so fun fact, Vantage Masters was actually a game previously published by Falcom that they based most of the CS3 minigame off of

My favorite CS1 Fie build had to be stacking a bunch of status Quartz on her and watching reg enemies be plagued by several debuffs on battle start with no counterplay

though on Sage, FMBG is pretty much bad for the entire fight because the cooldown use requires GCD in places it shouldn't be so I think its bad for phases 1-3 also, but PF made it the main mit sheet for some reason(bias against wanting to learn something new but better)

so the reason for this afaik is FMBG was made as the W1 race was going so cooldowns just kinda happen per phase, while NAUR was back calculated from where invuls/mits are most important and the rest were built around whats needed to live attacks. FMBG works for phases 1-3 but starts falling off 4+5

also with regards to colors, apoc requires color sets to know which half of the arena you go so you need to be familiar with the color sets anyways

I find the mental stack easier if I figure out do I go card or inter while moving in/out rather than looking for the aoe first, then in/out, then move to card/intercard. the consistency on angle being the same regardless of in/out is worth the fail point of move in timing, since castbar is lenient

you don't need to position on waymarks, the waymarks just exist for the color pairs. the arena lines denote where you should stand for cleave. Imo, relative north is way more vague on where you need to stand because there's not a permanent arena line for it

Confused how healers are letting people die during utopian when its just a case of apply GCD shields and a heal before the cleave, then a GCD shield in between the cleave and explosion and that guarantees everyone survives. You just need to shield and mit before the stacks and its very comfy