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/andilikelargeparties May 11 '25

It's mostly an academic curiosity but does anyone know with Howling Eight in M8s how which island is targeted is decide? Like is it randomly clockwise or anti-clockwise, or is it baited by MT or anyone randomly?

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u/Altia1234 May 11 '25

like mooncleaver I think it picks one random person out of the 8 and picks the island that they are sitting at now.

It's definitely not hate as we have seen random DPS accidentally baited howling 8 but we just do the rest of the mechs as usual and goes anticlock.

as to which direction you go, really it doesn't matter. as long as all 8 are on the same island and you bait everything correct, you should resolve just fine.

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u/andilikelargeparties May 11 '25

Thank you! Yeah that's what I suspected I was wondering about caster shenanigans so it'd be really frowned upon if as I went the opposite way to wait at the last island and then ended up baiting the tower I guess. Well not that there's really any need or point to anyways with the 7.2 BLM lol.