Can someone please idiot-proof Svarbhanu?

[Omedon]

So I'm back at this fight as alt-job leveling content, and I'm literally still one major epiphany away from, like... "getting" one, JUST ONE mechanic that constantly kills me except the times that "I don't know how I lived but I still don't get it" kinda RNG happens.

Now that I can look outside the tunnel of spoilers (not that I intend to spoil anything here but like, I was WAAAY sequestered when I started this thread, youtube locked down, the whole deal), and so not in a hurry, I can take the time to use the names of the mechanics to talk about what I'm having trouble with:

It's the final and "repeat until dead" incarnation of Aetherial disruption.

-I know to go the opposite color/symbol of what shows up in the middle of the screen.
-I know to make room for knockback when it gets added, so as to not get DoT'ed at the edge, AND to make sure I only travel within the proper color.
-I know to observe the spread effect that messes severely with the anti-knockback placement

I do all of this, and after the spread meteor hits, a SECOND meteor is the thing that kills me. Always. When I die it's always this second hit. I look for tells outside the arena, I don't see them like I do in the "crumbling sky" phase, but every single guide says there's another version of crumbling sky that happens in this final mutation of aetherial disruption... I just can't see the tells, and so I run the boss until RNG doesn't drop that second hit on me. That's the only way I win.

What are the tells? I've completed this place a grand total of twice and always after at least 5 pulls. It was 20ish my first time. I've literally timed this dungeon out on this boss. It's this ONE thing. I'm one "epiphany" away from being able to rely on completing this dungeon, but I haven't crossed that line yet and it's frustrating as hell!

[BaconBits]

So I'm back at this fight as alt-job leveling content, and I'm literally still one major epiphany away from, like... "getting" one, JUST ONE mechanic that constantly kills me except the times that "I don't know how I lived but I still don't get it" kinda RNG happens.

Now that I can look outside the tunnel of spoilers (not that I intend to spoil anything here but like, I was WAAAY sequestered when I started this thread, youtube locked down, the whole deal), and so not in a hurry, I can take the time to use the names of the mechanics to talk about what I'm having trouble with:

It's the final and "repeat until dead" incarnation of Aetherial disruption.

-I know to go the opposite color/symbol of what shows up in the middle of the screen.
-I know to make room for knockback when it gets added, so as to not get DoT'ed at the edge, AND to make sure I only travel within the proper color.
-I know to observe the spread effect that messes severely with the anti-knockback placement

I do all of this, and after the spread meteor hits, a SECOND meteor is the thing that kills me. Always. When I die it's always this second hit. I look for tells outside the arena, I don't see them like I do in the "crumbling sky" phase, but every single guide says there's another version of crumbling sky that happens in this final mutation of aetherial disruption... I just can't see the tells, and so I run the boss until RNG doesn't drop that second hit on me. That's the only way I win.

What are the tells? I've completed this place a grand total of twice and always after at least 5 pulls. It was 20ish my first time. I've literally timed this dungeon out on this boss. It's this ONE thing. I'm one "epiphany" away from being able to rely on completing this dungeon, but I haven't crossed that line yet and it's frustrating as hell!

You're more than likely getting slapped by a stray yellow aoe.

[Cathaoir]

Okay, so I had HUGE problems with this fight the first two times I ran it. And to be forum appropriate I would describe the tank in the second run as "unpleasant" about it. However, it was not because I did not understand the mechanics. I knew what to look for, but the symbols simply never showed up at all!

Our healer told me he had heard about this happening as well with other players. I watched a video of the fight and sure enough I never got what was supposed to show up. In my runs the triangle never appeared at all and when the circle sometimes appeared it was super faint and the wrong color.

Now I do what people say not to do and use a TV for my monitor (you want to argue about that feel free to write me a large check so I can buy a new rig, otherwise let it go). It is supposedly a 120 refresh rate. So I had my graphics card set for that as well as the game set for 120 refresh rate. Thinking a graphics setting may have been the cause of my woes with this dungeon I set the refresh on both my GPU and game settings back to 60.

I ran the dungeon again as a tank (so I could survive a couple of hits) and sure enough I see the symbols (although very late I should say). They are still very difficult to see as faint as they are and all of the other flashing and blinding effects going on. If I could recommend any change it would not be to change the mechanics or difficulty of the fight but simply make the symbols more visible in some way.

So if you wipe and want to call out people in your group and be "unpleasant" - first ask them if they can even SEE the symbols for the mechanics. Believe it or not some of us actually played through to Endwalker and actually learned some things along the way. Be a reason why this game is so great and help out your fellow players. If they need to leave to fix issues, you will find a sub to tag in. Just try not to immediately become a toxic troll.