustained significant roster churn before stabilizing.
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