FFXIV: Orbonne Monastery Complete Raid Guide 

Chart For Thunder God Positioning Courtesy of Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/aeohra/pugfriendly_orbonne_3_marker_scheme/

Who else is here cuz we dont know wtf we're doing

Just want to add, regarding the ice wolf mechanic, if you find yourself in the wrong circle, running across the ice to an adjacent circle is perfectly survivable. Don’t be afraid to do it if you need to.

that thundergod was the real nightmare of this raid

On Mustadio it's actually meaningless to be topped off for the sniper attack. Tested involuntarily (was crying for heals that never came) and the attack only reduces you to low HP, it will not kill you if you do the mechanic correctly.

Thank you so much for adopting the marker between the circle strategy for the video. It is the better one in my opinion and those pointing to your guide will adopt it. Seen far too many raids arguing over which to do and a lot of people being stubborn.

I finally beat this to get access to bozja. And omg the cs after you exit. They had Alicia and the other knight right buy agrias. I was looking for rad hard af after I saw that. But that was super nostalgic seeing all the ffxiv versions of a bunch of tactics parties and characters man. Late thank thank thank you to yoshi p matsuno and everyone else who worked on this raid.

Thank you Mr. Happy, our great Prometheus, for bringing the fire of knowledge to us mere mortals.

Unfortunately, I have to do this to start the resistance weapon quests.. I simply can't remember it all, and I have no idea how I'll get through it without dying 50 times.

was listening to this while running it for my first time. you gave me enough info during fights to only die a few times :)

21:33 ABORT! ABORT! Was super fun running this with you Haps.

Thank you, Sir. This has helped me avoid most deaths. Only deaths I couldn't avoid was my teammate's not moving away from others while targeted with some of those mechs during TGC.

This was incredibly helpful and I didn't die at all, though the other sch went down at least 10 times. Ended up getting a chance to use the sch lb3 too to rez the whole raid so that was fun.

"I call out to the skies and tremble as the brilliance of a thousand bolts blinds mine enemies and tears their flesh asunder!!!" "Seven shadows cast, seven fates foretold. And yet at the end of the broken path lies death, and death alone!!!" I love the casting quotes. xD

I went through this raid for the first time today (a year and a half later lol) and I think I got killed like 20 times as a DPS. I had to come and check WTF was happening cus I never had a fight like this. Thanks for the vid Happy!

Eyyyyy! Thank you! :)

The maze does change patterns every time you fight the last boss.

🚶🏻‍♀️ got this for roulette and i wasn’t planning on doing until i was ready (aka watching mr.happy’s guide for this) will didnt do that and has to go in blind. probably died 10+ times

Just went through this raid 100% blind and oh boy it was a slaughter, so i guess i will learn the mechanics now :P

i can finally stop dying to the sniper mechanic

Thank you for the guide. Quick question on Orlandu. You confirm the boss auto attacks all three alliance tanks. Should each tank therefore be using their respective tanking stance? Thanks for your time.

Is there a guide to watching this guide?

Just to emphasis how important it's not to overlap those shadowblade bubbles, 4 stacks is the max amount that's really healble unless your healers are really good, 5-6 stacks take out about 2/3 of the health of a non-tank job per tick.

Mr Happy, on Cid, if you use the Ozma strats (more specifically the staying in one of the circles) for Crush Armor, then what the group can do is that everyone gets on the spot of the circle closest to him, and keeps an eye on their hp. If you take one of the hits, just step back, it will automatically switch to someone else, no coordinated switch off required.

Thundergod is still the best Alliance raid boss theyve ever done

Add phase of third boss looks super confusing and Ultima looks really fun. Insane, but fun xD

Do a guide without shitting on the duty finder challenge

Broooooo thank you

Also, when seraph is almost dead she starts throwing redemptions out pretty frequently so be ready for that

holy shit i am not looking forward to this, i'm gonna be dead soooo much here lol watched the guide prob 10 times now but theres now way im gonna remember half this stuff >.

I love how some of this is continuously a reminder to the Lion's War for Final Fantasy Tactics. Mustadio, Agrias, & Cid (Aka Orlandeau) besides many of the others like Ramza and his sister.

I watched this after running the raid (on day 2) because I just like going in on day 1-2 and figuring out the mechanics with everyone...then after that, looking for a guide for things I might have missed or alternative strats. Even with duty finder, it's usually fun for the first week as we're all in the same progression boat of learning what mechanics do what and plan how to deal with them. That said, a healer did ragequit on the second wipe to Cid for whatever reason (day 2 ragequits...always funny to see that), even though almost everyone was new and we were all really laid back after wipes (analyzing what went wrong and figuring out a strategy to deal with it). I loved the second boss, because I thought the mechanics were really interesting. Some people still struggled with the shield, but we all had an "open question" policy and encouraged anyone to ask questions and even analyze what went wrong if/when we wiped. We had someone who became our "raid leader", so props to them (I don't recall the name off the top of my head, or I'd give them a shoutout for being freaking awesome). I wasn't too fond of the final boss, only because it felt like it was more of "let's throw a bunch of mechanics at the players at the same time) instead of mechanics such as in the second and third bosses. I literally could not process everything happening on the screen during what I call the "chaos phase" of the final boss (that time when the boss summons three previous raid bosses and mechanics go off either at the same time or so close together that it feels like they happen at once). On our second attempt (after wiping in that phase), I realized I processing it all would be impossible for me, so I decided that I'd eat a couple hits from the moving water spouts if it meant being able to dodge the divebomb, proximity hammer, and timed explosions. So if anyone else has issues with processing that much information on their screen, that's a tip; you don't want to be caught in the divebomb because it'll give a nasty debuff, so just pick one of the "smaller" things to be hit with (one or two hits from the water spout or one hit from a floor aoe should be alright, just try to limit it to 2 hits...3 if you have high VIT or have VIT melds).

I'm watching this while waiting for the Duty Finder. Decided to do some homework When watching the Third Boss strat, I thought that this is the final one. Oh boy was I wrong

T.G. and Seraph are so much fun

Soo glad I watched this after my clear. This A.Raid felt appropriately tough.

Thanks for the Guide. Good golly.... I dread this raid. First two raids.... no problem. This one..... oh boy @_@. I have to do it to get the good stuff.

Holy crap! Do my eyes deceive me or did they have a new boss room design for Cid? It's not a boring circle room anymore, it's a doughnut!

Is there an orchestrion roll for the thunder god?

Mister Happy, wonderful guide you've placed together thank you for the help!! (I doubt I'll do the raid soon tho won't lie @_@; lol)

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING A GUIDE USING THE EASY WAY ON THUNDER GOD. Hopefully it's not too late for it to become meta, because people are already stubborn about doing it "like Ozma." Every group I've had does it "like Ozma" and it just needlessly complicates it. Doing it the way you show is obviously how it was intended because of ads. No idea why everyone does it the other way when it makes people have to move more and much less efficiently.

I wonder if the mech boss will be the machinists changes coming in shadowbringers. It acts like a machinist with its attacks and behaviors. Maybe a form change between the weapons?

i somehow got it done already but i fear next week

Gotta give them props. They stepped up the difficulty in just about everything this patch. Mostly in the forms of harsh punishment for failed mechanics. Went in with 2 friends, I was SAM, on the 1st day and our raid timed out at the very end. On the second try on day 2, I went PLD and got through. Great raid. Even the elitists should like it.

why would you go counter clockwise ? my raid team figured out going left was just way more simple. go left for dps. circles dropped back and left. everyone goes left, everyone is happy.

hmm...so if mustadio, agrias, and T.G Cid are all lucavi then does that mean that ramza's party failed in orbonne monastary? or did they just sacrifice themselves to save everyone else?

Back in my day, I would shit my pants when I have 70 risk points and forgot to cast Magic Ward while encountering Harpy that throwing Curse and Banish at me in Undercity . Good old days. Best game 10/10.

Thundergod defeated my first raid group 4 times before we cleared it. Ultima though? first try.

re: TG Cid fight, I can see why you prefer the method of marking between the platforms, however, for player simplicty because of Ozma, I would find that the markers are better placed rotated. When Cid drops you back into the arena on a platform, if you stay on it, your place to drop your circle is now to your right as opposed to your left if you use the markers created by most parties. However, if they're rotated, then they're still to your left. This is handy for players who might autopilot where to drop them based off the year+ they were running Ozma, meaning less likely for player error to cause a wipe. Just my opinion :)

Is the coin a weekly thing or can you farm it?

Over a year later and people are still failing this and need echo buff to clear.

just watching this video stressed me out. i guess i still have to do this. =/

:O Mustadio, Agrias, Cid! noooo. You became monsters?

people make this raid difficult than what it is honestly.

Thunder god boss: y’all like to *DIE?*

EX mode please

Here because I had no idea what happened and how I died ;u;

Everyone became a persona. :|

What did you call the Gougan coin? It is Gou-gan

THANK YOU!! The amount of people who put the Thunder God markers between the circles frustrates me to no end! That's not good positioning!

I was always a fan of difficulty spikes... we are going to have to work together here peeps. ^_^

I love how this is a challenge but very fair too. If your teams do stuff right then it is win. If not, you could still win but it is a lot harder to. I feel like the second raid was too easy really.

I haven't done this raid yet. Just wanted to see how my Tactics people looked in 3d...was sorely disappointed when I saw they looked like reject Voltron enemies.

I keep hearing about groups timing out and wiping over and over to these bosses. Anyone else here on a JP server clear it first try without much difficulty? My group wiped once to Cid and that was it. Every run since then has had no problems at all.

I swear to god, these raids make me not even want to play anymore. There are like 20 steps for every fucking boss in them. It's like my eyes glaze over after a while and I have to keep rewinding, and I know I'm going to forget at least half of this shit by the time I get in there. Whatever though. Thanks for the guide.

Nice downvotes! Also, HYD? ; ]

And thunder god is super simple i dont know why people find it hard. When he stabs his two swords in front of him you stay closest to him. When he has his 2 arms held up holding the swords you get away. and you get away from wherever the swords are being held up. dusk blade is just dps go to their spot (in my case we go left.) you get a circle? u drop it in the back (or to the left in my case) like what is the issue here lol. i didn't even watch a guide i cleared this without one explanation. -_-

Am I the only one disappointed by this "tribute" to FFT? It's not even the Ultima from FFT. It's more styled like the one from FFTA/2 and the final scene with Ramza & Delita feels so... empty and contrived.

last boss was dissapointing, expected much more from the final one for the expansion

The Ivalice storyline is sooo boring.... It's the worst storyline in FFXIV.... I've lost count the number of times i had fallen asleep progressing through the story.

MTQ > all

all i wanted was to waste my time watching a raid....not a tutorial....