Bugboy

[Miltani]

the gob will warp you and take your lever away. Thus there's no point in using the goblin warp as you do not have the key item to start the bugboy enm

[Scythiroth]

the gob will warp you and take your lever away. Thus there's no point in using the goblin warp as you do not have the key item to start the bugboy enm

This topic had me so interested in trying this, but now I don't know how to get there with 2 people. ._.

[asdf1234]

I walked a mule to one of the levers and I use a friend's account to hit the third one and use firesand.

[Scythiroth]

I walked a mule to one of the levers and I use a friend's account to hit the third one and use firesand.

This actually seems like more work than U. Range ENM now lol.

[Tricen]

ah, sorry, I had it mixed up with Rutter Sabaton NM lol. ENM is soloable by RDM and prolly BLM too.
edit: getting to the ENM sucks though.

Rutter Sabatons can be slept, but you melee that. The ENM is just DoT (unless you plan on sleeping it) and just waiting for it to counterstance. After it counterstance's, it takes double damage. So, don't burn too much MP off too fast, be a little patient.

I distinctly remember being told to ES Sleep II Matsman and getting a resist, don't think its sleepable.

I've slept it before... First time I soloed it I slept it to be safe on convert. Mighta had a DoT on or just got unlucky.

I'm still unsure on the double damage for Bugboy... I've never-ever heard anything about it's 2hr causing the double damage... Counterstance would make more sense for it to take more damage over mighty strikes...(That's the2hr right?) But then again reg bugboy mobs don't take 2x damage when counterstanced.. Hmm...

[asdf1234]

I walked a mule to one of the levers and I use a friend's account to hit the third one and use firesand.

This actually seems like more work than U. Range ENM now lol.

Yeah, it's a major pain in the ass, but I've had decent luck with drops. U Range is now the "easy" one to do, as far as key item + getting there.

[Scythiroth]

Yeah, it's a major pain in the ass, but I've had decent luck with drops. U Range is now the "easy" one to do, as far as key item + getting there.

Only hard part for me there now is the stupid true sight enemies, I can pretty much land on the cliff 100% after all the times I've done it now.

[Rabidmonkey]

How long does it generally take you to do bugboy duo?

[Demitrius]

I promise that's the way the double damage works, it's during his 2hr that he uses at 25%. We count on it religiously when we duo the ENM and it's never let us down. You'll notice it only ever happens during that last 25%.

[Rysa]

I have duoed this with BLU/NIN and RDM/NIN. It is not too hard but it is a lot of fun. To get to the ENM one of us uses a Hermes Quencher to hit 2 switches and run across the grate before it drops.

[vahnn]

My friend and i duoed this the other day both Rdm/nins

First to get the 3 levers. theres 3 ways to do this...
A. dual box an account to get 2 of the 3 and the other person gets the 3rd
B. ask someone to help you with levers.
C. hermes quencher or Powder boots.


The BC...
This was our actual first time duoing it like this so we had to make up a stragity on the go.. Plan was to hit it with 2 rounds of bliz4 and thun3 each DoT bind kite switching hate to let 1 person rest. Bind was being a pain in the ass.. I had to have all my enfeebling gear on Tabard, w.head, enfeebling earring to land it. Then it only stuck for 20 sec at the most, usually only 5 sec.
At that point we had to start throwing gravity at it cause i had died at one point upon convert (go figure) leaving my friend to kite by himself..
When i healed back up i nuked my MP pool and kited while he rested, then he nuked his MP pool. Had to sleep it near the end about 3 times in a row that was about 25%... Chainspell Bliz3,thun3 at which point about 20% it used it 2hr and my nukes got alot bigger. Slept it at 4% >< about 2 more times with no resists at all then finished it off... Whole fight took aboug 25mins for a reward of a great DRAGON BONE >< (i was ready to shoot myself)

side notes... Para II full mind equip is good, stoneskin takes about 5 or so hits with phalnax up, Slow II is god.
i would suggest having W.legs or better movement speed. RR defo.

[Celebrindor]

incredibly stupid question, but nonetheless gonna ask it.

Obviously first step is the acquire the key item by trading a sylvan stone to Twinbrix.

Now for my question- does the game basically do a check for your key item to figure out if you have access, or does it also check to see how you got there? I ask because if you have used the twinbrix teleport before, all you have to do is walk up, and before even speaking offer to trade him 2k and he'll teleport you. And if you have the key item in your possession...and not the dial....the ENM would be available to you.

If the game checks how you got there, why not just zone out and back in? Have people tried these methods personally and found they do not work? Just curious as I've been quite interested in trying this one solo too.

[Rabidmonkey]

If you have the key item from trading the sylvan stone, and you try to do the 2k teleport from the goblin, he'll take the key item away from you. Same with the rain lily warp and any other shortcut. Only way to get there if you have the proper key item for the Bugboy enm is to hit the 3 levers, deal with the firesand crap and run right through the middle of newton =/