Pulling the Plug

**Maguile** · 2009-03-20 20:53

Just failed for the third fucking time in a row. Why the hell cant I seem to beat this? Im taking every precaution I can, bringing meds, doing it exactly as everyone else does, yet I fuckin die before the red receptacle is even halfway dead?

Fuckin waste of my time and money on this thing I swear...

I go as mnk/nin, gear is typical for this, anyone have any tips that arent completely obvious?

**Kuji** · 2009-03-20 21:22

MNK/WAR. use anima if ur not.

**Maguile** · 2009-03-20 21:31

Ill list everything I use, starting with gear (lolsynched I know, should I change any of this? maybe t.m. hooks?)

Exocets or Boreas or Destroyers/x/x/tiphia
o.hat/chiv chain/coral/coral
S.H./o.kote/ulth.ring/woods
foragers/brown belt/temple hose/dune boots

For items, I use:
marinara pizza, icarus wing, persikos au lait, psychoanima, potions and even vile elixers QQ

Ill definatly go /war next time, anything else?

**Kuji** · 2009-03-20 21:53

I failed twice b4 I started winning, the stress and the need to finish it asap kills you.
I used to get all those meds at start now a wing and I barely use a potion.
do 5-8boosts and open with Raging fists, run to middle MR, 2hr then use the anima.
that's everything I do, gl on ur next try!

**finalwolf** · 2009-03-20 22:49

your gear is actually pretty horrible for soloing Pulling the Plug

will edit this in a few minutes with tips

Mnk/war: focus, berserk, dodge
Can boost 10-11x and Raging Fists the first MR, this will one shot the MR or reduce enough to where it dies the next melee round.

get into position after killing the first MR, use hundred fist, has a delay from being use to the first hit, during that delay, use the anima on the spawned empty.

for equipment:
swap dune boots for federation kyakans
swap the optical hat for something with def, I prefer hissho hachimaki, gives def, around +3atk, and probably some of the acc is scaled down. Voyager sallet is ok too, even though no def.
carbona or taco would be food for choice when soloing, more hp or more def, you're going to get hit.

swap Brown Belt for Life Belt, haste is pretty much useless during 100fists

think coral earrings is +3atk each in lv50cap, merman's is +4atk, but I use +hp earrings for Pulling the Plug

chiv chain is +1acc and +1str, @ 50cap?, might want to look into some other neckpiece

**rex_garuda** · 2009-03-21 06:01

I 2-box pulling the plug, but I think my gear choice is good for solo too. It's got a mix of HP and Accuracy gear.

Code:

<main>Tactician Magician's Hooks</main>
<ammo>Happy Egg</ammo>
<head>Voyager Sallet</head>
<neck>Peacock Charm</neck>
<lear>Cassie Earring</lear>
<rear>Intruder Earring</rear>
<body>Usukane Haramaki</body>
<hands>Ochimusha Kote</hands>
<lring>Sattva Ring</lring>
<rring>Multiple Ring</rring>
<back>High Breath Mantle</back>
<waist>Life belt</waist>
<legs>Usukane Hizayoroi</legs>
<feet>Junkenshi Habaki</feet>

For the Usukane body, you can use Jujitsu Gi. For legs, it's up to you; use FFXIAH search to find a good leg piece with HP, acc or atk on it.

I use Carbonara also.

Boost x 10, Focus, Berserk, Dodge, RF the teal receptacle, use anima (or in my case, I ES repose the Contemplator), then 2 hour the red MR. Bring lots of potions because Empty Seed can sometimes be spammed a lot, thus you might end up running out of 2 hour to finish the MR.

**Hogie** · 2009-03-24 11:13

I have been told that you can do this as BLM as well, anyone got any strat for that? I have a rough idea but really im just thinking random.

**ninjafox** · 2009-03-24 11:48

Simply put, you cannot win this with level synched gear. The stats wont' be anywhere near as good as the gear for that level.

**Turin** · 2009-03-24 14:43

Originally Posted by ninjafox

Simply put, you cannot win this with level synched gear. The stats wont' be anywhere near as good as the gear for that level.

I've gone 2/4 on winning this, once with no healing items, with only level sync gear excluding weapon. The only problem I seem to have is when the empty seeds go off out of sync and I get knocked around every 4 seconds. Last run I couldn't even get an anmia off because of it. I've heard gear swapping helps prevent this, but seems to be hit or miss for me, any tips to prevent them from going off at different times?

**Funkworkz** · 2009-03-24 15:03

yea you get knocked the fuck around constantly which kills you since it interrupts meds. one thing ive noticed soloing as war (5/5 lusiant, etc) is its a waste to go all out on the aqua MR. save icarus wing, TP, and 2hr for the red one, and heal up right before the aqua dies. also be careful when you pop off WS so you dont get knocked back and lose tp.

**sleekmotorwurkz** · 2009-03-24 15:19

Assuming lvl synched gear how would mnk and whm fair duoing? Or is lvl sync gear completely out of the question.

Thinking of taking first MR slow and steady with cures, ele seal repose contemplator, and using all buffs + icarus wing + 2hr on red.

Originally Posted by Funkworkz

and heal up right before the aqua dies.tp.

How? Get out of range i assume? Ive never done this enm just looking for general info.

**Funkworkz** · 2009-03-24 15:23

whm and mnk duo is fine as long as the whm keeps the spawned empty reposed. you need to kill the red one before it wakes up or the whm will have a hard time sleeping it again and probably die if he/she doesnt use an anima on it before trying to cast. as long as you can deal with draw in and empty seed this fight is easy

**ChibiKawaiiMei** · 2009-03-26 07:36

Me (WHM) and a friend (SAM) are trying this ENM. I can figure gearwise a MNK and SAM can be similar, anyone have any good results with this combo?

**Berdysh** · 2009-03-27 15:28

"Me (WHM) and a friend (SAM) are trying this ENM. I can figure gearwise a MNK and SAM can be similar, anyone have any good results with this combo?"

I duo it with a WHM regularly, on Warrior. We both just go in whatever level synch'd gear, and I bring an Icarus Wing. I hold TP while melee'ing down the melee dmg MR, then we heal up and I finish it off (it only takes like 5-6 swings, no WS, with Berserk up). She reposes the NM, I Mighty Strikes Sturmwind -> wing -> Sturmwind the middle MR, and it usually dies in another swing or two. It was a little messy first time we did it and I needed to save myself with meds, but now we only need the wing.

**Zilong** · 2009-03-27 16:51

Do these sleep to repose? Last time I tried it, it ended up resisting, so I'm wondering if it's just shitty acc and eseal would've fixed it.

**pchan** · 2009-03-27 18:36

Originally Posted by Zilong

Do these sleep to repose? Last time I tried it, it ended up resisting, so I'm wondering if it's just shitty acc and eseal would've fixed it.

The thinker sleeps but only with elemental seal.

**Anomander** · 2009-03-28 03:24

Contemplator (teal spawn) seems to sleep quite easy to repose. Only seen it resisted twice. I beat this as Sam/war, using polearm and penta thrust (I have 2 polearm merits so I have penta at 50. If no merits, /drg and lance belt will suffice). Meditate, buff, food (cheap meat) and go to town. Use first penta on the teal receptacle. One penta and a regular hit should suffice here.

When I duo'd with a whm, I would wait for meditate to be back up and use it in the middle of my meikyo penta's. He would repose the spawned contemplator (even if it resisted, he would pull hate which was enough to win). Never used any meds or anima's. Since I started duo'ing with a sam/drg, we just go all out (no meds or anima's, no second meditate). Never get all the way through meikyo with the other sam, unless he gets knocked back too much to get any off.

**Conrad** · 2009-03-28 20:59

Originally Posted by Zilong

Do these sleep to repose? Last time I tried it, it ended up resisting, so I'm wondering if it's just shitty acc and eseal would've fixed it.

Repose worked fine for me without ES, and has yet to resist on me.

**Hanyoko** · 2009-03-30 13:15

I've always gone whm/blm and ES sleep then after about 30s I try Repose. Stray resists have worked in there but thats what the anima is for.

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