Airship Battle

[Zhane]

Rangers are incredible DD in this BC and WHMs are so helpful because of one spell, Erase. Rangers can stand back on one of the sides of the ship while tank stands in his normal spot and mages at entrance. That way they arent being hit by any aoes or by spikes.

[Grandier]

I wound up winning the fight with RDM BRD SAM SAM BLU PLD

Everyone wound up soloing a mammet, I went SAM/NIN for hate control on Ultima/Omega that way if the AoE's hit they would be eaten up by shadows. Then we had a SAM/RNG meditating and coming in using either Gekko or Sidewinder. The PLD pulled the bastards to the corner while the BLU spammed head butt. Used polymers at 50% 30% 10% on both Ultima and Omega. Went down with ease.

[Rafleshia]

3DD BLM BRD RDMorWHM go!

[Avivah]

Did this a while back for a couple of friends

Setup was
NIN/WAR
NIN/WAR
BLU/NIN
WHM/BLM
RDM/WHM
BLM/WHM (would rather have a brd here, but this guy needed the win)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12...irshipwned.jpg

[Misart]

NIN RDM BRD DDx3 = Win

[Gaea]

5 PUP/NIN 1 BRD

Doudble Mambo

Each pup solos a mammet. All use Soulsoother frame.

Try to save some TP for Omega after the Mammets. Use Icarus Wing after the fight to have TP for Ultima. Attempt to set puppets out of range of aoe. Use Automaton Oil +1 as needed.

Five years ago when most of us did this, we didn't have the luxury of Puppetmasters. Enjoy your easy win.

[Aihree]

I used 5 Black Mages and a leech.

Fight #1 : Blizzaga II, Bind, and Flare.
Fight #2 & 3 : Flare, Reraise, Repeat.

It was totally worth the loss of experience points. Not sure if they patched these battles to make them regenerate if left unattended now though.

While the regeneration rate of the mobs has not been increased since the bc was made, the "blm nerf" (increasing mob mdef vs repeatedly cast spells on ITG mobs) hit this BC like a sack of bricks.

It's still possible, but the 'leech' must be COR with wizard's roll to pull it off, to compensate for the increasing mdef on Omega and Ultima. Anything else won't work anymore. Out of 10 times I've tried post-nerf, only won twice, and those two were with cor as the 6th member. But don't take my word for it, try it out. No XP loss really makes experimentation easy

edit: not to mention dirt-cheap CCB's. Those things have really hit bottom from when they were worth farming.

[Kaia]

I've done this fight probably 8 or 9 times... my favorite setup by far was NIN DRK DRK DRK BRD WHM, and one of us borrowed a mercurial kris to share among the DRKs. Light damage and mambo/march until about 50% on both omega and ultima, pop a CCB, switch to march x2 and let one DRK go to town at a time with souleater/blood weapon. The DRK will pretty much always end up dead, but a good SE/BW session does a solid 40-50% of u/o's HP.

[Liseth]

There are two rules to Airship.

1. Always bring a BRD.
2. Always bring a WHM.

The rest can be anything really as long as they have a brain.

[Eldelphia]

and WHMs are so helpful because of one spell, Erase

Erase *and* Stona

[SushiiTitan]

I've done this fight successfully like 8 times. The best setup I've found is

RNG/NIN x 3, PLD, RDM, WHM

For mammets, the RNG's each solo one (easy to do, open with Barrage, follow up with WS) then help eachother out and finally help the one the PLD is holding.

For the Ultima and Omega, as mentioned before, just have the RNG's stand in a corner away from it and mages in a different corner than the PLD.

The only thing to remember is to have the RNG's time and use their Barrage/SS and Sidewinders at the same time to avoid a single hate spike. By keeping hate at a relative level between them, it shouldn't get ripped off the PLD (except for that hate reset move... then you're boned).

Yeah, and read the special moves on Wiki and when to use the CCB's

[Midnightjade]

We went NIN BRD (me) WHM RDM MNK SAM. We were going to do a dry run to get used to the mission before going full-on for the win, but the dry run went so well that we just decided to go for it and won easily. This was a while ago.

For mammets, Mambo x 2 plus full eva setup on the NIN. NIN supertanks the mammets and they whiff at him like your grandma. Pull them off one by one, and kill them. This approach works great.

Omega is probably the most difficult stage - keep the mages out of range, all melee should be /NIN. Keep Elegy on him at all times and be aware he speeds up as the fight goes on. If left unchecked you will eventually lose control of him and he will rampage around killing people. Use a CCB and a melee 2hr to finish off his last 25% quickly. We used our galka MNK with lots of HP and it worked well.

Ultima - if you have a good WHM this fight isn't too bad. WHM needs to be on top of status effects. If the NIN and WHM have played together a lot it helps.

Good luck.

[DSI6667]

Items we had first off:
4 CCB Polymers.
Reraise for everyone.

I recently did this once again for my newest character our setup was as follows:
NIN, SAM/NIN, RNG, RDM, WHM, SMN.

As far as Mammets everyone knows that is pretty self explanatory. NIN super tanks the Mammets, etc.

As for Omega we let the NIN get atleast 2 provokes off before letting the other DDs initiate. The SMN was able to keep Stoneskin up on them, use assorted Blood Pacts for very decent damage, and side heal in crucial situations (which wasn't often). We managed to get Omega to 25% or so before we used a single Polymer with no deaths.

Ultima ran the same way except getting him to 31% wiping, reraising, and finishing him off with 2 hours and 2 Polymers. I, RDM, always kept the WHM hasted during Ultima for double erasing the NIN. Always make sure the NIN either keeps hate, or whoever gets hate doesn't keep Ultima turned towards the corner with your mages. This could result in some horrific recast timers.

Hope this maybe insights someone.

[Khamsin]

Locking this, because I think one airship fight thread is enough. You can go derail the SMNburn airship BC thread.