The Lost City of Amdapor

I'd just like to say, Thank you SE. Thank you for this wonderfully fun dungeon! Thank you for FINALLY looping such wonderfully beautiful music! (seriously, PS's music needs looped! lol) It was a blast! I enjoy it so much! It's now my favorite dungeon :D! I could just sit in there all day listening to the music <3

Yeah I really enjoyed it too

I loved it, the mechanics for Diabolos are very good as well (especially the doors)

Nice design and music, but definitely too easy.

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Originally Posted by Delsus

I loved it, the mechanics for Diabolos are very good as well (especially the doors)

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Was pretty much the only mechanic.

Yh beautiful dungeon indeed ^^

That dungeon makes me miserable...

I ran it a couple of times today. It was great fun. Sooo pretty too.

Music made me sleepy, fun fight with dia though.

It is a fun dungeon indeed!

Even though a scary thing tried to eat me and my fellow adventures dragged me away from the barrier I was clawing at to get out...

This is a damn fun and wonderfully made dungeon.

I look forward to trying out the 2 hard modes later today or tomorrow.

Yup, i love that place. And diabolos is such a fun boss. I love the door mechanic. And the music is nice :3

I love the ambience, the atmosphere, the design of the insects/monsters, the last boss, THE MUSIC. Best dungeon design so far!

Guys guys!
Don't u think the lost city was a bit short?
Also i'm pretty sure u can speed run it like WP
As the main monsters to kill are the colonies, diremites blocking the gate, white mage soulstones and those ghoul thingies lol.
My thoughts on an sr would be the suicide route lol!
But anyways it is a great dungeon !
Lol and thank god they didn't do the bgm like pharos where u only got unique music at the start and then the generic battle music after.

I was hoping it tuned out to be good.
Really eager to try it out.

a good dungeon all in all.

love the music, the door mechanic was quite intriguing.

Agreed, even with the horrendous lag we still had a blast our first time through, and the music was great. The monster and level design kinda gave me a Dark Souls-y vibe too, mostly Oolacile Township (and funnily enough, it used to be called Amdapor Township during development).

I really wish it were a bit more challenging though, I think we have enough easy 4-mans. Maybe next patch.

The looping music = godlike.

Please, PLEASE do this from now on.

you are some dark gloomy people.

i wished it was a bit harder... same for the other 2
But it is indeed a eery dungeon, I really like it

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Originally Posted by Gramul

I was hoping it tuned out to be good.
Really eager to try it out.

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I think all 3 dungeons are pretty sweet and have some good bosses, Halatali might be my favorite overall as the setting is cool and the bosses have some neat tricks. Hopefully we can figure out the 2nd boss though, the lag and the poor DF player we had made it unclear if we got the mechanics down or not.

The atmosphere of the dungeon is amazing. Ran it blind with some FC mates and we had a blast (that first boss made us jump when it tried to eat our dragoon O_o).

Also, I will gladly debase my self on my knees to Yoshi P and co. for FINALLY looping a dungeon theme and making it persist throughout the whole run. That's something that should have been done from the start (even sub-50 dungeons like Aurum Vale and Stone Vigil have great music that should have been persistent instead of just a 1min sting). Thank you for doing it with this dungeon and for giving us new music throughout the patch (even if some is from 1.0, no complaints there because that music is still great). :D

Minor Spoilers (not story-related, but someone in my FC managed to get mad at me for talking about mechanics. <_<; )

I really liked all three of the new dungeons. All of the 2.2 content seems to have gotten away from dodging telegraphs--not that they don't exist, but there are new ideas showing and I like it. The doors on Diabolos, the bombs in brayflox, and even the "Absolute Bind" in Halatali are all great examples of ways SE can make content challenging without it just being dodge-dodge-dodge-hide-dodge.

None of them were exceedingly difficult, but the new mechanics are definitely a step in the right direction for my tastes.

The Lost City is definitely my favourite of the three. (Even though I couldn't help feeling like I was on Mount Zhaylom--the spores looked like ash from the volcano, and all of the wourmacampa(sp?) and wamoura...)

Also, those Gremlins--am I the only one who really enjoyed pretending they were furbies while I slaughtered them?

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Originally Posted by Kimbot

Music made me sleepy, fun fight with dia though.

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He is Diabolos, after all. Perhaps that's the hidden mechanic to the dungeon. ;)

100% agree! thanks for posting this :)

Amdapor City is awesome, great job SE. Thanks

This is only one dungeon actually worth it. This one gives u win no for free. Other do.

I like that it's a bit more challenging than the rest. I wish more dungeons like this for higher lvl players.

finally, after two blind runs with my fc peeps, the best! dungeon. Also the boss-mechanic from Diabolos are so funny and teambased. Nice work.

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Originally Posted by Sessurea

Was pretty much the only mechanic.

Yh beautiful dungeon indeed ^^

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I thought that after I posted but couldn't be bothered to edit :p

Best part was going through with a full party of players that hadn't done it.

its great music in there..


but i have to say after i did Halatali Hardmode..

oh my god.. Halatali is so funny and unconventional. it makes so much fun and has a unconventional atmosphere, too.


that of a training colosseum in the ancient greece. really nice. try it out :) i like it more than langrast


SE had a great idea with Halatali and did a great job.

Yeah, brilliant dungeon, well done on the mechanics in the Diabolos fight! It had us baffled for a while until one of us eventually worked it out. After a lot of, "Maybe let's run behind the doors?", "Let's just not do anything", "Let's all choose a door!", "Let's all choose one door!", we finally figured it out. I only wish it was a tad bit longer, it felt very short and sweet.

Halatali had us laughing as well, very well designed. Brayflox is OK, we weren't that impressed until the last boss, those bombs man hahaha.

It was a very good dungeon, and was nice to see a lot of familiar FFXI monsters :)

The redesigned hecteyes were pretty cool too.

These 3 new dungeons were a blast as well as the Gil fight.

I really enjoyed this dungeon too, and Halatali! Have yet to try Brayflox, that could be on the agenda tonight after work, assuming I'm not having my first go at turn 6 :3

This is a really great dungeon. I enjoyed it thoroughly.

I cannot remember the last time my friends and I laughed in a dungeon and had fun like this. Very nice Se more like this plz

i entered in DF, with 4 others who didnt know the fight.

We died about 3x combined(2 to diablolos), but it was fun figuring out the strategy(no online guide was used).

His entrance was like how he gets summoned in FF8, was nice.

This dungeon is probably the gem of the Patch. Yeah up the difficulty SE, we went thru all the bosses without a wipe.

Nice new mobs as well as some old FFXI mobs. it was interesting.


Diabolos spoiler: After the first wipe, we realized how the doors worked, 2nd wipe was because we reacted slow because we didn't label.

Ya this is honestly the first content sense launch that the game actually made me feel good. It also reminded me of that feeling, of first time being in Promvion on FFXI Dark and mysterious. I like how you get the feeling your in a dream. Good stuff. PS. is the music Soken's work? If so I think that guy is finally starting to really get it imo.

We're glad so many of you liked the music and atmosphere of The Lost City of Amdapor! While we won't be making any changes to the way music plays in previous dungeons, we will be looking into having dungeon music design to loop in new dungeons going forward.

wooooow <33 thank you hvinire :P

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Originally Posted by Hvinire

We're glad so many of you liked the music and atmosphere of The Lost City of Amdapor! While we won't be making any changes to the way music plays in previous dungeons, we will be looking into having dungeon music design to loop in new dungeons going forward.

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Woooohoooo!

is it me or does the song from braflox hard first boss reference the boss battle theme of ff7? and the last boss is like the battle theme of ffx