Binding Coil of Bahamut - Current difficulty level

[LunaHoshino]

Raid awareness is the single most important skill you need to develop for Coil. Almost every turn requires you to be paying attention to your debuff bar, the enemy's casting bar, attacks without telegraphs, things that are happening to other people, or a combination of the above. I've seen more wipes due to someone tunnel visioning than I have to anything else-- you can get away with tunneling in a lot of other fights, but not in Coil where a single mistake can wipe the entire raid.

[Haruki2014]

I finished it today, finally, around the 50th time. I played ST because I knew the mechanics very well. But I was just extremely lucky, I got a rly good team in Duty Finder. They were massively over-geared. I mean, I had around 8k HP and the other tank had 13k HP. We sailed through the snake part: killed the big snake with just the first 2 small ones, then bashed the other 2 small ones quickly. so the team made the difference - everyone knew how to do the divebomb and everything. I'm gonna start the second coil soon. Thanks for the help!!! It was useful to know not to worry and just kill the snakes quickly. It was funny, but because I watched guides so many times, I couldn't imagine the answer would be "just hit them until they die"! Haha! I thought it was a complex strategy I didn't know.

[Twilite]

Overgearing will permit facerolling. Facerolling is VERY misleading. Yes you were lucky. if the group was average geared, all that stuff you learned would have been needed.

[Gorlioliolio]

For the snakes in t5, even in sub i90 solo tanking I would eat 3 stacks most of the time (sometimes 2nd small 1 would die just as I was dragging across and big snake would have the stack but not me, but was rare and hard to pull off). Back then it was still possible to heal through that so there really is no reason in 100+ gear to bother separating them out for the stacks.

[RedAlert]

lol true but everyone started out fresh and we didn't know anything about it. Learning from going into dungeons etc will make better practice. Only butt hurt people whines about getting "wipe out." It takes time and patience to learn.

[Garotte14]

Although I wouldn't call it mandatory, I do strongly believe that the only time its ok to go into a raid blind is if your entire pre-made party/static has chosen to do so. Usually when the content is still new. Mechanics in coil, especially 5-13, are mechanics that if handled incorrectly, will wipe the entire raid. So its just smart to have an idea of whats going on so you aren't wiping potential farmers and ppl who know the fight. Just kinda a courtesy to the 7 other ppl in your party.