I think SE is looking at T5 and T9 still as their gates which nullifies any comment I feel that raiders have about "bads" being/having gotten into SCOB/FCOB.
I'd like to finally finish T9 @_@;
I'd like to finally finish T9 @_@;
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Shiva Ex! I wrote it... /cry
Ok I decided to write it up again xD Our healers (both) had not been into the fight until the instance we cleared it which was the Saturday or 2nd Saturday after 2.4 drop. Myself and another had not cleared while the one in our static who had been farming it taught us.
The default position of the fight is Shiva in the middle ish, all but MT stacked behind her.
Shiva has three forms. Two of them you've seen in Hard Mode (Sword and Staff). In the first phase she'll do the same thing with these forms as she did in HM but they're now much more "difficult". Sword form will be the same throughout the fight but Staff form will be different in phase 3. Her last form, Bow, is in phase 3.
For Sword form she has the tells of: Rising straight up in the air, her weapons will be sword and shield. She will have a buff icon of a sword. She will say something like "Text with sword in it" (ok it's more like 'wielders of the sword will die by the sword'?). In all phases, once she switches to sword form the tank must run to the group to split icebrand/the cleaves damage. She will do Glacier Bash which should be handled like Garuda's Slipstream.
For Staff form, she will rise up and twirl/spin. She will hold a staff. Her buff icon is a staff. She will say something like "The cycle ends here and now!" For phase 1, it's just like what she does in HM. Everyone spread out and make sure the aoes are not overlapping as with the aoes in Ramuh HM/EX.
For bow form, she will rise up and hold up a bow. A bow will be her buff. I don't know her word phrase tell right off the cuff. But she will do a 270-degree aoe. Everyone -must- be behind her or you will die. Period. After this Shiva will soon put a marker above someone's head. This will knock that player back. To deal with this, tank will bring shiva to the edge and everyones goes to her flanks. Person with marker goes to the open area behind her (Tanks can tempered will/holmgang. BLM can Manawall to avoid knockback.) DO NOT MOVE after she knocksback as she will soon freeze the entire floor and you will slide into the outside ring and get frozen gaoled.
Throughout the fight she will do aoes that will have ground indicators. Three patterns iirc. If you get hit you will probably die soon due to debuffs that you take from getting hit by them. They take up certain portions of the arena. One pattern will simply be easier to just have everyone in the center just taking one hit/debuff. The second and third patterns are a 1-2 hit. Basically she will have an aoe in the middle and 4 portions of the map: North, East, South, and West. OR Middle and Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest. Once she does those, everyone will need to be in the 4 portions of the map that are now safe after being hit by her first aoe. (She had aoes in NE,SE,SW,NW? go North, South, East, West. Aoes in N,S,E,W? Go NE, SE, SW, NW.) In order to not hit people with the aoes, the pairs going in the 4 portions will need to say who goes to the outside edge and who stays just near the middle aoe.
There is another aoe that I refer to Titan. It is similar to the titan bomb patterns. She will lay a circle aoe in the middle and then start filling the outside. You need to see where she lays the first circle on the outside and move immediately to the space to the left of it as that will be where her last aoe will be. Once the middle pops, move to the middle ASAP to avoid any stacks. If you are not confident in how fast you move, it is better to have 1 stack by staying in the middle than getting 2-3 stacks trying to adjust.
Whiteout: This is a very easily avoided attack as most of the fight everyone will be in melee range. I barely ever notice where it comes up in her rotation.
So Phase 1:
Shiva will do Staff and Sword (in any order). Sometimes she goes form-less. She will do the aoe where you will just stay in the middle to take the -1- debuff/hit as the safe spot is very difficult to get to. Once you get to 79?% she will go to Phase 2.
Phase 2:
Announced by Shiva asking for her brothers where she summons 4 ice golems. This phase is -really- easy dps check. I typically take them down well before Shiva even starts flying around the arena. She starts Phase 2 in Sword Form so the Tank handling Sword will handle it as always as everyone + WHM attacks the golems. WHM does Holy as the tank who handles Staff gets the golems available for aoe. Once golems are down, return to Shiva. In phase 2 our monk even ignores the adds and just takes Shiva on xD, we still get to her before she starts flying. While Shiva is flying, if we have a BRD, use Ballad. She then uses Diamond Dust.
Phase 3
I think she starts this in staff then moves to bow? I'm not sure of the complete rotation but this is what I remember it going like. BIG AOE heals will be needed starting this phase.
She will do Titan. Once she finishes Titan, she will be using bow form so handle it as you should (Behind, then sides while the one with the mark moves to her behind). BE PREPARED for the ground freezing so do -not- move. Once the floor unfreezes, move to the center. Soon she will do one of her 1-2hit icicle patterns. During the first one which determines where the safe spots are, she will indicate which form she is going into: Sword or Staff. If sword, get cleaved then move to the now-known safespots. If staff, go to the safe spots as soon as they are safe, making sure you aren't overlapping.
Whiteout happens after this I think.
Then it repeats from the beginning of phase 3, so bow or titan. something.
And there ends my very non-helpful guide to Shiva Ex.
Here is a visual on the patterns. I was mostly right about Phase 3. I think.
![[Image: xMpC87t.png]](http://i.imgur.com/xMpC87t.png)
Ok I decided to write it up again xD Our healers (both) had not been into the fight until the instance we cleared it which was the Saturday or 2nd Saturday after 2.4 drop. Myself and another had not cleared while the one in our static who had been farming it taught us.
The default position of the fight is Shiva in the middle ish, all but MT stacked behind her.
Shiva has three forms. Two of them you've seen in Hard Mode (Sword and Staff). In the first phase she'll do the same thing with these forms as she did in HM but they're now much more "difficult". Sword form will be the same throughout the fight but Staff form will be different in phase 3. Her last form, Bow, is in phase 3.
For Sword form she has the tells of: Rising straight up in the air, her weapons will be sword and shield. She will have a buff icon of a sword. She will say something like "Text with sword in it" (ok it's more like 'wielders of the sword will die by the sword'?). In all phases, once she switches to sword form the tank must run to the group to split icebrand/the cleaves damage. She will do Glacier Bash which should be handled like Garuda's Slipstream.
For Staff form, she will rise up and twirl/spin. She will hold a staff. Her buff icon is a staff. She will say something like "The cycle ends here and now!" For phase 1, it's just like what she does in HM. Everyone spread out and make sure the aoes are not overlapping as with the aoes in Ramuh HM/EX.
For bow form, she will rise up and hold up a bow. A bow will be her buff. I don't know her word phrase tell right off the cuff. But she will do a 270-degree aoe. Everyone -must- be behind her or you will die. Period. After this Shiva will soon put a marker above someone's head. This will knock that player back. To deal with this, tank will bring shiva to the edge and everyones goes to her flanks. Person with marker goes to the open area behind her (Tanks can tempered will/holmgang. BLM can Manawall to avoid knockback.) DO NOT MOVE after she knocksback as she will soon freeze the entire floor and you will slide into the outside ring and get frozen gaoled.
Throughout the fight she will do aoes that will have ground indicators. Three patterns iirc. If you get hit you will probably die soon due to debuffs that you take from getting hit by them. They take up certain portions of the arena. One pattern will simply be easier to just have everyone in the center just taking one hit/debuff. The second and third patterns are a 1-2 hit. Basically she will have an aoe in the middle and 4 portions of the map: North, East, South, and West. OR Middle and Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest. Once she does those, everyone will need to be in the 4 portions of the map that are now safe after being hit by her first aoe. (She had aoes in NE,SE,SW,NW? go North, South, East, West. Aoes in N,S,E,W? Go NE, SE, SW, NW.) In order to not hit people with the aoes, the pairs going in the 4 portions will need to say who goes to the outside edge and who stays just near the middle aoe.
There is another aoe that I refer to Titan. It is similar to the titan bomb patterns. She will lay a circle aoe in the middle and then start filling the outside. You need to see where she lays the first circle on the outside and move immediately to the space to the left of it as that will be where her last aoe will be. Once the middle pops, move to the middle ASAP to avoid any stacks. If you are not confident in how fast you move, it is better to have 1 stack by staying in the middle than getting 2-3 stacks trying to adjust.
Whiteout: This is a very easily avoided attack as most of the fight everyone will be in melee range. I barely ever notice where it comes up in her rotation.
So Phase 1:
Shiva will do Staff and Sword (in any order). Sometimes she goes form-less. She will do the aoe where you will just stay in the middle to take the -1- debuff/hit as the safe spot is very difficult to get to. Once you get to 79?% she will go to Phase 2.
Phase 2:
Announced by Shiva asking for her brothers where she summons 4 ice golems. This phase is -really- easy dps check. I typically take them down well before Shiva even starts flying around the arena. She starts Phase 2 in Sword Form so the Tank handling Sword will handle it as always as everyone + WHM attacks the golems. WHM does Holy as the tank who handles Staff gets the golems available for aoe. Once golems are down, return to Shiva. In phase 2 our monk even ignores the adds and just takes Shiva on xD, we still get to her before she starts flying. While Shiva is flying, if we have a BRD, use Ballad. She then uses Diamond Dust.
Phase 3
I think she starts this in staff then moves to bow? I'm not sure of the complete rotation but this is what I remember it going like. BIG AOE heals will be needed starting this phase.
She will do Titan. Once she finishes Titan, she will be using bow form so handle it as you should (Behind, then sides while the one with the mark moves to her behind). BE PREPARED for the ground freezing so do -not- move. Once the floor unfreezes, move to the center. Soon she will do one of her 1-2hit icicle patterns. During the first one which determines where the safe spots are, she will indicate which form she is going into: Sword or Staff. If sword, get cleaved then move to the now-known safespots. If staff, go to the safe spots as soon as they are safe, making sure you aren't overlapping.
Whiteout happens after this I think.
Then it repeats from the beginning of phase 3, so bow or titan. something.
And there ends my very non-helpful guide to Shiva Ex.
Here is a visual on the patterns. I was mostly right about Phase 3. I think.
