A Finale Most Formidable
A Finale Most Formidable
- Location
- Kholusia (X:33.9, Y:21.1)
- Level
- 80
- Duration
- 25 min
- Experience
- 0
- Gil
- 156
- Gemstones
- 72
- Prev FATE
- A Family Most Formidable
- Patch
- 5.0
“It appears that the Goggs have been secretly engineering a massive new automaton capable of thwacking and throttling on a scale heretofore unheard of. Put an end to the malevolent machina by doing a little thwacking and/or throttling of your own.
— In-game description
A Finale Most Formidable is a level 80 FATE spawned in Kholusia.
Rewards
Prerequisites
In order for 
A Finale Most Formidable to spawn, players must complete the following FATE chain:
Foes Most Formidable (X:22.6, Y:13.7)- A Family Most Formidable (X:25.6, Y:20.8)
Formidable will not spawn if it is still on cooldown. If the FATE chain restarts from the beginning, then Formidable is on cooldown.
If Formidable is ready to spawn, this FATE will appear on the map within a few minutes after completing the second FATE in the chain.
Guide
Formidable
- Spincrush: Short, wide, frontal cone AoE pointed at a random player. Does heavy damage.
- Barrage Fire: Repeatedly spins around doing magical AoE damage and randomly placing 3 circle AoEs underneath nearby players.
- Fires of Mt. Gulg: Repeatedly does donut AoEs, places 3 circle AoEs underneath random players, and draws in any players outside of Formidable's hitbox. Remain underneath it to avoid the pull and stand in the safe spot not covered by one of the three AoEs.
- Dwarven Deluge: A telegraphing attack which deals no direct damage, but is followed up by one of four mechanics:
- 3 small bombs and 3 seeker missiles spawn around Formidable. After a moment, the bombs will expand then explode. Missiles should be intercepted to prevent splash damage.
- 2 Automaton Escort adds spawn at the start of the cast -- these must be defeated quickly or their enrage explosion will KO all nearby players. Warning: Formidable's large model may block visibility of the Escort adds.
- A combination of the above two mechanics
- Shock: A two part attack, which spawns 1 purple orb and 2 green orbs around Formidable's current location. First, a large donut AoE around the purple orb, then small circle AoEs around the green orbs.
- Note: The purple orb's donut AoE will always be close enough to have a tiny area where melee jobs can keep uptime.
- Steam Dome: Melee knockback. Knockback can be nullified with
Arm's Length and 
Surecast. - Drill Shot: Stack AoEs on 3 random players.
- Dynamic Sensory Jammer: Inflicts all nearby players with
Extreme Caution for 5 seconds. Any players who use an action, auto-attack or move while under Extreme Caution will be launched into the air and take massive damage when it expires.
Mechanic combos
- Dynamic Sensory Jammer into Spincrush: Dynamic Sensory Jammer is always immediately followed by Spincrush
- Fires of Mt. Gulg into Steam Dome: after reaching a certain HP threshold, Fires of Mt. Gulg will generally be followed by Steam Dome
- Dwarven Deluge's add phase into Steam Dome: Steam Dome is always cast within about 10 seconds of adds spawning
- Steam Dome into Drill Shot: particularly after Fires of Mt. Gulg, Drill Shot (the stacking mechanic) will often immediately follow Steam Dome.
General tips
- Fires of Mt. Gulg encourages (and forces) players to move into Formidable's hitbox.
- Dwarven Deluge encourages players to move out of Formidable's hitbox for increased vision of the FATE area.
Rewards
Success
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bicolor Gemstones |
72 | 36 | 6 |
 Formidable Cogs |
6 | 4 | 2 |
| Gil |
160 | 128 | 16 |
Players completing this FATE with Gold completion for the first time will also earn the _heart_icon1.png){kind=small}
Be Still My (Automatic) Heart achievement.
Failure
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bicolor Gemstones |
60 | ?? | ?? |
| Formidable Cogs |
4 | ? | ? |
| Gil |
142 | ??? | ??? |
Exchange
| Item | Vendor | Location / Coordinates | Section | Cost | Unlock req. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ironfrog Ambler
|
Fathard | Eulmore (10.1, 11.7) | Glorious Gewgaws |  6 Formidable Cog
|
 Shadowbringers
|
 Ironfrog Mover Ignition Key
|
Fathard | Eulmore (10.1, 11.7) | Glorious Gewgaws | 12 Formidable Cog
|
Shadowbringers
|
Respawn
28 to 48 hours?
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