P5S Guide - Pandaemonium Abyssos Fifth Circle Savage (Proto-Carbuncle) 

My static found it was easy to remember the toxic squall/ surge by saying "if it's surge we merge" for light party's and "for squall we spread to the wall". Rhyming makes it easy to remember!

Get home from work and this guy's got the raid guides already up

Damn that was fast. My static is planning on using your guides for the whole tier after how well they worked for us in asphodelos. Keep up the good work Hector.

There should be a world race for best first guide out. THANK YOU HECTOR YOU HERO

Your guides as always are amazing Hector. Love hearing you lay out the strats, looking forward to another fun tier of solves with you!

It's insane how quickly you made a guide for this, but it's super clear and easy to understand. Thank You!

I didn't think it possible but the quality of your guides is actually increasing. I love the attention to details, like the deliberate timing of the blue flashes indicating claw attacks. I've been watching streams of the world race and, unlike other guides I've watched and needed to be present in the fight to map concepts to execution, I can very easily map the concepts from your guides to the phases I need to execute on. Great job (and so quick!), you're amazing

Although these guides aren’t “perfect” upon release, the quality of these guides for the first week have helped numerous parties clear. I thank you on behalf of the raid community Hector, your hard work doesn’t go unnoticed.

First time trying to clear current Savage and honestly Hector this guide (and the correction to Devour) is a literal godsent. Thank you. Aiming to clear this fight tomorrow, I reached Ruby Glow 5 today :)

Hey guys! For Ruby Glow + Topaz Clusters, I found that my group was struggling finding the 3rd safe zone. If you blinked and missed the set of Crystals dropping down, quickly look for the quadrant with only 1 Quartz in it before for 4th set drops. I solved it this way much more consistently than trying to eye on drops.

Grats on day 1 clear! This has helped my group who can hopefully clear Thursday! I love your guides as they have helped me so much and your better at explaining these mechanics!

This is my first time clearing a tier with everyone else blind as I only caught up with the game recently, it makes me really happy that my half assed party finder tactics are relatively similar to yours... And thanks for your hard work!

You’re my favourite guide maker, was waiting on this vid to prog p5s

Thanks for working hard and getting this guide out so quickly! I am certain that it'll help both my statics.

You’re a beast, guide on the first day. Tysm Hector!

First time i've watched one of your videos and i love you already. Clean, easy to understand and you don't talk too fast. Thank you for this

Thank you for this, I was remnicising about how nice an animated guide would be and you post one. Thank you for the guidance.

The breathy laugh after "for walking...watching" haha Thanks for another awesome vid for our static! Your updated Devour strat is fantastic!

Thank you for the fast upload as always, my static will definitely be using this when we start progging in a few days :D

Thank you hector. Quickly becoming the best guide RU-vidr (if not already)

Chad : day 1 clear Giga chad : day 1 clear and making a visually clear and animated guide for the rest of playerbase

Incredibly helpful, thanks very much for the thorough work!

Thanks man, you really helped me clear P5S with your guide.

So quick! Thank you, Hector!

That was mega quick Hector! Nice one!

Thank you! Your guides are always a huge help :)

For the zigzag pattern of aoe, you'll notice that the quadrant he first jumps to becomes safe after the third hit, so in the example you give, once he does the AOE at 2, you can move into 2, follow him to 1 and your safe to remain there while it resolves the rest of the mechanic

Thank you Hector, the guide very much helped me in getting down Devour, and thanks to it, did ruby 5 correctly first try. Got my clear now.

Love hector’s guide as always

for devours I found that it's easier for the zig zag, to wait like you said at start, but then just chill in 1 marker corner, until last jump at which point you can just walk centre safely and so your soaks. for the circle pattern, yours is probably easier, but I've been doing it with waiting for 2nd jump to start, and you just run a straight line to the corner across, by the time you get there you can just turn around in same line and then 2 more pizza slices and you're practically on top of the pools ready to soak

I'm sure you've seen it, but your guides seem to be a staple to party finder as well. I'm super stoked for you.

Thank you for the comprehensive guide!

literally didnt even start the fight until your guide came out, youre doing god's work

Yo thanks for the guides man because of them I've been able to make it to the enrage in p4s and hopefully this tier I'll clear thx for ur hard work

i love your guides! the animations make it so much easier to understand the strategies than gameplay footage and i think its a nice compromise from going in blind and spoiling the spectacle of the fight :)

Thanks a bunch for the guide! I'm glad my blind pf actually figured out a bunch of the mechs on our own including arrangements for poison towers. It drives me wild that the day 1 pf strats encourage roles for pairs when all it does is cause massive confusion for the cardinal towers.

that was hella fast. Youre a legend for this comunity my man.

You are the GOAT. Guide is fantastic and will be a huge help. One thing I've noticed for the zig-zag bite pattern is that you can stop running once you hit the pizza slice the boss started biting on. Makes for less opportunity for error I think. Either way though, you're so good at these guides!

Yessssss! I been waiting for this. Thanks mr. hector man. Now I don’t have to be a headless chicken

this was insanely helpful in teaching me how to prog devour. counting 'pizza slices' is absolutely the safest way to clear it cleanly.

oh my god this is so fast, thanks hector youre a lifesaver

Thank you sir, A static member recommended this guide and it helped so much.

Mad lad, I appreciate this fast guide

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THESE GUIDES. Ex "hardcore top 10 world" WoW player but my OG MMO was FF11 back in 2004 in college. So nice to "retire" on FF14 b/c I can still get my "kill something 'hard'" fix and this boss in PF first week did not dissapoint!.

Great work, thanks for this!

Bless!! What a mad lad already having this out 👏👏👏

Thank you so much, Hector!

Thank you for your hard work! ♥♥

Day 1 guide btw. Incredible and clean!

I find Devour much easier this way: Clock pattern: Stand left of the first jump, move in afterwards, then follow it when it changes direction Zigzag pattern: Start opposite, when it lands to the right of you, run counter-clockwise to the first jump location and stay there

This kind of guides are really good

cant wait to see your masterpiece for P6S!

You are the GOATED guide maker, love ya

Very good guide ! Thank You !

Great and easy to understand guide. Small improvement might be having a video of he fight after, maybe even sped up, with timestamps to the mechanics show.

absolute god guide maker, ty hector

love your guides, keep it up

This is a great guide hector. But these encounters are just test of memory. And its too much exercise for whatever memory banks I have left. There was an age when I could instantly recall what I need. Those good days are long gone.

Truly an excellent guide.

My static started linking your vids for this tier, and I'll say that I wish you made these earlier! Great stuff!

Out here doing the 12's work. Bless you.

Another great guide, about to start progging. Thanks.

This is so awesome 😎

ty so much!! very clear and concise

Legend! Saving us a bunch of time.

ty for ur work man it's amazing !

Great guide. Looks like you'll be guiding my static through P5-8 at least.

THE SPEED! Ty so much brother!

Great Guide, thanks

Tho i dont do savages, i love these animated guides! This, MTQcapture and yukizuri has the best guides

As always, the animation and perspective shift help so much more than PoV videos. I guess without them my static wouldn't have cleared Asphodelus at all. Maybe in the future, "Hector" will be something you read in PF descriptions a lot more :D

Haven’t watched this but I already know it’s gonna be great. Thank you Hector xo

Was making a Toolbox for this and saw you already uploaded a guide. Hector Guide Speedrun any %

hector is goated as always i see

WE HAVE BEEN SAVED, GOD HAS UPLOADED

thank you hector :D

Tonight shall be slightly less painful. Thank you Hector.

You're doing Hydalyns work, keep up the good work!

Aamzing guide, thank you

Sick upload. Our raid is in a couple hours. Subbed ❤️

this is awesome tyvm

you da man Hector!

My dude you are FAST let's goooooo

On Ruby Glow 5 spreads, please do not recommend tanks at the wall. There is by default 2 "uptime" spots on each side, one being max melee at the edge of poison. Having Tanks be in that spot makes the boss run over to whichever tank is currently holding it and messes up the melee range for both spots on the other side. So either you need to have both melee in the light party with the tank that currently is holding the boss or you put the Tanks in the center positions.

Missed opportunity to take a picture of a normal Carbuncle with only angry eyebrows added. But thank you very much for the guide!

For the Devour - I find it a lot easier to think of this mechanic as of one single pattern (because it kinda is). You position yourself diagonally opposite of first jump and then you need to remember intercardinal at which boss changed direction - boss gonna start clockwise to do all his jumps and ALWAYS change direction at this "checkpoint". So he can change it either once (Circle pattern) or twice (Zigzag pattern) until he exhausted himself. The rest is easy - you follow his jumps and dodge each of them by standing on opposite intercardinal closer to center.

Your voice seems so perfect for teaching stuff if that makes sense. You sound like every teacher I had that was good at it haha

HONEY WAKE UP NEW HECTOR VIDEO JUST DROPPED

Devour was so fun to blind prog, highlight of the xpac for me as I figured it out for us

What an absolute Chad, single-handedly saving my static from disbanding to slaver jumps.

Thanks!

Something I noticed with the Devour mechanic is that you can also predict which way the initial jumps will happen based on which pizza slice of the quadrant the first jump will be. So if it is the upper left pizza slice of quadrant 1, then the boss will jump counter clockwise 2 or 4 times. Havent gotten past devour yet with the whole party alive but I believe that tomorrow will be different now that this guide is out :)

One note for Squall/Surge that my static has found is that you don't need to stack center. You have the healers take their spread spot closer to the wall, then everyone waits to bait the aoe in the same spot, then move. So for Squall it's spread, stay to bait, then move in to stack. For Surge it's in to stack, stay stacked to bait, then spread. I've found that since this requires a lot less movement it's a little easier on healers too.

You're 16th on trending holy moly!

Even after watching this guide over and over I'm still far too nervous. I tried a learning party and got upset at making mistakes as a tank, I felt like I was letting the team down. Its a super helpful guide and you explain things in a nice way. I'm just upset I won't be able to do savage with my small brain.

Congrats on trending

Great video, gonna go prog now , wish me luck! :salute:

For towers, we found it much easier to say 2 people go to the highest of the options (numerically/alphebetically), and 2 go to the lower.

I’ve started exclusively linking your videos to our raid resource tab on discord.

Insane