Most powerful players in Final Fantasy XIV are in a close race to become World First

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On July 30, 2024, Square Enix released the new difficult endgame raid for Final Fantasy XIV. Within 24 hours, the best players cracked the world first. 1st and 2nd place differ by only 20 seconds.

What content is it about? The latest World First refers to the recently released Arkadion – Light Heavyweight (Epic) raid series. This is the newest hard content in Final Fantasy XIV. A full clear is achieved when all four battles included in the raid are completed within a week.

The Arkadion is an 8-man raid. The easy version is released first, the difficult, non-nerfed version follows one to two weeks later. You can find everything about unlocking it and the requirements in our endgame guide.

With the new epic raid, Final Fantasy XIV has fresh endgame group content. Only the so-called ultimates are harder. Accordingly, the community fights for the world first with every release, which was really close this time.

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Grind is worth it – victory with only 21 seconds lead

Who made the world first? The development team at Square Enix has not yet confirmed the world-first clear, but the Twitch channel MogTalk has collected the times. According to them, the top three places according to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) are as follows:

  • 3rd place: Team Lucrezia (via X.com) on July 30, 2024 at 19:17
  • 2nd place: Team Serenity on July 30, 2024 at 18:59
  • 1st place: Team GRIND on July 30, 2024 at 18:59

    • According to the minutes, there is no difference between 1st and 2nd place – that’s how close the victories were. You can watch GRIND’s victory for yourself on YouTube.

    How were 1st and 2nd place determined? To find out exactly which of the two teams was really faster, the in-game time of the game world was used. An in-game minute is about 3 seconds long.

    In a Twitch stream, MogTalk revealed that GRIND completed the raid chain at 3:14 in-game time. Serenity finished her fight at 3:21. The 7 in-game minute difference results in a time difference of about 21 seconds between the completions.

    Team GRIND from Japan won just ahead of their North American rivals from Team Serenity.

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    How does MogTalk get the information? MogTalk collects the information internationally via a Google Doc. Anyone who wants to take part in the World First race can report their progress there.

    The clears do not necessarily have to be streamed. However, MogTalk requires at least proof screenshots or videos with the UI fully displayed. This also makes it possible to read out the in-game time needed to accurately identify the winner.

    Specifically, MogTalk has been collecting clear information from raid groups for some time now: One of the first was the Heavensward raid Alexander from patch 3.4.

    This makes it possible to partially track the careers of the current winners. Team GRIND, for example, managed to finish 3rd in the penultimate difficult raid Pandaemonium Anabaseios and snagged 5th place in the battle for the latest ultimate.

    In fact, the easy version of the new raid already impressed players in terms of content, design and soundtrack. However, the difficult raid brought a whole host of buffs for many jobs: A new class in Final Fantasy 14 is so overly strong that developers now have to make other jobs stronger

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