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[bob13bob]

LOL overgeared players playing AK on easy mode trivializing it's content. I can tell you actually weren't overgeared you can't just skip the bees. YOu have to LB and dps one bee tank on the other. In the meantime, Stuns must interrupt bee aoe AND wall repel must be positioned right. Dps need decent gear, tank doesn't.

Saying WK is easy with i70 is like a level 50 doing a level 40 dungeon without levelsync and saying difficulty is fine.

[CyanDvai]

As a PLD I had both dps fall off the bridge after the bee's were killed. The WHM and I finished killing the Wall while standing in the purple ooze at end of the bridge for 2 rounds of repel.

It's all about knowing where to be and when to be there.

[SirGazuntai]

I'm kind of disappointed with the nerf to AK. Not the tomes, but the dungeon itself.

AK was already easy. The first time I ran it with AF gear plus the GC weapon (ilvl55, I think) and the other players I ran it with were very similar, with the healer having an Ifrit weapon and AF gear. While we ALMOST ran out of space, we didn't. A DPS check implies that if you don't have enough DPS, you won't succeed and must increase your DPS to try again. (Titan's heart phase, for example)

Also, me and the other DPS were BLM's. The fact that BLM lose a huge amount of DPS as soon as they have to move hurts this fight a lot, especially when the purple lines popped quicker than your Fire III cast time. Both of us were BLM, yet we still managed Demon Wall second try.

Apart from BLM cast times, AK isn't hard if you know the mechanics. First boss is trivial and barely requires knowledge of the fight except LoSing the big AoE. Demon Wall is only hard if people fall off, which is really easy to avoid and the last boss... well, I was told the last boss was hard yet I thought it was easier than the first boss as long as you know not to stand behind him. Even getting hit by the huge Purple AoE the first few times doesn't make a huge difference.

[bob13bob]

I doubt your ability to tell how geared a player is by visual inspection when you're a fresh 50. Someone with Ifirt weapon and AF gear is definitely possible but rare. Did you DF with your own party?

[SirGazuntai]

Visual inspection? Even with a Relic +1 and full DL I don't visually inspect anyone, I click on them and examine and look at the ilvl on all their gear as I've been doing since around level 20 when I found out you can examine... AF gear and AF+1 gear can look pretty similar, so I don't bother trying. Not to mention it's just nice to look at their non-visible gear.

I DF'd solo. At that point I had no FC, nor did I make any friends on my server as I planned on switching server eventually. The only piece of gear they had that I'd never seen before was a hoplite ring, which I soon found out I would receive the next day. Apart from that all the visible armor was ilvl50-55 and the rest of their accessories were all below 50 (either their earrings or necklace were in the 30's, but my memory isn't that good). They had a HQ belt but that was pretty low, too. Besides, this is the healer I'm talking about so their gear isn't that important in this dungeon.

[bob13bob]

Didn't know you could do that. cool.

ilvl 50-55 is quite a bit better than AF gear which is mostly i45, except for chest in pld case. not sure how other jobs differ from pld.

[SirGazuntai]

The level requirement for AF gear is 45-50, the ilvl is 50-55. Everything but the chest is 50, while the chest is 55.

[Sapphic]

The pattern is very simple really, start, stand a bit to the side, after middle purple, move to middle, move back to side. repeat once more, but after second stay in the middle. run back after repel. If the DPS isnt super high, as others stated, LB and burn the adds.

One tip for this tho is to turn off auto face. As I got knocked off the edge couple of times before turning it off after switching to one of the bees just as the wall repelled, auto facing me to being stood at a angle. Weeeee! Splat. XD

But after that I left it off and made Titan HM easier as BRD. As im used to running and gunning, and number of times id strafe out of an AE and auto face made me run back into it >.< Only problem is that the cone of visibility to hit the bosses is very, very small in FFXIV compared to other MMOs. But thats an issue for another post

[GuardianX]

I can understand the concern of pugs not being able to clear the wall. Hell, I had problems with the wall when the game first came out. Looking back now, the problem was me because as a healer caster, I had to adjust my casting while avoiding purple and knowing when to stand in the middle for repel. Even if dps is not there, my group is able to kill the wall either by focusing on the bee or focusing on the wall. Tank must keep hate to give breathing room for dps and healer must keep tank alive long enough for the dps to do their jobs.

[GuardianX]

As a PLD I had both dps fall off the bridge after the bee's were killed. The WHM and I finished killing the Wall while standing in the purple ooze at end of the bridge for 2 rounds of repel.

It's all about knowing where to be and when to be there.

Omg dude, we're we in the same fight? I was whm and it was only myself and tank. We ran out of room to a point where all the floor was purple but we still killed the wall.