Shades of Shatotto

Am I a total scrub, or is that instance a tad brutal? I was reduced to spamming Drain while killing adds because the damage coming in was killing me if I tried using regular rotation.

Note that I am somewhat of a scrub at BLM anyway, so it might be that.

I cleared this not too long ago without issue. When she brings them out you need to prioritize killing the summoning circle adds as they call out more adds to mess with you. Dodge the big obvious aoes. You can kill the thunder orbs to prevent their paralysis from getting to you. And it looked to me like you could break line of sight using the pillars of the room to stop her flare spell at the end. Her version includes a vulnerability debuff, so you dont really want her getting you with it repeatedly. Also, wasnt the sync on it was to level 62? So if all else fails come back to it a little later, possibly with a gear upgrade, and see if that helps.

You're not alone, I found this quest to be more than a 'tad' brutal. I'm kind of confused as to how the class works now.

I, too, couldn't finish this quest. Part of it is, I don't play BLM generally. But I had added excitement with constant disconnects too.

I'll have to chat with some friends, then come back later when the servers aren't trying to kick me around. (Clearly, a sign to never be BLM.)

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Originally Posted by Tatiana

I'm kind of confused as to how the class works now.

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Generally? It hasnt changed drastically at level 60. They changed Eno so that it no longer has a duration(you can keep it up forever on one cast), but now you lose the buff if you drop out of both astral fire and umbral ice at the same time. They also changed it so that you now have to be in either of the elemental states to activate it, and reduced the recast to 30s if you do lose it. Since Bliz 4 no longer refreshes Eno, they gave it the new Umbral Heart mechanic - basically 3 charges of "cast fire spell for less mana". They changed thunder 2 to an AoE, and thunder 1 is now replaced with thunder 3 when you get it(4 will replace 2 later on). At higher levels new abilities and traits will change things(as they did going from 50-60), but for now you would want to play similarly to how you did a week ago.

So basically... Apply a thunder dot(3 for single target, 2 if an aoe makes sense), go to your elemental stance(ive seen people start with both B3 and F3 though umbral heart will probly make an ice start ideal going forward in most situations), activate eno and ley lines, if you went ice get a B4(hearts!) in then F3 over, do your F4 cycle(F1 refreshes havent changed, neither have firestarter procs though thundercloud procs can now be used to switch from single target to aoe and vice versa if needed), if you flare-finish then transpose to ice otherwise B3 to ice at low mana, B4 for more umbral hearts, reapply thunder if needed, F3 to get back to offense, etc. From a what do i cast next perspective, that is basically the same as it was pre-expansion(the reasons are a bit different in places, but the effect is the same). And in a way, its easier since you no longer have to worry about getting to your B4 cast in time to refresh Eno, so you can just cycle through destruction and regeneration to your hearts content.

Edit: As for this quest, when i logged in yesterday morning they were still having DF issues, so i had a chance to do other things before i attempted it. Some of which was playing around with the new build a bit in a non-pressure situation to make sure i had a feel for it. I personally didnt find it hard(her final cast got me to half health), but i did have some practice and an ilvl of like 268 with lux for a weapon. *shrug* BLM is all i play combat wise(for now).

I just tried this one 3 times with ilvl 216, the damage is jut too much to handle when the adds appear, I guess I'll have to upgrade my gear first.

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Made it at the 4th attempt after I realized the echo is on it.

Yeah, Done ~!

Tone this quest down.. I am not a tryhard and this is just ridiculous. I see why people DDOS your servers now.

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Originally Posted by SEsucks

Tone this quest down.. I am not a tryhard and this is just ridiculous. I see why people DDOS your servers now.

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So you're saying they DDoS the servers just cause a quest is too hard? Are you serious?

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Originally Posted by sorawild34

So you're saying they DDoS the servers just cause a quest is too hard? Are you serious?

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I think its best just to ignore someone whos user name is "SEsucks". Not likely to have a constructive dialogue.

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Originally Posted by Frizze

I think its best just to ignore someone whos user name is "SEsucks". Not likely to have a constructive dialogue.

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Haha, for real though. Why would anyone want to attack via DDOS just for one quest? K.

I mean, they wouldnt. There are plenty of reasons not to like the company or the game, but any one individual quest is way too insignificant to matter. And i mean, i explained how to do this quest anyway. So if it was too hard for someone they at least should have had an idea what to do. If your gear isnt good enough, either get the 260 set with some poetics or run the lvl 61 dungeon a few times for the guaranteed drop(plus whatever other drops you might find and win). The sync is to 62, so you can come back later. And all the quest gives you is the BLM storyline for SB. The only quest in the set with a physical reward is the final one, which gives you Foul and a set of gear. So if all youre getting is exp and story, you can safely put it off and come back if youre having an issue. But whatever. Haters gonna hate.

The first and last quests are pretty brutal even in full ilvl 270 gear/290, but other content between 68 to 70 is also quite brutal too

She certainly hits hard enough, and if you arent watching the mechanics i imagine the fight can get ugly. For the 70 one if you figure out the priority order of the targets you can keep things under control. Took me a couple tries, but i got through. The 70 one for sure(and i would guess the 60 as well but havent checked) will also activate the echo for you if you go long enough and fail. And you dont have to have completed the quest to access the level 70 dungeon, it just makes it easier. So you could always win some i300 gear and come back. Foul is worth it.

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Originally Posted by Frizze

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Most of the solo instance are a matter of working out the priority order which is normally healers, adds, main target in that order