Low man Xarcas.

[Daveman]

Powder boot cost 10k and will last you the whole raid if you have a job that can use.

There's always that too lol. WHM can't equip though, which is what I had in mind as best canidate for the job.

[Mythe_Seraph]

...http://www.dynamiscalendar.com...

This is nifty.
Thank you!

[Asdra]

1 rdm/drk
1 pld/nin
1 brd/whm
1 whm/nin with Gaiters and powder boots
1 war/nin
1 mnk/nin

You enter, the rdm/drk and whm/nin immediately run forward, the whm/nin sac pulls and the rdm/drk kills the statue in 2-3 nukes. The xarc statues are VERY weak, with something along the lines of 800 hp. A pimp blm can usually 1 shot them, so a rdm can do it in 2 nukes.

Then you move on to the next time ext. The whm sac pulls and the pld and war pull the 2 eyes. The pld holds one while the war and mnk easily own one. A good warriors rampage can do almost half an eyes Hp, so a war and monk can usually drop one in about 45 seconds. Then you kill the one the pld is holding, then the whm sac pulls so you can kill the other statue.

Then you run to the next camp behind the Bard/rdm/warrior tower. The whm pulls all 3 eyes, the pld, war, and monk all pull eyes, and you kill all 3 and the statue will pop when they die. If you kill them before the demons manage to walk back, you can kill the time ext without the whm having to sac again.

Now you have about an hour and a half to fight the 15 NMs.

The whm can sac pull each tower 3 times. Each time the warrior vokes 1 eye, and the paladin grabs a NM. The warrior and monk each kill the eye, and the pld holds the NM until eye is dead, then they kill the demon. On the first tower, the only dangerous one is rdm, and unless it just spams tier 3 spells, its not too bad. Diaga and bind and protect aren't too bad.

On the next tower is bst/whm/mnk. This tower is the main reason you use pld and not something like nin/drk tank. The paladin sentinels away Hundred fists, and the monk isn't much of a risk. The whm is just an endurance fight because of benediction. The key here is to pull 2 eyes with the whm, so the whm can pull just the bsts pet wyvern, and you kill the bst. After you kill the bst, the whm dies and the pet will depop, saving you time.

Next tower is blm/drk/ninja. You kill drk first, because its easy. Then you kill blm. This is the one you'll most likely wipe to if you wipe. It hits manafont and will spam spells. Its not too bad if it does something like thunder IV to Flare to Blizzard IV, but if it decides to do thundaga 3, blizzaga 3, thundaga 3, well, you can wipe and pull it again after weakness and its 2 hour is gone. On the ninja, when it gets below 50% the rdm will chainspell stun while the warrior and monk hit their 2 hours. You want to get the ninja as low as possible before it gets a chance to blow its load so it doesn't 1 shot everyone.

Next tower is thief/pld/smn. Pretty straightforward. Do thief or pld first, doesn't matter. Do smn last. The whm kites the avatar far away while you kill the smn. When it does astral flow it'll kill the whm and you won't have any risk of a slept avatar waking up and blowing up your party. You can just sleep it far off if you really want, but that involves seperating the rdm from the group to babysit it.

Last tower is sam/rng/drg. You'll likely want to do drg first, followed by rng, and sam last. Sam is the most dangerous to the group because a couple bad quadrastrikes or condemnations could drop the paladin. Typically would want to save sentinel for when the sam hits its 2 hour. After the sam, a time ext pops that the rdm can just pop off really fast.

Now you have all the NMs clear and any time you have left you can use to do some farming of the normal demons. For this you would use the usual full group farming method, with sac pulls to divide up the long lines of demons so you can snag off 2-3 demons to sleep and kill. If you're saucy and have time left, you can aim for the ext in the middle of the demon wall on the way to the DL, but if you know xarc, you know that would be pretty damn fun with only 6.

You can obviously mix and match the DDs as you see fit, like a ninja in place of the warrior, or 2 warriors, etc. I bet a sam could fit in one of these slots pretty well nowadays. Main reason for the whm sac pulling is for the obvious less xp loss, and when the whm gets back to camp and if you're still fighting for some reason, they can help cure some. They can also help cure if by some weird freakish accident the rdm dies.

You could also obviously just skip the NMs you don't want and just go farm. I just included all the demons for the way that I would do each NM, and not really to say to do them all. This is also a repost from a post I did like 3 months ago to this same question.

[Jakiss]

for the first time stone u can have a blm freeze 2 it and 1shot it without needing to sac pull or die

[ninjafox]

Or have a rng barrage it

[Daahan]

seems like a waiste of time, money, and xp, but if you are desperate to get af i guess it could be done

I've seen some screenshots of a 6 man netting a bunch of AF with relatively low sacrifice.

It's all based on luck.

[Kaylia]

for the first time stone u can have a blm freeze 2 it and 1shot it without needing to sac pull or die

You can nuke it without aggroing eyes?

[Calais~]

I'm pretty sure you can't be in casting range without aggroing the eyes, but not certain. It's been a while since I've done that extension.

1 rdm/drk
1 pld/nin
1 brd/whm
1 whm/nin with Gaiters and powder boots
1 war/nin
1 mnk/nin

Whm can't equip

[Judai]

for the first time stone u can have a blm freeze 2 it and 1shot it without needing to sac pull or die

You can nuke it without aggroing eyes?

It's possible but hard, need to run in and nuke it at perfect time when Eyes move and if you don't one shot it, you die.

[Kaylia]

Probably not worth the risk then. Suicide pull is just too easy.

Could you just run to the statue too ninja'ing through the eye? If you stand in the middle on top of the statue, would the eye aggro you?

[Judai]

I'm pretty sure once you aggro the statue the eyes all link, so unless you oneshot it you get aggro from them all. I've oneshot it a few times for fun but the one time it didn't die I had all 4 eyes aggro me. I got off drain to finish the statue and died a bit away. It seemed like they linked once I hit it and it didn't die, because the eyes were still turned away from me.

[Munkey]

You can one shot it with barrage from the right angle without getting aggro from the rest.



Generally our group goes in with about 12-16 people for xarc, we have a whm sac puller everytime. On the eye popped time extenstion you dont have to go all the way to the start just have your pt at the spine and you distance aggro the eyes and run the opposite direction of the spine to the far wall. up near where the animated knife is. thats far enough to just die and chill. you'll use this spot for the 2 and 3rd NM set death spot for your sac puller as well. Whm w/o gaiters can do this just fine they just have to pull from max distance every time.

[Kerberoz]

When we do Xarc I oneshot the first extention with freeze and 2 eyes always aggro me midcast, but the rest of the mobs don't link, so I just pull those 2 eyes north to camp and kill them. Hasn't failed yet.

[yuriku]

You can for sure do the run 6, Rangers seems to be the best for 1 shotting the first TE. (IC wing)

2nd TE on the platform is popped by only killing 2 eyes that are already up, ignore the ones that pop, sac pull works good with 2 vokers to target the two important eyes when they are pulled.

3rd TE is pretty easy as well if you can posistion yourself correctly, each of the three eyes can each be pulled without link if you pull from left to right, only 3 mobs pop this is easier to do with 12 then 6 tho. I'm not sure if two eyes need to be killed or just the center eye, but these pulls are pretty easy.

After that you should have plenty of time to sac pull only then NM's that you need.

[zephr]

Necroposting here, but I just want to say that I've been bringing my friends with me to do lowman Xarcas for about 2-3 months, based on the strategies I got in this thread, and it's turned out to be the most rewarding and fun experience in this game so far.

Over 8 runs or so we've had the following drops: PLDx2, SMN, SAMx2, WARx3, BLMx2, NIN, BRD, MNK.

It's really rewarding to see all these drops go to your closest friends instead of the 35 randoms that come to my old Dynamis runs.

Setup a date, have 10-12 people be well-prepared, and go nuts.

Lowest we cleared all 15 NMs with was 10 people and me dualboxing a RNG/NIN with Powder Boots and copious amounts of Reraise items for sack-pulling.

[Fridell]

And still no RDM hat for you! Remember, only me can have both hatz! muuuu