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Final Fantasy XIV (2010)

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This is the Final Steps of Fate, the finale to the Dragonsong war. This trial itself isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be, it's just if you get hit you'll probably die in one shot. So you have to dodge, pass a DPS check by killing the three adds fast enough. The two adds on the sides can be tanked but the Shadow Dragon works like SV Hard Mode and goes where he wants, no aggro table so it cannot be tanked. Fail to kill them fast enough and you will wipe.

Despite how it looks, the eight circles are just for decoration and you CAN survive just fine by stacking and healing like we did here. When it comes to the markers you gotta get to the edges to drop them and get out of AOE they leave, they cause a bleed effect if you are in them.

Stack together for all of the akh morn hits in the last phase, it hits more than once so don't leave early, I believe it's 3-4 hits. It can be healer intensive, if they die consistently then it's not going to be winnable.

It only took me about 5 tries in the DF to get my first clear. A friend of mine reported it took 27 tries!! Now that is insanity. Though there was one moment I saw running this that made everyone in the party cringe..When the main tank asked what a main tank's duty was after a wipe and after agreeing to be the main tank.. XD.

Also, this fight is pretty awesome though. Great music choices for the transitions into the other phases and the visuals are quite something, yes I wish I was running this on max but what can you do?

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