I just played "The Dragon's Neck" (No spoilers)

[Darki]

I want to thank you SE for bring back very fond memories of Final Fantasy. I won't go too far into detail about the fight, but I just wanted to say that... You made me smile.

[Archvile78]

I want to thank you SE for bring back very fond memories of Final Fantasy. I won't go too far into detail about the fight, but I just wanted to say that... You made me smile.

What this person said! The mechanic on how to stop typhon's sneeze made me grin throughout the fight.

[Chiramu]

It is a very bizarre fight...

[Warlyx]

It is a very bizarre fight...

working as intended

loved it

[Corfish]

What IS the mechanic? I ran it the day it came out, and me and my party could not figure it out, and we tried every thing we could think of, to the point of ridiculousness...

[Alukah]

What IS the mechanic? I ran it the day it came out, and me and my party could not figure it out, and we tried every thing we could think of, to the point of ridiculousness...

Pretty easy.

Phase 1: DPS will be turned into imps, all imps should stand in front of Ultros (along with Ultros tank) when Ultros uses Aqua Breath or whatever it's called all imps will get stacks, then when Typhoon goes to the middle and starts charging his mega sneeze all imps should use their special attack (in the pet hotbar) on Typhoon to deplete his stacks, Typhoon has 8 stacks I believe, so each DPS should get at least 2 stacks from Ultros to nullify the attack.

Phase 2: Same as phase 1, but with a counter-clockwise rotating breath coming from Typhoon, main tank should be moving ultros around the border to avoid the breath, while DPS do the same as Phase 1.

Phase 3: Kill them, the only thing you need to worry about is when Typhoon goes to the middle, he will sneeze around 4 times, everyone must go to the middle so they aren't thrown out of the arena.

Note that for phase 3 there's some RNG involved, the sneeze attack could happen at the same time ultros summons his tentacles, in that case it's an unavoidable wipe

[SirSaber]

Was definitely the most WTF fight i've ever had in FF14.

Liked it

[Noshpan]

I had to log off for the emergency maintenance before I could do the fight.

I am a bit sad that Gilgamesh considers me an enemy, though.

[Corfish]

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Ahaha. Wow, we had about half of the equation at one point. We tried so many ridiculous things, just to list a few:

1. Imps should attack Typhon when he charges his breath attack (this is where we were half right, we didn't know about Ultros).
2. What if the imps try attacking the healers and tanks and turn them into imps too!?
3. What if someone jumps off before Typhon uses his instant kill?
4. WHAT IF WE ALL JUMP OFF?!
5. What if the imps attack Ultros and try to turn him into an imp?
6. What if we fave Ultros and Typhon away from each other?
7. Face them at each other?

There were more attempts, but I can't recall everything we did.

[papichulo123]

what drops after this is it just the 1 minion?