FL Assault "Better than One" changed 11/19?

[rithridan]

Ranged damage is nice on him, not because it does more damage or anything but simply because having 3 melee dds wailing on him will just make him spam AoE drain and drain it all back. I'd suggest having 2 people capable of tanking him as melee and the rest keep outside AoE range. Also he is relatively easy to kite with just about anything. Our BLM/RDM kited him easily without gaiters. He's like a hpemde with legs if you kite him around one of the big pillars.

[Bardlet]

Someone go try Better Than One and see if they ninja fixed it. :X My group tried last night, and wound up using the fireflies to get out since the melee could *barely* hit him now.

I want my Captain rank, dammit!

[FunnyGinMan]

From what I've heard, it still hasn't been fixed. My group doesn't want to attempt and find out though :/ It's also my last Assault for Captain.

Are people filing glitch reports for this? ;_;

[Memo]

I just tried this with my Assault set. This is the 3rd time we've tried it in about a week or so. And yep, it's still glitched. His evasion is still nuts, everything else we can handle, just that it was at 40% when we got the 10 minute warning. Also, because the fight takes so long, MP was low by that time, and plus, 30 minutes is a lot of time for the chance of an unlucky double attack, crits, or other things that could go wrong to kill your tanks, etc. All other FLs we beat easily, but this one is really difficult. We ended up wiping/using flies at about 25%, but only because we had an unlucky start. I don't think it's impossible, but I know that it shouldn't be this hard. (One of our members already beat this before SE messed it up, and he said he beat it with 5 ppl in like 15 mins.)

Anyway, I'm currently waiting for a GM to get back to me. Hopefully he's not utterly useless like they usually are. :3 He'll probably tell me to check "community sites" to get info about the assault etc. Either way, if ppl keep reporting it, I'm sure they'll fix it.

[Doompie]

Does he still pop the elementals with this high evasion? Maybe its a trade off? lol.. probably not.

[Memo]

Yep, popped Ele's at 100% and still had super high evasion.

[Tajin]

Popped elementals at about 70%, took us like 20 minutes to take him down to 70%.


Got owned hard.

[Okuza]

We gave it another try today, but rigged the party for magic damage on the assumption that 7 days wasn't enough for SE to fix the evasion on him. We were right, too -- still broken. Ended up with only enough DD to get him down to around 40%. Miss rate is still absurdly high on melee: roughly 20% hit rate (80% misses).

We also tested Feint, Fenrir eva down, and COR hunter's roll as potential fixes, but they didn't shift the hit rate by any measurable degree.

[Blackmoore]

@_@! {Captain} {Found it!}.

It seems the nerf can be worked around. Setup was 2 BLM, RDM, WHM, NIN, PLD... BLM's nuked till they pulled hate, then backed off... Each watched stun for GoH. Refresh + cures / na's when needed from WHM and RDM made gates not a super problem if they went through. I'm still shaking from the win, but stick with it guys and gals, it's not impossible. o_x

[Skyfoxx]

as Blackmoore Mentioned we defeated Cerb with the eva glitch.. he forgot to mention what the pld did xD, pld/war to pull the eles when they popped 1 at a time, after that just assist healing/flashing, in the last 20%~ had the pld spike hate on cerb(all ja's 2hr included) so when blms unloaded they didn't pull hate during the last push, that is all~

Good luck to everyone who needs this win, incase they take too long to fix his eva glitch, this setup worked for us, hope it helps others aswell ^^

[Drakath]

An issue wherein the attributes of the monster in the Assault mission "Better than One" drastically increased under certain conditions has been addressed.

Finally fixed in the update today

[Okuza]

Finally fixed in the update today

Curious -- have you tested it already and it's really fixed or just reporting what was in the update announcement? (I'm hopeful, but I still keep a stack of salt grains handy when reading SE's words).

[Kaylia]

An issue wherein the attributes of the monster in the Assault mission "Better than One" drastically increased under certain conditions has been addressed.

Certain condition being "zoning in the area"

[yuriku]

Still seems semi-broken, but a lot better then before. Had a BRD/BLM do SV + Elemental Seal Elegy on him it wasn't resisted but instead got a messege that said no effect. Not really sure if that is what SE intended or not, but no elegy makes this hard to tank with a mnk or war.

[Kaylia]

Happen when you cast spell on it while it's using "howl".

[yuriku]

Oh awsome, I didn't know that. Is howl an effect that lasts a while? or is it just when he is howling that it cannot be landed?

[Kaylia]

Oh awsome, I didn't know that. Is howl an effect that lasts a while? or is it just when he is howling that it cannot be landed?

Just when he is howling (3-4 sec?) as far as I know. It's not impossible that cerberus get a magical imunity for a short while after howling, since it seem to have quite random effect when no elemental are popping.

[yuriku]

thx for the info!

[Tajin]

So, is it really fixed? can't play atm but I'd like to give it a shot next week when I can play again.

[Varg]

my static group did it yesterday for the one member who missed it and aside from a taru blm overnuking near the end, getting drawn in and then agroing a bunch of the elementals....everything went swimmingly.