Tips for duo Apollyon NW

[ubermonkey]

A rdm friend and I (I go as blm) have been duoing this for the last week or so (3 attempts so far). Our best attempt has been to get through all 5 floors and clear 4th and 5th bar bosses. However, we;d like to go for the clear, or max coins and we;re looking for tips on either speeding up our runs, or ways to maximise our coin hauls.

Generally on floor 1 we kill 2 ghosts > boss, then any more that need killed to open vortex. Assuming it opened on the first ghost we;d do 1>boss. After vortex opens we hit any extensions we missed, sleep aggro and port up.

Floor 2-3 we kill till vortex opens then grab chests and port

Floor 4 we clear all wyverns and grab all chests then port

Floor 5 we just manage to clear an NQ behemoths.

Anything we could to to improve here?

[Credos]

I made a post about this yesterday, and got a link to Kanican's LJ: http://kanican.livejournal.com/.

It's more specific to solo play but I think it might help you out some. The part with casting on Kaiser Behemoth is really great and I think can help any group only speed up their kills.

[Berdysh]

Do not bother clearing the first floor boss. Clear ghosts, buffalo and bugard, grabbing chests and warping right when portals open, then farm your coins off wyverns and behemoths. If you are doing well on time and are able to kill the wyrm too (he's easy manaburn), you should end up with like 30-40 coins with a full clear.

[Judai]

If you and the RDM are very good you can Grav/Bind/Nuke Cyro down. It takes some time and waiting on Bind timer before you nuke. Someone posted a video of them doing it, I think it was Yrrpaine(forget spelling of name).

Otherwise, nothing you can do to get more other then kill more mobs. lol. Just make sure to kill all Wyverns and Behes and whatever else you feel you have time for.

[hyuuga]

Last 2 runs cleared NW with a RDM and myself a blm. I've based the strategy on duoing straight from Kanican's journal thing, ignoring all boss except last for both runs though the second we did clear all 5 dragons on Lv4.
Gear wise: RDM have only basic enfeebling gear no merits and NQ staffs. around 600mp, he did strictly enfeeble and refresh. Myself being a blm have full merit but very basic NQ gear, only HQ ice staff. Like in that journal mentioned luck plays a role in trying to tackle this part of Limbus with low number, first clear the 3rd ghost / 3rd cow / 3rd bugard / 3rd dragon opened up the portal, after killing 3 NQ behes I had only 10 minutes left which wasn't enough time as we went ahead and tried anyways.

The second time we were very lucky having the first ghost and cow opening up the portal. If you've duo'd this a few times you know these 2 are actually the most annoying ones. Not really sure about how much time was left after the NQ behes died, but we ended up with 37 coins 3 minutes left for Kaiser. RDM only did DoT and followed it with tier3 spells which help'd a little, but as you can imagine not very effective. I did the exact same kiting path as mentioned in that Journal and the trick spot where you can get free nukes off actually works and works great. Overall very relax'd. If you're not sure about the usage of Manafont vs. getting HP/MP chest just look at the journal or figure out by a few trials. Usually i just Manafont the first mob as soon as it goes off, coordinating with rdm for immediate sleep1/2/bind after each hit. AF items were crap though, gg luck.