The Warrior's Path: Part 2

[Karizo]

Question regarding the BLM Tarutaru. Does he have separate resistances for light/dark based sleep? Also, is silence/stun a viable option? Ran into a sleep wall yesterday and kept getting Meteor, was able to survive a few with well-time cure bombs and Sacrosanctity, but by the 4th/5th one people were going down.

I guess we should have tried to random deal or wild card the BRD's troubadour, since he was stating the BLM was resisting too much.

The reason I asked about separate resistances is that one of the kills I did we had a RDM or SCH who was helping the BRD sleep, and even though the kill was slower, the Tarutaru never woke up.

Another question is regarding Cosmic Elucidation (name?). Does it always follow Yaegasumi? I've gotten hit by it for a huge range of damage. Sometimes it would take less than half the damage of the party, other times it brings us close to death. Both cases were without Schrezo.

[Priran]

I haven't noticed it (called Universal Enlightenment in this BC, not Cosmic Elucidation) having anything to do with Yaegasumi, it seems to be associated with Meikyo Shisuis below 25% HP (or possibly, after he's eaten his rice ball). That being said, if you're noticing damage spikes associated with Yaegasumi you need to tell your DDs to watch the log for it and stop WSing while it's up.

[Darkmagi]

He does both of them, I have only ever had him do either of them when the fights were prolonged though, possibly some time based mechanic?

[Priran]

He does both of them, I have only ever had him do either of them when the fights were prolonged though, possibly some time based mechanic?

If he does do both, then maybe it's not spiking, it's that one of them does much more damage than the other? I dunno, only ever seen the Enlightenment one.

On a side note, does the enhanced damage effect of Yaegasumi persist after the WS-dodging effect?

[Fwahm]

Cosmic Elucidation does a lot more damage than Universal Enlightenment, but I've only ever seen him do one of either in each fight.

[Ihina]

UE hit us for 1k or so with scherzo up and on VD.

[Tachi]

I know this BC is already a big joke but if this can help, Tenzen doesn't follow his target during his "Invincible/ws spam" phase, melees can just run out of range and watch him doing nothing for 30 seconds.

[Karizo]

I know this BC is already a big joke but if this can help, Tenzen doesn't follow his target during his "Invincible/ws spam" phase, melees can just run out of range and watch him doing nothing for 30 seconds.

Is this during Yaegasumi?

[Fwahm]

During Yaegasumi, Tenzen uses exclusively bow ranged attacks, so I would imagine not.

[Tachi]

It's after the yellow dust animation he usually does at around 40%, there is no log message. He ceases to melee or RA and WS non stop until his Invincible buff wears off.

[Ophannus]

Does Threnody help for landing Lullaby on BLM? Worth it to go BRD/BLM(i dont have Ghorn) for an extra lullaby and possibility to Stun him if he casts meteor towards the end? Few times we were near victory, Tenzen was below 5% but BLM was basically resisting every Lullaby and eventually killed us off with a Meteor, perhaps if it's not immune to Stun, BRD/BLM might be better since WHM doesnt need to cure much and can keep an eye on BRD

[Karizo]

Is Tenzen's DT towards the end of the fight physical or general DT? Our MNKs were hitting like wet noodles toward the end, was wondering if formless strikes would help.

This is around 10% of his health left.

[Fwahm]

It's just defense up, so nothing will get past it other than raising you attack to levels above what players can achieve right now.

[Ophannus]

Does he use Yaegusmi AND Invincible? Done this fight multiple times and sometimes he does a Dustcloud and all my WS miss him but auto attacks are normal(assuming this is Yaegsumi) and other times everyone just hits for 0's for a while. Which is the ability that causes him to only WS and not range or attack anyone? When he was invincible I told everyone to run away since it was mentioned here that he just derps until it wears off but he was still shooting people(and god does he have fucking high snapshot/rapid shot)

[Fwahm]

He uses Yaegasumi sometime above 50% normally.

He also has a phase at low HP where for 30-60 seconds, he's completely invincible and has infinite TP. There's no message in the log, though there is a dust cloud.

He doesn't move while he's doing it, so you can outrange him for the whole duration. However, as Tenzen has two "modes", which he switches between periodically (one where he melees normally, and one where he pulls out a bow and uses only ranged attacks on random people and WSs), he can still hit you if he's in bow mode when he does it. Just put your PDT up and eat the damage.