Was just about to do this bit and was worried since I knew you hadn't done a guide on yet - am very glad to have checked again to see that you now have! Thanks Tom, your guides are the best!
Thankyou for another calm and comprehensive guide, TS. I am dying on WHM repeatedly, whether with NPC or PC, in the latter part of the Ascian Prime fight, which is a tad inconvenient. I can't link this to your vid, since you're doing things correctly. The boss does multiple Fire AoE, and I can't get to the small safe areas on the periphery in time. This occurs more than once. I figure I need to be anticipating this before the AoE is telegraphed, but don't know how. By this stage, I'm using Medica for party-wide heal, so the rest of the party, who are all healed up at that point, take moderate dmg, but it's sufficient to one-shot me. This dungeon is no problem until AP.
Heya, yeah unfortunately as I've marked, this guide is a little outdated now after a somewhat recent update. I've not been here again myself so I don't know exactly how the end boss differs but a few people in the comments have been struggling with it. Apparently it was only the end boss that changed so I can leave a pinned message with the changes but that requires me to run the place again beforehand 😓
I've said it before on another guide in different words, but these short sweet light hearted guides are so helpful and welcome. They ease my fear, and make the instance so much less intimidating.
Your guides are SO entertaining, aside from being super informative ofcourse. Everytime i see that you have a guide on the dungeon i'm about to do, i get so excited and pick yours
1st: U R the best FFXIV Guide Sensei around thank you so very much for your amazing clear well pronounced and understandable English!!! U R THE BEST! 2nd: I feel like MECHANICS CHANGED SIGNIFICANTLY (making it a much harder fight), and if you'd make an upgraded guide, it would be another TH-cam legendary video.
1st: Hey that's great, thanks! And I'm glad to hear that my pronunciation is clear. 2nd: yeah I've heard this dungeon might have had a tweak. I've not been back there since but will update the video information once I have. Right now I am staying away from covering more dungeons because it looks like SE are doing a bunch of tweaking and these videos are very time consuming to produce.
Thanks for another great video ! It may not seem like much but thank you so much for saying at the start how long it typically takes to complete the dungeon, it really does help.
Hey no problem. I do agree that knowing the dungeon length can be quite useful so always include it. It's a rough estimate based on how much time I had left on each clear I did when recording.
BREH I just watched this video back to back with one of your older ones and your voice since getting the new mic is godly 8k UHD++ Platinum Captain's Circle quality now.
Yeah boiiiiii 🥳 Yeah the mic is much better that's for sure. My headset microphone wasn't a toaster but the difference is night and day. Or I suppose night and 8k UHD++ Platinum Captain's Circle.
For a first timer recently jumped over from Tbc. Your guides for older content are great. Not too many folks are fussed if ye don't know fights. But handy to know. Good job Tom
Thanks! I would like to put more out but I started picking the MSQ up more again. And you know, I have so little free time each evening 😅 But MSQ is down now so let's see.
"Harmachis/Harmacheese" "this boss is pretty easy". Awwww, I was kinda hoping for a "so easy, you can cheese it" pun there. As usual, thanks for the great video guides!
Hey that's great. It's good to see more people making guides. Also I will need to check out some lore videos when I have finished the story just to make I understood it all correctly so nice to see you're making those too. Keep it up!
just for info: technically it is 2 dungeons, as it throws you into a 8 person trial immediately after the long cutscene. the trial is mandatory as usual :) you may exit the facility to repair or grab new equipment etc. just make sure the _Singularity Reactor_ trial entry is available in your duty finder list
After 15 deaths, I had to end up doing this unsynched due to Ascian Prime. This one is very unforgiving for sprout healers and probably the most frustrating boss in the game. I really wish this one was an 8-player duty - at least with two healers an error doesn't automatically mean a team wipe. As much as I enjoy FF, I will never ever do this one again.
Hmm sounds like you had a bit of a rough time. It depends a little on where the difficulties came from. If your group was failing mechanics and that caused you to OOM or the group to wipe, that's not really your fault. And if you were failing mechanics then that wouldn't be affected by you healing or not. Of course maybe the damage on the tank was so high which makes it hard too, but that again can be a combination of lower level gear on you, and lower level gear on a tank. Not much you can do about it most of the time, victory and defeat is often a group effort.
@@TomScottDoesStuff Thank you for replying. It was the Fire Orb/Ice Orb mechanic that caused a majority of my deaths. The reaction time was maddingly short. Take one step in the wrong direction and I was instantly one-shotted. About the 10th wipe, I had become so frustrated that I couldn't concentrate on the mechanics, which naturally made it worse.
@@TarotMage The dungeon was reworked recently and now the mechs seem to focus a lot more on unavoidable/aoe damage. The irony is the fire/ice orb thing is way less intuitive than before, so they failed at "simplifying" that I guess.... For tank/dps you likely won't feel any difference, but for healing, there is a *noticeable* (and jarring) difficulty spike here compared to anything before. If people are taking avoidable damage or are under geared it can become quite an unexpected nightmare especially for new scholars.
@@TarotMage Yeah I'm also a sprout and found this one mechanic to be brutal not just for damage dealt but also for timing, which is WAY tighter than anything up to this point. If you really struggle with it and want to practice, you can go into duty support and run it with the NPCs. I did that after wiping several times to make myself more confident with running through animations rather than waiting for them to go off
I love these guides but I think this one is out of date, after several wipes and a disbanded group I would recommend looking at an updated guide, there is a lot of new mechanics on the final boss
Yeah it sounds like you're not the only one. I haven't actually been back here since making the guide so haven't seen the changes but there seem to be a number of comments mentioning the end boss being completely different. I've flagged this video as outdated. Thanks!
Yeah I've heard this one got tweaked. I'm a bit hesitant to cover more dungeons, at least the oldest ones because it's very likely they will get tweaked. Of course this one is unlikely to get changed again but to be honest it seems like SE are making a lot of these much easier. Almost anything that had a bit more of an uncommon mechanic is getting stripped.
Yeah a few people have been saying the same. I've been marking the guides that are outdated with the recent changes but usually after I've cleared it myself so I can pin a comment about new tactics (so far all of the changes I've seen have just made the content a lot simpler to where a guide is probably not even needed). I'll likely need to throw myself through this place tonight so I can update this. Thanks for letting me know.
Yeah it was probably tweaked. A lot of old dungeons have been made easier with recent patches. I will need to tidy up my videos at some point and mark them as outdated but I need to find the energy to check which and what 😅
@@TomScottDoesStuff Np when you find the time, in fact your vid did help me the first time i did it but when daily roulette send me back a second time i realize that it was not what i remembered. So your vid as my source material i decided to check again to see if it was just me, but clearly it was just different so only felt it was right to leave a comment for you. :)
Surprise! I actually recorded stuff for two guides!
4 more dungeons and we're done with MSQ Heavensward content !
Was just about to do this bit and was worried since I knew you hadn't done a guide on yet - am very glad to have checked again to see that you now have! Thanks Tom, your guides are the best!
Thank's Prince, it's good that I could get this up in time then!
Thankyou for another calm and comprehensive guide, TS. I am dying on WHM repeatedly, whether with NPC or PC, in the latter part of the Ascian Prime fight, which is a tad inconvenient. I can't link this to your vid, since you're doing things correctly. The boss does multiple Fire AoE, and I can't get to the small safe areas on the periphery in time. This occurs more than once. I figure I need to be anticipating this before the AoE is telegraphed, but don't know how. By this stage, I'm using Medica for party-wide heal, so the rest of the party, who are all healed up at that point, take moderate dmg, but it's sufficient to one-shot me. This dungeon is no problem until AP.
Heya, yeah unfortunately as I've marked, this guide is a little outdated now after a somewhat recent update. I've not been here again myself so I don't know exactly how the end boss differs but a few people in the comments have been struggling with it.
Apparently it was only the end boss that changed so I can leave a pinned message with the changes but that requires me to run the place again beforehand 😓
I've said it before on another guide in different words, but these short sweet light hearted guides are so helpful and welcome. They ease my fear, and make the instance so much less intimidating.
That's perfect! Glad to hear they're hitting the mark!
Your guides are SO entertaining, aside from being super informative ofcourse. Everytime i see that you have a guide on the dungeon i'm about to do, i get so excited and pick yours
Hey cool, thanks! Glad you like them 🎉
1st: U R the best FFXIV Guide Sensei around thank you so very much for your amazing clear well pronounced and understandable English!!! U R THE BEST!
2nd: I feel like MECHANICS CHANGED SIGNIFICANTLY (making it a much harder fight), and if you'd make an upgraded guide, it would be another TH-cam legendary video.
1st: Hey that's great, thanks! And I'm glad to hear that my pronunciation is clear.
2nd: yeah I've heard this dungeon might have had a tweak. I've not been back there since but will update the video information once I have. Right now I am staying away from covering more dungeons because it looks like SE are doing a bunch of tweaking and these videos are very time consuming to produce.
As a sprout tank, your bite size content is a godsent! Thanks!
You're welcome!
Thanks for another great video ! It may not seem like much but thank you so much for saying at the start how long it typically takes to complete the dungeon, it really does help.
Hey no problem. I do agree that knowing the dungeon length can be quite useful so always include it. It's a rough estimate based on how much time I had left on each clear I did when recording.
As always, amazing guide which is very much appreciated as I'm making my way through Heavensward!
Hey that's great. I hope you're enjoying it 👍
BREH I just watched this video back to back with one of your older ones and your voice since getting the new mic is godly 8k UHD++ Platinum Captain's Circle quality now.
Yeah boiiiiii 🥳
Yeah the mic is much better that's for sure. My headset microphone wasn't a toaster but the difference is night and day. Or I suppose night and 8k UHD++ Platinum Captain's Circle.
Watching this while in the queue again. Your guides are the best - thank you! 🤩
Cheers, no worries. Good luck!
For a first timer recently jumped over from Tbc. Your guides for older content are great. Not too many folks are fussed if ye don't know fights. But handy to know. Good job Tom
Hey thanks, glad to be of service 👍
Love these videos mate, you have the best dungeon guides on youtube!
Thanks Fang, I'm glad to hear it!
I like how the mentor was sleep'd by manip lol
great guide by the way these are always super helpful
Love these guides, short and sweet
I subbed just because you've been so helpful on my journey :)
Hey that's great cheers. And no worries!
Exactly what I need atm! Thank you so much!!!
Nae worries!
Good to have you back Tom!
Thanks! I would like to put more out but I started picking the MSQ up more again. And you know, I have so little free time each evening 😅
But MSQ is down now so let's see.
Thx Tom, always appreciate your guides
Thanks Nyla! I'm happy to help 🥳
"Harmachis/Harmacheese" "this boss is pretty easy".
Awwww, I was kinda hoping for a "so easy, you can cheese it" pun there.
As usual, thanks for the great video guides!
I tell you what, I'm getting feta up with these names.
You've inspired me man! You're videos are the best :)
Hey that's great. It's good to see more people making guides. Also I will need to check out some lore videos when I have finished the story just to make I understood it all correctly so nice to see you're making those too. Keep it up!
just for info: technically it is 2 dungeons, as it throws you into a 8 person trial immediately after the long cutscene. the trial is mandatory as usual :)
you may exit the facility to repair or grab new equipment etc. just make sure the _Singularity Reactor_ trial entry is available in your duty finder list
Well yeah. There's the Aeherochemical Research Facility dungeon, followed immediately by the Singularity Reactor trial.
It's been changed now! c:
Yep. I need to go through these and mark which ones are out of date. But also I'm lazy 😭
@@TomScottDoesStuff We wiped once lmao and was looking for a guide! Cheers!
Rip
After 15 deaths, I had to end up doing this unsynched due to Ascian Prime. This one is very unforgiving for sprout healers and probably the most frustrating boss in the game.
I really wish this one was an 8-player duty - at least with two healers an error doesn't automatically mean a team wipe. As much as I enjoy FF, I will never ever do this one again.
Hmm sounds like you had a bit of a rough time. It depends a little on where the difficulties came from. If your group was failing mechanics and that caused you to OOM or the group to wipe, that's not really your fault. And if you were failing mechanics then that wouldn't be affected by you healing or not.
Of course maybe the damage on the tank was so high which makes it hard too, but that again can be a combination of lower level gear on you, and lower level gear on a tank. Not much you can do about it most of the time, victory and defeat is often a group effort.
@@TomScottDoesStuff Thank you for replying. It was the Fire Orb/Ice Orb mechanic that caused a majority of my deaths. The reaction time was maddingly short. Take one step in the wrong direction and I was instantly one-shotted. About the 10th wipe, I had become so frustrated that I couldn't concentrate on the mechanics, which naturally made it worse.
@@TarotMage The dungeon was reworked recently and now the mechs seem to focus a lot more on unavoidable/aoe damage. The irony is the fire/ice orb thing is way less intuitive than before, so they failed at "simplifying" that I guess....
For tank/dps you likely won't feel any difference, but for healing, there is a *noticeable* (and jarring) difficulty spike here compared to anything before. If people are taking avoidable damage or are under geared it can become quite an unexpected nightmare especially for new scholars.
@@TarotMage Yeah I'm also a sprout and found this one mechanic to be brutal not just for damage dealt but also for timing, which is WAY tighter than anything up to this point.
If you really struggle with it and want to practice, you can go into duty support and run it with the NPCs. I did that after wiping several times to make myself more confident with running through animations rather than waiting for them to go off
I like it, Picasso.
I love these guides but I think this one is out of date, after several wipes and a disbanded group I would recommend looking at an updated guide, there is a lot of new mechanics on the final boss
This was my experience as well. Lot of wipes from the final boss.
Yeah it sounds like you're not the only one. I haven't actually been back here since making the guide so haven't seen the changes but there seem to be a number of comments mentioning the end boss being completely different. I've flagged this video as outdated.
Thanks!
just in time like always :]
This video is obsolete now (16-JAN-2023)! Especially the last boss.
F
This is an outdated guide now. Could you make an updated one?
Yeah I've heard this one got tweaked. I'm a bit hesitant to cover more dungeons, at least the oldest ones because it's very likely they will get tweaked. Of course this one is unlikely to get changed again but to be honest it seems like SE are making a lot of these much easier. Almost anything that had a bit more of an uncommon mechanic is getting stripped.
This guide is out of date as of 2023. The last boss mechanics are changed
Yeah a few people have been saying the same. I've been marking the guides that are outdated with the recent changes but usually after I've cleared it myself so I can pin a comment about new tactics (so far all of the changes I've seen have just made the content a lot simpler to where a guide is probably not even needed).
I'll likely need to throw myself through this place tonight so I can update this. Thanks for letting me know.
I think this video need to be updated, because when i did it the last boss felt different.
Yeah it was probably tweaked. A lot of old dungeons have been made easier with recent patches. I will need to tidy up my videos at some point and mark them as outdated but I need to find the energy to check which and what 😅
@@TomScottDoesStuff Np when you find the time, in fact your vid did help me the first time i did it but when daily roulette send me back a second time i realize that it was not what i remembered. So your vid as my source material i decided to check again to see if it was just me, but clearly it was just different so only felt it was right to leave a comment for you. :)