SearchThisVideo: FFXIV Stormblood: Castrum Abania (Level 69) Dungeon Walkthrough & Guide

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hello everyone mr. happy here and in

this video we're going to be taking a

look at castrum a banya which is the

level 69 dungeon for final fantasy xiv s

storm blood you'll unlock this as part

of the main scenario quest of course at

level 69 it rewards item level 200 and

let's see 288 gear so gets you pretty

close to the gear that you'll be getting

from your level 70 job quest and it was

an all right dungeon let's see if we can

get into it because the servers are kind

of shaky right now obviously if I don't

make it in or people start 90 King then

I won't use this recording but otherwise

you know fingers crossed hope for the

best

alright fingers crossed fingers crossed

fingers crossed I'm in but is everyone

in doesn't matter if I'm in it only it

matters if we all make it looks like we

all made it alright so for anyone

wondering why we've been doing dungeons

like this I've been doing a lot of

videos like this as opposed to doing a

traditional guide it's because I'm in

the middle of a 24/7 live-streaming

event over on Twitch so the stream can't

go down so it's harder to produce the

more concise guides for these dungeons

those will be coming at a later time

probably in about a week after this

event is over for now just doing the run

throughs and talking over the different

trash poles and describing them is my

alternative to producing regular guides

so hopefully you don't mind that if you

do well then just keep an eye out for

them about a week after you see this

video so the first trash pull just has

one of these Avenger mobs and then a

couple of the twelfth Legion enemies

nothing too threatening here but again

enemies just deal a lot of damage if

you're not in item level 288 or if

you're not even item level capped which

deer this is item level synced to 290

since you can actually do this dungeon

as a level 70 you can see our tank

actually is level 70 if they do hit

pretty hard so he doesn't have his full

artifact gear yet from the level 70

quest just because of the server issues

can't really get his hands on that plus

he just got 70 not too long ago they hit

pretty hard I think that's been a pretty

common theme in these dungeons as I've

seen a lot of very hard-hitting mobs

which is nice because it's something

that I wanted to see out of just the

regular dungeons as is so run over to

this next one so we got these three mobs

on the Left we have an Avenger and two

vanguards nothing really here worth

saying that's specific this point you

just saw the Avenger mob you know what

it's capable of hits the tank really

hard sometimes it'll really slap them

for a big amount and then you fought

enemies like these vanguards a million

times you know they have you know

Conal a ohi's line AOE Zhun dodge ball a

ohi's all kinds of things these ones

don't use all too much however

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I'm almost done with this one I'm

remembering oh yeah there's a part later

that looks a lot like this room that I

was almost mistaking it for after we

killed these three I think yeah you

could already tell that three more we're

about to come out it's the opposite

pattern now though it's two Avengers in

a vanguard

slightly more threatening because of the

Avengers hitting as hard as they do so

if you're gonna pick a target try to

pick those as your first target of

choice they also do have quite a bit of

health so worth keeping your eyes on

that I noticed we had a little bit more

damage on this mob so I'm going to

refocus to the Vanguard just to keep us

kind of on pace

and I believe this will take us into the

next room there's actually quite a lot

of trash in this dungeon compared to the

previous dungeons and all of it is

pretty strong in terms of both its

health and its damage output so expect

this meant a little bit more time in

this dungeon than the previous ones yeah

so for this next part there's a bunch of

twelfth Legion bits that'll that'll

hover above when you pull them they

don't have a lot of health these can go

completely against everything I just

said these don't have a lot of health

just kill them off as quickly as

possible

Tagg maxes and signifiers well all these

enemies you've seen before at this point

nothing special about these ones just

pull them all together and kill them

I usually just prioritize signifiers

first it's kind of just an old habit but

there's no specific reason to do so in

this case stun the dark fire so I don't

have to move out of the way for that one

right he's on this one so I'm going to

switch over and kill this one real quick

I believe that takes us to the first

boss yes it does

so the first boss is the Magna rotor for

the most part it's just dodge a Oh ease

however at some point the Magna rotor is

going to start dashing wildly around the

arena it's a bunch of marked AO ease so

you can avoid them easily but your goal

is to kill the adds that spawn take over

those two cannons you can see there's

one there and there's one over there

take it take take control of just one of

those cannons and blast them in the face

pretty much best way I could think to

describe it I was so busy talking about

the fight didn't even do my opener so

let's do a delayed opener about that

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yep here we go so this is the attack

that I was just talking about where he

starts going around wildly so can't even

really do an opener here still get hit

by any of those a ohi's pick one of the

cannons to go for first you there's no

reason to kill both of these optos you

just need to free one of the cannons

then have somebody right-click it

charged up magitek pulse hit him it'll

stun him for a few seconds and stop them

from dashing anymore

wolf

hit him real hard

so on top of that to talk about some of

his other abilities he does have a tank

Buster you saw that one right there

where he spins his tail around at the

tanker his wheel around I should say at

the tank and does quite a bit of damage

magitek fire does some AoE damage as

well so just be careful of that attack

that cleave is pretty strong I think it

just hit all of us a few seconds ago and

magitek fire too is just a targeted fire

spell he does a few of them back to back

and magitek fire three is the

unavoidable room wide AoE so he's going

to go do the wheel mechanic one more

time he's not invincible while doing

this wheel mechanic so you could in

theory just kill him if your DPS was

fast enough but uh I don't feel like

dealing with the cannons besides doing

the mechanics in a dungeon walkthrough

is probably the better idea you know

what I mean

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kill that Optio and we're good as soon

as he uses that magitek fire by the way

those cannons again become unusable so

you saw there it was kind of active for

a little while even though we had

already done the mechanic and that went

inactive as soon as he did match match

tech fire 3 there you go look at that

288 gear

in terms of exp for this dungeon three

of these with rested exp should very

easily get you from 69 to 70 when armory

bonus is factored in on secondary jobs

that'll be a definite so exp from this

dungeon is really good so for this trash

Olly all it is is there's magitek pods

and the more magitek pods you kill

before they finish castling deployment

the better the less ads you'll have to

deal with coming out of them so if you

don't DPS them at all you have to deal

with four adds if you kill two of them

now we only have to deal with two adds

so you might want to communicate with

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your party real quick which side you're

starting on just work like the far left

one of the far right one like one so

people know whether you're going

clockwise or counter clockwise with

these four pods probably better to do it

that way

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now the gate goes down about 35,000 exp

with my rested from each of them so got

so I got my food buff on too so this

next room you run in and three of these

pug maxes are going to immediately come

after you

there's also a treasure coffer over

there but after you kill these pug maxes

you'll have to deal with some additional

ads that will come charging at you so be

on the lookout for those

okay we killed two of them

now these twelfth Legion rotors we're

going to charge across pretty quick cast

and then the tank has to pick them up

like normal

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these guys do also have a cleave attack

by the way so keep that in mind if

you're somebody who is standing near the

tank for any reason that you are putting

yourself at risk here somebody else is

grabbing it

you

all right we're going to do the same

thing we're going to start on the left

turn most POD similar to the last room

the pods are a little bit more spread

out though so you might want to hover

like this hover over to one side we may

not actually kill this one in time Oh

nope we did it now on top of this

whatever actually survives in this wave

is also joined by two more magna rotors

so you get all the adds immediately here

as opposed to having the different

transitions like from the last one with

the CAG maxes not a big deal but again

watch out for those Cleaves on the

légion rotors probably don't want to

have to deal with that

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okay and I think that puts us at the

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second boss trying to remember if yep

second boss second boss only has one

really major mechanic if you fought this

boss before in the previous Final

Fantasy's you probably know what it is

but we'll talk about it as we get to it

so number 24 here is the second boss of

the dungeon he's got a lot of AOE x' you

need to avoid but there's only one major

mechanic that you really want to look

out for stab is indeed a tank buster so

keep that in mind

Gale cut bunch of place dailies on

players don't get hit by it

so these towers at this point you should

know very very well

one person need to stand in each of them

or it's going to do a bunch of damage to

other people now on top of that it gives

you deep buffs and buffs so he's using

barrier shift now if you just read the

text on the screen right there it would

actually tell you what you need to do

but he basically has a buff right here

reflecting all fire and lightning damage

back so basically there's a fire circle

and a lightning circle behind me so what

do I need to do I need to go to the

third circle which is an ice circle I

drop my stacks just to stop and explain

that and show it one by one

if you don't do that then every time you

hit him it's going to give you a

counter-attack you see how that person

keeps getting knocked back by the

counter-attack that's basically when you

don't have the correct element so my cup

runneth over with fire and ice is what

he said out loud so I'm going to go grab

the lightning one instead of waiting yep

reflecting all ice and fire aspect back

so that's the text that you have to look

for is his cup runneth over or you could

just wait till the barrier actually pops

up and then go get the correct one if

you miss whatever he said like I did the

first time I've like haven't even been

playing the job right at all the entire

dungeon

trying to make sure the mechanics come

across more so than anything else and

it's just going to keep repeating until

we actually get through the boss bears

ship lightning and ice so we want to get

fire

okay who would direct crit on that

tornado kick to about 12,000

all right we get all the loots

all right so next between boss is 2 & 3

we have this bridge as you can see there

is a I guess I'll call it a deployment

unit here on the right you walk by it

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and a bunch of ads spawn we also have

these Legion bits which again you want

to kill pretty much as soon as they come

down I believe they explode because I've

never let them explode all the way if

you don't kill them fast enough I'm

pretty sure they're similar to the ones

from the a thorough chemical research

facility on the second boss where

they'll just still explode for a bunch

of damage if you ignore them when we

walk up a little bit further even more

of these enemies are going to spawn

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there it is if more Legion bits take

care of right here I already have that

item same deal bunch of spiders this one

has an armed weapon also wolf which as

you can see is not messing around damage

wise

I'm actually predict getting very very

close to level 70 now as you approach

the final door we have one last legion

bit and we also have the rearguard of

the weapon it's a little bit of

basically everything for slashers and

one of each of the the big enemies from

the previous poll there are still more

trash after this there is still more

trash after the second should say should

it say in English today

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I remember the next one taking a very

long time to kill

in terms of damage output

all right let's go

yep and then we have one last Colossus

and a couple of slashers this Colossus

is a pretty strong in terms of how long

it takes to kill him if I remember

correctly

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I mean you fought a million Colossus or

colossi so far at this point so you

should be very familiar with everything

that Colossus can do

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I think with that when you're moving on

to the final boss I grab this treasure

coffer real quick got the axe not bad

and this is the final boss Inferno this

boss has one majorly important thing

he's going to grow twice throughout the

fight one woman power his left arm one

more empower his right arm he has a

mechanic that comes from each arm and

that mechanic becomes stronger when one

of his arms grow he also has a part

where you need to kill ads very quick

I'll explain the ad phase when I get to

it so that was the left arm attack right

there that was the tank Buster and rahu

blaster is his right arm mechanic

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so ketsu and Rahu ketsu Bing one of his

arms Rahu being the other as when he

does two mechanics at once that was the

meteor mechanic and the AoE that he

needed to avoid now this is where he's

going to get his first empowerment

ketsu has grown so now whenever he uses

something ketsu related it's going to

have an additional effect the cleave

attack now has a bleed attached to it

which can be removed Rahu blaster is

going to stay the same for this phase

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here's the ketsu slash again with the

strong bleed effect once more ketsu and

Rahu so now this is the Empowered ketsu

which is the huge /aoe zat are coming

out

whereas Rahu is the meteor

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you

I think that one was also a targeted AoE

on our healer I don't believe it's

always the healer but on that one case

it was definitely the healer just a

targeted AoE that they need to not

that's not stand next to other people

right so now he's going to empower his

other arm this is also going to be where

we have to kill ads so I'm actually

going to move over here right now

maybe it's yep here we go so you have

two Legion deathclaws and one Legion

pakad Packer the people who have the

claws on them need to have other party

members kill the cloth so that they

don't die that should be your first

priority then you need to focus on the

packer right here all the deathclaw all

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the other deathclaws do I actually might

want to not eat that will be this the

death let's just hold you in place so

you can't do anything so they're not

lethal you should make them a priority

first and they also don't have a lot of

health and after you and then if you

don't kill the packer in time it's going

to deliver a serum to the the main boss

who's actually not this guy it's a guy

who was uh given this guy his steroids

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who's over there in that a little

command center thing and that'll make

the boss a lot stronger you don't want

that and that's it that's the final boss

of the level 69 dungeon Oh

and that's the second Dark Knight sword

I've also seen for this fight did not

need it unfortunately all right well

that's it for the level 69 dungeon

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Storm blood I will see you guys in the

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