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Final Fantasy 14’sMinstrel’s Ballad: The Endsinger’s Aria is a high-difficulty trial that players can attempt after beating the main story of Endwalker. To unlock the trial, go to theWandering Minstrel inOld Sharlayanat X: 12, Y: 14.3. Speak with him, and the trial will be unlocked. To do the trial, the player will need alevel 90 classand aminimum item level of 580.
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ThisFinal Fantasy 14trial requires some set-up, as there will be moments the party will need to split and also assign themselves to light parties. This raid will test players on their ability to move fast, remember the order of certain mechanics, and keep track of intercardinal directions. If complete, the trial rewards players with tokens, weapons, and a triple triad card.
Set-Up And Elegeia Unforgotten
Before diving into the fight, the party should prepare with some planning. For this fight, the raid shouldplan for light parties, one for each healer. To remember these, mark each healer with a one and two. For a future mechanic, assign thetanks and healers to one end of the arena andthe DPSto the other side. For marking the arena, it is recommended toplace markers at the intercardinal cornersandone in the middle.
After set-up and beginning the fight, the Endsinger will castElegeia Unforgotten. This doesraidwide AOEdamage and will be followed bytwo planets appearing at opposite cardinal points. These planets will impact against one of the intercardinal points they did not spawn on. They behave differently depending on their color.Red planets explode in an AOEand theblue-ringed planets hit players with a strong knockbackthatcannot be negatedby anti-knockback abilities.
At the same time these planets occur,an Endsinger will appear in the middle of the arena. She will face one intercardinal corner. The direction she faces will unleasha cleave attack that hits half of the arena. This attack will give players vulnerability. So dodge her head attack while also avoiding the red planet AOEs as well as positioning to not get knock off the arena by the blue planets.
Grip Of Despair, Katasterismoi, And Elenchos
Now the Endsinger will castGrip of Despair, whichtethers all DPS to a tank or healer. Players will want tobreak these tethers. Run to the middle of the arena for Grip of Despair to tether everyone and then all tanks and healers will run to one end of the arena while the DPS run to the other side to break the tethers. After Grip of Despair is resolved, it is time to resolveKatasterismoi, which createdeight towersin two columns. Each tower must be soaked by a party member.
While the towers occur, there will also beElenchos, an attack in which two different things can happen. Players will have toinspect the Endsinger’s faceto tell which variant of the attack will happen. Iftwo eyes are crying, then theeast and west sides of the arena will get struck by column AOEs. If her mouth is open and glowing, then instead, the Endsinger will send a blast attack out of her mouth through the middle of the arena. This attack will resolve the same time as the towers.
Telos, Hubris, Eironeia, And Fatalism
Telosis a basic andunavoidable raidwide AOE. She will also castHubriswhich areAOE tankbusterson the two players with the most enmity (which should be the tanks). When this happens, tanks will want to move out of the stacked raid to not have the tankbuster hit others. Once this is resolved, Endsinger will castElegeia Unforgotten again.
Next, Endsinger will castEironeia. A stack marker for an AOE will appear oneach healer. Thelight partiesdecided during set-up will go to their respective healers and soak the markers. Then the Endsinger will castFatalism, which will havetwo sets of planets resolve back-to-back on opposite intercardinals. Make sure to resolve the one that appeared first and then quickly do the second set. After this, Endsinger will once again castElenchos.
Twinsong’s Aporrhoia And Theological Fatalism
Twinsong’s Aporrhoiawill now cast, which will spawnfive clonesaround the arena.Four will be on the intercardinalsandone will be in the center. Thecenter clone will do a half arena cleavein the direction it faces. Thefour other clones will do donut or circle AOEs. The middle head will rotate 90 degrees clockwise to cleave again. For the four intercardinal clones, they will be casting either donut or circle AOEs, but always matching in opposite corners. They will also move this clockwise after each cleave. This meansthe party will be moving clockwiseto each clone as the donuts and cleaves move clockwise.
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After Twinsong’s Aporrhoia is complete, the Endsinger will castTheological Fatalism. This willmark every clone with between one and three gold rings. Theserings mark steps back in time that the clone will execute. So one ring will mean they will do their last action taken, two means they will repeat the second to last action, and three means third-to-last action. To survive Theological Fatalism,first identify where the middle clone will cleave, as that will already eliminate two potential safe spots. Then figure out between the two safe spots left, which will rewind to a donut versus a circle AOE.
Despair Unforgotten And Telomania
Once Theological Fatalism is resolved, the Endsinger will cast anotherElenchos, but this time it will be with thehealer stacks and the Hubris tankbusters. Then it will be time forDespair Unforgotten twice. For this attack, one ofthree different mechanicscan happen:
Endsinger will cast anotherElenchosand then anotherDespair Unforgotten.Theological Fatalismwill then occur,but this time on the players instead of clones. Players will need to focus on how many rings there are. One ring means repeating the last mechanic, two for second to last, and three for third to last. Players will have to position themselves according to their rings.Telomaniawill occur, which hits the party withfive back-to-back raid-wide AOEs. The fifth hit will inflict a 15-second bleed debuff as well. Players will want to use a lot of mitigation here.
Endsong’s Aporrhoia And Double Fatalism
Endsong’s Aporrhoiais a little different from Twinsong’s Aporrhoia, and it will spawnsix clonesinstead of five and they will be in a circle at the outer edge of the arena. Endsinger will also shootfour rings to four clones. Theclones with rings will explode in a big circle AOE. Any of theclones without rings will have a safe spot behind them. The clones will then pass the rings between each other twice. Players will need to move behind clones without rings to dodge. Immediately after dodging the third set, players will have to dodge anotherElenchos, Telos, and Hubris tankbuster.AnotherElegeia Unforgottenwill then occur, players will need to dodge planet collisions and a center clone cleave.
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Next isDouble Fatalism, which has a couple of variants. The boss will summon two sets of planet collisions on opposing intercardinals and then another two sets on the other intercardinals. This means focusing on which planets spawned first and whether they are going to require dodging AOEs or adjusting to powerful knockbacks. This is a very difficult mechanic, so it isrecommended that healers should save their LB3 up to this point, just in case. Endsinger will then castKatasterismoi, once again summoningeight towers. Wait to survive Double Fatalism before moving to a tower. This will be paired with anotherElenchos.
Final Mechanics And Enrage
At this point, the Endsinger will just repeat the mechanics. Players will want to melt her down, because at about11 and a half minutesinto the pull, if she has not been defeated, she will become untargetable and wipe the raid. If she is defeated, each player is awardedtwo Ultimatum Tokensand can roll for aBluefeather weaponandMeteion Triple Triad Card.
If the raid did not drop the weapon desired, players can beat the raid more until 10 Ultimatum Tokens are received. With those, they can do anexchange for a weapon of choice. This can be done atRadz-at-Han at X: 10.6, Y:10, by talking toNesvaaz.
Final Fantasy 14is available now on PC, PS4, and PS5.
