Cloud of Darkness (CHAOTIC) | Kobe's Classroom

[@BossClockFFXIV]

I always appreciate the care you put into the PoV clips. It is clear that you're focused on having the correct camera angles for the viewer while still demonstrating the execution of said positioning clearly. Well done on one of your biggest guides yet! Great to see you growing.

[@Viaroura]

The little nametag with "Hi! My name is D3" is adorable.

[@bigkobelive]

Was trying to think of a good way to visualise that they act as d3 and thought it was pretty funny lol

[@MarinaBelcoot]

Love the PoV after the visual guide so you can see it executed, 12/10.

[@SarahJaneTTV]

THANK YOU KOBE, YOU LEGEND!!

[@carm4911]

For Alliance A and C Healers : at Phase 2 when you are inside, you have to heal the Ranged DPS with you, because their alliance B healers are out of range, so without you they won't survive. As you are not from the same alliance, some group heal does not work, and you have to target the DPS

[@TeRrYAbLeTrEx]

Any tips for how to do this on controller more easily?

[@Iruaaaaa]

The spread in the videos solves that by putting the inside healers in the middle square instead of the corners so alliance B's heals can reach the ranged DPS.

[@Viaroura]

Most of the learning/prog groups do this wrong. Read Iruaaaaa's comment.

[@MrTsukihami]

​@@TeRrYAbLeTrEx in targeting setting in "Weapon drawn" make sure "Alliance members" checkbox is selected. Pressing left/right on dpad will allows you to cycle through alliance members you see in front of you.

[@MrTsukihami]

​@@Iruaaaaanop. Depending on mecha you will still be far away from the heals. And yes. I'm saying that as a healer.

[@doodle_kun]

My friends swear by your name on your guides and now i can see why. Everything is graphed nicely and good povs alongside with a calm direct explanations. Will be sharing this with my 24 peeps thank you!

[@Kekskuchen666]

Love how good and clean your visuals and camera POVs are. Easily the nicest guide I have found for this, good job. Only point of feedback would be to clean up your mic audio a bit, there are a bunch of click noises still in there, and the occasional lip smacking you might wanna clean up better with a noise gate and/or editing. Otherwise, perfect

[@kazahana9679]

If you're from NA and you're watching this video: - The P2 positions are Aurelia (Allianz) - The Side platform positions for pair is Aurelia however, the positions for spreads is CODCAR but the lineup is different. - The Side platform tower priority is CODCAR - The Brambles are Aurelia Also JP clear rates are like twice as high as NA/EU because they can actually decide on a single set of strats.

[@MrTsukihami]

Also JP can do content through Duty Finder and not only Party Finder.

[@HRFleur]

I like Kobe's modified version a lot better than both the original Aurelia and CODCAR. Hope it gets more PF attention.

[@ellamayoelloelle]

Finally. Thank you lord and savior Kobe

[@mr_skitzwolf4040]

i am finally in a Kobe video lets gooo! thank you for helping me clear Kobe

[@sadmiqoxiv]

Boss also takes 25% more damage in phase 1/3, so pot windows are 2 minutes and 8 minutes for maximum damage. And for the NA players out there on copium for a guide, the naming scheme for roles is oce/Jp standard. D1 melee D2 melee D3 range D4 caster H1 pure heals H2 shield heals

[@dragonmares59110]

Weird, i EU/chaos we do somethign even different xD

[@MrTsukihami]

​@@dragonmares59110no we don't actually

[@Levi_Skardsen]

Much appreciate it, mate. If it weren't for you and Hector, I'd probably still be progging Arcadion.

[@michaelhunter3692]

I would’ve probably never been able to prog extremes or savages at all if not for them

[@qwerty-dm8gr]

@@michaelhunter3692 you should probably stop if you need guides for extremes.

[@Sucying]

@@qwerty-dm8gr says qwerty, the ultimate gamer who has no occupation at all besides gaming all day. hell yeah!!

[@IsackA]

​@@qwerty-dm8gr Woah watch out, we have an elite gamer over here, watching guides lmao

[@Hirotoro4692]

​@@qwerty-dm8gr bro if they're having fun then why would they stop?

[@NotMichael5421]

is there a sim u using for the PoV's? or just animated really goodly or what?

[@MooMooStrats]

Thanks for putting up a guide so quick! Just one thing I'm noticing at the start 1:50 Your dodge advice for the Grim Embrace is correct but you're calling out where the hands will position themselves backwards, if I'm not mistaken. When Cloud's hand is Under the Crystal, the hand that attacks you will spawn in Front of the player. When the Hand is Behind the Crystal, the hand will spawn Behind the player.

[@Khemrikhara]

I think he's referring to the visual effect and resolution - the hand either appears directly behind you striking an area in front of you, or directly in front of you striking an area behind you. Confusing mechanic either way, just finding your own way of remembering is usually best imo

[@MrTsukihami]

If Cloud is looking like she's bitchslapping you with a hand you evade by moving forward where you're looking. If Cloud is looking like she's back handing you then you're evading by moving backward of where you're facing

[@MooMooStrats]

@@Khemrikhara Ah yes. I was strictly looking at the telegraph when trying to determine what it meant to me haha.

[@tristan3298]

thanks big kobe

[@jedispartancoolman]

Hector level guide if not better!

[@Moonlight36798]

Did a blind run of this the other day, and after watching this, my group got a LOT farther than we thought! Also, would it be better to DPS lb3 the adds, or save it for the main boss?

[@bigkobelive]

It's generally preferred to DPS LB3 during the final diamond phase, which lets you have your tank or healer LB as safety.

[@MrTsukihami]

Chaotic is just a check if Alliance ppls ever did savage Eden 9.

[@NotMichael5421]

also ur vids are really great

[@DaminRSW]

good info as always, great presentation a bit quiet!

[@goblinslayer420]

Damn we get chaotic first before fru P5. Not gonna complain

[@bigkobelive]

Yeah, decided to focus on this. FRU p5 is still coming though.

[@RicardoSantos-oz3uj]

link to the raidplan?

[@bigkobelive]

raidplan.io/plan/2f37jWj7XwPBjfix All resources can be found at materiaraiding.com/guides/chaotic/cod

[@dioxideuniversal]

off topic but what makes your movement so weird and slidey in the gameplay clips ..

[@warriorgriffinheart]

Why make the melee run further from their side's add for brambles? If melee take the inside brambles, then they can keep hitting the boss otw to break tether and also be back to the boss quicker once it's broken.

[@Ebonhawk3829]

Not if you have to dodge the plus pattern

[@Dierseus]

It was changed so melee can keep uptime more consistently while waiting to bit the tether. There were a lot of times where the tank didn't get the boss close enough to the inside brambles for melee to keep uptime. Also the distance you have to run really isn't much further

[@TrippyScene]

I don't understand the rationale behind the change to resolving Active-Pivot tbh, the previous way makes more sense intuitively and does not add/subtract any difficulty. It's caused a lot of confusion so far in PF. As someone who plays in B exclusively, also not sure why the groups are swapped around so that both B healers are north? Previously as a B healer in P2 I could reach my light party, plus both ranged DPS to prevent them from dying if healers in other alliances aren't topping them up. Now I can only reach one. Not a huge issue, but I don't understand the changes is all.

[@bigkobelive]

The other strat was genuinely awful and provides 0 benefits over this one. How on earth is standing in front of the laser and waiting for it to rotate INTO YOU requiring you to shuffle even further after the mech starts as it's approaching and then rotate all the way back more intuitive than standing behind it and following it. In the old strat, the corner tile was blocked off for the entire duration of the mechanic as you wait for the laser to slowly rotate towards you. Now it's immediately free as people follow the laser back. The old strat goes completely against every single laser mechanic solve in the game, why would you want it to rotate towards you ever??? Old strat was more movement and made things more dangerous for everyone. The only confusion is because people got used to a bad strat because the raidplan wasnt uodating until this video came out. It was always going to change to this, and it will clean up in like 1 or 2 days as they get used to an objectively better method. Why are both B healers at the front? Because more people wanted it that way.

[@hehaowei5228]

if you think that old strats ppl were waiting for laser to rotate into you, you've already misunderstood old strats.

[@bigkobelive]

Thats a nice argument, except for the fact that that's exactly what it was doing. You were sitting in front of it, and waiting for it to finish rotating towards you before you start to move back.

[@user-xd2mw6co1f]

@@bigkobelive The Old Strat has players line up BEHIND the laser and follow it 1 tile at a time.

[@TrippyScene]

@@bigkobelive Sorry I didn't get a notif for this msg so just saw it now. Re: laser, it simply is more intuitive for most people to follow the laser, as can be seen from PF to date - i've seen a lot more wipes to this mechanic using this strat than the old one (even today), so wouldn't agree that it was 'awful' by any reach. However, agreed that it is practically the better strat because the corner block can be made free more safely. Re: B healers - that's unfortunate, but no biggie now that people are a lot better at this.

[@XIIILTGIIX]

Why are you using "old" PoVs when raidplan is different on towers? Makes no sense (14:50 & 25:27). This will provoke more confusion for people who wants to prog and people who are into kill parties. If you make a newbrand strat, make new povs with the raidplan that you made. :/

[@bigkobelive]

Yeah, it's like my one major annoyance but I really couldn't do anything about it. People on my DC weren't going to change to these strats until the video was out, even though we had discussed it, so I had no opportunity in PF to be able to get POV footage of it. I decided to just bite the bullet and include at least a POV of the mech resolving for anyone it could help, and hope that people were able to extrapolate with the diagram information. I'm probably going to upload a full clean unedited POV to make up for it, and link to it, sorry.

[@IcyHot5525]

@@bigkobelive Don't apologise, this guide is great I really hope people on EU adopt it, makes way more sense than the current raid plan

[@sampapa]

MY GOAT KOBE COMING IN CLUTCH

[@Tanger-td2jp]

Why you took 3.4M damage ?

[@InfamousCitySounds]

The pairs hit the three closest players to the Stygian Shadow. At first, I thought the Viper with the Guardian Angel title and him were too close, but if that were true, the second Viper would have also died. The Machinist got the third bait because the Gunbreaker wasn't close enough to the Stygian Shadow. Kobe has a setting where HP bars disappear if someone has all of their HP, and you can see the Black Mage and Guardian Angel Viper's HP bars even though they're in different alliances, but the Gunbreaker's and Scholar's HP bars are not visible.

[@MiraImage]

I don't understand the hands. If it spawns in front, why is it safe to move forward? Shouldn't you move back?

[@Drkwatch]

It spawns in front of you and slaps down, so the hitbox points away from the hand and toward you. Moving forward puts you into the hand, therefore out of the hitbox. Same logic as dodging into a boss in a soulslike

[@BeRadMH]

The AoE from the hand is aimed toward you. Moving forward, you step through the hand in front of you and out of the AoE. If the hand is behind you, again it aims the AoE at you so you would back up through the hand and out of the AoE path. Alternatively, you can use a gap closer to the boss at the last second and just avoid it altogether.

[@sadmiqoxiv]

@@MiraImage think of it as getting slapped. She slaps the front, the AoE goes behind you She slaps the back, the AoE goes Infront of you

[@hotsplayer2207]

I can't wait for the day when parties in PF say "Reclear. Kobe Strats"

[@Tabbycat2701]

Using different art of darkness spreads to the most common raid plan that's up on materia raiding 😭

[@Ebonhawk3829]

There was always intention to change the raid plan to this, but no point having two different ones circulating before this video came out. No doubt the update one is released today

[@tomli11]

The new raidplan is out.

[@hb-mek]

1:26 bro repeated the sentence twice

[@ThatCasulGuy]

Changes from the old raidplan are near pointless

[@Kairax]

D1-D4 naming and CODCAR should just be removed from the vocabulary. Also those "spreads" positions are wrong. As a B-alliance player - i've been murdered by spread lazers, they not that short.

[@magamisic5924]

just dont do codcar and everythign will be fine