Masked Carnivale #32: It Sucks

Another idiotic conga line of unfair OHKOs. No info on what to do against the summons and once again the slightest mistake sends you back to start.

I HATE THIS!!!

The Masked Carnivale has been absolute trash since it was introduced. A massively overtuned brick wall that makes it agonizing to get your needed BLU spells. The reward is too low for something this stupidly difficult. I should be getting every single ultimate weapon when I clear this garbage.

Or the alternative reality might be that it's a skill issue and you have to learn to cope with the fact that challenging content is a matter of trial and error. After up to 120 spells at your disposal one should be reasonably expected to have more and more punishing challenges thrown at you.

Or stay mad if it makes you happier.

Ah, the nerf turn 29 and 30 person is back at it, i see you managed to beat those ? Congratz!

"needed BLU spells." -> for what content exactly? Bluemage Raids for Morbol or the new savage ones?
Bluemage is a optional character for fully optional content, mostly endgame / speedrun / solo related - which mostly is a challenge in itself. Doing the carnival stages is fair, the fights are not that long and every time you fail you learn something new about the fight and improve, just as you finally did for stage 29. If that doesnt give any feel of accomplishment to you maybe you shoul'nt do this content because obviously its not fun for you to do so, but for the love of god let us have some challanges besides multiple person trials. Carnival is fun as is and everyone can beat it if you learn the patterns.

Half the fun is figuring out how to pass different mechanics. I've never understood folk's incessant need to have their hand held through content.

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Originally Posted by WalkerRiley

Half the fun is figuring out how to pass different mechanics. I've never understood folk's incessant need to have their hand held through content.

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"I paid a sub to enjoy content, but wiping isn't content for me, why is this happening to me!11"

Kinda wish there were difficulty options like:

Easy Mode: Gives more time to react and think , less HP)
Normal Mode: Like it is now
Hard Mode: Less time to react + more abilties, dps check...idk make it harder somehow)

Challenging content is great, but not when it blocks off something as basic as job quest progression. IMO there should be separate story versions of 25/30/31/32 for the people who just want to do the quests and not bother with the challenge of the Carnivale.

I am NOT a good BLU player. Not at all. I played BLU back when it first came out, mostly out of curiosity. Didn't touch it until after 6.0 when I started hunting TT cards and some are locked behind BLU.

I hated it because it was different. I hated it because it was difficult (in comparison to most other content in this game). Then I realized that's what I had been seeking. In many ways, the various jobs that make up the 3 roles are all the same. Tanks are essentially the same with a glammed weapon. Healers are similar. DPS just have a gauge gimmick that is mostly what gives it flavor. But BLU, BLU is just a different beast entirely. You are forced to learn some of the job to become competent.

I eked through the required challenges and #32 just last night. I didn't clear it in blazing time either. Maybe 12 minutes? I don't recall. I died dozens of times. Maybe other BLU beat challenges blind the first time - and if they do, good on them.

If you want to clear the content, stick it out. Embrace how the job works. Recognize that the challenges are a dance (or an OHKO as you put it). Just like some other content in this game, taking a hit outside of auto-attacks means death. If anything BLU can be a LITTLE more forgiving than that. Some hits are KO. Some you might recover from, but the nature of BLU is a combination of a priority system coupled with spells that counteract what the target is doing. It isn't just "hit these buttons in this order and win."

Flying Sardine, Loom, Diamondback, Exuviation, and some sort of heal like White Wind or Pom Cure. All of that and some kind of attack, in this particular case Sonic Boom to help put out the fire quickly and Ram's Voice+Ultravibration for the slime, is pretty much all you need for anything in this. It's really not difficult at all.

If a spell can be interrupted, spit a Flying Sardine at them.
If you get some sort of dot on you, Exuviation will almost always be able to get rid of it.
If you're hit with some sort of undispellable Heavy, you stop what you're doing and look at where you need to Loom away to.
If there's literally no way to avoid an attack, Diamondback is almost certainly what's expected of you.
If your health is dipping, heal.

The only thing that annoys me that you need to do it to get the TT card. I would gladly ignore the masked carnivale, if it wasn't for TT cards. I hate the masked carnivale. It's so frustrating, especially the whole "let's do a 2 phase fight with the same boss, and make the first phase not so difficult but long, so everytime you die, you have to redo the whole 5 min first phase..."

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Originally Posted by JamieRose

The Masked Carnivale has been absolute trash since it was introduced. A massively overtuned brick wall that makes it agonizing to get your needed BLU spells. The reward is too low for something this stupidly difficult. I should be getting every single ultimate weapon when I clear this garbage.

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If it sucks so bad for you, then just stop. You've complained about BLU's exclusive content since 4.5, and it's stupid you STILL come back to complain when you can't beat it because it's not braindead easy enough for you.

At the very least if it has to have multiple acts give me a save point after each one. And for story mode purposes get rid of act 2 for bosses. Should only have to do act 2 if you're achievement farming. And by bosses I mean 25, 30, 31 and 32the only way I can get a better weapon (really only materia wise is it better) is doing Carnevale .

I'm inclined to agree. Frankly I feel this last fight is just going overboard. Gogo was hard enough, but the mechanics were manageable once you got them down. With this though, you have much less room for error, and with how long just the first phase alone takes just makes it a slog to go through.

On top of that, why give him so much health? This fight I feel is in need of a rework to make it less punishing, cause as it stands, the absurd number of mechanics is just overwhelming, especially in act 2. Sure, there's no time limit, but you can't afford to screw up or you'll die really fast. Who the hell thought this was a good idea?

Also, side note, Gogo may have been a hard fight, but at least he didn't have absurd amounts of health. Doesn't help that I have bad reaction time. I play games like this to have fun Square, not to have an aneurysm. If I wanted hard or challenging gameplay, I'd go play Elden Ring.

I went for the achievement and the clear together, then got the other three title achievements. Actually didn't take that long even with various mistakes, though having melded 530 crit gear and all of the spells is helpful. The new guy being a little beefier than the previous stages isn't too surprising with the way HP scales. Azulmagia just gets obliterated now.

32 is easy. Take it step by step.

The slime casts an instawipe? Look, it's weak against ice. But it barely takes damage? look at your spell list. There's an ice spell that inflicts Deep Freeze and there's a spell that insta KO enemies that has Deep Freeze.

He casts gravity and then casts an AoE and you're too slow to dodge? Look at your spell list again. Do you have a teleport spell that works through Heavy?

The doll summons cast AoE that covers the whole ground and there's no safe spot! Look at your spell list again. Maybe you can't dodge this attack and you just need to reduce the damage you take. Is there a spell that does that?

Ugh this damage-sponge is annoying. He can take pretty much my entire lifebar, my damage is like 0.1%. I've tried to beat it but it's too boring of a fight, my mind strats drifting away and mistakes start being made

Just came here to say that the first act takes too much.. by the time i get to act 2 i am so tired/exausted that i forget the new mechanics (or where the skills like diamond back are on bar, since usually i never use em)..
I'll do it, as i did with the other things, but i hope whoever invented this get retribution

I genuinely hate this fight and I hope they don't do the same for Beastmaster. The biggest problem is all BLU weapons are locked behind these fights, otherwise I would have ignored the carnivale completely. I don't find puzzle fights particularly fun, but damage sponges with one hit kill mechanics are the opposite of fun. And I don't need help with the fight, I saw the guides and I have the spells but this thing made me ragequit the game.
In the future don't lock all weapons behind a single piece of content.