Tier10 Assault

[Wizerd]

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.

It's probably based on the job of the weapon.

I know the staves are BLM, the rod is WHM, the dagger is THF, and the axe should be WAR. I forgot which others there even were.

[Suiram]

I cast on the first one he called (I think it was daggers) and as I was doing so he decided to sneak in a -ga3, so I didn't notice how much it did, and after that I just babysat stun while the others killed the weapons, so I can't say personally what the variance is for them.

[Naphtali]

well lost King again @1%......
sam pld/nin blu/nin rdm whm brd.

we decided to fight it at the start point, so if we died can RR safely etc.
fight went smooth, np. When he talked about the Daggers, blu & me got ready to kill them, but they never came.. i was like wtf, but didnt think too much into it. kept on fight and he kept saying he was bringing his weapons in at the usual intervals - but none ever came..

finally King was down to about 15% in short order, then he talks about his shield etc.. then 5sec later boom.. all 5 weapons come at the same time.. PLD used 2H and that help us for a bit.. i tried to kill with wing/med WS etc.. ( had used my 2H [sam] when he was around 25%.. which took him to about 15%.. [he seems to get more resistant to melee as his HP goes down] ). Was Blu & Me left alive at 2% and just before I died he change to 1%... blu got a few hits in but died after. I dunno what to say really..-.-

Everyone seems to have np on this one so I don't know whats up-.- Lost this one 3 times.. combined with losing the tier2 lebros twice, and losing the one where you follow the akapallu around and use /emotes 2 times, these are the only assaults friend & myself ever lost.. so its getting annoying. 48/50.. Try again tomorrow I guess..

Dunno if the all 5 at once was a glitch cuz we pulled King to start, or if thats just what happens if you pull him. Don't recommend doing it anyway >.>

[Lyramion]

No it wasnt a glitch. It happened to us, too.


We pulled King to the Start point and he talked about the wepaon but it never came. Then when he talked about another weapon the first one came ,too. It seems sometimes the weapons wont have hate instantly - so be sure to pull and kill them in time before they get a problem.

[divisortheory]

Best strat for king seems to be 2 hard hitting melee plus a NIN. I say NIN because it can do more damage than PLD and it has more shadows. When we went with NIN THF RDM WHM BLM BRD we would have won easily if the BLM had been a MNK. with more sharing of hate to eat shadows, plus the option of having hundred fists at low HP, more WS on the weapons, etc we would have won pretty easily i think. Also bring poison potions

[Wizerd]

Best strat for king seems to be 2 hard hitting melee plus a NIN. I say NIN because it can do more damage than PLD and it has more shadows. When we went with NIN THF RDM WHM BLM BRD we would have won easily if the BLM had been a MNK. with more sharing of hate to eat shadows, plus the option of having hundred fists at low HP, more WS on the weapons, etc we would have won pretty easily i think. Also bring poison potions

I don't think Hundred Fists at low HP would help you much:

Monk hits King Goldemar for [xx] points of damage.
Monk hits King Goldemar for [xx] points of damage.
Monk is intimiated by King Goldemar.
Monk is intimiated by King Goldemar.
Monk is intimiated by King Goldemar.
Monk is intimiated by King Goldemar.
Monk hits King Goldemar for [xx] points of damage.
Monk hits King Goldemar for [xx] points of damage.
Monk is intimiated by King Goldemar.
Monk is intimiated by King Goldemar.
Monk is intimiated by King Goldemar.
Monk is intimiated by King Goldemar.
Monk is intimiated by King Goldemar.
Monk is intimiated by King Goldemar.
Monk is intimiated by King Goldemar.
Monk is intimiated by King Goldemar.
Monk is intimiated by King Goldemar.

That was about my rate of intimidation when he started doing it, when I was on NIN.
Edit: besides, once all his weapons are down he's even more of a joke than before he was calling weapons. This thing might even be easier than Hydra.

Really PLD/NIN was better for us because it's best to keep hate on 1 or 2 people, so the third melee has no problems getting the weapons he calls. And I really liked RDM WHM BRD for King. His spells didn't do enough damage to hurt because every time he did Cackle (is that the move?) the PLD had 3 Erases on him instantly, which covered all 3 effects it gives. Quickly followed by Erase spams on me and the WAR. From what I recall he hit decently hard, nothing like Cerberus/Khim but still hard enough to rape a NIN if defense down is on, whereas on PLD if any problems come up they can just Sentinel the melee damage away until it's fixed.

Anyone else who has fought King, have you noticed him doing an AoE stun move every time he calls a new weapon, or was this just a coincidence for each weapon he called on us? It wasn't overly annoying or detrimental because the stun wears off before the weapons actually even start moving, and I don't think it wiped shadows.

[Kaylia]

I liked PLD/NIN for king, kept hate for the whole time and survived one bad aga --> tp move that killed other 2 melees. The fight is really easy imo, has long you have as many healer as you have melee, and one stunner for aga (he will cast spell every 20sec or so, it's easy to be ready to stun).

[Wizerd]

I liked PLD/NIN for king, kept hate for the whole time and survived one bad aga --> tp move that killed other 2 melees. The fight is really easy imo, has long you have as many healer as you have melee, and one stunner for aga (he will cast spell every 20sec or so, it's easy to be ready to stun).

Yeah. I'm wondering if we just got lucky on our run or what, cuz I don't actually remember any -aga III going off and we were fighting a good 10min at least. I was told later that at least one went off and the PLD went into orange HP from it but that's all lol.

[Kaylia]

It will use many single target spells, flame spikes and other retarded weak stuff, but his aga, when he decides to cast one are nasty. The "m.def down" AoE come with 2 other debuff, and you have to erase them first, otherwise, the aga will hit you for 1200dmg or something like that.

I'm not sure how many time it casted them, think 8-9 times in the whole run, but only one of them was deadly.

[Naphtali]

yea mag def. down combined with a ga is killer.
I dunno.. I like pld/nin better because he has more HP and can help cure himself/others..

This is all being down with pickup/shout members, as my friend & myself have done every other assault, so getting members with the best equip etc, always isn't an option. Today I really though we'd win, had really good pld/nin, good brd rdm/drk, blu, whm & me on sam.. we had it won if all 5 hadn't come at once..TT

Next time gonna fight in middle again for sure and kill weapons as soon as he talks!

[Lyramion]

On our second win run using PLD/NIN I asked him to stock up on some HP. Which turned out to be the best idea I ever had. Even with two people focusing on Erase our PLD got knocked to 60 HP once.

[Tachi]

??? head > Bowman's Mask from Bellerophon's Bliss... I believed that it would be a Breeder Mask.

Somebody know which FL assault drop ??? head item? (except Khim)

[Lyramion]

??? head > Bowman's Mask from Bellerophon's Bliss... I believed that it would be a Breeder Mask.

Somebody know which FL assault drop ??? head item? (except Khim)

Hmm interresting - updating my expected DORP post on page 2 then. Breeder stuff from hydra then most likely:

viewtopic.php?f=24&t=22796&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=53

[Sagacious Sundi]

Makes sense. Mamools have both BST and DRG, and Lamiae have RNG/SAM/COR (who would benefit the most from ranged stuff, no?) and RDM.

[Naphtali]

woot raped King hard..
pld/nin nin rdm/drk whm brd sam/thf for hate.

woulda won yesterday if had fought in middle ><
was really easy today..bleh. its not hard really just had some bad luck first 3 times.. (esp. yesterday with 5 weapons at same time ><).

@1 for 50/50 & Captain! Lebros >.>

[Zumi]

Lost to Cerb and its the last one I need to finish all the assaults, he summoned elementals at about 50%. I try kiting them with my RDM and everything was going ok till they all lost hate on me then decied to go after other people causing a wipe. Any idea on what to do about them. They don't seem to despawn for us like they have for other people.

[Kaylia]

^
Same happened to us last night. Lost aggro and went after other mage. They don't have much hp (less than 2k I think), so I'm thinking about going blm next time and pop manafont to rape time

[Naphtali]

JP friend says alot of JP doing that assault with pld/nin 3blm rdm and brd.
RDM rounds up eles and BLM all -ga them.. kills them apparently.

[Nee]

Anyone else notice for Cerb, that the Elementals that pop do not have hate on anyone? They only aggro when someone uses magic (that uses MP). At least thats how it appeared when we did this assault.

[divisortheory]

Anyone else notice for Cerb, that the Elementals that pop do not have hate on anyone? They only aggro when someone uses magic (that uses MP). At least thats how it appeared when we did this assault.

If that's true, could you just be pull Cerb away from the elementals when they pop?