Red, Fraught, and Blue

Red, Fraught, and Blue

Number

29

Level

50

Standard Time

8:00

Ideal Time

7:00

Act 1 Enemies

Shikigami of the Pyre

Act 2 Enemies

Shikigami of the Undertow

Gil Reward

 5,000

Seals Reward

 100

Tomestones

 80 

Next stage

The Catch of the Siegfried

Prev. stage

Dangerous When Dead

Patch

5.15

Red, Fraught, and Blue is a stage in The Masked Carnivale for Blue Mage, introduced in patch 5.15 with Shadowbringers.

Strategy

Important Spells: Flying Sardine, Exuviation, Diamondback

Lots of kiting around while avoiding barrage of mechanics. Sonic Boom is a useful wind spell with a quick cast time for Act 1. Glower or Electrogenesis are recommended for Act 2 as well, as the enemies in it are weak to lightning.

Casting Aetherial Mimicry on a healer and using Pom Cure helps you sustain your HP during both acts. This also enhances the healing of Exuviation, which is a necessary spell for Act 2.

Act 1

Enemies

Shikigami of the Pyre

• Endurance: Above Average
• Strengths: Fire
• Weaknesses: Wind
• Vulnerabilities: Interruption

Strategy

• Fluid Swing: interrupt with Flying Sardine. Otherwise you'll get knocked into the outer lightning field and be close to death.
  
• Pyretic: Don't do any action with this 2-second debuff; don't even turn your character or you'll take heavy damage. Move out of his follow-up AoE after the debuff disappears.
  
• Sea of Flames: Two delayed AoEs; just walk away from eruption indicators.
  
• Pillar of Flame: much of the platform is covered in two sets (e.g. inside first, outside next). Sometimes the RNG is bad for this one and you'll have to eat one of the circles.
  
• Rush : Does more damage the closer you are. Move as far as possible away from Shikigami while it is casting.
• Flare Star: Stay on edges. Afterwards, three fire tornados will spawn. Try to bait most of their line AoEs near one of them, to give yourself more room to walk out. Don't walk into any of the tornados, though. RNG can be cruel when mixed with other mechanics (keep watching for Fluid Swing!), mitigate and heal through.
  

Act 2 Shikigami of the Undertow

Shikigami of the Undertow

• Endurance: High
• Strengths: Water
• Weaknesses: Lightning
• Vulnerabilities: Interruption

Strategy

• Protean Wave: Cone AoE, sidestep quickly. The second hit will be another cone on your new position.
• Throttle: Gives you 10-second debuff that kills you if not cleansed with Exuviation when it reaches 0.
• Ferrofluid: "+" and "-" mechanic, similar to the one seen in The Great Gubal Library (Hard). If your symbol matches boss, go to him; if opposite symbol, go to edge.
• Fluid Swing: interrupt with Flying Sardine.
• Watery Grasp: spawns two Hand adds. Left Hand steals 5000 MP, whereas the Right Hand will do many huge AoEs if left alive for too long. You may want to save some of your favorite AoEs for this part, like Shock Strike. Don't forget to check boss for a sneaky Fluid Swing attack!
• Big Splash: four big hits from boss. Diamondback here.
• Cascade: summons three watery vortexes, in similar style to Flare Star above. Bait AoEs while not getting too close to them (some sort of water-vuln debuff).
• Fluid Ball: Two delayed AoEs; just walk away from indicators.