Coil Turn 4 tips

[Pesmergia]

If the MT is still dying, your dps is too low, or you both aren't saving defensive cooldowns for this phase. The main thing here is, you need defensive cooldowns available to use as a WAR, right after hallowed ground drops, because the MT will be taking massive damage, he needs the majority of the heals.

Healers need to drop agro after the 2nd heal lands after the 2nd dreadnaught drops or he will turn and cleave them. Also healers need to be aware to use NO HOTS right before the 2nd dreadnaught drops or he will immediately turn and kill them.

[NyneAlexander]

also, make sure your OT is kiting the mobs far enough away so that no bugs run to the dreadnaughts. If either one consumes bugs, it will most likely wipe your raid

[dimsumdarren]

what if, in phase 5, you killed dreadnaught instead of the knight/soldier...then the MT is just tanking one normal strength dreadnaught and OT is kiting around 2 soldiers and 2 knights?

[Zellata]

what if, in phase 5, you killed dreadnaught instead of the knight/soldier...then the MT is just tanking one normal strength dreadnaught and OT is kiting around 2 soldiers and 2 knights?

It's called "1 dreadnaught strat", a lot of groups do it this way.

[Ashira]

Main tank - Dreadnaught
Off-tank - Collects everything else and takes them to the rear of the Dreadnaught
Summoner - Casts Bane on all of the targets and then casts LB1
Bard - Foes Requiem

They're all dead before the start of Phase 6.

[Dano]

I would like to note that it's not the end of the world if one or two spiders get eaten during the last phase. It actually makes the fight alot quicker since you can omit killing two bugs, that also mean your off tank will take less damage and your healers can focus more on the main tank handling the two dreadnaughts.

[OPneedNerfs]

What's your group's dps composition?

[Taika]

I would like to note that it's not the end of the world if one or two spiders get eaten during the last phase. It actually makes the fight alot quicker since you can omit killing two bugs, that also mean your off tank will take less damage and your healers can focus more on the main tank handling the two dreadnaughts.

Yup, we always feed one to the first DN. It won't stay up long anyway.

[dimsumdarren]

well at the moment, we seem to be struggling with having 2 non-buffed dreads on the paladin, so i dont think we wanna feed the spiders just yet. but of course moving forward we might do that yea.

Our DPS is usually 1 bard, 1 dragoon, 1 blackmage, and the last spot is either black mage or a monk or a bard

[Vodomir]

well at the moment, we seem to be struggling with having 2 non-buffed dreads on the paladin, so i dont think we wanna feed the spiders just yet. but of course moving forward we might do that yea.

Our DPS is usually 1 bard, 1 dragoon, 1 blackmage, and the last spot is either black mage or a monk or a bard

We are running a very similar DPS composition (we have 1 Dragoon, 1 Monk, 1 Bard and 1 Blackmage), other than that we have 2 Paladins, a Whitemage and a Scholar.

We employ the so called one Dreadnaught strategy. In the beginning of Phase 5 we usually feed all bugs remaining from phase 4 (we usually don't bother to kill all of the bugs in p4, as it's not really needed and we are not very AoE heavy in this setup) to the Dreadnaught that spawns in p5. Maintank grabs Dread and all of our DPS burns down the dread as fast as possible. The Off-Tank grabs the soldier and the knight and tanks/kites them. Once the Dread is dead, our DPS switches onto the knight (except for the BLM who switches to the soldier for obvious reasons) for the remainder of p5. Usually none of both will die before p6 sets in. Once p6 hits, our Bard grabs aggro of the newly spawned Soldier, so the Off-Tank only needs to pick-up the new Knight and pops Hallowed Ground instantly. This way the Off-Tank doesn't have to handle the inc dmg of 4 adds on him. Once the OTs Hallowed Ground wears off, our MT pops Halowed Ground, too and both healers focus on OT during that time. In the meantime the Bard just kites the Soldier while DPSing it at the same time. The rest of our DPS focusses on the rook, which we also use a melee LB on. The Main-Tank only grabs the new Dread and the bugs are fed to the Dread right away. After the Rook is down, our Melee DPS take care of the half-dead knight, while BLM switches to the half-dead Soldier. Melees takes out second knight afterwards, then assists the BLM (if necessary), while OT grabs aggo of the Bard's Soldier, which is killed next. After that only the dread is left and you are set and done.