Is it even possible to do Operation Archon?

[Rongway]

Thanks for showing interest. I'm not ready to tackle it again just yet, though. In all honesty I only attempted it once, at approx. item level 213 as character level 59. All my gear was top notch. I say "was", because since dinging 60 yesterday, I'm now IL 198, using Wolf Marks to buy pvp gear for all slots.

None of this matters. The duty syncs to Lv50 and IL50. For reference, the Lv45 job quest gear is IL50 and the Lv50 job quest top that completes the set is IL55. The Lv50 job quest also gives you a coffer for a full set of the IL90 palette swap. All of that will sync down to IL50.


Something what might help you, in re: dodging AoEs, is that as soon as a cast bar finishes filling and disappears, or orange telegraphs on the ground disappear, it's safe to step into the AoE. In fact many fights in this game have rapid attack sequences that (due to latency) will require you to step into AoEs after they've been calculated but before their animations go off. Get used to doing this, maybe. It's extremely uncommon for attacks to hurt you just by running into the animation after the telegraph/castbar disappears (I can think of maybe two attacks in the entire game, both flamethrower type attacks), so if the attack doesn't leave an explicit puddle effect, don't be shy about running into the marked area after the orange telegraph disappears if it'll help you dodge the one that follows.