Finally tried this solo again, following the 47% strat and killed it on Warri with ilvl 473 no materia. Close call, but I managed to do it after a couple tries. Thanks for the video and your explanation :)
5 hours and 30 minutes using ilevel 508, fastest run 3m 9s. I didnt want to count how many runs. I finally have the best earring glamor in the game. Thank you
Even at RDM i480 with materia it was a tight fight. Timing is critical. Really have to prepare yourself and wait until 47 percent and have your finger on the trigger to start your rotation the millisecond heavensfall starts. Even then sometimes I'd get to 1% before getting owned. Maybe at post i500 it might be a bit easier. Thanks again for this video this has been nagging me forever.
Can someone explain the instakill mechanic after megaflare? i have a lvl 80 gunbreaker and no matter what i do i assume its the ice blast they just wipe me
you probably figured out whatever issue you were having but: if you're being knocked back into the barrier (instakill) by heavensfell use an anti-knockback. if its the ice phase, at the current ilvl you can burn her down without waiting for the second heavensfell animation lock, but you still have to be doing max dps (like phoenix burst dmg as a smn for instance) to squeak by. with crits. if you're lucky. if you don't burn her quick enough, you will get the yellow tether which kills you basically the second you get it.
@@gamma00crucis pffft it took me like 8 tries. i thought i can outrun the dragons so i tried running away while doing some dps. on the 9th try i took your advice because i was getting super annoyed with failing so many times. my dps sucks and i have no decent gears other than ones found in raids. most of them have outdated materias. i did my best to burst the boss as a rdm and i won with 5% before the dragons attacked me..i finished my first bursting phase and then before i can launch my 2nd phase with manafication i did 1 enchanted riposte and i saw the damn tether and i thought it was over BUT i made 5% and i did enchanted zwerchau hahaha
I keep trying to do this, but I kill the Ghost dragon, the other two start showing up, fades to black with one of the dragons linking to me, back to start. What am I doing wrong here? I'm at full hp at this point. Haven't made it to phase 4
the 3 dragons appear when the boss is at or below 46% but they dont kill you until about 15s after appearing. if you are a warrior you can survive for some extra time with your invuln, not sure about the other tanks. Otherwise you just have to deal enough damage to beat the boss in this 15s window, its a huge dps check. You can safely wait with the boss at above 46% to get some resources or cooldowns so that you can deal maximum damage before the dragons kill you, once you push the boss below the 46% threshold
I don't know why I'm doing but when those three golems spawn they turn into one giant one and it doesn't die. It keeps regaining all its health and u can't beat it.
If two golems get close to each other they become the huge one. To avoid this you can kill two golems off as quick as possible or hope that only 2 spawn so you only have to kill one quickly.
Attempted with iLv485 DRK. A cakewalk up until the tethers. Waited for Heavensfall animation lock, activated Delirium+Blood Weapon and Living Shadow, dropped Salted Earth+Abyssal Drain, using as many Flood of Shadow as I could. Got her to 27% before the tethers instakilled me. Given how long it takes Esteem to spawn and how high its attack interval is, this may not be doable with DRK.
@@darkasura3535 Yea, the tether sucks since its an instakill AFAIK. Might be doable now with epic echo and food buffs? I wasn't potting nor had I hit ilv530. I'm gonna give it another go on PLD and see how I fare.
this is driving me fucking crazy. i get all the way to where that megalith spawms and then for someone reason it just keeps restarting me. absolutely no clue why, i have like 175k health and it's not like I'm dying.
when the thing drops down in the middle, it knocks you back and also has its own death wall around it. So if you stand too close to the centre, the death wall will appear around you causing a wipe no matter what your hp is. I suggest standing further out from the middle or play it safe and stand very far out and use arm's length or surecast
Avg ilvl 460 DRK was easy even without considering the 47% health phase change. Just save you shadow and combo for last phase and use living dead to stay alive through getting insta killed by three dragons and deal enough damage to kill him while in limbo.
Done it just now, popped invuln and burned that fucker down. It is actually easy as warrior over anything else. They have a madlad burest phase and the best cooldowns to get this done without ever sacrificing damage.
I farm this as SAM, thought I'd give it a shot as smn i480. Took a few tries, but a speed kill as SMN is doable. You need to be pretty lucky though on crits, and you also need to time a stoneskin just before stardust while maintaining buffed dots and throwing in an akh morn before he flies.
It's from failing to do the third ball where the add dies in phase two. Normally, I believe you're meant to get party members to go in those, since you're in a full party. But because you're soloing it, you needa burst down the boss before the yellow tether hits you.
I hate this fight, ive completed it a few times, but recently, I just cant crit to save my life, when I beat him I had a 30% crit rate or so, lately with the same gear I'm getting around 12% doing the exact same thing, I keep getting him to 2 or 3% health but just cant do that extra bit of damage... Finished it again, still a freaking annoying fight the windows are tight...
I think my issue is that I waste a second using surecast to avoid dying to Heavensfall when I should just get closer to it cause I always get killed by Icebitten when she is at like 3% to 6% lol
I am currently clearing the bahamut raid saga because im curious about the story and this stage wouldn't let me through. Thankfully I also have a lvl 80 RDM so following your video was a little easier (needed +5 tries though lol). Thank you very much :)
Pretty much yeah, but it varies depending on what content you're trying to do, 90% of the time its red mage but tanks and healers and dancer have their moments. Paladin is really strong at the moment if you don't mind doing less damage but you can take much more damage. For this particular fight both dancer and warrior are better choices as dancer has crazy burst damage and warrior's holmgang makes you invulnerable during the elements phase so you have longer to beat the boss.
I think so. I'm not certain though as I've not tried it but if living dead does render you invulnerable to the fire and ice damage then it can be done with high enough damage. There are some vids of warriors doing this solo by activating holmgang just before the first hit from the ice in the final phase and then bursting the boss down before the invuln wears off. I f living dead works the same way you could do the same, however there is a chance the fire and ice damage hits through the invuln as it does for paladin's hallowed. Drk might struggle with damage too.
Dont know if this question is even actual, i did it as DRK with ilvl 468. You really need to safe Mana and fill your Bloodbar completly before the 47% Burst window. Then you just press every button and bump him as fast as you can, when dragons appears, you use living dead and continue with rotation. Was pretty close for me, like 1-2 sec till death, but it works!
@@awsmphil578 don't invuln at the first ice. First ice won't do anything. Need to time it before you get hit with the second ice. Then invuln and get an extra 10 seconds. Just did this on GNB and with Aurora + Brutal shell healing you come out of Superbolide with more than 1hp and can get a couple extra attacks in before the next ICe gets you. I died at the same time as the boss but got the clear :) I don't know if Living dead will work though.
what hotbar? Those are crossbars and it doesn't really matter if they are lock or not. You have to go out of your way to be able to move the icons around.
At the time, I'd just got some of my first gear from savage and bought my phantasmagoria armour. Average ilvl was about 451. I've done some better runs since this one, with the 460 weapon you don't need to use a potion. As a base line, assume it it possible at 445 if you get very lucky and easy by the time you get to 460.
this cant be soloed. i dont know what you are doing cause your not explaining nothing. but following this, has wiped me a million times. it would be nice if people explain things
Just cleared as ilvl 559 RDM. Stopped hitting Nael at ~47%-49% health, waited until tower went away, add spawned, and received Garrote Twist debuff, then burned boss down. Don't know why this so called 47% trick works, but it did for me.
@gamerbodkonian Use a movement mitigation (Arm's Length, Sure Cast, etc.). It's possible to stand close enough to not hit the ring, there's just no other way to find it aside from trial and error.
I just beat with 516 dancer, I accidentally killed the last golem before it ate the last meteor but mega flare didn’t kill me (almost did). I love power creep 😂
well with no explanation this video is useless. what ever enix has done... it doesnt work anymore. tried this a lot of times, it either knocks u into edge on 2nd fase despit being as close as possible to middle, or after u kill the dragon add, the buff on ground has zero effect and then suddenly encounter resets. enjoy your repeat failure on this.
My guess is that you are dying to the elements causing the encounter resets, you have to dps the boss down before this starts to hit you and trust me, it's hard to get the timing right. All the info you need is in the description but I'll try to explain it a bit better. Once the boss gets less than 47% hp it begins the 'elements' phase. This phase will always kill you! But there are ways to beat the fight before the fatal hit, the specific attack that will kill you doesn't come until about 15s after the phase begins and there is a way to extend that. To get the extra time you need to defeat the boss you need to delay the phasechange with what's known as an animation lock which is basically a little time where the boss is busy and won't be doing any new mechanics; the one I use here is the 2nd heavensfall cast. I wait with the boss at 47% until just before this cast then use a potion and get ready to use my full arsenal of spells and buffs to kill the boss. the instant the heavensfall cast starts, I start attacking. This gives you the full 15s before the hit that kills you and that 15s timer doesn't begin until the boss finishes the cast. Know that you still have to deal over 300k damage in this time, no matter what you do that is no easy feat. GL with the clear
@@awsmphil578 This is what's killing me every time. I just can't seem to get him lower than about 10% before the kill shot. And finding people who'll run this is near impossible. :(
@@awsmphil578 Hey awsmPhil, I'm not with this guy above lol. But I was looking over the video how you contended with the Iceball and I couldn't figure it out. Can you please explain?
@@Mcatanio1983 yeah you can see right as I kill the boss i get hit by an ice ball for about 140k but the boss died either one server tick before or on the same one as I take the hit, its quite common that this happens, especially in raids when dps is really tight.
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Followed your example and beat this boss for the first time, thanks for the upload.
Thank you, nudging his life to 47% before bursting him down did the job, actually pretty easy as a 496 RDM
Finally tried this solo again, following the 47% strat and killed it on Warri with ilvl 473 no materia. Close call, but I managed to do it after a couple tries. Thanks for the video and your explanation :)
THANK YOU! I couldnt figure out why the fight kept resetting in phase 3, but doing the 47% trick I got it first try :D
5 hours and 30 minutes using ilevel 508, fastest run 3m 9s. I didnt want to count how many runs. I finally have the best earring glamor in the game. Thank you
This fight is unfair on all classes...
Even at RDM i480 with materia it was a tight fight. Timing is critical. Really have to prepare yourself and wait until 47 percent and have your finger on the trigger to start your rotation the millisecond heavensfall starts. Even then sometimes I'd get to 1% before getting owned. Maybe at post i500 it might be a bit easier. Thanks again for this video this has been nagging me forever.
Can someone explain the instakill mechanic after megaflare? i have a lvl 80 gunbreaker and no matter what i do i assume its the ice blast they just wipe me
you probably figured out whatever issue you were having but:
if you're being knocked back into the barrier (instakill) by heavensfell use an anti-knockback. if its the ice phase, at the current ilvl you can burn her down without waiting for the second heavensfell animation lock, but you still have to be doing max dps (like phoenix burst dmg as a smn for instance) to squeak by. with crits. if you're lucky. if you don't burn her quick enough, you will get the yellow tether which kills you basically the second you get it.
@@gamma00crucis pffft it took me like 8 tries. i thought i can outrun the dragons so i tried running away while doing some dps. on the 9th try i took your advice because i was getting super annoyed with failing so many times. my dps sucks and i have no decent gears other than ones found in raids. most of them have outdated materias. i did my best to burst the boss as a rdm and i won with 5% before the dragons attacked me..i finished my first bursting phase and then before i can launch my 2nd phase with manafication i did 1 enchanted riposte and i saw the damn tether and i thought it was over BUT i made 5% and i did enchanted zwerchau hahaha
I keep trying to do this, but I kill the Ghost dragon, the other two start showing up, fades to black with one of the dragons linking to me, back to start. What am I doing wrong here? I'm at full hp at this point. Haven't made it to phase 4
I'm dying after 3:23, three dragon spawn around and 1 shot me, any tips?
the 3 dragons appear when the boss is at or below 46% but they dont kill you until about 15s after appearing. if you are a warrior you can survive for some extra time with your invuln, not sure about the other tanks. Otherwise you just have to deal enough damage to beat the boss in this 15s window, its a huge dps check. You can safely wait with the boss at above 46% to get some resources or cooldowns so that you can deal maximum damage before the dragons kill you, once you push the boss below the 46% threshold
@@awsmphil578 thanks. Guess I'll just up my red mage to 80 then. No way I'm doing that much dps in 15s as Astrologian
I walked through coils up until this guy
Thanks for the handy description, helped a lot!
I don't know why I'm doing but when those three golems spawn they turn into one giant one and it doesn't die. It keeps regaining all its health and u can't beat it.
If two golems get close to each other they become the huge one. To avoid this you can kill two golems off as quick as possible or hope that only 2 spawn so you only have to kill one quickly.
Never been able to do this. I get to the final phase and he just does that tether mechanic that insta-kills you.
THANKS FOR THE 47% TRICK!!!!! Did it at i442 with machinist solo
How? I can't manage to get past the meteor bursts without it killing me.
How come only two golems spawn, i always get three?!?!
if 2 golem meteors drop next to each other, one instantly blows up so the golem doesn't spawn
@@awsmphil578 and how do you force that?
the waiting at 47% method was a pain so I used pld's hollowed ground instead. barely got the kill before it wore off
thank you for the 47% tip was a pita to solo getting one shot by the dragons
Attempted with iLv485 DRK. A cakewalk up until the tethers. Waited for Heavensfall animation lock, activated Delirium+Blood Weapon and Living Shadow, dropped Salted Earth+Abyssal Drain, using as many Flood of Shadow as I could. Got her to 27% before the tethers instakilled me. Given how long it takes Esteem to spawn and how high its attack interval is, this may not be doable with DRK.
Lvl 80 and having the same problem while being a dps class sometimes dont even see the tether I just get hit by a small piece of ice and insta die
@@darkasura3535 Yea, the tether sucks since its an instakill AFAIK. Might be doable now with epic echo and food buffs? I wasn't potting nor had I hit ilv530. I'm gonna give it another go on PLD and see how I fare.
this is driving me fucking crazy. i get all the way to where that megalith spawms and then for someone reason it just keeps restarting me. absolutely no clue why, i have like 175k health and it's not like I'm dying.
when the thing drops down in the middle, it knocks you back and also has its own death wall around it. So if you stand too close to the centre, the death wall will appear around you causing a wipe no matter what your hp is. I suggest standing further out from the middle or play it safe and stand very far out and use arm's length or surecast
trying to do this with non-materia 510 gear as a redmage and i'm too scared to tip her to 47%
thx for vid just finished as a 516 mnk patience is key
For me its the golems they combined and become invincible.
Avg ilvl 460 DRK was easy even without considering the 47% health phase change. Just save you shadow and combo for last phase and use living dead to stay alive through getting insta killed by three dragons and deal enough damage to kill him while in limbo.
this is no longer soloable, iceclaw spawns and hits you with frostbitten around 40% then immediately hits you again which 1 shots you
solo'd on Warrior, popped invuln (which didn't end up being needed) after Heavensfall cast and burned, took 1 normal damage icefall before it died
Done it just now, popped invuln and burned that fucker down. It is actually easy as warrior over anything else. They have a madlad burest phase and the best cooldowns to get this done without ever sacrificing damage.
I farm this as SAM, thought I'd give it a shot as smn i480. Took a few tries, but a speed kill as SMN is doable. You need to be pretty lucky though on crits, and you also need to time a stoneskin just before stardust while maintaining buffed dots and throwing in an akh morn before he flies.
*Except I keep getting THREE golems*
Thank you! Got it on my 486 WAR!
MY only 80's are bard and scholar/smn, I can't fucking do this...
I'm stuck at the golem growing problem. F*ck it. Just delete coil from the game.
How can I not do this as 519 RDM? The ads always get to close and too big
i keep getting a yellow death tether, how?
It's from failing to do the third ball where the add dies in phase two. Normally, I believe you're meant to get party members to go in those, since you're in a full party. But because you're soloing it, you needa burst down the boss before the yellow tether hits you.
CptMudcrabIII ah yeah, i was playing red mage so not much DPS haha
Edit: managed to do that when I did it with a friend
I hate this fight, ive completed it a few times, but recently, I just cant crit to save my life, when I beat him I had a 30% crit rate or so, lately with the same gear I'm getting around 12% doing the exact same thing, I keep getting him to 2 or 3% health but just cant do that extra bit of damage... Finished it again, still a freaking annoying fight the windows are tight...
I finally got him solo jeez it’s a speed test
Woooo thanx just did this on black mage took me 39 mins xD
2:40 Me here ... Instant kill ... BRD lvl 80 ... ilvl 500 ... Full life ... WTF ... 😂😂
I think my issue is that I waste a second using surecast to avoid dying to Heavensfall when I should just get closer to it
cause I always get killed by Icebitten when she is at like 3% to 6% lol
I am trying to do this as a Paladin. I might end up getting warrior up there and try it.
Easy as warrior
@@saindst I managed a 4 seconds with blue mage
Whew, finally got my kill (with the help of a friend) but man, so many little things that can just up and kill you >.< Very frustrating.
I am currently clearing the bahamut raid saga because im curious about the story and this stage wouldn't let me through. Thankfully I also have a lvl 80 RDM so following your video was a little easier (needed +5 tries though lol). Thank you very much :)
I wonder if a 510 PLD can do it now
I'm trying to overhaul the market ahaha
509 pld i can take it till the tether and then i instantly die with Hallowed ground on
Is Red Mage the strongest solo Job? Vercure seems to do a lot for it.
Pretty much yeah, but it varies depending on what content you're trying to do, 90% of the time its red mage but tanks and healers and dancer have their moments. Paladin is really strong at the moment if you don't mind doing less damage but you can take much more damage. For this particular fight both dancer and warrior are better choices as dancer has crazy burst damage and warrior's holmgang makes you invulnerable during the elements phase so you have longer to beat the boss.
I couldn't do it at 47% but quick rotation at 41% did it for me
did this no problem with my ilvl480 PLD. this guide helped. thanks.
How do you burst her down from 47%?
Bull
god
Is this doable as a dark Knight?
I think so. I'm not certain though as I've not tried it but if living dead does render you invulnerable to the fire and ice damage then it can be done with high enough damage. There are some vids of warriors doing this solo by activating holmgang just before the first hit from the ice in the final phase and then bursting the boss down before the invuln wears off. I f living dead works the same way you could do the same, however there is a chance the fire and ice damage hits through the invuln as it does for paladin's hallowed. Drk might struggle with damage too.
Dont know if this question is even actual, i did it as DRK with ilvl 468. You really need to safe Mana and fill your Bloodbar completly before the 47% Burst window.
Then you just press every button and bump him as fast as you can, when dragons appears, you use living dead and continue with rotation. Was pretty close for me, like 1-2 sec till death, but it works!
@@awsmphil578 don't invuln at the first ice. First ice won't do anything. Need to time it before you get hit with the second ice. Then invuln and get an extra 10 seconds. Just did this on GNB and with Aurora + Brutal shell healing you come out of Superbolide with more than 1hp and can get a couple extra attacks in before the next ICe gets you. I died at the same time as the boss but got the clear :) I don't know if Living dead will work though.
@@Satyr1523 Living dead does work it is very clutch but it works (Cleared with ilvl 480 drk)
lock your hotbar D:
what hotbar? Those are crossbars and it doesn't really matter if they are lock or not. You have to go out of your way to be able to move the icons around.
How anyone can play hard swapping crossbars like that instead of trigger hold swap is beyond me. Nice clear though.
impossible as dancer, cant heal self enough to handle meteor explosions
What was your iLevel at the time?
At the time, I'd just got some of my first gear from savage and bought my phantasmagoria armour. Average ilvl was about 451. I've done some better runs since this one, with the 460 weapon you don't need to use a potion. As a base line, assume it it possible at 445 if you get very lucky and easy by the time you get to 460.
this cant be soloed. i dont know what you are doing cause your not explaining nothing. but following this, has wiped me a million times. it would be nice if people explain things
Just cleared as ilvl 559 RDM. Stopped hitting Nael at ~47%-49% health, waited until tower went away, add spawned, and received Garrote Twist debuff, then burned boss down. Don't know why this so called 47% trick works, but it did for me.
@@YinYang1st the knockback. when i move out of the way of the tower it knocks me back no matter where i stand into the ring.
@gamerbodkonian Use a movement mitigation (Arm's Length, Sure Cast, etc.). It's possible to stand close enough to not hit the ring, there's just no other way to find it aside from trial and error.
@@YinYang1st after 25 wipes, doing things on my rotation, nothing worked. i tired every single way. knock back into the ring. dead
Incorrect. I soloed it, you just need to do fast damage at certain % of his life left. I did it at 41% with quick rotations.
Just get the to phase where the knockback happens and pop your anti knockback and just go absolute HAM. Pop a pot and go nuts.
thanks I always forget surecast exists and it was super easy after that lol. dead instantly once I finally didn't die to heavensfall
i dont understand this at all
I just beat with 516 dancer, I accidentally killed the last golem before it ate the last meteor but mega flare didn’t kill me (almost did).
I love power creep 😂
red mage, easy mode
Endwalker killed the game! 😄
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what a BS fight
well with no explanation this video is useless.
what ever enix has done... it doesnt work anymore. tried this a lot of times, it either knocks u into edge on 2nd fase despit being as close as possible to middle, or after u kill the dragon add, the buff on ground has zero effect and then suddenly encounter resets.
enjoy your repeat failure on this.
My guess is that you are dying to the elements causing the encounter resets, you have to dps the boss down before this starts to hit you and trust me, it's hard to get the timing right. All the info you need is in the description but I'll try to explain it a bit better.
Once the boss gets less than 47% hp it begins the 'elements' phase. This phase will always kill you! But there are ways to beat the fight before the fatal hit, the specific attack that will kill you doesn't come until about 15s after the phase begins and there is a way to extend that. To get the extra time you need to defeat the boss you need to delay the phasechange with what's known as an animation lock which is basically a little time where the boss is busy and won't be doing any new mechanics; the one I use here is the 2nd heavensfall cast. I wait with the boss at 47% until just before this cast then use a potion and get ready to use my full arsenal of spells and buffs to kill the boss. the instant the heavensfall cast starts, I start attacking. This gives you the full 15s before the hit that kills you and that 15s timer doesn't begin until the boss finishes the cast. Know that you still have to deal over 300k damage in this time, no matter what you do that is no easy feat. GL with the clear
@@awsmphil578 This is what's killing me every time. I just can't seem to get him lower than about 10% before the kill shot. And finding people who'll run this is near impossible. :(
@@Noin007 And therein lies the challenge and why so many people talk about soloing this fight :) It's not easy and it's not for everyone.
Nice fake/private server
i guess youre having problems with this fight, tell me what part you are losing to and i could help explain how to overcome it
@@awsmphil578 Hey awsmPhil, I'm not with this guy above lol. But I was looking over the video how you contended with the Iceball and I couldn't figure it out. Can you please explain?
@@Mcatanio1983 yeah you can see right as I kill the boss i get hit by an ice ball for about 140k but the boss died either one server tick before or on the same one as I take the hit, its quite common that this happens, especially in raids when dps is really tight.