Minstrel's Ballad: Sphene's Burden Trial Guide (Sphene Extreme)

[@paz8723]

What if it was called the mr freaky strat and you had to go to your marker to get topped

[@v8046]

Those who know 💀

[@TheImaggine]

I mean, did you see his arms

[@Maddox_Clayne]

Please explain lol​@@v8046

[@Nutrafin-3D]

Flare damage has been so wildly varied from fight to fight. from almost painful to ticklish.

[@DacianGradaMusic]

Not confirmed, but it seems that baited flares are just player aoes so if they're always on tanks, they hit like tbs, but if they can be on any player they are easily cheesable.

[@phiefer3]

@@DacianGradaMusic Flares are always survivable on the person that they're baiting on. But they do proximity based damage on everyone else, which is why they're "supposed" to be spread out away from the rest of the group. But sometimes, like in this case, their proximity based damage is not very impressive and it's less important to spread them away.

[@DacianGradaMusic]

@@phiefer3 yeah that's the thing, I think the base DMG is still considered to be for any player to take it, so it's not that different than stacking circle aoes but those are usually deadly due to the specific vulns they give. Idk if it's a coding issue or whatever but it's weird that flares are now even in the hall of the novice and they teach you to bring them away when in some cases it's irrelevant

[@SonelGame]

On law of ice I agree with priority strat, but to further eliminate possible problems you could split party with melees (t/m) front bridge, ranged (h/r) back bridge since as stated it targets either t/h first or dps.

[@enpala4341]

That's a very good idea. You could even set a priority in the event that both rolles have to go in the same direction: MT before OT and M1 before M2 / H1 before H2 and R1 before R2

[@flummi1212]

The idea that you can always use the TTTT strategy isn't entirely accurate. Each Tether player has a 50/50 chance to receive the Stack Marker. If one of the Tanks gets this marker, that Tank will die if they attempt to soak it alone. An invulnerability skill is mandatory in this scenario. Therefore, the only viable way to execute the TTTT strategy is to swap out the Tank who receives the Stack Marker during the second cycle.

[@xTyith97]

I always find Ex trials to be infinitely more engaging than savage fights. This one in particular is honestly a very good ex and I’d rate it higher than the current savage floors. Really good guide!

[@kampfh7150]

Yippie! Thank you Mr Happy for Happy Coronation :)

[@hisoka8202]

for meteors, u can stack in the back row so u'll only have to move once (left or right)

[@Mischki100]

You can simply form a line and drop the second set. Staying afk behind the last one solves it easily. No stupid additional movement

[@hisoka8202]

@@Mischki100 i don't think u've enough space to place the 4 in a column we tried it and a meteor got clipped and exploded, even with 2 sets

[@spookyturbo1618]

@@hisoka8202 There is enough room. Just drop all 4 at once. As long as no one is getting hit by 2 AoEs they won't explode. Its harder to judge the distance for doing a column if you drop them in seperate sets.

[@Yokai_Yuri]

​@@spookyturbo1618Not really it's tight and mistakes can happen at the last meteor. People need to line them up very precisely which it leads to the famous "line meteors" being more like a zig/zag. It is inconvenient, people are more prone to fk it up, but the tryhards wanna be want to make it that way

[@tanhongyi7180]

Weighty Blow : The LP can stand at the last meteor of the vertical line for the first 3 hits. Not sure if this was an intentional design, but some PFs preferred it for consistency.

[@xinh2295]

For Radical Shift it looks like the platform thats coming in has an outline for a brief moment for anyone who struggles to see the wind rotations behind Queen Eternal. Great guide, thanks!

[@omegaxtrigun]

It shows an outline for all the platforms. Not just the correct one. So you can’t judge which based on that.

[@xinh2295]

@omegaxtrigun yup, but you can also sit inside both of them and move after since you get just enough time after landing

[@BlueForSureRight]

Thank you for this phenomenal guide, Mr.

[@Quilmeleon]

This fight gives me Zeromus extreme vibes. Ty for yet another amazing guide.

[@BeneaththeMask69]

Is there a reason tanks and melee aren’t partnered? Same goes with range and heals.

[@Envinyon]

For the ice bridge, wouldn't it make sense to mix dps and support? Since they tether by roles, if there's only one person in your role next to you, you'd only have to identify what that one other person has

[@katherinelee613]

Thanks as always Haps!

[@rygrex]

12:56 - I think an easier way to solve this is simply to assign each crystal to a bridge. Each bridge gets two crystals. First tethers move first, second tethers pre-position and move second once it's safe. Thoughts? It eliminates having to check your party members who may already be on the move with tethers crossing everywhere, and you have to check the crystal you're tethered to anyway. Removes a step involved in resolving the mechanic and likely reduces the amount of chaos with having to check moving tethered targets. Don't know how to get this information out there if people like it, but I think this solution may be easier. You could also return in reverse order across the same bridge.

[@faveryy2080]

18:20 close enough welcome back p10s

[@frei757]

Istg i still have PTSD from HH😂

[@Sammysnows]

we need the tank skeeball mech back

[@ALeafOnTheWind42]

I wish people would call this fight by its proper name: Exsphene

[@steweygrrr]

ExPlain

[@EmetSelch-u7j]

exe.sphene

[@brucewayne1777]

Exlistentome

[@Mischki100]

You can simply form a line and drop the second set. Staying afk behind the last one solves it easily. No stupid additional movement. Way more clean imho

[@Yokai_Yuri]

I come from the future. L8ne meteors were inconvenient and people were fking it up. Not optimal for runs let alone farms. There are even people who go from front to back while doing line meteors 😂

[@IyasuHN2]

wish more people would line up like this for law of ice instead of 7 people following me anywhere i stand. I wear glasses for a reason dont make this harder

[@bastianzaphire9070]

I still don’t understand how you know which platform is coming next in Radical Shift… What is the signifier that tells you if it’s the platform in the west wall or east wall? Does she slam down on the side that is next??? Can someone please clarify this??

[@LazyFastGaming]

no idea, just said there is an animation but i don't see what the animation is.

[@daiches99]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that it's indicated by the direction that the skybox rotates

[@Pieface12345]

17:13 he says how to tell which way it rotates.

[@TheAzarak]

MrHappy specifically said that the skybox behind the boss determines which way it shifts. clockwise means the one on the east is going to rotate underneath you. CCW means the west one will be.

[@felixrockel3194]

There is a blue,orange-ish whirlwind behind her during the animation that indicates it. it rotates either clockwise or counterclockwise. If clockwise, its the east plattform it gets changed into, if counterclockwise its the west plattform.

[@KaedysKor]

For the meteors, another option I was thinking of, seeing how the mechanic plays out, is to have one role drop on the platform, one off, for both waves. Say, supports on, DPS off. Tank drops front, healer behind, staggered side-to-side on the platform (say, tanks outer, healers inner or something). After the first wave, they simply step backwards on the platform, while the DPS stay put off. Result is a canted Z of meteors that allow you to just go front to rear for the meteor intercepts, and avoids trying to cram the platform all at once in the first wave, and then cram the not-platform space for the second wave.

[@Mischki100]

You can simply form a line and drop the second set. Staying afk behind the last one solves it easily. No stupid additional movement

[@KaedysKor]

@@Mischki100 Ya, that's a good call too. Reduce the movement and just park it. I didn't know how prickly they were about proximity, I've yet to log in since patch (Dragon Age atm)

[@Mischki100]

@@KaedysKor If you all do a line without the spread aoes killing eachother, then the meteors will be fine. As why you should place them all in the first set, so you can place them in respect to everyones spread around them.

[@alexmaganda5827]

i can see beneath the boss health bar for you it shows if its either cw or ccw what ui setting is that?

[@elafacwen8176]

I'm too stupid to figure out which was it's rotating so I stood in the cross section of multiple and it kept working 🤷‍♀️

[@75skyloftmexican]

shout out to Sere and the birth of the flamthrower strat LOL

[@MuzhaffarBurhanudin]

7:30 saw someone making a shaft shape formation in twitter 😂

[@greatgoatsby3068]

Sphene didn't listen to meeeee

[@TheArnoldification]

I can't wait to be stuck on the body check ice phase in pf for hours

[@GrafBuckel]

Why not do the icicle conga lines with light parties? Icicles are teathered role-based, so doing conga lines with light parties reduces potencial bridge overlap because only 2 persons per line have to use their 2 available bridges, instead of all 4.

[@megawaffle612]

SPHEEEEEEEEEEN!

[@ericjones5290]

When are the wing tomes gonna be used 🤔 I didn’t look at the patch notes

[@mghegotagun]

SPHEEEEEEEEENE

[@ShinoaValpuriS]

thank you happy!

[@Visibletoyou23]

You can make it so you only move twice on meteors when blowing Ben up

[@ThaliaLizette]

Thank you

[@IKMcGwee]

... Its called Isolation marker? Haha ive always just called it friendship dorit.

[@KylieRos3]

Is it me or do most people NOT know the fight? I'm amazed how they even completed it without knowing the fight.

[@RighteousPete]

Optical hat. Divine might chest piece. O Kote. Let me guess, Byakkos haidate and fuma kyahan? Where's your Osode, man?

[@CleopatraKing]

So is conga the new limit cut

[@cherub-angel]

This is the most infuriating ex I have seen for pf strats. I just can’t wrap my head around there being a new way to do a mechanic every week. It’s ridiculous.

[@Slamfist00]

In your guide, you referred to 'exaflares" as if I knew what they are. I think I made a good guess based on what was showing in the video at the time, but I am not certain.

[@laurabennis3871]

Exaflares are the aoes that go in a straight line

[@DrumStixYTChannel]

exaflares are just what people refer to an aoe that moves in a straight line exactly like the aoes do in that part of the video

[@Slamfist00]

@@DrumStixYTChannel got it. thank you. I mean it more as feedback to mr. happy and other creators to be careful with references to ancient mechanics without context :D

[@vaan_]

@@Slamfist00 or you could take 5 seconds to type "exaflare ffxiv" in your browser's preferred search engine and find thousands of examples of what he means also, obviously, you could just look at the screen to literally see what it is as it's shown

[@cyborgtemplar1989]

this is one of those unfortunate times when a video gets released using different strats from what pf uses. and even with the notice at the moment that things can change. sphenebin has been adopted by so many before it's release. and now 45% of pf wants one method, 45% wants another method, and 10% want a third . . . . so you gotta hunt down one of the 45% you play, or relearn the fight with different strats this fight is now practically impossible to get past ice in pf. and my god is it annoying needing to completely reprog a fight for different strats because a video was released. and things are split. . . . .and pf already struggles like mad on ice . . . shoot me now

[@iHimaki]

can you do a gapcloser to cross the bridge?

[@MaydaTiger]

i think coronation needs more explanation or maybe I am just too stupid and should leave end game raiding to my betters like that one person told me yesterday 😥

[@frankstolz]

Look at the wall you are tethered to. If you are tethered to the right side (your right) of the triangle, walk into the right corner. Left side goes to the center of the wall. Or another way to explain it: Shift all triangles clockwise and stay close to the tether.

[@nerocole6734]

@@frankstolzthank you kind stranger, you’ve saved my sanity

[@bigbeef8190]

The older im getting the more these Extreme mechanics get more difficult to remember. I haven't even done one since Shadowbringers. 😢

[@PianoMatn]

I shall call it Spheenex or Speenx :v

[@canadianbren4239]

there has been so many awful players doign the ext day 1 i was losing my mind atleast now that there is a video people wont troll anymore

[@jkloe]

TANKS TAKE TOWERS ON THE BACK!!! IT'S ALRIGHT THEY ARE TANKS! THEY HAVE 0 DPS ALL THEY DO IS PROTECT THE PARTY FROM DAMAGE!! HEY GUYS MR HAPPY HERE AND TODAY I PUT RANGED INFRONT!!! THAT'S RIGHT! RANGED TAKE TOWERS IN THE FRONT THEY NEED FULL UPTIME BECAUSE THEY DO LESS DPS THAN TANKS IN PF!! AND RAIDERS... GET RAIDING 😎

[@Meerso123]

You get full uptime......

[@iSpy3210]

the entire platform is her hitbox tho🤷🏾‍♂️

[@MLJ-zp3ju]

Why the fuck do these fights get so hard after the first two

[@castell1301]

Why is it 20 mins long? The fight isn’t that hard

[@cta-bt5jp]

MR CRINGE YOUR GUIDES ARE TRASH LIKE SKIP SOAR OR DISBAND HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA