If following this guide in PF, Write “Bagel/Congaline HTTH” Not “Hector” It saves people who already know the fight from having to come watch a guide they don’t need.

I feel sorry for Hector. All he's doing is providing us with an amazingly well crafted guide to help us with difficult fights, all for free and yet people still find something to whine about. He's not the one telling people to refer to the strats as 'Hector strats', there's no reason people should take umbridge with him whatseover. He's out here doing a service to all players.

omg finding a sword thats not glowing instead of trying to find a safe apot between the 2 that are is gonna be a life saver for me

Conceptually the conga line might be the funniest way to resolve a mechanic I've seen

Why did I never think to look for the non-glowing sword to find a safe spot. Life changing indeed. Thank you as always, Hector!!

I just cleared my first on/near-release EX since ARR with help from this guide. The tip about visualizing the swords as “sliding” towards the middle as well as looking for a non-glowing sword to find a safespot were particularly helpful. Thank you and great work!

To me the hardest part to wrap my head around were the flying swords. Just as a tip: solving this in 2 steps really helps - 1st: you look at the wind/fire sword and find out on which row you should be standing, 2nd: watch at the blue swords and determine on which square is the safe spot.

Heard horror stories about this trial over the past week; watched this guide before going in, joined a "hector strat" first timer group, and cleared it in one lockout. Great job man.

Thank you so much for the PF search info jargon. Helps me know what I should bring and expect from groups

my brain trying to solve what square is safe absolutely haunts me. I lose sleep over if I'm in the right spot or not. this guide though was very helpful seeing it it this way vs seeing it in action. gives u a better view of exactly what's happening. much appreciated! I can say it is now on farm, although I still lose sleep lol

Glad you are back Hector you guides are always my preferred ones! Hope you having fun on DT and thanks for your hard work!

've been watching you for sometimes and your animation definitely improves alot they are much smoother ^^ keep up the good work

Just wanna say thanks! Im not really a visual learner from video guides and such, but yours are always easy to digest and understand. I have cleared a few EXs thanks to you

your guides are amazing dude, thank you so so much, glad to see you making these still. happy adventures dude!

Looking forward to trying this fight out, thanks for making a guide for it - have been watching your guides for years at this point and you always explain things thoroughly which I like!

Hey man thanks for both the great guide and also for not showing massive spoilers in the title or thumbnail for the video. I have friends that were spoilered for the last fight only a day or 2 after release by a guide that showed up on their for you page... if only every guide maker was as considerate as you lol

Oh so that's what conga line means! My blind group tried LP stacks and we had a bit of trouble, but that's so much more simple! Thanks for the excellent guide, Hector!

Liked for the useful guide, subscribed for the spoiler-conscious thumbnail and intro

Watched this guide a few times last night and got my first clear this morning! Thank you for what you do Hector. It gives people like me who aren't very good at this game a real fighting chance.

If anyone's having as much trouble with Greater Gateway/Forged Track as I was, the thing that made it click for me is realizing that the swords never end up in the same lane as they start in, so you don't have to figure both of them out. It's usually enough to pick one of the swords (preferably the one farthest from the wind/fire side), then check that the lane it starts in isn't the lane the other sword is going to be in by tracing the line back. If it isn't, that lane is safe, and all you need to do is look at the fire/wind sword. If it's in wind just pop knockback immunity and you're golden, if it's in fire you DO have to figure out where in the safe lane to stand or worst case figure out the other lane. It's not foolproof - sometimes the 2nd sword IS in the 1st sword's lane and you have to fully think through the mechanic - but in 2/3rds of cases using this thought process turns a mechanic I really struggle with into a cakewalk, and when it doesn't it doesn't set you back, since you've still identified half the unsafe lanes already anyway.

Finally got my first clear with this guide. While I still struggle with the gate fire wind swords, finding non-glowing swords was an amazing tips. Thank you

Thanks for yet another clear and concise guide! I was catching up and so first raid night our static threw me into this "blind" but with very good explanations. Watching how the tethers and positioning for enumerations worked certainly cleared up a couple minor points for me.

Thank you, Professor Hector. Best Guides Ever!

EX1: Hard but fairly telegraphed mechanics EX2: Hard because it tries to trick and overwhelm you with visual clutter Its just so unnecessary.

Ive been playing ff14 for 7 months currently and i can say these are the best guides I've seen about doing extremes, cause watching all the other guides people made gave me headaches. If you need a good simplified guide on EX's and other endgame activities id recommend and highly advise coming here. This guide saved me so much pain on my end in this EX

Did i clear this today 11 times, and still watch this? Yes. 😂🤷🏼‍♂️ GJ 👌🏼

Only gripe I have with this fight is the visual clutter during half circuit.

Thanks for this. I cleared this today, and it my first time clearing an EX in PF.

thank you so much hector for this amazing guide once again!!! you have helped me through pretty much every single fight since shadowbringers. i wouldnt have been able to make it without ya hector!!! thank you so much for your wonderful guides as always!!! i also would like to thank you for keeping the part of your cat meowing at 6:25 and 6:37. the first one sounds like they're fading away into existence LOL.

Hector I want to thank you your vids have helped me clear my first extreme.

THE ONLY GUIDES I GO BY IN FFXIV HECTOR YOU MAKE THE BEST OF EM

6:34 His cat is a big fan of 2 Chainz confirmed. Loving the guides, they are carrying my group and I through all of DT so far.

ty hector, got a kill in about 1.5hs in pf, works wonders

Your guides are great man. Strong work.

New to your guides and I am very grateful. Thank you. ♥ /bow

my brain cells explodied from watching this. i hope i can learn the fight

Just tried this today and wiped on enrage 3% and i still have no idea what im doing as a tank. thanks for the really helpful video!

I find it the easiest to look at the 4 swords in the middle. There are 2 platforms with 2 middle swords each. If both these platforms light up the outer edges (not corners) are safe, it one or none of them lights up, look at the unlit one and pick the safe spot on the side that isn't being cleaved

Additional advises if people are having some trouble: For Swords, Look only for the 2 platform that has swords in the inside 4 square. Majority of the time, 2 Squares under the boss (2 In front, 2 to the side) will be safe, so adjust yourself to only these 2 platform will be easier. Only when all 4 square in the middle is unsafe, go directly left/right of the boss and to the edge (Corners are NOT safe). For Project of Triumph 1, position yourself to either side of the boss and do the donut/point blank AoE there first. When he does forward or backwards, this will provide much-shorter distance, and way less time deciding on where to go, and give you more visual on the incoming lines to do Donut/Point Blank AoE as needed. For Project of Triumph 2, position yourselves in front or directly behind the boss. Simply do Donut/Point Blank as needed, but this will provide you with a MUCH shorter run-distance to avoid left/right cleave + In/Out. For Forward/Back if people are still finding trouble, outside of Platform phase, he'll ALWAYS, face north before he does this mechanic. Just remember if it's Forward, Go North and the SAME SIDE of the glowing Sword. If it's Backward, go South and OPPOSITE side of his sword. During 2 Platform phase, which platform he's facing will be RNG.

Little note to melees during congaline: Don't hesitate to go for your positionals as you will need true north stacks just after.

Thank you for the updated guide! ♥

Hey been seeing clips and vids of people talking about your vids. Ignore that shit and keep moving forward. Your guides work.

right... conga line... that's definitely the name for it I've heard most frequently 👀

hector is literally out here single handedly supporting every pf pug

Thanks for the guides as always!

Hector: *releases conga start* the entire colliseum: *rousing applause*

i remember asking people during ex1 prog which ex was "easier" and 5 of them lied to my face lmao this is a great guide, but zoraal ja can sit in time-out til i get better gear

I did find this useful Hector

Thanks for the work dude

its kinda funny that the second projection of turmoil clearly indicates that they expect ppl to be taking those in some kind of light party or full party formation considering Zoraal Ja cleaves half the arena, which would force you to move to the same side and making much harder to organize. The conga line literally just laughs in the face of that.

I can't figure out for the life of me where to stand safely in regicidal reign as tank/ot with my tether

I am finally trying this fight tomorrow on EU. Hopefully people are still doing it with first timers

This was way easier than Vali. Cleared this as a healer on second pull with a group where 5/8 hadn't cleared it before.

the wind and fire swords are the biggest cancer

Great guide!

I have this on farm and the only thing which still gets me is Forward Half/Backward Half. I go near/away from the glowing sword depending on the cast and he still ends up cleaving the side where me and the party are standing. It's really annoying me at this point. Having a vuln from it is not the worst thing in the world, but I'd still like to be able to execute it properly.

good stuff king

Good luck with your clear

guide helped alot, felt way easier than ex1.

Perfect timing, I just finished ex1 and got my weapon

this fight blows man

I'm so dumb because i thought that the boss was in the opposite side of what we are seing in the screen because of his body aspect. So in my mind the mechanics of backward and forward dash was a nightmare. Anyway thank you very much for the guide !!!

Updated with Bagel! Yay!

Cleared it with this. Thank uo

this is like school at this point

I kept dying to Volluk spreads in PF and kept getting blamed for doing it wrong. I kept dying to double stacks in a square by myself. After watching this I now know it was a the other side standing in a weird spot killing me. Had no idea the other spreads copy over as well. Figures lol. Week one is such a train wreck

For my understanding, theres no mechanics that actually call for light parties right? Just partners?

14:40 Bitter Werewolf Inn

In the first image of multidirectional divide the pattern is different then in the image at regicidal rage when tanks get tathers is this correct?

Titan trauma kicking in x-x and I havent even done Eden Savage sync

unrelated to the strats, but i'm curious what the cute cat at the end's name is!! (:

Hector is the best player on my raid team 😂😂

Why doesn’t the tether connect to me when he does regicidal rage when I’m close to him it literally ends up killing me cause I have to position myself on the opposite side.

ty for the guide , do u have sth about markers ? TY !

i struggle so much with spatial transformations... cries

5:34 THERE GOTTA BE A TRICK TO THIS, THERE IS NO WAY I CAN THINK THIS QUICK GAHH ive had 3 full lockouts and i still DONT KNOW HOW TO IDENTIFY THE SAFESPOT QUICKLY ENOUGH

9:43 stupid question but how do you swap and take it off the other tank?

Cleared thanks to your guide. I have one question though, why the hell are people calling it bagel when it looks nothing like a bagel? Honestly irritates me when the FFXIV community all seem to mindlessly call a strat some random word that has nothing to do with the strat.

how do u even identify the safe spot for backswards or forward half? i mean i know its left or right, but sometimes i saw theres multiple emtpy spots and i end up going the wrong one??

When do you find time to attack 😂

Guides are fantastic, as usual, HOWEVER....your mic is picking up a BUNCH of low frequency thumping/popping/thunk noise, either from being mounted to your desk and picking up impact noise when you're clicking or something, or something else going on in the process. It also happens a lot on the Valigarmanda video (1:20), and examples of it here @ 4:20, 4:40, 4:58 and on and on and on.............might be as simple as just cutting off the very low end with a compressor filter. Would help the audio quality immensely IMO. It's really hard to listen to on headphones without wanting to stab my ears out after a minute or two.

Question about projetion of turmoil: Can a paladin, with cover/invuln. cheese this mechanic, for themselves, as well as a party member? (Detonating their own first, outside of the allies range ofc. Then immediatly run and cover for someone)

Can anyone tell me where he got the assets from, or what tool he is using to create the raidplans?

definitely gonna be an easier PF raid, very dorito-able

For the second projection of triumph, it’s easiest to solve this whole move in the same row. start on the chariot side of the boss. (Point blank AOE) When chariot goes off, the boss telegraphs his cleave. Dodge into the donut AOE that he’s not cleaving and then look at the swords. If you can stay in, you’re already done dodging. If you have to go out, move out of the hitbox to dodge into the next chariot or donut. One more donut/chariot after this and its tank tethers. You can’t do this with first swords because the boss flips the safe zones. But second swords? Ez pz

5:30 ok but how do you figure out where to stand if your brain is slow? 😭

i heard a cat at 6:28

During the wind Vollok phase, what's the distance between the platform edges? Did a blind prog with froends last night, and we weren't sure if AoE heals would reach all the way over

These extreme trials are too much nowadays. I dont even feel like trying the fight because of how convoluted everything is

Forward and backward half are just horrible but I didn't have much issue with the rest of the fight.

Watching your video I found an even easier way of resolving sync that works every time so long as your "favorite tile" is either the north most as MT or south most as anyone else (or if you wanna share a tile with MT). Step 1: check your tile Step 2: if safe, watch for cleave and adjust, if unsafe, check cleave East Cleave: north spot goes 2 spaces west, South spot goes 1 space west West Cleave: Reverse it, north goes 1 spot east, south goes 2 spots east I made a quick little video to show it since I don't think I explained well in my comment originally: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pdqghdSS3r2ZfmQ.html

*See the yellow triangle above the characters* Nononono, not those shits from E4S ☠️

why did the boss call it the xbox 360

15:58 Spoilers for the first boss of the DT raid series

congaline is so cute???

After the complete mess that is healing Valigarmanda EX I'm so excited to try this fight. It looks not as exhausting.

CAT DEDUCTED *meow* 6:27 🐱 ! FEED OR PET HER IMMEDIATELY BEFORE IT TURNS OUT TO A MONSTER AND KILL ZORAAL JA

the worst thing about this boss is the mount’s drop rate 💀🤡☠️

Early for Hector

6:37 meow!!