General tips for A8/Midas 4 NM on DF

[Giubba]

So almost 5 days into 3.2 most groups even in DF are smoothly sailing over the first 2 phases of A8. That being said, it looks like the reason many runs still go to shit is during the arrow stacking mechanic due to the unpredictability of the floor AOEs that precede it, and then the transition to Apocalyptic Ray which catches some players off guard before they can get behind him.

Has anyone made any observations or more effective strategies during this transition? In most of my runs in DF the successful ones usually go with stacking directly under the boss because, more often than not, no AOEs pop under him.

I'm quite desperate 2 days straight of farming and i sill had to complete 1 time A8.

The combat is fun,complex and people keep failing at the simplest thing like the arrow stacking....it's just like in void ark ffs why i still see people running away from other player...i'm quite frustrated

[fm_fenrir]

it's just like in void ark ffs why i still see people running away from other player...i'm quite frustrated

SE is bad at communicating when you should and shouldn't stack. The best example I can think of are tethers; Ifrit's tethers you have to run TO the person, but Charibert's tethers you run FROM the person. They look the same, but you have no idea they do different things until they kill you.

Of course, I don't really know why people would continue to make the same mistake after seeing what killed them the first time, but that's DF for you.

[TSLsmokey]

Of course, I don't really know why people would continue to make the same mistake after seeing what killed them the first time, but that's DF for you.

Exactly why I don't like doing A1... People, who have cleared this before, don't seem to get the hint that they need to be separated, that alarum need to be killed under the lasers, and that you gotta kill em at the same time.