Pharos SiriusFollow

QFT.

I have run this dungeon a few times now. Once was in DF roulette on the first day and no one had done it before. We actually had more difficulty with the first boss that spawns all the wolf adds than we did with Siren.

I have since done a few runs to show FC members through and we have yet to fail this dungeon. If you can clearly communicate what needs to be done and your party members have enough brains to listen and act accordingly then it is pretty simple.

Burn the crawling adds first, the standing ones aren't so bad. Stand under Siren for the big attack. Rinse, repeat. As SMN I also tend to LB the last set of adds if possible. Done deal

I would unlock HM hard if nothing else. Its nice geting 90 tomes for 20 minutes of work.

actually you can just pretend you're afk and not hit the button to accept it, then re-queue... no penalty.

Yeah I'm pretty sure you don't know until you're in the instance for DR.

HM hard is pretty easy once the mechanics are spelled out, however my DF group couldn't beat the last boss. We didn't have enough DPS. I'm ilvl 71 but I think the others in my group were in the low 50s.

There's talk that the ilvl requirement is too low at 48, and also that if you use a LB on the last boss that it moves the boss's rotation up a step and she absorbs a pt member and a final blood rain that wipes the PT.

Despite all those problems it was fun, but it was the first dungeon outside of Ifrit HM that I've hit a hard DPS check.

Actually Siren is way easier if everyone has some sort of healing for themselves including the chest with potions that people always overlook. The Zu fight is easy. Just kill one of the glowing eggs and let the others hatch. Kill adds then go back to Zu. The first fight is still what i don't get, but i'm assuming its actually not good to be close together if someone has to many crystal debuffs on them. And yes a party full of the ilvl requirements can beat the dungeon if they know what they're doing.

Well I did the dungeon once as a white mage. We made it to siren with no losses and was extremely easy to Siren. But we could not beat Siren. I sat their and listened to the tank rip me a new butt hole then he left. We got a new tank who said he would save us only to fail.. Turns out the way to beat it is the tank needs to stun Lunatic Voice... Well neither tank ever did that and blamed me. Whm avoid this dungeon unless you run it with a good group you know. This is hard on a whm.. Whm is hard enough why put a dungeon that is so hard. I just love how everyone always blame whm for everything. I am surprised anyone plays WHM in this game. I played ffxi so I know what tuff is.

Playing whm in this game is easier than FFXI because you basically cast heal and ensuna. This game is far harder on a whm though than FFXI because you constantly have to move. When you are moving you cant heal. It is very hard to watch everyone health and have to move at the same time while watching for things you need to debuff. It is not easy and Dps need to shut up or play the job themselves.

My point is this game is short healers already why put a dungeon in that make healers think twice about being a healer. Believe me I like the challenge but I am not going to sit there and get ******* at the whole time when it is not my fault. Especially when it is my first time.

Also dps should carry stuff like potions or have abilities to help heal (like second wind) on bosses like this it would be a big help.. I have never seen a game like this where very few carry potions or food. You are not always going to get a heal if the whm is having to move.. Also in most cases dps should not be getting hit.. A whm main job is to heal the tanks.


I think it stinks to get this far and not get anything unless you beat Siren.. That is why it is so disappointing.







Edited, Dec 30th 2013 10:40am by Nashred

Amazing. I had my first loss in Pharos in over a week last night. We wiped at ZU like 13 times.

"Break one egg. Kill the other adds that spawn, starting with the Cockerels." How difficult is that, really? Instead I got repeatedly murdered (SCH) by the rapid fire ranged attacks of 2 or 3 of them at a time. I look up and people are fighting the Pullets or hitting the boss.

I cannot power heal through 45 seconds of being hit for 250 damage three times a second from three adds. I could keep everyone else up through the AOEs and add damage, but the ranged all went for me and nobody would protect their healer. >:(