Ark Angel Battles: The Second Coming

[Darkmagi]

EV is annoying as hell, even on normal mode. Had 1xOatixur MNK, 1xGungnir DRG, 1zSpharai MNK, 99duraBRD, 90Ochain PLD, WHM. Dominion Slashes for 400-1600 every 15ish seconds, catches you off guard when she uses it while you're in WS gear/JA gear, towards the end of the fight (last 25%) DDs and PLD lost hate to WHM(due to Elvaan spamming high dmg AoEs for 10min) and WHM died. Even with Scherzo and Fulltime DT gear, her attack power seems pretty high for just normal. I would have expected Normal mode Angels to be as hard as a Delve NM. I would have thought that fulltiming DT gear would be something meant for Difficult/Very Difficult, not normal. Considering Elvaan has the most HP and Durability, I'm guessing she's the hardest of the 5, cuz if she didnt have Bene or Invinc, she would have died. Seems more like a slow, steady survival fight compared to other Angels which can be killed relatively quickly in normal.

She's really damn easy for us on normal, mnk/nin x3(fulltime hybrid set) sch whm brd(3song). No one ever gets close to dying. 6min fight while playing it safe.

[Fwahm]

Has anyone checked to see if mats still drop 100% on very easy or easy mode?

[Draylo]

She's really damn easy for us on normal, mnk/nin x3(fulltime hybrid set) sch whm brd(3song). No one ever gets close to dying. 6min fight while playing it safe.

We had the same experience on normal mode (posted video earlier.) Just tried on difficult and she was a lot tougher lol. Damn AOE's doing 2k+, scherzo on she still kept smashing people.

[Fake]

Has anyone checked to see if mats still drop 100% on very easy or easy mode?

They aren't 100% from difficult or very difficult, why would they be 100% from the easiest modes.

[Ophannus]

Mats are gonna be the biggest cockblock, ppl gouging for 13+m, gonna be the new Gabbrath Horn/Sharkfin Tooth.

[Darkmagi]

A lot worse with the drop rates and entry requirements.

[Fwahm]

They aren't 100% from difficult or very difficult, why would they be 100% from the easiest modes.

Because they're 100% on normal mode? They're not 100% on difficult or very difficult presumably because they get shoved out of the pool by more "valuable" items (armor, weapons, more than 1/2 chapters).

[EjinCaitsith]

EV, Very Hard, RNGx2 PLD WHM BRD COR.

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/510/jjdh.png

Not seeing any real point to doing very hard over hard except boxes and the titles...

Fight itself was pretty straightforward assuming you can deal with Arrogance Incarnate.

Because they're 100% on normal mode?

They are not 100% in any of the difficulties.

[Fwahm]

Wait, really? I've never seen it not drop on normal mode in 9 runs.

[Prothescar]

Drop rate on weapons must be pretty poor. Only one confirmed case so far, and that was from Very Difficult. I imagine that they can still drop them on normal/difficult but at reduced rates, similar to HMBCs. Gonna suck farming them.

[Fwahm]

There was a report (on FFXIAH, I think) of a group doing normal mode Divine Might, and the scythe dropping directly off of the Tarutaru.

[Prothescar]

have a link by chance?

[Fwahm]

My bad; a linkshell member said it was divine might, but it looks like the post in question was just someone reporting the 5 individual fights they did. They did report getting the scythe from normal mode Tarutaru, though.

http://www.ffxiah.com/forum/search/?...id=1&q=anahera

[Prothescar]

Will try the MNK MNK MNK SMN BRD WHM setup and see if it works out due to low availability of RNGs. Maybe MNK MNK SMN BRD COR WHM would be better though, hm

[Yugl]

Used Tachi's method but one MNK subbed WAR. Still managed to win, but the NM dropped him during the run.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...5_02.37.54.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...5_02.45.30.png

Edit: NVM about box amount, I assumed the 2nd item was a beitetsu parcel, so just 32 total (Box + Case).

[Fake]

MR on very difficult is a complete joke with rngs and pld.

PLD MNK/NIN RNG(119Annihilator) COR WHM BRD

Every fight the rng would end up doing 70%~ of the total damage and our fastest clear was 14mins. Accuracy was always crappy on MNK using almost perfect accuracy gear/sushi, you also spend a lot of time casting shadows because of AOE spam. Could easily 4 man it by removing the MNK and COR.

The other fights are more melee friendly but with a pld and rngs that don't pull hate you can practically sleep through it.

[EjinCaitsith]

Does Hume really only use Mijin at 1% HP or was that a fluke for us?

[Prothescar]

I've yet to see it use Mijin above 5%

[Lyramion]

Anyone has any clue or experience with non-standart setups like Party of 6 pet users? Don't really have the PLD RNG or multiple MNK love avaiable.

[Tachi]

While I haven't tried it myself, I think a party of 6 SMNs or 5 SMNs 1 PLD could easily defeat all of them in normal without timing out, maybe even in Difficult too with GEO's Meva debuff and Astral Conduit. AAs don't have that much HP in normal (around 120-150k) and my merit BPs 5/5 are averaging 2,5k with the new ammo, Balsam, Hagondes etc. Fights will of course last much, much longer than going with melees.
On Very Difficult GK has 400k~ HP, Auto-Regen, Night Terror works only for 900-1,1k dmg, everything else miss or resist.