Lowman RDM AF2 Hat?

[Bootykilla]

I think I remember seeing a post a long time ago about farming the hat solo/duo strategy. Does anyone have that link or is it even possible?

P.S. Yes I will use calendar so I dont steal zone or hold up any LS's.

[mdkuser]

monk + rdm works, or just rdm solo with dots maybe, assuming it doesnt cure itself. {Treasure hunter} {do you need it?}

[xerodok]

http://images.encyclopediadramatica....epic_bread.jpg

[shidobu]

almost didnt get it.. .but i got it now

[Usmrsiberian]

If you want to spend millions on on glasses just to kill a few Demons I guess. If you're willing to do that I'm sure you can buy it off some HNMLS.

[Thorny]

can't solo it because it's impossible to clean pull, thf sac + rdm works and you can TH it and also kill THF NM

if you need to ask the strat, you probably shouldn't bother since chapeau isn't that important for curebot rdms

[Riiaider]

Can DoT solo it / zombie it if you wanna spend that kinda money on glasses/RR/Exp loss.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgJZu...FD3CD&index=15
Not sure if it cures himself as Mdk pointed since this video is oldish, maybe the mob behavior has been changed etc since then.

Duo would be anyway stated as above.

Been staring at that picture train for a few minutes and I still dont get it =/

[xerodok]

You're going to be wasting a lot of money/time/experience if you just try and duo, or even trio Xarcabard itself. For any of the Counts it would be the same thing.

As said before, just buy it off a linkshell. If your server doesn't have any mercenary linkshells, move to a server that does.

[Thorny]

Not sure if it cures himself as Mdk pointed since this video is oldish, maybe the mob behavior has been changed etc since then.

it does when idle if all buffs are up.. that video is of the blm, impossible to dot to death

[Kaotic]

RDM/NIN + THF can do it, have the thf sack pull and rdm take it to a safe place, I used above the TE by rdm tower. When I would do it, and what I would suggest, is to bring at least 3 people with you, THF + RDM + BLM works nice. With RDM + RDM + BLM (thf dual boxed) I would do the first TE, RDM BLM THF NIN NM and still have 30min. left over, more blms makes this faster. It is also possible to do the TE by the RDM tower, have done it once, but haven't had a chance to mess around with it to much since. Would use the 30min. extra to pull a few regular mobs. The real key is knowing a good sack-pull route and place to fight the NMs. (Only AF i've seen drop from doing this is NIN D= ) However, bringing in more people cuts the glass cost significantly, I found 130k more than worth it as it was both fun to do and allowed for a chance at AF.

[Thorny]

If you have 4 people, may as well add 2 more and do a real run with RDM BLM BRD WAR WAR THF

[Bootykilla]

If we do get to NM how do we fight it? Is it kite dot/nuke method? Do I go for the 2 TE otw beforehand? Does anyone have exact strategy? I have only done Xarc once so my memory is still kinda vague of the pulls and sacs required.

I am not worried about cost or exp, this is just something we wanna do to stay interested in game, farming it ourselves is worth much more than 10m going to some jerk's bot relic.

[Thorny]

If we do get to NM how do we fight it? Is it kite dot/nuke method? Do I go for the 2 TE otw beforehand? Does anyone have exact strategy? I have only done Xarc once so my memory is still kinda vague of the pulls and sacs required.

I am not worried about cost or exp, this is just something we wanna do to stay interested in game, farming it ourselves is worth much more than 10m going to some jerk's bot relic.

save a demon, kill yourself

[Kaotic]

This is the strategy I used (roughly):

For the first TE the THF will aggro all of the eyes and whatnot and run them to the entrance, while one of your members grabs the stat and you kill it quickly, 2 people can do this rather quickly, 1 person is still easily doable.
Pull back to the 'path' by the wall and wait to see if it was a clean pull (if mobs are running fast means wasn't clean). If it wasn't clean die in a safe place and RR up.

Head to RDM tower, have the thf sack pull it (I believe we sacked towards the PLD(i think) tower direction. Have somebody grab the rdm (Duke Berith) off the thf and pull it above the TE eyes. Just apply dots/debuffs and bind/nuke hold. If you have blm(s) there I found it best to wait until about 20% and do an ES am 2 (should do ~10%), and make sure blm is watching for stuns on cure IV if possible (think, if they miss it isn't a big deal, just takes more time.

Next we would do BLM or THF (doesn't really matter which).
We would fight both in same place, between the THF and PLD(i think) tower, it's the one directly across from the THF tower. Same strategy as above, have a member pull the mob off the thf and take it to the location above (be careful of the eyes that will be located near you. We had the thf sac pull it towards wall near in front of ninja tower (think its otw to Animated Dagger, don't know to much about Xarc locations lol). Hold the mob as far over as you can so that you won't aggro the mobs as they run back, when mobs are back to their spawn tower you will have the entire space between thf/pld and nin tower. For BLM make sure your members are spread apart so that sleepga won't hit you all.

Same strategy as Ninja, don't think you can bind him (not 100% sure) but he is extremely easy to kite, just keep buffs up. We haven't tried any of the other NMs, but the strategy would be much the same if you wanted to do them.

Most important thing is to make sure everybody has RR up, especially the thf because it will save you a ton of time not having to go and raise the thf to put TH on mob. If the thf dies in an unsafe place, hp and run back so as not to waste time.

You don't even really need a thf to do this, just something that can sac-pull the mobs and survive long enough to have the mob pulled off them.

It's really not that complicated, this is the strategy we used but there are multiple ways to do everything, find what works best for you. Think thats it lol <.<

[Kilorilo]

Heres a vid by a JP who duod it RDM+THF

First vid is how they got to the NM, 2nd is the fight.
http://zoome.jp/chinakko/diary/38
http://zoome.jp/chinakko/diary/39

This is another vid of a 5man fight.
http://zoome.jp/rapakya/diary/86

[Beave]

In my experience with Dyna-Xarc over the years...you're far better off just farming demons lowman than going after the NMs. I've probably seen over 20 hats come from nq mobs, and only remember 1 coming from the NM (always hit rdm+pld+thf NMs, more recently started doing all NMs).

[Aurara]

I am not worried about cost or exp, this is just something we wanna do to stay interested in game, farming it ourselves is worth much more than 10m going to some jerk's bot relic.

we dont have a shitty ls relic system. you can just buy from us from 10m. If you dont know how to fight it lowman, like thorny said..just dont even bother since the chapeau would be wasted on you

[Thorny]

In my experience with Dyna-Xarc over the years...you're far better off just farming demons lowman than going after the NMs. I've probably seen over 20 hats come from nq mobs, and only remember 1 coming from the NM (always hit rdm+pld+thf NMs, more recently started doing all NMs).

Since I started records, I've seen 5 hats on plain mobs and 2 from NM(was not that long ago). It really depends how many people you have though, AF seems to be about 6% with TH4 so you would need to kill 333.3 demons to get a RDM hat on average. NM is ~10%, so you'd need to kill 10 of them to get a hat on average. If you kill more than 33 demons in the time it takes to kill berith, then you'd have a point. My guess is you lose maybe 6. Lowman runs can kill both berith and plain mobs

[The_OG_Nelta]

[Thorny]

Youtube Video

Not only was this already mentioned in this thread, but I already pointed out that Marquis Orias is BLM not RDM and doesn't cure itself.