Another Aloalo Island Boss 1 Visual Guide || Kobe's Classroom [FFXIV] (Criterion Dungeon) 

1:52 1st mech 3:58 2nd mech 4:47 3rd mech 5:36 4th mech 7:15 5th mech

A personal observation that we've had during the bubble dodging is that you should never attempt to lead them- always follow whenever possible. Don't even try to cross in front of one if you can avoid it. These things will snapshot you, and snapshot you hard. You will be sucked into one from 3/4 of a square over.

this is a really good visual guide for this fight! it's pretty much what NA pf strats do but just a few spots/priorities rotated

The diagrams really helped me understand the fight!! Thanks for doing this!

the tail screw in adds room is just a ground aoe, so the tank can just move once the cast starts :)

Great vid I killed this boss yesterday using slightly different strats but none the less a great video

Pretty frustrating fight to wrap your head around but it's satisfying once it clicks.

For the towers, you should have HM | | TR (or the opposite) Support North, DPS South Ranged adjust (so BLM, Healer) for optimal uptime and to avoid awkward melee clipping.

For Spring Crystals 1, I think a better strat is to do relative east/west (or left/right) rather than absolute. Take your image from 3:07 and try to create that no matter how the blocks spawn. So you take the middle block and orient it so it's like a shield in front of you so it always becomes horizontal from where you're standing and you have a new north, then melee left and ranged right. Now you made it way easier because every block pattern becomes the same exact thing relative to those squares and once the LC dots come out you only have 4 possible squares you move to instead of 8. If you do that, then you don't have to have different mental images in your mind as to which 4 squares are safe. Relative to you the same 4 squares are always safe and you turn all the block patterns into the same exact one

Thank you!

Good stuff.

Hey Kobe! Great video. As a lad whose hoping to create his own content, what do you use to edit your videos and create these diagrams? Thanks in advance!

exactly how the party i progged with figured it out, except on the towers at the end we had the tanks and healers take the middle towers, as for me (the healer) it allowed me the time to check if anyone had less hp than they should and sort that out. Doing that while also trying to get into a bubble, or figure out which tower is mine, sounds like a nightmare 😓

I learned the fight on primal using this video and then went to aether where they flipped everything to TR/HM N/S. which makes sense for melee uptime, but my smooth brain had to relearn everything

Awesome guide, only thing i would add is timestamps for mechanics but otherwise rly good

Why do you not mention the puddles dropping under you during blowing bubbles?

I feel like this would be really helpful if I knew what any of this actually looked like in-game. maybe some footage from the fight itself as B-roll to better explain what to look for?

sounds like an animal crossing theme but is pure hell

Where did you get the map asset :0

Why tf is this so hard for me... I literally still don't understand how to identify the safespots in the crystal ones Like I'm struggling at what is supposed to be extreme lvl of mechanics and I found the whole anabaesious savage tier easier than this 😭😭 Like ok i get how to identify, i dont get how ppl identify so fast... Im progging but ppl are alrdy idenfiying the safespots within an hour and im here using every mental brain power to find my safespots like fck this shit

It's an okay guide. Watched it, went in, and there were skills and effects not mentioned at all.

Glad there's a guide for people, but Christ are these fight designs awful. Why people even bother to put up with this, for trivial rewards, even good rewards are beyond me.

Kekw, just make the healer keep moving during hexa+ stack first. I ain't moving as a blm 😂