The Seat of Sacrifice (EXTREME) Guide - FFXIV 

"But by this point I'm sure you know how you handle them" *Restarts the guide*

"people will need to rely on Their memory" Well that's me out.

holy shit I feel I'm studying for a final.

I like the mechanics play a role in the story. Elidibus forgot his promise due to living for so long yet the boss plays on memory.

0:21 Positioning Tips - Phase One - 1:07 Terror Unleashed 1:20 To The Limit Explanation 1:43 Solemn Confiteor 1:51 Absolute Stone III 2:04 Limit Break 3 - Meteors 2:36 Imbued Saber/coruscance [Stone -> Fire/Ice -> In/Out] 4:16 Sword of Light 4:46 Limit Break 2 - Healer Stacks 5:05 To the Limit, LB1 5:10 Imbued Saber x2(Always opposite of first round) 5:46 Limit Break 1 (Tsukoyomi Positions) 6:15 The Bitter End (Tankbuster!) 6:25 Summon Wyrm 7:01 Elddragon Dive 7:05 Specter of Light - Add Phase Begins - Phase Two: Adds - 7:10 Tanks pick up adds 7:28 Flares(Spectral Bard) 7:44 Stacks(Spectral Ninja) 7:50 Meteor Stacks(Tank + DPS, in PF it is known as the Melee Uptime Strat, please use it, thanks, it's easier on literally everyone) 8:02 Bahamut Tethers(Spectral Summoner) 8:47 Ultimate Crossover - Phase Three - 8:55 Phase Three Overview 9:40 Ninja Phase 10:16 White Mage + Black Mage 11:05 Dark Knight + Bard 12:00 Summoner + Warrior 13:46 Quintuple Cast 14:14 Sword of Light Once all 4 possible mini phases have been completed, the boss goes to his enraged.

Good guide but I haven't seen anyone mention that you can completely predict each set of Specters if you just watch what he does before each Specter of Light cast. Imbued Saber Earth/Light -> Ninja. Imbued Saber Fire/Ice -> SMN. No Imbued Saber and To the Limit instead -> DRK/BRD. Neither Imbued Saber nor To the Limit -> BLM/WHM

Devs: We heard you hate DRK Walking Dead. Players: Yep. Devs: Here's 7 more 😀

Devs: "So we have a lot of mechanics we can bring into this fight. What do you think we should include Mr. Yoshi P sir?" Yoshi P: "Yes."

I know the best way I've handled Quintuplecast is stand under him in clock positions. You'll be close enough to get the stack mechanic but apart enough for Earth, meaning you only need to pay attention to fire, ice and who got the flash marker of which case you just turn away from them or look outside if you forgot who has it.

Very Easy to Remember. Thank You SE Team!

Imbued Coruscant. Emperor Palpatine throws his Imperiall Senate chairs at you.

Your getting so good at this now MTQ!, your guides are so refined and easy to listen to know, and your the first place i come. What i love most about your guides, is the lack of smalltalk, its all business, and i love it! Thanks so much for taking the time to make these, over the years. ♥

Thank you Mizz for suggesting these strats and tips in your video with role positioning and partners as it will help encourage people to do as much damage uptime as possible from all parties involved and as you mentioned more consistency in future PFs

Just want to say thanks for the guides. I've been playing for two months, going on my third pretty soon, and I've been watching them since then. Very helpful.

Another note for determining the safe side for sword of light: if you see a sword spawn in the middle of a side, the opposite side will not be safe. Helps so that you need to look for less things when the swords actually start moving.

Thanks for the guide! My group went in last night and for the most part, we all got it down without too much trouble, but the one thing I didn’t really understand was the SMN part in the final phase, where you had to pass the tether between partners with the markers going to the cardinal positions. Your video cleared up my confusion!

Thank you for the easy to follow and detailed guide! You da best! ^^

Thank you for your amazing guides! The narration is swift, very informative and very pleasant to listen to (I just wish I had not agreed to do this trial tonight because this looks TERRIFYING ^^)

Phase 2 Specter Summons work like this: DRK - LB Will be Charged First & then summon, SMN - Fire/Ice Imbue then summon (have only seen fire), NIN - Earth/Holy Imbue, BLM&WHM - Summoned and then LB Charge

Great as always!

Found a small mistake when you mentioned Absolute Holy being the stack markers in add phase and during the Ninja mini phase, they're actually the Ninja casting Katon (which also gives a fire down debuff as well)

I was waiting for this. Thank you. I got a lot of practicing to do. Lol

“Okay how many mechanics would you like sir?” “What about like, all of them?” “...yeah....” “*YEAAAAH*”

Thank you for taking your time to make the best strategy to maximize uptime in this fight. With new content I always wait a few days up to a week for a new guide since day 1 or day 2 guides are rushed

Great job as always ;)

woot! thanks for the guide!

thank you this has cleared up so much 💙

Thanks to you, I got the sword of light. Now my classic Warrior of Light glam is complete!

God bless you for using the melee uptime strat

Tfw you have such a good shot caller in your party that you clear it blindly on the second try, so you have to come back and watch the guide later cause you have no idea how you did it. Pretty much what happened to me lol

Already cleared it but it's always okay to watch it anyway to know what I'm doing

The Best Guide ! ❤️

You saved us, I managed to defeat him, thank you so much.

Man...going through the Extreme version of this fight was both brutal..but also well worth it..I loved the normal version of the fight from the story and it was honestly one of the best fights. And the music makes it well worth it.

thank you so much for the help! :D also! friendly reminder, this video has not been added to the trial playlist yet! the normal version has, but not this extreme version as of the post of this comment.

honestly most guides are pretty equal. however one thing here i think stands out. the 4 split screens when showing the sabers instead of doing one after another i find better to organize it. . . the information vomit on mechanics that can vary but at the same time can get mildly confusing. nicely done.

Time to queue up and make alot of people unhappy with my inexperience.

THANK YOU SO MUCH I LEGIT HAD SO MUCH TROUBLE GETTING PAST THIS VERY DIFFICULT PART BUT THANKS TO YOUR TUTORIAL I REMEMBERED TO MITIGATE AT THE RIGHT TIME

Finally a trial that mixes it up. I think we needed something like this in the game.

Awesome guide.

"Have fun with it" I'm about to get yelled at and kicked.

Feel like the problem is gonna come from all the different strat floating around that keep changing depending on the PF

THANK YOUU!!! i already cleared it but it was "blind" so we managed however we could without really knowing what was going on xD

just killed this, damn what a fight, very nice.

This is got to be one of the most complicated raids I've ever seen. My group and I died so many times last night trying this. We did get to the final phase though.

You can DPS LB the boss. Just don't do it when he has Limit Break stored.

Wait wait wait, hold on, the one we fought as part of the MQ was NOT the Extreme version?!

Wow THANK YOU

Thnx for guide

I really admire ingenuity of FFXIV develpers. To create fights which are so diverse is incredible. I mean, this fight for example is testing your reflexes, memory, timing, cooperation, positioning.. and endurance.. Just wow. GL to everybody who is trying this on sync. I did it on sync, MINIL as healer, but i had great teammates. ^^

I figure it's worth mentioning, since there are multiple ways to do this fight overall: For add phase, you don't *have* to have melee + tank do towers. I've personally done DPS towers and T/H tether in every group I've been in. For post-add BLM soaking phase, I've personally always used the phase 1 meteor/ninja soaking buddies as well. TBH I actually prefer this over what is shown in the video, keeps the list of things to keep track of down and can potentially lead to less confusion when dealing with randos

THANK YOU! Also a note: You can also have two dps take the tower. It's worked perfectly fine in all the gropups I have done as a PLD OT, ofc this means the tank interrupts and then moves for bahamut tether.

Cleared this the first night and the mount dropped and I won it! I’ve been doing primals since 2.0 and never got this lucky with mounts! This is one of my favourite mechanic fights so far. It’s not so much a dps check, but more of a mechanic check.

i feel so nauseous after learning this. thank you.

just cleared this yesterday and it the biggest clutch i ever have seen team but healer died from ninja then they lb3 and it was that moment the enrage happen the gauge was () when we beat

The usual party finder strats are different from what's stated here I find. Usually it's just dps towers and tanks/healers go to their meteor spots (rotate cw from cardinal) for all bahamut tethers . but that could just be a primal data center thing

Watching this before I run it in 30 minutes XD

People say there's too many mechanics in these extreme and savage fights. Well guess what? The fans asked for this because there wasn't enough mechanics.

There are so many strats in PF... Adds/BLM/NIN/SMN all have variants... I hope there's a consensus...

This a lot more mechs than I thought it’d be

Cleared this blind, but our set up was way less uptime friendly. Thank you MTQ! 🌻

wow didnt expect uptime strat for adds

@MTQcapture Regarding the part at around 8:21, shouldn't the heals and tanks get the tether? The other ranged besides the heals would be dps (assuming you get other ranged dps in the party) and they can NOT take the bahamut breath after soaking the towers as the dps will get debuffed from the tower. They cannot take another hit until that drops.

Great can’t wait to deal with the wipes from this change to the add phase for 1 second of uptime

2:20 Raid nuke happens. *WHM casts glare*

Bonus tip is wrong. Use DPS LB3 while boss is doing other mechanics. Not in between. Example: During DRK, melee can use LB3 if they are the stack in mid and boss doesn't immune

The Bahamut tethers is still the one mechanic I somehow still don't understand. I get the tether, then I go to face the corner. The tether is either from Bahamut near me or across me. I'm told to pass it to my partner, I do but then I'm told I did something wrong or had it right the first time. Any understanding tips folks? 🤔🤔🤔

Don’t forget to silence the adds when their cast bar turns red or you’ll die

Damn im looking back at this and it's like... It feels so easy now It's not comaprable to the amount chaos and shit you have to remember in savages lol

@13:46 I've watched this section so many times. I can't find the telegraph for stone or gaze. The order I see is "Stop > Stack> Move" But when cast, there's a stone cast for spreading after "stop". Also I never even see the gaze go off. Can someone plz help me out here?

I'd just earlier today heard for the first time about that "put down a marker pre-fight, everyone stands in a position around it to claim positions" mechanic, and then I see it for the first time in this video. On the Japanese servers, the leader puts out a macro including a layout of positions and everyone just claims their spot via chat. I actually didn't know there was a different way over here.

No one is covering his Hallowed Ground on the players limit brake ^^. It can cause some wipes

finished this on normal with 15 min left...i can't imagine doing extreme. lmao

So was Elidibus actually the "Warrior of Light", or did he just transform into the primal "idea" of the Warrior of Light? (Like the way Ysayle became the "idea" of Shiva?)

Quintuplecast seems to be the hardest mechanic to deal with, I'm not sure I'll be able to memorize 5 consecutive attacks all while dpsing, getting this will be a chore

just did the trial and we didnt wipe, only now to watch this and im like "oh nonono"

Does tanks switch their positions and partners on tank busts?

BLM/WHM is handles a lot better on my server. T/H stay still and DPS rotate to be with them. They take whichever tower spawns at that position then take the next one that spawns just before theirs land. So if your groups spawned 3rd you take 3rd and 7th

There is something that I still didn’t understand, that Qiuntuplecast, in this video he did fire(stop), stack, ice(move), and what’s the last one? As was mentioned there are five what is last one that I am missing?

DUDE! Elidibus summon the FFIV WoLs !

This fight seems super complicated but I promise you fellow wanderer you'll be just fine, get in some practice party's and wipe! I've got the mount at 60 totems and countless faded copies and plates of light. Yall can do this.

Honestly, I just stop casting for all of Quint because its the only way I can manage the to do the mechanics right.

my head hurts at 5 min, i don t know hot to memorize the rest of this guide

you say burst heals but those don't pop right away. Why do healers always get the "adjust" treatment?

I get chills every single time when she says : ... or you will die. BEST FEELING EVER

For B/W combo, wouldn’t it be easier to have your assigned partner you’ve always had since the beginning to do that mech? So Pairing A takes 1/5, B 2/6, C 3/7, D 4/8 meteors?

Wiped for 3 hours on this in pf today and didn't get further than the absolute beginning of the add phase. Such a hard fight. How people go in and complete this blind is beyond me.

The gaze during the quintuple cast is confusing me. I do not know what the tell is for the gaze without the giant eye showing up could someone let me know?

The mechanics don't seem that bad, but the hard part is making sure everyone stay alive. Because if you are down even one person, it can cause the entire party to wipe.

I'm still pretty new to raid content in MMOs, even though I'm technically a legacy player. I blitzed through everything with my FC and I guess have yet to get the hang of all these mechanics. I feel like I'm letting everyone down. TnT;

What's the visual cue for earth element in quintuple cast?

Quintuple Cast isn't actually random, there's 5 different patterns. Though, I realize most people won't be able to keep all 5 in memory, but there's at least a good chance that you can remember 1 or 2 and not have to think about it when those come up.

im confused about quintuple cast are those casts depending on the entire fight or is it still random?

how do you which elemnt is he going to cast (ICE or fire) Imbued

how you remember all this stuff robots?

Halfway throught the guide and i forgot the start of the fight..how is this fun

He blocked our damage LB3, so he does that, we will try with lb2 and 1 later

Getting ready to mount farm with my GF so taking a look at this

Wait I don't get it, why are you stacking players by roles for LB1? Is that a stack attack? And if so, why healers don't have to stack?