HI was an awesome dungeon!

The final boss was kinda chaotic but we managed. The first boss, a sasquatch was fun. But being a FF game, wouldn't he be named Umaro?

Umaro at the beginning and Ultros at the end. That's what I was expecting. :D But, it was an awesome dungeon and the music was great. I had fun actually doing new content on launch day for once. XD

Everything was good up until the Kraken. Played with people from a FC I know, the BLM in our party along with the BRD were getting screwed over constantly and died 5 times each for both of them I think, nothing but a congestion of where to go and when is the tentacle going to stay here so we can attack it and when is this attack going to come. I understand why it pissed him off honestly, will probably dread doing that dungeon in the future since you can't attack the tentacle at all even slightly unless all four people are on the same platform.

Also why does every boss enemy in the game now in these dungeons have a Flame Charge move like the Manticore in Halatali HM? What's with the copy paste for the Sasquatch and Stone Vigil HM final boss?

Erm... what do you mean all four on the same platform... we finished it with just our mnk still alive - but was fun.

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Originally Posted by yumemirai

Umaro at the beginning and Ultros at the end. That's what I was expecting. :D But, it was an awesome dungeon and the music was great. I had fun actually doing new content on launch day for once. XD

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Except it's not Ultros... If you want to see Ultros... well... Search and you shall find.

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Originally Posted by Huntington

Everything was good up until the Kraken. Played with people from a FC I know, the BLM in our party along with the BRD were getting screwed over constantly and died 5 times each for both of them I think, nothing but a congestion of where to go and when is the tentacle going to stay here so we can attack it and when is this attack going to come. I understand why it pissed him off honestly, will probably dread doing that dungeon in the future since you can't attack the tentacle at all even slightly unless all four people are on the same platform.

Also why does every boss enemy in the game now in these dungeons have a Flame Charge move like the Manticore in Halatali HM? What's with the copy paste for the Sasquatch and Stone Vigil HM final boss?

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Tentacles will stay with whomever it has the most enmity for unless its doing it's throw attack.

Kraken is really easy, I don't understand why people HAVE TO RUN AROUND like headless chicken. That's like "Oh a button, let's press it ASAP ! I died ? Let's try again !".

Tank grabs a first tentacle, kill it. Wait for the debuff, 2 solutions :
-Put the debuff on the platform, everybody moves to the next platform.
-The player with the debuff moves to a platform, put the debuff there and comes back.

The dungeon was fun, but I didn't feel the music fit there at all.

Agree with Alcyon1 - it's just a case of organisation. We started off with all the group moving islands when someone got the debuff, but found it HUGELY easier to just have the player with the debuff to jump to diagonal island from where they are. The tentacles seemed to rotate so popping the whirls on the diagonal island seemed to reduce the risk of ending up that island fighting tentacles.

Great dungeon though - same with the 2 new HM dungeons. Great fun and it seems some thought has gone into the mechanics too.

Did it last night and I enjoyed it. My only issues with it are the final boss is weird, in that you win after you kill enough arms, so it was a bit anti-climatic to be running around getting into the fight expecting the head to get close for the final bout, only to watch it sink into oblivious. Me and my group stood there confused for a bit since it didn't feel like we won a fight.

My only other issue is Sasquatch.....that is quite clearly a gorilla! Sasquatches don't even eat bananas!!!!

First time I had some issues with the Kraken's final tentacle. We couldn't figure out why it would appear, then drop within seconds even if all 4 of us were on the same platform. Maybe I didn't notice someone jumping, but I know we tried to all stay together.

Died, repeated, and somehow it stayed put for long enough for us to target/kill it, so not quite sure.

Someone mentioned it sticks wherever the person with the most hate is, anyone else confirm that part?

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Originally Posted by Taika

The dungeon was fun, but I didn't feel the music fit there at all.

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The music iirc was the 1.0 Limsa theme, and while good music for that zone, I agree was out of place in HI.

I really enjoyed the traps laying around. We got trapped a couple times and it was funny! xD

I would really like to see more traps in dungeons. Just mobs as damage source is disappointing.

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Originally Posted by Vaala

First time I had some issues with the Kraken's final tentacle. We couldn't figure out why it would appear, then drop within seconds even if all 4 of us were on the same platform. Maybe I didn't notice someone jumping, but I know we tried to all stay together.

Died, repeated, and somehow it stayed put for long enough for us to target/kill it, so not quite sure.

Someone mentioned it sticks wherever the person with the most hate is, anyone else confirm that part?

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Yep, and it will every so often drop and throw someone. If the person with the most hate just got thrown it will return and then dive down to move to them.

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Originally Posted by Itseotle

The music iirc was the 1.0 Limsa theme, and while good music for that zone, I agree was out of place in HI.

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It's the ferry theme from 1.0, Horizons Calling.

After running it a few more times, I realized the music kinda reminds me of pokemon.

I liked Hullbreaker Isle too. The aesthetics were great, the music was 10/10, the trash was well paced meaning lots of it, with low hp, so killing it didn't feel like a complete chore and you got to move through the dungeon at a reasonable pace despite the absurd number of keys and barriers. It didn't actually feel like we stopped moving at any point.

The worm boss was cool, and the gimmick was natural enough. The gorilla was kind of a joke, but it's a mid-boss so that's not out of the norm at all.

Kraken was very fun. I liked how you didn't actually need a tank to kill the tentacles. I had to blow all my cooldowns, but I had no problem killing a tentacle solo as a monk. I only wish there were more of them, but then we run into questions about Kraken biology.

ALSO. The fact that there's no battle music.
I hate, hate, hate battle music in general with very few exceptions. The constant jarring transition from ambient music to battle music is awful in most dungeons. I really want the ability to turn battle music off entirely.