Date & Time: March 22nd, 2026 between 1pm-7pm EST
Frequency: Sporadic
World name: Aether-Cactuar, Primal-Exodus, Primal-Lamia
Character name: Avidda Homura (Cactuar)
Monster name: Pari of Plenty
Class/Level: 100
Party or solo: Party
In-game time:
Area and coordinates: Merchant’s Tale (Advanced)
Steps:
1. Engage Pari of Plenty in the Merchant’s Tale (Advanced)
2. Occasionally, the “Pari’s Curse” mechanic will go off prematurely and explode for ridiculous amounts of damage
Happened to us 3 times in Advanced. The way the mechanic should work, two people are marked with debuffs: a “stack” and a “spread.” Then you have crystals that spawn, then you have several seconds to find the safe spot, and then it blows up.
However, the bug appears to be applying the debuffs and exploding them IMMEDIATELY after the Pari’s Curse castbar finishes, before the crystals even appeared, long before you have any time to react. It’s also doing some glitched insane amount of damage: I checked the battle logs and I was hit for over 4m damage.
We’ve done this fight correctly 30+ times, so I’m confident this is a bug. It happened to me 3 times today, across different groups on different data centers. We even started using mitigation before the mechanic just in case, but it does so much glitched damage you can’t possibly survive.
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Frequency: Sporadic
World name: Aether-Cactuar, Primal-Exodus, Primal-Lamia
Character name: Avidda Homura (Cactuar)
Monster name: Pari of Plenty
Class/Level: 100
Party or solo: Party
In-game time:
Area and coordinates: Merchant’s Tale (Advanced)
Steps:
1. Engage Pari of Plenty in the Merchant’s Tale (Advanced)
2. Occasionally, the “Pari’s Curse” mechanic will go off prematurely and explode for ridiculous amounts of damage
Happened to us 3 times in Advanced. The way the mechanic should work, two people are marked with debuffs: a “stack” and a “spread.” Then you have crystals that spawn, then you have several seconds to find the safe spot, and then it blows up.
However, the bug appears to be applying the debuffs and exploding them IMMEDIATELY after the Pari’s Curse castbar finishes, before the crystals even appeared, long before you have any time to react. It’s also doing some glitched insane amount of damage: I checked the battle logs and I was hit for over 4m damage.
We’ve done this fight correctly 30+ times, so I’m confident this is a bug. It happened to me 3 times today, across different groups on different data centers. We even started using mitigation before the mechanic just in case, but it does so much glitched damage you can’t possibly survive.
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