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He can be a dick mostly. I've been slept, Asuran'd back to back, para'd out of convert/2 hour, and generally he just does random crap whenever he feels like when you first fight him.

providing your dark/enfeebling magic is capped AND you have HQ dark staff....yes he can be a pushover...but if you dont have any of those things expect a @$$whoopin!

edit: plus you are one of the lucky ones....took me 7 tries to beat him. You played the roulette wheel nicely :)

Edited, Feb 22nd 2011 10:50am by Deadus

Why would dark magic matter? For that matter, why wouldn't you have your enfeebling magic capped?

Honestly I'm convinced that one of two things happened here.

1. The Random Number Generator gods smiled upon me.

Or...

2. The majority of Red Mages simply suck and have spent the last several years crying because they got beat up for stacking MND and casting Sleep with a light staff equipped.

Seriously, that was one of the easiest fights I've ever had.

It was pretty much this. I remember suspecting that the reason I failed so many times when I was breaking my own G5 was that I was just a noob, but years later when I helped an LS member who had failed like 20 times by logging onto her account and trying the fight for her (and muling everything non-R/E including HQ Staves, Enfeebling Torque, etc.), the hardest part was that sometimes he'd just flat-out resist Sleep > Sleep II > Bind > Gravity and pound my face in. This is with the absolute best gear possible for those spells at that level. On the other hand, it really doesn't help that most of the really good enfeebling gear in that level range is 72-75, so it's just out of reach for G5.

Sure, he's a joke at 75+, but at 70 the RNG determines quite a bit about the fight.

If you use Sprint Shoes you can actually get up fast enough to spot the first spell he casts and I think if it's blink you might be able to actually sleep him before he finishes casting it. I wouldn't know personally as he casted shell on my run, but my sleep landed right after his shell finished casting so I'd imagine that since blink is a much slower spell then shell you might be able to beat it.

Maat @70:
(this strategy takes advantage of the AI's inability to dispel-spam you, whereas you know to spam it all to hell)

BUFFS:
(while running to circle) Composure, Refresh, Blink, Stoneskin, Aquaveil, Protect IV, Shell IV...
...hold on casting, keep running...
Cast Phalanx, Haste, Regen (try to reach @max casting distance upon finishing those last 3 spells)

DISPELLING:
1.*CLICK-OFF COMPOSURE*
2.Alternate Blind/Paralyze till Maat's Blink is off.
3.Cast Sleep II.
If resisted, cast Gravity>Sleep.
If resisted, cast Bind.
If resisted, cast (priority 1)Blinks>(2)Stoneskins>(3)Cures till recasts are up.
4.When slept, REPOSITION YOURSELF TO MAX CAST DISTANCE
5.Alternate Dispel with (priority 1)Blinks>(2)Stoneskins>(3)Cure>(4)Paralyze>(5)Blind
Repeat steps 3, 4, & 5 whenever Maat wakes up, until every buff of his is dispelled.

NUKING:
1.When Maat is slept, nuke with Aero III @max cast distance.
2.Cast Sleep II.
If resisted, cast Gravity>Sleep.
If resisted, cast Bind.
If resisted, cast (priority 1)Blinks>(2)Stoneskins>(3)Cures till recasts are up.
3.When slept, REPOSITION YOURSELF TO MAX CAST DISTANCE (dispel Shell IV, Regen, and Stoneskin if Maat casts them).
4.Repeat all "nuking" steps till he chainspells.

CHAINSPELL:
Use chainspell when he does. This part is about comfort...
If you feel like you can kill him with chainspell (as in you've already converted),
cast (priority 1)Blink>(2)Stoneskin>(3)Cure>(4)Water III.
Switch to Aero III once the recast for it is up (assuming it was the nuke you triggered his chainspell with).
If you need to convert, need a breather, or you just plain wanna play it safe, don't be afraid to chainspell the hell out of Sleep II (not Sleep).

CONVERTING:
meh I'm done

Edited, Feb 23rd 2011 1:48am by IcookPizza

Edited, Feb 23rd 2011 1:49am by IcookPizza

Nice one Xenith. Seems to work that way until step 3 when he decides @#%^ you, want to sleep me, ill sleep you, then popping his own chainspell, casting a bunch of stupid buffs on himself and a few nukes on you. Then he waltzes in and asurans you in the back of the head, and as you run away he hits you aero III and blows you away like a limp noodle.

However the next time he might just nuke you to death with no asurans. Or he could be real nice and double asuran you early and get it over with quick.

on my 2nd to last fight i had enfeeb capped but no hq staff and he ate my face in seconds. Only when i got my hq dark staff did he seem much easier. Its a total luck fest...unlike those bastage sams, wars, and drks (and others of course).

got legs +2 and abysite of discernment \o/

Hands +2; 4/5 now, just need to get sayon upgraded from +1 to +2 and I'll be done.

Pluviale: O (finally dropped! 1/26)

Solod Mictlantecuhtli and got Cuffs. I just stood there and blink/pdt tanked him. I kept 5/5 Slow/Para, Addle, Poison, and Bio on him, nuking him with each new set of shadows. I got hit with one or two Drains/AOE's but with fresh Stoneskin and Shell V it wanst that bad. He charmed me at ~15% and drug me back towards his spawn area, going yellow in the process. He regend back to 60% but I was glad because I was able to proc yellow with Bliz III after I reclaimed him.

I used Beyond, Minikin, and Mounted Champion.

That was a fun fight.

finally got my atma of the ultimate....and missed out on rdm neck for the 20th time while shell is doing glavoid pops...

Yeah, it's kind of sad. I got Pluviale, but have probably played with it on for less than 10 hours because I'm always on NIN these days.

Pluviale kinda died for me whan I saw the RDM/BLM bodies. After that it became just a convert piece, and we have lots of other options for that.

Edited, Apr 20th 2011 6:58am by K1n371x

Well, yeah, once I have the +2 body I won't really need it other than Convert, but until then it's nice. And it looks better than our ugly AF3 body.

+1 body will replace it just fine unless you really want that 1 per tic regen. Also, youre nuts. Pluviale makes my eyes bleed.

What?!? Maybe it is because I am a Mithra, but Pluviale is sexy as hell! Especially with our thigh highs!

finally got my rdm neck sheesh...

well my ls been doing glavoid pops for almost a month now and every time i am not on they have like 5-6 neck drops...and every time i am able to go with them 0 necks would drop even if we hit blue. Whats even more fun is the fact that the 2nd to the last time we fought it I DC'd right at the beginning of the fight. Game really didnt want me to get that piece. Or was it just messing with me ? Last one we did I got the neck..\o/ Now if i can just get interested in playing rdm again -_-;

Edited, Apr 28th 2011 11:55am by Deadus

grats on the joytoy. It may not seem like a great e-peen sword nowadays but it still is a kick ass blade.

Successfully Duo'd Bahamut on the "Storms of Fate" Quest with a BLU/NIN friend.

I finally dinged 50! Now I get to do my first ever limit break... and hang my head in shame whilst I go and level up my subjobs since most of those parties have been Level Synced.

Finally after years of trying to get it in various linkshells where someone was always ahead of me on points Duelist's Chapeau is mine thanks to the awesome update to Dynamis! I dual boxed the run and received several pieces of Relic in the hour I was inside before I was booted.

In addition to Duelist's Chapeau I also got MNK, SAM, NIN to complete those 3 sets and DRKx2. Can't wait until JP midnight so I can do a run tomorrow for another chance at Assassin Armlet's.


Edited, May 10th 2011 3:29am by Mankind

How many were you that got win in 20min?