Lia Fills a 24-Player Group and Clears Two Final Fantasy XIV Raids at Minimum Item Level

PHASE CONNECT — Rinkou Ashelia, who streams as Lia for Phase Connect, organized a community run of two Final Fantasy XIV alliance raids on Sunday night, filling a 24-player group on the Primal data center and clearing Labyrinth of the Ancients and then Syrcus Tower with their item levels turned down to the minimum. Phase Connect’s Eimi Isami joined the stream throughout.

The night began with trouble. Lia was muted on her own stream for the first minutes and apologized for “yapping by myself” once she noticed. She had expected a much smaller turnout, and the listing filled past what she planned for. Getting everyone into the group took about half an hour: a player on a free trial could not be sent direct messages, and the group had to work out how party finder links and link shells behaved across data centers. Lia said it was the first time she had organized anything like it.

“I was really happy that so many people came to play Final Fantasy.” — Rinkou Ashelia, closing the stream

She said the idea came from missing the Amon fight during the Dawntrail story, because she had been busy with the main scenario, and she wanted her own version of it. She told the group she had no idea what the mechanics were. Parties wiped repeatedly in Labyrinth of the Ancients while players worked out tower, lever and add-handling phases. Between pulls Lia talked through the story behind the bosses, answering questions from Eimi, and the group finished the dungeon before moving on to Syrcus Tower, which went faster. The final boss fell near the two-hour mark.

Lia’s model stopped working late in the evening, which ended hopes of a third fight, and she apologized for the technical problems that had dogged the start. She said she would like to run more events and would plan them further ahead so more people could attend, with a private Frontline match as one idea. One Super Chat came in during the stream.

Lia said she would play World of Warcraft on Monday, on both YouTube and Twitch, and that she had a surprise coming this week that she would likely announce then. She will be away over the weekend, so Thursday is her last stream of the week, tentatively set for Final Fantasy X unless plans with Eimi change.