Final Fantasy 14 is well-known for its punishingly difficult raid encounters, featuring both a normal difficulty for players looking to enjoy the story, as well as a Savage difficulty for players wanting to test their skills against revamped bosses with new mechanics for a chance at best-in-slot gear. In recent expansions, however, Final Fantasy 14 has introduced an even higher difficulty of raids called Ultimate raids, revisiting old bosses and introducing new, devastatingly punishing attack patterns in excruciating boss rush-style encounters, often lasting over 15 minutes in length. At the time of writing, there are five Ultimate raids in the game, with a sixth raid, Future's Rewritten (Ultimate), announced for release in patch 7.11.