I’ll leave colorful imagery and descriptions of the action itself to those with floofier of hats than mine, but as the group’s number cruncher (why not leave that to the guy with the axe and the hundreds of concussions, right?) I’m happy to announce that after 4 hours and 22 minutes of fighting, we’ve successfully instigated a riot in the Deltascape by slaying Alte Roite. Our kill parse shows that it took us 9 minutes 37 seconds for the final pull. We cleared with WAR/DRK/SCH/AST/SAM/RDM/RDM/MNK.

In addition to the time component of clearing the fight, somewhere between 60-70 servings of raid food (of four delicious {probably?} flavors) were consumed. That’s about 2.5 million gil worth of food over three evenings! I unfortunately didn’t get any numbers as far as potions used, but I’m sure their cost will also continue to build up! Hopefully as more crafters and gatherers reach high levels, we can also subsidize infusions for the group alongside food.

For anyone curious how our progression went, I charted the final boss HP % for each of our 33 pulls. We mostly had solid forward progress, but I’d like to draw attention to the third-to-last pull on Monday. I zoomed in to help you see it, but that’s a 0.26% wipe. We hit enrage with only about 30k (out of 11 million) health remaining. Luckily we kept at it and got our clear on the evening before reset! Here’s hoping this week will go smoother so that we can face the catastrophic fight that is Catastrophe.