Cerberus after patch

[nsx]

Well congrats to Square on ruining one of the most fun fights left in FFXI. Not being able to use the wall means you actually have to give a shit about TP spam now turning this into a gay 2 hour bloodpact affair.

Midgard never used the wall to kill.

We killed it in under 30 mins. once w/ 0 smns.

Step it the fuck up.

[RKenshin]

Just finished a fight with him...

It seems that past 30% or something he gains like a -75% physical damage reduction now? We're all unsure and still wondering "WTF?!" but that seems to be the most accurate deduction we've had so far.

I'm sure everyone has seen screen shots or witnessed 1k+ Gekkos on normal SAMs and 2k+ on DRKs and WARs and 1k Slugs/Sidewinders for RNGs all on Cerberus... Well, at the end of the fight no one could even break 400 damage with mostly top of the line DDs.

The last Gekko before we just gave up I had 76+68 STR, curry, snow gorget (all the best gear bar HQ shura), and I hit a 294 Tachi:Gekko with 204% TP using Hagun and SA.

We first noticed this in the 20% range, and ended up wiping at 5%. We raised and attempted to kill again, and it was still in this 'mode.' With melees SA WSing almost nonstop we barely could bring his HP down... Took 20 minutes to get him to 93%, and at that point we just gave up. It seems like Tiamat where once he gets into that rage mode or whatever you may call it, he stays in it for a long time even if he regens to full. The Gekko I mentioned above was while Cerb was at 93%, before we gave up.

Anyone else with similiar experiences?

[Victalyssa]

Well congrats to Square on ruining one of the most fun fights left in FFXI. Not being able to use the wall means you actually have to give a shit about TP spam now turning this into a gay 2 hour bloodpact affair.

This fight takes our LS 20-30 minutes, and we've never used the wall...

[Ryko]

I dont think russta was speaking of whether or not the fight was feasible or not, we all know it is.

[Russta]

I dont think russta was speaking of whether or not the fight was feasible or not, we all know it is.

Exactly.

If you can kill Cerberus within 30 minutes without using the wall then all the more power to you and your e-peens. I, however, enjoyed being able to engage as WAR/NIN and destroy it without consequence because it was one of the few fights left where you could kick back and have fun.

I'm confident next time my linkshell fights it we will kill it just fine.

That doesn't mean the fight will be enjoyable though which is what I have issue with now.

[Freight]

Russta meant that you can't melee it anymore because people cant stay out of AoE range using the wall, meaning you have to care about mob TP now. Solution = "bp affair" or whatever

[Rammses]

It didn't seem any harder than usual except you can't use wall anymore, so stunning GoH and hate control is a little more important.

[Machazareel]

Just finished a fight with him...

It seems that past 30% or something he gains like a -75% physical damage reduction now? We're all unsure and still wondering "WTF?!" but that seems to be the most accurate deduction we've had so far.

I'm sure everyone has seen screen shots or witnessed 1k+ Gekkos on normal SAMs and 2k+ on DRKs and WARs and 1k Slugs/Sidewinders for RNGs all on Cerberus... Well, at the end of the fight no one could even break 400 damage with mostly top of the line DDs.

The last Gekko before we just gave up I had 76+68 STR, curry, snow gorget (all the best gear bar HQ shura), and I hit a 294 Tachi:Gekko with 204% TP using Hagun and SA.

We first noticed this in the 20% range, and ended up wiping at 5%. We raised and attempted to kill again, and it was still in this 'mode.' With melees SA WSing almost nonstop we barely could bring his HP down... Took 20 minutes to get him to 93%, and at that point we just gave up. It seems like Tiamat where once he gets into that rage mode or whatever you may call it, he stays in it for a long time even if he regens to full. The Gekko I mentioned above was while Cerb was at 93%, before we gave up.

Anyone else with similiar experiences?

Happened to us before, too. But it's nothing new. Last time we downed him was like a month or two ago, I think. And the time before that we were experiencing SA Gekko in the range of 400 and noticable lower per hit damage.

It's nothing new that was implemented, was there before, I just don't really know what triggers it.

[Lordwafik]

I thought the wall was a fun part of the strat.

[Seebo]

We've killed in a round 10-15 mins before without wall, we never use it...Ridill > all, 1807 Rampages are hawt.

[Xavier]

Cerebus on Bahamut right now, crazy stuff going on.

3 linkshells wiped, we gaijined at 25% and claimed it when another wiped, died in 3 minutes, and now FI is fighting it.

Fun stuff. Only wish the treasure pool matched the excitement of no wall of justice.

[Gregorio]

I seriously LOL'd at "I immeditally regret this decision"

[Xavier]

Just didn't want FI to have a free claim at it.

Sacrificed BG to make FI wait an extra 5 minutes.

[Gregorio]

Shoulda CFH'd it.

LS TEAMUP to kill CFH'd Cerebus woulda gotten at LEAST 10 pages.

[Xavier]

That would've been awesome. I didn't even think about that in the middle of the rape.

[Cailum]

Just finished wiping to Cerberus. It was the same fight as usual, put some melee in and 10 minutes later you have him near rage. After 25% we had our RDM's setup to stun but were hit with 5 back to back GoH's without much of any delay.

Again, this is with 60 people standing around watching so lag may have played some part in it.

Now some JP shell took it, they've done 4% damage in the last 30 minutes! Ah well, just a word of warning, he does seem to have been buffed up quite a bit especially with his rate of tp regen and a lower cast time on GoH.

[Ferien]

There weren't 60 people, we only brought 10! >.>

[Cailum]

XP PT's, SoC, our allie, you guys D:

Man, this is silly. It's been 60 minutes and they've done 9%.

[Ksandra]

Just finished wiping to Cerberus. It was the same fight as usual, put some melee in and 10 minutes later you have him near rage. After 25% we had our RDM's setup to stun but were hit with 5 back to back GoH's without much of any delay.

Again, this is with 60 people standing around watching so lag may have played some part in it.

Now some JP shell took it, they've done 4% damage in the last 30 minutes! Ah well, just a word of warning, he does seem to have been buffed up quite a bit especially with his rate of tp regen and a lower cast time on GoH.

He wiped you guys in all of about 10 seconds of that AoE spam. Talking to the naked mithra about it. That's pretty messed up. SoC is taking a Page out of NH's book it seems like. They held hydra for an hour...

I had fun though XD

[Victalyssa]

We just finished killing. Only 1 GoH got through (out of.. 20ish?) when I tried to stun with macro instead of menu ><

The fight took longer than it ever has in the past, but that's just because it spammed hoplon like crazy. I didn't notice any differences sub 25%