Originally Posted by
Fatality
Nobody knows how to kill Absolute Virtue. They threw countless BLMs,MNKs and RNGs at it but could not break past it's regen effect.The best HNMLs in the game CFH on it and had 50+ people and they all were slaughtered horribly.
Now let's see.
Absolute Virtue is a HNM that was "jailed" by the jailers of virtue. Love,Fath,Temperence,Hope,Fortitude,Prudence,Justi ce
These jailers all drop a weapon and a torque.
These jailers jailed the ultimate creature....Absolute Virtue.
Now let's think for a moment here. Square Enix had created in the past HNM...all of which had like Defense+10000000000 Evasion+100000000 but Magic Defense.-1000000000. Melees aren't too great on most HNM, and even the ones that are meleeable, only 300% QWS do well on them or Spirits within.
All this time melees have been complaining it gives mages and rng an unfair advantage because they are always required for HNM. This gave mages a hubris. They were godly because they were always needed in the main alliance whereas the melees were just skillchain slaves.
Each virtue drops a weapon these weapons are probably the only items that can damage Absolute Virtue without triggering her regen effect. It makes perfect and total sense!
The 7 jailers jailed Absolute virtue's virtues into 7 pieces(the 7 weapons) in order to weaken her. But since you kileld the jailers she's free and the weapons are needed to again imprison her. Chrono Cross anyone?
Besides...the sky gods were weak vs magic and strong vs melee. THe 4 god set armor is worn by all jobs but DRG PLD THF DRK. Now the sea god is the opposite and the CoP god set is worn by the other jobs, so it makes perfect sense the strongest sea god(Absolute Virtue) can only be defeated with melee-and by melee I mean >ONLY< the virtue weapons. The virtues jailkers also drop torques that enhance skill so that you can land your attacks better.