The Complete Masked Carnivale FFXIV Guide – Final Fantasy XIV

No self-destruct here.

Bring Mind Blast and spam it while staying alive with the White Wind for a slow yet effective battle.

Bring multiple spammable AOE of different elements for a quick battle to speed up some of the kills. Of course, if you have any primal skills, those will also speed the battle along.

Blast your way out of this one.

Just spam Water cannon, apply Aqua Breath, and you’ll be done in no time.

They have two different weaknesses. First, the mobs don’t have much health, so you can proceed to perform your boom act.

You need to manually dodge the line he keeps spamming back to back.

Use Tech Field. It deals with a large amount of damage resistance for a short time. Unfortunately, many beetle ads will also spawn. You should just spam your spell of choice.

Fortunately, they do not resist any death spell, so Missile, Tail screw, and Doom all work. 1000 needles are your go-to move for this otherwise

TIP: if you only use one action to win, you lose 30k points and get a hidden bonus detail called “Smarter, not harder.” It’s irrelevant because points don’t matter, but it’s funny.

When you kill one of the Lava Slimes in stage seven, it explodes in a big AoE around it, killing you or any enemies in range.

You should push the slime to the proper locations, then detonate them with a spell from a distance.

You want to get the slimes next to it and then detonate them. Make sure you stay safely behind the other side of the wall to make sure you don’t get instantly killed.

Make sure you bring a stun other than Sticky Tongue. Something like Bomb Toss will do.

Make sure you’re out of range and all the explosions. There’s no reason to get hit by any of them.

You occasionally summon ads with different elemental strengths and weaknesses when you kill the main boss. Kill them as they come, and silence Golden tongue when the boss casts it.

Depending on your damage, you can kill the boss long before all six ads appear.

TIP: this boss gives you one of the three achievements for the carnival. If you defeat him by allowing him to grow to full size, that is, three stacks. He stops trying to grow if you push them below 40%. The goal is to get him to just above 40% and wait for him to start casting Kings well for the third time.

Luckily, they get knocked back every time you hit them, interrupting their cast, so they have to start over.

I use a Sticky tongue or start to drag or push them together near a wall. This keeps them grouped and prevents you from knocking them all over the place with your spells..

They’re very fragile and will fall over with almost any spell. However, if you have Ice spikes and Veils of the World, you can bring those and let them kill themselves as they hit you. You can also bring dragons voice and use its insane range just a tear them all down from a distance.

Either way, act one has for them spread out, so kill them however you want.

At around 80%, He’ll use force AK, which summons a bunch of Roselets. Use ice spikes to deal with them.

At 40%, he’ll do that twice a row, summoning a lot more Roselets, but the same strategy applies. So again, watch your health with the damage they deal with and kill the boss.

The gargoyle starts petrified, which means Drill cannons will do a ton of damage to them right off the bat. It does free them up to actually start attacking you, though.

If she lives long enough to summon ads, just make sure you kill them ASAP. She eventually will absorb the ad and do unavoidable damage based on their remaining health. But, of course, if you’re fast, you can kill her without even bothering with the ads.

Diamondback will save you from the explosions, but the exposure silences you for a long time.

The fight starts against just the Node. When he uses summon, it brings out different ads depending on the point of the fight.

The first ad is a Shabti. This thing has a 15-second damage buff which will almost instantly kill you in a single auto attack. Make sure you put the Shabti to sleep until the damage buff has worn off. If not killed within about a minute or so, it starts raging, spamming its actions on you for increased damage.

The Node does eventually summon again, bringing out two snakes. When these snakes die, they delay their death by about two seconds without following you and then explode. The explosion places vulnerability stacks on nearby allies and enemies. Kill them close to the Node and each other, and then run away.

Basically, you just need to make sure you keep your distance while you kill them.

The boss uses Zoom in, and it knocks you back pretty far. The most significant ability here is when he pulls you in and does an 1111-ton swing. It hits a massive part of the arena. Now, if you run to the edge, you can dodge it without touching the bad lightning.

They still damage when you do this, but you will take damage back if you use the wrong skill.

Your goal is to bait the Manticore attacks into the kegs while he’s near them so he gets hurt by them. In the meantime, DPS in him down. Then, you can kill him and ignore the kegs, though he will eventually manually detonate them. The kegs must be dead to complete either of the acts, so let him explode them.

The fight intends for you to reflect the Inject ability off of Rebbekah and back onto yourself. This will blind you and render you immune to the stun.

You can also just not do that and stand between two of the hips right on the edge of the safe part of the arena and look directly between them.

This one is three acts. The first one is against Typhon, the second is against Ultros, and the third is against both.

Occasionally, Imps are summoned and you’ll need to kill them while watching the silence or stun Void Blizzard.

You just need to kill them in a single hit because, if they’re dead, they won’t wake up.

They have low HP, so any potency filler spells should be enough to move them over. You can also use Doom, but this will be less effective.

The Forefather also summons Gas bombs. They must be brought next to The Forefather and explode to stun him out of his burst cast.

The big thing here is Ecliptic Meteor. Simply put, Diamondback this attack.

Kill the melee Viking with magic, and then kill the Magnus with physical spells. That was a tricky sentence.

Keep an eye out for Lightning Spark from the Magnus, and be sure to silence that.

He will try to silence you, but you can just silence him. The first silence will be followed up by Libra and a Triple hit. It will kill you if you aren’t in Mighty guard or Diamondback.

Dodge AoE spell telegraphs to avoid getting knocked away. But first, kill the ads as they appear. Then, use drill cannons to deal with them.

Stage fifteen puts you up against Azulmagia, who uses a bunch of Blue Magic against you.

You’ll need a good mix of physical and magical attacks. Azulmagia will always counter one or the other.

Other than that, it casts Ram’s and Dragon’s Voice. Make sure you spam Glower and Bristle. I also like to go boom near the end.

I like to start this activity with Off-Guard before he casts Rippling Spray and Swiftcast and then uses any magical primal spells I have. It makes for a pretty good initial burst after that Sharpened Knife, and it’s probably the one you’ll want to go with

Azulmagia mainly uses the same skills as Act One, but he’ll occasionally throw Blazing and Guns into the ground. If left alive long enough, he’ll spam burn, which gives you a stacking fire.

When his health gets low, thoroughly buff your blue mage and finish him off. You can use self-destruction.

The arena is made smaller here, which comes into play with the mechanics. Shortly into the fight, he will reduce your movement speed by about 99%. Then, he will cast 4 AoE circles. So, space and visibility are limited here. Just do your best to dodge everything.

Once he’s low enough, you can either do self-destruct.