Busters and Swaps

• Hyperdrive magical tankbuster that causes a bleed. Tankswap after.

• Ultimate Embrace physical tankbuster that can be shared. If shared: both tanks should use a CD, making Invuln prefered.

• Wings of Destruction two wings: Tank bombs, both tanks use CD.

1. Hyperdrive on Ahmed (shortly after pull): CD if necessary, Swap after Hyperdrive.

2. Ultima (after 1st Trine): Swap during Ultima

3. Ultimate Embrace + Hyperdrive on Ahmed (shortly before 2nd Forsaken): Holmgang Embrace, CD Hyperdrive if necessary. Swap after Hyperdrive.

4. Ultimate Embrace + Hyperdrive on Tali (shortly before 3rd Forsaken): Living Dead can cover both busters. Swap after Hyperdrive.

5. Ultimate Embrace on Ahmed (during 3rd Forsaken): Share this one, both tanks use CD. No swap.

6. Ultimate Embrace on Ahmed (in between 3rd and 4th Trine): Holmgang. No swap.

7. Hyperdrive on Ahmed (shortly before 4th Forsaken): CD if necessary, Swap after Hyperdrive.

8. Ultimate Embrace on Tali (during 4th Forsaken): Share this one, both tanks use CD. No swap.

Mechanic summary

• Celestriad all elemental spells from Clown Kefka. Follow diagram.

• Wings of Destruction watch for glowing wings.

  • One wing: go to the non-glowing side of boss.

  • Two wings: MT at the front of the boss on the hitbox, OT runs away from the sides, and the rest stacks on the butt at max-melee range.

• Trine two variants:

• 1. Small: Go from 2nd/3rd set to where 1st set exploded.

  2. Big+Small (see also, diagrams on the right):

     • Big and small in center = outside big triangle without small.

     • No small in big = center is safe.

• Futures Numbered everyone stack to share, then run behind boss after first hit.

• Pasts Fogotten everyone stack to share, then stay still after the hit.

1st Forsaken

Tali should normally be MT here.

1. Boss will be tanked in the center, facing north.

2. Stay close to healers so they can save your butt.

3. Once DPS get assigned tethers: Assume postions as shown in the animation.

4. DPS should try to make sure their skulls don't go too near to the center.

5. DPS take their skull once they have sufficient HP again. The skulls explode for ~12-15K with shields, ~20K without.

6. Handle Wings of Destruction:

   • MT on the edge of the hitbox north.

   • OT away to either east or west.

   • Rest at max-melee-range south.

7. Repeat 2-5

8. Stack for Light of Judgement.

3rd Forsaken

This Forsaken starts including the statue into the mechanics, similar to Clown Kefka's Graven Images, but more involved.

If all went well, Ahmed should be MT here, meaning he is close for tank bombs and Tali is far.

1. Knockback tethers get assigned and 3 soak-puddles appear. Tethered players should position themselves so they get knocked into their assigned puddle, or use knockback prevention.

   1. • Tanks East

      • Healers West

      • DPS South

2. Ultimate Embrace. Tanks must share this buster.

3. Sleep/Confuse mechanic with 2 puddles. Stand ready outside your letter (towards the edge) to move according to your tether.

4. Confuse-tethers take assigned positions at the edge of the arena (without using sprint or using the macro/clicking it off if need be).

5. Sleep-tethers must soak the puddles, while standing close to the center, according to assigned positions (each puddle needs 2 people). Move to the center after puddles.

6. Assigned positions:

   1. • A H2 / D1

      • B Ahmed / D2

      • C H1 / R3

      • D Tali / R4

7. Now the first half of 1st Forsaken (step 1-6) happens again, as the animation above shows, with an additional mechanic during tank bombs:

8. During the Tank bombs, Healers and Ranged share the one puddle at South. Melee be careful not to stand too close to the boss, but can otherwise do positionals as they please.

9. During the Ultima cast, the MT should face the boss towards 2.

10. MT stands between B and D.

11. The statue will blast one half of the arena (West or East) and Kefka will do a Single Wing of Destruction, blasting the North or South half.

12. Everyone must go to the safe quarter of the arena.

4th Forsaken

Repeat 3rd Forsaken.

Normally, Tali would be MT here, so tank bombs should be the same as during 1st Forsaken.