Too many trials in MSQ

[Equitable_Remedy]

Hell, as SMN, I actually popped my Aegis shields during her multi-hit aoes just so my healers would have less trouble worrying about me and focus on other teammates didn't have mitigation.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but a normal fight engaging more of your kit (defensives, in this case) is good, actually.

[Kranel_San]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but a normal fight engaging more of your kit (defensives, in this case) is good, actually.

Exactly, just because it's normal content doesn't mean you don't have to use defensive skills.

[Reclusegamer]

In all fairness, that shield is hard to use on que. So i never think to use it because I almost never can use it when I want. The way one of this boss's aoe works is it's one of those "Repeated ground pound multi-hit" aoes. Remember the enrage mechanic from Anima in Tower of Babil? It's like that. Something like that works great with a shield as clunky as this.

We can't use Aegis when bahamut/Phoenix is out during the charge timer and we ALSO can't use when we summon Ifrit/Titan/Garuda to do our main attacks. Not only that, the shield has a small telegraph window so unlike Black Mage's Manaward, it's not really an instant-cast.

I wish Square would just fix it to where we can cast the shield from the Grimoire instead of from Carbuncle that would eliminate that problem completely and we can just weave it in when a raidwide or something similar goes off while we're firing our burst. That's really the only fix SMN needs but I digress, this is not the thread for this discussion.

[Mika_Zahard]

I really don't want to have to die 50+ times just to do a quest series. The Barbariccia one was the worst so far, I think I spent more time dead than fighting.
If they were optional, I'd skip them all.

Sounds like you need to git gud or stop playing with 1 hand

[VictorSpoils]

Went into the second phase blind and got hit maybe one time. Definitely not on par with the trial series trials in difficulty.

[SnowVix]

I'm not gonna lie, this new trial has TONS of unavoidable aoe AND very little space to move. I"ll bet the hair mechanics also made Melee Dpses cry a little on the inside. Your healers need to be wide awake for this fight. Hell, as SMN, I actually popped my Aegis shields during her multi-hit aoes just so my healers would have less trouble worrying about me and focus on other teammates didn't have mitigation.

Is this what it's like to play content on launch? It's a new feeling for me.

honestly, most of the problems with dodging AoEs comes from DF kinda just scattering to the 4 winds constantly, so baited AoEs cover far more ground than they would otherwise.