Final Boss strats? (spoilers?)

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Originally Posted by cyborgmermaid

YOU CANNOT GRASP THE TRUE FORM OF DALAMUD'S ATTACK.
NAEL NAEL NAEL NAEL IT HURTS IT... FEELS... G..O...o.....d....

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*holds up the franklin badge*

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Originally Posted by Jekyll

Sniper, PM me a link to that plugin that shows the percentage. Or at least hint at what I should look for, since google is a thing.

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I'm curious as well

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Originally Posted by Giit

10% on phase 2 then we got insta wiped. anything to do with the revolving circles on the ground?

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Circles on the ground fill up if the mini-meteors land. Cant let them all fill.

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Originally Posted by Crimzon

Circles on the ground fill up if the mini-meteors land. Cant let them all fill.

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So the golems are just a distraction? Killing them won't reduce megaflare's damage?

http://i48.tinypic.com/2di4tvs.png

pretty cutscenes

Damn, wiped around 10% life. He got a lucky meteor down, thing survived with like 1% life. >_>

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Originally Posted by Alerith

True, but they seem to be weaker to magic damage than physical hits, jut like the golems seem to take more physical damage than magic damage.

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Brd owns them pretty good too, 1k barrage

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Originally Posted by Evane

So the golems are just a distraction? Killing them won't reduce megaflare's damage?

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No, I dont think the golems are a distraction. I think they need to be killed but they are pretty weak to melee. 1 DRG should be able to solo one very quickly.

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Originally Posted by Crimzon

No, I dont think the golems are a distraction. I think they need to be killed but they are pretty weak to melee. 1 DRG should be able to solo one very quickly.

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This is false, Golems are a distraction only. The fight is quite simple. Don't have anyone stand on the stairs, as that seems to trigger his 9999 damage beak move. During second stage while meteors fall, place a BLM on each middle-tier pad. We also split a WHM and BRD between the two pads as well. Can ignore the Golems (hint: they also can be slept) and send your meelee DPS up top where you'll fight a shielded Darnus. As long as no meteors hit the ground (i.e., your BLM/BRDs didn't screw up), Mega Flare will hit for less than 2k. Darnus will port to the ground, which is where we ran to finish off the last 5%. We think it might be easier to just stay at the top, and let him run back up the stairs, which he'll likely do as he still has hate on the tank.

The only trick to this fight, is to kill the meteors, which is reminiscent of killing Nails/protecting rocks for Ifrit/Garuda.

honestly, the execution of the story is done really well- especially considering they basically had to switch gears when yoshi took over and figure out how to make it transition seamlessly into the 2.0 relaunch. while you could say it feels a bit rushed compared to stuff like CoP and WotG... it *was* rushed. really rushed. with a barebones crew, no less. and they still did a pretty fantastic job in spite of that.

hats off to yoshi and the devs. i'm really looking forward to where they take the story in 2.0 and beyond.