Tier10 Assault

[Wizerd]

King Goldemar was second easiest for us. Hydra was easiest. Middle was Khimaira. Second hardest being Cerberus once we figured him out. Hardest was easily Count Dracula.

All very easy once you know what's up. For Goldemar I just went NIN and solod the weapons as he called them. They went down fast and our PLD tank and GAX WAR owned the main guy.

[Zilong]

What's a good strategy for dealing with cerb's elemental? seem like that's the only problem he gives.

Also, for khimaira, do the moblin has TP regen? because someone said earlier that khim only WS when the goblin roll dice if goblin isnt killed. Oh, and is the goblin passive like the one in solo ENM60?

[Wizerd]

What's a good strategy for dealing with cerb's elemental? seem like that's the only problem he gives.

Also, for khimaira, do the moblin has TP regen? because someone said earlier that khim only WS when the goblin roll dice if goblin isnt killed. Oh, and is the goblin passive like the one in solo ENM60?

For Cerberus we had a RDM/NIN bring some Powder Boots. When they popped, he Diaga'd and they all came after him (even the ones he didn't hit, due to magic aggro). Then he fleed and ran around the place for a few min til they depopped. It only happens once.

[Uzor]

What's a good strategy for dealing with cerb's elemental? seem like that's the only problem he gives.

Also, for khimaira, do the moblin has TP regen? because someone said earlier that khim only WS when the goblin roll dice if goblin isnt killed. Oh, and is the goblin passive like the one in solo ENM60?

No, the goblin attacks you.

Khimaira is a bad boy though and won't get any food before bed time. Occasionally when he tells him to do a TP move, he'll "interrupt" it. Not sure what causes it, but I suppose it could be random. Happens about 50% of the time.

[Lordwafik]

I did the Cerberus and King Oogabooga one.

King is very easy to do with low numbers. When a weapon is summoned, just turn/fight weapon.

Cerberus is a bit tough but we won it still , it didn't summon elementals till very low HP (like 21%) but it doesn't seem to have much HP as it was dying really fast. When eles popped, I just ran around diaga'ing them and running them in a giant circle. They hit for very weak, but I can see this being a problem if they pop early in the fight as I was still doing my typical rdm/whm duties untill they popped.

[Missnasty]

it seems that you don't lose exp in the FL assaults if you die as we had someone with capped exp get doomed by Dracula and still had capped exp afterwards.

Wow really? That's awesome to know!

Naw, you lose exp. At least my MNK did when he got doomed.

That's strang as I asked one of the people that got doomed and he's 100% certain he had capped exp afterwards .

[NynJa]

it seems that you don't lose exp in the FL assaults if you die as we had someone with capped exp get doomed by Dracula and still had capped exp afterwards.

Wow really? That's awesome to know!

Naw, you lose exp. At least my MNK did when he got doomed.

That's strang as I asked one of the people that got doomed and he's 100% certain he had capped exp afterwards .

XP gained from the doppelganger and Dracula himself ?

[Zumi]

I was the one that got killed by doom, I had used a rerasie gorget which would of been -600 exp, he didn't use doppelganger on us and you don't get any exp from these mobs. I rerasied and dracula was about dead. Right after I went to check my exp and was still capped.

But the next day people did lose exp to Cerb so I don't really know what happened with that fight. Only thing I can think of is he used charmed me the second before I died and I just didn't notice, that is about the only thing that makes sense.

[Ruin]

Edited.

[Naphtali]

King is starting to ****ing annoy.. lost once @7% don't know why really.. No More MP! I guess.
Just lost now because of retardedly gay -gas... b2b -gas for 1500-1800dmg.. wtf.

still 48/50 assault.. never tried lebros and out of tags again cuz of this gayness -.-

tomorrow gonna try lebros..

[Wizerd]

King is starting to ****ing annoy.. lost once @7% don't know why really.. No More MP! I guess.
Just lost now because of retardedly gay -gas... b2b -gas for 1500-1800dmg.. wtf.

still 48/50 assault.. never tried lebros and out of tags again cuz of this gayness -.-

tomorrow gonna try lebros..

His -ga's don't do that much damage.. Erase the tanks if you're having problems with that lol. And/or Stun the -ga's.

[Almalexia]

Cerberus is a bit tough but we won it still , it didn't summon elementals till very low HP (like 21%) but it doesn't seem to have much HP as it was dying really fast. When eles popped, I just ran around diaga'ing them and running them in a giant circle. They hit for very weak, but I can see this being a problem if they pop early in the fight as I was still doing my typical rdm/whm duties untill they popped.

Our first Black Shmuck had elementals popping at 50%, and the second attempt popped them close to 20%. He seems to have full immunity during the howl animation that pops the elementals, just like during the dart animation on marids in "Marids in the Mist" assault.

[Wizerd]

Has anyone had the Cerberus one use Gates of Hades more (or less) than once? It seems like a 2HR, but maybe not.

[Xanthe]

Cerb used it several times for us.

[Naphtali]

his -gas did that much damage yesterday.. he did 2 literally b2b within 5sec.. 1st killed all 3 front liners.. 2nd killed 3 backliners.. no time to erase magic def down if he kills you 3 sec after he uses it

[Zilong]

Seem like the howling animation have a few effect

1) Gate of Hades
2) Magma Hoplon
3) Elemental Summons
4) Power Boost

From the 2x I've done cerb, the first one has been 2/2 phalanx hoplon.

While the following ones have varied in effect.

[Suiram]

Okay, so, did 4 of these today, figured I'd post stuff I noticed just to add to the general knowledge bank. I'm the BLM in all of these runs.

Lebros Cavern (Cerberus): WAR/NIN MNK/NIN BLM/RDM BRD/WHM RDM/WHM WHM/SMN

Opened with his howl move, popping the elementals. We weren't expecting that to happen so early, so most of them ended up on our WHM. He started to kite them off, I managed to land sleepga (didn't stick, was just for hate) as they were clustered. I kited them back and forth for a bit, which was pretty easy, although I screwed up at some point and a Fire 4 landed and I died. They didn't despawn until I had died, so I think they probably only despawn when hate is gone, either by death or just losing them and deaggro. He used his howl move a few more times over the course of the fight. At some point he Howled and did Gates of Hades immediately after, which I stunned. However, he proceeded to use it several more times over the course of the fight without needing Howl, so either that Howl just unlocks his ability to use it, or it just lets him use it above 25% and he additionally has the normal ~25% GoH behavior. I tried Thunder 3 and Thunder 4 which were not resisted, but he did seem to have about 50% magic damage reduction like Wyrms, but not the super-high elemental resistance like his Mt. Z and Nyzul counterparts.


Mamool Ja Training Grounds (Hydra): MNK/NIN MNK/NIN BLM/WHM RDM/WHM WHM/SMN

When he does his thrashing move, he'll turn to keep his tail faced towards whoever has hate, so there's no point to repositioning, just turn so you don't give TP. Serpantine Tail one-shotted a MNK the first time he did it when we weren't prepared, so it was somewhat hairy. He never resisted Stun except when I accidentally used it after Magic Shield (obvious). Elemental debuffs seemed to resist completely. As with Cerberus, magic damage (again Thunder, at least) took a 50% cut but never resisted. He does regen with 3 heads, but it's nothing on the magnitude of regular Hydra, think more of like Fafnir or something, it's there but barely noticeable unless you're not actively damaging it for whatever reason.


Periqia (King Goldemar): PLD/NIN MNK/NIN MNK/NIN BLM/WHM RDM/WHM WHM/SMN

Not much to say that hasn't been said before. This is the hardest of the four we beat. His activating the weapons doesn't seem to be entirely based on % because he called the last one while we were just holding him after WHM and a MNK had died. Although it is possible that he had a DoT on or something that happened to bring him below the trigger %. Ga3 and Tier 4 (if target has no shadows) are both slow enough to stun by a practiced stunner. Sleepga seems too fast, at least for me, but probably better to save stun timer for -ga3 anyway. I only tried to damage him once, and thunder 3 did in the low 100s, but since others here had said he has high magic defense I didn't even bother to try more to see if that was just unlucky resist.


Leujaoam Sanctum (Dracula): MNK/NIN MNK/NIN BLM/NIN RDM/WHM WHM/SMN

This one was probably the easiest, although he only used charm at the very end, around 1-3%, so probably could be harder if you get unlucky and he spams it. The charm doesn't seem to be conal as reported, or if it is it's a cone + small radius AoE, since the MNKs were standing on opposite sides and were both charmed. We didn't have a BRD to sleep but I had no difficulty kiting count and bats around the perimeter of the area until our WHM Banish 3 for kill lol He did the doppelganger move twice, and they appear to be immune to sleep, but can be bound and died in only two tier-4 nukes (although it might just be based on the HP of the person copied), so were easily dealt with. Count also had low resistance to Thunder and a 50% magic damage cut, but seemed to resist Blizzard, and the MNKs did fusion once which they said also resisted, so he's probably fire-based.


That's it for today, should be doing Khimaira tomorrow and then free runic portals. :D If anyone wants to suggest the best way to handle that, more advice would be appreciated. We were thinking maybe two people on Khimaira, and NIN holding the moblin? Can the mobline be slept? etc.

[Kaylia]

How much hp those elemental have?

[Suiram]

We didn't try to damage them, and after I died and they depopped, he didn't recall them again (although that might have been luck?).

[divisortheory]

King Goldemar's weapon assistants take excellent damage from nukes. I only saw it personally on the Axe, so not sure about the others, but a Blizzard III from a RDM/DRK did 500 damage to the axe.