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Final Fantasy XIV (2010)

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Late upload is late. Because I had issues with my game crashing during this raid I had to splice some footage together. none the less I have all the fights between these two videos. This is day 1 footage so keep that in mind it's not perfect and we didn't much to help us at the time.

1:44-Trash Mob 1: Nothing really noteworthy, the Chimeras do what every Chimera before does with the voices but can be stunned/silenced. They have an annoying AoE that'll blanket the floor as well.

4:15-Angra Mainyu: Probably the hardest boss in The WoD honestly. It has a lot going for it.

First off the Adds must die ASAP in all parts where they appear.

Double Vision is a floor-covering AoE that is split into blue and red gives a stacking debuff, but it will reset the stack to 1 if you alternate which color you stand on when it hits. If you get 2 stacks of the debuff you will take 2.5k damage. If you get 3 stacks you will die. I've found the best way to deal with it is standing by his flank/sides so you can easily get on alternate color you need, otherwise you may have to run for it and end up dying if you fail.

Mortal Gaze is another mechanic. Don't look at the boss face to face when he's casting it, turn away ASAP. Otherwise you will be Doomed and have to cure it by going onto a glowing platform. Just way easier to look away and avoid Doom entirely. I recommend using Focus Target in this battle because he can sometimes use this when you're busy with the Adds.

Roulette, signified by a finger and a cone that rotates clockwise around the boss room, occurs when 4 Final Hourglass spawn at the outer edge of the room. Kill the 4 Final Hourglass one by one in a clockwise direction. To avoid being killed, do not stand in the quarter that is lit up when the last Final Hourglass dies. As long as all four of the Hourglasses die, you will be able to run out of that section if you happen to be in it.

Level 100 Flare: Red ball spawns on a player and a red circle appears on the ground. This ability tethers several players to 1 player. You need to run out of the circle to cancel the ability. Players will all die if the total number of players in the circle is an even number.

Level 150 Doom: Purple ball spawns on a player and a purple circle appears on the ground. This ability tethers several players to 1 player. You need to run out of the circle to cancel the ability. Players will all die if the total number of players in the circle is an odd number.

11:13-Trash Mobs 2 Revengeance of the mobs. Simple hurt the big enemies and when you see the void gates spawning destroy as many as you can, failure to do so results in an addition add spawning from them. The main enemies here are literally ST boss clones.

13:59-Five-headed Dragon boss fight. This one is also rather nasty. It goes like this:

Lots of AoE spam and the AoEs expand when they hit a player so be careful and move if you see swirls on the ground.

The slime adds need to be killed ASAP or they will merge into a big slime and silence the entire raid. At least one person apparently needs to stand in the slime pool to prevent excess slimes from spawning. You do get resistance upon killing a slime if you were near it.

The main killer is Discordance, when the Five Headed Dragon casts it it will create five heads that will become targetable. you MUST kill all five or you will wipe. So kill them all ASAP.

Kill the circular adds or they'll cast some spells to hurt the raid.

If you are marked by the boss that means you want to stack with other party members otherwise you'll take 9999 damage or more lol. This one confused me until I read up on it.

If you are hit by the dragon tether you need to walk towards another party member and pass the debuff to them otherwise you may die.

Heatwave is a desperation move the boss uses when near death, it inflicts a debuff on the whole raid that damage them for 500 HP each time they take an action. I didn't know how this worked at all in the video honestly. So just don't do anything until the debuff is off you.

Also, since it was day 1 at the time of this recording of course it wasn't perfect. Man we had rage quitters but the funny thing is we actually beat the first boss when they left lol. Patience and not quitting are two keys to success here. Shoutouts to Alliance C and the awesome Healers who stayed instead of wimping out because time was running out with maintenance coming.

Love the music and the raid itself is fun but the first few bosses are kind of annoying, it's the last few that get fun IMO. I wish they'd keep the WoD battle theme for the bosses though it'd fit better and it's a shame it plays during Trash mobs mostly.

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