After having some experience with FF14 you can quickly get what is happening most of the time, given you want to pay attention. I think overall FF14 does a good job at not obfuscating the mechanics too much. Was bored so formed a group of friends and helpful people to try solo tanking.FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn. Rest is a matter of trying & analyzing, but to be honest, a lot of people don't want to pay attention more than just "me hit boss, hunga bunga" (that's why story difficulty is there, you can die if something goes terribly wrong or you fell for a trap you didn't know about (Sephirot pushing you back, lol) but overall it's doable).
Chesed- Sephirot will reel back with two arms and deal damage to the tank. Some things are pretty clear (proximity mines, (un)stack markers, AOEs you probably should not stand in, mark on your head & first time ? probably stand far away from your party but still pay attention to what happens to be sure for next time) Triple Trial- occasional tank buster that cleaves in a cone. Guided by Unukalhai, the Warrior of Light and Krile venture to Containment Bay S1T7 to unseal and defeat Sephirot before he can escape and unleash unthinkable catastrophe. Interrupt-able attacks are clear (cast bar glows) Sephirot is defeated by the Warrior of Light. Died to it again ? let me try to make my party soak it. It's okay to die to something new, it's not okay to die for the 100th time in a row to it and still be clueless about what is happening.īe aware of when it happens, what happens, draw hypothesis, test until something works.Ĭan I get out of "that cast" (like Garuda's Slipstream, Sophia's Thunder2 (which also let you not get a vuln debuff)Īh, I just died to a non-casted attack which didn't have any big cue (big cue example : Sephirot tank buster, he literally charges it), let me try to damage mitig it. Our group (consisting of some staff from USGamer and RPG Site) struggled with our synced down gear for Sephirot normal, not expecting the tank buster to hit.
Also, FF14 is on console (no addon there) and addons are gray area at BEST. Was bored so formed a group of friends and helpful people to try solo tanking.FINAL FANTASY® XIV: A Realm Reborn.
Let me know what I can improve, tytwitch/ampff - Watch live at. From what I understand WoW boss fights are made with the addons in mind, whereas FF14 doesn't. I take a closer look at main tanking sephirot extreme as a warrior. First, there seems to be a clear design difference in WoW & FF14 approach to boss fights.