LVL 90 Solos

[Mojo]

I'd say it took around 20~30 minutes, maybe less. I'm not really sure, I didn't time it. Damage was decent, was using attack food and likely had capped accuracy as long as I wasn't Blinded (which is still very potent.) In the few times I was able to use Blade: Hi safely (i.e. not dumping my TP,) I did about 1400~1800 damage (assuming the main hit was a crit.) Really though that's just from memory, so it's definitely a qualitative number.

I changed my builds mid fight because I wasn't satisfied with my evasion. I wanted enough to be able to ride Ichi and have Ni up for when it did Hurricane Wing. I think the following would probably be ideal.

Main	Kannagi
Sub	Sekka +2
Range	Ungur's Boomerang
Head	Iga Zukin +2
Body	Usukane Haramaki
Hands	Usukane Gote
Legs	Iga Hakama +2
Feet	Iga Sune-Ate +2
Neck	Torero Torque
Waist	Twilight Belt
Back	Boxer's Mantle
Ear1	Ethereal Earring
Ear2	Suppanomimi
Ring1	Epona's ring
Ring2	Raja's Ring

I think this would come close to capping your evasion while maintaining good TP accumulation (which is necessary because it has Regain anyays) and also has 49/50 Subtle Blow that can be augmented through Yurin & Myoshu.) I don't have Sekka +2 and I didn't have some of the other gear in my macros at the time, but I still managed it.

In regards to Tiamat. I'm wondering how a SMN might fare these days. Soma's Staff +2/Agni's Staff +2, Caller's Doublet +2 and Caller's Pigaches +2 is enough to reduce the perpetuation costs for Leviathan or Ifrit to 1 MP/tick. Auto Refresh II, Moonshade Earring, Caller's Horn +2 & /RDM would put them at 7 MP/tick Refresh while their avatars are out too. It's a net MP gain of 124 MP/minute (accounting for Refresh casting cost,) without any kind of Elemental Siphon trickery I know nothing about. Could that be enough, coupled with Convert every 10 minutes, to take it down?

[Mojo]

Also, for KB solo, I think that a decent MDT build would be enough on NIN/DNC. It's casting intervals are somewhat predictable and far apart too, so if 0 MDT results in a Migawari proc, then you could probably use that, or simply start running when it was about to cast next.

[Nemesio]

As for Jailer of Faith, I was able to do on RDM, if that counts?

[Seol]

Can always try to interrupt meteor, last time I did KB, I was the only Melee on it (THF), straight tanked it from behind and was WSing during meteors, ended up interrupting 7/12, the damage range of meteor was from 480sh-810 with shell V only. His acc wasn't that good either the only eva gear on me at that time was +3 eva from heed ring (granted there's eva bonus traits for THF, but if a thf/nin can do it, so can a nin/dnc) was doing ichi to ichi tanking.

[Limlight]

question about faf/nid.

My mule is 90 whm and i'm finishing up his 81 rdm to 90. Taking ninja to it would you still recommend backwards tanking it and maybe just going rdm/nin for shadows to deal with flail and keeping myself hasted/enfeebles? Or with a rdm mule there would it be more prudent to just straight tank the bitch so i don't have to worry about flail killing my mule?

Honestly how hard does flail hit for at 90 anyway? Could it one shot a rdm through stoneskin idling in a very basic pdt set?

edit: also I do not have and probably never will have a kannagi, will this make duo/solo of nid impossible?

[Titanss]

can't shit just be zerg'd with a drk/nin kc ? i dunno why im asking i dont give a shit about xi (since 06) jw i guess

[drwaffles]

can't shit just be zerg'd with a drk/nin kc ? i dunno why im asking i dont give a shit about xi (since 06) jw i guess

The TP spam would probably get you terror'd, which would put a swift end to that.

[Mojo]

question about faf/nid.

My mule is 90 whm and i'm finishing up his 81 rdm to 90. Taking ninja to it would you still recommend backwards tanking it and maybe just going rdm/nin for shadows to deal with flail and keeping myself hasted/enfeebles? Or with a rdm mule there would it be more prudent to just straight tank the bitch so i don't have to worry about flail killing my mule?

Honestly how hard does flail hit for at 90 anyway? Could it one shot a rdm through stoneskin idling in a very basic pdt set?

edit: also I do not have and probably never will have a kannagi, will this make duo/solo of nid impossible?

I don't think Kannagi will make/break it. I rarely got to use Blade: Hi as I often needed to save TP or risked getting in a bad situation. If you're going to bring a mule then bring RDM/NIN and back tank it. Utsusemi will absorb flail. You don't want to try and blood tank it with Stoneskin and such cause it also has knockback if it goes through shadows which is really annoying to deal with dual boxing. NIN/DNC & RDM/NIN should be an easy win.

[Atoreis]

I would say NIN/THF if you going with RDM mule. TH,+22evasion and SA (tho SA will boost avg Hi a lot more then Jin but even for Jin it should be significant). With RDM enfe it should be a lot easier to fight too. Only problem would be no blindna so you need some eye drops.

I have other question tho. If going on THF/NIN+RDM/NIN would be as easy? Seriously how much Flail hits w/o shadows. I dont remember how fast is spike flail too so idk if changing to full pdt gear in emergency while no shadows up could be enough?

[Afrohatch]

Flail is pretty fast, and if the damage in abyssea reflects the damage from a Hogg flail, it'll prolly be around 1-1.2k with no shadows or PDT gear

[Corgan]

I'm kind of confused on what you mean by tail/back tanking Fafhogg and how that forces him into flail/wing only. When I've heard of back tanking it used to mean tank while facing away from the mob, but it seems like that must be wrong because I don't see how that would limit his TP moves. On the other hand tail tanking seems to imply tanking him while he's facing away from you which seems impossible due to the way tanking works in the traditional sense <_<

What is meant by this exactly?

[Afrohatch]

If you stand behind certain Wyrms, they will only use certain TP moves. They can't roar or breath because you're not in front of them...so they'll use another TP move that can reach it's target, so usually it's Flail and Wing.

To clarify: if it's attacking you with it's tail, you're behind it.

[Corgan]

If you stand behind certain Wyrms, they will only use certain TP moves. They can't roar or breath because you're not in front of them...so they'll use another TP move that can reach it's target, so usually it's Flail and Wing.

To clarify: if it's attacking you with it's tail, you're behind it.

I guess I was thinking in terms of if you have hate on it and you're standing on its tail it would just turn to face you, but I guess back when I played it would have been preposterous to even try tanking a wyrm while standing behind it so I wouldn't know.

[Subadai]

Yeah, some mobs won't turn to face you when you get hate.

[Afrohatch]

Well if it turned to face you then it wouldn't be preposterous to stand on it's tail

[Ophannus]

I tried soloing ACP BCNM the one with the Orc/Yagudo/Quadav/Goblin as DRG/BLU and I always come so close but they just spam Headbutt/Shell Bash/Sweep and stun rapes me.

[NynJa]

none of this exists on gilga JP's still zerg the fuck out of kings

[Draylo]

I've solo'd ISNM3000 shadows of the mind when I was 85 BLU. Probably a lot easier now with other jobs with evasion not worth doing anymore though lol.

[Chun Liroy]

Any drgs out there soloing stuff? What are they capable of? I know they were quite capable back at 75 cap (although the most notable thing I solo'd was probably antlion ENM), but anyone push it to it's limits? Limbus solos? Anything else?

[Syntex]

What sky gods are soloable now? Genbu/Suzy/Seiryu were soloed by mostly RDM with a few others killing genbu but how practical is it by other jobs now? How about Byakko?