The Dead Ends is yet another error in the push to make everything hardcore

[Katt_Felista]

When new savage raids drop i wipe like 50 to 70+ times on them at different stage / phases of the fights when they are still fresh / unknown before gettng it too, maybe because i'm getting older and i learn slower but in the end, i get it. You just persevere.

Wiping 4 times on one boss before getting it isn't "elitism".

Please... Don't go back playing most super nintendo games.

[ijuakos_xqwzts]

Nope. There is no visual indicator for the beam attack in the last boss for instance. It just randomly beams half the circle. You have to memorize which one it's going to do first (it's Left first, then Right, then Left).

The wing glows on which side it's about to attack.

The only annoying part of that fight is the butterflies, imo, because it is kinda hard to tell which way they're facing when they're so uniform in color.

The butterflies have little circles on the ground below them and on those circles, a directional arrow. Much more helpful IMO.

Running it with a healer who know to use Esuna.

Not for me. But I only run it as healer and I know about Esuna

Ra-La is a joke once you realize he just jumps all over the place. The second boss though, yeah he's a problem.

But the second boss never moves!

[Jirah]

What’s gross is that 9 people upvoted it, what’s even more gross is what a massive joke the previous 3 or 4 dungeons were effectively being the easiest leveling dungeons to date

[Packetdancer]

The butterflies have little circles on the ground below them and on those circles, a directional arrow. Much more helpful IMO.

To be fair, I've been told by friends that the ground markers are almost impossible to see against the ground color itself if you've got certain types of colorblindness, and I grant that mechanic would probably be extremely annoying if you had to rely solely on the butterfly model itself. So I'm willing to honestly say that some folks having trouble with that particular mechanic may come down as much to an unfortunate color choice as anything else. (I gather the Prance circles are also difficult to see for the affected folks, so that could affect that mechanic a bit as well.)

But in the past when it's become evident that a marker critical to a mechanic is not visible to some significant percentage of colorblind folks, the devs have changed the color (or in some cases, added a pattern to make it more visually distinguishable). Witness how they shifted the color of the zombie goo puddles in one Bozja critical engagement so they were visible against the ground, and added markers to the color zones for another. So I kinda suspect that the subjective invisibility of those ground markers is a transient problem and will be tweaked in some upcoming patch.

[Croweyes]

Imagine playing for 4 expansions, leveling to 90, seen nearly every mechanic the game has along the way, and still have people complain about how basic MSQ dungeon is still "to hard".

[Kes13a]

Imagine playing for 4 expansions, leveling to 90, seen nearly every mechanic the game has along the way, and still have people complain about how basic MSQ dungeon is still "to hard".

well, likely a booster, so of course the fight is "hard"

[Visanis]

For players who just want to do the story, there should not be mechanics that you only see in Extreme or Savage. What is Square Enix thinking putting all these ridiculously difficult mechanics in a dungeon boss like Exaflares or the second boss's ridiculous amount of AoEs? The issue is there is no obvious tells for what the solution to the mechanics are and they are totally new so unless you look up a MrHappy or MTQ guide there's no way to know how those mechanics work. After so many people complained about Mist Dragon and The Heroes' Gauntlet how come Square Enix still insists on making dungeons harder and harder? Please stop lol

If you think any of the mechanics are close to extremes, nevermind savage, then you clearly haven't touched a piece of content above normal.

Also The Burn and Heroes Gauntlet were never even somewhat hard, if you really think that they were then I would've pitied you to have to seen Steps of Faith when that released.

But perhaps the problem lies solely on you for not learning mechanics, markers and generally how to play the game after 90 levels?

[Knot_D]

I find Amaurot harder than The Dead Ends...

[Hezzlocks]

What’s gross is that 9 people upvoted it, what’s even more gross is what a massive joke the previous 3 or 4 dungeons were effectively being the easiest leveling dungeons to date

I gotta say they really kicked it in the right direction at first with the Tower of Zot. All those AoEs from the Magus Sisters were like... daaaaaaang. I still avoided mostly everything and didn't die but it was MUCH more intense than the first Lightwarden was.

After that, though? Yeah. The rest of the dungeon bosses were mostly jokes. Still see people unsure of what to do from time to time, though. Especially on Hermes. As a Sage main I'm always ready to heal spam after each and every knockback window for the poor sods that get sent flying.

[Skiros]

I find Amaurot harder than The Dead Ends...

Amaurot was harder than the Dead Ends because I keep falling asleep when I play it.