Low Manpower Fafhogg kills

[Girl]

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Easily one of the most intense HNM fight of my FFXI "career", also because back then claiming Nidhogg wasn't exactly common for us and having just 9-10 people for the majority of the fight didn't make it any easier.

I think we ended up with maybe 12-14 by the end of the fight. But not even 2 full PTs for the majority of it.

[Marcin]

We've killed Nidhogg with 9 easily before. Another war arrived at 20%, 10 people in the end.

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This was kinda funny since it was a really late camp. I fell asleep and woke up exactly when it popped (was the only pld/nin, too. Only had a war tank as backup) ended up dying at 2% because of a bad terror, but the blms finished it. Dropped my M.body, too. :D

Three blms, two warriors(three later), a whitemage, bard, rdm, and me on pld/nin.

Egh, edit: Mcdohl was sleeping in windy.

[Synched]

First post :D
I was the nin/brd in that alliance you asked ruffles about, and to answer your question it was ballad(even though it wasnt needed with a rdm and whm backing me up) since I was getting double march from the brd.

We would have killed it faster then 57 minutes but had some people make stupid mistakes and die which was bound to happen at 6am.



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[Lysithea]

on seraph, Heliopolis had done it with about 10 before New merits, and even further back from us orzInc (JP Ls) did it with 6 or 7

/awaits flames for pics

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i killed once with 8 and darters

[Isildur]

I've heard of alot of groups killing Fafnir with 6-7 before the HNM timer update.

Our lowest kill was 9 people (1 was 2-boxing, 1 showed up halfway through) in about 52-55 minutes, it was really early. We had NIN PLD BRD WHM RDM for a tank party then i think the second party was 2 BLMs, 1 SAM and a 2nd WHM...dont remember the exact jobs and it might've been 10.

It's pretty easy as long as you dont get shit luck with his TP moves, i think the worst part of that fight was 3x Hurricane Wings at around 40%, the rest of the wings were spanned out like once every 4-5 minutes though.

[Kilik]

The dominant JP shell on Ifrit has done Fafnir with 6 and Nidhogg with 9. The Nid took about 45min. My LS's lowest number was 12 on Nidhogg.

[Ravenlokk]

I hit fafnir for like 950-1k dmg with yukikaze on fafnir a couple days ago. Epic.

P.S. RK U made me go hardcore w/ SAM again lol.

[Stanislav]

6 manned Faf and KB easy before rage update
uhh we did Nid a few days ago with like 9.. 1 NIN 1 BRD 1 WHM RDM tank and 5 BLM lol up till like 40% in 20min? then more came

[Dirian]

I've done Fafnir with 11 people in about 30 minutes a few times, with pretty relative ease.



Most epic was a 12 man one though before we were used to doing low man fafnirs. Setup was nin x2, pld(who did nothing but soak up MP and die) whm x2 rdm x2 war thf blm x3. Was epic more because it spammed wing like a motherfucker, and we were honestly still kind of new at the fight and had never used that few people before and took something stupid like 57 minutes because we had to sleep it a few times.


Still was an awesome night in aery outside the only good drop was my aegishjalmr.

[Judah]

Turned out we had 8ppl there and 23 ppl total in the zone on Fafs 5th window.

Are you.. fucking serious? what server is that?

holy shit.

[Jackyl]

I wish SE would make zilart kings harder... killing them with 6 people is so lame. For so long now it's been about whose bot claims first, not which LS is the most capable. I want some Vrtra/ToAU-king strength fafnirs!

[Isildur]

I wish SE would make zilart kings harder... killing them with 6 people is so lame. For so long now it's been about whose bot claims first, not which LS is the most capable. I want some Vrtra/ToAU-king strength fafnirs!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCqiJb57mCg

[Jackyl]

I wish SE would make zilart kings harder... killing them with 6 people is so lame. For so long now it's been about whose bot claims first, not which LS is the most capable. I want some Vrtra/ToAU-king strength fafnirs!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCqiJb57mCg

lol, if a linkshell is dedicated enough to bring that many people with that many krakens and pwn fafnir like that, they are more than welcome to do so, and they probably deserve to claim and win the fight. I'm talking more about bot-happy shells that claim with low numbers and hold until more people come or just take 30+ mins to kill. It's pretty obvious that zilart kings are a joke. The rage timer update got rid of small parties that used to take 1+ hr to kill shit. Now we need another update where the rage timer is 2/3 for NQ and 1/2 for HQ or just bump up the HP of the mobs. Would also like to see all wyrms/kings(zilart and cop) become unsleepable.

It's been far too long since I've seen people wipe to shit, you know? Where's the excitement =/

[Lordender]

Are you.. fucking serious? what server is that?

holy shit.

I remember like almost 2 years ago there was a time on my server where alot of end game LS's were rebuilding from drama and there was like a month period where almost no one camped fafnir except the jp's on weekends. We had uncontested faf's, nid's. I remember wiping out a fafnir in 9mins after clearing darters before window for thundaga 3 MB's for 20% of his life everytime.

[TaruDjinn]

I wish SE would make zilart kings harder... killing them with 6 people is so lame. For so long now it's been about whose bot claims first, not which LS is the most capable. I want some Vrtra/ToAU-king strength fafnirs!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCqiJb57mCg

lol, if a linkshell is dedicated enough to bring that many people with that many krakens and pwn fafnir like that, they are more than welcome to do so, and they probably deserve to claim and win the fight. I'm talking more about bot-happy shells that claim with low numbers and hold until more people come or just take 30+ mins to kill. It's pretty obvious that zilart kings are a joke. The rage timer update got rid of small parties that used to take 1+ hr to kill shit. Now we need another update where the rage timer is 2/3 for NQ and 1/2 for HQ or just bump up the HP of the mobs. Would also like to see all wyrms/kings(zilart and cop) become unsleepable.

It's been far too long since I've seen people wipe to shit, you know? Where's the excitement =/

Amen. Seen far too many linkshells bot claim and just barely kill kings in <60mins. They are a joke, and even moreso with new merits. I've aslo seen said LSs wipe to Cerberus and 95% (yes before gates), SE needs to level the playing field a bit, if LS are gonna botclaim, or even legit with low numbers, atleast make them work for their abjurations.

[Scorp]

Turned out we had 8ppl there and 23 ppl total in the zone on Fafs 5th window.

Are you.. fucking serious? what server is that?

holy shit.

Sylph ftw. The JP shell are basically maxed so apathy is setting in amongst their members.

Last I saw them take down Nidhogg it was with 10 people using pld/wars, 2 blm and 2 thf. They got it to 10% and then slept it for about 20mins to keep it out of NA time.

[Kirschy]

Fafnir still rages and wipes LS on Fenrir. I do believe that Fafnir should be shorter than a 1hr rage, but it's not uncommon to see that stuff happening. A new mix of JP without a common LS have been camping recently... they raged/wiped faf the last two times it was up.

[Viq]

Turned out we had 8ppl there and 23 ppl total in the zone on Fafs 5th window.

Are you.. fucking serious? what server is that?

holy shit.

The sad thing is that pretty much the only JP competition left for Fafhogg on Sylph has been at it for years, yet they still routinely take 45min+ for Faf and sometimes still rage Nid.

NA shells on Sylph are by and large a bunch of lazy morons who camp when a king has a window of about 6-9PM EST and is day 4+. The Faf Ruffles mentioned popped very early morning so there was no NA competition.

[Tekki]

Its the single MOST FRUSTRATING thing on the F/N scene to watch that group claim Fafnir/Nidhogg. Its unbelievable that they hold the title for camping F/N longer then anyone else, yet they are the worst at killing it. Viq isnt exaggerating, they really do take 45+min to kill, still get the occasion zerged dragon wipe, and make no attempt to improve on their fights. At the very least I would be watching OUR fights and take notes. The last zerg Nidhogg I remember was another groups but this same legendary JP group claimed it, WHILE it was zerged and wiped within 5min. It leads me to believe they simply don't leave that pit to do anything else.