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Brainalive strat: https://raidplan.io/plan/3QJLS_GtUljK3xcu
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Can we please ban the word braindead from ever XIV community? It's so annoying.
We need a braindead hector jp strat
I feel xenos doesn't understand he has it like this because it's a pf strat and doesn't require communication from the other players to avoid confusion. Like if you have outer, just take the north bridge and inner just take the south bridge.
I have my sprint ready and run across whatever is close as a tank, i honestly do not like any of the word salad that has been created for this mechanic. As long as both tanks live intially it can be recovered in the second half.
Those were my thoughts when I saw this fixed bridge strat in PF yesterday. I wasn't bald enough to express them so directly though xD.
On a side note: PF cannot even do the "braindead" strat. They just go wherever they feel like.
Melee tank north
Ranged healer south
G1 north g2 south if you and partner go the same way.
Done
Dealing with this is pf …😅
If 2 tanks and both melee need to go right, they are kinda screwed with bald man strat, as they wait for north east bridge to be open. As well as ranged waiting south west bridge. It will take 2 times longer to execute than fixed bridge or N/S prio. Any good strat should use both bridges on all patterns.
im glad im not the only one that though the "braindead" strat stupid and overcomplicated compared to the day 1 conga
Guide: This is the braindead strat
Xeno: Look at this braindead strat!
Amazing.
The reason why this strat exists because PF aren't really capable of using their eyes and learn how to cross that bridge one by one. It's always some random guy whom simply hops on the bridge when others are still in the middle of crossing. Or when people stopped in front of the bridge because they're second guessing the other guy on whom is going to cross first. The first set of tethers is generally the one that messes up quite easily.
Idk wtf Hector was thinking when he calls this the braindead strat in his guide. We in Elemental pf use this movement and credit it to the original guide maker(Hamukatsu／ハムカツ), but everyone is in agreement, this is not braindead, it’s the hardest way to do this mechanic. We just do it because it is absolutely the most consistent strat, and also because we do not trust other people to use their common sense to follow any priority, so we preassign each icicle to a specific tether. So if you can get everyone in agreement to do this strat, it is probably the beat strat, but it is far from braindead lmao.
I found it just so more easy to just move both roles to the side platforms before the tethers come in, because that way, only two people have to move per bridge and there is plenty of time to move between bridges before the lines go off.
This extreme feels like savage…
Watched this live, brainalive was great
WEN HAIRALIVE?
Brain alive strat xdd
I mean, even hector was not a fan of the name. just just passed it on because that is what other people were calling fixed bridges.
My group decided to go with the Fixed Bridge strat simply because we have some players with really high ping and it makes the mechanic a little easier to resolve.
Why does this dude get so heated over people using different strats to clear content?
Also this dude seems Hella toxic. Sheesh
Meanwhile here in JP we're just stuck with hamkatsu and nukemaru
Brain alive is horrible. Here is the complexity breakdown for each priority/ordinal permutation:
+——————+————————————–+
| Priority/Ordinal | Bridge Location
+——————+————————————–+
| P1, O1 | NE
| P1, O2 | NE
| P1, O3 | NW
| P1, O4 | NW
+——————+————————————–+
| P2, O1 | SE (P1=1 or 2), NE (P1=3 or 4)
| P2, O2 | SE (P1=1 or 2), NE (P1=3 or 4)
| P2, O3 | SW (P1=3 or 4), NW (P1=1 or 2)
| P2, O4 | SW (P1=3 or 4), NW (P1=1 or 2)
+——————+————————————–+
| P3, O1 | NE (P4=1 or 2), SE (P4=3 or 4)
| P3, O2 | NE (P4=1 or 2), SE (P4=3 or 4)
| P3, O3 | NW (P4=3 or 4), SW (P4=1 or 2)
| P3, O4 | NW (P4=3 or 4), SW (P4=1 or 2)
+——————+————————————–+
| P4, O1 | SE
| P4, O2 | SE
| P4, O3 | SW
| P4, O4 | SW
+——————+————————————–+
Here it is for brain dead.
+——————+——————-+
| Priority/Ordinal | Bridge Location |
+——————+——————-+
| P1, O1 | NE
| P1, O2 | SE
| P1, O3 | SW
| P1, O4 | NW
+——————+——————-+
| P2, O1 | NE
| P2, O2 | SE
| P2, O3 | SW
| P2, O4 | NW
+——————+——————-+
| P3, O1 | NE
| P3, O2 | SE
| P3, O3 | SW
| P3, O4 | NW
+——————+——————-+
| P4, O1 | NE
| P4, O2 | SE
| P4, O3 | SW
| P4, O4 | NW
+——————+——————-+
Notice anything different? The answer is the same for all priorities, because priority doesn't matter. P1 here doesn't like brain dead because they have more potential outcomes, but the overall execution is much easier.
People in the comments really do be telling on themselves thinking Hector was the person naming these strats "braindead".
Too braindead to understand the reason this strat exists:
Removing ambiguity for PF.
If a guide wasent braindead it wouldnt be a guide
I hate the community's tendency to call every strat braindead
imagine being 50 years old and just loud crying over an extreme trial strat
I hate the widespread use of the word "braindead" in pf, so I feel Hector's (and Xeno's) pain there. Without even getting into the meaning of the word, sometimes there are several "braindead" strats for the same thing. It looks as if everyone is trying to promote their favorite strat by calling it braindead. "Braindead" might as well mean "that strat I like".
Idk, works for PF.
No communication. You know your spot immediately.
It's not like you're losing uptime.
Ultimately, we are crying because something more consistent makes you walk 5 extra virtual steps.
I mean, theres always that one ahh thatll straight up cross the bridge wherever.
But as far as thinking goes? You know where and when to go immediately. I would much rather this in PF.