Welcome to the Second Coil of Bahamut! This is a guide to the first boss of what we call Turn 6, Rafflesia.
Rafflesia is a pain. There are a lot of mechanics and a lot to pay attention to, so follow closely and try and stay with me.
Initial Positioning
The boss will be on a small circular platform on its own. When the fight starts, have the tank stand in front of the boss, while the rest of the party is behind it, stacked. This is because of a nasty cleave that shouldn’t hit anyone but the tank.
Phase 1 – 100%-70%
(ABILITIES)
Bloody Caress– That nasty cleave? This is it. Bloody Caress is a cone AoE attack that put a “vulnerability up” debuff on anyone it hits. It’s cast every 15-30 seconds in phase 1 and 2. Tanks should swap every 2 to 3 stacks of this, without moving the boss.
Thorny Vines– a vine that links to 2+ party members together. Move apart to break the chain (180 degree line is best). The longer you are chained, the more damage over time you will sustain.
This mechanic becomes tricky when multiple people are chained together. make sure you run in opposite directions.
Growth Cycles– 3 Dark Matter Bulbs will spawn each time this is cast. If not killed, a patch of briars will spawn on the ground and grow larger for a period of time until it disappears.
Kill the one in the middle quickly, but let the outside ones grow. Dark Matter Bulbs will turn into Briar Patches in the arena and you want to keep the boss near the center. Kill the ones on the inside immediately, but not the outside so that briar patches spawn around your party and not on you.
NOTE: Tanks should position the boss to where the boss’s back is facing freshest briar patch.
Devour and Spit– (The main danger!) Rafflesia will mark a single player with a yellow flower over their head. It’s the player’s responsibility to run towards the Briar Patch directly in front of the boss. This will cause two things to happen.
First, it will remove the flower and prevent them from being devoured. Second, when running to the Briar Patch, the party should now be repositioning behind Rafflesia as it turns to avoid being devoured. Devour is a frontal cone attack. If devoured, the boss will receive a stacking damage increasing buff, which is a big no no.
Spit follows devour, which is an arena wide AoE that damages all players. Then it will resume its normal cleave phase.
Rinse and repeat until 70%
Phase 2- 70%-40%
Phase 2 is the same as Phase 1 but with some added dangers and abilites.
Blighted Bouquet– Any action or movement will kill you instantly by the end of the cast. Have the boss focus targeted (healers) so that you know when BB will go off.
Viscid Emission- Targets a random player and glazes them with Honey. This Honey will spawn a Hornet, and will focus the effected player. – DPS Quickly, as Hornets have Final Sting, which is an instant K.O.
Honey can be removed with death, or the effected player can be devoured. If you don’t get devoured when it goes off, another Hornet will spawn. Too many Hornets and they will wipe out your party.
Deal with these mechanics until Phase 3.
Make sure you go into Phase 3 with no Hornets or players affected by the Honey debuff.
Phase 3-40%-0%
(ABILITIES)
Leaf Storm– marks the beginning of P3. Unavoidable AoE that does damage and spawns 3 Slugs.
Acid Rain– Caused by Oozes that also spawn. Move out of the center (10 stacks of Acid Rain you will wipe)
Burn strategy–
Use mage LB on Slugs then burn boss.
Tanks will move the boss to the outer edge. Cleave will stop and the boss will start casting Swarm
Swarm– A tank crunch that goes into effect after 6 seconds, which heightens damage significantly. You can either tank swap between these, or let one tank eat up damage while the OT goes to DPS while the MT uses CDs to survive.
All raid members behind the boss will stack. Any thorny vines that come out need to be broken directly behind the boss in a straight line. Why you ask? Because of this…
Rotten Stench– Rafflesia targets a player and after a few seconds it will cast a huge laser targeted at one player but is split between all players it hits, so keeping the straight line will minimize damage.
Rinse and repeat while maximizing damage and keeping everyone alive and you’ve done it! Rafflesia is down and now you can get your loot!
Loot!
Check out this awesome loot guide someone made on Google Drive. It’s got everything level 50 listed.
Check out this video of my Free Company, Smokin’ Aces, clear Turn 6. Excalibur – Legacy World
