PUP solos in Abyssea?Follow

Curious what ppl are soloing in abyssea on pup and what setups you use subjob, atmas, puppet configuration, etc....

I've found that soloing tigers in Altep works very well. I use beyond+MM+ impregnable tower (for lack of a better alternative). With cirque farsetto+1, buffoons+1 and puppetry dastanas, I start stacking ice right after activate, after all 3 are up I blast a tiger with a bliz V which takes off about 75% then DAD and watch tiger die. On 2 separate subjects, with farsetto+1, buffoons, and dastanas, I DON'T overload, more testing needs to be done but I haven't overloaded since getting my farsetto+1. And the other separate subject is that this will work for just about every abyssea mob, but stick with this one because you can dominion right at spawn and also the op #5, which is tigers also drops cirque hand seals.

I would assume that farsetto +1 does the same thing as AF gloves/buffoons, in that it raises the amount of burden needed to overload by ~5. The handy thing is that it seems like it's enough to overpower the activate burden most of the time. What I wanna see is if Farsetto +2 does what every other AF3+2 does and -further- enhances it to double potency.

Was in Abyssea - Tahrongi last night messing around, and to add a little update now that lv90 is here and people are getting more Atma...

Cuelebre: Stupidly easy solo with Spiritreaver tanking.
- Atma: Mounted Champion (Regen +20hp/tick, MM (for the Refresh and INT), Future Fabulous (MDB+ Superior)
- Attachments: Mana Jammer II, Condenser, Steam Jacket, 2x Loudspeakers, Ice Maker, Equalizer, Optical Fiber, other Dark/Light attachments to fill
- Gear: Whatever relevant pet stat pieces you have. I used 3% DT- Oberons, MAB/MAcc Mirke, Cirque+1 legs, Pet MAB+2 ear and MAB+1 back, and Pantin feet.
- Strategy: Nuke away. Aspir/Drain will keep your puppet easily high on HP/MP along with the Regen/Refresh from Atma. I was pretty much using a Water just for condenser and loading up on 3x Ice at will. Never in danger of death. Used a few Repairs but that was more being cautious and probably wasn't necessary. I don't even have BlizzV yet, so my puppet was using Fire/Aero V for nukes.
- Only downside is that he's a bitch to trigger red/blue !!! when soloing since he's always flying around and can't be meleed outside of the few times a fight he'll use Mighty Strikes (and the TP moves he does then are a bit dangerous plus are frequent enough to possibly ruin a clean WS attempt for !!!). I killed him twice for fun and hopes of the MNK necklace, no luck there but I did get the Auric Dagger. Too bad it's no use to me.

Gancanagh: Easy VE solo (IF you have a good Regen atma)
- Atma: Mounted Champion, RR, VV
- Attachments: Strobe, Armor Plates, Steam Jacket, Turbo Charger, Accelerator II, Inhibitor, Coiler, Dynamo, Auto Repair Kits, Tension Spring II, other stuff to fill
- Gear: 3% DT- Oberons, Pantin Body/Hands, Cirque+1 legs
- Strategy: Let the puppet tank, used a fairly random rotation of Fire/Earth/Wind/Dark, being careful to keep Dark up for lots of Cannibal Blade. Fire helped for TP gain (Inhibitor), damage (TS2), Provokes (Strobe). Used Tactical Switch to give puppet TP for more Cannibal Blade when possible. Used a couple repairs, but not a big deal. Can also Role Reversal to heal the puppet and then back off to get Regen from Mounted Champion. I generally stayed out of AoE range to keep my TP from the TP reset move, but by the end I was wading in and meleeing to speed things up. Get HP Cruor buff to prevent Max HP down.

Edited, Jan 22nd 2011 2:23pm by Anza

Yeah, people do often discount PUP's evasion. With native skill + Evasion Bonus traits, PUP is second only to THF.

THF: A+ skill (361 cap), and Evasion Bonus V trait for +60 evasion
PUP: B skill (335 cap), and Evasion Bonus IV trait for +48 evasion
DNC: B+ skill (341 cap), and Evasion Bonus III for +35 evasion
NIN: A- skill (354 cap), but no traits (extra Utsusemi shadows from main job though)
MNK: B+ skill (341 cap), no traits, Dodge gives +30 (with AF) extra evasion for 2min on a 5min timer
SAM: B+ skill (341 cap), plus Seigan/Third Eye

I've tanked this guy several times on pup although I haven't tried I am confident I could solo him if I wanted to:

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Koghatu

Evasion build. healing frame. 2 eva atmas and RR. I don't have an eva H2H.


With this set up he barely hits you. Only ran into trouble when slowII aura put my utsusemi timers way to long. His triple TP moves can be worrysome but I often dodge 2 out of the 3 moves if not they barely did damage. Only one would do 1k to me. I can easily run out of range for at the very least the third TP move.

For the most part if the NM doesn't have movement speed+ and doesn't cast, we can kill it with spiritreaver. ^_^ Minikin, Ambition and Ultimate (or Beyond, or Baying moon, depending what you have) are pretty standard atmas for that.

Iron giants (well not sure about Misareaux since it's in so small area), Aggressor Antlion, Ayravata, Raskovnik, Chukwa, Flame Skimmer... hmm, can't really think of other things that you wouldn't want to just straight tank off the top of my head. Even some of those, like Ayravata, are debatable whether it's better to just straight tank it /nin, or kite with blm puppet.

You can solo kill Raskvonik without needing to tank. Charm is annoying but you can either kill it really quickly so it doesn't use it against you or have him charm you and hope it runs out quickly. It's not too hard otherwise though, thing doesn't hit too me too often with just Gnarled Horn. Shadows cover me timer to timer most of the time. Its only damage dealing move heals it and requires 3 shadows to avoid but it doesn't drain much at all even if all 3 hit you, more than enough for your Soulsoother to handle.

Go kodi!!! Oh btw anyone know if we can solo any af3+2 items?

And CC would be?

Oh that fish :)

I do not understand the use of the Soulsoother head, wtf is up with that?

Gnawtooth Gary is stupid easy solo now for anyone that still needs their feet +1'd. Sub nin and use Soulsoother and either an Eva build/DD atma or a DD build/Eva Atma, and a Refresh atma for your puppet, and then run him up the ramp behind his pop. if your puppet is around the bushes at the bottom (~15.1-16.0 if you have distance on), it'll be out of whirlclaws range. Save your TP for Shoulder Tackle to stop Wild Carrot, because he loves to spam that sh*t, especially when you're casting shadows. I personally like Minikin because the int boost makes Caroline's blind stupidly potent, and on top of our crazy evasion, it basically floors gary's hitrate down to 20%.

Btw, this same strat works on Keesha Poppo too. Get your puppet to ~15-16 and it'll be out of AoE range.

Edited, Feb 12th 2011 5:47pm by Jinte

you can probably solo him with soulsoother, tbh, but brooder with VE is impressive. Details please.

Brooder can be solo'd with Soulsoother and us Evasion tanking too though it can get a little hairy at times. I have to use a few Lucid Potions or Elixirs in case my timing with Cure VI was off because of Plague.

I like to adjust this statement. I switched one of my EVA atmas to a max hp atma (SS) with little impact to my evasion from regular hits. However it was noticeable one the weapon skills which no longer missed as much.

Just solod a Mimic in Abyssea Uleguerand Range

PUP/NIN with BLM frame, no atma. Pop mimic, activate automtaton, nuke for 1/3 of it's life, deactivate. (I think this method avoids triggering death trap maybe?). Re-activate, nuke, melle it down.

No drop, spawned a Blue chest with a mild soothing light

A LOT of NMs are soloable now by pup, by a variety of means. Thanks to burrito claws (burattianois), cannibal blade, and ducal guard, you can solo a lot of stuff that normally wouldn't be in valoredge's league.

Recommended atmas to have vary, but ducal guard, mounted champion for vit and regen, and a third atma that varies is recommended. (I usually use zenith if i need more damage down, or razed ruins if I don't.) If this isn't enough damage down on it's own, use the moogle headpiece with -10% pet damage taken, shepherd's chain, and make the third atma a PDT or MDT atma depending on the mob. If it's a ridiculous mob like that crazy qutrub NM in tahrongi, you might want to swap burts for PDT claws to finish up your autos defenses and make him nigh invulnerable to direct damage, if not to DoTs.

Naturally, you want oils and role reversal for backup. Thanks to mounted champion you can use role reversal and by the time it's up again your hp is back to max.

Attachments used vary as well, but if it's something that has powerful physical attacks you might want to consider using equalizer. In a couple cases I even swapped VE head for harliquin head so I could fit more magic defense attachments. Other attachments used include strobe and reactive shield, and any defensive attachments you got, unless the fight is easy enough to not need them.

I even pseudo-solod the zone boss of vunkurl this way, from 53% to 2% while the alliance recovered from a wipe. They were terrified of the walrus after it's rampage and let Oniwaka handle it till it was almost dead. <_<; He never died once.

I bet.

I spat out my coffee when I noticed this was the sentence for Tyrannic Tusk in its entirety. Getting a towel.


Also, Atma configuration for Sedna pseudo-solo if you may.

Whiro and Granite Borrer

Did it the other day actually, Technically a duo but friend was blm/brd and barely did a thing after proccing. Went in with Apoc/VV/RR PUP/NIN with a Soulsoother setup. Can get hairy at times, so if you have to be ready to pop on an evasion set for a few seconds while you recover from a TP attack or a round of unlucky counters. Really straight forward and didn't die once.

I just started playing again after a year off, and I just want to know if the strategies using the burattianois are still viable after the nerf.

Thank you.

Cannerd Noz

PUP/NIN Sharpshot Frame, Mounted Champion, Sea Daughter (fight during daytime), Voracious Violet. Liberal use of Repair and honsetly let the Automaton tank. Shoulder tackle big -aga's assuming you have TP.