Is it even possible to do Operation Archon?

[Seera1024]

I feel your pain. I came here to get away from WoW. Cape Westwind/Operation Archon may be my Waterloo in FF

What class are you using for the mission?

What's the level of your gear on the left side?

What are you dying to?

[Pashen]

Thanks for showing interest. I'm not ready to tackle it again just yet, though. In all honesty I only attempted it once, at approx. item level [edit: 123, not 213 as originally stated] as character level 59. All my gear was top notch. I say "was", because since dinging 60 yesterday, I'm now IL 198, using Wolf Marks to buy pvp gear for all slots. I have only one character, archer/bard, the one showing as my forum avatar.

The result of my one attempt was to make it past the adds, then getting overwhelmed by the large aoe circles he lays across most of the combat area. I know I need to up my reaction time to find those slivers of safe ground, I'm just not looking forward to it, particularly as the point I died appears to be only part 2 of 4.

I'm interested in any comment but it's probably premature to ask for advice when I haven't yet invested the time required to grapple with the issue of dodging his aoe attacks. I also need to pick through more videos to find the ones that were made after the change to SOLO mode.

Thanks again.

What class are you using for the mission?

What's the level of your gear on the left side?

What are you dying to?

[Rongway]

Thanks for showing interest. I'm not ready to tackle it again just yet, though. In all honesty I only attempted it once, at approx. item level 213 as character level 59. All my gear was top notch. I say "was", because since dinging 60 yesterday, I'm now IL 198, using Wolf Marks to buy pvp gear for all slots.

None of this matters. The duty syncs to Lv50 and IL50. For reference, the Lv45 job quest gear is IL50 and the Lv50 job quest top that completes the set is IL55. The Lv50 job quest also gives you a coffer for a full set of the IL90 palette swap. All of that will sync down to IL50.


Something what might help you, in re: dodging AoEs, is that as soon as a cast bar finishes filling and disappears, or orange telegraphs on the ground disappear, it's safe to step into the AoE. In fact many fights in this game have rapid attack sequences that (due to latency) will require you to step into AoEs after they've been calculated but before their animations go off. Get used to doing this, maybe. It's extremely uncommon for attacks to hurt you just by running into the animation after the telegraph/castbar disappears (I can think of maybe two attacks in the entire game, both flamethrower type attacks), so if the attack doesn't leave an explicit puddle effect, don't be shy about running into the marked area after the orange telegraph disappears if it'll help you dodge the one that follows.

[Pashen]

Yup, L50 sync really harshed my mellow on this one. I walked into it thinking I'd be in an eight-person party, not having seen that the change to SOLO had been made. My sense of foreboding is palpable going forward. That aside, your suggestion about timing my actions in aoe situations is very relevant and very much appreciated. Perhaps there's hope!

None of this matters. The duty syncs to Lv50 and IL50. For reference, the Lv45 job quest gear is IL50 and the Lv50 job quest top that completes the set is IL55. The Lv50 job quest also gives you a coffer for a full set of the IL90 palette swap. All of that will sync down to IL50.


Something what might help you, in re: dodging AoEs, is that as soon as a cast bar finishes filling and disappears, or orange telegraphs on the ground disappear, it's safe to step into the AoE. In fact many fights in this game have rapid attack sequences that (due to latency) will require you to step into AoEs after they've been calculated but before their animations go off. Get used to doing this, maybe. It's extremely uncommon for attacks to hurt you just by running into the animation after the telegraph/castbar disappears (I can think of maybe two attacks in the entire game, both flamethrower type attacks), so if the attack doesn't leave an explicit puddle effect, don't be shy about running into the marked area after the orange telegraph disappears if it'll help you dodge the one that follows.