So We Did The New Pandemonium Raids

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Final Fantasy XIV was 99% problem free with one weird bit causing a full break of the stream at 11:27 PM. There wasn't even an attempt by Twitch to hold the stream in place to avoid being split, which was just weird. Of course following the stream I did experience a hot minute of 25% to 75% packet loss at about 12:30 AM. Which is funny since I got yesterday afternoon from Xfinity saying the tech teams found a few issues leading to signal drops that the believe was resolved. We'll see how that lay out.

Anyway, lets talk about the new Pandaemonium raid... I found the 5th Circle and 8th Circle ones to be quite enjoyable, and straight forward. I didn't die much, and when I did, I felt it was a fair death because of how slow my reactions can be to AOEs and my struggles with noticing tells by the boss. Honestly, I do love it when things make sense without having to look up a damn guide to prepare for what I'm having to deal with.

However, I don't have many nice things to say about 6th Circle and 7th circle, as i found them to be extremely gimmicky. 7th Circle with the disappearing floor is just complete bullshit with knock off mechanics, big AOEs and not much room to maneuver.

I did try my first Savage Raid last night... and while I enjoy seeing Kalenal (twitch.tv/kalenal) play them, I found having the big indicators on the screen to indicate where to stand where to go really add to my problems of being able to notice AOEs, Buffs / Debuffs and attack tells. Still had fun with it.

Twitch Clips

• Clearing 5th Circle
• I went down the hole...
  
• End of 8th Circle 

Big thanks to the chat for kicking in 100 bits during the stream.!

Also thank you to Redneck_23 for resubscribing to the channel for the 20th month!

Shout out to Coleyrado for the raid following their stream over on twitch.tv/coleyrado! 

Welcome to Pan_Fryer who followed during last night's stream!

For the raid we dropped in on x9abenonymous9x who was playing The Evil Within over at twitch.tv/x9abenonymous9x!   

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #2, Hip Shape Focus Combo and Intermediate Combo #2 for 28 minutes.

Work yesterday was alright, we bounced from assignment to assignment, but I felt productive to some degree. 

Had a power outage hit at around 2 AM... notably because I was trying to make a little progress in Fallout 76 off-stream, and I got a few things done in the Recruitment Blues story arc... which seems to involve a lot of hoops to jump through, since the world of Fallout often involves trying to fulfill requirements of a dead society.

What did Sushi A say to Sushi B? "Wasa-B!"

You know why they called it "the dark ages?" There were too many knights.

Song of the Day: Wild World by Cat Stevens

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For tonight's stream our focus will be on Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r] with the goal being focused on clearing the final arcade runs for the remaining characters.

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!