Identical to some other MMORPG, Remaining Fantasy 14 has raids. These eight-player boss fights are damaged up by issue, with regular raids being the variations you’ll be able to clear for loot and story and savage raids being those that drop best-in-slot gear and mounts.
Beneath, we clarify how regular raids work, the place to unlock each regular (and savage) raid in FFXIV, and the place to change loot for every raid sequence.
FFXIV regular raids and regular raid roulette, defined
Regular raids are eight-player boss fights that sometimes slot right into a wealthy storyline in every growth. There are sometimes 12 fights to every raid sequence launched over the span of a single growth; every of an growth’s three patches drops 4 fights.
Regular raids sometimes reward distinctive gear which are near best-in-slot on the time of launch, and the savage issue variations of those fights (often known as savage raids) do drop the best-in-slot gear for the time. Savage raids are sometimes seen as the end-game content material — with final raids being even tougher content material that solely the highest share of gamers full, however these are nearly a completely separate factor.
As soon as the gear turns into outdated a number of patches later, it’s successfully solely good for use as glamour.
Reasonably than getting armor items straight-up, you’ll get particular drops that may be traded in for gear. The traditional drops commerce on the following price:
- 2 lenses/helms for head armor
- 4 shafts/armor for physique armor
- 2 cranks/gauntlets for hand armor
- 4 springs/chausses for leg armor
- 2 pedals/greaves for toes armor
- 1 bolt/bangle per accent
The newest set of raids might have raid drop restrictions on them, which means you’ll be able to solely declare one drop from every combat in that set per week. Finishing the final combat in every tier for the savage raids additionally rewards a particular mount.
Unlocking a minimum of two raids from any sequence (besides “The Coils of Bahamut”) will unlock regular raid roulette, which offers you EXP and different goodies in change for queueing right into a random regular raid.
As ordinary with post-game content material, you’ll have to beat a bulk of or the entire base recreation or growth’s story to unlock it. For instance, to do the Omega raids in Stormblood, you’ll want to finish the primary state of affairs quest “Stormblood.”
The place to unlock the A Realm Reborn raids, ‘The Coils of Bahamut’
A Realm Reborn’s raid sequence is in contrast to some other raid in that there are 13 fights, known as “turns” and solely 4 of the fights can be found in savage.
To unlock the coils, speak to Urianger in The Waking Sands (Western Thanalan) to begin the search “Primal Awakening.”
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You’ll unlock the primary 5 turns, then the following 4 turns, after which the ultimate 4 turns abruptly. You possibly can simply full the final flip in every set to finish the search.
Notice that no one queues for the coils anymore, so to don’t queue for these fights within the common responsibility finder or else you may be caught there eternally ready for folks. Arrange a celebration finder group and contemplate throughout these fights unsynced to complete the quests.
That is additionally the one raid sequence to truly drop armor and tools, so that you don’t have to fret about buying and selling loot in to an NPC.
The place to unlock the Heavensward raids, ‘Alexander’
To unlock the Alexander raids, you’ll want to speak to Slowfix in Idyllshire to begin the search “Disarmed.”
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As you full the raids and the questline, you’ll proceed to unlock increasingly more fights, till you may have all 12 unlocked.
If you wish to unlock the savage fights for funsies after you clear the conventional raids, you’ll be able to speak to the Wandering Minstrel in Mor Dhona and do the quests “A Tune for Steam and Metal,” “A Chorus for the Undaunted,” and “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Retells Your Story.”
Loot from the Alexander raids could be traded to Sabina in Idyllshire or the Rowena’s Consultant NPC in Ishgard.
The place to unlock the Stormblood raids, ‘Omega’
To unlock the Omega raids, speak to Wedge in Rhalgr’s Attain to begin the search “The Hunt for Omega.”
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As with the opposite raid sequence, extra fights will unlock as you full the search, till you may have all 12 unlocked.
If you wish to unlock the savage fights after clearing the conventional fights, work together with the Magitek Terminal in Rhalgr’s Attain.
Loot from the Omega raids could be traded in to Gelfradus in Rhalgr’s Attain or the Rowena’s Consultant in Kugane.
The place to unlock the Shadowbringers raids, ‘Eden’
To unlock the Eden raids, speak to the “Anxious Crystarium Guard” NPC in The Crystarium to begin the search “Within the Center of Nowhere.”
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The fights will unlock one after the other as you full the quests.
The savage model of the Eden raids could be unlocked by speaking to Lewrey in Ahm Araeng.
Loot from the Eden raids could be traded in to a couple NPCs: Ghul Gul in Amh Araeng, Yhal Yal in Eulmore, or the Mowen’s Service provider within the Crystarium.
The place to unlock the Endwalker raids, ‘Pandaemonium’
To unlock the Pandaemonium raids, speak to Nemjiji in Outdated Sharlayan to begin the search “The Crystal from Past.”
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You’ll want to finish every raid and quest to unlock the following one, as a part of the questline.
The savage model of the Pandaemonium raids could be unlocked by speaking to Nemjiji in Labyrinthos.
Loot from the Pandaemonium raids could be traded in to Djole in Radz-at-Han or Mylenie in Labyrinthos.
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