Can someone please idiot-proof Svarbhanu?

I was confused at first too, but it is really simple, I was just literally blind to the BIG symbol that appears on screen.
4 lines, right? 2 of them are white, other 2 red. On your screen a, again, BIG symbol appear: a red circle or a white inverted triangle-ish. You have to position in a line of the opposite color: if red circle, go to white line; if white triangle, go to red line (all of this considering the shifting and targeting aoe's, but the casting will give you plenty of time to plan ahead).

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Originally Posted by Omedon

That doesn't answer the meteor hit. I have to go to work soon and this will be the second day I do so without getting past this one boss. Now it's one mechanic of one boss. I'm so demoralized and it's threatening my hold on interest for the game. I'm not as bad as this mechanic makes me look and I'm just so lost.

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Honestly if you're having that hard of a time with it and you're with the trusts, just ignore him when he's in the sky and stand on one of their butts the entire phase.

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Originally Posted by Hiragawa

stand on one of their butts the entire phase.

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This works in every situation except spread mechanics... which end up happening at the same time.

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Originally Posted by Omedon

That doesn't answer the meteor hit. I have to go to work soon and this will be the second day I do so without getting past this one boss. Now it's one mechanic of one boss. I'm so demoralized and it's threatening my hold on interest for the game. I'm not as bad as this mechanic makes me look and I'm just so lost.

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This one?

https://i.imgur.com/xwkJQud.png

I dont see any blue / pink for that mechanic...

This one you just stand in the land that relates to the empty space in the sky. It complicates later so the lane will have don't touch circles, just get into the lane that is safe AND not stand in the danger zones inside that lane.

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Originally Posted by Omedon

This works in every situation except spread mechanics... which end up happening at the same time.

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But... it doesn't? It's three waves of meteors after which he lands and resumes the fight. There's no anti-stack mechanic during it.

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Originally Posted by Shougun

This one?

https://i.imgur.com/xwkJQud.png

I dont see any blue / pink for that mechanic...

This one you just stand in the land that relates to the empty space in the sky. It complicates later so the lane will have don't touch circles, just get into the lane that is safe AND not stand in the danger zones inside that lane.

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That image you posted might be the thing that gets me through this tomorrow, thank you!

But it will have to be tomorrow because I have to leave for work now. It will also give me a chance to lower my blood pressure and self-loathing levels haha!

Only part that got me there was the upside down thing that pulled me across the boss or something and I thought it was the healer doing rescue but they were nowhere near that spot.

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Originally Posted by Shougun

the danger zones inside that lane.

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Ok I can't get a look at the fight any more today, but what do you mean by this? Is it the shapes within the lane?

If i remember correctly you only need to pay attention to the color/shape for the first two floor explosions, for the first one you only need to stand on the opposite color/shape than the one that flashes on your screen, same thing with the second explosion but now it puts spread markers on your team. After that, only the outer lanes will explode and the inner lanes will be safe for the rest of the fight and that's when the boss will start blowing your team against the edges of the room. I actually allow myself to be blown into the middle/edge of an outer lane since there's plenty of time to recover and run back into the safe lanes. If you try to stay only on the safe lanes, you are going to get pushed against a wall and that bleed effect hits like a truck.

For the third phase, I've only seen the boss flying to the east side of the arena when to cast the meteors, Just look up and to the east, and you should see what lanes are going to get hit by the meteors so you can stand in the gap.

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Originally Posted by Omedon

Third dungeon. Final boss. I'm going on ten pulls over two daily play sessions, and I just... I promise I'm not as bad as this fight makes me look, but I can't decode this fight's mechanics. I'm playing my main job, Samurai. There's a phase that sometimes happens early, usually later, where I just can't parse where I'm supposed to stand. Sometimes it seems red is right, sometimes blue, and often a late wipe happens with multiple successive "move or die" mechanics.


I'm sorry if this has been covered elsewhere, but I have to tunnelvision any and all FFXIV media consumption to avoid spoilers, but this seems a dead stop to my progress and I needed to risk talking to the community. Also because I'm so tunnelvisioned "getting carried" by live people isn't really much of an option either. Probably not gonna get this down before I go to work again so I'll have another day to read guides and hope something clicks.

I just don't get it.

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Basically if I want to analyse how to do a fight before going in I watch a video beforehand. There's no guides out atm but you can take your time to really understand the mechanics without having to focus on anything else. Just type "boss fights" dungeon name and there'll be a 12 minute video on it you can take your time with.

You wouldn't have missed the flashing colour in the middle of the screen on a video :) Hope that helps :)

EDIT: The video I'm watching also pans the camera so you'd get the idea behind the meteor mechanic :)