How to complete the Ultima’s Bane (Unreal) Trial in Final Fantasy XIV

Patch 6.1 – Newfound Adventure has added a lot of things to do in Final Fantasy XIV. With the amount of content, it is easy to forget that they have also added the new Unreal Trial The Mintstrel’s Ballad: Ultima’s Bane. This fight is just a revamped version of the original Extreme fight from A Realm Reborn, tailored towards the modern game. Here is exactly what you need to know in order to successfully complete this fight.

Ultima has four main attacks that will happen periodically throughout the entire fight.

Vicious Aetheroplasm – This is a stacking debuff placed on the main tank every minute. If it reaches 5 stacks, the tank will die. The offtank must Provoke the boss off of the main tank before this can stack that high.Ceruleum Vent – This is a circular AoE attack that occurs around the boss in melee range. You can outrange it by standing away.Tank Purge – This is an unavoidable raid-wide AoE damage attack.Homing Lasers – Ultima will target ranged players for this attack which will deal damage in an area around whoever is targeted. Simply be spread out to avoid hitting other ranged with this.

Aside from these mechanics, the boss goes through phases where it will do different abilities based on the primal it is utilizing for certain health percentages.

Garuda Phase (100% to 82%) Conal AoE – Garuda will appear in the center of the arena and prepare a green AoE in a random cardinal direction. At the same time, Ultima will do a knockback. Players must position themselves in the center of the room, and reposition based on the direction Garuda is facing as to not get hit or knocked into the conal AoE.Vortex – Garuda will create a circular donut of death on the outside edges of the arena. Players must make sure to be in the Read more on gamepur.com