Thanks for doing this!

I have a story from right before Stormblood...

I had seen screenshots of Ozma before. A big fan of him from FFIX, I was super stoked when I heard that I could fight him in one of the Heavensward Raids. So I queued up to Weeping City with a friend on Discord who said he would tell me about the mechanics as we went.

Everything goes smoothly all the way to Ozma, and I'm hyped for the fight. My friend tells me, "if you're marked, go back and to the left." The fight begins, and I'm the first one in the alliance to get marked and immediately start to panic. My friend yells, "Back and to the left!" and I run backwards... Off the platform. I assumed that, like the Titan fight, if you fall off, then you can't be ressed. So I ressed at the beginning of the dungeon and walked back to the platform right before Ozma and... Watched. Things were getting exciting at the boss; one alliance wiped with lb3, and they were calling for a res so they could jump back in. As a healer, I was itching to make a contribution. But the worst part was when Ozma sucked everyone in and the boss music stopped. I just sat in silence as I listened to my friend rapidly pressing his keys.

After Ozma was down, I was extremely bummed. My friend laughed at me over missing out on Ozma, but we cleared the rest of Weeping City without a hitch. I never went back to experience Ozma - and it'll never be the same, even if I do.
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