Guide to the P1S tiles in Final Fantasy XIV

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Savage raiding in Final Fantasy XIV can be a little intimidating, and anyone diving into Pandemonium for the first time will likely start with the PS1 boss Erichthonios. This fight can seem extremely crazy at first, but when broken down, it becomes quite forgiving and easy to master.

The biggest hurdle of the fight stems from the ability “Intemperance,” which separates the room into nine tiles and gives each player in the group the responsibility to solve the puzzle in the tile assigned to them. What sounds like a daunting task is actually straightforward for all but the north and northwest tile players, and even they can get it done without breaking a sweat.

Every tile will receive a set of 3 stacked cubes of different colors. The middle tile, however, will not have any cubes. All eight players will be assigned to their own individual tile while the middle one is left open.

Each of these cubes will have a color associated with them and will fall one by one over the course of the mechanic. Red indicates fire while blue indicates ice, and each color needs to be soaked, or the raid will get a damage-down debuff and take massive damage. These colors will fall first and last in each tile. Every tile along the east and west sides will have a purple cube as the second drop that will basically kill the player outright if they are standing in the tile when it falls, meaning purple is the only color not soaked by players. The south and north tiles will not have a purple cube at all and are used by everyone to resolve the mechanic during the second cube drops along with the center tile. The south tile will always have a blue cube as its second drop, and the north one will always have a red for its second drop.

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