Blue Mage: Masked Carnivale 29 Needs Nerf Badly!

[JamieRose]

I'm just going to go through all the extremely questionable deaths I've had in this fight.

Knocked back by protean wave, even though I was well out of the way of it.
Used flying sardine on fluid swing but it refused to register an interrupt. (I've had this at least 20 times.)
Took Pyretic damage even tho my hands were not on the controller and I wasn't moving.
Took Pyretic damage even tho the effect had expired. (At least 5 times)
Killed by flame burst despite the fact that I wasn't standing on it.
Killed by Torrent because exuviation did not remove it despite me casting it. (At least 3 times)
and in my lastest loss...Killed by big splash because Diamondback cancelled itself after casting it for no discernible reason.

Not only does this duty need to be nerfed, it needs to be swept for bugs. Did QA even do its job?

[VirusOnline]

I have no idea what this is even meant to imply.

Ah well poor spideyman ;-;

On the other hand, there's a lot of good advice. I'd try them all before yelling nerf.

[JamieRose]

Ah well poor spideyman ;-;

On the other hand, there's a lot of good advice. I'd try them all before yelling nerf.

Nerf.

Is that better?

[Avidria]

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Most of that sounds more like lag than bugs. I died a few times to lagging out when I did it - though it was the boss freezing in place, then a cast that killed me finishing before I even saw him casting it. Lag/server problems maybe?

[Nestama]

Trying the Pom Cure method. Working a little better. I can kill the hands sometimes. Still haven't beaten it because this fight is nothing but a parade of BS OHKOs that taxes the brain trying to remember all this cockamamie horse crap like the world's worst game of simon says.

My position has not and will not change. This fight is difficult for all the wrong reasons, nerf it.

Mate, it's not that bad. The fight will always follow the same rotation of skills, so you could probably make your own timeline thing so you can prepare for the attacks in advance. Nothing is random. If you have every spell, are i270 and melded in Spell Speed, the fight is pretty easy (the part where he uses Throttle and then the skill that needs to be silenced does trip me up a bit, though).

Edit: it looks like you suffer bad lag. So that's not a reason for why SE should nerf this fight. It sounds like you might need to talk to your ISP (unless you're like me and the lag is simply something to expect. I average around 150-200+ ping due to living in Australia and playing on an American server). Or FFXIV could have been getting DDoS'd while you were trying to do the fight.

[Bonbori]

I'm just going to go through all the extremely questionable deaths I've had in this fight.

Knocked back by protean wave, even though I was well out of the way of it.
Used flying sardine on fluid swing but it refused to register an interrupt. (I've had this at least 20 times.)
Took Pyretic damage even tho my hands were not on the controller and I wasn't moving.
Took Pyretic damage even tho the effect had expired. (At least 5 times)
Killed by flame burst despite the fact that I wasn't standing on it.
Killed by Torrent because exuviation did not remove it despite me casting it. (At least 3 times)
and in my lastest loss...Killed by big splash because Diamondback cancelled itself after casting it for no discernible reason.

Not only does this duty need to be nerfed, it needs to be swept for bugs. Did QA even do its job?

This... definitely sounds like a bad case of lag. It could be your internet or or your machine but I can assure that it's not inherent to the fight itself. It is not bugged. In my experience, Carnivale fights have been no less and no more responsive than any other type of instanced content.

[EorzeaHero69]

I don't find it too hard. you just need to kill hands quickly with AoE (and Ramuh if it's available) spells and DB the splash at the last act. It only took me a couple tries to kill it.

[Kaiserdrache]

Blu Content definetenly needs some rebalancing, not effectively nerfs, but skill rebalancing to make them less gimmicky and more useful overall, skills that are only needed and useful for a single carneval battle should be removed and replaced with other skills that are better designed.

blue mage carneval needs checkpoints, whenever you have beesten an act and fail to beat the next act, you should be able to skip the acts youve successfully done already to save time and nerves.

That would make things already alot smoother n less stressful ans annoying

[KageTokage]

Eerie Soundwave was one of the skills I was expecting to actually be useful outside of the carnivale...but nope, you can't dispel any kind of buff from enemies in raids (Yet you can Level 5 doom cheese virtually every trash mob/boss add outside of stuff in Alexander Savage...).

It only seems to work on timed buffs or the few present in the newest carnivale stages.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Get Aetheric Mimicry Healer, using White Wind and use Pom Cure is a serious waste of MP in the Carnival on any mission where you'll take damage.

4 Must have skills for the fight are Exuvation (for getting rid of Throttle), Flying Sardine (for interrupts), Diamond Back for the Big Splash and Shock Strike (for killing the left water hand quickly, otherwise it'll eat your MP).

For regular attacks, you should spam Sonic Boom or Alpine Draft for the fire guy. And Electrogenesis or Glower for the water one.


One thing to note is that most attacks won't one hit kill you. If you can't avoid some of the larger area AoEs like when the fire guy covers most of the arena with the fire pillars, you can survive one of them if you can't get to the safe spot.