Amdapor Keep Hard first boss

Is this guy bugged or is there some mechanic I'm not aware of? The last couple times I've run it, both this week, he hasn't telegraphed his beam with the big red light over the target. Party members confirmed that it wasn't showing up for them either.

In the two runs, 5 tries (3 wipes), the red light showed up once, out of a total of 15-20 of the times the attack was used.

Working perfectly fine for me.

It's an easy marker to overlook. I tunnel vision that boss a lot and see it at the last possible second. It could be you guys are forcing phases so fast that it skips the icon. don't know it's been along time since i've done that fight, people are catching up in Ilvl now, so it could be a possibility.

yup, been getting this as my daily for 10 days now. Marker shows up fine.

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Originally Posted by Haibel

It's an easy marker to overlook. I tunnel vision that boss a lot and see it at the last possible second. It could be you guys are forcing phases so fast that it skips the icon. don't know it's been along time since i've done that fight, people are catching up in Ilvl now, so it could be a possibility.

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The first run I was Blm and I would have bought the phase pushing, but it clearly did not show up. On him I'm staring at my character, and there was no red, just the sudden bolt zapping me, 3 times total.

The 2nd run I was on WAR with a 110 weapon, MNK had about 5k HP, SCH and SMN both had well under 5k HP. I doubt we were phase pushing because we were far from overgeared.

I had one run where everyone was dying on him. Marker was not showing. Just seemed to be that one run tho.

I guess report it as a bug.

For some reason, I can see the marker on others but when I get targeted, I don't see it.

I have found this to be the case up until I turned my name/title display off. Apparently the marker likes to hide behind nameplates.

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Originally Posted by HakuroDK

I have found this to be the case up until I turned my name/title display off. Apparently the marker likes to hide behind nameplates.

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Perhaps I haven't had this problem at all because I set all party members to show only Initials for the visual above the character.

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Originally Posted by Cyrus-Wallace

For some reason, I can see the marker on others but when I get targeted, I don't see it.

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That is exactly what happens to me pretty much every time, all the time.
At first I thought I must have just missed it so I started watching very closely for it and as others have reported, the beam will start zapping with no marker displaying.
At this point I watch more for him raising his sword and prepare myself to run just in case.

Happens rite as the AoE circle comes out, just be rdy for it.

I've had it not show up on my character when others said they've seen it. I've also learned that it tends to blend in with the barrier blocking the entrance and exit, as it uses almost the exact same colors.

I've learned to turn my camera so that my character appears on the side, but I've still been caught off guard where it flashed for merely half a second before I got zapped.

It's bugged.

I've had this happen before, but I was also playing dragoon so assumed it telegraphed during a jump.

The marker pops up and completely disappears waaay before the boss starts casting the attack. It's pretty quick to appear and disappear too! Then again, this could be a graphical glitch. From what everyone has said, the glitch may either be, 1) a display bug in which you can attempt to restart the game client to try to fix it, or 2) facing the camera at certain angles will cause the mark to not appear (kind of like flat surfaces at a straight angle). Not sure if this is affecting everyone - I can see it just fine and some others have stated the same as well.

Honestly the first few times I ran it I never saw the mark, because I'm the least observant. One of my friends pointed out that there even was a marker, and I was like "...........oh". So you may just not be seeing it. I sometimes don't still.

It doesn't always show up for me either, and I'm always paying attention to everything going on around me. It also happened with markers during t5 at some points a long time ago, and other people reported that on forums and elsewhere too.

I miss the marker a lot myself, and I swear sometimes it just doesn't appear.

I think it's a bug.
I can somewhat confirm that it's popped up many times without the marker showing first.
I was assuming it was a problem on my end with custom video settings and I never bothered to ask anyone about it.

Should definitely report this because that move can be pretty fatal.

I would like to say it might be bugged as I can think of quite a few times where he just starts to zap me with lightning and I swear I never saw a marker! I used to just assume I missed it sometimes..

It never happened to me yet, and it popped for my DR. I'll have to keep an eye out.

It skips randomly, exactly as it happens with the dive bomb visual effect. I think when a number of effects on video, that one does not proc.