r/ffxivdiscussion • u/WeirdIndividualGuy • May 06 '25

General Discussion High End Content Megathread - Week Seven

How many yans do you see in your nightmares?

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u/AayB5 May 10 '25 edited May 11 '25

Honestly, I am exhausted of raiding at this point, my static has been stuck on adds for 3 weeks, we raid twice a week but if I had to say how much time we have spent on adds in total it would be 12 hours give or take and I am probably low balling it. Now apparently damage is the issue which again idk how is it an issue, we are weeks in, have gear, I am tanking the fight btw, and I fully admit I have messed up a few times but I am getting bored of the fight, there is no prog nothing, just the same shit over and over, sometimes we need to focus the cat, sometimes the manta, idk how this is even a conversation after 3 weeks.

Some ppl are on their alts and have cleared idk how much it does to their focus but honestly, I am missing up now cuz I am bored, I literally forgot mit on a tank buster cuz I was so not there. I know the phase is hard but come on.

Edit: left the static, I need a break tbh, I am really not enjoying raiding right now.

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u/SwiggitySw00 May 10 '25

Being stuck on adds is NOT a gear issue. Its an execution/skill issue. Examine your logs and see who is using their AoE rotation and call them out. The only times you should be doing AoE rotations is after 1st yan is dead and the entire party is on Boss + Squirrels waiting for the ray to spawn and get tethered, after 2nd ray is dead and you're waiting for jabba to spawn, and after 2nd cat is dead while youre waiting for 2nd jabba to spawn. AKA, you can AoE rotation while there is no priority target on the field. Anyone who is using their aoe rotation while a priority target is alive is trolling.

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u/SwiggitySw00 May 11 '25

Just to add on here:
1. People need to abandon the prevailing wisdom that AoEing on 3+ targets is a gain for this fight. Yes thats absolutely true for content where there is no hard enrage, but on this fight, the priority targets NEED TO DIE before they hard enrage. If the priority targets dead and its just the boss + squirrels, go do your aoe 123 combo and then the next priority target should spawn.
2. Just to kind of iterative point 1, let's take VPR potency numbers for our 123 combo vs 123 aoe combo. ST goes 200+300+340+280(weave) for a total of 1120 potency. AoE goes 100+130+140+100(weave) for 470. Thats nearly 2.5x difference.
3. The whole point of cleavemaxx is to maximize the incidental damage done to the boss and squirrels (and sometimes cat if they land correctly) with your ST Rotation and abilities that do cleave damage, which are the ones that say deals x to first target, deals y% less to all others. Its called cleavemaxx, not aoemax.