Solo Duty: The oracle of light

[LuSnow]

Hello All

This time, I have a question, but different than usual: I won a fight and I don't understand why.

The issue: I was - once more - forced by the MSQ (Shadowbringer) to a solo duty. I did some fighting, with a last step during which I was alone against a boss called Ran'jit. I spent it mostly running out of AOEs, and after a long while, suddenly, he got me down while his own health was still around 90% (not surprising since I could hardly fight him back). Although that, the duty was declared successful! What?

My question: Why was the duty successful? The boss, with still 90% health got me down, but I won? I fail to understand something and would be happy if someone could please explain?

Thanks in advance

[Carin-Eri]

Hello All

This time, I have a question, but different than usual: I won a fight and I don't understand why.

The issue: I was - once more - forced by the MSQ (Shadowbringer) to a solo duty. I did some fighting, with a last step during which I was alone against a boss called Ran'jit. I spent it mostly running out of AOEs, and after a long while, suddenly, he got me down while his own health was still around 90% (not surprising since I could hardly fight him back). Although that, the duty was declared successful! What?

My question: Why was the duty successful? The boss, with still 90% health got me down, but I won? I fail to understand something and would be happy if someone could please explain?

Thanks in advance

I don't remember this duty too well, but so far as I recall it was simply a classic case of the story pulling the 'Not Worth Killing' trope:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.p...otWorthKilling

It's basically a scripted outcome. Much like the fight Vs Zenos during "In Crimson it Began" (Stormblood).

[DPZ2]

The "success" is that you survived the encounter. There are more than a few solo duties with this type of ending in later expansions, generally with recurring villains.

[Jeeqbit]

Sometimes, this game makes you lose as part of the story. Usually if they have most HP still then they found a way to make themselves hard to defeat (in the story) so it ends the duty and the story plays off the idea they beat you up.

[LuSnow]

Thank you All!

I suppose I failed to see/hear the info from NPC(s). It's' not first time, due to me being so much concentrated on the fight. I have now changed the NPC announcement text color to something flashy (it was dark blue making it hard to read during fighting). I hope it will help next time.