FF15 Event -- "Monolith Warp" Mechanic is still broken

[Jade3173]

I cheesed it a bit with going to WAR and used holmgang on the monolith, can't pull you back with that. Been very laggy recently on top of my high ping so after failing it with BRD I just went full cheese

[JunseiKei]

You can fail this fight? It seemed really straight forward. I just fought Garuda where she stood on RDM. When she did her AoE, just turned my camera 180, warp strike the monolith, AoE goes off, warp strike back, get link bonus from Noctis and repeat 'til dead. Didn't go behind the rock or anything - AoE doesn't reach if you don't have her in the middle. Didn't face her away from Noctis; didn't heal him. Warped out of the draw-in attack immediately after it happened with no issues.

It seems that the pillar directly across from her is "supposed" to be your default option as a player. I didn't even notice Noctis could block you from taking a monolith (that or you simply can't use the same one if he just warped; it looked like I warped well ahead of him).

[Rowde]

I'm assuming the mechanic that is killing ppl is the halfway point in the fight where she does all the draw-in effects and you have to warp to the monolith on the last one.

Completed this on my main and 4 alts so far, 5 characters.

Main took 2 tries, alt#1 took 1 try, alt#2 took 3 tries, alt#3 took 1 try and alt#4 took 1 try as well.


Think I got it figured out now. You DO NOT need to warp strike to the monolith between each draw-in effect. What I do instead is simply walk towards my monolith. I do this so that I can still use the visual queue of the draw-in effect. There are 6 total pulses of draw-in. On the 6th pulse, as soon as I see my character start to slide back towards her I hit Warp Strike, while continuing to hold in the direction towards the monolith." As soon as my character gets to the monolith, they then pass through it to be considered behind it and guarded against the attack.

[Chiami]

You can fail this fight? It seemed really straight forward. I just fought Garuda where she stood on RDM. When she did her AoE, just turned my camera 180, warp strike the monolith, AoE goes off, warp strike back, get link bonus from Noctis and repeat 'til dead. Didn't go behind the rock or anything - AoE doesn't reach if you don't have her in the middle. Didn't face her away from Noctis; didn't heal him. Warped out of the draw-in attack immediately after it happened with no issues.

It seems that the pillar directly across from her is "supposed" to be your default option as a player. I didn't even notice Noctis could block you from taking a monolith (that or you simply can't use the same one if he just warped; it looked like I warped well ahead of him).

Sadly it seems like there is something pretty iffy with the timing/latency going on there with the draw-in attack, if you don't time your warp-out there right... insta-death unless you cheese it on tank/BLU. I have done it by now on 6 characters, experimented around, and even by timing things EXACTLY the same way... sometimes I cleared it at first try, but also had a record of 5 fails already due to one-shot mechanic getting screwed by latency issues from what I can tell. Which leaves a bit of a bad aftertaste, to have "latency lottery" in this otherwise really fun event/fight, sometimes being forced to "fail your way to success" (via echo). But oh well... we know FFXIV has horrible latency issues, and some fights become ridiculously bad thanks to that unless you sit on a very fast and stable ping ^^;

[Gula]

You can fail this fight?

You didn't think they programmed a fail state?

[Sevrenichi]

Wait. It's not just a meme that people are having problems with this fight?

I had zero trouble at all :V

[Gralna]

Not sure about everyone else, but found for when she spams her draw in while casting her big aoe, if your rhythm is of off with the frequency of the draw ins you'll just basically stay stuck in the middle. Waited till a draw in had just finished and was able to teleport away and each cd after kept teleporting away.

Found the fight rather easy, only having to heal noct a few times because I didn't position Garuda away from Noct.

[Tlachtga]

Just go tank and pop cds on Microburst. It does laughable damage.

[ElHeggunte]

Tip: The timing for avoiding Microbust is similar to the timing you're (supposed to be) using to avoid Mistral Shriek and do a Link Strike with Noctis.

I'm not terribly surprised people are having issues timing the Warp out of Microburst, but I'm finding the number of people who said Noctis barely survived our outright died to be a little disconcerting. Were you people just peppering him in the face with AoE and not stacking on him when you were supposed to?

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Tip: The timing for avoiding Microbust is similar to the timing you're (supposed to be) using to avoid Mistral Shriek and do a Link Strike with Noctis.

I'm not terribly surprised people are having issues timing the Warp out of Microburst, but I'm finding the number of people who said Noctis barely survived our outright died to be a little disconcerting. Were you people just peppering him in the face with AoE and not stacking on him when you were supposed to?

Not a lot of people play tanks to know proper tanking protocol.
So it's likely they just walk up to the boss and start thr beatdown while dropping all the aoes on Noctis.