Escha - Ru'Aun thread

[Ramzii]

AV seems very doable. Got it to 45 then it benedictioned, then we took it down to 45 again in the same amount of time with its bracers still up, then it benedictioned again. wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooo

[Mojo]

Some notes from our fight~

Our DPS was BLM/SCHx3, GEO, COR, SCH. Our tank PT was PLD PLD GEO WHM RDM. I think the best way to do the fight is to bum rush it with lots of Death magic bursts using temp items, meds and 1 hour abilities (Comet does like 1/5th the damage of Death...) The longer it's alive the more likely it'll use Benediction or Soul Voice. Caster's Roll + Alacrity + capped magic haste + some gear haste can cap Death recast to 36 seconds. You can use Random Deal and Wild Card to restore stratagems. Each BLM can hit 100k on the burst if you stagger them (wait a second or so between each Death cast) although you'll probably end up getting 80k~ on one of them, maybe two. It runs out of MP very fast this way (maybe 20k MP?), you can't Aspir for long. We'll probably start the fight with 300% TP next time to stretch out our MP. We used Evoker's Roll too although a better choice would be store tp or regain roll. The Wynavs cut into your time by distracting you if you opt to kill them (which we did.) We're probably going to add another GEO to keep vex/atunement up full time and just ignore them. We can also Aspir them this way. It took us a few tries to adjust to the fight but once we got into a good cadence it was going down very fast, I think we'll get it next time with a little bit of luck. Also, I'm uncertain that you can even lock Sp abilities on this. We had a token DRG mule for one of the fights set up with an Addon to just use Call Wyvern. It was able to use it again with bracelets (although it didn't seem to use it without bracelets, may have been luck.)

[Byrthnoth]

I do not know how much of an issue it is to land MB death on AV, but if he does not resist much you could try your luck with the affinity/recast magian.

[Lyramion]

JP blog here concerning Warder of Courage:

http://chihiromom.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-82.html


Talks about locking SP ability sequences by spamming Elemental magic before and after it for activate a white "!!". I have seen the white !! today personally when observing a JP group trying to kill it. Best attempt was 17%.

There are 5 loot screenshots there also.

[EjinCaitsith]

FEELS SO GOOD



Purger of the Warder.

[EjinCaitsith]

And again:



We're using the exact same setup and strategy I posted on the last few pages(no 2hr locking), including some pretty big changes in our death sets(mostly precast priority to ensure death casts at 2K MP every time and the MBD on merlinic), which allowed us to hit 99K death and 25-50K comets even when braclets are up. Both kills were done before the 3rd bolster wore, so revito weren't even that big of a deal.

Update: 6 pops, 3 wins. 2 times we ran after early benediction and last attempt was a 9% wipe because main PLD got breath'd in enmity gear after 6 wyvern popped.

[Johnb]

JP blog here concerning Warder of Courage:

http://chihiromom.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-82.html


Talks about locking SP ability sequences by spamming Elemental magic before and after it for activate a white "!!". I have seen the white !! today personally when observing a JP group trying to kill it. Best attempt was 17%.

There are 5 loot screenshots there also.

According to that post, Dacnomania and Zendik Robe also drop from Warder of Courage.

[Lyramion]

And again:

We're using the exact same setup and strategy I posted on the last few pages(no 2hr locking),

Thx once again Ejin for being the Vanguard and sharing what you know. We just got our first WoC clear pretty much carboncopying your setup/strategy. Fight lasted 9 minutes. Lucked out pretty much for no Benes and no Soulvoices. It really took cutting out 6 ppl of our 18 man alliance to do this easily. The difference in Wynav HP is immense.

http://i.imgur.com/Cljuz37.jpg?1

[Mythe_Seraph]

So are basically all of the fights in the game cleared now? Was that the culmination of all of FFXI end game?

[Ramzii]

throw our hat in for the AV kill

http://cdn.guildwork.net/albums/imag...1686c5ae7c.jpg

as an aside, we used vex/attune with a 3rd geo and completely ignored wynavs and they did next to nothing damage wise

[Protey]

So are basically all of the fights in the game cleared now? Was that the culmination of all of FFXI end game?

No one has beaten Teles (though that's probably because no one knows how to pop it)

[Mythe_Seraph]

What type of monster is Teles? Seems like everything so far is a remake of previous sky or sea kings

[Protey]

What type of monster is Teles? Seems like everything so far is a remake of previous sky or sea kings

No one has popped it, so no one knows.

[Tile]

well we have Kirin and AV so far, wouldn't surprise me if the new Geas Fete NMs they will be adding end with PW or something. and since they making battle areas smaller for some reason, a PW astral flow would be instant lose if you didn't prep for it

[Kazeryushin]

According to Wiki Teles is a Siren... so maybe a Harpy mod or a Siren mod?

[The Assman]

There's already Lv145 PW UNM, which is another NM yet to be cleared afaik.

I can see Provenance Watcher or Shadow Lord for the December update.

[EjinCaitsith]

double post

[EjinCaitsith]

Went 4/6 again tonight, the 2 being when it bene'd early so we ran. There's virtually 0 risk of dying once the timing is perfect when wyverns pop. Not much new to add except to confirm Dacnomania drops from WoC.

We just got our first WoC clear pretty much carboncopying your setup/strategy.

throw our hat in for the AV kill

Grats, guys. Glad to see our community finally being able to down it.

[Ramzii]

Thanks, Ejiin. Do you have any counter measure to Soul Voice or are you just praying it doesn't use it?

[Sechs]

What type of monster is Teles? Seems like everything so far is a remake of previous sky or sea kings

Well there are remakes of WKRs, remakes of generic NMs (Dullahans, Psycheflayers, Scorpions, Chests) and also remake of the ToAU kings as well (Hydra, Cerberus, Khimaira).
Saying "only sea and sky" isn't quite true.

I expect new Geas Fete to add more WKR-recycled NMs. So far only Calimh (Ru'aun) and Wopket (Reisenjima) have been reused? Pretty confident there's space for a re-use of the other 4.