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.

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

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

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!!

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 great man. Strong work.

Thank you for the updated guide! ♥

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

Thanks for the guides as always!

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!

Thank you, Professor Hector. Best Guides Ever!

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

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

Great guide!

Good luck with your clear

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!

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!

good stuff king

Thanks for the work dude

Cleared it with this. Thank uo

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.

I did find this useful Hector

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

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

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

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.

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

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

this fight blows man

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

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

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.

Perfect timing, I just finished ex1 and got my weapon

this is like school at this point

Hector is the best player on my raid team 😂😂

14:40 Bitter Werewolf Inn

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

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)

i heard a cat at 6:28

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

hector is literally out here single handedly supporting every pf pug

Hey tanks for this guide. could i ask here someting? projection of triumph - if the mt side get - for example - the little donut aoe line of his side, does the boss always did the same moves?

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

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

basada la guia god

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

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

With P1S - P12S being able to unsync now at 100, would you be willing to make a level 100 unsync guide for them? Or at least the end of each tier so P4S/P8S/P12S?

Any tips on project of triumph? Or is it just a case of being laser focused? I always find myself running around like a headless chicken and following someone hoping they know where they’re going

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

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.

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

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??

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

Early for Hector

why did the boss call it the xbox 360

When do you find time to attack 😂

yeah cool, i could watch this all day, wouldn't help a bit

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

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

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.

Hardest part of this fight is the wind aoe 😂

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

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

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

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

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

yooo.. savage boutta be hard as shit

5:55 Oh god oh fuck not Titan again.

Why do people think this stuff is fun.

Prefer the first Guide you did more then this. This just looks awful that Bagel bullshit

I heard a meow! 😻