Epic Hard FFXI Boss Killed In One Minute (Kotaku)

[Xyle]

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Back in August, we brought word of how tough beating Final Fantasy XI boss Pandemonium Warden was. Guild BeyondTheLimitation called it quits after 18 hours of combat against that boss. That was the only unnecessarily hard boss — Absolute Virtue has also been giving players headaches. Square Enix responded with a series of changes to the MMO "to prevent such battles from exceeding a certain predetermined length of time". A group of players brandishing super rare Kraken Club took down Absolute Virtue, the other impossible boss that supposedly takes 18 hours to kill, in like a minute. Hit the jump for a clip of the take down, complete with Smashing Pumpkins.

http://kotaku.com/5049761/epic-hard-...-in-one-minute

Hit the link for the movie.

Xyle

[Doompie]

Oh yes thats gonna help.

[Robert]

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[Dantrag]

/doh

[Meian]

18 hours? Wasn't that for Panndemonium Warden?

heh this type of article is just asking SE to do something about AV o_O

[Antithesis]

If SE doesnt do something to AV on Tuesday were homefree for another month or two.

Its raining sashes !

[Meian]

If SE doesnt do something to AV on Tuesday were homefree for another month or two.

Its raining sashes !

I could be wrong but when Magic Mortar first came out the first maintenance didn't nerf it but the second one soon after did (correct me if I am wrong)


Best abuse AV just in case while one can I suppose and be hopeful? Although, it is disappointing to see this current method being used... Must be a result of me watching Dark Falz from PSO go down in a few seconds often -_- Would always make my group melee him down so it is more "impactful"

[Alpsyche]

I'm the one cheering for the players on this one. (add explecit here..) SE in not playtesting out their mobs to be killable with actual players, with a few token wtf n00bs that we all seem to have in our endgame shells these days. If we had at least one player / server working for SE, they'd know about the potential for a Zerg strat pending, since it's how quite a few mobs are taken down (DL, BahaV2, KV, Cerb, Kirin...)

I had a huge grin on my face watching this and I'm hoping they don't nerf it tomorrow or ever. It's been what 12 years since they released this mob? I'd like to see a few drops from it come floating around. Especially since they put out a new unkillable mob since...

[Trolll]

18 hours? Wasn't that for Panndemonium Warden?

Sundi has said that Absolute Virtue (the original) was supposed to take 10-18 hours depending on the 2 hours it uses.

[Lebzile]

Someone should send them an email about that he is still impossible to beat for any normal LS, whereas SA, Excellence, ect. LSes are the top tier LSes across all servers. Not downplaying their win at all, just saying.

[niisse]

/sigh

that artical is poorly written and the comments are mostly laughable as non ffxi people have no idea of game mechanics, terminology or the difference between a fully geared kraken drk and a regualr one vs the same mob in a standard fight. All they see is a bunch of guys hitting the montser until its dead. They needed numbers in that artical to show the changes.

I just want tomorrow or a fix or explanation of how to kill it as they intended to come soon so we can put this kind crap behind us as the more I think about it the more I hate SE. In the mean time Kill as many as you can people, stick it to SE goo goo!

[byte]

Oh dear, incoming nerf. But hey.. why would a Souleater nerf stop other jobs from zerging? There are already other combinations such as WAR and SAM which can dish out pretty good damage very quickly. Maybe you'll just need more melees than there were DRKs in these situations (and possibly cycling them in).

[Izzy]

Oh dear, incoming nerf. But hey.. why would a Souleater nerf stop other jobs from zerging? There are already other combinations such as WAR and SAM which can dish out pretty good damage very quickly. Maybe you'll just need more melees than there were DRKs in these situations (and possibly cycling them in).

Have you read any threads on this forum before?

[Doompie]

Oh dear, incoming nerf. But hey.. why would a Souleater nerf stop other jobs from zerging? There are already other combinations such as WAR and SAM which can dish out pretty good damage very quickly. Maybe you'll just need more melees than there were DRKs in these situations (and possibly cycling them in).

Not gonna happen on AV. He has too much defense.

[byte]

Not gonna happen on AV. He has too much defense.

What about Angon and Tomahawk? I don't see those used at all in these fights. Not to mention other debuffs (There is a THF there so I assume they used Feint, though.). Also, there is only 4 BRD songs in this video and not 6. I'm not convinced that there isn't more that can be done to enable OTHER jobs to zerg better and maybe closer to DRK KC standard.

[niisse]

Oh dear, incoming nerf. But hey.. why would a Souleater nerf stop other jobs from zerging? There are already other combinations such as WAR and SAM which can dish out pretty good damage very quickly. Maybe you'll just need more melees than there were DRKs in these situations (and possibly cycling them in).

the numbers a kraken drk put out over even the best geared melee in this situation over the same period of time is the issue. As it is if the things not dead very shorty after popping the ls will die as it will just do what it always did and spam all its facerapega and 2hours. It still glitches when it changes modes at certain % except they happen too fast so it kinda gets assraped. thats what is likely to get fixed and then we will be back to a broken mob until they tell us something more than how to deal with its regen or zooming in on peoples 2hours.

[Trolll]

Here's a suggestion: Square Enix can stop being gay and tell us the trick to beating it, fix souleater, and then let us do it the "right" way so everyone is happy.

I don't care that it's being killed so much as it's being taken down in 30 seconds with luck being the only factor in if you win/lose. 2 hours is a reasonable time to be taking AV down but there's no way it's going to happen unless we know the trick to it and it's obviously something retarded as no one has ever figured it out. I think it's about time they just told us already, or at least released a better video.

[Lebzile]

Have you read any threads on this forum before?

Don't think he has even touched the 53 page long AV thread which has "INCREDIBLY HIGH DEFENSE AND EVASION FOR A NORMAL ZERG" plastered through it about 100 times.

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Don't think he has even touched the 53 page long AV thread which has "INCREDIBLY HIGH DEFENSE AND EVASION FOR A NORMAL ZERG" plastered through it about 100 times.

I have.. but sorry I've only read about 15-20 pages of it and not all 53. My bad.

[Apelila]

Here's a suggestion: Square Enix can stop being gay and tell us the trick to beating it, fix souleater, and then let us do it the "right" way so everyone is happy.

I don't care that it's being killed so much as it's being taken down in 30 seconds with luck being the only factor in if you win/lose. 2 hours is a reasonable time to be taking AV down but there's no way it's going to happen unless we know the trick to it and it's obviously something retarded as no one has ever figured it out. I think it's about time they just told us already, or at least released a better video.

Wow...I agree with you now. Wierd.

I don't think they should 'fix' DRK burning it, just because if you can do that you're either incredibly lucky or have worked your ass off for it.