Cloud Of Darkness HTBF

Yes.

Jokes aside, the intern's finger must have slipped in between the short and long english name fields. Unless/until they fix it, it's both, and either will work to equip it.

It feels like 50% of updates in the last year have had some silly mishap like this. 13-14 months ago, we had "." as Storage Slip names.

Shoot, let me release the updates, SE. I'll do it for free. :)

I know your hobby is hating things ...but, can we get 1 holiday per year, where you just stop bitching? :)

Ticket system when?

It wouldn't be fun for me if you got a break. Why would I stop entertaining myself, for you.
(I take bribes though)

you're right, please continue

TP Denial Method
BRD - COR/NIN - GEO/RDM - MNK/WAR - RDM/BLM - WHM/SCH

MNK > Chi Blast
Shijin Spiral > Victory Smite

RDM > Distract III
Saboteur + Elemental Seal
Dia III > Light Shot

BRD > Horde Lullaby II

Minuet / Minuet / Minuet / Honor March
Minne > WHM

Crooked Cards + Chaos Roll / Samurai Roll

Geo-Frailty / Indi-Haste
Entrust-Fury > MNK

Aquaveil
Haste II
Refresh III
Regen IV
Phalanx II
Protectra V
Shellra V
Barthundra
Barparalyzra
Boost-STR
Auspice
Miso Ramen + 1

Has anyone tried any actual TP draining on it? absorb TP, feather tickle/reaving wind, drainkiss, mew.

Absorb-TP had no effect.

That's to be expected as it's dark magic. For reaving, tickle, mewing and drainkiss it might look different.

We tried the BLU Reaving+Feather. They both landed no issue, but it didn't seem to actually stop the number of TP moves. With the BLU we'd have like 2-3 adds, without the BLU we'd have like 1-3. TP moves seemed to happen at certain points regardless.

We did not try BST TP Drainkiss.

It's a dark-based with 95% Darkness resistance. Even if Absorb-TP could land, it would need at minimum a Threnody, but CoD doesn't have "modes" like Aminon and Bumba, nor Dark Magic affinity like Lilith (AFAIK), so it may never land.


Should see if Mew is nerfed in any way. If not, BRD GEO SMN SMN MNK RDM probably walks through this fight in a few short minutes.

Also, I don't think TP Drainkiss can ever miss on anything in this game, nor is it nerfed from what I have seen (certainly not on any upper tier content). BST could also be very handy here as well.

I tried SCH/SMN soloing mewing off cooldown every 60s to see TP feed etc. Took CoD to 50% before focusing on TP denial so adds could spawn (Had never seen an add spawn till lower % - So I stopped kiting at 50%).

I Mewed once > took 0s the entire 60s (used battlemod - said TP was 178), didn't feed TP through nukes > Mewed again (60s later - said TP was 137)and it used a TP move 5-6s after the last mew while I took 0 damage and fed 0 TP. Unsure if mew is nerfed or if TP denial doesn't matter. Was confused why a TP move was used and an Add spawned.

If they stopped TP denial method it shows they're watching and consider it to be cheese and probably didn't intend for it to be the strat for animom etc

They are 100% watching. Most recent content prevents Zombie strat because once everyone dies the mobs self cleanse debuffs/DoTs (This HTMB included.). Chaos and Bahamut MT prevents Absorb TP from the spell also, paired with self cleansing TP moves to remove debuffs. So SE are definitely learning and adjusting content alongside that and it shows.

We just zerged him. MNK WAR BRD COR RDM WHM. Turn for Red eyes to check absorb type. 0-1 adds. 2-3 minutes depending on which absorb you get.

Pretty easy VD clear. Drk / Cor / brd / Whm / Rdm /Pld. Normal buffs, Everyone zerg till it's head starts pulsing. If physical asorb, hold off attacking till it stops glowing, if magic asorb have everyone do ws that don't sc or just let the dd dmg with ws that dont sc to keep down tp feed. We didn't go full subtle blow set but would definitely be helpful. Adds popped and went where they went. Pld tried to wrangle them but couldn't really get hate. Once the all went after the ehm. Srcond time they basicly sat on me (drk). We didn't bother trying to pull COD away from them or visa versa. I tanked the boss the whole time on drk so probably don't need a tank. Got full dispel at 5% health and rdm threw haste 2 back on everyone and we took it the rest of the way. Though tp denile strats may go smoother, 100% not needed for this fight.

We did two VDs and one N clear. Saw two back peices drop and one belt. 100% drop rate for somthing with only th4. Fun fight, comparable to shinryu VD in difficulty if I had to compare it to something. All jobs were geared to the teeth. Origin helped but is not required with whm on hand.

My experience for what it's worth.

Adds and the boss take gravity 2 without any issues. Bind takes a little more effort. The only issue with add is if you have a bunch of them, they start making the arena laggy.

You can also range the damage/weakness portion of the glowy mask move by just walking away with gravity 2 on the boss. In general the boss is easy to kite, but it does occasionally teleport to you instead of draw in, which is kinda fun.

I observed there are 3 instances on my server for the battlefield. That's the real challenge.

We noticed the auras from the adds were very small, looks like about 4' which is really pathetic. Unless they're auto-attacking you, it's easy to step out of the aura. Could be a problem with more adds but unlikely to be much of a problem.

This fight is a joke, you don't need much strategy or honestly any specific jobs to clear it; some job combinations will clear it faster or with less hassle, but basically anything can do it.

What weapon did Mnk and War use?

Did VD with MNK WHM RDM COR BRD GEO. Took about 3 or 4 minutes and only had two adds. Over three fights, we got 3 necks and a cape. Only the MNK engaged and we slept adds with NiTro Lullaby. On VD, we saw all RDM buffs land including frazzle, although frazzle took a bit and wasn't consistent. As the BRD, I used Dark Threnady II.


Interesting observation. Two of us entered but a third forgot their KI. They were able to leave the zone, get their KI, and come back to enter the fight. Not sure if this is intentional or if it will be patched.

That's normal for HTBF.

This is normal for any BCNM. It only locks once you engage the target.

I concur.

I used Vere on MNK not sure about the WAR but anything would work.

DNC+SAM or DNC+WAR probably a better combo. I did it with a PUG and we were far from min/maxing.