Twintania Retuned this maintenance incoming FLOOD GATES!

[Doctor-]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...80#post1499180

Status Effects and Twintania's Firestorm

We've also received a great deal of feedback regarding Firestorm and the effect of status ailments on Firestorm.

Players caught within Firestorm will be immobilized and take damage over time. If they are unable to break out of the firestorm within a certain amount of time, they will be incapacitated. However, players who are caught within Firestorm will not be targeted by enemies. There have been many questions regarding this on the English forums and several videos as well, but the effects of Firestorm have both advantages and disadvantages, and it would not be considered an exploit to take advantage of the effects of Firestorm.

Having said that, the fact that status ailments are effective against Firestorm essentially takes away its disadvantages, which ultimately upsets the balance of this encounter. As we make overall adjustments to the difficulty of this encounter, this aspect of Firestorm will be changed along with Twister, as I'll explain in the next section.

Twintania's Twister

A number of players have asked if the mechanics of Twister are random, but as we have answered previously, this is not a random attack. That said, we believe the timing of this attack to be too unforgiving. Although we will be changing Firestorm, making it more difficult to handle, adjustments will be made to Twister so that the timing required to survive this attack is not quite so severe.

[Ceol]

Queue people who haven't even beaten turn 4 complaining that they weren't able to beat it pre-nerf. Also queue people complaining that everyone and their grandpa will have Allagan weapons despite the vast majority of players having never even been in Coil, let alone turn 5.

So, just queue a lot of people complaining about ridiculous stuff.

[Miltani]

I really dont understand why they keep dumbing down the game with the changes to twister and firestorm

[Aureliami]

Queue people who haven't even beaten turn 4 complaining that they weren't able to beat it pre-nerf. Also queue people complaining that everyone and their grandpa will have Allagan weapons despite the vast majority of players having never even been in Coil, let alone turn 5.

So, just queue a lot of people complaining about ridiculous stuff.

Are you a wizard?

I really dont understand why they keep dumbing down the game with the changes to twister and firestorm

[Zumi]

I really dont understand why they keep dumbing down the game with the changes to twister and firestorm

Twister didn't work most of the time with how slow their servers update position.

[aswedishtiger]

and magically over 100 guilds down Twintania by the end of the week. GG

[Mihlo]

1. Complain about the most unforgiving mechanic in an MMO ever being toned down to reasonable levels.
2. Ignore the huge wall of text before Twister changes that outlines a change to Firestorm to make it harder.

Seriously, get over yourselves, the number of FCs that are at Turn 5 consistently every week is very small.

[PSxpert2011]

Oct 8 report from GamerEscape.com

A couple of weeks ago we reported that a group of players had beaten Turn 5 of the Binding Coil of Bahamut due to a bug that made the runs boss, Twintania,immobile. There has been some talk going around this past week regarding JP groups that have now also defeated Turn 5, possibly using this exploit.

Square Enix has shut down Turn 5 while they look into fixing the fight.

Two weeks ago...

A massage from SE,
We have confirmed that the Binding Coil of Bahamut – Turn 5 is continuing to experience issues after the Oct. 15, 2013 update wherein the monster becomes immobilized under certain circumstances. For this reason, until this issue has been addressed, the Binding Coil of Bahamut – Turn 5 will be temporarily unavailable.

Please note that the Binding Coil of Bahamut – Turn 5 is the only instance that will be closed. Players will be free to continue challenging the Binding Coil of Bahamut – Turns 1 through 4.

We are currently hard at work on confirming and implementing the solution for this issue. We will make a follow-up announcement as soon as the date and time for recovery is set.

We deeply apologize for the continued inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

Today, mentioning a happening of 3 days ago(Saturday)...

FFXIV: ARR Producer and Director Yoshi-P here.

We're going to make a few adjustments to Turn 5 of the Binding Coil of Bahamut in today's maintenance, and so I'd like to take a moment to go over the details with you all.

But first, I have another important announcement to make. On October 26, 2013 (PDT), a group of daring adventurers on Excalibur has managed to clear all five turns of the Binding Coil!

This is a world-first, and we couldn't be more excited for you. Congratulations on a job well done!!!

Now then, let's take a look at the changes being made to Turn 5.
Adjustments to Twintania
...we will be having maintenance today from 11:00 p.m. (PDT) / 6:00 (GMT) until 2:00 a.m. (PDT) / 9:00 (GMT).

Am I missing something. If the game is glitched, if it was bugged, how can content be considered a relevant victory and wasn't it closed down?

Normally I would have been rooting for my server but it doesn't make any sense. I thought playing through a glitch would get you banned and the "win" would not count or everything would get rolled-back. Something fishy here.

[AlenKale]

Am I missing something. If the game is glitched, if it was bugged, how can content be considered a relevant victory and wasn't it closed down? I thought playing through a glitch would get you banned or the "win" would not count, everything would get rolled-back. Something fishy here.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1476661

Hot Fixes (Oct. 24, 2013)

The following issues were addressed.

- In “The Binding Coil of Bahamut – Turn 5,” enemies would become immobile under certain circumstances.

[Gamemako]

Am I missing something. If the game is glitched, if it was bugged, how can content be considered a relevant victory and wasn't it closed down? I thought playing through a glitch would get you banned or the "win" would not count, everything would get rolled-back. Something fishy here.

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Turn 5 was re-opened last week. Blue Garter were the first to complete Twintania post-reopening. There were some questions about the methods they used to clear the Conflagrations, so Yoshi clarified that it was indeed an intended mechanic.

//EDIT: AlenKale got it ahead of me. The original bug that had caused Twintania to stop using abilities was fixed prior to reopening.