FFXIV - Tower at Paradigm's Breach Raid Guide

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Boss #1: 1:12
Boss #2: 4:06
Boss #3: 8:01
Boss #4: 12:40
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[@Vitreia]

"How was the new alliance raid?" "Nier." "Right, but how was it?" "It was Nier."

[@DumpsterPupy]

That rescue to death at 9:33 lmao

[@Sabamonster]

Just wanted to say thank you for these vids. Out of all the guides out there for raids/Trials/Etc yours are by far the most clear, concise and 'legible'. Most the others are people talking entirely too fast, glancing over mechanics with half-explanations and speed running through the video. Please keep these going.

[@ravynx]

^ +1. I think the others are good for refreshers down the road and MrHappy's are great for first time through explanations.

[@killyourtelevision999]

"Most the others are people talking entirely too fast, glancing over mechanics with half-explanations and speed running through the video." Are you referring to Miss_Take?

[@Funguspower2]

"stay cool and you should be fine" *me screaming mid dragoon rotation*

[@djonesgamerboy]

I was legit mentally and physically drained after I finished this. I had to get up and walk around the house for a bit to shake it off.

[@Verpal]

Well, I just spammed this three time yesterday. Blind entrance, practice, then actual full no death run. Got the chest, not sure whether it is worth my mental state though.

[@pyro5159]

What's wron? I thought it was fairly easy

[@Verpal]

@@pyro5159 It is easy, but I am a healer, and keep having to scrape ppl off floor is just tedious!

[@pyro5159]

Some healers forget to heal through raid wide dmg so that kills some but most is fairly easy to dodge yet I've had to go smn instead of sam for rex cause people want to floor tank

[@yuri4046]

For "The Final Song", you can cheese it by facing where the 2 halfs of your circle meet towards the falling AOE. You can ignore the entire mechanic this way.

[@krisd1536]

When I started this raid, my gear was in top shape. When I was done, all my gear was under 10% durability. That’s how often I died. After watching this, hopefully my second run will be less chaotic.

[@overnightsiren]

"Nier" what a great video title

[@papasfritas3853]

I think i set a new record of deaths after i tried this for the first (and only) time..

[@calypsodiora1612]

it's actually one of the easier ones once you get finally

[@LondonWater]

Thank you again for an amazing guide! I’ll stop by and throw you some bits, or a donation, one of these days when I catch you on👍

[@lotharschramm5000]

You're producing the best guides by very far, thank you so much for them. I'm starting the Nier glam farm (gonna take a while...) so this will be very helpful.

[@MilkAndSugar16]

Glad to know I can spot the buildings before they come up.

[@Konungrinn]

Thx for this king. Me and a friend ran it first time and we had a smooth as silk run

[@LastTakashima]

I was in this raid with you! I was the Viera bard with Gandiva

[@EsporHB]

Thank you very much. I would have died a thousand times more often. This was a great raid

[@Dracounguis]

I do like to take my first run through things like this blind. But it is a very humbling experience. 🥺 But geez, they really didn't add much warning to anything in this raid. If not for paying attention to other people every single mechanic would have killed me!

[@JSpyx]

"After replicating itself, the boss will prepare lunch!" :D

[@KonDragon008]

Thank you! Many of the mechanics were honestly pretty intuitive (especially after dying to it once), but others I was still a little confused on (mostly the 3rd boss). Speaking of, it's a relief to know that other people had visual issues with that one. It was a sensory overload for me, which caused me to die so many times and I just wanted to be done with the fight very quickly (though I did enjoy the hacking part of it). I don't mind learning new mechanics, but that fight was just visually too much. I don't look forward to doing it weekly for the coin and drops, tbh. Hopefully, since SE knows that it can cause seizures, they'll do something to fix it. That aside, I hope that the weekly quests wrap up the story properly; I currently have a lot of questions and no answers...some of which questions about possible plot holes.

[@shinfil3737]

The hacking fight was my favorite! :)

[@KeyJester]

Really grateful for this guide, as I couldn't see a damn shit when I first did it and learned absolutely nothing. At least watching a guide helps me get a little more oriented on things. I'm kinda relieved to see I'm not the only one that struggled with the flashy mechanics tho. This was, by far, the worst raid I've ever had to deal with and I was physically ill after completing it. Too flashy mechanics is really unecessary - and dangerous - and that horrible background wreaked havoc on my light sensitive eyes. My screen brightness is at 0, and I still wanted to dig my eyes out of my skull afterwards. Heck, just watching this video made me nauseous. D: Such a shame, the raid would've been a really cool one if it hadn't been so unfriendly towards disabilities.

[@TheCarbonRockie]

nice genetics

[@KeyJester]

@@TheCarbonRockie Oh, don't get me started. XD My wide range of disabilities (that has gotten significantly worse over the years) haven't just taken away my ability to work, but also my ability to game properly. It's just downright fucking depressing.

[@killyourtelevision999]

While I sympathize with your condition, I would never fancy myself so important than a video game corporation should concern itself with my particular disability. They're entertainers. Not your personal therapist.

[@GalaxiaKnightX]

I think you got one of the attacks wrong on Her Inflorescence. "Distortion." is actually called. "The Final Song." Besides that..thanks for the guide. I've seen a lot of people just end up dying during these bosses..heck one person I saw got hit by a train it was hilarious.

[@KonDragon008]

I went down to a mechanic right before the train one, and nearly missed the raise because I was laughing when about six people got wasted by the train. XD

[@GalaxiaKnightX]

@@KonDragon008 Oh that is hilarious.

[@AzureGreatheart]

I saw the title before it got fixed. That was interesting.

[@knicknevin9975]

"Thanks! I hate it." Missed the stream since I was playing the content myself, but if the previous Nier raids are anything to go by, this is my assumed reaction from Haps at the end of it all. Lemme know if I got it right.

[@jaeusa160]

It's a little bit better, but the bar is admittedly low. The progression from the weeklies might be good too.

[@Gryph00]

I left midway through the raid on release day. It's not that I couldn't do it, just with current monitor, partial colorblindness, and whoever's bright idea was to make a "sat outside for two days milk" colored floor needs to be talked to. Cause on Console, I couldn't see shit on the third boss. I died about 5 times on each boss cause I couldn't tell where any aoe markers were spawning on the floor. Most of it is based on animations, which I'm grateful for. But...yeah, got my clear and I'm staying clear of this one. To me, those ships are well...grey and...grey and those barriers are well... grey. and you guessed it grey

[@Lashor_]

Yoshi-P: “What would you like the mechanics to be for your final raid?” Yoko Taro: “Yes” (IMO - I loved the shit out of this last raid, I don’t understand y some people didn’t like it, but to each their own I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️)

[@shaginus]

The raid itself is fun but the story is not good make no sense with vague explanation pretty much Omega but worse at adding to FFXIV everything pretty much replacable and the context still feel the same

[@dividedbyzero4]

imo last boss' mechanics comes out way too slow and there's overuse of sides/not middle mechanic. 3rd boss is undeniably good and has creative integration of automata's hacking minigame though.

[@Lashor_]

@@shaginus well, Drakengard/Nier story in of itself is pretty out there, shit worse than a Metal Gear storyline lol. It makes “sense” if u actually knew the storylines but yeah if u never played the series and just FFXIV that shit pretty wild and unexplained

[@andy4an]

@@Lashor_ i had a blast, mechanics are pretty fun.... but it's the most boring looking instance in the game. just beige with shades of grey. for every fight. the source material is not this bland. it's like they just used the placeholder textures?

[@enlongjones2394]

@@shaginus I’d say the main issue is that the story feels smaller than it should be. The threat it ends up posing is presumably world-wide, but we spend pretty much the whole story in one corner of Kholusia. The Mhach and Ivalice raids were accepted from the same places every time, but we did end up traipsing all over Dravania and the Far East to get to the locations. It also didn’t feel much like it was interacting with the world the way it could have been. Crystal Tower and Omega also were localized to small locations, but their connections to Allag gave them a solid place in the world’s history. To the point that Crystal Tower is now inseparable from the main story. And Omega has that bit where he threatens our friends across the world in a plausible manner. I think the story could’ve felt more real with a couple of additions. First, we could’ve had quests that take us around Norvrandt. Maybe have 2P send us to kill some Machines that have gathered around small signal towers across Kholusia and Raktika. And then later, 2B’s pod has us reveal that those locations had a small one of the white Seeds buried beneath. Give the Seed a credible threat level across Norvrandt, instead of just to one town in Kholusia. Hell, suggest a connection to Ronka, the same way that Omega inspired Allag. And second, have the Nier characters talk to us more. Have them give a quest or two. I think that would help them feel more like Alpha and less like Lightning, in terms of crossover characters. Granted, some of this could still shake out. Konogg is looking into the spheres, plural, so we may get info about where else they are, and how this all happened. But even so, that’s stuff they could’ve done in the main story. Nobody who hated the story as is is gonna be actively running a weekly quest for maybe more to it. All that being said, I did still enjoy my time with this raid, and I love some of the lore implications for its home series. I would’ve just liked it to have more lore implications for FFXIV.

[@__-tz6xx]

I just picked up playing Disgaea RPG for mobile but I was interested in the Dissidia Opera omnia mobile. So many video games, videos, and audio books are competing for my time. So many things which interest me.

[@Illumas]

Thank you, Thank you for the seizure warning!

[@Mordak1989]

I'm getting Drakengard PTSD.

[@ericas.7414]

I thought in the new dungeon, we were going to (spolier alert!) have dragon combat. I was like, oh no! 😭 But no they were just there to take us to the other side to my "disappointment?" Lol.

[@skillet_head]

The Video I have been waiting for. I loved Copied Factory but was disatisfied with the last two.

[@blackandwhiteduo4971]

Did this enough times on the first day that I learned every mechanic pretty easily, honestly a lot of these mechanics we already seen in the past so this was a really easy raid to me

[@killyourtelevision999]

Just go away. Seriously.

[@cparle87]

16:30 All tanks do that. Sorry, MH.

[@spikememer69420]

I pizza'd when I shoulda french fried.

[@matauw]

This. Guide. Makes. Me. Happy.

[@jaeusa160]

Is your GPU failing? The room textures aren't loading. ;3

[@andy4an]

yeah, that's how i described the look of it as well. like they just used the placeholder textures and forgot to finish it

[@ArchieGamez]

Every Nier Automata player: Stop ;-;

[@cosmosofinfinity]

He's playing on low settings for better performance

[@donmarelio]

Maybe I'm still a noob compared to y'all around here with my 700 hrs of playtime, but I still struggle with this raid even after running it for a third time today. The swingaround animation on Hansel and Gretel throws me off completely (they don't seem to make a full rotation, but attack towards their original frontsides nonetheless? how does that make sense?). Thanks for the guide. I'll try to improve, but I'll probably just keep dieing to some off this stuff regardless whenever it comes up in Alliance Raid roulette.

[@malecstark3214]

Wig!

[@bryanmoberg8408]

that last boss is such a glorious clusterfuck of aoe hell mechanics, i was pretty indifferent to the story of the neir raid, but thats a great fight

[@papabearjonez]

One of the most important tips: “ You can fall off of this platform.” 😅😆 Yup. 😜

[@cosmosofinfinity]

15:38 Did you say stand near the pillars, or stand NIER the pillars?

[@dragonfir21]

Do you only get one coin pre week?

[@silenceundying]

Yes, there's a restriction on coins for now.

[@Wisenfrosty]

Thanks lol

[@ARandomUser5]

Nice title Haps :P

[@taco_sensei]

I missed it, what was it???

[@Mugenflowmotion]

...This is....merciful...? I recall the last one being hell on Earth, but this actually looks doable WITHOUT the added stress. owo!

[@KarasuMayonaka]

Just Nier

[@crowofcainhurst]

That tower fall is bullsh*it even if you're not standing under the shadow you still have the chance to get it fall on you.

[@USMC0331]

Geez that's it lol

[@Philosjutsu]

video starts at 1:20

[@JopieA]

>Story makes no sense to someone who doesn't play Nier, at all >"ok, least the raid and gear are cool even though we didn't get 9S gear" >raid has literal fucking seizure triggers NIIIIIIIIIICE

[@ShadowErus]

"nier"

[@TonedCritical]

Just in time for Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139.......

[@cosmosofinfinity]

I hope FFXIV does something when ver.1.32474487139... comes out too!

[@CrazzyCrisis]

Nier

[@dondraper2376]

Heyyyy

[@catgirlfilms9356]

nier

[@shooby9496]

"Will hopefully bring a satisfying conclusion to the Nier collaboration raids." Lol nope

[@Nodnarb59]

I have not enjoyed a single raid in this expansion, I hope EW does better and doesn't do mechanic's for the sake of mechancis because that's what ShB raids felt like.

[@Kefkaownsall]

Anyone confused honestly alliance. Raids were always close to seizure mechanics

[@gigisilk798]

Great, I'm playing Nier and Drakengard...joy...............

[@i5m5bob]

that's a lot of hawt girls in one raid

[@andy4an]

cool mechanics, had a lot of fun... but the most boring colors ever. beige with grey, almost the whole thing long, and terrible textures

[@sozellicus]

i get why you would say that. the locations were recreations of places from Nier Automata, Nier, and Drakengard 3 (if you weren't aware)

[@andy4an]

@@sozellicus i looked at some videos of the NieR games to see what it was supposed to look like. there are LOTS of scenes in those games that have more color and more texture, and look fabulous. if there's a part of the NeiR games that looks as boring as this alliance raid, then my criticism applies to them as well.

[@sozellicus]

​@@andy4an i think your criticism is valid if you don't understand the context and the source of inspiration for the locations in the raid. look at the final boss of Drakengard 3. look at the cyberspace and hacking sections of Automata. look at the final dungeon of Automata. the context matters here imo. i get why you'd think the way you do about it. me, personally, i think they knocked it out of the park and loved every bit of it.

[@EclipseHighroller]

I guess they had to balance having great mechanics with having shitty looking gear. I mean, where’s the guy who designed the LotA and void ark gear? Bring him back and fire who designed the ivalice and Nier raid gear, it’s hot garbage

[@elementengine]

LotA and Void Ark gear is some mega ass

[@ArchieGamez]

Umm Void Ark gear is the worse looking gear in Alliance raids

[@vanillanights]

@@ArchieGamez Nope.

[@Phryguye]

Speak for yourself, I like the Devola/Popola sets.

[@taco_sensei]

Gasp opinions

[@alnea6156]

Nier

[@Post-Ioooo]

Nier