FFXIV 6.5 Abyssos: The Eighth Circle (Savage) P8S Clear - Dark Knight (DRK) Tank PoV (No Commentary)

Timestamps:

00:00 - Loading in

00:30 - Phase 1 begins
00:44 - Conceptual Octaflare (Volcanic Torches 1/Sunforge: Snake)
01:12 - Flameviper 1 (Tankbuster)
01:30 - Reforged Reflection: Snakes 1 (Gorgomanteia 1/Into the Shadows 1/Ektothermos)
02:46 - Illusory Creation (Creation on Command/Manifold Flames/Tetraflare)
03:19 - Volcanic Torches 2
03:43 - Reforged Reflection: Centaur 1 (Rearing Rampage/Stomp Dead)
04:33 - Conceptual Octaflare (Fourfold Fires/Cthonic Vent/Octaflare/Sunforge: Phoenix)
05:23 - Flameviper 2 (Tankbuster)
05:40 - Reforged Reflection: Snakes 2 (Gorgomanteia 2/Into the Shadows 2/Gorgospit)


06:46 - Phase Transition Cutscene

07:54 - Phase 2 begins
08:15 - Tyrant's Unholy Darkness 1 (Tankbuster)
08:28 - Natural Alignment (Twist Nature/Tyrant's Flare/Ashing Blaze 1)
09:30 - Tyrant's Unholy Darkness 2 (Tankbuster)
09:42 - High Concept 1 (Arcane Control 1 and 2/Ashing Blaze 2 and 3/Deconceptualise)
10:53 - Limitless Desolation (Tyrant's Flare III/Burst)
11:35 - Tyrant's Unholy Darkness 3 (Tankbuster)
11:50 - Natural Alignment: Inverse Magicks (Ashing Blaze 4)
13:04 - Tyrant's Unholy Darkness 4 (Tankbuster)
13:16 - High Concept 2 (Arcane Control 3 and 4/Ashing Blaze 5)
14:14 - Ego Death

14:31 - Concept of the Phoenix
14:50 - Aionagonia


First time getting the clear as a Tank. I actually don't do much high level raiding as a Tank nowadays so it was a lot to get used to again. I really, really, really do need to not raid while I'm ill though, as Phase 1 will attest to. Granted that was our first Phase 1 pull. The Phase 2 clear was on our 2nd pull.

The main mechanic tanks have to deal with is during Phase 2, as Hephaistos's auto attacks (the fireballs that his double joined arm fires) are Tankbusters that require either the Main Tank to Invuln or both tanks to stand close to each other to avoid being instantly killed by them. What makes it more tricky though is that periodically he'll use Tyrant's Unholy Darkness, a Tankbuster that targets the two players with the highest amount of aggro in the party with a powerful AoE blast each, requiring both tanks to separate and then quickly partner back up to avoid having the Main Tank being instantly killed by the Auto-Tankbuster. As such to help the healers the Main Tank will usually Invuln after certain Tyrant's casts, as the Raidwides that are done beforehand inflict a heavy bleed debuff on the entire party that the healers are already having to deal with.

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