The Omega Protocol (Ultimate)

An alternate retelling of the Omega raid storyline in which Omega successfully ascertains and harnesses what lies at the heart of a mortal's strength.

Hit

Ability

Type

Description

HP: 8,557,964

Required DPS: 65,346.43

00:14

Program Loop

(+ 8 others)

Mechanic

A major mechanic revolving around towers and tethers.

Inflicts the following effects:

2 random players with Looper (16s) and First in Line
2 random players with Looper (25s) and Second in Line
2 random players with Looper (34s) and Third in Line
2 random players with Looper (43s) and Fourth in Line

Then spawns two towers and two tethers originating from the boss and begins casting Blaster. The tethers can be passed between players by moving through them.

Each tower must be soaked by exactly one player with the Looper effect. Towers ignore players without this effect. Soaking a tower inflicts Twice-come Ruin and resolves Looper for that player; if Looper is allowed to expire on its own, the player will be inflicted with Memory Loss and likely wall themselves.

The Blaster tethers release a massive blast roughly the size of the boss's hitbox around the tethered players. The tethered players, as well as anyone else hit by the explosion, are inflicted with HP Penalty and Twice-come Ruin.

This mechanic then repeats three more times. Note the following:

Tethers don't disappear after Blaster resolves; they remain on whichever players last had them until the fourth set resolves.
The next set of towers spawns in a translucent state even before the current set has resolved.
There are, in total, 8 possible locations for towers to spawn (2 per cardinal, slightly offset from that cardinal to either side).
A tower cannot spawn in a location it has already spawned before. In some cases this allows you to predict where the next set of towers is going to spawn even before they appear.
Towers can never spawn on both positions of the same cardinal.

As each Twice-come Ruin stack lasts for exactly 1 full turn of the mechanic, there is only one order to resolve the mechanic in:

Turn 1: First in Line soaks towers, Third in Line takes tethers and brings them to an empty cardinal.

Turn 2: Second in Line soaks towers, Fourth in Line takes tethers and brings them to an empty cardinal.

Turn 3: Third in Line soaks towers, First in Line takes tethers and brings them to an empty cardinal.

Turn 4: Fourth in Line soaks towers, Second in Line takes tethers and brings them to an empty cardinal.

In other words: after resolving your tower or tether, you do nothing for a turn, then the next turn your role is whichever role you haven't had yet.

Since there are always two players assigned to each mechanic, it is strongly recommended to use a priority system to determine who takes which tower/tether (and, in the case of tethers, where to bring that tether as well). If you're using Party Finder, check with your Data Center's Ultimate Discord to learn what priority system your Data Center uses. For example, LPDU (Light) uses M1/M2/MT/OT/R1/R2/H1/H2 where, if you are to the left of your partner in that list, you take the clockwise tower/tether starting from north, and if you are to the right of your partner in that list, you take the counter-clockwise tower/tether starting from north. As a result, M1 always goes clockwise no matter what, and H2 always goes counter-clockwise no matter what.

If you forget which turn it is or what your job on this turn is, check your debuffs. If your Looper debuff is about to expire, it's your turn to take a tower. If your "x in line" debuff and Looper debuffs are gone and you have a Twice-come Ruin stack that is about to expire or has already expired, it's your turn to take a tether. If your HP Penalty expires and you're suddenly on 1% HP, it's your turn to take a tower (unless Program Loop has already concluded).
It is recommended to manually sort your party list so that the players you need to look at to determine your priority are at the very top. For example, using the LPDU priority described above, R1 would move the R2, H1, and H2 players to the top of their party list. If any of them have the same number, the R1 player would move clockwise; otherwise they would move counter-clockwise.
Taking your tether max melee in your designated empty cardinal is far enough to avoid hitting players on the tower cardinals, allowing you to keep full uptime on the boss.
After your tether is resolved, don't immediately beeline for the nearest tower cardinal. Instead, go slightly inside the hitbox so that any non-tether players can make their way past you, then wait until the next tether player has taken their tether from you before moving into a safe spot.
Never move directly through the center of the boss's hitbox, as you will likely steal someone else's tether and cause a wipe.
Since towers completely ignore players without Looper, after you resolve your tower, you can then stand in any tower you wish while waiting for your Twice-come Ruin to expire.
Healers must heal the Third in Line and Fourth in Line players after their HP Penalty expires, as they'll die from Storage Violation otherwise. Tanks can help by using targeted mitigation like The Blackest Night or Heart of Corundum.
After the Program Loop cast, Omega does one more auto-attack before beginning the Blaster cast, at which point Omega's position and rotation is locked in for the remainder of the mechanic. It can be helpful to turn the boss to the southwest or southeast (depending on where your melees are in your priority order) before the Blaster cast begins, to give your melees easy access to positionals.

Miscounting or forgetting your turn.
Ignoring or forgetting the priority and not adjusting.
Moving while passing off a tether. (This increases the likelihood of other players passing through the tether and being unable to take it.)
Rotating the wrong way and stealing someone else's tether.

LPDU

Uses (N) M1 ← M2 ← MT ← OT ← R1 ← R2 ← H1 ← H2 (S) priority.