FFXIV Guides - A Guide on Mechanic Terminology
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2024
- Have you ever had anyone try to explain a mechanic to you, but instead of English you could have sworn they were speaking some ancient tounge?
Well this video is here to help explain what that person was talking about!
In this I explain what the common names for certian mechanics are and what they do.
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0:00 Introduction
0:51 TOWERS
1:40 METEORS
2:28 FLARE
2:47 STACK AOE
3:12 CHASE AOE
3:48 KNOCKBACK/DRAW IN
4:16 PROTEAN
5:11 PYRETIC/DICE
5:59 TETHERS
6:51 CHAINS
7:37 GLARE/GAZE
8:04 DUTY ACTION
8:32 THANK YOU FOR WATCHING - Ігри
This should be in hall of novice. Wish I knew that before I joined my first raid with mechanics
Hall of novice really needs like a "advanced lessons" set where they teach you about LB, different kinds of indicators, and how to best use your role abilities.
Exactly like how tf im supposed to know all this on the run!!??
@@mark0183 through the power of will and light.
@@kamitorings 🤔
Not sure about other people, but for me personally whenever a Gaze mechanic pops up, I dont even say the word "Gaze" I just say "Lookaway"
oh yeah, whenever we have to telegraph it for fights we always call it the lookaway! like in sos ex with the quintuple cast, always lookaway
One thing you didn't mention: orange vs. blue aoe circles. Blue circles usually being beneficial/your teammate's limitbreak
Oh yeah I did too, cheers! I thought the video was going to be too long but I guess it needed to be longer because I missed a couple things
Some aoe's are also blue too though.
there's also the blue pulsating aoe that knocks you back, so you usually have to stand just out of its edge
@Stella Magica the Paglth'an and Sirensong Sea dungeons have allied aoes, but yeah they aren't very common
YO! never tied that together. cheers
You'll also see the dice mechanic referred to as "Acceleration Bomb" - a reference to the Ozma fight in Weeping City of Mhach, where the mechanic made its first appearance.
Remember to stand in the meteor, before avoiding the meteor, and then DPS the meteor.
an interesting mechanic that (as far as i know?) only comes up once in the game: a stack gaze marker. it’s on the last boss of the final HW alliance raid, and requires you to stand in the stack marker while facing away from the marked player.
That same thing technically happens in Deltascape 4.0 savage....but it's not one marker. It's just a series of debuffs that cause a stack/gaze/knockback/forked lightning to happen all almost at once.
One more thing not in the video: AOEs traveling across the ground in a straight line instead of chasing a player are usually refered to as "Exaflares".
They are usually indicated by a regular yellow AOE circle having a arrow ontop of it indicating which direction the AOE will move in.
There's also what I call the "merry-go-round." These are usually found in the Dalmascyn raids aka Lighthouse, Monastery, and That one other one that's pretty boring. Those are attacks that start off doing ONE direction, but will then change direction, sometimes in a circle, sometimes in a line. Lighthouse is a good example with your Third Grade Math teacher, as he will drop a cone AoE that will target the north corner of the arena and quickly rotate the arena, then once again when he goes into 'Demolish' state, upon which you will need to avoid this but with the addition of needing to have sprint up or movement options to avoid biting the dust.
Other additions: Continual-hit stacks, AKA Akh Morn stacks, where you have to remain stacked for several hits of the attack and if the person with the marker dies it will jump around to other players until the attack ends or you wipe. Blizzards: Opposite of pyretics, where if you're NOT moving when the attack goes out you're frozen for several seconds (you do have to be moving, just attacking won't work :( ask how I know). The Ozma variation of the Dice, where for whatever reason you get the pyretic effect for the 3 seconds during the dice's countdown and on the execution of the dice it explodes causing bleed to everyone around you, because Ozma's a jerk and needs to feel special. Sweep The Leg, any 270-degree front attack leaving a small safe cone behind the enemy. Magnet Tethers, where two things (such as players or AOEs) are tethered together with big + or - signs; they work like magnets (if the symbols are different, they're yanked together; if they're the same, they're blasted apart).
New addition as of 6.0: Tank stack, a combination tank buster/stack where at least 2 tanks have to eat a buster together, indicated by a red circle around one tank with two orbiting red orbs. Do not try to stack in this if you're not a tank or you'll be sad.
Ohhh those are exaflares! I always heard it in videos and streams and struggled to understand which attack pattern it referred to. Thanks!
@@roetemeteor sounds similar to mechanics used in one of the trial fights in endwalker.
@@titaniumvulpes I might be remembering this incorrectly but I remember a prior tank bust stack where it looked like the normal one but with red arrows instead around the tank. its been a long and though and it's a vague memory for me on which fight originally had this.
Need to explain that dragoon thethers are friendly 😂 haha i totally freaked out seeing it for the first time and kept running away from my drg buddy
Haha the big red safety noodle
Same here! Until my friend who plays dragoon told me to stop lol 😂
me too until i started PLAYING drg and went "....... OHHHHHH" lmao
it doesn't help that they're red which usually = bad, they should really be blue like some of drg's other abilities and friendly aoes
It would make so much more sense to be blue like battle litany
Blue like hraesvelgr vs red like nidhogg
the other thing about chains is (at least in some fights if not all) the chains breaks based on distance walked after it's attached, not distance from chain partner. meaning dont pre-move away in anticipation of chains because you will have less room to walk. If anticipating chains, stay near the group/partner until the chain appears then move away.
I feel like this should be shown on the FFXIV MythBusters video. I don't think i've ever had a chain break just by moving in general, it always felt like it required moving away from the partner.
@@raventhorX it does require moving away from the partner. But it's based on how far away from your partner you move after the chain appears. The end distance doesn't matter, just the distance created after the chain is formed
@@GamerzBrofessional but does it lock it based on the distance or if given enough time could you temporarily close the distance and then back away?
@@raventhorX it's more like it clocks the distance that you currently are from your partner when the tether appears and any increase in that distance is progress towards breaking the tether, and any decrease undoes that progress
@@raventhorX I'm not saying that that's exactly how it works, but it is seemingly how it functions. Preemptively moving away doesn't seem to make any progress on breaking the tether. There have been instances where two players can stand at opposite corners and the tether not break because they started too far apart
a perfect guide for new players that boosted to 80 and have 0 ideas what to do and running away from stack marker like headless chicken
can confirm, happened today in qitana ravel where my sprout tank rank away from the stack marker 😊
The thing is, my character wasn't boosted and I still didn't understand the Mechanics. This game just doesn't really explain things well
This may be an older video, but it was still well-structured and narrated. Good job. It was quite useful to me, as someone who's still a sprout!
I dunno what people call it, but another reused mechanic is what I call "swords", first seen in the Ravana fight as Swift Slaughter. Where some players are marked with different numbers of blue swords above their head which indicate that the boss is going to attack them in that order, usually by charging/jumping at them in a line.
There's also the similar "numbers" where players get marked with blue or red dots above their head, which also indicate the order of targeting.
There's also one that sometimes shows up in alliance raids, where some players get a red triangle marker on their head, which just means stack with at least one other person with the marker.
Ah yes that's a good one too, though I also don't know what the normal name is haha.
That and the triangle one will be put in the updated/part 2 of this video
I usually just call it numbers as i think after Ravana it's shown by purple triangles and blue squares, or red circles in some cases. For a callout I hear people just say "check your numbers" though
Always heard the duo stack red triangles be called "dorritos" because of the triangle corn chips.
Hahaha that's a good one
I've seen the "swords" mechanic just referred to as "divebombs", where there's an AoE line from boss's position to the marked player. Thanks, Twintania
This was really helpful, but that tip about non damaging tethers usually being something to keep did not age well with e9
Oof yeah I’m really regretting that line haha
Those E6 chains really had me too focused on the non break ones
I wish I thought to seperate brambles and chains to make it easier to understand.
One of the most confusing things was all the way back in syrcus tower where you, for the first time, had AOEs that you were supposed to overlap with other players. It took me forever to understand and I'd die to it at least once every time I got it in duty roulet.
You're talking about Xande, right? I tried to tell people in Alliance chat that was a stack marker and some guy kept arguing with me about how they weren't. I wish Square would go back and touch up the old markers so they're more uniform.
@@TheAzulmagia And it looks like they just may be doing that in the new few days.
there's another mechanic that is "rare"? it's when you turn Minimum. as far as i recall, when you're Mini, you can overlap with another Mini player and get normal size again. Happens in one of the Gilgamesh fights and in Syrcus Tower as fair as i recall
Man I wish I knew what these words meant when I started raiding last year. I never understood what my raid team was saying. Had to learn it the hard way, xD
Great video!
Haha yeah the jargon makes it a lot harder to get into raiding than it should
While most knockback indicated by the boss's animation, one general indicator is a black circle with blue waves viusal effect on its edge
Stand inside the aoe would kill you, beware.
Standing inside the blue aoe will kill you*
@@ThatOneCloudGuy thank you for corrections
This is probably the most helpful video I have seen yet as someone who has been playing this game for little over a month (currently in Heavensward)
"Stack the Doritos" is the terminology I usually use for the red triangles where you need to stand with at least one other person with a Dorito. I don't know if the broader community has another name for this mechanic.
No my friend told us "share your Doritos" too when they popped up the first time
I like this name for it
Yeah, I've always heard doritos, or my personal favorite: danger doritos.
I think the solid tether you’re thinking of might be the red dragon tethers from the World of Darkness 5 headed dragon fight. They can’t be taken by running through them, but If I remember right they can be passed on by tagging your party members (may be an alternate version of the prey mech you mentioned)
There is also the ice mechanic from snowcloak but has shown up in Ex death and more recently Castrum Lacus Latore where you will WANT to move. There is also the earth skill that pulses out in rings that I can’t remember the name of. But this is a nice PSA to newer players. Maybe another thing worth mentioning are the interruptible flashing skills of bosses that tanks and ranged dps can interrupt.
Only came for the orange marker on the thumbmail but with the circle.
As well as the purple version of it which I only knew in The great hunt, the orange one applied fire damage over time debuffs on whoever has it and stood in it.
Another common variant of the tether is the Magnetic Tether. The tethered players will have a polarity that changes the way they'll interact with each other. Similar polarities repel away, opposite polarities attract. Usually, when it's an opposite polarity mechanic, the players will receive damage and a debuff if they get pulled close enough to touch each other. This first appeared on Living Liquid in Alexander.
Another that pops up occasionally is the "vital hit box" as I usually call it. Three out of four of the quadrants of your hitbox are marked with a crackling yellow indicator while one quadrant remains normal (front, back, left, right). The boss will use a targeted ability that will kill you if the side facing him is vulnerable to the vital hit. This first appeared in Orbonne Monastery's first boss.
The "Numbering System" also keeps popping up lately. Each player has a certain number of dots above their head, indicating which order they'll be targeted in. Sometimes this can also appear in the form of swords. This mechanic made its debut with Ravana but became more popular with Cruise Chaser in Alexander (and now Diamond Weapon Extreme).
Great write up of 3 good mechanics thank you
I think that number mechanic is usually called Limit Cut
This is quite helpful, thank you!
The amount of detail you put in each video is amazing. Your channel is going to grow for sure keep up the grind :D
Thank you so much! I’ve been worried they were under-detailed haha
Was very helpful watching this. Wish I knew this before taking on all the extreme fights in ARR. Thought it was going to teach me but nope. This definitely needs to be put in as a required tutorial for the game.
I needed this! Thank you!
Great guide! Thank you! :D
Very good job there, it looks like you really dig into it by going to old fights desync just to record them, that's dedication.
Some other ones I can think about and you forgot to mention are:
"Divebombs", green or orange circles over a players head that needs to baited away and when it disappears run back to the party (since Twintania in T5 and then most fights that have a big Dragon usually, UCOB being divebombs paradise).
"Puddles/Pools" to remove a debuff (to remove dooms from Nael at T9 and UCOB, Etc.) or transform your self into something to avoid damage or status effects (Antitower's last boss until Dalriada's second boss, some other in-between) or soak other mechanic (since Twintania's neurolinks T5/UCOB or water puddles at Syrcus Tower first boss Scylla to decrease damage from Ancient Flare).
"Bleed/poison/electricity bubbles (or just bubbles?)" that targets a player and that person needs to place them away from everyone because they begin to grow and if you step into them, they give you a nasty bleed or other debuff (Sephiroth, Thunder God, Sit of Sacrifice, etc.).
"Liquid Hells", small single orange icon over the head of a character that need to be place away and always left behind a puddle of fire (since Twintania T5 until second boss at The Puppet's Bunker and many other fights in-between).
One that is new but is already been used in other fight is "Ferrostorm" from Ifrit in Eden's Verse Furor, 2 to 3 big horns that come out from the ground around the boss that shoots a cone attack from each of the horns, It is also in the fight against the Queen's Knight at Delubrum Reginae Savage, the mechanic name is "Optimal Play" but since it has the same horns as "Ferrostorm" is now the standard name.
Also, "Donut AOE" is called "Lunar Dynamo" by many old players since Nael (T9).
Thanks for the video.
The dive bombs in Ucob have traumatised me for life.
Also thank you for write up, that'll save me a bit when I make the follow up video haha
Another mechanic not pointed out here is the blue puddle-like knockback marker such as in Sephirot and Titania. Staying in the blue puddle deals massive damage, while staying out of it knocks you back, usually shows up in fights where you can fall off the arena.
Although not really a marked mechanic, there's also what some people call Akh Morn, a stack marker AoE that hits multiple times so everyone needs to stay inside for the full duration. Although it's recurring it's not always called Akh Morn so some people might be confused when hearing the term.
Haha yeah Akh Morn is a pretty confusing name for new players. But calling out "Multiple stack AoE" would be too much of a mouthful!
Thank you for reminding me of the blue knockback AoE too.
Thankfully recently it has receive a new indicator
The músic you’re using for youre videos, is the type of quality I look for haha 😂
Haha I always spend too long planning out what tracks will suit the video best
Just discovered your channel, subscribed, your awesome 👍😎
Thank you!
I call the gaze a medusa cause I mean, well, ya know
Very good choice haha
I call Donut AOE’s “Hugs” because this is my first mmo so my closest frame of reference for an attack like that is in the final boss fight of Hades, where the easiest way to not take damage from a certain move is to go right up to the boss and “hug” them. It’s one instance where I was very glad to already know what to do!
Thank god for this
I note that when you mention stares and glares you did not mention a relatively rare mechanic, but which you'll not has traumatized a lot of people.
Shriek, I never remember where it came from, but in essence it is a Raid wide Stare/Glare that will go off of the position of a teammate, they won't be affected but the rest of the team can be.
It's most recent use I remember is in Eden.... I think it's E2 along the with the countdown mechanics they introduced in it. Countdowned Shrieks are really horrible to manage...
Oh yeah that mechanic was a nightmare in E2 haha.
I must have forgotten to include it in the end but originally i think I had it noted down as just a glare mechanic that’s on a player.
Once Endwalker is out I plan to make an updated version of this video that’s clearer and has more information in it so I’ll keep a note of this one, thank you!
I think it exists in The Antitower too
it shows up in E12S as well and O4S was known for it
can't forget that this is technically in hades ex, though it's relatively simple to deal with
Thanks for the refresher. They really need to put this in the H.o.N.
i hope you're having a good day, you deserve it
Thank you I hope you are too!
Great video thank you.
line aoe: the person in the front takes most damage, stand behind your tank but in the line
also 'donut aoe' is not the old term, the old terms are dynamo for the donut and chariot for it's inverted counterpart
great video, thanks.
Did a dungeon where the boss would put a tether to two players and they would have to stay in prox but then I did a different one where a chain would damage you and I got confused and accidentally killed someone cause I thought it was the same mechanic. I felt so guilty but after I explained what happened the other person was pretty chill about it.
Yeah the inconsistency they sometimes have with chains is such a pain
The Vault right ?
There's also the ancient terms Chariot and Lunar Dynamo which sometimes show up depending on how old the raider is.
Chariot being a standard PBAoE and Lunar Dynamo being another name for Donuts. These originated from Nael Deus Darnus from T9.
Hahaha I started ucob after this video came out and have gotten very acquainted dynamo and chariot
Dice is wrong. There are fights that you still will be hit no matter
. All it indicates is a timer is going off and there will be a small amount of damage when those go off.
Something with Glare/Gaze attacks:
If you have an AoE attached to the Glare/Gaze you can avoid it in two ways.
1) Get out of the AoE. Then it doesn't matter if you're looking at the caster or not, you won't be affected
2) You can stay in the AoE, but turn away from the caster and you won't be affected.
I've had a few novice healers Rescue me out of Gaze/Glare attacks with AoEs because I didn't get out of the AoE even though I had turned around and was safe.
Yes! This is good advice to have in mind
@@VicWrightFFXIV one that i see lots of people get wrong is during the diablos hollow fight in dun scaith where theres a purple stack marker combined with a gaze/glare icon. where they either run away from that player or stack but keep looking at them. where you have to stack and look away from them to avoid damage and reduce how much they take.
sometimes people use circle aoe = Chariot and donut aoe = Lunar Dynamo
That damn Nael Deus Darnus fight. lol
so glad i found this video! maybe you can help me here; what is the "sprout" mechanic people keep talking about? whenever im running that new dungeon "the aurum vale" and perform a pro wall-to-wall pull on my sick dragoon, my party almost always starts wiping like noobs and typing (in all caps lock) "YOU FUCKING SPROUT" and the healers dont use their mana pot. am I supposed to sprout, or the healers? im starting to think those people are the ones who should "fuckin sprout" anyways?🙄 (fyi: its not on duty action either, i already checked!) loved the video! i also hate it when people tell me to "stand in the tower".. it feels so rude. i never do it and we usually live just fine 😎
for glare /sight i uslay just call them look away mechinics and the flares at least my fc calls them the ga 100 since we also tend to call exaflares flares.
Another type of proxy aoe that makes the name "meteor" make less sense can be found in a certain ShB trial (The second one, not saying name for potential spoilers); The proxy aoe is a line down the middle, which negates the whole "meteor" concept but it's still a proxy aoe.
i was JUST yelled at for this very thing! gatekeeping through abstraction is the worst
The second my sprout left me I was harrased for not being telepathic and knowing 100 percent of the mechanics 900 percent of the time. Albeit very very rarely, but I noticed it from the first day my sprout left. Now I just watch every instance MTQcapture has ever made over and over again
Yuck that sucks, they should change the sprout system to add more stages. Make it bloom or something to be like “this persons not as new as a sprout but is still learning.”
That and people should realise that not everyone without a sprout icon is a 10 year player who knows all the mechanics.
It's gotten so bad with raids, that these are the easy ones, because they share a common 'language' like you pointed out. A logic that can be deciphered because it's consistent. It's not 'hey, you got a shield across 3/4 of your body, and he's got a sniper rifle, turn your most vulnerable place towards him' that makes you go whaaaaat?
What did I call a AoE that takes place in the entire arena regardless of situation?
(Like Titan's Earthen Fury)
People probably say it on calls but I never realised which one is it cuz I simply don't know the term
Those are usually called raid wide aoe
Would have liked to know about those aoes that move in certain directions, like the ones with the arrows on them. Or atleast what they're called
Those are called exaflares!
They explode multiple times in the direction of the arrow on the marker, in some newer fights there has been versions that might spread out in multiple directions like in Dragonsong Ultimate.
I’m surprised it’s not in this video, unless it wasn’t as common back then.
I still need to make an updated one with everything new added since
coming from wow i ve always been confused why the ff raidng scenes doesn t just call soak mechanics soaks, and spread mechanics spreads. terms pretty mich explain the mechanic lime tankbusters do
I remember freaking out so bad the first time I had Eos or a Dragoon tethering to me, lmao
One of the scariest moments for first timers haha
I want to know what symbol / squares on the floor mean like at 4:20 you can see the purple yellow etc squares
Sorry for the late response but those are waymarks players use as guidelines for where to go in fights
This is my first MMO so this is very helpful. So question; what's with the different ABC letters placed everywhere on some of these fights?
Those are waymarks, they usually get used in endgame fights. We place them down to help the party so we can be like “for this part of the fight go to A if it’s red” ect. Also sometimes it just helps you find where north is if you get lost.
Ah ok thank you, clears up a lot.
@@DeviHyuga we can also place other waymarks on people like a triangle (dorito) to indicate following and stacking on them for safety or marking an experienced player who knows where to stand for newbies to be with. Letters on a person to assign group seperation mid fight or an X as a warning to give someone with a dangerous mechanic assigment a wide berth.
@@tenjenk As a sprout and a Dragoon main, I am the the embodiment of all those memes about people not knowing squat.
As a WoW refugee I absolutely like that a lot of common mechanics share similar graphics, WoW dungeon/raid mechanics over the course of its history haven't been very consistent with the graphics indicating how to react.
Definitely something that's been consistent. I think even when they do use a different indicator visually they try to keep some part of it similar to the original so you can figure it out
Another thing is that elemental attacks usually have the same mechanics, like when a freeze attack is coming you prevent getting frozen if you keep moving, burning attacks yo prevent getting burnt by staying still and not attacking, lightning will strike every player with an aoe so the party has to spread and earth will create lanslides in a straight line. It helps a lot, also is natural in a Final Fantasy that a lot of enemies have the same spells.
Don't forget exoflares.
Thank you
I'm a new player and took quite a while to figure out what belly means inside world of darkness ARR lvl 50
Hello, I was wondering, when fighting diablos, there is a stack mark with a red eye, how to avoid this attack?
So there’s a mechanic I’ve accidentally left out of the video where the eye marker appears above a player and to solve it everyone looks away from the player. In this fight you have to stack in with them but not look at them.
So just turning to look out of the edge of the aoe you’re at should do the trick.
@@VicWrightFFXIV commonly called shriek
Did not know that actually
@@VicWrightFFXIV rarely ever pops up in anything outside of raids and ex trials so that's understandable
I think since it usually has an indicator I just haven’t paid much attention to the name of it haha
I went through the whole MSQ without knowing what the dungeon boss fights do. I consistently have to hover over the negative buff to see what they do. I found out upon dying on a dungeon and getting stoned by the chat as to what I apparently did wrong. This is a major fault with the game and if people say this game is perfect no; theres alot to improve as always the organisation is profiting after all.
Aoes with Gaze only work while in the aoe. You can still stand in the aoe and look away to avoid the effects as melee/tanks. Rang/casters can keep looking at aoe gaze enemies without repercussion as long as they’re not in the aoe. 🥰
What??? No DORITOS??? 😂
So flare is basically the "Move away from the party as far as you can"?
Pretty much, or move away from the person who has it
To add some clarity, the video describes the indicator as “a triangle”, but this mechanic is three arrows pointing away from the player you need to avoid - essentially a visual opposite to the Stack Together indicator.
Huh I've never thought of it like that
I wish I'd seen this video 20 levels ago
wow wait you can hotkey the duty action? my life will change
Haha yeah binding both of them is such a life saver
If a "proximity AOE" kills you, regardless of how far away you get, unless you get behind something....... it isn't a proximity aoe, is it?
You know what? Fair point haha
@@VicWrightFFXIV :P Sorry
Proxi Aoe should be Nuke
Hey, the video was a bit too fast for me to follow, and I'm still having a hard time understanding it as a beginner. Sometimes I wasn't even sure what you were talking about, so maybe adding some still photos could help newbies like me tell the difference.
WHY IS IT SPELLED "Gaol"!?
OMG, I will give you a sub and like because I am an idiot, I thought it was a guide to Machinist and I was like this idiot is going to tell us how to play a Machinist while he is a Samurai, lol?
Haha if I ever get around to making a machinist guide I'll make sure to open the video with samurai footage