Doom of the Living

Acquired: SAM (actions)
Level: 1
Type: Limit Break Level 3
Casting: 4.5s

Recast: Instant (GCD)
Range: 8y
Radius: 0y

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Delivers an attack that deals 350% the damage of Braver.

— In-game description

Doom of the Living is an action unlocked at level 1. It is available for Samurai. It hits a single target with x3.5 the damage of Braver. They have a cast time of 4.5s and an animation lock of 3.7s. This renders the user unable to perform any actions for a total of 8.2s.

When activated, the Samurai unleashes a series of five rapid slashes with their katana, culminating in a final upward slash that unleashes a destructive energy wave and debris at the target, before sheathing their blade.

Players require full 3 bars of limit break meter to use Doom of the Living.

Doom of the Living was introduced in Stormblood (4.0).

Lore

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All those who live are fated to die. The samurai portrays the foe’s life with innumerable slashes of the blade, ends that life with a single, aether-infused stroke, and then sheathes her weapon in a symbolic depiction of transience.

— Encyclopaedia Eorzea Volume II, p. 185