Another Terrible Masked Carnival Fight. (BLU)

Masked Carnivale #31 is another badly designed fight that involves a slow as molasses first round and a second round that's not only nigh impossible, but puts you right back at the beginning of the first round. This is the same garbage that #29 pulls and it took me over 200 tries to finish that one. Right now I'm up around 50 for #31 and I'm ready to throw my keyboard through a window.

Whoever designed this terribad fight needs to learn what a checkpoint is and stop gating content behind these insanely, unfairly overtuned fights. :mad::mad::mad::mad:

Phase 2 is actually quite simple.

1. Be out of his range when he casts fire 3 to dodge the follow up blizzard
2.Heal through holy and flare
3. Meteor phase is pretty easy dodge the bad, but finish it off with a DB in the middle
4. Cleanse both dots
5. Place the thunders inbetween each of the charaybdis, the stand between the last 2 which doesnt have a puddle to dodge the pyretic and blizz
6. Repeat

Well, judging by your lodestone page, and what you have equipped. Still using level 60 earring. 2 355 Ilvl pieces. No melds. VI materia is dirt cheap, and you can swap it freely, since it has 100% removal chance.
Why do you even play BLU if you're not taking it seriously? What is it, that you want so badly, that is "gated behind unfairly overtuned fights"? Like, it's not Morbol, surely?

I have cleared the fight i think in 5 pulls. There is LolSuprise! meteor and some other stuff, that will kill you, but it does not mean, that the fight is badly designed. I enjoyed it greatly, and once you understand all the mechanics in the second phase it shouldn't be too hard to get a clear. If everything else fails, Healer Mimicry goes a long way to help you learn the fight.

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Originally Posted by ReiMakoto

Phase 2 is actually quite simple.

1. Be out of his range when he casts fire 3 to dodge the follow up blizzard
2.Heal through holy and flare
3. Meteor phase is pretty easy dodge the bad, but finish it off with a DB in the middle
4. Cleanse both dots
5. Place the thunders inbetween each of the charaybdis, the stand between the last 2 which doesnt have a puddle to dodge the pyretic and blizz
6. Repeat

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It took me more time than I'd like to admit to realize that the dots can be cleansed....I was trying to heal to recover from the DoT damage, and use loom to dodge the thunder at first...
That did not go well at all....haha
When I figured out that they were cleansable, I got it on my second or third attempt.

I love it when people who are terrible at the game out themselves like this in public.

My only problem with the fight is those freaking twisters will mess up your vision if your camera angle is wrong. But Healer Mimicry is probably best if you're going for a safe strategy because of Pom Cure and Exuviation (the latter gains a buff when used by healer mimicry so you can heal and cleanse the debuffs).

Visibility with twisters was my issue too, the height they are and the colour obscures the thunder. I did clear it though eventually.

This fight is really just a matter of making silly mistakes that are entirely on you as the player. Clearing the fight is one thing, then you also clear fast and perfectly it for the ability to purchase Friar Rush. Naturally you will get ahead of your self. For the normal clear, take your time and be patient. Make sure you are keeping your MP up because the longer you drag out the fight the more it’s going to cost you. When you clear it and are ready to speed clear, just damage normally until Gogo is in a phase that you can full in blow everything on him with Moonflute.

My heart actually almost skipped a beat when I got the achievement clear because after blowing all my skills and being pacified by Waning Nocturne at no more MP, Gogo was at .01 health. But part of my combo was Nightbloom and I realized the DoT tick would kill him. Sweet victory.

Gear up, learn the dance, perfect it. Literally every piece of content is like this.

I actually thought this fight was pretty straightforward. The 2nd phase is literally just proper placement of AoEs and not getting one-shotted by meteor.

in Phase 1 when he's about to mimic, place or refresh a bristle'd song of torment on him and hit him with feather rain; he does not mimic the damage he takes from DoT's. :)

I've never been so frustrated playing this game. A large part of the second act is RNG, and with snapshotting being so fiddly, it's awful. Anyone who says, "Oh, this is really relatively simple," is being absolutely ridiculous. No, it's not. Each individual mechanic might be simple, but when combined, they are stupidly frustrating.

My tip is to tackle those in Healer Mimicry, so you can use Pom Cure to heal and not deplete your MP with white winds. Enemy will die slightly slower yeah, but at least you have more leeway in case you take avoidable damage.

it's called mechanics and it's fairly easy. Honestly you want the 6:50 for time for Perfect Azure but not for completing the quest and getting the level 70 cane. Pretty much most of these mechanics are fairly easy. I still suggest DPS stance for the achievement because the time limit. Know when to use your moon flute and when not. Don't take this the same as raid and care about a perfect opener. It's not happening as you'll need to block his imp song and mimic doom. The good news is you can use a sardine or bad breath to do this. Doom just requires you heals to be topped off before it casts.

Second phase if you struggle with damage consider adding bad breath and addle. If you struggle with mp consider super ether/ repose/ and magic hammer. If you struggle with your DPS consider Pumpkin Potage and Grade 6 tincture of Intelligence. Mind you that a speed run video of 2 minutes and 50 seconds only even uses Grade 4 tincture of intelligence.

it's so bad blah blah. The Carnival is suppose to use mechanics and be thought out. That's actually good.

I thought it was pretty fun, not everything has to be so excessively easy that you can clear on your first try. If your getting angry enough to ragequit, take a break.

I can tell you its not really fun doing these, the mechanics are easy but you have to worry about 10 different things and about getting killed in 5.0 seconds if you mess up anything, its stressful and annoying. Once I get the check mark I never want to do this garbage content again, even if i was paid.

I like puzzle games, which is what Carnivale is born of. I also enjoy blind runs which helps.

The Carnivale isn't going to be suitable for some people, others can get by with a playthrough guide or advice from more experienced players. And some will really enjoy working out how to complete the puzzle to complete the acts.

And yeah, healer mimicry + pom cure/exuviation is a very safe, albeit slower, option.

OP is also notoriously bad at the game. so there's that.

This thread is over a year old, I think we can safely let it die