hello Zelos, the origin of my name is such: Raine is a twist on rainzzz, a player from the old-school MMORPG Ultima Online (my first mmo experience, although I was quite young) that famously assassinated Lord British (basically the creator/lead GM) via a bug during a special announcement event that Lord British was speaking at in-game. you can read more about this via google ;p the "-sama" was more or less bestowed upon me by a friend that called me rainesama back in a realm reborn. not knowing what exactly it meant i used this moniker when i first uploaded some solo dungeon runs and all-healer runs of crystal tower etc. in hindsight maybe it is a bit arrogant to have "sama" in my name, but it's too late to take it back so i just try to keep my ego in check and stay conscious of the fact that i'm a normal player who makes tons of mistakes and misunderstandings like anyone else! given that both are quite unique, probably not the same origin, as I am unfamiliar with yours :p

@RainesamaXIV hàa that's interesting . I said that because zelos and raine are both character names from the same game lol. So its just a coincidence XD

oh nice :D what game?

@RainesamaXIV tales of symphonia ^^

there are NPCs that give some very vague clues; beyond that it is a lot of community trial and error, but enough S ranks have been added over the years that there are some common tropes they tend to fall over, like requiring a specific discard, minion, or fate/mobs be killed. one of the most notorious is southern thanalan, requiring no fate fail in the massive zone for an hour, although this one isn't so bad now that we have blue mage.

@@Rondart yeah it is hephaistos reskin!

@ Kickass. Very good reskin.

xd this is mostly a consequence of ocd and simplifying readability, but to briefly touch on mt/ot vs t1/t2, most fights don't have off tank responsibilities like picking up frequent adds, and the game has various tanking styles where one player does all the autos/positioning and t2 only intervenes once in a while to kitchen sink or invuln a tb, or styles where the tanks alternate holding the boss for periods of time/tankbusters. mt is often used just to say "the tank that pulls the boss" and means little more beyond that in a lot of encounters, while a tanks light party is often relevant across multiple mechanics in every encounter. i think i would employ the main/off tank terminology only in cases where the current tank has one specific responsibility with the boss, while the inactive tank has a responsibility with baiting something or tanking an add etc, but even then the way i am using mt/ot wouldn't be consistent with the playerbase :p tl;dr i think who the mt/ot is can be fluid throughout an encounter, but light parties generally are more fixed and hence for diagrams i think this designation is more readable (esp in encounter design meta where off tank responsibilities are nonexistent). but also i'm ocd and maybe no one else thinks this is good way to do it xd

sorry one moment and i will get a new link out! changed web hosts and haven't finished reuploading everything

they should be available now at rainesama.com/m2s-diagrams/ if you have a moment to give me some feedback, i'm curious if people prefer like this with all the images in a single column, or something more like this where they are all in a navigable gallery (gallery example: rainesama.com/m1s-diagrams/ ) so far feedback i've gotten is people prefer the long column over the gallery so that they can scroll mid-pull without clicking out of the game/temporarily losing control of character, but i'm curious to hear more opinions good luck with prog and sorry about that!

@@RainesamaXIV thank you!

@@RainesamaXIV I like the gallery style, my suggestion might be have galleries for each phase of the fight or maybe each specific mechanic?

@@DeathBivouac thank you for the feedback! i will keep playing around with different ideas and gathering opinions :D

sorry about that! long story but i changed web hosts and haven't gotten everything updated now that the website is moved over, but give me a moment and i will get a new link up

they should be available now at rainesama.com/m2s-diagrams/ if you have a moment to give me some feedback, i'm curious if people prefer like this with all the images in a single column, or something more like this where they are all in a navigable gallery (gallery example: rainesama.com/m1s-diagrams/ ) so far feedback i've gotten is people prefer the long column over the gallery so that they can scroll mid-pull without clicking out of the game/temporarily losing control of character, but i'm curious to hear more opinions good luck with prog and sorry about that!

@@RainesamaXIV Thank you so much, we appreciate you <3 I had a feeling it was something along those lines based on your recent uploads. Your guides are amazing!

she killed it! one of my favorite songs from soken in a long time, i hope they will bring her back for more arcadion and beyond!

@@solarislee2454 thanks, i swapped hosts and had to transfer domain and it takes some time on their end for everything to get updated but i will put a temporary link in a little bit for the meantime

While I finish the transfer process over the coming days I've put them here, hope it helps and good luck! Thanks again for the heads-up. pfdiagrams.com/m4s-diagrams/

there should be a functioning link in the description now!

@RainesamaXIV ty so much. 💜

this is a reply :D

:p thanks yoshi!

the strat for every s rank at the moment is that so many players are doing them they die before any mechanic is relevant

well, few comments i have in response to this. first, this was during first days of expansion when there just weren't as many players able to participate in s ranks compared to now, where you don't even really see many mechs because they die so fast, and any mech they have telegraphed while you were still flying there because of early pulls etc etc. could be network problems if your packets are spiking, i have had few times since dawntrail released where my game will crash if i am recording in high-density area (such as snake fate or s rank), quite a few times i've gone to s rank and game just crashed, so while different from your problem i think probably they still have some kinks to work out since the graphical update. thankfully in the end if you just tag it once you will get full party credit, one or two tanks spamming tomahawk is more than enough even when they are dying this fast, good luck to you!

xd in his defense this was during the first few hours of day one, i saw many players meet similar fate

@@RainesamaXIV oh, this isn't a criticism! I'm just very amused that he was perfectly safe, and then moved until he wasn't, and planted himself there.

thank you for the kind words, i will try to get footage for them at some point as well, but have been very busy with raid and because now there are so many max level characters/demand for tomes, it is much harder to see the full mechanic cycle of s ranks until it slows down a bit. maybe i get lucky and catch some at off hours where they die slow enough that i can figure out what they do but it is very different from early in expac when there were barely enough players to kill them so you *had* to learn the mechanics xd

thanks for checking it out and good luck!

thank you for the kind words and for checking them out <3 good luck with the tier!

insomnia do be like that

@@BunboiSimp thank you for the kind words and for checking it out!

i will carry you dw dw ;p soon as we get that top carry done

@@RainesamaXIV no refunds!

today's loss is tomorrow's sauce yes yes

@@RainesamaXIV wadaHEG I wanna join a raine top static !!

i am sure i will go for more top one day :) sylvia will never join us though, he just likes to complain!

it's definitely the hardest part of the fight, they seem to snapshot super early relative to the animations. i was able to get consistent on it by getting used to the rhythm of donut/circle > boss cleave mech > donut/circle, and some of my coraiders like just trying to follow the donut line. i still wind up with a toe in the cleave sometimes, but it's one of those things where more practice will make it more comfy

best drones yes yes!

the song is great, and i hope further installments of the raid story will go more in-depth on wicked thunder's history and why she thinks taking our soul will cure psychonekrosis!

@@RainesamaXIV do you have any ideas what it could be? First thing that comes to my mind is our strong echo :o

i could easily see it being something like that but the first chapter of story was so short, which i don't really mind but i am interested to learn more about how wicked thunder learned about psychonekrosis, what she has been doing in her absence to fight against the president, what his motives are for perpetuating the competition/use of strong souls if psychonekrosis is a known consequence (greed or something more complicated?), etc, but the story touches on it so briefly that it could go in a million different directions

i'm glad you find them useful! i'm looking into better way to share them than imgur that might keep them better organized, if you have any idea then let me know :p thanks for watching!

thank you for the kind words and for watching, much appreciate <3

@@VampireNoblesse thanks!

@@chavalee thanks for checking it out!

there is no RNG in the baits, it will target the two farthest, and then the two closest, and always alternate like this (although it might start with close, then far). if you are getting extra baits, the potential scenarios are: you are getting overlapped (only a concern for melee if they are too close together while one is baiting), you are out of position (and steal someone else's bait), or someone else is out of position (not baiting on their turn, in which case you just happened to be the next farthest/closest person and got one that was meant to go to someone else). it feels really fast paced at first, but you will only get 'extra' baits during witch hunt if you or a party member are positioning incorrectly. if you have a stream or footage you can share to me, i am happy to look and tell you what is going wrong. maybe try a few more groups or ask your group for feedback, chances are someone is seeing what's going on and can give advice on what needs correcting. they also snapshot quite ahead of the animation, so it's important to move to your next position as soon as you can

@@RainesamaXIV Thank you so much for your comment and sorry for the delay to respond, I will be checking everything hopefully today if i go in again to progress and try so hard to improve specially on that mechanic.

@@xXxEqSxXx you got it! practice makes perfect

@@RainesamaXIV The suffering comes to an end at last, she's dead after 3 days of tryharding in PF

hey congrats! hope you were able to grab some loot!

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@@RainesamaXIV idk what that is!! lmao

yeah, i didn't really find a concise way to explain the nuance, but when i say there is always one safe cube west and one safe cube east before she casts sidewise spark to remove one of them, by deductive reasoning watching either both s or both n will give you the two potential safe spots. thanks for the comment!

i wish she would steal my electrope :c thanks for watching xd

thanks for checking it out, glhf!

thank you luvi <3 tbh i thought the fight was amazing, very nice ramp up from the halfway point on 3s, but something about my script and editing didn't come out the way i thought things were going to when i sat down and started making diagrams

i think a lot of people will have this reaction and already thing of things that might be way easier to digest if i spent more time/examples on them, maybe some addendums for this one

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