Blue Mage: Masked Carnivale 29 Needs Nerf Badly!

[Soupa]

Are you serious??




Just buff it?? They should also add an enrage timer!!

There were a few fights that I was able to cheese beat all their mechanics and get them low but then the boss either repeats a mechanic but missing the vital bits that made it hard or just stands there and smacks me around. I wondered why there was no enrage on these.

[KageTokage]

They probably felt an enrage wasn't needed when you're already fighting the clock for most of the weekly achievements.

[Destati]

Just buff it?? They should also add an enrage timer!!

There already is one. Except it's on the player's end, not the mob.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

For me it is the level 25 fight..
I have tried it so many damn times.
Is sad because up until now this is the only thing i have had issue with.
Never had issues with the MSQ solo fights and blu for whatever reason i cannot get this darn fight down

What spells are you using? Azulmagia can be beaten without taking damage since all he does are AOEs. It's just a matter of getting his patterns down.

Personally, I found that the second phase is the hardest because of the Angons, so I disengage to stab them when he chucks them out.

[RyuSaarva]

[QUOTE=JamieRose;5263157]If the content is not for everyone, then they shouldn't gate necessity spells behind it. I have no problem with regular BLU parties and Blue Mage has always been one of my favorite jobs in FF.


you don't need revive for anything and if you can't clear the story mode you have no business doing savage fights with bluemages.

[RyuSaarva]

I'm just going to go through all the extremely questionable deaths I've had in this fight.

Knocked back by protean wave, even though I was well out of the way of it.
Used flying sardine on fluid swing but it refused to register an interrupt. (I've had this at least 20 times.)
Took Pyretic damage even tho my hands were not on the controller and I wasn't moving.
Took Pyretic damage even tho the effect had expired. (At least 5 times)
Killed by flame burst despite the fact that I wasn't standing on it.
Killed by Torrent because exuviation did not remove it despite me casting it. (At least 3 times)
and in my lastest loss...Killed by big splash because Diamondback cancelled itself after casting it for no discernible reason.

Not only does this duty need to be nerfed, it needs to be swept for bugs. Did QA even do its job?

either you have like 5 second lag or you are moving during pyretic because spells cancel when you move too soon and diamonback cancels after you cast it if you start moving (there are no bugs with any of these things).

[Destati]

you don't need revive for anything and if you can't clear the story mode you have no business doing savage fights with bluemages.

You kinda need revive if you want to keep the party from wiping and starting over, even in normal content.

CNJ/WHM, AST, ACN, SCH, SMN, and RDM don't have their rezzes locked behind annoyingly difficult solo duties. Angel Whisper works the exact same way, yet has a ridiculously long cooldown and requires the completion of all 30 Masked Carnivale fights to obtain. It almost isn't worth the trouble.


Furthermore, you don't need to complete all of them to clear story mode, just round 20 for lvl 50 and round 30 for 60.

[TheMightyMollusk]

The main difficulty in the Masked Carnivale is server ping and/or lag. Combined with a lot of one-shots, too much of either makes it unplayable.

That and I can never remember which primal spells share CDs, so I forget how many I can slot at a time without wasting spots.

[Rongway]

You kinda need revive if you want to keep the party from wiping and starting over, even in normal content.

BLU party content is challenge content. If you want to do, .e.g., Alexander Savage with BLU, everyone should

1) already know the fight, as executed by a standard job party composition

and

2a) know how to handle the fight as a BLU party
or 2b) be prepared to wipe and then get it right the next time

People shouldn't be doing those fights on BLU if they can't already survive them as a real job. Do the learning on a different job, then apply the knowledge to BLU. Accordingly, raise is not something you should need or rely on in a BLU party.

[Flay_wind]

That and I can never remember which primal spells share CDs, so I forget how many I can slot at a time without wasting spots.

That's quite easy actually. It's their recast timers. Eruption/Feather Rain both have 30 seconds recast. Shock Strike/Mountain Buster 60 seconds recast. Same goes for Quasar/J Kick pair. And then there's Glass Dance/Veil of the Whorl - 90 seconds recast. Surpanakha has unique mechanic and does not share a recast with other primal abilities.