Royal Menagerie

The fight is not hard at all you just have to -Pay Attention- to mechanics. I got into the DF and one shot it. The biggest issue I have is a co healer derping and going OOM when I get it in a trial. This cannot be solo healed at the moment.

This trial is one of my favorite fights so far. It offers a good balance of challenge and excitement. Going in completely blind I was able to figure things out on my second attempt. I am not a hardcore player by any means and consider myself to be average to mid-range. I hope they keep the dungeon the same as it is.

Update: Got it done. People actually stayed and played well. I will never do it again though and I liked all the other new dungeons.

The akh morn tank stacking mechanic is pretty unclear for most players. And the stack after headsmash can be a cheap way to die if the amount of platforms is low.

Diamond dust and tidal wave are clearly cheap ways to make first timers wipe because they share no warning and require people to communicate it beforehand.

The red chain markers signal to people that they should move away from the other player beforehand even though that is detrimental to actually breaking the chain and it causes confusion where none is needed.

And last but not least the earth breath when you have no platform in front of the boss is really frustrating since you never have enough time to move away from the party.

Those are my complaints with the boss. Keep in mind I cleared it many many times and know it in and out.

Wiped twice before I got my clear.

The only thing I felt slightly confused about is why Aerial Blast somehow hit me for 42K damage and instakilled me as a tank. I instinctively knew to not move after Diamond Dust, and had a hunch about the Tidal Wave, considering the visual's resemblance to Leviathan's charge warning, though I wasn't expecting it to hit the entire platform.

So jealous of everyone here getting clears in their first time in. I'm currently on 3/3 groups vote abandoning after 3-4 attempts. As a DPS this hurts lmao. Cool fight, people give up to easy.

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Originally Posted by Lithrean

So jealous of everyone here getting clears in their first time in. I'm currently on 3/3 groups vote abandoning after 3-4 attempts. As a DPS this hurts lmao. Cool fight, people give up to easy.

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Get a group together through LS/FC, you will stand a much higher chance. The DF is what makes this fight hard, not the mechanics

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

Wiped twice before I got my clear.

The only thing I felt slightly confused about is why Aerial Blast somehow hit me for 42K damage and instakilled me as a tank. I instinctively knew to not move after Diamond Dust, and had a hunch about the Tidal Wave, considering the visual's resemblance to Leviathan's charge warning, though I wasn't expecting it to hit the entire platform.

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You may have stood in the center of the tornado. You don't want to be there, that's where all the damage will come from. You can be just outside of the tornado, but never inside it.

After three tries through DF and only getting close to 5%, I gave up on DF and am now trying PF instead. The problem is not the fight, the fight is fun albeit with a lot cheap ways it call kill you. The problem is people getting in under geared imo (not having done their lvl 70 job quest) and not paying attention at all.

For a final main story fight, it was very well designed imo and very challenging as it should be since it's the final fight for initial story with Zenos.

It is doable for sure in DF cause I did pull it off last night but it took my group 5 attempts to finally beat it because people were learning mainly about the tails bit as we kept trying. Lucky for me the group stuck it out and did not give up.