PLD/DRK

[Highlulu]

I've used PLD/DRK on JOL and Ouryu, neither of which struck me physically much if at all.

PLD/WHM on Ouryu rapes face, esp w/ Aegis.

i have done /war on most of my ouryu's, i was thinking of trying /brd before teh zurka nerf... now i'm leaning towards /drk, i'm a bit curious what your plan is with /whm.

i would assume to erase your own slows then? stoneskin + sentinel for when its awake on the ground? or just for the MDB in the air?

[Rocl]

Divine Seal + Shield Bash w/ Aegis = 1.2~1.7k dmg

[Highlulu]

Divine Seal + Shield Bash w/ Aegis = 1.2~1.7k dmg

you will have to excuse me here but... pics or it didn't happen.

[Allundaria]

Divine Seal + Shield Bash w/ Aegis = 1.2~1.7k dmg

you will have to excuse me here but... pics or it didn't happen.

Activate the wooooshterburners.

[Rocl]

Divine Seal + Shield Bash w/ Aegis = 1.2~1.7k dmg

you will have to excuse me here but... pics or it didn't happen.

I have no pictures because it's a joke.

[Demosthenes11]

Divine Seal + Shield Bash w/ Aegis = 1.2~1.7k dmg

you will have to excuse me here but... pics or it didn't happen.

I have no pictures because it's a joke.

yep, does closer to 2.5k

[Xavier]

I've used PLD/DRK on JOL and Ouryu, neither of which struck me physically much if at all.

PLD/WHM on Ouryu rapes face, esp w/ Aegis.

i have done /war on most of my ouryu's, i was thinking of trying /brd before teh zurka nerf... now i'm leaning towards /drk, i'm a bit curious what your plan is with /whm.

i would assume to erase your own slows then? stoneskin + sentinel for when its awake on the ground? or just for the MDB in the air?

I'm not sure how you fight it, but we just use blms in the air, sleep on the ground, so for us it translates into:

- Extra MDB while in the air.
- Auto-Regen
- Clear Mind for resting while its asleep on the ground, getting max mp.
- Erase your own slow.
- Stoneskin (usually eats 1 and a half air attacks for me)
- Curaga II spam (this is the big reason). We have the "tank" party at its feet at all times, so his wings/blasts/etc hit roughly 5-6 people, depending on whats going on. The enmity from just healing 5-6 people for 200+ hp multiple times in the air, while flashing etc, just seems awesome. On top of naturally reducing the number of healers you actually need. We found last time that we basically only needed one whm, and that was just for stona.

PLD/DRK would def. generate a ton of hate, but for Ouryu, where Stun isn't going to land anyway, the usefulness of basically turning your main tank into your main healer, while also taking less magical damage (the only kind ouryu really does for us) is pretty sweet.

[Highlulu]

Divine Seal + Shield Bash w/ Aegis = 1.2~1.7k dmg

you will have to excuse me here but... pics or it didn't happen.

I have no pictures because it's a joke.

sorry... it was early -_-; i fail... anyways onto the real shit:

I'm not sure how you fight it, but we just use blms in the air, sleep on the ground, so for us it translates into:

- Extra MDB while in the air.
- Auto-Regen
- Clear Mind for resting while its asleep on the ground, getting max mp.
- Erase your own slow.
- Stoneskin (usually eats 1 and a half air attacks for me)
- Curaga II spam (this is the big reason). We have the "tank" party at its feet at all times, so his wings/blasts/etc hit roughly 5-6 people, depending on whats going on. The enmity from just healing 5-6 people for 200+ hp multiple times in the air, while flashing etc, just seems awesome. On top of naturally reducing the number of healers you actually need. We found last time that we basically only needed one whm, and that was just for stona.

PLD/DRK would def. generate a ton of hate, but for Ouryu, where Stun isn't going to land anyway, the usefulness of basically turning your main tank into your main healer, while also taking less magical damage (the only kind ouryu really does for us) is pretty sweet.

ok, yeah we fight it with the usual strat of sleep on the ground and nuke in the air. i geuss my confusion came from me ussually only having the tanks on the feet and us having mages stay outside of AOE range most of the fight, so didn't think of curaga.

do you use earth resist setup for the air or just -magic damage taken%/mdb?

i'll have to try /whm out sometime and see how it works out.

[Xavier]

Just magic dmg down/MDB.

[Alexei]

I'm not sure how you fight it, but we just use blms in the air, sleep on the ground, so for us it translates into:

- Extra MDB while in the air.
- Auto-Regen
- Clear Mind for resting while its asleep on the ground, getting max mp.
- Erase your own slow.
- Stoneskin (usually eats 1 and a half air attacks for me)
- Curaga II spam (this is the big reason). We have the "tank" party at its feet at all times, so his wings/blasts/etc hit roughly 5-6 people, depending on whats going on. The enmity from just healing 5-6 people for 200+ hp multiple times in the air, while flashing etc, just seems awesome. On top of naturally reducing the number of healers you actually need. We found last time that we basically only needed one whm, and that was just for stona.

PLD/DRK would def. generate a ton of hate, but for Ouryu, where Stun isn't going to land anyway, the usefulness of basically turning your main tank into your main healer, while also taking less magical damage (the only kind ouryu really does for us) is pretty sweet.

We do Ouryu the same way, but with PLD/RDM. We try to only have tanks at Ouryu's feet though, with mages running in to give buffs while it's still asleep and before it wakes up.

With just double March and no Haste, I pretty much just alternated between Bind and Blind to keep hate glued. I stopped asking for Haste since I always had the recast timer up for -something- without it, so just asked for Slow to be Erased. Used Flash when it's up, and a Dispel/Sleep here and there ocassioanlly when I felt it's been more than 5 seconds since I cast a spell. We didn't rest when it slept though, just switched to enmity gear and kept casting Bind/Blind lol (gotta love low MP cost spells that generate lots of hate).

EDIT: /RDM also has Resist Petrify trait FTW!!!!!! lol

Pretty pics:

http://alexei.tenbu.com/ffxi/Alex_Ouryu_1.jpg

http://alexei.tenbu.com/ffxi/Alex_Ouryu_2.jpg

http://alexei.tenbu.com/ffxi/Alex_Ouryu_3.jpg

http://alexei.tenbu.com/ffxi/Alex_Ouryu_4.jpg

[Flight_93]

Just magic dmg down/MDB.

Someone's avoiding me..
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To the person above- that's what yer LJ is for..

[Coldplay4tw]

Im sure i read about some shell that already used PLD/DRK for Vrtra.

[Highlulu]

Just magic dmg down/MDB.

how much do you take each breath attack doing that?

i have 160 earth resist in gear atm and have seen hot results from that.

[Xavier]

Don't remember offhand, just looked but I don't have any SS of any fights saved.

[orinthia]

I've used pld/drk for vrtra before. Vrtra never resists stun, so if you plan on kiting it you can have your tanks all /drk and can pretty much stun lock it enough to not get hit while running it around. Works pretty good when you have to park it for a short while for smns/etc too.

[Serif]

PLD/DRK for sure works on JOL.

But so would RDM/DRK which would have more hate tools and better MDB. Plus Chainspell Stun if you were bored as all heck.

Aerial Collision X3 is such a PITA.

I prefer PLD/RDM on JoL, all you do is spam through 3-4 spells and hate will never be an issue.

[Damane]

i have done /war on most of my ouryu's, i was thinking of trying /brd before teh zurka nerf... now i'm leaning towards /drk, i'm a bit curious what your plan is with /whm.

i would assume to erase your own slows then? stoneskin + sentinel for when its awake on the ground? or just for the MDB in the air? I'm not sure how you fight it, but we just use blms in the air, sleep on the ground, so for us it translates into:

- Extra MDB while in the air.
- Auto-Regen
- Clear Mind for resting while its asleep on the ground, getting max mp.
- Erase your own slow.
- Stoneskin (usually eats 1 and a half air attacks for me)
- Curaga II spam (this is the big reason). We have the "tank" party at its feet at all times, so his wings/blasts/etc hit roughly 5-6 people, depending on whats going on. The enmity from just healing 5-6 people for 200+ hp multiple times in the air, while flashing etc, just seems awesome. On top of naturally reducing the number of healers you actually need. We found last time that we basically only needed one whm, and that was just for stona.

PLD/DRK would def. generate a ton of hate, but for Ouryu, where Stun isn't going to land anyway, the usefulness of basically turning your main tank into your main healer, while also taking less magical damage (the only kind ouryu really does for us) is pretty sweet.

/blu is also very great on ouryu fight hate wise. healing breeze is something in between curaga and curaga II with capped pld healing skill but costs only 55 MP. and you can still spam sheepsong sopoforic and chaotic eye for additional hate if your pt members are all on full HP. and clear mind is generated by combining poison breath and cursed sphere. Just tested it lately and is hatewise > /whm. as a note I landed 10 of 40 chaotic eyes silencing ouryu for sometimes 1 sec to 45 sec.

[Ohemgee]

might try it on JoL next as pld, tanked it as rdm/nin and pld/nin so far. stupid mob, need something to keep me occupied...

It works well. Plus you can randomly hit 60mp aspirs and 120 drains for lulz. Really nice hate too; stayed pretty much glued on me over the pld/wars.

pld/rdm for jlo


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