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Final Fantasy XIV: 7.3 Extreme Eternal Darkness Guide - The Complete Guide
This video provides a detailed explanation of the key mechanics and strategies for the Extreme The Abyssal Fracture (7.3) in Final Fantasy XIV. It covers everything from marking strategies and tank buster handling to dealing with mechanics like Fear of Death, Memento Mori, Azure Confluence, Grand Cross, Add Phase, Personal Rooms, Consecutive Azure Confluence, Azure Ring, and Collective Panic, helping you clear the fight.
1. 🚩 Pre-Fight Marking & Tank Buster Strategy
- ✅ Use the floor patterns to place number markers inside and letter markers outside.
- ✅ The tank buster is cast twice on the top aggro target, so use provoke to alternate tanks.
- ✅ When using invulnerability skills, the off-tank provokes first and uses their invuln, then the main tank provokes again.
00:05 - 00:33
1. 🚩 Pre-Fight Marking & Tank Buster Strategy
- ✅ Use the floor patterns to place number markers inside and letter markers outside.
- ✅ The tank buster is cast twice on the top aggro target, so use provoke to alternate tanks.
- ✅ When using invulnerability skills, the off-tank provokes first and uses their invuln, then the main tank provokes again.
00:39 - 01:27
2. 💀 Fear of Death: Hand Pattern Strategy & Improvement Suggestions
- ✅ Eight floor tiles appear on the map, and each hand that emerges from them fires a line AoE that inflicts a damage up debuff on the closest player.
- ✅ The left four are handled by the odd-numbered party, and the right four by the even-numbered party.
- ✅ Within each party, the tank, melee DPS, healer, and ranged DPS split up to bait the hands.
- ✅ Improvement Suggestion: Swap the tank and DPS positions to shorten the healer's movement distance.
01:35 - 01:53
3. ⚫ Black Death's Hand: Identifying Hand Colors & Evasion
- ✅ The boss shows two hands, one without color and the other glowing.
- ✅ First, dodge the line AoE from the hand, then dodge away from the glowing hand because a large AoE will appear there.
01:59 - 02:54
4. ✨ Memento Mori: Role Assignment by Hand Color & Positioning
- ✅ The boss raises a white hand and a purple hand. Healers and DPS go to the white hand side, and tanks go to the purple hand side.
- ✅ A poison puddle appears in the center, and each hand spawns a line AoE and a personal circle AoE.
- ✅ Melee DPS position themselves on the boss's corner, ranged DPS on the opposite corner, and healers and tanks split up in the center, alternating between even and odd numbers.
- ✅ Adjust so that only healers and tanks have to dodge the hands, as the line AoE does not hit the DPS positions.
03:13 - 04:12
5. 🔵 Azure Confluence: Marker Usage & 2-Person/4-Person Share
- ✅ The boss shows either a center or side shape in a large circle in front of him, then casts either Double Impact (2-person healer share) or Quadruple Impact (2-person tank/DPS share).
- ✅ The left side is handled by the odd-numbered party, and the right side by the even-numbered party. Tanks, melee DPS, healers, and ranged DPS pair up and remember their assigned marker color.
- ✅ Use number markers for the center puddle and letter markers for the side puddles.
- ✅ Stack tightly for Double Impact and go to your assigned color marker for Quadruple Impact.
04:24 - 04:56
6. 🔄 Second Floor Hand & Azure Confluence Combo Strategy
- ✅ This is the same as the first floor hand mechanic, but you get a personal marker after the line AoE.
- ✅ Stand on your assigned floor tile to detonate your personal marker, summoning the floor hand and baiting the line AoE.
- ✅ Tanks can use an invuln to handle the marker or alternate.
- ✅ Then, resolve the Double/Quadruple Impact with the remembered shape.
05:25 - 06:31
7. Cross & Diagonal Tower Placement & Outer AoE Evasion Strategy
- ✅ After two floor AoEs, pair up tanks/melee DPS and healers/ranged DPS and position yourselves on the cross directions.
- ✅ The team with the personal AoE marker goes to the spot without a tower, and the team without a marker handles the tower.
- ✅ If a line AoE is about to explode on you from the outside, slightly move to the side.
- ✅ After handling the towers, gather in the center to soak the proximity damage, then place two personal puddle AoEs in the center and cross directions to minimize damage.
06:56 - 07:21
8. ⚔️ Add Phase: Hand Pattern Breakdown & Tank Aggro Management
- ✅ The map changes, and the boss summons multiple hands.
- ✅ Attack the small hands aggressively, and the large hands cast a tank buster with a large line AoE, so the tank needs to grab aggro and move the AoE outside.
07:28 - 08:00
9. 🤝 Personal Room Strategy: Role-Specific Solutions for Tank/Healer/DPS
- ✅ Tank: Interrupt any interruptible casts and use a cooldown for the tank buster.
- ✅ Healer: The first attack applies a DoT, and the second applies Slow, so Esuna the Slow and focus on healing.
- ✅ DPS: Two hands appear. Dodge the line AoEs and kill the hand that casts Spread first.
08:01 - 08:39
10. 💥 Map Edge Hand & Black Death's Hand Combo
- ✅ The boss summons two hands at the edge of the map that fire large line AoEs, so position yourselves where there are no hands.
- ✅ In the safe spot, odd-numbered parties go to the left and even-numbered parties go to the right to take the personal marker that summons the hands.
- ✅ Go to the center of the safe spot to bait the hand line AoEs and dodge Black Death's Hand.
08:59 - 10:03
11. 🔄 Consecutive Azure Confluence: Remembering the Image Order & Marker Usage
- ✅ The boss shows the center, side, circle, and donut images in order and then shuffles them.
- ✅ Write down the initial order in chat, and after shuffling, read the order again starting from the 6 o'clock image to figure out the new order.
- ✅ Move to the marker corresponding to each image, and cast Double/Quadruple Impact when the last image AoE is cast.
- ✅ Example: Side - Letter Marker, Donut - Number Marker, Circle - Letter Marker, Center - Number Marker
10:29 - 11:26
12. 🌀 Azure Ring: Simultaneously Handling Donut & Hand Patterns
- ✅ Five blue donuts are placed on the map, and one grows larger and turns green.
- ✅ Enter the growing donut to resolve it.
- ✅ Hands appear on the side of the map and fire a large line AoE before the third donut explodes, so dodge the hand AoE after resolving the second donut and then resolve the third donut.
- ✅ The boss shows an image in the center when the third donut is resolved, and resolve Double/Quadruple Impact with the image when the last donut is resolved.
- ✅ If you get hit by the hand AoE, you will be pulled into a personal room, so die quickly and get a raise.
11:51 - 12:55
13. 🤯 Collective Panic: Handling Numbered AoEs & Baiting Tank Busters
- ✅ Numbered AoEs are placed on the map.
- ✅ Tanks/Melee DPS handle the top four center AoEs, and Healers/Ranged DPS handle the bottom four. (Watch out for the damage up debuff)
- ✅ Odd-numbered parties and Ranged DPS move to the left, and even-numbered parties and Melee DPS move to the right to resolve the 2-person AoEs simultaneously. (Make sure the damage up debuff has expired)
- ✅ The boss summons a poison puddle and hands in the center, so dodge in a spot where you can avoid the hands.
- ✅ When the tank buster is cast, the tank immediately moves to the corner, and the left Healer/DPS handles the bottom three tiles, and the right Healer/DPS handles the top three tiles to avoid the tank buster.
- ✅ The off-tank provokes to bait the second tank buster, and the Healer/DPS move to the adjacent three tiles to resolve all the numbered AoEs.
13:10 - 13:52
14. 🔁 Second Pattern Repeat Section: Black Death's Hand & Azure Confluence & Azure Ring
- ✅ Black Death's Hand, Consecutive Azure Confluence, and Fear of Death patterns are repeated.
- ✅ Azure Ring spawns four donuts, and hands are summoned on either end or in the center.
- ✅ The hand AoE comes out when the even-numbered donut explodes, so roughly dodge the first donut and dodge the hand AoE when dodging the second donut.
- ✅ Hands are summoned on the side where they didn't appear before, so just dodge the third donut and dodge the hand AoE on the side where the hands are summoned when dodging the fourth donut.
14:11 - 14:20
15. Finishing Up: Repeating Early Mechanics & Defeating the Boss
- ✅ The early mechanics are repeated, so calmly dodge them and defeat the boss.