Evasion Taipan guide?Follow

I started doing the weapon trials seeing as my weapon is far from the best, and decided that i wanted to do the wind one first because some people say its faster/easier than the fire. My question is where is the best place to solo the various types of things needed with the correct weather? Im on the plantoid part now, and im not really sure of any good solo spots for plantoids, where is the best place for each step of the trial?

Thanks, Fantus

I just made this weapon myself about a month ago. All of the wind weather trials can be done between Grauberg(S) which has almost constant wind and Vunkerl Inlet(S) where wind is uncommon, but not too bad. Here's where I went for the trials.

Trial 93: Grauberg, Brasscaps north of the outpost from around J-7 to L-6. There's a ton of them around, and not many Quadavs, esp toward the eastern side. There's a handful of undead spawns too.

Trial 94: Vunkerl, Ignis Djinn at F-10 through the path west of the outpost. There's only 6 here, and the area is crawling with Orcs and Treants, but you can pull them back up onto the hill, and you should be able to kill at least 5 before they start respawning. Remember you can deploy your automaton without losing Sneak/Invis. Also, an Orc Transport runs right through the pass here, and while they won't hurt you, they can link the orcs down at the bottom of the hill when they "aggro" you, so keep an eye out and just back up a bit when you see them coming.

Trial 95: Grauberg, Wivre spread all around the outpost region. There's nothing aggressive except at the far ends of the area.

Trial 1152: Vunkerl, Robber Crabs/Stygian Pugils all around the outpost. Again, no aggro pretty much, though there's a few Haunt spawns at night.

Trial 1153: Grauberg, Knotty Treants in the big field from H-11 to K-11. You have to be a bit alert here, as chigoes like to hide in the bushes in groups of 2-3. They're not that dangerous though, and easy to spot if you're keeping an eye out. There's also some Goblins wandering over in the western areas.

Trial 1197: Same as Trial 94.

It takes a while solo, especially the arcana trials, but it's easily manageable. Good luck!

I would honestly just go straight for the fire path. But I'm not really into the whole EVA thing.

Those of you that don't Eva tank, are crazy!!!

On a serious note PUP's evasion is no joke, with a good evasion set you can hit +40 easily without giving up way too much of other goods. I've been doing a lot of out of abyssea stuff and with even a crummy evasion set you can tank so much old content it's laughable. I don't even use my soulsoother anymore and just go straight out with sharpshot. I've been making my party mates jealous with my damage output outside of abyssea. 2493 armor piercer to 2100 barrage to 2493 armor piercer and even ukko wars double take.

That spot is horrrrrrible. I highly recommend finding the other spot where Djinns pop in that zone. I *think* it was up northeastish around the conflux 3 area. About the same number of pops. This spot only has a few (fairly blind) gigas and their tiger pets. Much safer area ^^

My only point I was making pre being nuked, was the fact that with a good evasion set you can throw out sharpshot and your damage would be even more than with straight up DD gear. Not to mention instead of wasting an Atma on evasion if There was need, you could do it with equipment and get a better atma instead.

I remember when people didn't get nuked for simple opinions, and there would be a logical discussion.

I'll agree with you there Anza, that too much evasion is a bad thing when you give up so much on the DD side for it. My instances are a bit biast because I think more of the post abyssea world than how it is now, which of course is incomprehensible to most. We do have a really awesome evasion and sometimes it's, fun to abuse that and switch up our methods from time to time.

This, except:



This. The spot is, if you AN warp in, headed towards conflux 0, around the area where the fake campaign fight is. just gotta be able to kill them quickly so that you don't get swarmed, because you can if you're not paying attention, and let me tell you, eating 4 djinngobooms in less than a minute @#%^ing sucks, soulsoother or not.



That set is horrible (So are Ursine Claws +2 with Double Attack, for that matter. if you want fun go OA4 claws.) Also, if you hit the evasion cap, don't add more evasion. That's just stupid.

Eva caps at 80%, which is stupid easy to hit vs anything that's not IT++/NM, and fairly easy to hit on low Q abyssea NMs (hai2uGary). This is especially true if you're cool and have AGI/Eva magians.

My Eva sets:

Easy sh*t (lolgary) / Hard sh*t (NMs that aren't blind or tougher)
Main: Wind Path Claws
Head: Cirque Capello +1 / Optical Hat
Neck: Cirque Necklace / Spirit Torque (to cheap for eva torque, and I only use this if I'm fighting something that spams eva down)
Ear1: Brutal
Ear2: Kemas / Dark Earring (Phys -2% iirc, only for sh*t with really nasty TP moves, just in case)
Body: Aurore
Hands: Pantin Dastanas / ....can't remember
Ring1: Blood Ring / Dark Ring (Phys-6% Breath-4% Magic-3%)
Ring2: Heed Ring
Back: Pantin Cape / Boxer's (if I had it, anyway)
Belt: Cirque Sash
Legs: Cirque Pantaloni +1 (I keep af pants on hand and macrod incase I need a quick cure boost if I get hit -too- hard)
Feet: Aurore

with Eva Bonus IV (+60 evasion) and capped eva skill (no merits... I think.... I might have one... I haven't played in a while), this is enough evasion to pretty much ride ichi on anything up to low tier abyssea nms. Usually, I keep nin sub for just-in-case scenarios, such as getting slapped with blind and then the nm getting off a lucky string of crits (possible due to accuracy floor of 20%. They CAN hit you) and a TP move and dropping you into the red, and your puppet does the usual and casts blindna; having shadows is REALLY handy when that happens. You'll notice that for the most part, this is basically just a haste/tp set without any -eva gear. Pup has that much evasion, lol. Mind you, there are scenarios where you really do need to go all out evasion, but in those scenarios, you're either better off swapping to /sch and kite-nuking, or not likely to actually be tanking.

Also, for atma, I used MM/RR for refresh and damage. I only just got my third atma recently due to a long break from the game, but whether I'd actually throw in GH is debatable. In a 2-amta scenario, the loss of RR severely slows down how fast you kill sh*t, and for most NMs, the extra AGI/counter you get from GH isn't as beneficial as the huge damage boost RR provides, and with 3 atma, I can't see GH being more beneficial than say, Apoc or SS.



I call bullsh*t. That's never happened on alla, even here in the relatively civil pup forum.

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Unless you get an unlucky string of hours w/o weather, you can burn through the entire ice path in less than 12 hours. Almost every trial can be done in ulegeurand, and the 1-2 that can't, just go to fei'yin (the basement). Wind is also really fast, with the exception of the trials in vunkerl, because vunkerl can get a little stingy, but for the arcana trials, you can always check sky if vunkerl's being vunkerl. The weather in sky ain't as frequent, but the pots/dolls are a loooot squishier at 90 (seriously, just go sit in despot's hallway and smash dolls for a little while, it's funny. Until you eat meltdown.... then it's not so funny, but hey, djinn do that too, and it hurts a lot more when they do it.). Fire trials are just a bitch, regardless of what job you're on, because fire weather is so @#%^ing rare. The trials aren't difficult, per se, they just take forever because you generally have to wait for firesday 90% of the time.


Edited, Aug 25th 2011 1:21am by Jinte

Try Pashow Marshlands [S]. Not too frequent, but still better than most alternatives.

Been down in the fei'yin basement and i'm only able to find six spawn out of the 14 the wiki mentions, where are the rest of these buggers hiding? They keep coming back as too weak, so the more spawns, the faster i can do the trial.

Thanks, Fantus

From what I remember, the remaining several ghosts besides the ones in the basement, are where western shadow is, the one who drops retaliators or w/e cross-counters are called now. they are in the hallways between the rooms full of spectors.

Congratulations! Will certainly hold you over, and from the perspective of enhancing nukes from Spiritreaver you now have the absolute best weapon in the game. At the very least, for that niche I doubt the ice path H2H will be eclipsed.