Ode of Life Bestowing Strategy  

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Just pet burned this at level 85 and it was ridiculously easy.
pup/drk
bst/drk
3x bst/whm
bst/sch

We killed perhaps 6 thralls who seemed to appear rather constantly, but I don't think we had more than 2 at a time. 2x stunners kept all the ga-3s off and I don't recall seeing seed of judgement at all. 3 stunners is probably enough to keep almost anything significant from hitting. w/ 6x pets doing damage it goes by quickly took maybe 6 min for the whole fight. I used 2 sheep and only 1 pet food. I could have used 2 pet food, and only 1 sheep.

This run convinced me it could have been pet burned very well at level 75. Silly me never realized you didn't need to have high magic skill for stun to work. This way any pet job can also be a stunner. I think 3x /whm or sch and 3x /drk would be enough at level 75. The more stunners you have the easier it is to mitigate damage from AoE on pets, and they survive longer. the /healers would heal if needed (we didn't need to) or pull the seed thralls and melee them down.

Often the Seed thralls would pull hate on a pet and they would do most the killing before we could pull them, but this added more damage to the pets.

I'm gearing up for a BST approach to this.

Party Setup:
Stunner: DRK, BLM, or Mage/DRK
BST: 4~5x
optional COR, SMN

Potential BST Support jobs:
WHM, SCH, RDM, NIN, COR, WAR, BLU, PLD, BLM

Mage support jobs are very useful for using spells to pull seed thrall and for curing.
/whm Divine Seal + Cure 3 is largest available curing. blink, stoneskin, etc.
/rdm phalanx, cure 3, stoneskin, blink
/blm nukes for pulling seed thralls.
/sch sublimation, tier 2 nukes, high magic skill.
/nin utsusemi, dual wield, but no good pulling tool for thralls
/war can pull and fight seed thralls AND Provoke + Snarl in case someone gets drawn in.
/cor Puppet Roll and Beast Roll for improved DPS
/pld lower mp pool and few spells, flash.

Not reccomended:
/drk Could bst have any hope of landing stun? (I don't think so)
/dnc only useful if you can build tp and finishing moves off thralls
/blu pinecone bomb can pull, magic fruit can cure, but there are probably better spells on other jobs.
brd, pup,
Probably at least 2x mage support jobs preferred.

EACH BST should bring at least 8 HQ pets and 2 stacks of zeta biscuits.

Suggested Pets:
Currier Carrie - Bubble Curtain for magic damage reduction
Panzer Galahad - High Def and HP
Chopsuey Chucky - High HP and Attack

Pros:
Pets cannot be charmed. Seed of Deference becomes a non issue.
Job abilities will not be impeded by Seed of Nihility.
Pets have large, renewable HP pool.
Snarl neutralizes draw-in.
4~5x DD for potential high dps.

Challenges:
Keeping pets alive for the duration of Call Beast recast timer. Seed of Judgment will be the largest challenge for this strategy. Pet DEF+ gear and Pet Damage Reduction gear optimal for this strategy. Call Beast recast merits and Reward Recast merits also reccomended. BST may also have pets attack in rotation to counter this
(1 or 2 at a time).

HATE for non BST
IF a COR does ranged attacks throughout the fight they find themselves at top of hate list when BST re summon pets.

Stunner might also make it to top of hate list during pet swaps.

If any player gets drawn in, they should run back to party. BST should use cures or provoke to claim hate and shed it to pet.


Edited, May 17th 2010 3:38am by Xilk

Edited, May 17th 2010 6:58am by Xilk