Soloable Abyssea NMs?Follow

What i did for doing the pot NM is simply /BLM and stun his -agas. Despite having only half the skill stun worked 90% of the time.

Also, it is not hard to kite the NM around if your CB timer is down. It stops quite often for casting, and the NM pathing is "terrible" (= good for us), too.

You can also use dipper for the fight so you don´t have to stun the Aeroga IV and thus can save it for the more dangerous spells.

Two obvious solos but figured I'd add my two cents

Sirrush for Ferine Leg Seals: For starters this guy has a sh*te drop on Ferine seals. 3 seals in over 15 kills. Atma used for first few fights was Mounted Champion/Viccistude/Ducal Guard Anwig Salade for -10 dmg no other damage mitigation but some added acc and attk from body, legs, neck. It was overkill, fight took long (15 mins) because of lack of offensive atma, Yuly never went below 50%. Ditched Viccistude and threw on Razed Ruins. Made fight go much quicker. Feel free to dd along side your pet and keep in mind there is a sweet spot you can hit that avoids his fire/snow ball attacks. Its tough to find but its there.

Flame Skimmer for Ferine Leg Seals: I have yet to finish a solo fight but that's due to being impatient. First fight took about 45mins to get to 30% with same gear as above, Yuly MC/DG/Viccistude (I did not have any offensive atma). I was going to run out of time so gave up. DDing alongside Yuly wasn't an option because Yuly could not hit for sh*t, but neither could Skimmer and Snarl could not keep up with your hate. Second attempt went with RR/DG/MC. Fight went much quicker. Got to 50% in about 10-15mins and you can dd alongside pet. Used reward a bit more second time around but not as much as I thought I would. Someone came along and offered their assistance so I took it because I was getting bored. Fight could probably be done in 20-30mins, faster with Cloak and Dagger Atma. Keep Spiral Spin on for Acc Down.

Oh and @#%^ the cost of Yuly, 90K on Ramuh. So much demand and such a sh*te recipe.

For Flame Skimmer I ended up using Anna and her evasion down tp move along with DG/heavens(pdt@98% with this)/RR. It was a whiff fest without the evasion down but it seemed to be very potent as a good chunk of those turned into hits afterward.

Quickstep works well against Flame Skimmer too, if you're /dnc. When low manning him with my shell I run in to land steps and the occasional WS+snarl. I miss quite a bit on the first few steps, but once I've got it to level 5 I have no problem keeping it there and can land plenty of melee hits. Just got to be careful not to get hit by Cursed Sphere too much.

I use Dipper for acc down (Skimmer has just as hard a time hitting her as she does hitting it, and it helps our nin tank), but Anna sounds like a solid idea for getting eva down further so I'll try her next time we pure pet it.

I've not tried soloing it but I've held it easily with Dipper alone and just RR while waiting for the rest of the group to arrive, so with the right set up a solo kill shouldn't be that bad. Duo is certainly pretty easy.

Edited, Jan 25th 2011 11:48am by Gii

There are even times when there are no Yuly on AH or ingredients to make them >_<

Not a solo but trio'd Yaanei with 3 bst. I Had around 98% pdt/70%ish mdt and my pet never died with rewards used. the other 2 didn't have the same setup as me and just tossed sheep at it until it died.

Nothing special about the fight til its under 25% then try and keep pets HP at the higher end up Ducal Guards procing point as its Besieger's Bane tp move gives a short zombie status. It wont(didnt to me or others at least) draw you in if you are far enough away(stayed 25-30yalms away)

You sure don't, you can have pet out, and change your atmas and the pets change as well, as long as atma effect is on you, the same one is on pet
(even though it would be so sexy if that wasn't the case, sure would be nice to have DD atmas on me and tank atmas on pet)

Im confused at what all this pet minus stuff is needed for with Raskovnik. 90BST/NIN takes this NM no problem with 1 dipper. Using spiral spin when its up is the only thing you have to do. Using 2 atmas: Mounted Champion and Razed Ruin. Stand 25'-40' away so you do not get charmed and just let dipper do its job. There is no need to reward or to melee. If you were rating nm's on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the hardest, Raskovnik is a 1.

Don't even bother killing Amhuluk unless you need the axe. Have killed it 7 times now, 4 of which had blue and yellow triggers, and one of which had all 3 triggers. Still 0 jewels. Got 10 coins, but I'm never leveling any of those jobs, so I came out an inventory slot behind.

Fistule soloed - BST/NIN

In case any of you are interested in Farsha here's a rundown:

Items required:
1 Wool grease
Pet food Zeta - not counted how many you need but I used less than one stack
All restoration items, pet restoraton items and status ailment curing items from the Cruor prospector.
Maybe also an Eft blood to pop bloodguzzler.

Atma:
I used Vissitude, Mounted Champion and Ducal Guard. I believe that a successful fight can also be achieved using other combinations of Atma but I would highly recommend Ducal Guard and 1 Regen atma (an Evasion atma may be a good replacement for one regen perhaps).

Strategy:
The first step of course is the pull, Fistule is non-targetable until you pull either Guimauve or Bloodguzzler to it. Call Dipperyuly and pull your selected NM towards Fistule, purposely try and lag the ladybug behind you as you draw in close to Fistule as he will start with a tp move that may hit you if you are close to Yuly.

If Fistule hits you with a tp move just stay back long enough for the Regen to replenish your HP. When you are at 100% hp Start to melee at a 90 degree angle from your pet (Fistule being the centre point for this angle of course). It is important that you don't melee at any bigger angle than that because Fistule is so large that you will be too far away to use snarl, being an NM that will both bind you and reset hate pretty often this can lead to many a sticky situation. You can safely Melee most of the fight, keep shadows up at all times because as previously mentioned he will randomly reset hate quite often shadows also can negate the gravity effect from one of his attacks - Cytokinesis.

When Fistule uses Cytokinesis your role in the fight changes to from DD to kiter, you must grab the attention of the Pustules he summons after using it and run (Attacking normally works, WS in other cases though). Pustules will depop when they are far enough away from Fistule. The move he uses to summon these may induce Gravity (if you do not have at least two shadows up) and Fistule also likes to use an AoE Bind alot, if you are bound or weighed down do not panic or attempt to grab their attention, your pet should be able to handle all three of these for a long time (With the Atmas I have recommended your pet can actually handle more than 6 Pustules comfortably). When you've got the attention of a Pustule you must run south towards the Liqorices with it, hugging either wall is usually good but be warned; there may be Liqorices hugging the wall, you'll need to rethink your path if so - Liqorices aggro by sight so you can avoid them fairly well being a fine-tuned aggro-dodging Beastmaster (think back to your pre-abyssea soloing days where you learned that stuff). After you have depoped you can melee again until he uses Cytokinesis again, and the cycle repeats.

Infrequently, a situation may arise where Fistule resets hate while you are grabbing the Pustule he may head towards you as well as the Pustule making it impossible - until he stops - to depop the Pustule. To combat this you can let the Pustules and Fistule whiff away at your pet until you see that Fistule resets hate, snarl, then grab the Pustule. You can grab both the Pustules or just one, I personally like to grab one at a time if you have some form of enhanced movement I would suggest you grab two for speed.

Another dangerous situation that can occur is after pulling a Pustule, Fistule then uses a Bind or gravity inducing move - this is the time to use your Vicar's drink or Catholicon you purchased with your cruor (I recommend you reserve these drinks solely for this possibility even though it doesn't happen often). If it happens more than twice you're screwed.

Notes:
- This will also be possible with other subjobs, some may even be better than /NIN.
- Atmas aside, minimal pet enhancing gear is required (I used one pet eva+20 Axe and AF3+2 pants only)
- Fight takes around 20-40mins (20minute fight involves meleeing at 50% onwards)

Edit - new tips:
- Pet food Zeta are not even necessary, soloed him without using any
- I was able at 50% to melee him the rest of the duration without pulling Pustules off him (Note: my DD gear is decent, if you can't kill him fast enough he will overwhelm you with lots of Pustules), the note above this one may not be true when using this method.
- If you pull Fistule to the furthermost North-West corner of his spawn area and drag the pustules South-east they will despawn before reaching the Liqorices (providing Fistule stays in place).

Let it rain Farshas - except if you're on Siren in which case stay the hell away from my Fistules until I'm done!

Edited, Feb 1st 2011 5:26am by Attaxia

what quests did you guys do to get fame in graburg to get ducal guard quest active? Does dominion ops count?

I did Getting Lucky along with a few other quests for their "initial" fame (since conventional wisdom is that you get more fame for the first completion of a quest than you do when you repeat it).

I would suggest buying some of each of the 3 goblin foods. I thought 5 of each would be enough to do at least 10 attempts. But I got Goblin Pie assigned to me about 10 times, and chocolate maybe 3 times. With just the movement speed boost from Sprinter's Shoes, you can complete a run in 5 or 6 minutes. Just watch out for a Goblin NM when doing the dark place, and Uragnite NM when doing the water place.

It took me exactly 10 attempts of this quest to go from level 2 fame to level 3 fame.

I did getting lucky also, but I chose it because it had seals I wanted.
my experience was in line w/ Blowfin, I did not repeat it 30 times.. perhaps 20 quests total, though I did a few others as well, I only repeated the 1.

I've never low manned him. white wind diminishes in strength as his hp get lower... first you have to gethim lower. I think I've stunned a few white wind. you might try /dnc for quicker stuns.

Did Getting lucky, harvested grauberg greens for the chocobo feeding quest while doing it. (and got a stack of lesser chigoes for yuly synths, to boot.) Then killed like 3 wyverns for cornelia's pursuer wing quest, and did the egg quest each run. I just wanted to zone out as few times as possible since you need to waste all that time and cruor reapplying time/atmas/cruor boosts every time you reenter. Only had to do that 5 times, though I had done the chocobo quest via woozyshrooms and beaten the boss already.

If you focus on just doing Getting Lucky over and over again, you don't even need to spend cruor on buffs. The only cruor you'll have to spend is on 2 or 3 confluxes. The cruor reward for doing the quest should cover most (if not all) of that cost.

Repeating Getting Lucky is probably the fastest and cheapest of those quests (while you have to buy some food from an NPC, you don't need to burn jug pets).

Solo'd Waugyl for Sojourn Atma and Quest Key Item

1 Dipper Yuly
~8 Zetas
Razed Ruin / Ducal Guard / Cloak and Dagger
~ 40 minute fight

Atma can be played around with, RR did help for dmg but regen from MC would be nice to offset Ill Wind and Wind Shear (when it hits) Cloak and Dagger is a must because NM attacks have various en- that can cripple your pet. Initial fight was Razed Ruin / Voracious Violet / Mounted Champion, Yuly got beat down pretty quick and I got killed during pet swap.

White Wind is stronger at higher HP, recommend DDing with pet to drop its HP ASAP. Wind Shear is AoE as is Ill Wind (which also dispels). Both hit for about 600HP and can drop you pretty quick if you cannot keep your HP up. Used a lot of temps to keep myself in the fight. After 50% I rested and Yuly brought NM down to 20% pretty quickly. I hopped in again to help offset White Wind spam which at that point only healed 5-10%. Reports vary on its usage, my personal fight he used it a dozen times.

Without RR I think fight could take a bit longer but DG and MC can help reduce usage of Zetas. If Gil and zeta are not an issue, the evasion from C&D allows you to not have to worry about reward timer.

I went after Chillwing last night. I suppose it's possible, but it would require a lot of luck. I tried /dnc first, no luck. I then thought it might be worth it to try /blm for Stun, but still couldn't pull it off. The problem isn't damage from melee hits, because those are fine. It's just that you're inevitably going to miss stuns, either due to recast or amnesia or bad timing. Each one you miss makes the fight worse, and it eventually becomes impossible.

I actually came back out with a friend, and we tried to duo. We both went /blm for extra stuns, and set up a rotation. Even then, not enough stuns. Finally, I tried me on /blm and him on blm/rdm. Got Chillwing down to about 20% and wiped. By the time we died, the bio aura was over 200+/tic.

BST solos are all about steady DoT and damage mitigation. They are lacking when it comes to zerg options. And I'm starting to think zerg is the only way to beat Chillwing, unless there is some novel approach I haven't considered.

Maybe just stacking all DD atmas and trying to go all out? That's one thing I didn't try.

Yeah, I didn't have any problems landing the spell. In fact I never saw a resist. The problem was the looooooong recast on Stun. There is always the problem of him getting off a Deafening Tantara and silencing, too.

sounds like a good plan for a duo. if not for the bio aura getting so strong, Yuly can certainly solo the imp.

Looking around it looks like Rasheph is soloable for bst +2 hands. The tp moves are all physical.
Ningishzada is soloable, but I wouldn't recommend it. TONS of hp and it takes long enough trio.

Anything that uses ONLY physical attacks in abyssea is probably going to be soloable.

Thanx for info on usurper. I thought it looked soloable, but I didn't get around to it yet, and didn't have confirmation.

It does take pet to 1HP with DC, but you do have time to heal usually. The only possible issue was that when we fought it (not solo, not pet exclusive), it decided to Tarsal Slam twice in succession towards the end of the fight. That could be problematic if you are relying on reward timers. I'd advise keeping your salves handy for emergencies, in case he decides to be mean to you, unless you are at 100% PDT (with no slip damage) and all of his remaining moves are pure physical.

As long as his Slams are nice and spaced out he should be soloable with a near-100% pdt build, but I don't imagine it would be a very fun fight. More of a frustrating and expensive one :P

I was fooling around with Chukwa and decided it would be really easy to solo with FowerpotMerle. I went /dnc.

Threw a Yuly at him and he wasn't able to tp up enough for spiral spin and got eaten.

Be careful not to be in the "Latent" of Ducal guard when you need to call another pet.

Got to 10%hp before he turned around and tortoise stomped me. Didn't bring all my axes but used only 1 -10% physical and Razed Ruins/Ducal guard. You could melee on the otherside of the turtle and the -ga's wont hit you, but watch your hate. Snarl won't go through unless you move a little closer foward. You can basically do "Reward" when its up and keep him up. I ran out because I only had 7 on me. So I started tossing pets.

But, I noticed that when FlowerpotMerle guards, it does almost under double digets(10-18dmg) probably due to Ducal guard. Not to mention she counters.

what -pdt gear you use to get up to 98% or 88% with ducal guard?