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The video by DoubleT offers an in-depth guide on the Safi'jiiva Siege, commonly referred to as the Red Dragon Siege. It delves into hunter requirements, including reaching Master Rank 24 and completing specific assignments. The video emphasizes the multiplayer nature of the siege, although it can be attempted solo, and explains the hunt's mechanics, which include driving the monster through various areas by inflicting damage and exploiting environmental tools.
Tactics are detailed for all phases of the fight: from using environmental traps and tenderizing body parts with the clutch claw to managing Safi'jiiva's aggro mechanics and utilizing defensive strategies to mitigate powerful attacks. The video highlights the importance of balancing offensive and defensive roles within a team, recommending weapons with high blocking capabilities for tanking and employing various mantles for non-shield users.
In the latter parts of the siege, Safi'jiiva's ultimate move, the Sapphire of the Emperor, can be survived by taking cover behind environmental cracks. The monster's critical state provides opportunities to deal higher damage but increases her aggressiveness. Rewards from the siege include Draco lights and awakened weapons, which can be upgraded and customized at the workshop.
The video concludes with information on crafting the highly coveted Safi'jiiva armor set, which offers robust elemental resistances and powerful set bonuses, although it requires careful management due to its drawback of causing damage to the hunter with each hit. Viewers are encouraged to share additional strategies and insights to enhance community knowledge.
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In this segment of the video, DoubleT provides a comprehensive hunter’s guide to the Safi’jiiva Siege, also known as the Red Dragon Siege. The guide covers hunter requirements, monster mechanics, and rewards. Key points include:
– **Hunter Requirements**: Players need to be at least Master Rank 24, have access to the Guiding Lands, and complete several special assignments given by NPCs with purple exclamation marks, including “The Sterling Pride,” “Reveal Thyself, Destroyer,” “Across the Lost Path,” “The Point of No Return,” and a recon mission to glimpse Safi’jiiva’s adult form.
– **Siege Overview**: The main goal is to slay Safi’jiiva in the Secluded Valley through collective efforts within the gathering hub, designed for multiplayer. Solo attempts are possible but challenging.
– **Hunting Mechanism**: Hunters need to drive Safi’jiiva from area to area by dealing damage, breaking body parts, and utilizing environmental burst damage. This forces Safi’jiiva to drain environmental energy and move on, eventually allowing hunters to slay it.
– **Progress and Rewards**: Progress is tracked via points awarded for breaking body parts, draining energy, or completing research tasks. These contribute to the siege’s advancement and determine the rewards at the hunt’s conclusion.
DoubleT emphasizes that while the strategy is straightforward, successfully completing the siege may take multiple attempts.
00:03:00
In this part of the video, the speaker explains some important details and strategies for hunting Safiye Jiva. The hunt lasts about 20 minutes, and it’s crucial to have multiple groups participating for efficiency. If you switch gavurin hubs or lobbies, you lose your progress. The siege ends when any hunting party slays Safiye Jiva, although players can continue their individual hunts and receive reduced rewards if they fail. Safiye Jiva shares some moves with her earlier form, Zeno Jiva, but has additional attacks and mechanics.
The fight is divided into three areas. In the first area, hunters face a variety of Safiye Jiva’s basic attacks, including swipes, stuns, and breath attacks. Special maneuvers like her energy eruptions and delayed breath attacks pose significant threats. Strategies include using the clutch claw to tenderize her body parts and utilizing environmental tools like hanging rocks to deal substantial damage.
00:06:00
In this segment of the video, environmental traps such as vines are discussed for use around the edges of a specific zone, particularly in area 7. These traps can immobilize Savage Eva if hunters cause it to flinch near the vines. However, after sustaining enough damage, Savage Eva moves to zone 2. In zone 2, the concept of “Saffy Jeeva’s Aya,” an aggro mechanic, is explained. The monster targets the hunter dealing the most damage or someone using the clutch claw’s flinch shot. Maintaining the Aya is crucial as it accelerates the siege by making Savage Eva expend more energy, but failure to manage it results in the monster becoming more aggressive with area-of-effect attacks. Tanks are recommended to manage the monster’s attention to maximize damage while reducing risk to the team. Distance management from the monster is also important to avoid powerful attacks.
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In this segment of the video, the focus is on strategies for tanking while fighting Savage Saffi’jiiva. Various weapons with shields, such as the Lance, Heavy Bowgun, and Gunlance, are recommended for their blocking capabilities. Other options include the Charge Blade, Sword and Shield, and Great Sword. Players are advised to keep attacking between the monster’s moves and use the Guard Up skill to block all attacks.
For parties without shield users, alternatives include evade tanks like Bowgun users who dodge attacks and counter tanks such as Longsword users who utilize counter moves. Temporal or Evade mantles can also assist in tanking roles.
The segment also highlights Saffi’jiiva’s ultimate move, the Sapphire of the Emperor, starting in Area 2. To survive this one-hit kill move, players must use environmental cracks on the floor for protection. When Saffi’jiiva flies into the air, players should sheathe their weapons and run to these cracks. The move involves blue flames and a subsequent explosive star, with safety only behind the cracks.
Finally, in Area 3, players face a more challenging battle as they corner Saffi’jiiva, marking the toughest and lengthiest phase of the hunt.
00:12:00
In this part of the video, siege players must handle all of Safi’jiiva’s previous attacks, including her iron mechanic and ultimate ability. During her critical state, indicated by white energy pulses and an on-screen message, her hit zones become weaker, allowing hunters to deal more damage, but she also becomes more dangerous. Additionally, Safi’jiiva’s ultimate ability can now destroy crags used by players for cover, though temporary boulders can offer protection. After her first ultimate, gas pockets emerge in Area 3, which hunters can ignite for massive damage. Knowing Safi’jiiva’s weaknesses, specifically to the dragon element and certain status effects like poison and blast, helps in preparing for the hunt. Hunters should also be aware of her ability to inflict fire and dragonblight. Successfully bringing down Safi’jiiva results in immediate monster part rewards, with specific parts requiring the breaking of corresponding body parts during the siege.
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In this part of the video, the speaker explains the rewards system following a siege, focusing on Draco lights and awakened weapons. Depending on the siege outcome, players get Draco lights, used to upgrade weapons, and access to a variety of awakened or relic weapons, including at least one weapon matching their siege weapon. Players can select weapons based on elements or ailments and later change the awakened ability. Up to five abilities can be applied to each weapon at the workshop, where Draco lights are used for upgrades. Storing potential in weapons can yield better abilities in future upgrades. A weapon can only have one level 6 awakened ability and one set bonus ability, with set bonuses not providing the full effect alone. Finally, unwanted weapons can be converted back into Draco lights for further use.
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In this part of the video, the speaker explains that after completing the Savage Eve siege multiple times, hunters can craft the Savicheva armor set. This armor set is notable for its strong elemental resistances and one of the game’s strongest set bonuses, the Dragonbane Awakening or Truth Dragonbane Awakening, which enhances affinity, elemental damage, ailment damage, and buildup when the weapon is drawn, though it comes with the caveat of taking damage with each hit on the monster. Additionally, hunters can craft Palico armor, which enables the Palico to sprout wings in combat. The speaker encourages viewers to share additional tactics in the comments and thanks them for watching.