Another Merchant's Tale (Criterion)

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Another Merchant's Tale (Criterion)

Pre-Fight Notes

Another Merchants Tale uses Heavyweight Savage BiS, however, you do not need to be 790 to instance in. That being said, please do your best to make sure you have above 780 gear.

As of Dawntrail, Criterion Dungeons will no longer include both add packs at the start and between 1st and 2nd bosses. The hightest difficulty Criterion Savage has been removed and replaced with Variant Advanced, which is between Variant and Criterion in difficulty. This change is NOT retroactive to the Endwalker Criterions.

To unlock Another Merchants Tale you must complete 3 unique (non-secret) final bosses in both The Merchants Tale, and complete a full run (all bosses in one instance) of The Merchants Tale (Advanced). All unlocks can be found in Old Sharlayan.

Dawntrail Criterion follows a strict rule regarding resurrections as each person can cast Variant Raise 2 one time, therefore it is best to discuss a resurrection prio since they can overlap and you will not get a refund on the action should more than one be used. Variant Raise 2 can be placed on your hotbar using the Duty Action I keybind found in Actions and Traits. Actions like swiftcast and dualcast affect Variant Raise 2.

Failing any mechanic will result in a damage down application, however, this DD is negligible (10%). Please note that video guides may or may not follow the NA Pastebin (Credits Tal Garn and the Criterion Discord).

Boss 1: Darya

In Depth Mechanics

Boss 2: Lone Swordmaster

In Depth Mechanics

Boss 3 : Pari

In Depth Mechanics

  • First two mechanics (dashes + clones)

  • Fireflight

  • Pari's Curse

  • Spurning Flames - Two Strats floating in NA, please note what strat you are using via PF description. (example: bd spurning = bd)

  • Doubling

  • Kindled Flame - Same tile - Supp left, Dps right looking in, TM adjust (2 pair stacks and 3 fire crystals, there will be one square by the boss that is safe that you can share with both stacks)

  • Charmed Flight - Another 4 rotating halfroom cleaves, this time with pairs of fire crystals. Remember rotation order and dodge cleaves and crystals in middle 2 columns (boss cleave will always be 2 swaps and 1 stay, fire crystals can be 3 swaps or swap stay swap)

Waymarks

Darya

{
  "Name": "Darya",
  "MapID": 1079,
  "A": { "X": 375.0, "Y": -29.5, "Z": 514.0, "ID": 0, "Active": true },
  "B": { "X": 391.0, "Y": -29.5, "Z": 530.0, "ID": 1, "Active": true },
  "C": { "X": 375.0, "Y": -29.5, "Z": 546.0, "ID": 2, "Active": true },
  "D": { "X": 359.0, "Y": -29.5, "Z": 530.0, "ID": 3, "Active": true },
  "One": { "X": 359.0, "Y": -29.5, "Z": 514.0, "ID": 4, "Active": true },
  "Two": { "X": 391.0, "Y": -29.5, "Z": 514.0, "ID": 5, "Active": true },
  "Three": { "X": 391.0, "Y": -29.5, "Z": 546.0, "ID": 6, "Active": true },
  "Four": { "X": 359.0, "Y": -29.5, "Z": 546.0, "ID": 7, "Active": true }
}

Swordmaster

{
  "Name": "Swordmaster",
  "MapID": 1079,
  "A": { "X": 170.0, "Y": -16.0, "Z": -822.0, "ID": 0, "Active": true },
  "B": { "X": 121.185, "Y": -29.499, "Z": -689.252, "ID": 1, "Active": true },
  "C": { "X": 170.0, "Y": -16.0, "Z": -811.0, "ID": 2, "Active": true },
  "D": { "X": 170.0, "Y": -16.0, "Z": -815.0, "ID": 3, "Active": true },
  "One": { "X": 163.0, "Y": -16.0, "Z": -830.0, "ID": 4, "Active": true },
  "Two": { "X": 177.0, "Y": -16.0, "Z": -830.0, "ID": 5, "Active": true },
  "Three": { "X": 177.0, "Y": -16.0, "Z": -798.0, "ID": 6, "Active": true },
  "Four": { "X": 163.0, "Y": -16.0, "Z": -798.0, "ID": 7, "Active": true }
}

Pari

Corner/Uptime Spurning

{
  "Name": "corner uptime",
  "MapID": 1079,
  "A": { "X": -760.0, "Y": -54.0, "Z": -815.0, "ID": 0, "Active": true },
  "B": { "X": -750.0, "Y": -54.0, "Z": -805.0, "ID": 1, "Active": true },
  "C": { "X": -760.0, "Y": -54.0, "Z": -795.0, "ID": 2, "Active": true },
  "D": { "X": -770.0, "Y": -54.0, "Z": -805.0, "ID": 3, "Active": true },
  "One": { "X": -769.0, "Y": -54.0, "Z": -824.0, "ID": 4, "Active": true },
  "Two": { "X": -751.0, "Y": -54.0, "Z": -824.0, "ID": 5, "Active": true },
  "Three": { "X": -751.0, "Y": -54.0, "Z": -786.0, "ID": 6, "Active": true },
  "Four": { "X": -769.0, "Y": -54.0, "Z": -786.0, "ID": 7, "Active": true }
}

BD Spurning

{
  "Name": "BD spurning",
  "MapID": 1079,
  "A": { "X": -760.0, "Y": -54.0, "Z": -820.0, "ID": 0, "Active": true },
  "B": { "X": -745.0, "Y": -54.0, "Z": -805.0, "ID": 1, "Active": true },
  "C": { "X": -760.0, "Y": -54.0, "Z": -790.0, "ID": 2, "Active": true },
  "D": { "X": -775.0, "Y": -54.0, "Z": -805.0, "ID": 3, "Active": true },
  "One": { "X": -745.0, "Y": -54.0, "Z": -820.0, "ID": 4, "Active": true },
  "Two": { "X": -745.0, "Y": -54.0, "Z": -790.0, "ID": 5, "Active": true },
  "Three": { "X": -775.0, "Y": -54.0, "Z": -790.0, "ID": 6, "Active": true },
  "Four": { "X": -775.0, "Y": -54.0, "Z": -820.0, "ID": 7, "Active": true }
}