Pitch Perfect Episode 3: The Heart that Shattered Time

The UwU & TEA mechanic explanations are from 13:50 - 16:15 so feel free to skip that section.
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What did you guys think of TEA? I would love to hear your thoughts, even if you think the Enigma Codex is the best thing ever! Also, I'm always taking suggestions on what to make a video on next~
Music (not ordered):
Exponential Entropy (The Primals version)
Rise (The Primals version)
A Long Fall (The Twinning dungeon BGM)
Moebius (Eorzean Symphony ver.)
Metal - Brute Justice Mode (The Primals version)

[@FFXIVMomo]

One big thing that I think is also a pretty big reason why the Enigma Codex isn't that great that I didn't see you say is that the wall for needing it being so far into the fight. It's one thing where the wall is 8 minutes into the fight but it being 13/14 minutes into the fight is kinda concerning. Especially when there is ZERO hints between when you pull and when you get there. At least with the awoken mechanic you had about 2 or 3 active minutes every pull to get one pull where one of the bosses (Garuda, Ifrit or Titan) get some the awakening buff, mainly Garuda and Ifrit though.

[@ElseeKay]

my line of thinking (100% hindsight btw) is the true heart had story significance, and it was very bad for alex to get it, so the jump in logic would be to make sure alex didn't get it using the pieces in play at that 15 second window of the fight. the pieces : alex, the heart itself, the 4 crystals and to the keen eye : the cat. alex is bad so thats ruled out, kiling the heart itself does nothing, the crystals vuln down the heart which isn't a problem since killing the heart was ruled out (jump in logic but it's there), and the cat seems to not do anything but seems important. the crystals and the cat might have a connection, and the only last variable in that 15 second window is the vuln down stacks so that's the only variable you can mess with in that section left. 4 stacks, cat and heart connect. i feel like that's what the devs were going for. the story implication on the fight involving the cat and the heart. afterall, the bard is retelling your story with a bit of flourish, he may embellish the way the fight went down but he's not rewriting it, and that part of the story is kind of the clincher, same as in the fight itself.

[@Zeet1]

You bring up a lot of great points! Thanks for the video. This was the first Ultimate I cleared but took the entire patch cycle. I'm glad I didnt have to figure this out cause it was hard enough executing mechanics xD

[@MrLyramion]

Great Video man

[@Soveia]

As a dataminer, good job explaining what the mining can really do. There were absolute stupid levels of narratives by ignorant and salty people on what mining can do when it could do none of the outrageous claims, like the server emulator nonsense or just giving the solution to Enigma Codex. We can mine status effects, abilites, names and models, text data etc. but we cannot tell how any of it works on the server end. When progression started, the Enigma codex was already known to exist, but nobody could tell how it interacts with anything. The golden heart model and the name True Heart would have been the biggest prog hint a miner could give for this fight, but you could have just as well assumed it plays a role later on in the fight, past the calibration wall, mining will not tell when and how it comes into play. Mining debuffs is also not much of a factor in world race, mining the debuffs is very easy for anyone to do and the tooltips for the defining ones are often so vague you cannot tell how they interact from the description alone.

[@DefinitelyNotRin]

Knowing it existed in the first place is a monumental gain over not knowing it exists at all. It basically ruins trying to put in such a thing if people do data mine.

[@Cassapphic]

I feel like lore mechanics work well in ultimates specifically if the lore can be hinted at as part of the fights own storytelling, such as in TOP when bluescreen is omega destroying itself over the inability to comprehend it developing an emotional drive to refuse to be beaten (which outside of being a fake inflated dps check to force lb3, could've used something like hello world being a programming thing to have you literally code omega to be able to withstand it) but for how it works here, I think the codex buff should be on alex prime throughout the entire phase, unless you get the codex then he loses it. This telegraphs where the codex is roughly, theres still a lot of places to experiment, timestop, inception, wormhole, enrage sequence, but its a lot better than... the entire fight with a red herring too. Woke has the fairly obvious conclusion that if you find woke in one primal, the other 2 must also have it, since that wouldn't make sense here having some other way to suggest roughly where to look could've gone a long way.

[@grygaming5519]

Honestly Im just wondering why they didnt add the cat in the fight somewhere during Brute Justice phase. Then introduce a mechanic where True heart would place a stacking debuff then create it a senario where if the debuffs are good for the party = wipe when its re-introduced. If its good for the boss then the boss would wipe the group. So the players know they had to destroy the True hearts the cat would summon, and maybe have it so the true hearts drop enigma shards that look similar to the shards in the perfect phase. That'd tie up two clues that the hearts and shards are connected.

[@HyMyNameIsMatt]

So I'm confused, if feeding the heart the crystals means you don't have them for telegraphing, how do you survive future mechanics without them?

[@OryzaMercury]

So when the heart turns golden, it ends up doing the telegraph for you. So it substitutes the need for crystals

[@HyMyNameIsMatt]

@@OryzaMercury That's pretty fucked.

[@supermarble94]

While I may disagree with you on the prospect of the Enigma Codex buff being poor design, which very well may be a result of me not doing world prog/blind prog, there are a couple things to be said going forward. 1) Lore based mechanics are no longer off the table for ultimate fights. 2) "Woken" or similar mechanics should be not just a possibility but rather expected. 3) Any time there are FOUR things that happen in a phase, it should immediately be looked at to solve the respective "Woken" puzzle. Realistically speaking, the only things in the fight at all that had 4 things happening were: There were 4 Jagd Dolls. These dealt 250k damage when fed too high, and 40k damage when fed below 25%. They dealt 10m damage if killed, and dealt 10m damage instead of doing their 4th Exhaust. Since there's no feedback at all for feeding the dolls, no way to survive 10m damage, and no realistic way to survive 250k damage (not to mention no feedback for doing so), these can be safely ruled out. 4 people get targeted for each hit of Protean Wave from the boss. This can be safely ruled out since nothing happens when anyone gets hit by Protean Wave and again, there's no way to survive two hits of it outside of invulnerabilities. 4 people get targeted for Sluice. This one is less straightforward, but since there's just the boss and the hand and nothing happens when an enemy gets hit, nothing happens when a player gets hit, and there's no way to survive getting hit by it plus a Protean Wave without invulnerabilities, this can be safely ruled out. There are 4 different types of Nisis. This can be safely ruled out since someone getting two of them not only kills them but forcibly causes a wipe at Gavel in most cases. Gavel, as well, forcibly removing the Nisi makes this very unlikely, and failing Gavel causes a wipe. An argument could be made for each person with a matching Final Judgment: Decree Nisi getting the same incorrect Nisi, but it would turn into a straight up guessing game with a bunch of different possibilities, so all other outlets should be explored first. There are 4 Aetheroplasm orbs. These can be safely ruled out since stepping in them merely gives you a heavy, and overlapping them deals massive damage and gives a damage down. But the overlapping them giving a damage down doesn't give any feedback, so that avenue shouldn't be explored. There are 4 Judgment Crystals. These give a delayed explosion when they overlap and when Alexander touches them. It could happen when any enemy touches them, and there are 3 more enemies in the phase, let's explore that. When the Heart touches it, it gives a stack of Vulnerability Down, as well as making it instantly explode instead of a delayed explosion. This is direct feedback for doing something, not to mention Tetrashatter does 10k damage from a distance, meaning all 4 hits are survivable. This is likely the "woken" mechanic. In each set of Limit Cut, there are 4 blue numbers and 4 red numbers. These can be safely ruled out since only a tank can survive two hits and only with cooldowns to boot, with no direct feedback for doing so. This means the only thing that it could possibly be is the Heart with the Judgment Crystals. So, in future ultimate fights, anything that happens in a set of 4 is something to be explored once a wall has been hit.

[@Antiyoukai]

I love lore mechanics. Can't just skip through the story. 😎

[@LunaRosalie]

half life 4 confirmed

[@mrcool9090]

Honestly, even though this was more or less just a negative thoughts video, seeing how abstract this is makes me excited for attempting blind prog in Endwalker and experiencing dragonsong war ultimate with everyone and figuring out how everything works.

[@dragocrafterr8286]

Dragonsong ultimate vid soon copium

[@mukulvdhiman]

You're entitled to your opinion, but ultimately it was an ultimate, and I think the golden heart was a fair mechanic. We can talk in detail about difficult puzzle but I think it being an ultimate, you don't want a difficult mechanic, you want a mechanic that require you have really high observational skills. It is amazing that TPS caught on to the mechanic early on, but imo I wouldn't have minded if the world first took longer. And I thin SQE would have given enough hints for anyone to solve it by then

[@velvetisking6857]

you sound salty sfia found out before you lol