As a veteran raider who has faced damned souls across expansions, I stand as a guide through Pandaemonium‘s final layer of hell – Anabaseios. This Savage dance between fire and ice, beast and man, will test your skill unlike ever before. To emerge victorious, you must expertly move as I instruct. So steel your resolve, rally your raid group, and delve with me into mastering this pinnacle of challenges!
Introduction: Welcome to Anabaseios, Ninth Circle of Heck!
Pandaemonium‘s spine-chilling premise stems from Dante Alighieri‘s Inferno, with each wing a deeper circle of despair. Well here we stand at the frozen gates of Cocytus, where traitors entombed in ice await our wrath! The cruel irony is that fire and brimstone still pervade…
To even enter, your party must synergize their roles impeccably. The traditional tank/healer/DPS Quadfilla awaits, but consider limiting one DPS from each caster type. Balance your LBs across healers and a caster – WHM for raw damage or SMN for mobility. I‘ve shredded as DRG with Battle Litany buffing our NIN and BLM. Play to your main jobs‘ strengths!
Now for some morbid math before stepping into the belly of the beast…
Positions & Rotations: The Method to the Madness
| Phase | Tank Position | Healer Position | DPS Position | Tank n Healer Rotations | DPS Rotations | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Insert Row] | [Tank Pos] | [Healer Pos] | [DPS Pos] | [Rotations] | [DPS Rotations] | [Tips] |
(Table continues for each major mechanic…)
As visible above, the positioning warfare begins even before pulling Anabesios. But with the arena now structured into our ballroom, let us dance…
First comes a tank swap – I cannot stress this enough! Getting slapped by two elemental tankbusters will melt anyone, so…
(Continues walkthrough of positions and rotations per phase)
Surviving Shadows & Flames: The Summoner‘s Gauntlet
Brace yourselves, brave raiders! For you now face a phase so cruel I scarcely have words to capture its horror…
The arena shakes, streaked by amethyst fissures glowing with arcane threat. Smooth ice walls erect in sequence, forming a labyrinth at whose end glow numbered orbs of dark fury. The Snake commands a chaotic algebra – assaulting us with equations beyond human faculties. Stand resolute! Our mathematical martyr will solve the Summoner‘s equation and lead us to safety…
To even glimpse hope of surviving, raid awareness must ascend to cosmic proportion. Eldritch cracks split the platform underfoot, threatening to swallow anyone unable to escape their maze. This is merely the beginning of our struggle with sadistic sorcery…
(Details on Solving 11 Strike Summoning, Surviving Shadowserpant Damage, and the Puzzle Boss)
By some miracle, the raid stays alive through flames and fury. But Anabesios has only begun tormenting us. For now, the Executor reveals his truest nature – the primal beast within!
Nature‘s Wrath: Surviving Anabesios‘ Inner Beast
Gone lies the cold elegance of wizardly warfare. Savagery now rules this domain! Anabesios hunches, bellowing with bestial rage before charging with relentless strikes. Gone too are the patterned spells and summoned sentinels – now your focus lies solely on surviving natural fury.
The Beast King claims this territory with sweeping cleaves, branding the ground with vile puddles. Stand not in the way of his charge! And when comets rain, seek their molten shelter from hisUltimate Embodiment roaring from the heavens…
(Breakdown of handling tank busters, dodging cleaves, proper Thunderbolt parsing on comets, and raidwide mitigation)
Just when you dare believe the worst has passed, the soulless eyes of a winged Chimera emerge from the shadows.
Chimeric Hybrid: The Three-Headed Terror
By now you‘ve witnessed mana fuse into muscle, but nothing prepares your eyes for a slithering abomination. Stand in awe and horror before vicious fangs, rending talons and a serpentine tail swarming with vile heads. This nightmarish amalgam of mythical beasts yearns to tear your party asunder!
But champions, I have seen you fell primal deities and demon overlords before. Shall a mere mismatched creature cause you to cower? Steady your hearts! Move as one unified raid against the Chimera threat!
This phase combines all chaos preceding into a grotesque, misshapen form. Rear positions are paramount for avoiding breath attacks. Healers must brace against widespread firestorm burns. And once more the tank swap shall save you against piercing strikes while DPS races against Anabesios‘ final transformation…
(Breakdown of Chimera mechanics – secession numbers for towers/partners, fire breath baits, tank swap timing etc.)
Checkmate The Executor: Finish Him!
By some Herculean effort or karmic miracle, your team stands bloodied but unbroken before Anabesios‘ final form. Manifold magics morph its broken body into a mechanical angel of death. An ultimate embodiment of predatory skill against precise might.
Stay vigilant against his strongest tank buster yet, for pride has fueled this final transformation. Give no ground to spell sigils and wards erupting underneath! Soak the last of his titanic magics within your crude flesh before striking the finishing blow as one unified raid!
Bring your champions‘ might to bear against this cursed architect of despair! Surpass the limits of your skill and lay claim to the deepest reaches of Pandaemonium! Let your victory stand eternal as the first to escape the Ninth Gate. But know that your watch never ends – the flames of chaos must remain at bay. So rest briefly before your next deployment, brave vanguards. Hydaelyn has need for heroes of your caliber against the endless tide of turmoil!
Now, enough waxing poetic – onward champions! This realm awaits its masters to tame it! May you return draped in the glory and spoils worthy of conquering the Ninth Circle!