The tank positioning is key, the standard is to have the tank positioned near the far right statue facing in towards the room so the mobs back conal is facing the middle of the room, and the ranged/healers will stand near the statue on the near right to the entrance.
At the start is a typical tank and spank, if the positioning is correct you shouldn't have too many issues, but around 75%ish it will use catastrophe which works similarly to how garudas attacks work. you need to position a statue between you and the middle of the arena, the positioning is really finicky so you need to hug the statue as close as possible. During this charge up the boss wont attack, so just focus on getting behind your statue.
After the Catastrophe goes off and assuming your party did everything right one of the statues (i dont know which one, but it is one of the ones on the left side of the room) will turn into an add and your 2 dps need to kill it asap because it will do an AoE attack, usually on the healer. After that, resume the fight until the second catastrophe, hide behind the statues, etc.
After this, it will become tricky and the healer statue will turn into an add. DPS need to kill the add, but this is complicated by the fact that the boss will start using a pulse attack on one of the party members that aren't the tank. This is signified by a purple link line on the party member in question, this party member needs to get away from the party ASAP. After a few seconds the pulse will drop where that person was standing, so if they are standing near the party you are basically going to die. It is important that you get rid of the pulse and put it in an empty part of the room you wont be using. It will do this a couple of times then use catastrophe again. Everyone needs to hide behind the tank statue at this point to avoid it and move back into position.
The previous phase will happen again, but I think it adds another pulse to the previous phase, there should be 3 but I honestly didn't take the time to count because I have been focusing on healing every time ive done it. So keep on your toes and repeat until the next catastrophe and hide behind the tanks statue again.
After this point it is do or die, the phase repeats itself, but if you don't kill the boss before the next catastrophe its game over. I would suggest that you save your limit break for this point to make sure you have enough damage to take it down.
Something to note is that the boss will use a breath attack that will disease the tank. This is probably the most difficult part for the person healing because if you don't use esuna or leeches on it immediately you are in for a world of hurt because healing on the tank will be very minimal.
That is really all there is to the fight. It is strictly execution and knowing what you need to be doing at each point of the fight, if you miss a pulse or you dont move fast enough from catastrophe you are going to die, and more than likely your party is going to follow soon after.
I was going to do a write up on the entire dungeon because I have had to explain this like 10 times in each pug ive been in, but at this point my free company is almost completely done with the story/leveling their arcanists so I will actually have people to play with again. In the mean time i guess I can just point people here. I actually had someone in a party last night that had an entire macro to explain the boss. Blue Water I think their name was, wherever you are you are awesome.
Shinzu Nocht Member replied
629 weeks ago