Shantotto Ascension

[Maurauc]

Okay, this may be a retarded question, but does anyone know if the Shadow BC in Full Moon Fountain be manaburned? All we have is BLMs, RDMs and WHM, and a BST. I'd be interested to know if nukes work well on them.

Edit: Didn't work. Got 3 of them dead in the 30 mins, went 4BLM, RDM SCH. Nukes were being resisted quite a lot, which sucked, and even then, took about 10 unresisted to kill, I think. We ran out of Elemental Seal too fast, wiped, got back up, tried Aga spells instead.. That was fun.

[lolwut]

Okay, this may be a retarded question, but does anyone know if the Shadow BC in Full Moon Fountain be manaburned? All we have is BLMs, RDMs and WHM, and a BST. I'd be interested to know if nukes work well on them.

Edit: Didn't work. Got 3 of them dead in the 30 mins, went 4BLM, RDM SCH. Nukes were being resisted quite a lot, which sucked, and even then, took about 10 unresisted to kill, I think. We ran out of Elemental Seal too fast, wiped, got back up, tried Aga spells instead.. That was fun.

SE doesn't care about Black Mages.

[Siniroth]

The thought of blm being useful against anything Shantotto (THE blm) comes up with is laughable

[GreenKnux]

I am so saddened that I don't have a melee job. Mage ONRY. I'm pretty sure quite a few NINs would kill for this.

[cdgreg]

Just wanted to say thanks for all the great info in this thread. I'm sort of stuck waiting to see a shout for the FMF fight but am confident in the last 2 fights because of the information here. Made for a great 22 page read as I fish liks lol. /bow and thanks again.

Odin people drop me a /tell if you're going in for either of the fights and need blm, rdm, cor, or rng

[Eanae]

I am so saddened that I don't have a melee job. Mage ONRY. I'm pretty sure quite a few NINs would kill for this.

Koga Sarashi +1. Meh.

[Princess]

Our final battle we went 4/6 fails. Set Up: PLD PLD WHM RNG SAM DRG(BLU) He changed jobs.
We had WHM staying in AOE range for esunas and tanking near the end for all the curagas having to be thrown out. PLD was suppose to support the WHM and keep them alive but it didnt work out well. Second PLD kited the BLM shantotto just fine. WHM shantotto was very easy to kill.

Our Winning combos(2/6) were WHM WHM MNK SAM DRG PLD and WHM RDM SAM RNG DRK PLD.
The combo with RDM we had a hard time staying alive cause of the massive aoes.

We had 1 whm/rdm stay at the entrance, melee fought the WHM shantotto near the center 20'+ away from the whm/rdm. PLD kited the BLM Everyone brought Remedies, Echos and WHM brought 2 Vile Elixers (one for each fight). 1 whm stayed in aoe range of esuna and when the curing WHM took hate the Esuna one backed off 20 feet- and kept the first whm alive and the group while the switched jobs.
We pretty much zerged the WHM down, made her 2hr (maybe it was a glitch I dont know but out of 6 times 5 times she always did Meteor. With the DRK in our pt, she did Holy II. Spammage and the BLM did Meteor on the PLD kiting it.) If we only had 1-2 people die, we just RR'd and kept going, If 4-5 people died, we just wiped and put all our buffs back up get full mp and hp and get ready, can take down the whm after she two hours in about 5 mins. We tried "Dispelling the def buff" But it wasn't dispelling for us, so I think it was just a JA that wears off after a ~30 seconds. You will notice your dmg decrease significantly then increase. The Aoe's arn't too bad and having Esuna was a real blessing for things like Viruna and bio/dia/para and more.

Hope this helps anyone planning to do the fight!! If you need any more details on our fight let me know

[Tessei]

Has anyone tried requesting the pants?

For ACP/MKD, you got both key items when you beat the boss; so to request, all you had to do was toss the item, gather last fight key items, then redo the final fight (and supposedly for MKD you had to wait until JP midnight?)

For ASA, the pants key item is a separate cs, in a completely different zone. I'm unsure if redoing the fight w/ the hexes would let you see the final cs again, and if so this would mean you can't redo the pants?

[Draylo]

It tells you that you can redo the pants when you obtain them. It says toss them and redo the last fight so you will most likely get the key after the fight or have to repeat the CS.

[LinktheDeme]

This has most likely been answered before so i'm sorry if its a repeat. If you've beaten the BC before and go to help someone else out i'm aware that if everyone has all the items then your set and get all the buffs. However since this is a BC where the key items aren't required I was wondering if you had none of the items would you still get the key item for the belt? That way I could get the buffs, help, and get a key item as well without having to get the hexes again

Also do I have to drop my pants to get the key item for the belt?

[Draylo]

No you don't have to drop your pants to get the key item and I believe you don't have to collect the hexes however if you are on the mission you won't get buffs if other people have them.

[Tessei]

Ok, thank you, I don't remember that msg, I probably wasn't paying attention to the text at the time.

Do you happen to remember if it said to wait until JP midnight after tossing the legs? Or if I could just toss the legs before entering the fight.

[CubsWoo]

Ok, thank you, I don't remember that msg, I probably wasn't paying attention to the text at the time.

Do you happen to remember if it said to wait until JP midnight after tossing the legs? Or if I could just toss the legs before entering the fight.

If you just got the legs I'd wait until the next JP Midnight, IIRC you had to for ACP.

[EternalSnow]

for the fomor fight in full moon mountain how did people beat that bc? Can anyone give any tips plz.

[Corrderio]

for the fomor fight in full moon mountain how did people beat that bc? Can anyone give any tips plz.

Sleepaga 2 the mobs (Dark will obviously resist) and pick them off one by one.

[CubsWoo]

for the fomor fight in full moon mountain how did people beat that bc? Can anyone give any tips plz.

We beat it with BLM/RDM BLM/RDM RDM/WHM NIN/WAR MNK/NIN SAM/NIN and could have swapped the 2nd BLM with another DD and had the RDM sub BLM no problem.

Eseal Sleepga II the 8 Fomor, 7 will sleep but Shadows will resist, melees zerg it down. Have them target Gales and Glaciers next to make sure you don't get spammed with Silence or Paralyze. At that point the other mobs should be waking up so the second sleeper drops an Eseal Sleepga/II on what they can. Without Eseal only the Light clone will sleep but by the time the second sleep wears off you'll probably have 1-2 left to kill at most.

Also make sure everyone has 8/8 saps, it cuts damage way down both on their spells and Astral Flow (Bliz 4 hit my BLM for ~50 and it would take 2, sometimes 3 mob 2hrs to breakS Stoneskin.)

[Bakthi]

We did it with WHM RDM BRD PLD WAR SAM. The PLD just aggro'd the mobs and kited them all, the RDM ran around with the PLD to make sure she didn't die, and the rest of us picked off the mobs and killed them one by one. We probably could have had the RDM go as a DD instead, but he was there on RDM already.

This worked quite well, although sometimes one of the mobs being kited seemed to decide it liked us better as it ran past. This always seemed to coincide with us finishing off the previous mob, though, so no harm done (and we could have slept it anyway).

[Yugl]

Six kills (Still counting) sound right for the six NMs part? I've checked the door and I'm on Shantotto's Chains.

Edit: Nvm, 8th kill.

[Midnightjade]

for the fomor fight in full moon mountain how did people beat that bc? Can anyone give any tips plz.

We did this last night as blm rdm/blm brd nin sam drg, most people had 8/8 key items.

We went in and I used brd 2hr with nightingale/troubadour, gave mages ballad x2 and melee mar/min. Then entered, rdm es sleepga, followed on wake by blm es sleepga II. Melee burned the fomors one by one, dark > wind > ice > others > light. Clone 2hrs went off a lot but tbh they didn't seem to do much damage.

Things got a little hectic when the clones woke up after second sleep, but by then only 3 were left and they went down pretty fast.

[chiyio]

Did fomor fight THF THF BLM BLM* RDM* SAM (* = 3box). BLM1 ES sleepga 2, focus on Shadows first. BLM2 ES sleepga2 when they woke. By the time both Sleepga's were up, there were 3 left, could be kited around easy since they love to cast spells. Just make sure you have a set order so you don't prematurely wake them up, they're next to impossible to sleep without ES.