Suzaku Solo

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331 enfeeb skill, 106 mnd and my land rate is either floored, or just above the floor. the best you could do would be what? another 15 skill, and a few macc? even then a 20% land rate would hardly be enough to rely on it.

and i can assure it, it is not needed.

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Avesta doesn't seem to have many issues with landing Slow. Sure you're not going to get raped with slow off but the fight is going to be a headache if you can't land it.

[Snprphnx]

with HQ gear, RDM can get upwards of 180 Fire Resist in gear. Some of these HQs are rare, therefore costly, but the NQs only take away a small margin of the resist. If you can drag a WHM for Shell 5 and Enhanced Barfire, as well as a BRD for Fire Carol, you should be able to get an extremely high resist rate.

The following pic is how much a full fire resist set bring down damage in Bv2. Normal damage is ~850
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/d...n/mega28lo.jpg

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[Thorny]

with HQ gear, RDM can get upwards of 180 Fire Resist in gear. Some of these HQs are rare, therefore costly, but the NQs only take away a small margin of the resist. If you can drag a WHM for Shell 5 and Enhanced Barfire, as well as a BRD for Fire Carol, you should be able to get an extremely high resist rate.

The following pic is how much a full fire resist set bring down damage in Bv2. Normal damage is ~850
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/d...n/mega28lo.jpg

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this isn't what people are talking about at all, the thread is regarding solo, in which case you most likely cannot get enough to make it worthwhile as you have no access to whm with af2 pants or brd with carol

[Snprphnx]

this isn't what people are talking about at all, the thread is regarding solo, in which case you most likely cannot get enough to make it worthwhile as you have no access to whm with af2 pants or brd with carol

i was referring to this...

You can make 1 nasty fire resist set in the +180s with that. With a 300 Enhancing Barfire that's ~270 fire resist without carol.

i do apologize, however most "solo" battles I see, the person has 1-2 buffs prefight, like a nin or thf having pro5 and shell5 b4 popping an NM.

[Thorny]

i do apologize, however most "solo" battles I see, the person has 1-2 buffs prefight, like a nin or thf having pro5 and shell5 b4 popping an NM.

just fyi, that's not soloing

[rog]

too lazy to dig through old posts and find what gear i used before, but my setup is better and it's still floored or close

suzy is standard delay, you don't get raped with slow off you just need to manage your buffs properly.. personally i think spamming slow 1 at timer is the best approach though

yup. you won't always have utsu up, like you would with slow, but really you're not going to get destroyed if you don't have utsu up. blink is helpful if both utsu recasts are 6+ secs away. it doesn't always work of course, but it's still something to fall back on after some DAs. and really he doesn't hit that hard anyway. with this def gear (switching jelly->merman's), tacos, 25dmg phalanx, bio2, and pro/shell4, it hit me around 90~150 damage, plus a 60~85 enfire. it may add up if you get hit too much, but with some luck/better gear, stoneskin can absorb 2 hits (and be broken by the second enspell, which can't interrupt you), making it easier to get utsu/blink up.

fortunately not having to cast any debuffs means more mp for cures, and spamming stoneskin when it hits it right after you finish casting, and before you can cast utsu, etc.

tanking without slow or march is certainly pretty difficult (especially when you don't have anyone else to help with cures/stuns/tanking/etc), but as long as you stay calm, and don't panic (and have a tabard+good haste gear), it is definitely managable. do not underestimate blink; there will be times when you have 10+ secs left on utsu and have 0-1 shadows left, and you certainly do not want to get hit 2-4 times. not when it could be 0-2/3 anyway.



also, be aware that despite being weak to water, suzy has an abnormally high resistance to poison, which can make it an extremely long fight. it appears to build up resistance overtime, similar to gravity, which also goes away overtime. there were (many) times where i'd get 10+ resisted in a row, and then after not casting it for awhile, i could land it far more often, sometimes as much as 3-5 times in a row. and yes i have neptunes staff.

[drwaffles]

Avesta does keep Slow II on Suzaku throughout the fight. I know of very few mobs whose natural attack speeds are slow enough to allow even a Duelist's Tabard RDM to get Ichi up between melee rounds without Slow on. Keep in mind that Avesta also has max Earth magic accuracy merits - his Slow II accuracy certainly isn't floored to 5% in this case.

[Thorny]

I know of very few mobs whose natural attack speeds are slow enough to allow even a Duelist's Tabard RDM to get Ichi up between melee rounds without Slow on.

Standard delay is 4 seconds. Ichi casttime before any fast cast is 4 seconds. You just need to time it properly >_>

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i do apologize, however most "solo" battles I see, the person has 1-2 buffs prefight, like a nin or thf having pro5 and shell5 b4 popping an NM.

That isn't soloing.

yup. you won't always have utsu up, like you would with slow, but really you're not going to get destroyed if you don't have utsu up.

Avesta doesn't even have Utsusemi up full time (yes he uses Blink!) with Slow 2 on constantly. Even with a good -damage set and proper buffs Stoneskin is only going to last for 3~ hits.

[Crisco]

too lazy to dig through old posts and find what gear i used before, but my setup is better and it's still floored or close

suzy is standard delay, you don't get raped with slow off you just need to manage your buffs properly.. personally i think spamming slow 1 at timer is the best approach though

Are you using Terra's Staff or MND? I'm curious to see how you maintain 330+/100+.

Here's what I will attempt to use.
- FFXIAH.com

[Antec]

Are you using Terra's Staff or MND? I'm curious to see how you maintain 330+/100+.

Here's what I will attempt to use.
- FFXIAH.com

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This set is 334 skill w/ 8 enf merits and 107 MND.