Jailer of Faith & Earth Resists

[Valrath]

I did a quick search on +Earth resist for PLD on Somepage.com, and there really wasn't that much gear that would be feasible to equip in slots not needed for other stats (HP / Enmity +). But if you were serious about getting more + Earth resist, you could check out the following:

Steamed Catfish
Clay Amulet
Auster's Staff
Gaia Mantle
Sand Gloves
All + VIT rings

This could put you upwards of +50 or so resist without any carol or spells on you, but personally I'd suggest going with kiting and enmity gear.

Might be better to add MDB gear instead. My general belief is if you can't survive a full blast nuke, then you shouldn't gear up for a resist build. Build a suvivial gear with -% magic damage and magic def gear and HP gear. Let whms/brds boost your resistence. That way, even with a full nuke, you can survive it. Even if you resist 99% of the time, that 1% chance will fuck you up hard.

[RKenshin]

Resist rates cap at 95%, and in a standard resist set with 320ish elemental resist on a difficult NM you only resist about 80-90% of the time. So yeah, it's more like a 10-20% chance you'll get one-hit on a full damage shot.

Magic defense gear is really best for everything IMO minus the breath attacks from Wyrms in the air.

[Celeras]

No kidding, keeping whms outside of the alliance still works even after they get hate?

[Robert]

as of four weeks ago, and two days ago according to deimos it still works, so ya I'd say so.

[TB]

No kidding, keeping whms outside of the alliance still works even after they get hate?

Still works.

I never had a problem with kiting Faith, except the few times you get the unlucky Breakga > Quake combo and WHM aren't fast enough with Stona. One time we used a NIN/BRD. Even if he only hit 2-3 people with Mazurka, BLM could nuke non stop without getting hate. Was a quick fight. lol

[Delekii]

People use... tanks.... on Jailer of Faith?


Get more BLMs 8)

Faith is one of the most fun BLM fights, and gets more fun when you have more BLMs - more BLMs means you can kill it before gravity starts resisting.


As long as you are calling hate, noone should _ever_ be so close to Faith with hate that they cant get out of it. As with all mobs, casting range at point of cast is 30 on distance plugin, and you can get outside that range within the room, regardless of where JoF is.

[aznmajiktaru]

^ yea this fight is fun as a blm, whenever I get hate and it's chilling there casting a spell you can get to halfway across the room almost diagonal from it, with grav makes it even easier; after i'm diagonal from it I just run it back and forth so it's almost stuck in the same side till someone else pulls hate, barely ever touches me ;c.

[TsingTao]

Well three of our members are at 68+ BLM and rising, so that will help on the next attempt. We're not a big shell though, that's 1/5th of our group. Just some friends doing Limbus and working up to Jailers.

As we get more people we'll be looking for a few extra BLMs. We don't want to lose TH3 or one of our good RDMs to full time "Just throw BLMs at it!".

Edit: Almost forgot, the outside WHM didn't have any problems with Breakga.

[Kuropiko]

I find it way easier to kite with only 1 PLD, not 2, actually. The only thing you have to know is that 30 on distance = interrupted spell. The square room is exactly designed for that distance.

The only spells the tank should take are Breakga and Slowga since they're fast to go off. And that's if you're low on DDs and Gravity starts to get resisted. While Gravity is on, just go to the opposite side and make it turn around by going left and right of a corner.

Wait for a spell to be cast, go out of range, go back to Voke/Flash/whatever and everything will be ok.

And as previously said, a WHM out of alliance for Stona duty, and everyone else doing their job accordingly to common sense.

[Martinius]

we had no difficulty tanking with ninjas, warriors and paladins. we essentially treated it like kirin +1, and kept a whm out of the alliance for stona. samurais and rangers are great on this fight, and i'd like to try out sam/rng for the kiting aspect as well as skillchain versitility. also summoners do very well on this fight. we treated it like a kited vrtra, where there's a stop point, the tank runs, stops, bloodpacts go off, and the tank is off again. also diabolos does pretty nice dmg against him, tho i don't recall us using him when we fought him, either b/c he wasnt out yet, or because the avatar was lagging out our nins, so they stuck with predators claws and spinning dive.