First Lieutenant Assault: Better Than One. HALP

[elison]

Alright, soooooooo, after going 0/9 on this specific assault (last one I need to rank to captain...), I'm getting kind of aggravated. Does anyone know of a specific strategy to take this assault down?

I've been getting mixed setups from pretty much everyone I've asked in game. Some tell me to zerg the fight, others tell me to take BLMs, and so on and so forth. I'm putting together a run as I type this, and I've got 3 ls mates of mine joining me. If anyone could provide me with a strategy and a list of jobs I want to take along, I would very much appreciate it.

Me: RDM BLM SMN RNG (all applicable subs)
LS mate #1: WAR RNG SAM MNK NIN BRD and KC DRK
LS mate #2: MNK NIN COR THF

I was thinking about just zerging the fight, since I've never tried, but as said above, I get mixed responses from a lot of people. Any advice is very much appreciated.

[Fiye]

Honestly, have three people with /NIN who can trade hate.

Went 0/14 until we had a SAM/NIN, RNG/NIN, and PLD/NIN.

Fucking thing went down easy prey.

[Tankjr]

Camp your mages in the tunnel. Melee fight it where it pops. Go crazy on it during GoH and Elementals phases to get him to switch. When Elementals pop have someone aggro or aga pull them back to start. I found MNK/DNC using Hundred Fists worked pretty well to force a phase change.

We seemed to get unlucky a lot with him starting in Elementals phase which is kind of a bitch. We were never able to kill him when this happened but when he started in another phase the above strat worked great.

Good luck.

[Zsky]

In my winning run, The BRD magic aggro all the elementals and train them away and died, using reraise songs on itself so the mages could focus on the fight without worries. We've tried having BLM's with herald's train them, but BRD death pull was alot more simple.

PT setup was NIN, NIN, BRD, WHM, RDM, BLM

Both NIN's voke off each other when shadows down, watch for cerberus's mode when it has high attack phase, hits NIN in usual gear for 600+ dmg. I swapped into -%dmg down during that phase, 300ish a hit is better than being 2-shotted.

Just my experience, can't remember any other details, been a year now.

GL^^

[Amok]

The advice from previous threads that made a big difference for my group was dual tanking it. It howls every 25% of its HP and on aggro, play it safe and hold back on the magic until after the howl to see if it spawns elementals. I agree with training them to start as being the easiest way to deal with them, if and only if you can deal with the next 25% before they get back. You could save TP for each howl or just 2HR when they pop. RNG DD is pretty good for this assault.

[Kaeko]

This is the synopsis I gave when I first did this fight with 6 members.

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/ffxi-...ml#post2163715

It's not a "how to do Sarameya" post exactly, but it should give you a good feel for it and let you make your own judgments.

[Kimkytaru]

went in mnk/nin (me) pld/nin whm/sch blu/nin rdm/blm brd/whm

Didnt had any problem at all. Actually we were surprised how easy it was.

[Thorny]

nin in eva build can hold it pretty much indefinitely, I went with BLM WHM BRD COR NIN WAR and just held it while mages killed the 3 close elementals during the elemental phase.. macroed fire gear for GoH and it was never the least bit threatening

[AlexRuzhyo]

PLD/RDM, MNK/NIN, SCH/RDM, BRD/WHM, BLM/???, RNG/???

MNK did the tanking. PLD hung back and healed, waited for elementals and had a generic fire resists build (+160 with barfire). Fought him where he popped. Elementals popped on first howl (75%). PLD aggroed and kited until they depopped. Like others, I was surprised at how easy it was.

[Vigilia]

It's months since I did this, but we went 1/1 with PLD/NIN, SAM/NIN, BRD, WHM, BLM, COR, was just a mix and match of random peeps from LS. PLD and SAM were the damage pretty much, BLM stunned GoHs and nuked here and there. When it spawned elementals BRD and COR kept them busy kiting, mostly COR though as he had skadi boots. Pretty damn easy fight iirc, fairly longish with just 1 proper DD though.

In a nutshell, bring a tank, bring some DD (preferably something that can stun), bring support and bring a kiter and you're set.

[Alibeemac]

Went 1/1 for Captain and then 1/2 for my redo for Mythic.

First time I went WHM RDM BLM SAM SAM WAR
Second time I went WHM RDM PLD SAM SAM BLM

Have melee sub nin and RDM sub DRK.

Tank it as normal and have the RDM and BLM deal with eles if they pop. Have mages stand in the far tunnel from where you enter with DDs and tanks with their backs to you so that you can reach them and be out of range of paralyze etc and being in the tunnel also avoids agro on most of the eles.

[Lexa]

We had MNK/NIN and WAR/NIN trade tanking it when I went; BRD/WHM, WHM/BLM and RDM/BLM as support - and me as PLD/NIN or PLD/RDM to diaga/aggro the elementals when they pop, run like hell, and pray to every higher power I don't die before eles depop/it's dead.

XD