Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent.

[Quintessa]

For heart of light, its hard to know if its magic, even from magic mobs: thier aoes might be coded to be physical. I just guess and hope it works.

[Pepsi_Plunge]

I didnt think to take a screen shot of it but

I get 3 recommendations in the same dungeon made my after noon

Not trying to piss on your parade, but that happens quit often when a pre-made party of 3 enters a dungeon together since they can't give it to each other.

[Pepsi_Plunge]

Also, what is up with people not using their AoE buff(like Heart of Light, or Shield Samba, or Shake it Off, etc) when there is damage incoming for the whole group? So many times when I am MT in a normal raid, or even the odd time I do Trial Roulette, I don't see those buffs going out. I will probably see them once every 10 runs.

To be fair you need to know what the attack does to know that raidwide is incoming. The castbar and name can mean whatever if you don't know from experience. Maybe it is summoning some adds, or a buff to themself or they will spawn some AOEs. Maybe it is "just" a single-hit tankbuster where shielding other people does nothing..

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Malikah’s Hell

Why hello there, fellow Malikah’s Hell victim.
/comfort

For heart of light, its hard to know if its magic, even from magic mobs: thier aoes might be coded to be physical. I just guess and hope it works.

It would be really helpful if they can update the cast bar interface to indicate whether an attack is physical or magic based. Casts that can be interrupted has their tell (the gauge flashes while its casting), so I hope they can make distinction for phys/magic based attacks too.

[Flay_wind]

-Finally we showed them the cheese method for heretics fork after our second wipe.

I am sorry, but the what now?

[Aldora]

I am sorry, but the what now?

The south west section (on the left side when you enter the boss arena) is basically a "safe spot" for the Heretic Fork ability. You only have move a little bit in order to dodge the first few AoE's. After that, you can just stand still. Especially easy for Ranged jobs.

It's a bit overkill, but i've made a rough scetch in the Toolbox Gaming Strat maker to give you a visual representation of what i mean.

https://ff14.toolboxgaming.space/?id...1161&preview=1

[Cincierta]

I am sorry, but the what now?

The corners on the boss' arena are safe spots for the cheese method. I typically go to the SE corner, others will go to the SW. It's basically any corner that's far enough away from the boss to where you can see every single heretic's fork go off and not get hit. The boss will always face a certain direction whenever he goes into the crystal nail phase. The fork beams will always fire in compass-shaped cross, meaning NESW.

It's bad for melee because the beams have a hitbox and it doesn't let you greed very well. However a dead dps contributes no dps.

[Raltar]

For heart of light, its hard to know if its magic, even from magic mobs: thier aoes might be coded to be physical. I just guess and hope it works.

I'm pretty sure the vast majority of unavoidable partywide/raidwide aoes are classed as magic so these abilities aren't worthless. In Shadowbringers, at the very least, every one is magic.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

The corners on the boss' arena are safe spots for the cheese method. I typically go to the SE corner, others will go to the SW. It's basically any corner that's far enough away from the boss to where you can see every single heretic's fork go off and not get hit. The boss will always face a certain direction whenever he goes into the crystal nail phase. The fork beams will always fire in compass-shaped cross, meaning NESW.

It's bad for melee because the beams have a hitbox and it doesn't let you greed very well. However a dead dps contributes no dps.

I used that very same cheese strat while I was leveling all of my melee classes and it works consistently at max melee range.

[Cincierta]

I used that very same cheese strat while I was leveling all of my melee classes and it works consistently at max melee range.

For some reason when I run it, the hitboxes are larger than they appear. Maybe I'm just cursed or it's server ping.