I've been stuck on the birb for months. Farthest I've gotten is FOA. And by that I mean half the party died and I simply saw the mechanics. This is even when joining clear parties that say they know the mechs just to see if I could get further than the FOA progs and 9/10 they die to the adds phase. Also including parties where most of them are "vets". From what I've heard bouncing around parties my experience isn't the only one. It seems everyone has hit the wall known as the angry KFC brought to us by Lahabrea (I wish I could kill him a second time)

It's not even fun at this point. I thought the Hippo was hard but I was able to hit its enrage many times and only took me like a month and that was joining parties on my days off. I have spent night after night on birb making little to no progress despite having all the mechs memorized as it only takes one tank not grabbing a tether properly or not killing the adds not once but twice within a small 60 window and having no one so much as cough too hard for everything to go to Hell.

Call me a casual (despite making it this far) but like, can we get a checkpoint? A debuff? I get ol Dracula whom I haven't seen a video on nor want to being uber hard as he is the gatekeeper to the new Ultimate but ain't this a bit much for the third boss in this series? This birb should have been the main antagonist of the Endwalker expansion.

Thoughts?