“it’s such a crazy thing to witness… to hear, to feel, I mean think of all…” He unknowingly said it, lol

@Reycied

2 жыл бұрын

Such a good song. It makes you hear the song of creation's end, feel the sorrow at hope's demise, think, and find your way in the darkness. :3

@_nagazaki__

Жыл бұрын

Hydealyn 🤨🤨

@Meatallic

Жыл бұрын

She's watching :O

@Someone-dv7hw

Ай бұрын

Hear, Feel, Think. Watch, Learn, Remember. Damn my swiss cheese brain I ain't sure if "watch" is correct... it feels wrong. But I am pretty sure I saw it in game as well... except I can't remember if it was on my main or on my alt where I am replaying story rn.... AHHHH I know however that the chant that stuck in my head (listen learn remember) the first word is wrong... And google is not helping! Dammit. Anyone else know?

If bosses are fish, the minstrel's ballad version of bosses is like how big the fish was according to the fisherman, and it gets bigger with each telling

@cheesybutters5053

2 жыл бұрын

and then ultimates are like if the fisherman took the fish and made it into a blue whale

@SuaveNerd2000

Жыл бұрын

I'd say it's more like the dude who herd the story being told and decided to retell it to a larger group of people with an even more exaggerated story

"This boss just looks hard as hell, please tell me I'm right." Only *about 5% of players ever manage to clear this fight* (Ultima Weapon Ultimate, or UwU - on average across all servers), according to data from July 2021. Basically, what you witnessed happening in this video takes days, if not weeks of practice and insane dedication & coordination from all 8 players in the party.

@ovum

2 жыл бұрын

No. Not 5. The number has gone up to 12%, maybe 13% by now.

@Yroxcruk666

2 жыл бұрын

@@ovum According to FFXIV collect, 9.8% of the playerbase has the Ultimate Legend title, and while there is a good amount of players that have gotten clears with multiple characters of their own, its still a decent amount. Worth pointing out, 7.3% has the Perfect Legend title and 6.4% has The Legend title.

@ovum

2 жыл бұрын

@@Yroxcruk666 The 10 to 12% came from fflogs

@aerophage

2 жыл бұрын

@@ovum That's 10-12% of players registered on FFLogs then. There are lots of players who don't use ACT and aren't registered on FFLogs.

@ovum

2 жыл бұрын

@@aerophage ... But are recorded to FFLogs regardless; Take into account that being "in" FFlogs often times isn't even a voluntary opt-in and a per-player thing to be in it. One example being Yoshi-P's PLL account (Yoshi'p Sampo) is recorded and logged too.

Two new Endwalker songs that are amazing: FF14 Endwalker - "Flow" Band version FF14 Endwalker - "Close the Distance" Vocal version

@JetBalrog

2 жыл бұрын

YES, 100%, I completely agree!

@TGCidolfus0830

2 жыл бұрын

I will be say to be careful with "close the distance" videos atm, as the song with many videos are heavy with spoiler content and the comments will turn salty about that quick..... but that song alone made me tear up with how many emotions are attached to it

@Varizen87

2 жыл бұрын

Flow is really a surprise hit.

@altansipdrae2759

2 жыл бұрын

@@TGCidolfus0830 it's almost a month past release, after a month it's not spoiler anymore

@TGCidolfus0830

2 жыл бұрын

@@altansipdrae2759 considering the 1st week or so most couldn't play with que times being 2-3 hours just to be able to log in... I have a large FC with several members still not done with MSQ, as they've really only has a week... Remember "official" release date was Dec 7th, and the 1st week was a wash for most people.... and its December 26th at the time of writing this comment... so yeah I would still consider is a spoiler

At 26:58 Hear, Feel, Think. This had me laughing so much. 😂 you said these words in passing but they're more appropriate than you could imagine. A major character in the game says these exact words many times.

@EmpyreanRagnarok

2 жыл бұрын

"Hear, Feel, Think" and "For those we have lost, for those we can yet save" are the two most important phrases in this entire arc of the FFXIV story.

@afiqthearif

2 жыл бұрын

He said the thing!

@TheHazelnoot

2 жыл бұрын

@@EmpyreanRagnarok I'd argue "A smile better suits a hero" is pretty high up there too in terms of significance

@UrbanCohort

2 жыл бұрын

And "Tomorrow is never promised."

Man, get ready for an absolute deluge of new FFXIV requests. Endwalker proved that Soken hasn't and likely won't peak for a very long time. And I'll start it strong with Flow - (Band Version)

@guiltygamerxrd

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the FFXIV crowd probably went relatively quiet for a few weeks while they worked their way through the expansion. They're about to request like 20 songs from the expansion now lol. Also yes, Flow - (Band Version) is fantastic.

@FF-tp7qs

2 жыл бұрын

There's this one piano theme that appears in cutscenes in Endwalker that makes me tear up every time

@FF_Fanatic

2 жыл бұрын

@@FF-tp7qs End-of-msq spoilers, but I guarantee it's this one kzread.info/dash/bejne/h3qTutStgNXaksY.html

@FF-tp7qs

2 жыл бұрын

@@FF_Fanatic yes 😭😭😭

@KLGChaos

2 жыл бұрын

Oh god... there are so many good pieces in this. Flow (both band and and regular), Close in the Distance, Your Answer, the piano remix of Answers, Endcaller... and we haven't even gotten all the raid/patch music yet.

For clarity's sake, "The Minstrel's Ballad" and other flowery titles ahead of stuff like that is referring to difficulty level. In-game, there's a bard that you tell about your adventures and he makes songs based on them while admitting to "embellishing" details, and that's how you unlock the harder versions of endgame stuff. "The Weapon's Refrain" takes several fights and combines them into a single long endurance fight, something that is done again several points, like the Unending Coil of Bahamut. It's kind of a neat way to reuse old content, cranking up the difficulty to be in line with later content, giving a real test to see how well you remember older fights. That said, there's nothing story related in these fights, it's all primarily for bragging rights.

it is for sure one of the hardest end game fights.

"is this fight hard?" its like walking a tightrope with one leg, blind, for 20 minutes in which every step can be death and you have to start over again

@altansipdrae2759

2 жыл бұрын

UwU is super easy people just fear the word ultimate

@akkiko

2 жыл бұрын

@@altansipdrae2759 you say that but man am I tired of hearing Garuda's theme ;x;

@wissamgharmoui114

2 жыл бұрын

@@altansipdrae2759 lmao shut up

@Yroxcruk666

2 жыл бұрын

@@altansipdrae2759 Lmao no, its the easiest of the ultimates, yea definitely, but is still the third hardest fight of the game, shut up

@CineGoodog

2 жыл бұрын

@@altansipdrae2759 There is always one neckbeard to say "Oh it is sooo easy". You don't know what easy means. Yeah, it is not that hard and anyone can complete it if they put enough effort but downplaying the fight will not make people see you as a good player, just a dumass.

Your impressions about these themes are spot-on accurate. This is an Ultimate-Level fight. These are special fights that have 4 distinct phases, AND you must do all of them without wiping even once. It can take a group several days, even weeks, to clear an Ultimate. These battle also have a strict gear level cap. This fight has a Item Level sync of around 355, and cannot be run unsynced. This is also 100% optional content. There are no major rewards for clearing it aside from getting a glowy weapon glamour and a title for your character.

My very first ultimate fight! Ultimates in FFXIV are the hardest content available and are challenged purely for bragging rights and not for gear. They give you a unique title and a flashy glowing weapon for completing them. They also feature a permanent sync which forces your level and gear-score down to the intended level of the Ultimate so that no matter how geared you get, you can never truly cheese the fight. These fights are extremely long (16-18 minutes) and have no checkpoint, meaning if you wipe all the way at the end you have to go back to the beginning. There are currently 3 of these Ultimate fights (soon to be 4! super excited for Dragonsong!) and this was the second to be released and is currently considered to be the easiest of the three. There are many reasons for why it's the easiest that I won't go in to but at the end of the day it is still an Ultimate and is still very difficult. This fight took almost 8 months for me to clear with me jumping from raid group to raid group until eventually I found a group good enough to clear and I legit cried when we actually did.

Out of all of your videos, I love coming back to this one for some reason. Such a fun combo of songs

The thing about this song is that the main boss, the Ultima Weapon, eats those previous Primal bosses to power up so for this Ultimate fight the music goes through remixes of those Primal themes before transitioning into Ultima Weapon's theme itself. It's super cool. I think when you noted that you heard something in Titan before it was from the Eden raid version you reacted to.

Alright, this will be my attempt to clarify all the versions of the Ultima fight songs in this game. I wont include songs that use small sections as a motif because I would be here all night. Hopefully this helps... more than likely it will confuse things even more. Potential Endwalker spoilers below the asterisk line. Ultima Weapon was the final boss trial of FFXIV Realm Reborn. It is a 2 phase fight with different music for both phases. Phase one is titled 'The Makers Ruin', and phase 2 is, appropriately enough, 'Ultima'. This is not what we just listened to. FFXIV releases harder versions of boss fights for additional challenge as the game continues. The in-game justification for this is that a wandering minstrel hears your tale and... embellishes it a bit. So 'Minstrel's Ballad: Ultima's Bane' is just a hard mode version of Ultima, with the same song. 'Minstrels Ballad: The Weapon's Refrain' is, as you just saw, a whole nother beast. This is a super-hard boss rush of all the early Trial bosses through Ultima (Garuda, Ifrit, Titan), with crazy visuals and new musical arrangements for each one. This is one of the 'Ultimate' category of boss fights. But wait, there's more! A rock arrangement of 'Ultima' that I think is called 'The Sorrow of Werlyt' plays during the Ruby, Saphire, and Emerald Weapon trials. A melancholy arrangement of 'The Makers Ruin' is used as Ardbert's theme in the Shadowbringers expansion and is titled 'More Than Truth.' A medley that includes 'The Makers Ruin' is used for the Omega's battle music, titled 'Heartless.' A different medley that includes 'The Maker's Ruin' is the Omega Alphascape 4.0 boss music, titled 'From The heavens.' ****************** ENDWALKER SPOILERS ****************** The (incredible) Endwalker expansion final boss, also called Endsinger or The Final Day, is a 2 phase fight with incredible new medley arrangements that include both of these songs. Phase 1 includes Ultima, Phase 2 includes The Makers Ruin *** Hilariously, while you've reacted to a lot of these, I don't think you've actually reacted to the original arrangements of Ultima and Maker's Ruin yet.

@DeeFourCee

2 жыл бұрын

It’s also lore accurate as the tell the minstrel our tales and he embellishes them resulting in the extreme version. It’s a fun and whimsical means to tie it into the world. That’s one of the best parts of FF. everything has a place in the world

@coolyeh1017

2 жыл бұрын

@@DeeFourCee sometimes I take it that we, the character, embellish our stories to make fights seem grander. The minstrel just embellishes them even more creating these hard versions of these fights.

@Evnyofdeath

2 жыл бұрын

Makers Ruin isnt Ultimas theme. It's the WoLs. It also plays in the final boss of Aetherochemical, and is remixed as part kf the final boss of Endwalker

@captaintweet4281

2 жыл бұрын

This guy doesn't have enough upvotes.

@DeeFourCee

2 жыл бұрын

@@coolyeh1017 how do we embellish fights. We are literally living them? If anything, due to the limitations of the game…we probably downplay them

In FFXIV, the hardest content in the game is completely optional and is strictly for bragging rights only. The fight here is Ultima Weapon Ultimate (UWU), a level 70 (the current cap is 90) ultimate fight. There are currently 3 of these types of fights at varying levels with a 4th being released soon, but one thing is consistent: you are level and gear synced to whatever level the ultimate fight is. So no matter how much endgame gear you have, you're still capped at what they want you to be in order to get the full experience at the hardest possible difficulty.

@arcadeashdown3579

2 жыл бұрын

I only am aware of UWU and TEA, what's the third?

@FunnyGinMan

2 жыл бұрын

@@arcadeashdown3579 The Unending Coil of Bahamut (UCOB)

@WeightedTiggsCube

2 жыл бұрын

@@arcadeashdown3579 UCOB!

"is this fight hard? tell me I'm right" this fight traumatized me so hard I start wanting to cry every time I hear his theme, great fight, titan is in fact an ass, safe zones are tiny and very pin point precise on all phases, if one person is a step out of line they can wipe the whole group and you will need to start the 16min fight from the beginning... and this is considered the easiest of the current 3 ultimates with a 4th one being added soon (there is this one, Unending Coils of Bahamut, The Epic of Alexander and the next one is going to be Dragonsong Ultimate) Edit: another cool fact is because all these fights are on strict timers the music can actually be a huge aid as certain sections of the songs will line up perfectly with important mechanics.

@OwlNightwind

2 жыл бұрын

Oh tell me about it. I actually prefer ucob over that hell.

@ActionAbe1

2 жыл бұрын

@@OwlNightwind really? uwu isnt THAT hard. its barely harder then E8S. and not even close to ucob or tea

@ris8961

2 жыл бұрын

lol. . it's not that hard. . as much as I love the fight and music. . it's abit boring and basic imo. . ucob and tea are harder. living liquid from tea is harder than all the mechanics in uwu. .

@abbysol5812

2 жыл бұрын

@@ris8961 I agree the others where harder no doubt, but my first time in was with a full fresh group, no one knew what they where doing and this was all our first ultimate, it is much easier on farm but that by no means makes it an easy fight and getting it done, even now is quite the accomplishment and no one should downplay that for people.

@BlueSama97

2 жыл бұрын

@@abbysol5812 you're absolutely correct, some parts of this fight are an absolute nightmare for a lot of people, especially if they went in blind, & Titan Jail's still make me nervous to this day lmao

26:59 "To hear, to feel, and think..." sounds familiar.

Fun things: You've heard Titan's (Under the Weight) and Garuda's (Fallen Angel) themes. Ifrit was new, but those versions were the Primal's versions which were recorded for that fight. Ultima's theme is reused in some other tracks you should check out which are remixes of the Original Ultima... so there's 4 versions... Ultima (original), Ultima (Choir/Primas) which you 've heard, Ultima (Ruby/Emerald/Sapphire Version) and Ultima (The Sky Deck, Diamond Weapon's version). They all have the same lyrics which is basically "The Heart of Sabik" chanted over and over. However, the misheard lyrics players like to use are "Big Fat Tacos" Oh. And all versions here are arranged by Soken, though Ifrit's theme, Primal Fury, was ORIGINALLY composed for 1.0 by Uematsu.

@knuckles543

2 жыл бұрын

Dread it, run from it, Taco’s arrive all the same…..

@windsgrace688

2 жыл бұрын

As far as I know, he has not reacted to Under the Weight (until now) but he has reacted to Landslide which is its remix from Shadowbringers.

@Varizen87

2 жыл бұрын

@@windsgrace688 You're right. I knew he did SOMETHING Titan, but it was Landslide, the Eden Normal version. The Savage Version plays Under The Weight The Primals Version for the last phase which wasn't in the video he watched.

@chrisleverne

2 жыл бұрын

to expand a little on this: Final Fantasy has a long running history of re-imagining and re-using the same enemies, bosses, characters and names. Ultima (Weapon) is one of these and can be found as a final boss (hence the name) or optional boss in MANY games of the franchise. In FFXIV it is the final boss of the original base game "A Realm Reborn". The very first "final boss" the MMO had before any updates, expansions or whatnot. It also has a major role and connection to music you've listened to because of the story. It basically takes over the power of Garuda, Titan, Ifrit and makes it its own. You've listened to Titan and Garuda already, so you'd recognise those melodies, Ifrit is the another boss fight you have very early on in FFXIV and is in fact the first real "BOSS fight" (which is called a "Trial" in the game). The Weapon's Refrain - as others mentioned - is the "ultimate" version of that boss. Think Perfect Cell or maybe Boo from DBZ as a comparison. And because of that it incorporates those other boss themes, like it took their power and some of their visual features :) Now, for the other renditions ... in short (and simplified because FFXIV lore gets complicated) those who "made" the Ultima Weapon made more than one and tried to improve them over time. "The Black Wolf Strikes again" does actually come from one of these Ultimate Weapons and so do other renditions of "Ultima" as a song.

UWU! Anyone else have rage inducing PTSD flashbacks at the sound of that guitar riff? No one's really ready for their first ultimate

Here thanks to KZread algorithm and as an avid lover of FFXIV and classical music, it was such a treat to see you take these songs in. Looking forward to digging into your channel and seeing more reactions now!

This fight, and series of music, is a fight culmination of the entire "A Realm Reborn"'s bosses. But cranked up to about 15/10. The fight is super hard, and all the original songs for these bosses are remixed. The Primals (Soken's band) remixes of them. This is an optional superboss basically. You have heard Garuda(fallen angel), ifrit (primal judgement) and titan's theme(under the weight) already in previous videos yes.

@RadicalRaspberry2

2 жыл бұрын

just remember this is the easiest of the ultimate raids too!

Theme playing in the Ultimate fight is the orchestral version, I would recommend you listen original and "Scions and Sinners" version. ( Video with original "FFXIV OST - Ultima (HD reupload)")

Ultimate fights encapsulate an entire story's worth of fights and The Weapon's Refrain (commonly called UWU for Ultima Weapon Ultimate) is the story of ARR told to massively blown out proportions by a bard who loves to tell our stories to his crowds. They are one of, if not the hardest, pieces of content that FFXIV has to offer. The music in them is generally rather uniform where you get music pertaining to whatever phase of the fight you're in. However, every ultimate fight (except UCOB but that gets a pass cuz it was the first one) ends with an orchestral version of a theme to solidify the ending of something truly grueling and tough. I recommend watching The Epic of Alexander next (or TEA for short) or Dragonsong's Reprise (also DSR for short) They have absolute masterpieces of music tied to them and fill you with massive amounts of adrenaline everytime you reach the final stretch

For the titan part, you did listen to a remix of this song before, landslide

Under the Weight vocalist is their head of localization Koji Fox and ofcourse..Soken. at this year fanfest festival they even has their producer&composer Naoki Yoshida sing together live

There are a lot of songs in FF14 that many people will mishear lyrics to, and the Ultima theme is one of the most well known. So well know that it is now a meme. After the initial instrumentational intro, the choir will come in singing "Beat, the Heart of Sabik," which people will mishear as either "Big Fat Tacos," or what I hear "Beef Soft Tacos." Congratulations! You will think about tacos anytime this song gets played! Have a taco day... I mean good day.

@trvorgaming5376

2 жыл бұрын

I always hear Beef soft tacos, some beef soft tacos, some beef soft tacos.... WITH BEAAANNNS! (Especially The Primals version)

This is the hardest tier of fight in the entire game, Ultimate Trials. they are essentially a boss rush within the span of an hour with no breaks inbetween. If you all die, you get sent back to the start. Also filled with a boatload of new mechanics to learn and solve within the fight. It's essentially a large puzzle fight that you interact with via your character and working with others.

@ElywinCarrinithshinyhunting

2 жыл бұрын

To further this, it's basically a culmination of "What if" scenarios conglomerated into a single encounter

As I understand it, the song in the Ultima phase is written by Nobuo Uematsu, the original composer of the earlier final fantasy soundtracks.

I don't think you've quite heard the titan section theme before (or at least the channel search didn't turn that up), so the reason the Titan section sound familiar may be because of _Landslide:_ It's the theme of "Eden Titan", sort of a remix of the original Titan boss (seen here, as a visiting actor in this special gauntlet fight), and fittingly, the theme is a sort of remix of _Under the Weight,_ the original Titan's theme (which you hear here).

Also the Titan song sounds familiar because of Heritor of the Crag. Heritor of the Crag was a remix of the song that Titan's section was a mix of. The Heritor of the Crag fight was based on your memories of Titan from years prior given form, so Garuda, Ramuh, Titan, and Ifrit all got remixes both in mechanics and music

@temporalwolf7054

2 жыл бұрын

Unrelated, but as awesome as Ultima's theme (and the Weapon theme in general) is, I cannot take it seriously because I just hear the chanting as "A SOFT BEEF TACO, A SOFT BEEF TACO" over and over and I giggle to myself every time.

21:31 - that's cause it is. It was implemented into the last phase of Weapon's Refrain when it was added as a high-end trial to the game.

If you liked the Ultima compilation, look into the 'Epic of Alexander'. It's another ultimate tier fight that goes through 4 different songs similar to this one, and you've actually heard the original version of the first two songs in the Epic of Alexander, those being Locus and Metal: Brute Justice mode. If you want to hear the original versions of the Epic of Alexander's latter two songs first, they're called 'Moebius' and 'Rise'. Great video and I love what you do here on the channel!

I heard this song like everyday for WEEKS but I still love it haha. What a great memory

The great thing about the Ultima phase of the track is that while the song has triumphant moments, if you look up the lyrics, you'll see that the choir is actually singing against you. The main lyrics you keep hearing are "Beat, the Heart of Sabik, the Heart of Sabik". The Heart of Sabik is what powers the Ultima Weapon, and so they're essentially singing it on to motivate it to destroy you. It's quite amazing. Also: "I hope this fight is hard" Yes...it is quite hard. This fight is one of 3 (soon to be 4) fights in the game that are labeled an Ultimate fight, which are the hardest content in the game. They always have a gauntlet of bosses that you fought in the story already (but were much easier in the story), and last from 16-18 minutes. They pretty much require that all 8 players know exactly what to do and when, or else the whole group gets killed and you start back at the very beginning of the fight that you see at 1:45. And just to give an idea how hard it is, this specific fight you saw, The Weapon's Refrain (Ultimate) took our group roughly 2 and a half months to clear it. And here's the real kicker: This is the easiest of the 3 Ultimates. It's honestly less about mechanical skill and more about mental perseverance. There are so many moving parts to the fight that you can't just bash your head against it and have good reflexes to clear. It's more about problem solving skills. However if you can clear it, you get some amazing looking weapons as a reward. Here is a great sword you can get from clearing the fight you watched: giant.gfycat.com/ThirdConsiderateDairycow.webm

One of the best things about the FF14 soundtrack is that they do variations, remixes, and medleys of songs so you can get a completely different vibe from an old familiar track that you're hearing in a new way. They basically run alot of the music through a Möbius strip and you get done listening with a feeling of "I never realized this song could feel *this* way." Makes even the old chestnuts from A Realm Reborn (FF 14 base game) feel fresh.

my favorite mix of this song is still the primals version that plays for the ruby weapon series. a sick rock version of ultima.

So the Garuda song you did before was the original one, from her individual fight. What you are listening to here is more like a boss run - a bunch of different bosses from the game in one fight one after the other. The song for this fight takes the original themes from all the original fights and puts them together (slightly remixed). This entire sequence is really hard. You have to do it all in 1 sitting - Garuda, then Ifrit, Titan, and finally Ultima Weapon, all without wiping. It can take around 15-20 minutes just for the fight and is very mechanically intensive. You get a title and a badass weapon for completing it though.

Ultima Weapon Ultimate (UWU) is one of my favorite fights in the game because of the transitions you get with the music. You are mostly correct in the sense that you do this fight after you hit the max level in the game but not necessarily as part of completing the story of the game. These fights (Unending Coil of Bahamut, The Epic of Alexander, The Weapon's Refrain Ultima) are a set of fights that are the hardest in the game and are a challenge for those who want to test themselves. If I remember correctly, you've heard Titan's theme before. Probably 2 months ago at this point.

As someone who has never touched a guitar, I also rarely paying attention to its parts and techniques, so I really like it how you can shift my attention to those and help me experience the songs in a new way :D You have heard a remix of Titan before - "Landslide". This rendition is more similar to "Under the Weight", the original Titan theme :D Wow, I think I died a bit at the start of Ultima right after the choir introduction. I've always loved that theme but have NEVER heard this version before! So I also never knew there was an orchestra version to this, thank you so much! I do love the live rendition more though, as it's closer to the original, while the one in the Ultimate fight is a slight remix, but that was just beautiful ♥

What I love most about songs like Titans, and a lot of the Alexander raid music, is it's written like the author of the song was one of the beastmen who summoned the primal in the game.

So crucially these are the 'From Astral to Umbral' versions of Fallen Angel, Primal Judgment, and Under the Weight that were done for an arranged album.

@Salt_Mage

2 жыл бұрын

And the Orchestral version from the, well, Orchestral arrangement.

This boss is Ultima Weapon Ultimate, Ultima specifically has Hard difficulty ( fought in main story quest ); Extreme difficulty ( fought in the weapon's refrain ) Ultimate ( the ultimate difficulty in the weapon's refrain ) Every time you fight a boss, and the difficulty increases, the attacks also get more complicated and intense, so boss difficulty isnt just damage and HP

This Ultima fight (The Weapon's Refrain (Ultimate) - UWU for short), is from a series of fights that are "reimagined, harder" version of the all of originals, a gauntlet of the associated bosses with the final boss. Designed for people who want a challenge, only cosmetic weapons and titles are unlocked

My favorite part about these versions is that you can hear the traits of the next phase sprinkled in to make the transition smoother.

So to clear up the garuda part it is a remix of the original garuda theme meant for the "ultimate" difficulty I believe. While I have played plenty of ffxiv I havent touched those missions much

I still want to hear FFXIV - Titania theme. I hope people have requested that ;)

Yeah finally, probably my favorite song from this game. Glad you loved it. I'd really love to see you react to Divinity Original Sin 2 now, starting with "Mead, Gold and Blood". I'm sure you will like this game's OST. It's fantastic.

WITNESS... WITNESS... WITNESS

That little interlude theme in the transition from Titan to the Ultimate Weapon has been used extensively in Endwalker. I never realized playing it that it was from this ultimate fight.

This boss fight is marathon consisting of a harder mode of 4 previous bosses. The music is a remix of the 4 bosses featured in this fight. Unfortunately, Jesse never heard the original Ultima theme. Jesse probably would have like this even more if he felt the nostalgia of the original Ultima theme on top of the orchestral masterfulness!

What you said about Morello is accurate--Rage Against the Machine is one of Soken's favorite bands and inspirations. Well spotted!

Yooo excited for this one! Btw I spent the month of November trying to clear this fight haha. Which I did. But holy hell it was pain xD

What an amazing marathon! Glad you enjoyed it.

So UWU (Ultima Weapon Ultimate), as it's called, is one of the few absolute hardest fights in FFXIV. so far there's only 3, and what they've done is they've taken old ARR/HW fights and put a few of them into one long (almost 20 minutes usually), brutally difficult medley. The Primals band recorded new versions of all these bosses themes as well, so that might be why you recognized them but they were still different. If you want another medley of ff music like this one, the whole of the music in The Epic of Alexander (Ultimate) is a great set.

You should take a look at one of the new songs from the Endwalker expansion called Close in the Distance. Imo - one of the best compositions they have released, both instrumentally and lyrically. The whole piece is just so charged with emotion and I would love be to hear you break it down

This boss is absolutely hard. It is one of the few "ultimate" fights in the game, a title given to fights that are meant o be obscenely difficult. Ultima Weapon Ultimate (UWU) is the 2nd one to release of the three we have right now.

The fight (Ultima Weapon: Ultimate... aka UWU) is canonically just a reimagining of the actual fight from the story based on a wandering bard's exaggerated retelling of the tale and your own character's imagination and imperfect memory of the encounter. Which is the case for a number of other fights (which is where the Minstrel's Ballad thing you mentioned comes in). So it's entirely optional since it has no bearing on anything in the story, and everything's cranked up to 11 in terms of both coolness and difficulty.

The game is amazing trust me, both in gameplay and especially story, the boss fights truly feel like it, like u are dealing with something massive and dangerous that needs to be stopped, so the music does reflect that alot.

"what is going on?" everyone whos done that extreme

This is some of the hardest content in the game - super extra hard extreme boss fights. This particular one is against The Ultima Weapon. And yes, that *is* him eating the three bosses that just gave you such a hard time not moments earlier to give himself some powerups.

"is this fight hard" yes... i remember spending like a year trying to clear this 3 times a week, 2 hrs each session...that titan part alonetook us like 10 months i swear. when you clear it you'd be flexing the awesome weapon and the title you get from it too. The last part especially is super gripping because at the last few percentage of the boss hp, he starts casting this ultimate attack that will wipe the entire party when he's finished and while it's going on, he starts trapping your party member one by one, starting from tank > healer > dps. So you're just furiously trying to kill the boss and the trapped party members are just sucking their thumb praying that rest of the members can finish him off. Oh the screams that we screamed when we did clear......

Ifrit theme always reminded me of Bowser when I was progging this raid.

This fight is so hard that those who attempted it were initially getting ptsd flashbacks in endwalker raids because one of the classes got the ability to summon garuda, titan and ifrit in the same way this boss does. More than one party member told me i made them panic for a moment dropping titan into the field midfight.

Hey Jesse! Just recently came across your channel. I'm sure you've already had this explained to you, but Weapon's Refrain's first two phases are (Spoilers incoming below, don't read further if you're not caught up on A Realm Reborn unless you're not bothered by spoilers and just want some mild context) -- -- Bosses you fight on their own and as part of the story get consumed by Ultima. The reason why you thought you heard the themes before are because you did --- They had their unique themes remixed for the Ultimate fight that uses them, and the third part to the first two bosses (The fire one) gets mixed in with Ultima as opposed to getting his own phase... Probably because his theme is way less iconic. I don't know the actual reason, but you're not crazy, they did re-use Garuda and Titan's themes as part of the Ultima fight.

ok so, the Weapon's Refrain is the name of this particular fight, also known as Ultima Weapon Ultimate or UwU for short XD Ultimates are the 3 hardest, longest fights in the game right now and they all reward you with a "Legend" title as well as weapons with unique glowing textures depending on the fight. The OST uses different versions of the primals' themes (Garuda, Titan and Ifrit) as well as a remix of Maker's Ruin and Ultima, both of which are themes of Ultima itself. That's why this can get confusing XD

Loved this fight, loved the music and this version of the song is the best imo

For ultima songs... if you hear "big fat tacos" you will never unhear it

18:23 they are flexing the weapons they got from killing the boss. The called "ultimate" fights are a mixing of boss fights so they are very hard to do, and thats why the music is a mix of the different boss themes inside the fight :)

The amount of tension you feel going from the primals into Ultima for the first time is unreal. The primals have you rocking out the whole time and then the mood suddenly drops and it gets so serious and threatening, and then you get into post-Predation and it explodes in triumph. I love UCoB and TEA for all they're worth, and certainly UWU is easier, but man if they didn't nail that swell of determination for Ultima.

18:22 Those blue shine weapons are the reward for beating the fight. Ultimate fights are the hardest in the game and the weapons you get from them are quite prestigious. So they are worth flexing with :D

Not sure if anyone mentioned but it’s part of the story in arr as to why gaurdas theme is in the ultima music

So, basically what’s happened here, is you’ve been duped into watching the entirety of one of FFXIVs Ultimate fights, and listened to 4 songs in the process that are more hardcore versions of the same songs that play elsewhere in the game. There is no song called “the weapon’s refrain” that is just the name of the fight. Heck the first 3 songs are ripped right from the album “From Astral to Umbral” I’m not sayin’ it’s a bad thing you got duped into watchin’ this, cause the music is great regardless, but do consider picking up XIV for yourself once the hype for Endwalker dies down enough that SQEX decides they can sell it again

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So since he's been duped into listening to one ultimate we might as well get him to listen to the others XD

BIG FAT TACOS, BIG FAT TACOS, BIG FAT TACOS SO BIIIIIIIIGG

Ahh I waited for months for this video!

You're going to get a shit ton of requests for FFXIV: Endwalker songs now that it's out. I'm looking forward to it! :)

There are a few levels of difficulty that fights in FFXIV can be designated. At the top of these are Ultimate fights, which there are currently only three of, and they can definitely be considered the toughest bosses in the game. The weapon's refrain is one of those three fights. (Mind you, I say this as someone who's never gotten to try an Ultimate fight myself yet)

someone needs to get him on that Epic of Alexander kick xD

can never go wrong with big fat tacos

If you loved the Ultima phase of this fight, there's a metal version played by the Primals, the same way Metal:Brute Justice had. I'm pitching that as a request. Ultima, Band Ver.

You've heard the oroginals probably but the ultimates are made up of the little mini bosses of that expansion with remixes of their songs and then the big guy (ultima)

You're right... That boss is hard as hell.

You have reacted to Garuda's theme ("Fallen Angel") before but while Titan's theme may sound familiar, as far as I know, you've only reacted to the remixed version from a later expansion called "Landslide". The original song is called "Under the Weight" and while it's close to what you heard in this Ultima fight, I still prefer the original. Also, fun fact: This fight against Ultima is the third (and probably final) fight you can have against it. The first is part of the main story, the second is an optional Extreme trial, and this was the Ultimate version, a fight so difficult the majority of the playerbase wouldn't even bother attempting.

In the Titan part, you might have been remembering that "Metal" theme from the Series of mechs bosses

You can't go wrong with any FF XIV music

To get a bit of clarity into the chaos. Ff14 re-released after flopping hard in 2013, the last story dungeon had Ultima as the final boss. Few months later we got an optional harder version of it. Later the music of Ultima, Titan, Ifrit and Garuda got orchestrion remixes. In the Stormblood expansion 2017-2019 we got an optional ultimate difficulty multiphase fight of Ultima where the orchestrion version of Garuda, Ifrit, Titan and Ultima play. While I like the orchestrion version, I personally prefer the original version you haven't heard yet.

These particular fights, the Minstrel's Ballad ones, are totally optional. They're hard as hell and take a while to learn the dance. If you can get them down though, you get a sexy weapon. It may or may not be better than what you can get from other fights. It's mostly for aesthetic appeal and bragging rights. Some weapons from some of the Ultimates are sexy as hell.

Oh man! I can't wait til he does this for TEA. (Alexander ultimate)

So amazing!

listening to this after just getting to Beyonds Limits phase the music makes me push on, but when Titans themes drops its great..well its better whenever i hear ultima soo soon hopefully after 6.3?? XD

This one is hard to explain, but worth it: The Ultima Weapon is basically an ancient weapon designed to eat "Primals" for breakfast, and get stronger in the process. This gets confusing because the story and bossfight itself is a fan favourite. First we had in in FF14 1.0, then at the end of FF14 2.0 A Realm Reborn, and later down the line in the form of a WAY harder fight to basically break players. Each version of this fight has slightly varied soundtracks, plus the sound of three Primals that where used to empower the Ultima Weapon. From the players perspective this is even more impactful, because the lead up to the fight is crazy: Over the course of your adventure you encounter and defeat those Primals, then the big bad comes around and lets the Ultima Weapon eat them to use the ultimate magic spell "Ultima". This is awesome because that spell results in a huge f-off explosion leveling the whole area. You only survive thanks to literal plotarmor. But even that divine armor breaks after getting nuked with magic, once. The hero can't die? Wrong! This might be the end of the rod! Here you are, no divine protection left, with a fully powered up ULTIMA WEAPON before you: good luck, you might need it. And this was the tl;dr short version. For example the name "something-Ultima weapon" is commonly used for super hard hidden bosses in final fantasy games. A FF fan that encounter any kind of "Ultima Weapon" goes full "OH shit, here we go again"... and we love it. FF14 for example has a whole bunch of them, Diamand- and Ruby-Weapon come to mind, and ofc the whole series of OH F*** Omega-Weapons. xD

Watching this makes me want to recommend the other weapons, especially the emerald weapon, i don't know the exact title of the songs but it should be an easy search if you were to type ffxiv ruby/emerald/diamond weapon ost

You gotta watch The Epic of Alexander its way too good

Considering half of the FFXIV playerbase has never heard or even know about the Ultima Weapon (Ultimate) fight and remixes, a lot of Soken's work gets brushed under the rug. There's a lot of love and care in this game that should be given more attention by players and non players alike.

Imagine you and seven of your best friends are recording a music video for a song. If you don't play the right notes and perform the right choreography, you start the recording over. Now imagine that you don't have access to the music that you'll be playing until you're on stage, and you don't know the choreography until someone gives you a cue. There are several cues that you might get, and you only have a couple seconds to react. For example, the lighting might go out on part of the stage. If you're ever not standing in the lights, then your mic is unplugged for a few seconds. Additionally, a spotlight might shine on you, and if other band members are *in* the spotlight, their mics are unplugged for a few seconds. If all the mics get unplugged, you start the recording over. Now imagine that each individual has a separate cue. Everyone must be aware of what cues the other band members are getting to avoid each others spotlights while standing in the lit up areas. In order to complete the recording, the band as a group must have a 99% accuracy on their *recorded* notes. This fight is like putting four 3-5 minute recordings as described above back to back, and if you fail to get 99% accuracy on any of them, you have to restart from the first song. You only have 2 hours to record, otherwise you have to erase the tape and start over.

**SPOILERS** Ultima . . . Is a mechsuit that leeched the powers of three primals: Ifrit, Titan, and Garuda. So the different phrases of the song also correspond to previous fights against those three primals. 😁

This is an example of an Ultimate fight, which is a remix of other fights and not necessary to complete the game. In fact, it’s so exceedingly difficult that only about 5% of all players will even attempt one, and about 1% will clear one There are two other Ultimate fights at the moment with one more on the way.

Bow down overdweller!! Bow down overdweller!! Bow down overdweller!! Titan!!

I mean now you have to listen to "The Epic of Alexander"

Here’s the thing about ultimate fights no one I saw explain. You cannot afford mistakes. If you get hit by one attack or fail a single mechanic you lose instantly. It’s a wipe and you start at the beginning. These fights have to be done in 12-16 minutes with little break. No check points.

Took my group about 2 months of working on this fight 2-3 times per week for 2ish hours each of those days over a span of 2 months to clear this fight...and it's considered the "easiest" of the ultimate fights in FFXIV I've also cleared one of the other ultimates, The Epic of Alexander (TEA), and if you enjoyed some of the Alexander tracks a few weeks/months ago...do yourself a favor and check out the TEA soundtrack. The fight's literally choreographed to parts of the music and it's nothing short of glorious...and that's before the final phase transition :)