Maat Tips

[Keston]

Well, finally at long last I got around to the last jobs needed for Maat's cap to 66. I've beaten him on 4 of 15 Jobs so far (NIN DRK BLM WAR). Just on testimony runs, and fights now.

I have a Q about Maat as RDM at 75. I haven't really played Red Mage in capacity outside of support for a really long time. How should I be approaching this battle? Melee/Sword, or CS+Nukes ? Any advice would be appreciated, I know Maat was known as the toughest on RDM for some time.

Thanks.

[zhan]

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At 75, run in Chainspell Bliz 3 or Thunder 3 him. Grav/sleep/bind when needed. He should drop quick.

[Keston]

Thanks for the advice. All the elemental/INT gear I have is really from my BLM (All Staffs, Snow Rings, Ugg Pendant, some Yigit, Penitite's Rope, Rainbow Cape, RDM AF2 Hands, Jet Sereweels, Mold Ears, Laq Ear, Phantom Tathlum), nothing great for RDM since I take it out of the closet once in a blue moon nowadays. Given the suggested strat, hopefullly the above will do. Thanks again.

[zhan]

I beat him like 3 years ago on RDM at 67 using water 3 and mostly NQ gear ... with that gear and 75 you should have no problem at all.

[Keston]

Yea, I remember when Maat used to be somewhat of a task to beat back in the day. The other day, I went to the WAR BC with meds, and all that. Then turns out I kill him in 4 hits total .

[Plight]

He's a joke at 75, just sleep him during his 2hr and you can do it without ever needing Convert or Chainspell.

[Spekkio]

i just did maat recently on rdm 75. i'm going to farm up another testimony one of these days and try to break 1 minute. i spent more time buffing than winning. gear was as follows:
jupiter, staff strap (laugh if you want), ---, phantom
af head, uggalieph pendant (hardly activated), moldy, novio
yigit body, yigit hands, tamas, snow
prism, pen rope, errant, yigit shoes

fight went like this:
run up to circle
sleep maat
dispell
buff
chainspell
thunder3 4 times
win.

he didn't lay a hand on me, his chainspell was wasted trying to bind me. next time, i'm either going to start chainspell before sleep to speed buffing or i'm just going to abandon all buffs and open with chainspell>dispel>nuke. i don't think i could get it down to 3 nukes even with thundersday/uggalieph procing on all of them, but they'd offer more padding if you're not sure if you can hit it.

the long and short of it is: sleep him from the start to dispel him before he gets 6 buffs on, buff up, and waste his sorry ass. you can't lose.

[Keston]

Wicked, thanks for all the tips. About to go fight him on MNK66 real quick, then do RDM after.

[yrpaine]

cs, sleep (Till it lands, might have blink up),
dispel till no effect,
grav,
nuke
???
maat's cap

[Keston]

Hello again,

Another Q: For WHM Maat, at 75, do you have to survive for 5 mins as with a first time fight, or you have to beat him with melee?

Thanks,

Keston

[Kriz]

Outlast. But that's so amazingly easy now with Repose, it's not even funny. Melee him for some giggles, he goes down in 1-2 Hexas.

P.S. Hmm, yeah, it may be melee only. I have only melee'd him since breaking.

[Octavious]

iirc, the only way to beat Maat the second job on up is to melee him dead. When my friend Epicus got his Maat's Cap a long time ago, he tried stealing the warp scroll on his thief 3-4 times before reading you have to kill him. Idk if it's changed since then, WHM melee is definitly easier though hexa->iwing->hexa gg. ^o^ GL!

[Amarok!]

So is Maat not capped at 70? I thought if you went in with another job at 75 you got capped. Does he match your lvl at 75?

[yrpaine]

Hello again,

Another Q: For WHM Maat, at 75, do you have to survive for 5 mins as with a first time fight, or you have to beat him with melee?

Thanks,

Keston

whm maat was my 8th one i think, and I survived 5 min or w/e it was as 66 whm and won n/p w/o even using 2hr. just stood there with earth staff curing myself and flashing maat.

[yrpaine]

So is Maat not capped at 70? I thought if you went in with another job at 75 you got capped. Does he match your lvl at 75?

he's weak as piss at 75. pretty sure he stays 1 constant level. at least after 70.

[Gilanth]

Btw for WHM you can Repose him now :D

[Popsiclestick]

Banishga
Repose
....???

Profits!

[Spekkio]

i thought he had to inflict a finite chunk of damage on you, lest you could just kite him the entire fight (especially if you could find a friend to borrow gaiters from) if it's THAT easy, i'll go "beat" his ass for my whm tonight.

[Quixon]

Yeah if you want to outlast him he needs to do damage to you.

He gives up after he deals a set amount of damage to you.


It's probably quicker for you to just melee him to death at 75.

[Howard Roark]

btw if you wanna i-wing it, hexa > black halo makes light iirc from some youtube vid

also can the thf stealing thing be confirmed? thf will likely be my 15th maat fight and i'm curious if it's dd or steal