Storm's Crown Extreme Guide

[@HectorHectorson]

Two quick notes: 1. As many commenters have suggested, playstation (entanglement) can also be dealt with by having one role go to their clock positions, and having the other role adjust. This works well, though if doing this, I recommend having DPS (on intercardinals) be the fixed role and having tanks/healers adjust. This makes it easier to dodge the cleaves which target cardinals. 2.Big thanks to Watte, who pointed out that playstation 2 can be solved with the line strat (adjacent groups come together so their circles are on top of each other) for both patterns. No need to use a separate pattern for when the enumerations are diagonally opposite each other.

[@Jeffro2510]

For anyone that has not cleared, you might be happy to hear that the boss drops 2 totems per kill

[@darko7432]

Yoshi-P is feeling merciful this patch

[@283leis]

o thank fuck

[@ragateguh2825]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO more reason to get clear!!!

[@Scerttle]

You just reminded me I still need 52 totems for the light cat...

[@rizwansaji9019]

How many u need for weapon

[@stephaniesalazar2794]

Your raid guides and Joonbob’s are the easiest for me to understand. Thank you for your work!

[@Emerrichan]

Thank you so much for all your brilliant guides! The top down view is really helpful and got me through the first savage tier, thanks for taking the time to make them so quickly and so detailed, they’re a huge help for understanding mechanics!

[@cordata008]

Thank you so much! You're my to-go guy for raid guides, they are clear and easy to undestand.

[@ColeEvyx]

Honestly you deliver my favorite guide content, keep it up!

[@ml-wd3ci]

this is such a cool fight, ty for posting this so quick

[@TheRealLink]

Was a mistake trying this early today when tired. The sword movements were very hard for me to see but one hour in and we did manage to late phase 2 at least. Thanks for breaking down the mechanics concisely!

[@darkmatterpancake]

This guide got me my first kill last night, and a fancy new WHM weapon. Keep up the good work!

[@drgnmstr44]

found your guides when doing P1-4 savage. I like this style better than most other guides as far as explaining how to handle the mechanics of the fight. others might be good for seeing how it looks in game but getting the mechanic down, yours are best hands down

[@raediance5523]

This is the first time im doing EX at launch, so im very grateful for your video. You explain things so well, i know its gonna look so clean and orderly on here, then im gonna get to the fight and its gonna feel like a whole other things with mechanics i kinda remember from this lol - wish me luck! Thank you again!

[@MsAussieSheila]

Thank you! Love how you show things, as always. My static decided to blind prog the first night and I'm feeling a tad proud we worked otu a lot of these ourselves. If our static lead hadn't shown up 90 minutes late, I think we would have got to the end. Now, first night of using a guide so we all get weapon pre raid drop, and of course you are our go to!

[@mrmyrin4910]

Raided with this lad last year, 10/10 raid leader! Always loved your call outs and I miss you

[@HectorHectorson]

Miss you guys too! :D

[@Nutrafin-3D]

Lot more complex than the other EXs that's for sure

[@HectorHectorson]

In my opinion, it's the most challenging extreme in Endwalker so far.

[@honella7146]

Is really easy and personal. Meteon was painful when ut came to do the head-math

[@caiuscosades8538]

The other exs were braindead

[@pandacitis7763]

We had to adjust on the playstation phase and assign signs to numbers, mainly to help with colorblind members. Your content is great, it definitely helped my FC.

[@amypartridge1078]

I MISS YOU HECTOR

[@magusware8721]

A decent guide, but an adjustment I would make to it, to allow to better muscle memory, would be to treat all 4 variations of the sword/hair raid as Sword being North. This way everyone will make the same movement pattern each time regardless of the orientation of the sword throw and adds more consistency to the fight.

[@demery255]

You are the best! You are my statics defacto strats for all of last tier, looking forward to this next one. Keep it up!

[@fairfarren38]

Thanks for the quick upload. You make the best guides. Keep up the good work!

[@vlarrassi]

Hey Hector. For PS mechanic, an easy thing to do, is to let tanks & heals be on their protean, and the dps adjust to them. Makes us think less, so we do dps adjust for an easy life

[@Zrynnn]

the only thing i would suggest is to adjust the markers you have for this fight. numbers should be intercardinals to easily match colors for playstation. Letters should be on the outside cardinally so you can easily identify where your clock spread is. Basically P4S markers.

[@elioabdullah9631]

This is gonna be so much helpful for me and my friends trying to clear this! thank you for this guide.

[@yourdude9942]

Haven't watched the guide yet. But I just wanted to thank you that you didn't put the Boss or the actual Name into the thumbnail. I had no time to play yet but I got spoiled through KZbin thumbnails on day one and I am so pissed about it. Yeah, I know we knew that we would fight the four fiends at some point but still absolute asshole moves from some "content creators" you can upload the track to the Boss and change the thumbnail later and not have him at day 1 big on it. Sad that I had to block a few channels cause they will propably spoil again.

[@michaelmorphew2346]

Insanely quick upload. thanks for the guide!

[@MoonlightCharizard]

As always, amazing guide. Thank you so much!

[@Dragooncore]

Thanks the guide was very clear and well paced. I'm looking forward to trying this out this weekend. Only problem I have is noticing if she's standing/floating/dahing/donut/or whatever. The markers pugs use make it hard to read her.

[@pao5615]

Finally, my favorite guide :D

[@froman1522]

For Playstation it can be easier to just designate what pairs go where based on the layout of an actual Playstation control. ie, triangle north, x south

[@DoctorMcHerp]

Maximum immersion. I dig it.

[@Beanz2g]

Playstation markers will always put 1 unique one on each Support. Supports will never get marked to go with each other. My group found it easiest to just have Supports stay at their clock spots and only have the 4 DPS adjust. Rotate CW to dodge the boss cone, and the supports move back cardinal for the following protean.

[@VeganNegan]

I knew as soon as he said "I got work to do", that this would be up within a day. Savage inc!

[@_alreph]

Thank you so much for not having a pointless intro

[@nickrichards9645]

I was able to get my first ex clear thanks to your guide ❤

[@michaelhansen9374]

Thank you for not making your guide 30 minutes long like some other youtubers....

[@inariiiiixxx]

Excited to see your guide for p5 savage !

[@VampireNoblesse]

surprisingly / unexpectedly, the best guide out there, very well done

[@Radiantnightmare]

Great guide, my positionals are crying once again

[@million6461]

My man hector with the quick upload

[@velandril4078]

This has to be the best Guide Video I've seen. I love the style of it. please keep up the amazing work. Got a Sub from me XD

[@Aelexe]

Thank you as always Hector.

[@singingflowers7456]

thank you so much for muting the clicking!!! great guide

[@Kairax]

Went with prog. Literally never saw Enrage. After 1 lockout we cleared it twice :^) @Hector Hectorson In 2nd flares/stack you missed on one thing. When all that "dodge LoL 4Head" happening, lines pattern happens. In beginning we dodged it by stacking middle, but now it's not safe. So you dodge fist lines near edge, go in safe triangle near edge (it look unsafe, but only cuz outer ring attack lined up), and then get out of outer ring attack. Also important thing for pf would to say "There is 1-2s grace period on spread mechanics like in e12s". For example after wall dash into spread - you have plenty of time to get off the wall and spread, so you not overlap and kill teammates.

[@cedertrees2425]

Damn you got this out pretty quick.

[@avi3365]

I'm about 85% sure the Playstations can be baited to your nearest role. I.e. two nearest support + DPS get same marker. This was hard to see at first because sometimes you won't get paired with your nearest opposite role if there is someone else closer to them already. So for playstation you should be able to just have supports rotate clockwise from their clock positions and stand close to their DPS buddy and you're already at the correct position.

[@MusicFreakthe4th]

Amazingly clear as usual! Are there any names for the strats used in pf? It would also be easy if those were included in all videos, especially savage ;v;

[@Aerac]

PF strats evolve over time. Kinda hard to put strats that are found out weeks in advance in your video that gets released hours/days after the patch.

[@MusicFreakthe4th]

​@@Aerac I mean even in the description would already be helpful; if you take these vids as a reference as a static and then have to pf a sub for one evening, you end up not knowing what to tell the sub

[@HectorHectorson]

1/3 enumerations is a common pf tag I see, meaning they use set intercardinals to deal with tangle tease 1. Most other pf strats are similar to my video. Just check your group isn’t trying to yolo entanglement. XD

[@taldir5228]

Great guide! Helped me understand some of positionig :D

[@arcadistorias3202]

you deserve a million views for your work. thank you for carrying this community lol

[@SonicPhantom89]

I’m not very well versed in extreme fights, I only really started them with Shadowbringers, can I ask those with lots of experience: is this one pretty par for the course in terms of difficulty? It feels extremely punishing

[@HectorHectorson]

About par for the course. This is probably the most fast-paced extreme for this tier, but most extremes will have mechanics where one players mistake will kill off other players too (body-checks).

[@SonicPhantom89]

@@HectorHectorson thanks for your response! I’ve done the first 3 EX trials in Endwalker and now (thanks to your guide) I’ve done this one too! 21 runs down, 29 to go 😅 This one definitely felt a lot faster than the others in terms of the speed with which mechanics come out but now I have the muscle memory down it’s like clockwork. My only gripe with EX fights is they make me feel extremely dumb because I could never figure this stuff out on day 1 the way y’all can.

[@wirelessbaguette8997]

Edit: Looks like my consideration for adjacent enumerations was incorrect as in a clean run, enums will always be opposite. Leaving the comment in case people want to see this strat, as it will always work (it works with opposite enumerations every time as well), even if there are deaths. Might help people continue progging an otherwise scuffed run. There’s a small error in your Tangled 1 strat. It’s possible for enumeration stacks to be on adjacent cardinals (E and S for example) which would require the stacks to go the opposite intercardinals you have here. You just have to be able to adjust based on the enum positions. One strat is for enum people to look right, and if there’s no enum there, go right, otherwise left. nothing people do the opposite, look left, if there’s an enum there, go left, otherwise right. the spotlight people go opposite their tangle buddy. There’s one max melee spot for each spotlight aoe intercardinal pair, so melees with spotlights can fight over uptime.

[@J99554]

No they will always be opposite. You must have had deaths at that point.

[@wirelessbaguette8997]

@@J99554 I watched back the vod of my group's blind prog and it looks like you're correct, my mistake!

[@filipeavelino7993]

I'm not even watching this for now because of story spoilers but I just wanted to say: holy shit you're fast...

[@hallowedgrave2360]

"protean weave" nice one

[@danielmantell8751]

Great guide as always, thanks.

[@Malix2238]

in P2 where you have to move after dropping AoEs, the spiral doesnt look like that

[@gingerminx3484]

Epic guide! Super appreciated.

[@amandoboop]

Thank you, Hectorr

[@razor48391]

I'm gonna say it, man to man, I love you.

[@debrucey]

Isn’t A usually north and 1 NE?

[@DrkShd]

thank for the guide, and can i suggest you use FF4 archfiend picture for the future guide if possible, make it more funny

[@zydeox1221]

R1 MT R2 H1 H2 M1 OT M2 Is the spread comp that i used for my prog and it made playstation trivial, i played h1 and every we got playstation with everybody alive i got paired to either r1 or m1 nad sticking to my position marker always ensured that i never clipped anyone with the baited cones in good runs.

[@widdlefish]

This fight is so fast and I love it

[@irabradlee7837]

Y'all need to be subscribed this channel. The view to subscriber ratio is way off.

[@mis2588]

Is the tb full random between tanks, or its only on st?

[@HectorHectorson]

All tankbusters always target the current main tank. My guide shows it with off-tank provoking in phase 1 and having aggro until phase 3.

[@marcelopci]

Now i can try this trial

[@dadkwashere]

This is a excellent video thank you

[@anjoumaaka]

Female Piccolo enters FF and teaches us to DODGE!!!!!

[@slayeddreamer3820]

19 minutes! This means is going to be crazy complicated isn’t it? 😭

[@brettdavidson1762]

Thank you everytime fwen

[@xxomega702buzzalini8]

May I suggest for playstation as we have clock spots tanks and healers stay and dps adjust to them. As the T/H are always at where the mechanic can be resolved easy

[@dead_protagonist]

9:09 this is where my parties usually die. as d2, either the tank or healer doesnt make enough room for the dps who has to share the space with them and they die. anyone have advice for this?

[@ltran96]

Your audio is kinda quiet- could you boost that next video? Thanks

[@kaitokei]

my group did the playstation markers where DPS go to their clock spots and tank/healer go to them to match, much like E10S tether part when you have to go near the one you're tethered to.

[@algallontheobserver3780]

Ty so much for this~

[@naruto0pwnz]

I love how quickly you get videos out, I love how descriptive they are and I love the animations! Really useful and they've helped me clear a lot of raids, so thank you so much! I'm just not a huge fan of listening to you inhale before speaking, or listening to the sound of you gulping between sentences. 😅 Just a little editing between sentences I think would help tremendously because the quality if your mic is just tooooo goooood 😆

[@DaremKurosaki]

Okay, so. What's the point of putting a spoiler warning if you put the boss's name in the title?

[@HectorHectorson]

The boss' name was only added to the title a few hours ago. I tried to keep the title/thumbnail entirely spoiler free for the first two days of the patch.

[@cbflanagan]

@@HectorHectorson That's kind of a short time though; I'm sure there are lots of people like me who won't have a chance to play the patch until this weekend. I love your videos but I was just trying to listen to music whiled I worked and saw this in the sidebar and it was kind of a bummer...

[@HectorHectorson]

@@cbflanagan Really sorry about that! I've changed the title back and will keep it spoiler free until Tuesday. In the future, I'll keep things spoiler free for longer.

[@cbflanagan]

@@HectorHectorson Really appreciate it!

[@juanroman71]

I think for first teasing tangle, it would be much simpler from a pf pov to just do stack marker left/cw, nothing right/ccw, and aoe adjust based on partner

[@lifeiaskedfor]

so for anyone clearing the better way to explain the savage barbery is kneeling/cleave is line standing is donut

[@Edge2177]

Thanks for the guide, any chance you'd share the slides for it as well?

[@maxmustermann3938]

For some reason as MT I repeatedly get hit by an Autoattack before the vuln from the protean disappears, hitting me for 140+k unmitigated, but somehow the same thing doesn't happen to the other Tank in my static... any ideas?

[@fernandofuentesmoreno5149]

Turn off tank stance

[@maxmustermann3938]

@@fernandofuentesmoreno5149 i am not talking about the tankbuster swap

[@strassboom2612]

What does DOD mean? 17:00

[@DiabolusIgnis]

Dodge

[@irisheartt]

I gave up on this one until people get better gear. Just too many popoto brained DPS in party finder pvping with spread markers. I've gotten to enrage half a dozen times but the deaths eat too much into the group's DPS to clear at min ilvl.

[@mattoly343]

My single and ONLY crittiquer is GOD i want Subtitles for this PLEASE D:

[@Kuroganemk2]

Do you prepare any macros for this? Cos it would be great if we could just copy a macro into the game of the entire fight.

[@JM-nothing-more]

amazing guide, thank you for creating it but holy shit, your outro is WAY louder than the entire rest of the video, please tone that down

[@connorsimpson9423]

Much appreciated:)

[@polmao]

Color playstations the best on intercards. TN for all mechs. Flares North, Stack south. Mario Kart on butt. 1/3 Enum. Ez pz

[@NotMichael5421]

ty

[@liamwilson7549]

If there’s one thing I dislike about ff14 it’s that all guide videos are very long. My fc does this late at night too so I just feel even more discouraged lol

[@bigsaltywaveofdestruction]

Saw this and went to do the trial -- came back to confirm this is the most painful extreme imo to do on-content to-date O(-(

[@alaineninmah7040]

If you can make it to playstation, the fight is down hill from there

[@froman1522]

Not even close. The second time you have to run around for rocks is by far the worst part.

[@alaineninmah7040]

@@froman1522 To be fair though the fight is easy as hell... My static went in there blind and made it to playstation in like 2 hours making our own strats..

[@pluna3382]

@@alaineninmah7040 My blind group got hard enrage by around attempt number 6

[@flowa2024]

@@pluna3382 my blind group got the kill First try, easy Fight imo, very slow paced almost boring the most time

[@ripvanwinkle3432]

My blind prog group cleared first pull blindfolded.

[@TheA0512]

Great guide as always, but the way you pronounced Barbariccia was quite the ear bleed I must admit ;). Looking forward to your upcoming Savage guides!

[@blushingralseiuwu2222]

looks easy enough

[@pancakepop680]

Playback @ 1.5 .

[@EpicalClay]

Lol oof, you sound so tired with all of this, and running it, I can see why XD

[@jedispartancoolman]

Should have been the 2 totem

[@HectorHectorson]

Good news, it drops 2 totems per kill!

[@jedispartancoolman]

@@HectorHectorson ahh good! Was gonna say this is way harder than the last one

[@narutomeansspiral]

can you please not put “barbariccia ex” in the title, some people dont want it spoiled for them (you spoiled it for me :c )

[@HectorHectorson]

Sorry about that! I've switched the title back now and will wait longer in the future before putting the trial name in the title.

[@narutomeansspiral]

@@HectorHectorson much appreciated!!

[@mandary488]

Help

[@MyVanir]

protein weaves

[@camrose3138]

Time to farm.. 🙃

[@RailgunThunder]

Just dodge ez

[@emotionalsupport]

For the life of mine I still don't get why the xiv player base is obsessed with spoiler warnings...on YT I kind of get it but should you really be on the FFXIV side of YT if you haven't finished msq? I don't think so...I left my old FC because we couldn't say anything in chat about spoilers including asking for members for raids and this was almost 3 months after release...I'm sure I'm not the only one who had very strong opinions on the ending of the expansion and not to be about to talk about it with my FC was so oppressive I had to get out of there...

[@havocwind4442]

Dodgeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@fashygoy]

I understand you need to pay the bills but advertisements interrupting your videos every 6 minutes when we're focused and trying to learn is counterintuitive