Sprouts always fall for these! 10 FFXIV common fight mechanics | New player's guide

10 common fight mechanics in FFXIV that often catch new players by surprise.

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0:00 Intro
1:03 Stack Markers
2:27 Doom
3:27 Acceleration Bomb
4:42 Earthshakers
5:09 Gaze
5:55 Rotating AoE
6:40 Tower
7:16 Knockback
8:30 Proximity
9:33 Duty Action
10:09 Outro

[Mangoekaki]

5 got me good 😂 thank you for the guide! I just recently finished ARR and did my very first raid at the Crystal Tower, so learning these new mechanics will help keep me alive for the rest! 🙏

[Fyrebrand]

Nice video! I'm glad you started with the Stack Marker, because I see quite a few players running away when it appears.

[k.vn.k]

Another important one is chained. There are a few mechanics of chain: running opposite direction, running towards, running to tank, etc

[SirVyre]

5 made me laugh more than it should have, lol!

[braddavidson]

Thanks Saph!!
One more good mechanic hat could be confusing is the AOE that chases you (the telegraph has little yellow arrows that move toward you). Just find a safe place, wait for the aoe and keep running to another safe place!

[coldReactive]

As a note on the "Stack marker" there are variations of this in pre-HW content where it isn't obvious. The purple marker in the hydra fight in World of Darkness for instance, or the gravity ring aoe in Syrcus tower on the final boss.

A correction on Deep Freeze. The player has to be moving when the cast bar of the Deep Freeze mechanic ends, or else they get deep freeze. When the timer of the debuff ends, the player is removed from deep freeze instead of what you said.

For the localized gaze cone, you can still turn your character away while standing in the cone to avoid it.

[Falindae]

Number 5--... Gays! ZZZRT Gaze! XD
Very helpful video, Saph! Thank you~