Coils of Bahamut... and its inconsistent challenge level.

[Istaru]

I see people who don't want to learn or do anything challenging as a plague of locusts.

They swarm into a game, destroy it entirely like a field of crops, then swarm off to their next victim never giving any consideration or thought to their actions. Oh wait, they're just stupid insects and can't help themselves for their ignorance.

There's that and they are one of the signs of the end of days. Nothing good to be had there either.

Same thing can be said for a flock of Seagulls. They swoop in, crap all over everything and leave you to deal with the mess they made.

[Settiesama]

[RenAshdoll]

I am guessing the OP did not stayed within melee range of the merged node to even deal damage?

Yeah, pretty much what everyone is saying, OP is pretty much living in his own world now.

[jameseoakes]

This tread scares and confuses me....

[Dualgunner]

This tread scares and confuses me....

Me too Jimmy. Me too.

[Khalithar]

I wanted to clear the coil story because it changed your dialogue with alisaie in 3.4 or 3.5 I don't remember which. Made a of for twintania unsynched and downed her on the first try, fought Darnus and that caused three wipes. Twice to get the meteors and golem placement right and the third wipe was cause we messed up the fire and ice phase. Dropped him easily. Then the final turn against Bahamut was two tries. It's much easier unsynched since you can skip phases but the instant kill stuff is still deadly.

[Neophyte]

Just to explain what happened in T11 in OPs case:

If all three nodes merge they get huge defense and hp regen while doing AoEs (3k damage maybe) non-stop.

You can't kill this uber node and it can't kill you (if you get healed).

But that's only how it looks. Eventually you will die to enrage or healers being oom. So OP wasn't really stuck, he was just dying a very, very slow death.

This is NO bug.


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Also I wanna repeat that OP is not getting why unsynch was even implemented.

The whole purpose of 'undersized group' option is precisly that SE has not to adjust any old content.
The issue of old content is accesibility (i.e. meet requirements like a full group at certain ilvl and skill level and specific roles) and with unsynch and cross server pf this issue was solved.
Every ARR fight can be cleared in a few minutes and you always find people for that without any problems.

[ErryK]

Just to explain what happened in T11 in OPs case:

If all three nodes merge they get huge defense and hp regen while doing AoEs (3k damage maybe) non-stop.

You can't kill this uber node and it can't kill you (if you get healed).

But that's only how it looks. Eventually you will die to enrage or healers being oom. So OP wasn't really stuck, he was just dying a very, very slow death.

This is NO bug.

Even then, you can still kill it if you have the DPS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfoMxxzwPcs

Although it takes a looong time, but we're talking about OP here so... unlikely.

[Dualgunner]

I wasn't able to start paying for this game until I finally found employment around the time of 2.2, so I never got to experience Binding Coil in its glory days like others did. But I nevertheless loved the designs of the fights and have fond memories of catching up in time for Final Coil of Bahamut ^u^

[Istaru]

There is another use for unsync that I don't think has been touched on. I have used it for this and will use it for this reason in SB as well.

Teaching.

In a previous post, I mentioned that I had some people who wanted to learn and clear the old primals and coil. Which I taught them how to do them synced.

I used unsync as part of that process. I will do the same in SB for people who want to learn HW stuff as well.

Here is how it works:

Round 1) Basically the cream puff round, do it level 60 with level 60 gear. Easy peasy, continue on when the team can handle it by consistently clearing it with minimal failures.

Round 2) Time to put in some effort, still unsynced at level 60, but with level 50 gear. Things hit much harder now, not as bad as 50, but the fight is much more unforgiving. Same criteria to move on to the last round.

Round 3) Now dance, level 50 with level poetics gear. There is still a benefit in being somewhat overgeared, but ignoring mechanics is absolute death.

Round X) OMG, what the heck!! Clear it with an appropriate ilvl based upon its release. Such as i90 gear or lower for Titan EX. I never did this to anyone I taught, but would be willing to, but that really is extreme and has no tangible benefit.

What would the benefit of #2, #3 or yikes #4 even be? Mentor Roulette. EX primals are in there, SYNCED EX primals!! If you are a mentor, you should know ARR EX primals at synced level. You may get one and be expected to help the other players learn how to clear it. The mentor's response shouldn't be to leave or tell them to do it unsynced. That's what a BAD mentor does. Don't be a bad mentor, we have too many of them already.

I know other mentors that can't clear things in the mentor Roulette and that makes me a sad panda.

I know I'm stuck in the past and all that and don't play the game anymore, but, I will do the same again for HW content during SB. You know, be a nice person and teach. Teach people mechanics and work with them as they learn, rejoice for them when they become proficient since that will help them during SB to be better than they are today since mechanics are always repeated.