Binding Coil of Bahamut Discussion

[Alkimi]

You've got 2 and 5's passives the wrong way round, and sector 4 is blunt resistance. Apart from that all good!

Either route is doable, we've seen a lot of groups take the east path (presumably to avoid firestream from ADS) but our group prefers west, might depend on your party setup and what your tanks are more comfortable with.

ADS will start using abilities from nodes you haven't killed every 25%, starting with Allagan Rot at 75% (you'll have to play pass-the-bomb for the remainder of the fight) and then at 50% and 25% he'll introduce others.

In all it's slightly easier than Turn 1 I'd say but it will probably still take you a few tries to get down. Just make sure your silencers have 480+ accuracy, having High Voltage go off is recoverable with some luck but best not to chance it.

[firstshot]

Hello! i need advise. my team stuck in turn 1 with Cadeceus for 2 days! so we need help

[vRoad]

Hello! i need advise. my team stuck in turn 1 with Cadeceus for 2 days! so we need help

Help with what?

[firstshot]

Help with what?

Sorry for my bad english
Just want to know how to kill Cadeceus.

[Arland]

Turn 2

If you go 1, 2, 4, 6 you want to bring a magic based team (SMN, BLM), you will have piercing, blunt resistance rendering your BRDS/DRGS/MNKS quite useless.
If you go 1, 3, 5, 6 your tanks will suffer from slash resistance (less aggro but not that much of a problem) and you want to bring BRDS/DRGS/MNKS to the fight because ADS got himself a magic resistance

We run each way just fine, you just need to change your setup. 1, 3, 5, 6 may be easier because your tanks don't have to evade those flame AOEs from the node in sector 5... Else there is nothing that would make one way easier.

Sorry for my bad english
Just want to know how to kill Cadeceus.

To make matters short:

- watch a video so you know where your tanks should stand
- let you spare tank, or some DDs spawn those adds (the ones you spawn when someone is standing on top of those lights)
- let tanks and other members dodge those lights so you won't spawn anymore adds than neccessary
- nearly kill adds, pull tho cadeceus, let him eat them (takes one stack of dmg buff from him)
- burn cadeceus down, at 70% he will split
- second tank grabs aggro from the new cadeceus and pulls him away (if they merge again you are fucked as he will gain a dmg stack every 5 seconds)
- either: split your grp (1tank, 1healer, 2dds) and kill both snakes at nearly the same time, OR burn one to 5% and DOT him, switch to the other and kill him, then burn down the last 1-2% from the first one
- after split you don't need to feed cadeceus more adds if your tanks are good enough geared and your damage is enough

[firstshot]

Thank you now we know how to fight.

[vRoad]

Sorry for my bad english
Just want to know how to kill Cadeceus.

Guess I should've clarified what I meant. You said that you were stuck on the boss for 2 days. What particular point of the encounter has been hindering you. Looking at any encounter as a step-by-step process instead of just trying to take in the entirety of the fight is an easy way to isolate and fix the issues that may be holding you back.

[Rumstein]

None that I've seen.

Basically, ADS has a gauntlet before you get to him. Each room you clear takes away an ability and gives him a passive. The rooms give -
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Sector 1 - No ability - Attack up
Sector 2 - Balast (Giant 270o Magic Murder Cleave) - Piercing Resistance
Sector 3 - Chain Lighting - Slashing Resistance
Sector 4 - Void Zones - Blunt Resistance (I could of sworn this was haste)
Sector 5 - Giant Starburst Fire Disco Fever - Magic Vulnerability Down
Sector 6 - ADS is here
Sector 7 - Allagan Rot - Defense Up

I'm writing this while in Turn 4 so I wont put up a full guide right now.

Edit - Fixed it up a bit, the camera is the worst enemy in this turn so I never see my numbers on him.

Sector 7 - Quarantine Node:
Killing this removes Allagan Rot, but grants HASTE.

Incredibly bad idea to kill this one (+its the 4th kill minimum)

[CompSci88]

Does the ADS (boss) on turn 2 have a fix attack pattern like Titan? Our bards are relying too much on reaction time and they miss High Voltage once in a while.

[Kyp]

He seems to cast high voltage every 30 seconds-ish