Solo duty: Taking a Stand

[LuSnow]

Hello All

This solo duty is a nightmare to me. It combines all what I hate together: It's solo, I'm forced to different class than my and it's a melee class... I could cry. Even in very easy mode, my health decreases at light speed while the boss doesn't seem to take any damages, and within some minutes, am out.

I have the following problems:
- The healing skill doesn't heal much and has a long recharge time.
- The skill 1 is supposed to bring some healing, but it's annihilated by the rate at which the boss is damaging me.
- Moving continuously doesn't seem to prevent being hit: My health is simply continuously decreasing, no matter what.
- The skills don't seem to damage him?
- The limit break skill is rarely active and when it is, doesn't seem to deal any damage?

I would really be glad for any hints and information. Honestly, with this one, it looks like the rest of the msq will be out of reach for me. But well, before to give it up, I would like to give it another try with some support from your side.

Worst case, I would see if I can find a friend who could do it for me.

Thanks in advance.

[GraceHorizon]

This one’s a stumbling block for folks who don’t play melee/don’t play Warrior. The same basic guidelines as any FFXIV combat apply though. Stay out of telegraphed AoEs, but note that you can’t avoid auto-attacks, don’t bother trying. You get a basic melee attack combo that’s pretty standard Warrior fare, so you should mostly be using that, or your AoE combo if there are multiple targets in range. Your ranged attack is a last resort if you’re forced out of melee. Luwatena Pulse increases max HP in addition to current so you should use it early and often, it is never really wasted as long as there’s significant incoming damage. And you also get a gap closer, basically a cut-rate Primal Rend, that you should use for movement, especially to get out of AoEs if the enemy is near a safe spot. Idk why your limit break isn’t doing anything, it was quite effective for me. Is the enemy out of range?

Wuk Lamat plays basically like a weaker Warrior, and since I play Warrior a lot this solo duty was trouble free for me, but if you struggle you can also turn down the difficulty after losing. It’s not like you need to learn how to use her move set for normal play so there’s no reason not to turn it down just to get through.

[GraceHorizon]

Hmm, and in case I didn’t make it clear enough: you need to be aggressive and get up in the enemy’s face whenever possible. You are tougher and more dangerous than him, let him know it!

[LuSnow]

Hmm, and in case I didn’t make it clear enough: you need to be aggressive and get up in the enemy’s face whenever possible. You are tougher and more dangerous than him, let him know it!

Thank you for your help. For info, I did it in very easy mode (as said): It didn't make any difference. I saw on the internet that it seems to be a bug? Some players say that the easy mode version is easier (because really scaled down) than the very easy one... LOL! I could try it.

[Frizze]

Its been a minute since i looked at this one, but heres what i remember. You play a warrior like class. You still want to avoid the big orange attacks on the ground, but otherwise extra movement isnt doing anything for you. Ability wise you mostly ride the melee combo(tail of something). That one is damage and a heal. The aoe combo is for when the add phase happens. You can likely avoid the ranged attack altogether. The gap closer(run something) is useful if you find yourself away from the boss and need to move close to/behind him. That leaves the heal and the LB. For the heal(something pulse) it works by raising your hp, healing you for that amount, and increasing any healing done by you for the next few moves. So try to make sure that after you use it you get in either the melee combo or the LB to take advantage of the heal boost. Which leaves the LB. It isnt designed to be a big strong hit. If i remember right its like a medium hit with a medium heal. The real power of the LB is that it gives you a boost to your damage for a time while giving you a lifesteal affect at the same time(the wiki says 15 secs for each). So after hitting this you need to keep going with the melee combo(or aoe combo if used during the add phase). The lifesteal means that most of the time you should end up close to/at full health if you keep pressing the attack(especially in the add phase since you would steal from every target hit by the aoe).

If theres a move he does that troubles you i can try to explain, but honestly nothing he tries is really new. Youve seen towers, youve seen fake clones, youve seen cleaves.

To offer a word of encouragement, if i remember the story right this might be the last solo duty you struggle on. I wont lie and say there arent any more, but you play as yourself for most/all of those left and i dont remember any others off the top of my head that really stopped people later in DT. I fully believe you can do this.

And as a final tip, at one point this quest might have been bugged in that the "Easy" mode seemed to be easier then the "Very Easy" one. I never saw proof of this "bug", but heard plenty of anecdotal evidence. I also never heard definitively if this was "fixed". So this might be worth trying too. I can think of one solo duty for sure where the "very easy" just boosts all the numbers across the board - damage dealt, damage taken, raises available. So in that fight you do more damage, take more damage, die more, and still win if youre trying. This fight i havent played with the easy/very modes to know what the actual changes made are. But again, if normal and very arent working, try the other setting at least once to see.

[Shistar]

Frizze already offered all the advice I came here for, so I'll just cheer on you! I agree this should be the last actually annoying Duty of DT, so don't get discouraged by the difficulty and don't be afraid to be aggressive!

[LuSnow]

Thank you. I will retry on a day am not too tired and try to apply what you describe. Worst case, I believe that the son of a friend is also playing FFXIV and maybe he can do it for me. But I will keep that as the last solution.

[LuSnow]

Hello All

Well, it's definitive: I can't beat this solo duty.

No matter what mode, no matter how much I spam skill 1 and 3 to maintain health, no matter what guide I follow point by point, I keep failing again and again and again... The best I ever achieved was to get the boss health down to 82%, in very easy mode, after a hard fighting of 15 minutes before dying. It means that I can't damage the boss more than 18% per 15 minutes... Seriously? Let's face it, it's totally out of reach for me.

You know, I like to keep working hard on things to learn and progress, but when they are fun. The problem with that duty is that it's no fun to me. Beside, after 15 minutes jumping in all directions (even with max zooming out), motion sickness starts and even if I could survive longer than 15 minutes, I would have to stop because of it.

So what are the consequences? I can't finish the msq. Does it mean that for example, there is no point for me to buy any potential next expansion pack? Because if I understand correctly, the next story will be locked behind finishing the previous one? So it's dead for me?

What solution do I have? Do you think it is possible to handover my credential to someone so that the person does the duty for me? In the meantime, I clarified that it would be a violation of TOS, so not authorized. They really blocked any possibilities to get some help.

Thanks for any idea you could have as I'm despaired by now.

Sorry, I edit my post for one more question: I'm level 100. Is the splendor vendor with level 100 gear located in a city locked behind winning that duty?

[Shistar]

[snip]

I'm so sorry. To answer your questions:
1. You would be able to skip DT eventually by buying a story skip from the store, but that would skip the entire expansion, not just this duty. But no, you wouldn't be stuck forever.
2. Yes, it is against TOS to share your account credentials, but this is more for reasons like they don't want 8 people sharing 1 account and paying only 1 sub, or they don't wanna be responsible if you share your account details and something bad happens to your account. But they're not actively monitoring who logs in from what device and they obviously can't know if it's actually you or someone else playing from your PC... so yeah.
3. Indeed, you cannot buy tomestone gear until your MSQ is done. The relevant NPC for DT is located at Solution Nine. The NPC that gives you your job gear is also locked by MSQ, although not exactly by fully finishing it, is located in Tuliyollal.

[Frizze]

You dont mention if you tried it, so im gonna ask even though it was already suggested. Have you tried the fight on EASY mode? Not very easy, normal easy. I remember repeatedly hearing that it was actually the easiest of the 3 for this particular instance for some reason.

As for the tome shop, yeah its in a place you cant get to yet. When the next expansion comes out they will sell a story skip that brings you to the beginning of it, so continuing on will eventually be an option if you want.

Back to the fight, are you saying that your best attempt was a 15 minute long fight that maxed out at 82%, or that within 15 mins worth of multiple tries thats how far you got? Was there a specific thing that got you, or was it just attrition+sickness? Even for someone struggling with the fight, that doesnt sound right to me. Try to answer if you can, i might need to do a bit of digging.

Edit: Looking at the NG+ data, damn that is deep in there. I was hoping, unlikely as it seemed, that there would be a start point closer to the cookoff. Nope. Its either start of the expansion, or a dozen or so quests PAST this point. Ive seen this question enough times that curiousity points me towards pushing into that NG+ range, but im not sure when ill find the time to get that into my schedule. Has anyone else done this recently/is already partway through a run?