Final Fantasy 14's Dawntrail early access launch turned a 10-year-old raid encounter into a bugged MMO super boss, but the community rallied to beat it anyway
So long, super Amon, we barely knew ye

While the launch of a new Final Fantasy 14 expansion typically kicks up a lot of familiar talking points, it's the random and unexpected stuff that I enjoy the most. Sitting around in a queue for Endwalker and seeing people lose it over some 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:audacious low-poly grapes madℱe me all the keener to see them for myself.
This time around, the star of the show is a 10-year-old raid that Dawntrail broke. Not that it matters to the scores of players who have collectively gone, 'I reckon I coul🅷d still take Amon, bug buffed or not.' And so they did!
Back in the old days of A Realm Reborn, Square Enix introduced a then-optional trio of raids known as the Crystal Tower series. The second of those, Syrcus Tower, ends with a boss called Amon, who has seemingly decided they've had enough of being bulli🥃ed over the past 10 years. Once a relatively easy encounter, the raid boss is now a menace.
Typically, when you fig🌠ht Amon, he casts a spell called 'Curtain Call' that is an instant knockout if you don't hide behind three players who become frozen into ice cubes. Now, players are still frozen, but no ice blocks are appearing, leaving everyone forced to take 📖a big ol' L.
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Square Enix has since and the error, but only after many Final Fantasy 14 fans managed to find a way to beat Amon despite his buggy state. One popular method♔ involved having a healer fall before the big moment – you have to accept a resurrection from another player so it can be timed toꦉ avoid the Curtain Call. Naturally, one healer can't do the work of 24 players, so the next step is using a level three Limit Break to revive the entire party. It's fidgety, but it can work.
Other popular strategies involve using food buffs to simply bully Amon into the dirt before he can cast Curtain Call or simply just avoiding the raid altogether if you're doing an Alliance Raid as part of your daily roulettes. Both are eff🐷ective options, to be fair.
Much like Endwalker's low-poly grapes, buff Amon is also gone but was for the he played in the MMO all the same. Final Fantasy 14 is designed to give fans plenty to enjoy, though Iℱ always e♛njoy the community's ability to make something memorable out of the unintended.
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