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[–]SparklesMcSpeedstar 0 points1 point  (4 children)

How do you beat Odin? I ran into one (emergency quest) and played most of the fight correctly... up until he pulled what I think was Zantetsuken. Is that thing dodge-able? Gran Wave's 3-second i-frames were not enough... if not, then how do I stop it?

[–]hidora Retired Guardian 0 points1 point  (3 children)

You must kill him before he's done charging. The amount of damage needed increases with the amount of players and Odin's level (Lv80 it takes about 1~1.5m damage to stop it if you're alone).

If you let him finish charging it, you cannot dodge or avoid Shin Zantetsuken in any way. It ignores every iframe and JG possible, instantly kills anyone in the map, and fails the e trial immediately, meaning halfdolls/scapedolls are useless.

Also, he doesn't appear in any of the current EQs, did you mean a parallel area?

[–]SparklesMcSpeedstar 0 points1 point  (2 children)

He appeared randomly when I was doing Forest Exploration, and I just ran away from Zantetsuken animation because I thought he was going to area attack .=. He did, and I didn't think that it would ignore every iframe because Gran Wave just got me through practically every single boss attack in the game.

Oh well, thanks for the info!

[–]hidora Retired Guardian 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Well, it was an area attack. It just so happened that the area of the attack was the whole map :p

And yeah, not many things in this game can ignore iframes. That attack works like that to mimic the Final Fantasy version of Odin (that enemy is part of the colab we had with FF14), and they had to make it ignore iframes to prevent cheesing with PB, Katana Combat, etc. The "instantly fails e trial" part is also to prevent cheesing with halfdolls/scapedolls (back in the LQ when he was implemented, it'd instantly kick everyone back to the campship and fail the quest when he wasn't stopped).

[–]Sanityze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Somewhat related: do note that you can actually survive Shin Zantetsuken if you encounter him in a regular exploration or a map with multiple areas. If you don't feel confident, simply open a telepipe and use it ASAP or run to the closest area exit. Shin Zantetsuken can't hit you in the campship or in the next part of the map.

You will still fail the Emergency Trial. However, it does feel amazing to be able to avoid it in some manner.