Automaton Assault Questions (Tarutaru)

[Lordwafik]

Yeah' you' know,' I' 'love' endin' every' word' with' 'one' of' 'these' fancy' apostrophe' 'thingers.' 'Yo.'

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[Parshath]

'''WO'W' LOLOL' THIS' ''''IS '''FUN''

[namfoodle]

Words should never end in G and, Really it's

'Sup

but, who notices these things.

[othellojr]

Anyone who has done it as tarus have any good insight on what a good lineup would be? I have been trying to get a group for this for a while and according to what I read it seems to be a tough BC. I want to know if the following could work, basically if I should be Mnk or Blm for it:

Nin- Near capped throwing (mithra she will spam range)
Rdm- cure/nuke
Mnk or Blm

[Cantide]

RDM, WHM, and badass MNK wrecks this thing.

Our group has done it almost every 5 days since the enm came out. We got an earring on the first time we did it, then went 0/30, and then we got both earrings to drop yesterday and I lost the lot on the mage earring to the WHM and ended up with the worthless melee earring.

[Aarion]

Sup Cantide.

Quantz's Earring for the win.

[Roranora]

Wentaru again today.. maxed Polearm on the war; he used Couse and hit for..... 37 per hit on the mifra. ; ; We had the galka/hume/elvaan dead within 3 minutes.. but still nothing to work well on the mithra. Shouldn't daggers work? But I'd also think if polearm was shit, dagger would be too; our thief certainly didn't look like -extra- damage was dealth with them. Would a war throwing tathlums or some boomerang even be worth it?

We had the thief again today... so with about 11 minutes to chip away at her, we got the mithra and again no drop of any kind with th2...

But more worried about figuring out how to win with 3. This is the challenge Russta asked for, hehe.. and it really seems like our 3 can't do it in 15min. Any thoughts are welcome; again our main 3 are war, blm, whm. It seems like it demands a nin, which is poorly designed I think. ~.~


Edit: Sorry I missed the question like a page back about sleeping them; yes they all can be slept. I wouldn't post a Flare > Sleep > Freeze strat if the fucking sleep wouldn't land. '-'

[geno]

we do it with war smn rdm, which is very similar setup. if the war has capped (or near capped) archery, you can kill the mithra np. Just let the war kill every mob until the galka, with the whm and blm taking turns backup curing. then on the galka, the blm should have the mp to finish him or even the whm. seems like a fairly good setup.

[Moggy]

as hume drg i was hitting the mithra for 50 landing 80%, ninja with sushi couldn't shoot it or hit it at all, seems like it has high def to any physical attacks but low eva for piercing weapons if that can happen lol

galka's def is very gay, hit it for 10, but raidien thrust does 300, wyvern breath pops another 300

[Rex]

ninja with sushi couldn't shoot it or hit it at all

gimp throwing? With sushi I hit it more often than not (never bothered to pay exact attention really) but hitting mithra hasn't been a problem. Only problem is throwing 60k/stack ammo at a stupid automaton that won't give me an earring /cry

[Moggy]

no he was shooting not throwing ahaha XD

[NynJa]

galka's def is very gay, hit it for 10, but raidien thrust does 300, wyvern breath pops another 300

Raiden = elemental WS = magic
Wyvern breath = elemental WS = magic

[obituary]

i'd like to do this ENM,my nin has capped throwing for lvl 60 (i'm a tarutaru)

[othellojr]

Just updating, did it this past week as Mnk, had Rdm and Nin for it and we beat it in uner 10 mins I believe. We had some issues at begining since our Nin forgot it was 60 capped and left her katanas. I ended up tanking all except the galka just due to pure dmg as a Mnk/war and only on the Galka did my dmg suck, otherwise I was able to do plenty on even the Mithra to keep hate while our Nin was throwing at her. This is definately a fun ENM and other than our Rdm having to rest after the mithra due to having to spam cure me, our Nin used ele staves on the Galka with the elemental wheel and was landing each Ni spell for over 170 dmg, making the galka an easy kill, no earring drop though, so can't wait to do it again and hope we get lucky next time

[Roranora]

FFXI is flexible enough in that there's always a way to win no matter what you have at your disposal. I don't really know how to tackle this question unless you give me a three job example for me to work with

Ok Russta, still looking for this...BLM, WAR, WHM. Went again today.. can't do it in under 15min without a 4th; polearm does shit to the mithra... and again.. no earrings. Can anyone but 1 person say he/she got an earring taking more than 3 in? This rate seems Ridill-like.. 0/12 I think now.

[nivlakian]

FFXI is flexible enough in that there's always a way to win no matter what you have at your disposal. I don't really know how to tackle this question unless you give me a three job example for me to work with

Ok Russta, still looking for this...BLM, WAR, WHM. Went again today.. can't do it in under 15min without a 4th; polearm does shit to the mithra... and again.. no earrings. Can anyone but 1 person say he/she got an earring taking more than 3 in? This rate seems Ridill-like.. 0/12 I think now.

Hmm if polearm didn't help, is the mithra really only weak to ranged weapon?

[Russta]

FFXI is flexible enough in that there's always a way to win no matter what you have at your disposal. I don't really know how to tackle this question unless you give me a three job example for me to work with

Ok Russta, still looking for this...BLM, WAR, WHM. Went again today.. can't do it in under 15min without a 4th; polearm does shit to the mithra... and again.. no earrings. Can anyone but 1 person say he/she got an earring taking more than 3 in? This rate seems Ridill-like.. 0/12 I think now.

The only solution I have is for the Warrior to use Range weapons on her then, gotta think that would do it. Sorry, I was certain she would be weak to Piercing but it does appear to be Ranged only.

[Correction]

1/1 on the HP earring.

NIN BLM BLM

We almost ran out of time on the Mithra. At the end both BLMs took out their staves and started swinging. I figure optimal would be NIN WHM RNG for this. WHM and NIN can nuke down the galka with Banish/Ninjitsu, STR build nin with Haste makes mincemeat of everything but Mithra, RNG kills the cat.

[Havocdemon]

Optimal is RNG/NIN, MNK/NIN, RDM/WHM imo. Everyone needs 2hrs to make it fast. Hume-MNK 2hr, it dies in seconds. Elv- just fight normally. Mithra- RNG Slug>Barrage>Slug>EES, Galka- RDM CS nukes. Could take less than 5min doing it that way.

[Roranora]

We've dumped a ton of bolts (attempts) into the mithra, but since the ranged attack change, he misses at least 5/6 due to being too close. There's no way to just hold it far enough away without it sodomizing the WHM. So you think WAR, BLM, WHM can't win the taru one? I'm sure they could win the mithra one, but the taru version seems like it's bullshit, demanding basically two (THF or RNG) of the 15 jobs, when they recommend just doing it with 3.