Return to Delkfutt’s Tower: Part 2

[Yugl]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...l=1#post488830

Trisvain in Northern San d’Oria (J-7)
Raving Opossum in Port Bastok (J-11)
Mimble-Pimble in Port Windurst (L-5)

Necessary Item: 20 Merits for Stellar Fulcrum Gem
Location: Stellar Fulcrum (Delkutt Tower)
NM: Kam'lanaut

Rewards:
Reforged Artifact Armor Materials/Papers
REM Upgrade Items

[Maurauc]

A reminder for those who haven't done the fight in a while:

Kam'lanaut

Spells: Silencega, Slowga, Paralyga, Graviga, Dispelga,

Abilities:
Great Wheel: AoE Damage + Hate Reset, absorbed by multiple (2-3) shadows.
Light Blade: Single Target long range attack (30'), absorbed by one shadow.

En-magic of any element, that will cause him to absorb that element as HP.
These are named Water Blade, Wind Blade etc.

Note: This information applies to the initial fight, and does not necessarily reflect the new BCNM.

[Draylo]

Really easy until around 50%, he starts to spawn fetters. If you don't kill the fetters (seemed to have decent HP) they will spawn as a complete clone of him. The clones seem to have the same amount of HP as him originally and start at 100%, so its basically another NM lol. Just a quick fight before work, so didn't catch much else. Our setup was MNK MNK MNK PLD WHM BRD. Was really easy until the fetters started to turn into clones. He also has hate reset, blocked with shield though.

[-Zer0-]

Tried it just now on Easy mode. Kam spawns something like 10-12 of the Esoteric fetters in all and eventually stops spawning them. You know it's coming when he uses Ascension. The clones also do the same tp moves as him when he does it. (6 Great Wheels at the same time isn't fun!) Went Pld Nin Mnk Thf Whm Brd. We got him to 30% before we wiped. Bring lots of Echo Drops and be ready to -na everything. Take out the fetters quickly and you should be good to go.

[jimbobsonofgod]

are they like PW fetters magic/physical or like zilant fetters any damage is okay?

[-Zer0-]

In terms of magic damage, I can't say. We pretty much zerged through them melee as quick as we could. I think we took down 2-3 before we got caught with some bad attack combinations. After hate reset, Light Blade took our mnk out quickly. Each fetter has a different color, so it's possible there may be elemental affinities. Our pld logged off for the night, but it seemed like each clone has a different status attack as well varying from para to virus, thus all the -nas.

[Aramaic]

Just finished fight with 3 LS groups. Did ours on very easy just to see best way to deal with fetters + him. Seemed to spawn fetters after every great wheel. My group killed 11 fetters before he died. And he started spawning them at 50%. The second group didn't have him summon the first one till 10% HP so luck of tp moves maybe. They didn't have terrible hp. We went in pld whm brd cor mnk mnk dd all sub nin for blinking light blade + great wheel dmg seemed to work well. Obviously will be worse on normal and harder. I would say 3 dd better than having 1 c or 2 DD. keep 1 dd on him full time with pld amd have 2 dd kill fetters as they pop. Ours never lived more than 1 min never changed into clones. We did get an exalted log on VE mode, so can confirm SE didn't lie about that.

[Tachi]

Under 50% he replaces his "Elemental Blade" TP moves by these :
Vaporization (Wind) give him add effect Silence
Glacification (Ice) give him add effect Paralyze
Terrafication (Earth) give him add effect Slow
Liquification (Water) give him add effect Poison
Electrification (Thunder) give him add effect Stun
Ignition (Fire) give him add effect Plague

Each TP move spawn a Fetter add based on the same element.
All Fetters have high PDT/low magic defenses. Formless Strikes is very effective.
<25% he spawns them at a fast rate, we zerged him.
He is stunnable but his TP moves are almost instant.

[Darkmagi]

Really easy until around 50%, he starts to spawn fetters. If you don't kill the fetters (seemed to have decent HP) they will spawn as a complete clone of him. The clones seem to have the same amount of HP as him originally and start at 100%, so its basically another NM lol. Just a quick fight before work, so didn't catch much else. Our setup was MNK MNK MNK PLD WHM BRD. Was really easy until the fetters started to turn into clones. He also has hate reset, blocked with shield though.

Just wiped due to false information here. Shield block does not block hate reset.

[NynJa]

time for that PLDx4 BRD WHM strat

[Fival]

Did normal with PLD RNG BLM COR BRD WHM, my(pld) pc froze at like 30% and they had no problem holding it till i came back, took about 20 minutes despite the freeze.
-Fetters seemed to take a pretty consistent 300-340 damage from my chant du cygne, where as BLM T4 seemed to one shot them w/ appropriate element, at least in normal, difficult will be difficult.


Edit; Also RNG seems terrible because of hate reset spam, it doesn't always reset but it does a lot, DD might be best for this, light blade did about 900 with ochain on so DD can at least survive the magic damage im sure.

[Martel]

light blade did about 900 with ochain on so DD can at least survive the magic damage im sure.

I've seen Light Blade miss. Which isn't something a magic dmg tp move should be able to do, under normal circumstances. It might be physical.

[Fival]

I've seen Light Blade miss. Which isn't something a magic dmg tp move should be able to do, under normal circumstances. It might be physical.

Ya i thought it was magic at first, but last night i saw it do 0 damage as i poped sentinel, so its for sure physical damage. I don't think theirs any reason to use aegis in that fight, and from what i can tell, great wheel is almost always 2 shadows, if you have 2 shadows it doesn't reset hate. Also noticed in a very hard attempt, and a very hard win in the other bc, shield bash stun seems to always land, so were going to likely use SCH/BLM on our next run to kill fetters and stun dispel/slowga, and see how that works out.

[dasva]

It could be hybrid. They can still miss and the magic part is a multiple of the physical dmg

[Fake]

Dispelga and Slowga can be stunned. Light blade can ignore shadows or take 3 shadows and still have enough hits left to do damage, I double checked log and one of our mnks recast ni and didn't lose any shadows before being hit. Mnk got hit for 2.6k damage and had scherzo on.

The dps check on this fight is extremely low, I would be tempted to find 3 PLD, stunner/nuker, whm, brd and just spam atonement on it.

This only really pertains to D/VD since normal is really easy.

[Fival]

Atonement damage seemed terrible on very hard, i couldn't cap it but thats either because it has some form of DT/MDT or because it spams Great Wheel and reduces enmity, Chant Du Cygne did much better then Atonement, eyeballing.

[Tachi]

Utsusemi seems useless against Light Blade but Scherzo/EA definitely works. VD Ark Angel GK can do over 8000 damage with Tachi: Fudo on a melee who has almost no PDT, I'm not really surprised by the 2,6k with Scherzo.
MNK/MNK/MNK/WHM/BRD/SMN, EA/Scherzo and Formless Strikes rotations on adds is one of my ideas for VD but I don't know if Great Wheel is strong enough to trigger EA/Scherzo and no Stun... SMN can pop 11 useless buffs lasting 6:20 each with just 3 BPs to decrease the chances of having something important removed by Dispelga though.

[Darkmagi]

It's certainly the nastiest fight to try on VD, I'm not really sure how to go about it besides possible full pld strat. Though atonement wouldn't work due to constant hate resets.

[dasva]

6 plds!

[Tachi]

http://pikohime1128.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-122.html
Could someone translate this? They are winning on Difficult (3 Chapters in the personal pool) but their kill time is 3:04 and 2:32.