where would we be without hector, probably watching some blurry ingame footage where you can’t really see the full mechanic with a voiceover explaining what you can’t see. your diagrams are always the best, thanks man
Honestly, MTQ is just as bad. Talks way too fast, never shows the mechanics that she explains, repeats herself a lot (that "as necessary" stopped being funny ages ago). There're good other underappreciated guides: Rainesama shows the footage on loop while explaining stuff, so I like his guides. Yukizuri shows both gameplay and diagrams and doesn't talk. But Hector is the best when it comes to diagrams.
@@AcraViolet i like when guides actually follow the timeline instead of saying this will happen and then skip the timing.. thats just what helps me learn way more
I've never watched your videos before but I gotta say, especially for week 1, this guide is absolute quality! I'm not at all showing dislike for the other videos that came out but this video 1) explains all party setup very clearly, while also explaining how they'll be relevant later, 2) doesn't cheese over details, everything is explained very clearly, 3) explanation of different situations and not just the right way of doing it, and 4) the voice is very clear with emphasis on the important things to note. Thanks for the video!
This is my first savage raid experience, and I'm so happy I found this channel to help out! Thanks for making everything so clear and organized, especially when it can seem like a ton of chaos at first!
I saw other guides before trying P6S, but I only get to defeat it after watching yours. Your explanation and visuals just goes directly to my brain for some reason. Thank you so much. I hope you won't get tired helping the community. You are godsent. Kudos!
Once again, another Legendary guide by Hector. Thanks for all your hard work, you have a great style of making raid guides, your explanations are very digestable, never stop.
@Hector For Cachexia 2 there is "easier" strat to find safe spot: It's always diagonal spots from + without tethers. And stack/spread are always 2 blocks apart (south/north-wise)
I'll be waiting the guide for P7S XD! Very great job on making these guides! Managed to get a clear in a day with pugs thanks to your guide! Keep it going!
If there is ONE thing about these fights that drive me absolutely crazy it's the names of abilities. They are never easy for me to remember and I hate them with a passion. Fantastic Video though, thank you for taking the time to make these.
Our group has actually chosen to do sort of a relative clock spots for path cells. 1-4 on the markers (or in line with the marker) and 5-8 the same color card. As long as people are in line with their marker when their cleave goes up, you only have to adjust slightly left and right as the cleaves go around, minimizing movement for all, especially casters.
Casters don't need uptime strats anymore. BLM has a lot of tools for movements now, SMN doesn't require casts anymore and RDM... well, they have Dual Cast so they never really needed help.
For first Cachexia to avoid confusion and wrong adjusts it may be better to take a clock positions based on a color of your debuff and a timer of your aoe. Sorta similar to P1S timer strat (p - purple, g- green) P16 G8 G12 P20 O G20 P12 P8 G16 This way everyone is on the correct side (8-s can move closer to 12-s after 2nd aoe) and as a possible bonus - when 20 go out - they won't clip their neighbors (16 and 12) because they are waiting for their turn.
You may want to have G20 and P20 north and south, so the rotating order to the middle is clockwise, I think it may be wayyy safer because only the G20 and P20 need to remember to get in, all the other just have to wait for their CCW partner to move from the mid, and take their place, without even thinking anymore of their timer . But yeah, good thing to put in a macro
Dude these guides are just so good. Since I found yours I literally don't need any other. Just watch this a couple of times and I am confident I can do most mechanics first try so long as everything isn't chaos. Got to cachexia 2 and post devour first try just from the two guides. Thanks for the hard work
So well done. I always understand the mechanics and the reason behind the strategy, instead of just following blindly. I love the way you pronuniate everything and you take time on mechanics but not overly so. Another great guide to help everyone be the best warriors of light they can be!
Honestly, I used to watch Mr happy's raid guides, and I probably still will when they come out, but this breakdown on the simplified view makes it much easier to understand. I like this.
For Cachexia 2 I noticed that there is always a safe spot in front or behind the unteathered X. You can easily deduct the other 3 safe spots if you got that one as the pattern is always the same.
I was so confused as I was checking Poly 3 and thought "that can't be right", and comment wouldn't load. turns out it wasn't right! Thanks for the vid always
these Hector guides are great for this tier! imo the best atm.. .. just here for Cachexia2, it can be a bit misleading, as if snakes (look away) are always on the same side (and wings always on the other side).., once you go to the correct side (purple or green), you can turn into either snake or wing, and have mixed groups
@@HectorHectorson Appreciated that you fixed it so quick. We did kill the boss yesterday with the static mostly working with your guide and today we are starting P7s. All of us are kinda hoping for a guide from you soon. Any expectations when the P7s guide will be ready?
For the longest time I wanted them to make use of timers like they did for Eden's Verse. Cause i thought with a mechanic that happens whenever you need it to pop, it can be really crazy to see how much they can layer it. Seeing a pattern that needs a bit of planning to resolve multiple things makes me happy to see the devs are using their noggin
Love it. You know what may help. Although this will require extra work. Add footage to the blank part of the video (the left or right side) on what the mechanic looks like when explaining the mechanic when you are not adding text on screen.
I think other people have mentioned this already but the Cachexia 1 strat requires you to look at other people's debuffs or communicate in order to figure out who to swap with. I think it would be more consistent to just have preassigned spots for each timer on west and east side similar to fourfold shackles. This might require different markers though so I can understand why you went with the clockspot strategy. There doesn't seem to be any widely agreed upon strat for Cachexia yet but my gut tells me that preassigned spots will be easier for most groups.
That only matters for the first swap, after that there are no more explosions to restrict your positioning. If you're the first bait, just keep an eye out for which 8s explosion is closest and be ready to go to that spot.
20 seconds debuff should be hard assign to East/West position close to boss hitbox depending on debuff, they will already be in position for the 1st bait than just move out when hit.
Cachexia 2 can also have plus/X on the south wall rather than the north wall. Very important to note that while she does consantly face and autoattack the MT during the setup, as soon as she starts casting Ptera Ixou, she will face true North.
Another note on Ptera Ixou "minimal damage" can be a bit misleading, specifically on Cachexia 2, the stack markers hitting 3 players + Ptera Ixou going off is ~75k damage unmitigated, 31k from the Ptera Ixou.
Good shout with this! I think I expected Ptera Ixou to hit like an ultimate attack, so 31k unmitigated felt like nothing. But you're absolutely right that the end of Cachexia 2 will need some serious shielding/mitigation if groups don't want to use tank lb there!
6:24 important note; Synergy does Not target tanks exclusively, but the top two in enmity. Off tank Will need to be building sufficient aggro to ensure they get the second hit BEFORE Synergy starts casting.
@@randominternetsurfersurfin7595 as long as it doesn't cause aggro issues in the pull. Offtank can stance up after opening burst and have enough enmity by the first Synergy cast.
Ptera has a silent P, as in Pterodactyl. It's Greek for wing. Most orders of insect have Ptera in their name, like Orthopteran which is Old-Mouth Wing (Grass Hoppers, Mantises, Crickets, Katydids, etc.) or Hymenoptera (describing a membrane over the wing for Bees, Wasps, and Ants.) In the middle of a word, the P is pronounced, at the beginning it's silent. Also, Hegemone is Hej-em-OH-Nee. Hegemone describes leading people to dominate themselves, such as in a workplace, management may decide to implement a daycare so that you'll stay and work extra hours because your kids are near by so you don't need to leave work early. It's something that seems beneficial, but ultimately leads to something that harms you without you realizing it. It's a social science term mostly associate with scholars in the Critical Theory fields.
@@Lamora21 another clearer example might be if a work place placed employees in charge of enforcing a late policy. The company policy may give a 15 minute grace window but your team might decide to dock your pay after you’re 5 minutes late 3 times. A hegemony (or here a hegemone due to it being Greek) is where a group is self governing but act in a manner that doesn’t benefit them. Her name basically reflects that she’s following someone else’s will believing it to be to her own free will, and she believes her actions beneficial despite being detrimental. By self domination it just means you engage in things that don’t benefit you believing they do. Many of her attacks and patterns represent this by stripping you of control of your character or forcing you into specific locations.
For Synergy, we've been experiencing for several pulls that one of the tank busters has been targeting other players if the OT becomes aggro #2 AFTER the cast bar already started and not before it. It hasn't been automatically dropping on both tanks. I know most tanks kinda stay aggro #2 even at the start just for safety but figured i'd mentioned what we'd been experiencing. So yeah, for us it's been hitting whoever was aggro #1 and #2 right before the cast
You're correct on this. Synergy always targets top 2 players in aggro, so tanks need to maintain aggro and make sure to provoke if they die. Sorry for not making that clearer in the guide!
@@HectorHectorson No worries at all! The guide is really nice ad easy for me to understand and I know it's not been too long since the raid came out~ I just figured i'd mention it incase anyone else experiened it as well and got confused. Though I know most tanks tend to keep themselves at 1 and 2 even at the start of the fight
Keeping the moved x and + shapes after they're swapped for a moment would be helpful. You kinda fade them out rather quickly? Just a critique but this video has been an amazing resource, thank you
Now all the reclear parties are filled with "Hector Cachexia" which is terrible. If anyone reads this, rather do sides (wings debuff on snake side, snake debuffs on wings side) then spread from north to south as 8 - 12 - 16. 20's inside the hitbox. 20's wait to get hit by their attack, then move across: 8 - 12 - 16 wait until their vuln-up debuff expires and swap with the one currently in the middle. Again, after the explosion, cross sides. For cachexia 2 do Tankbuster LB3; if you do not reach the dpscheck, which is pretty forgiving, it isn't because you're missing Melee LB3.
I'm gonna highly suggest using Dark Ashes clock spots (intercard melee tanks outer intercard ranged healers) for transmission. Tanks aim your cleaves north melee south and all outer players just point out. Makes it so much easier to dodge choros and you don't clip anyone trying to conga line it
Not that it's a big deal but being nit picky, you just mentioned the colours the wrong way around @12:07 But really good, clear guides. The short follow-ups for adjustments to dealing with mechanics is REALLY good and not something you really see people do. Might be worth linking these in your decription in case anyone doesn't realise you have a follow-up video.
if it's not too much work, do you think it would be possible in the future to add a timer into the video that shows how far into the fight each mechanic starts? obviously it wouldn't work to have it running the whole time, since you walk back and explain stuff out of order or show things happening slowly sometimes, but just knowing when a cast bar will start would be really helpful to me to know sort of when to use my mit to get the most use out of it during the fight. Your videos have been an absolute life saver and I can't thank you enough for making them! Best Regards, a bard main doing their best
hey hector i just wanted to say thanks your videos are super great helping me get into savage raiding which is content i enjoy alot i do have a small question being do you use any specific program to make these guides ? id like to try to use visual aids to help my FC mates but im just having a hard time
Oh lord.... Going into this compared to P5S seems to be massively upped already. Pretty sure when I actually see it and get into it will be fine, but till then. Woof.
Hector, Party finder relies on you for most strategies. Would you mind standardizing a few things. For instance, PF groups still have to assign players to group every time. Then they have to pick out clock positions for most fights. You could normalize that MT+Regen heal+caster(R1) + melee1 = Party 1. That eliminates thousands of groups doing this on the fly every time. Likewise, when assigning positions, if you would assign R1/R2 separately and H1/H2 separately, it would eliminate so much guess work. Groups could enter and rapidly know: "I'm ranged physical. I must be in party 2 and my clock position for this fight will be top right." Since most PF groups lists "hector strats" in the description, you could easily normalize this the vast majority of groups in PF. It's easier to remember and act on "my position as DNC is top right" then it is to remember which position you happen to have in this group. When PF groups have to choose these things on their own every time it adds at least 2 extra variables to the fight that have to be remembered and acted upon multiple times. Thank you, Hector!
During Agonies 2, it looks like the can also be between a random DPS and a random Tank/Healer. The movement in the video is still the correct way to solve the mech, I was just confused the first time I saw myself tethered to a healer.
I really love your guides, but... Would you consider updating this specific mechanic 6:57 ? The amount of people that try this and just go full monka-steer mode on PF is actually painful and I haven't made it through this mechanic once without getting clipped by somebody who positions incorrectly. The way I did it with my previous static was intercardinal pairs with snakes facing out and wings facing towards the boss. Makes it easier to dodge into the Chorus Ixou, too. I'm obviously not expecting you to do it, but seeing the way people handle this in PF based on your guide is a bit chaotic... 😭
I noticed a flaw in your animation for the Choros Ixou orbs. The east/west orbs are black with a red halo, whereas the north/south are red with a black halo. If you use visual recognition, it gets confusing on the diagonals if you don't realize this.
Am I missing something or does the animation for Poly 4 (14:42, the double X in mid) not match the description? He says Tank Healer left, DPS right, but then OT goes right, R2 goes left, M1 goes down and H1 goes up. 😖 Shouldn't it just be something like, if there is an X in your quadrant of 4 squares (if you are on an X or one is pointing right at you diagonally), then move E/W one square within that quadrant?
The assumption is that all players are facing the boss. From that perspective you go left/right. You can use counter-clockwise/clockwise instead to avoid confusion.
Its strats ment for no communication. How are you going to tell someone this spot isnt open without vc. But its still a bad strat without voice because you have to pay attention to other people stuff
I wonder for cohexia 2 if you can shoot the other group, you have the wing/snake cone thing, but the other team have the wings buff so it counters the snake.
For the cachexia 1 strat to work you have to: 1. Look at your timer and debuff 2. If you have the "wrong color" debuff for your position, look at every color debuff in the raid 3. Compare every color debuff in the raid to where the people with those debuffs are standing 4. Swap with a person who is also a "wrong" color 5. If more than 2 people have the wrong color, you are probably just screwed, because there is no priority for who swaps with who 6. If you are on the opposite side of the arena as the person you swap with, you are probably clipping the 20s people, and they are screwed. 7. You will be wiping a whole lot with this strat unless you luck out with easy patterns. You also will have an insanely hard time doing the swaps without voice comms.
Not at all. The colour debuffs are always split into light parties. If I(healer) have the wrong debuff, I will always swap with the other healer. Tanks never swap. DPS are the only ones who can have some trouble, but you just run across and into the empty spot (as another dps is also swapping).
@@HectorHectorson thanks for reply. Didn't realize it was role balanced. Still feels like too many moving parts when there are ways to do it without anyone needing to adjust
You really should just have all purple be on the left and all green be on the right cause that’s the sides they have to be to take the debuff swap. A green on left could get confused and take the wrong attack on the wrong side.
a lot of these mechanics' names derive from greek, so an easy way to pronounce them is just write the name in google translate in the greek box, for example "choros ixou" and the robot lady will tell you exactly how to pronounce it :D
Uptime agonies is on my radar for a mini-guide. Just seen a few different versions floating around and want to make sure I show what people consider the best one.
@@HectorHectorson I don't think exact placements matter much, as long as people know how far/close they can be without hitting each other. But while I am looking forward to it when it drops, take however long you feel is necessary.
Dipped my toes in here today, a little worn out so I didn’t get too far, but I’d love some clarification or insight from the comments.. ..what’s the approximate size of the stack for Exchange of Agonies? Like how far can you be “out” from dead middle if it’s on your head and still live?
@@vaan_ TY for the intel- my worry is that I would have minimal room the closer I am and might risk being clipped by Choros, I’m assuming judging that AoE comes with practice?
where would we be without hector, probably watching some blurry ingame footage where you can’t really see the full mechanic with a voiceover explaining what you can’t see. your diagrams are always the best, thanks man
*cough cough* ilya dalamiq *cough cough*
I'd b watching MTQcapture. They are not that bad. Although she only has guide for P5s at the moment.
@@michaelevans6641 Ilya DansGame
Honestly, MTQ is just as bad. Talks way too fast, never shows the mechanics that she explains, repeats herself a lot (that "as necessary" stopped being funny ages ago). There're good other underappreciated guides: Rainesama shows the footage on loop while explaining stuff, so I like his guides. Yukizuri shows both gameplay and diagrams and doesn't talk. But Hector is the best when it comes to diagrams.
@@AcraViolet i like when guides actually follow the timeline instead of saying this will happen and then skip the timing.. thats just what helps me learn way more
I've never watched your videos before but I gotta say, especially for week 1, this guide is absolute quality! I'm not at all showing dislike for the other videos that came out but this video 1) explains all party setup very clearly, while also explaining how they'll be relevant later, 2) doesn't cheese over details, everything is explained very clearly, 3) explanation of different situations and not just the right way of doing it, and 4) the voice is very clear with emphasis on the important things to note.
Thanks for the video!
^ Agree
This is my first savage raid experience, and I'm so happy I found this channel to help out! Thanks for making everything so clear and organized, especially when it can seem like a ton of chaos at first!
This video is criminally underrated.
The other guides are good but this one is pretty much a video raid plan and much easier to digest
This is so much easier for me to follow than POV videos of the fight. Thanks for all the effort you've put into these!
I just want to say, Hector, you're the man. Short, sweet, to the point. Good diagrams, good pace...honestly you are the fucking man.
I saw other guides before trying P6S, but I only get to defeat it after watching yours. Your explanation and visuals just goes directly to my brain for some reason. Thank you so much. I hope you won't get tired helping the community. You are godsent. Kudos!
Once again, another Legendary guide by Hector. Thanks for all your hard work, you have a great style of making raid guides, your explanations are very digestable, never stop.
@Hector
For Cachexia 2 there is "easier" strat to find safe spot: It's always diagonal spots from + without tethers. And stack/spread are always 2 blocks apart (south/north-wise)
I'll be waiting the guide for P7S XD! Very great job on making these guides! Managed to get a clear in a day with pugs thanks to your guide!
Keep it going!
If there is ONE thing about these fights that drive me absolutely crazy it's the names of abilities. They are never easy for me to remember and I hate them with a passion.
Fantastic Video though, thank you for taking the time to make these.
In an era once forgotten there was Joonbob. Now, a new era has been born, The Hector Strats PF Era. Well done!
Joonbob guides always come very late
@@SoulReaperIsHere And he doesn't make guides for everything.
Our group has actually chosen to do sort of a relative clock spots for path cells. 1-4 on the markers (or in line with the marker) and 5-8 the same color card. As long as people are in line with their marker when their cleave goes up, you only have to adjust slightly left and right as the cleaves go around, minimizing movement for all, especially casters.
Casters don't need uptime strats anymore. BLM has a lot of tools for movements now, SMN doesn't require casts anymore and RDM... well, they have Dual Cast so they never really needed help.
For first Cachexia to avoid confusion and wrong adjusts it may be better to take a clock positions based on a color of your debuff and a timer of your aoe. Sorta similar to P1S timer strat (p - purple, g- green)
P16 G8 G12
P20 O G20
P12 P8 G16
This way everyone is on the correct side (8-s can move closer to 12-s after 2nd aoe) and as a possible bonus - when 20 go out - they won't clip their neighbors (16 and 12) because they are waiting for their turn.
You may want to have G20 and P20 north and south, so the rotating order to the middle is clockwise, I think it may be wayyy safer because only the G20 and P20 need to remember to get in, all the other just have to wait for their CCW partner to move from the mid, and take their place, without even thinking anymore of their timer . But yeah, good thing to put in a macro
I don't know where I 'd be without a breakdown of these panel patterns, thanks Hector!~
Dude these guides are just so good. Since I found yours I literally don't need any other. Just watch this a couple of times and I am confident I can do most mechanics first try so long as everything isn't chaos. Got to cachexia 2 and post devour first try just from the two guides. Thanks for the hard work
So well done. I always understand the mechanics and the reason behind the strategy, instead of just following blindly. I love the way you pronuniate everything and you take time on mechanics but not overly so. Another great guide to help everyone be the best warriors of light they can be!
thanks for the guide!!!(Struggling in PF
Mad props for the fix my static usually clears with your guides.
you are actually amazing for these, you have been my static’s source of truth for everything Endwalker
Honestly, I used to watch Mr happy's raid guides, and I probably still will when they come out, but this breakdown on the simplified view makes it much easier to understand. I like this.
Tysm for this. Went in fresh, got my clear within one 90-min lockout using this guide. Super helpful.
Thank you Señor Salamanca, our static cleared and SAW enrage (No thanks to our Samurai DPS Lun...)
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Mr Happy who ? mqt capture who ? …. Hector is our new raid guide sensei, hands down amazing work.
thank you hector we just cleared P78S part 2 and saw enrage
OH THERE YOU ARE
Wow!
These guides are so incredibly thorough and easy to understand. Thanks very much for all your hard work!
Honestly remembering the positioning for the 800 Poly's she casts throughout the course of the fight looks harder than Cachexia.
Just cleared this on Sage with your help, excellent job!
For Cachexia 2 I noticed that there is always a safe spot in front or behind the unteathered X. You can easily deduct the other 3 safe spots if you got that one as the pattern is always the same.
I was so confused as I was checking Poly 3 and thought "that can't be right", and comment wouldn't load. turns out it wasn't right!
Thanks for the vid always
these Hector guides are great for this tier! imo the best atm..
.. just here for Cachexia2, it can be a bit misleading, as if snakes (look away) are always on the same side (and wings always on the other side).., once you go to the correct side (purple or green), you can turn into either snake or wing, and have mixed groups
haha you deleted it in the middle of me watching it and I got so confused. Thanks for the good work
Sorry about that! The incorrect poly 3 pattern was eating at my soul.
@@HectorHectorson Appreciated that you fixed it so quick. We did kill the boss yesterday with the static mostly working with your guide and today we are starting P7s. All of us are kinda hoping for a guide from you soon. Any expectations when the P7s guide will be ready?
Thank you very much again for this guide, going to try this tonight ! ♥
Thanks for this guide! Very fast output for sure. Will certainly be finding it helpful once on P6S.
Fantastic guide! many thanks, much love.
you helped me and my static a lot, thx for the good work !
For the longest time I wanted them to make use of timers like they did for Eden's Verse. Cause i thought with a mechanic that happens whenever you need it to pop, it can be really crazy to see how much they can layer it. Seeing a pattern that needs a bit of planning to resolve multiple things makes me happy to see the devs are using their noggin
Your guides are so clean and quick to come out. Thank you for your hard work!
Love it. You know what may help. Although this will require extra work.
Add footage to the blank part of the video (the left or right side) on what the mechanic looks like when explaining the mechanic when you are not adding text on screen.
seems like most of the bilibili tutorial take your guide as reference lmao, anyway thanks for re-uploading hector!
Hector please we need your guide for P7S, love your guides btw
got through p5s thanks to ur vid, gonna try p6s later today o7 thanks for doing all this so clearly
thank you so much hector
very helpful and clear guide!
wow your guides are amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!
Thank you for this wiggly guide
Your guides are slick, keep it up!
I think other people have mentioned this already but the Cachexia 1 strat requires you to look at other people's debuffs or communicate in order to figure out who to swap with. I think it would be more consistent to just have preassigned spots for each timer on west and east side similar to fourfold shackles. This might require different markers though so I can understand why you went with the clockspot strategy. There doesn't seem to be any widely agreed upon strat for Cachexia yet but my gut tells me that preassigned spots will be easier for most groups.
No need for new markers, just spread between the existing ones. (A1, 1B, B2, 2C for East side )
That only matters for the first swap, after that there are no more explosions to restrict your positioning. If you're the first bait, just keep an eye out for which 8s explosion is closest and be ready to go to that spot.
Thank you for showing the different combinations. They have helped my group tremendously.
thanks Hector!! i'm gona wiggle into my clear with this guide
Love that I'm seeing lots of hectorstrat PFs on Aether. He deserves
20 seconds debuff should be hard assign to East/West position close to boss hitbox depending on debuff, they will already be in position for the 1st bait than just move out when hit.
ayyyy, the vid's back!
Cachexia 2 can also have plus/X on the south wall rather than the north wall. Very important to note that while she does consantly face and autoattack the MT during the setup, as soon as she starts casting Ptera Ixou, she will face true North.
Another note on Ptera Ixou "minimal damage" can be a bit misleading, specifically on Cachexia 2, the stack markers hitting 3 players + Ptera Ixou going off is ~75k damage unmitigated, 31k from the Ptera Ixou.
Good shout with this! I think I expected Ptera Ixou to hit like an ultimate attack, so 31k unmitigated felt like nothing. But you're absolutely right that the end of Cachexia 2 will need some serious shielding/mitigation if groups don't want to use tank lb there!
LOL "Heh ghe moe nee" I don't know if that was on purpose but I love it. I'm calling it that from now on.
6:24 important note; Synergy does Not target tanks exclusively, but the top two in enmity. Off tank Will need to be building sufficient aggro to ensure they get the second hit BEFORE Synergy starts casting.
So always have Stance on?
@@randominternetsurfersurfin7595 as long as it doesn't cause aggro issues in the pull. Offtank can stance up after opening burst and have enough enmity by the first Synergy cast.
I was wondering why I die randomly as dps and clipped another
So detailed, now I can clear it in JP data center where communication is zero for me, thanks.
really appreciate your work ❤
Imagine doing this in PF with the swaps during Cachexia. KEKW good luck to all the PF warriors of light.
Ptera has a silent P, as in Pterodactyl. It's Greek for wing. Most orders of insect have Ptera in their name, like Orthopteran which is Old-Mouth Wing (Grass Hoppers, Mantises, Crickets, Katydids, etc.) or Hymenoptera (describing a membrane over the wing for Bees, Wasps, and Ants.) In the middle of a word, the P is pronounced, at the beginning it's silent.
Also, Hegemone is Hej-em-OH-Nee. Hegemone describes leading people to dominate themselves, such as in a workplace, management may decide to implement a daycare so that you'll stay and work extra hours because your kids are near by so you don't need to leave work early. It's something that seems beneficial, but ultimately leads to something that harms you without you realizing it. It's a social science term mostly associate with scholars in the Critical Theory fields.
Leading people to dominate themselves? What? XD
@@Lamora21 another clearer example might be if a work place placed employees in charge of enforcing a late policy. The company policy may give a 15 minute grace window but your team might decide to dock your pay after you’re 5 minutes late 3 times. A hegemony (or here a hegemone due to it being Greek) is where a group is self governing but act in a manner that doesn’t benefit them. Her name basically reflects that she’s following someone else’s will believing it to be to her own free will, and she believes her actions beneficial despite being detrimental. By self domination it just means you engage in things that don’t benefit you believing they do.
Many of her attacks and patterns represent this by stripping you of control of your character or forcing you into specific locations.
@@Varizen87 that's a pretty neat trivia that adds to the whole character and fight!
another day saved by hector
For Synergy, we've been experiencing for several pulls that one of the tank busters has been targeting other players if the OT becomes aggro #2 AFTER the cast bar already started and not before it. It hasn't been automatically dropping on both tanks. I know most tanks kinda stay aggro #2 even at the start just for safety but figured i'd mentioned what we'd been experiencing. So yeah, for us it's been hitting whoever was aggro #1 and #2 right before the cast
You're correct on this. Synergy always targets top 2 players in aggro, so tanks need to maintain aggro and make sure to provoke if they die. Sorry for not making that clearer in the guide!
@@HectorHectorson No worries at all! The guide is really nice ad easy for me to understand and I know it's not been too long since the raid came out~ I just figured i'd mention it incase anyone else experiened it as well and got confused. Though I know most tanks tend to keep themselves at 1 and 2 even at the start of the fight
I recommended your guides to my raid lead, and we're just starting P6S after using your strats for P5S! Keep on being awesome!
Keeping the moved x and + shapes after they're swapped for a moment would be helpful. You kinda fade them out rather quickly? Just a critique but this video has been an amazing resource, thank you
6:23 synergy targets #1 and #2 in enmity and not "both tanks" as stated
Most TBs are like that. Nothing confusing about that.
My ingame name is Hector and with all your guide becoming popular i feel famous lol
Now all the reclear parties are filled with "Hector Cachexia" which is terrible. If anyone reads this, rather do sides (wings debuff on snake side, snake debuffs on wings side) then spread from north to south as 8 - 12 - 16. 20's inside the hitbox.
20's wait to get hit by their attack, then move across: 8 - 12 - 16 wait until their vuln-up debuff expires and swap with the one currently in the middle. Again, after the explosion, cross sides.
For cachexia 2 do Tankbuster LB3; if you do not reach the dpscheck, which is pretty forgiving, it isn't because you're missing Melee LB3.
i agree having someone switch might work ok with a static with voice comm but pf??
I'm gonna highly suggest using Dark Ashes clock spots (intercard melee tanks outer intercard ranged healers) for transmission. Tanks aim your cleaves north melee south and all outer players just point out. Makes it so much easier to dodge choros and you don't clip anyone trying to conga line it
Good suggestion. Any opportunity to reuse party positionals is a great one to me!
100% agree. 10x simpler and melee still get positionals as they should be SE/SW for spread spots
Not that it's a big deal but being nit picky, you just mentioned the colours the wrong way around @12:07
But really good, clear guides.
The short follow-ups for adjustments to dealing with mechanics is REALLY good and not something you really see people do.
Might be worth linking these in your decription in case anyone doesn't realise you have a follow-up video.
if it's not too much work, do you think it would be possible in the future to add a timer into the video that shows how far into the fight each mechanic starts? obviously it wouldn't work to have it running the whole time, since you walk back and explain stuff out of order or show things happening slowly sometimes, but just knowing when a cast bar will start would be really helpful to me to know sort of when to use my mit to get the most use out of it during the fight. Your videos have been an absolute life saver and I can't thank you enough for making them! Best Regards, a bard main doing their best
Something I'll definitely look into in the future. I agree that knowing the timings can really help in planning out mitigation!
amazing guide. thank you
At 15:50 there is no tank buster between agonies 3 and Poly 5
hey hector i just wanted to say thanks your videos are super great helping me get into savage raiding which is content i enjoy alot i do have a small question being do you use any specific program to make these guides ? id like to try to use visual aids to help my FC mates but im just having a hard time
Thank you for your guides! You are doing an amazing job!
This is so awesome 😎
Oh lord.... Going into this compared to P5S seems to be massively upped already. Pretty sure when I actually see it and get into it will be fine, but till then. Woof.
Hector,
Party finder relies on you for most strategies. Would you mind standardizing a few things. For instance, PF groups still have to assign players to group every time. Then they have to pick out clock positions for most fights. You could normalize that MT+Regen heal+caster(R1) + melee1 = Party 1. That eliminates thousands of groups doing this on the fly every time.
Likewise, when assigning positions, if you would assign R1/R2 separately and H1/H2 separately, it would eliminate so much guess work. Groups could enter and rapidly know:
"I'm ranged physical. I must be in party 2 and my clock position for this fight will be top right."
Since most PF groups lists "hector strats" in the description, you could easily normalize this the vast majority of groups in PF. It's easier to remember and act on "my position as DNC is top right" then it is to remember which position you happen to have in this group. When PF groups have to choose these things on their own every time it adds at least 2 extra variables to the fight that have to be remembered and acted upon multiple times.
Thank you, Hector!
i would like to thank the salamncas for providing this opportunity of a live time, glory to the salamnca 11/10 would see enrage again
During Agonies 2, it looks like the can also be between a random DPS and a random Tank/Healer. The movement in the video is still the correct way to solve the mech, I was just confused the first time I saw myself tethered to a healer.
Absolutely correct! The tethers can go diagonal, but the actual solution never changes.
I just imagine healers swearing at a screen while franticly pushing buttons during the buster + raidwide + burst window
Dude, you got me saying wiggle during raid!
I really love your guides, but... Would you consider updating this specific mechanic 6:57 ? The amount of people that try this and just go full monka-steer mode on PF is actually painful and I haven't made it through this mechanic once without getting clipped by somebody who positions incorrectly. The way I did it with my previous static was intercardinal pairs with snakes facing out and wings facing towards the boss. Makes it easier to dodge into the Chorus Ixou, too. I'm obviously not expecting you to do it, but seeing the way people handle this in PF based on your guide is a bit chaotic... 😭
I noticed a flaw in your animation for the Choros Ixou orbs. The east/west orbs are black with a red halo, whereas the north/south are red with a black halo. If you use visual recognition, it gets confusing on the diagonals if you don't realize this.
8 weeks of reclears and I've never noticed this. Good catch!
Am I missing something or does the animation for Poly 4 (14:42, the double X in mid) not match the description?
He says Tank Healer left, DPS right, but then OT goes right, R2 goes left, M1 goes down and H1 goes up. 😖
Shouldn't it just be something like, if there is an X in your quadrant of 4 squares (if you are on an X or one is pointing right at you diagonally), then move E/W one square within that quadrant?
Boss relative.
The assumption is that all players are facing the boss. From that perspective you go left/right. You can use counter-clockwise/clockwise instead to avoid confusion.
For the first Cachexia why the bait needs to go to B and D ? Just stay on your spread position and when your time to bait get inside the hit box
Its strats ment for no communication. How are you going to tell someone this spot isnt open without vc. But its still a bad strat without voice because you have to pay attention to other people stuff
I wonder for cohexia 2 if you can shoot the other group, you have the wing/snake cone thing, but the other team have the wings buff so it counters the snake.
We're talking about Final Fantasy. This ain't Dragonball...
How do you know which side Choros Ixou cleaves first like N/S or E/W?
For the cachexia 1 strat to work you have to:
1. Look at your timer and debuff
2. If you have the "wrong color" debuff for your position, look at every color debuff in the raid
3. Compare every color debuff in the raid to where the people with those debuffs are standing
4. Swap with a person who is also a "wrong" color
5. If more than 2 people have the wrong color, you are probably just screwed, because there is no priority for who swaps with who
6. If you are on the opposite side of the arena as the person you swap with, you are probably clipping the 20s people, and they are screwed.
7. You will be wiping a whole lot with this strat unless you luck out with easy patterns. You also will have an insanely hard time doing the swaps without voice comms.
Not at all. The colour debuffs are always split into light parties. If I(healer) have the wrong debuff, I will always swap with the other healer. Tanks never swap. DPS are the only ones who can have some trouble, but you just run across and into the empty spot (as another dps is also swapping).
@@HectorHectorson thanks for reply. Didn't realize it was role balanced. Still feels like too many moving parts when there are ways to do it without anyone needing to adjust
Bro carrying the raiding scene on his back.
You really should just have all purple be on the left and all green be on the right cause that’s the sides they have to be to take the debuff swap. A green on left could get confused and take the wrong attack on the wrong side.
there is a viera called Caillou commenting on this video, please ignore them.
Man, I've been dashing, sliding, strafing, running and dodging and definitely not enough wiggling.
a lot of these mechanics' names derive from greek, so an easy way to pronounce them is just write the name in google translate in the greek box, for example "choros ixou" and the robot lady will tell you exactly how to pronounce it :D
10/10 best guide
Have you thought about designing marching band drills? Lol nice movements
Do you mind making a video for uptime agonies 1 in p6s? PF seems to have a hard time accepting any strat that wasn't shown in a guide.
Uptime agonies is on my radar for a mini-guide. Just seen a few different versions floating around and want to make sure I show what people consider the best one.
@@HectorHectorson I don't think exact placements matter much, as long as people know how far/close they can be without hitting each other. But while I am looking forward to it when it drops, take however long you feel is necessary.
Dipped my toes in here today, a little worn out so I didn’t get too far, but I’d love some clarification or insight from the comments.. ..what’s the approximate size of the stack for Exchange of Agonies? Like how far can you be “out” from dead middle if it’s on your head and still live?
your bigger concern is being inside the donuts and not getting hit by the spreads
just hug the center of the arena
@@vaan_ TY for the intel- my worry is that I would have minimal room the closer I am and might risk being clipped by Choros, I’m assuming judging that AoE comes with practice?
@@DraconicCatgirl what matters is the angle, not the distance, you can use the floor lines to see if you're horizontal/vertical from the center
@@vaan_ hey thanks for the tips! Aiming for my clear today!
@@vaan_ I got my clear!!
Wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle
P5S compared to this one seems a sweet walk with your dog...
Tank LB has never been such a god send for cachexia 2
Exchange of agonies looks like a modified version from T9 mechanics of fire in fire out a little (oh btw F niel)