Abyssea HNMs

[Shenrien]

my LS has been attempting to fight yilbegan several times, each time we get it to 90% it puts up an aura that gives bio, we do not know how to remove this.

shortly after we notice it likes to do meteor and dark star like crazy, and we cannot seem to get past this point in the fight, we found out that we cannot stun any of the abilities, and even using shield bash or weapon bash we cannot hault any of the extreme actions.

I noticed our paladins were not engaged during the fight, and we also would have them swap into a mdb set for spells and pdt-% after if recast timers were poor for dancing tail.

when its wings went up the damage the Wyrm did increased by at least 15-20%, his nukes were pitiful with a capped Shellra V its three TP moves it does, Chaos Blade, Dancing Tail and Dark Star which stop us from making any real progress, along with meteor.

our tank party tonight when we attempted was whm whm brd brd(ghorn) pld, pld. we had no issues with MP but not being able to cure fast enough in between his insane spam when shadow timers cannot be helped from ga to Dancing tail it makes the fight insanely difficult..

so.. does anyone have a method of removing the mobs Bio aura, and is there a certain triggered event to prevent meteor at all?

[Ramses]

Some people have mentioned that Jyeshtha (T2 Windurst area Scorpion) is pretty easy, and I'll confirm that it's an easy duo. Did Thf+Rdm and probably had capped evade rate. Hit me with petrify but it didn't cause much trouble. I'd recommend enough HP for the fight to sustain a bad mighty strikes TP move (1300-1500+). Solid DD that can tank and a mage should be pretty win-win. Pathing didn't seem too good and there are plenty of obstacles in saruta, so it should also be pretty easy for DoT kite solo.

And same with Farruca Fly. Easy Mage+Melee duo. Just bring a bunch of HP to handle its somersault TP move and possible -ga. But it doesn't use either often.

A couple things I noticed about the scorpion. It will 2 hour every 20% (I think all tier II do this, the fly definitely does also) and it will use a tp move immediately after it two hours every time. This is regardless of whether it has 100% tp or 0 tp. The aoe hurts a lot so shadows are imperative. It also casts break, as in single target. Other than that it is nothing special.

[Hwang]

Just done the T4 fight in Xarcabard, got it to 92%, something clicked, he got an insane regen effect, went back upto 100% with Dia 2 still on it.

We recovered from losing both tanks, started beating down on it by having the DD's full time meleeing trying to beat the regen, got it to about 92 and it used a move called chaos blast, 1 shotted pretty much everyone in the alliance.

We did SC + MB, wouldn't even take off 2% of it's HP.

This guy is tough.

[Yabby]

Did T4, pretty easy fight but damage does seem to range. Not sure if it was just me, but damage seems to be higher when he has aura on. Rngs seem to be the best from our fight doing damage. Got him to 42% then someone up top got hate and he ran out of range for a split second and depopped.

His GA3's are very weak, no aegis plds avg 200~ damage per spell. Like i said, this is an easy fight but his depop range sucks because he was about 25' away when he depopped (Not confirmed, didn't expect it). Besides that this fight isn't really that hard.


Edit: Also he got a chaos blade off even with tanks in the back, might of been a fluke. Both tanks got hit and cursna does not work, you just have to tuff it out.

Rng damage could go from 50~ per arrow and 200 WS, to 130 an arrow and 900+ WS looking at chatlong. Even at low damage the rngs could keep his regen in check unlike a blm or smn.

[Allelujah]

My LS just killed this guy. Appears that rngs did better damage while it was casting spells. Having one tank on it at a time seems to be a better idea than having 2 tanks on it. Unresisted thunder3's were going for 500ish. BP's were garbage. Hate can easily be an issue when a tank dies so have everyone close in if that happens to avoid depop.
Pics are super huge lol...
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[Greyfin]

Very fun fight! GL to everyone that tries this :D

[Cairthenn]

Did T4, pretty easy fight but damage does seem to range. Not sure if it was just me, but damage seems to be higher when he has aura on. Rngs seem to be the best from our fight doing damage. Got him to 42% then someone up top got hate and he ran out of range for a split second and depopped.

His GA3's are very weak, no aegis plds avg 200~ damage per spell. Like i said, this is an easy fight but his depop range sucks because he was about 25' away when he depopped (Not confirmed, didn't expect it). Besides that this fight isn't really that hard.


Edit: Also he got a chaos blade off even with tanks in the back, might of been a fluke. Both tanks got hit and cursna does not work, you just have to tuff it out.

Rng damage could go from 50~ per arrow and 200 WS, to 130 an arrow and 900+ WS looking at chatlong. Even at low damage the rngs could keep his regen in check unlike a blm or smn.

Chaos Blast is Max HP, Max MP, and Max TP down. It required Erase, not Cursna.

[Arcaneo]

Not sure if this is how it's supposed to be but while in the possession of a Colorful Abyssite I bought another Clear Abyssite and now whenever I go hunt in Ronfaure/Jugner all I keep getting are Sunderclaws and Quagmire Pugils >_>

Anyone else experiencing this?

might have been addressed already, I replied when i got to this post w/ a few pages of catch up left to do.

When you have more than one abyssite, you track the closest mob you can pop w/ either one, and is just says the "colorful" version is tracking it. You can still track the T2 mob, but it has to be closer than any T1 mobs. Since the T1's are more common, you just get them more often. I haven't tested haveing a T3 & T2/T1 simultaneously yet.

[Xera]

Do Blobdingnag's adds have a purpose? Killed it today and they just seemed to stand there non aggressive until attacked.

[Havok]

Anyone able to duo/lowman Lamprey Lord? thing is a bitch <_< not sure of the best way to approach it

[Kimiko]

Just fought Krabatoa earlier this evening at East Ronfaure. Lost at around 12% when we lost hate control due to mega scissors. Trying to find out a few things about his depop, mainly if it depops due to no targets on the hate list or if it's based on no targets being in range on hate list?

Few things we did learn this evening however
* Builds stun resistance, managed to land 4-5 stuns total before outright resists began to occur. With a single tank this caused the hate control issue which led to our loss.
* Venom shell range is 20', 20.1 or farther is safe.
* Wasn't able to get a good read on what caused his HP bar to pop-up, we think magic bursts are required for this.
* Mega scissors, is this a full hate reset or just single target hate reset? Thinking 2x PLD may be useful for the fight if it's the later.
* Bubble Shower: 400-600 damage aprox.
* Shadowbind does work, immune to sleep, bind and gravity as normal though.

Also, thinking of some low-man strats for this fight. Best setup I can consider is this... 8-12 people is a reasonable setup for this fight.
Party 1: 2x PLD/NIN, WHM/SCH, BRD/WHM, RDM/SCH, COR/WHM
Party 2: 2-4x BLM/WHM, RDM/SCH, BRD/WHM

I'll post the fraps from the fight up to youtube later this morning.

[Rocl]

Magic Burst is not required for HP Bar to appear.

[Talonn]

Just fought Krabatoa earlier this evening at East Ronfaure. Lost at around 12% when we lost hate control due to mega scissors. Trying to find out a few things about his depop, mainly if it depops due to no targets on the hate list or if it's based on no targets being in range on hate list?

Few things we did learn this evening however
* Builds stun resistance, managed to land 4-5 stuns total before outright resists began to occur. With a single tank this caused the hate control issue which led to our loss.
* Venom shell range is 20', 20.1 or farther is safe.
* Wasn't able to get a good read on what caused his HP bar to pop-up, we think magic bursts are required for this.
* Mega scissors, is this a full hate reset or just single target hate reset? Thinking 2x PLD may be useful for the fight if it's the later.
* Bubble Shower: 400-600 damage aprox.
* Shadowbind does work, immune to sleep, bind and gravity as normal though.

Also, thinking of some low-man strats for this fight. Best setup I can consider is this... 8-12 people is a reasonable setup for this fight.
Party 1: 2x PLD/NIN, WHM/SCH, BRD/WHM, RDM/SCH, COR/WHM
Party 2: 2-4x BLM/WHM, RDM/SCH, BRD/WHM

I'll post the fraps from the fight up to youtube later this morning.

SilentAssent killed this the other day on Siren. Same area as you with 9 members.
Party1: PLD/nin PLD/nin WHM/nin RDM/blm BRD/nin(change to /blm) SMN/iforget
Party2: RNG(changed to drk for a bit, then back to RNG) RDM/nin, BLM/nin

Only problem we found was MP during the poison stage since we didn't use Venom Potions to block the 40/tic.
It appears that Venom Shower is used in 10min intervals from my timing on that fight. SMN is a very good option. Was doing 2-5%/BP. BLM nuking is good too, just need to watch out for hate reset. Cover was popular in this fight ><. WHM should get hit with Venom shower (buffs up of course) so that Esuna can remove the status aliments from the tanks asap. 2-3 Stoneskins seemed to eat the poison up easy.

[Shamaya]

A couple things I noticed about the scorpion. It will 2 hour every 20% (I think all tier II do this, the fly definitely does also) and it will use a tp move immediately after it two hours every time.

It definitely appears true for some T2's, but for some it's not so. I think Urd only ever uses Trance 3 times. First at 80%, and then I forget the next two %'s. Meanwhile, when I was watching someone fight Capricornus, I saw it use Mighty Strikes about 7+ times under 10% HP alone (he started killing it pretty slowly). It seemed to be based on time elapsed rather than HP, based on this and also the fact that it used it at 1% HP more than once.

[Bullwinkle]

Just fought Krabatoa earlier this evening at East Ronfaure. Lost at around 12% when we lost hate control due to mega scissors. Trying to find out a few things about his depop, mainly if it depops due to no targets on the hate list or if it's based on no targets being in range on hate list?

Few things we did learn this evening however
* Builds stun resistance, managed to land 4-5 stuns total before outright resists began to occur. With a single tank this caused the hate control issue which led to our loss.
* Venom shell range is 20', 20.1 or farther is safe.
* Wasn't able to get a good read on what caused his HP bar to pop-up, we think magic bursts are required for this.
* Mega scissors, is this a full hate reset or just single target hate reset? Thinking 2x PLD may be useful for the fight if it's the later.
* Bubble Shower: 400-600 damage aprox.
* Shadowbind does work, immune to sleep, bind and gravity as normal though.

Also, thinking of some low-man strats for this fight. Best setup I can consider is this... 8-12 people is a reasonable setup for this fight.
Party 1: 2x PLD/NIN, WHM/SCH, BRD/WHM, RDM/SCH, COR/WHM
Party 2: 2-4x BLM/WHM, RDM/SCH, BRD/WHM

I'll post the fraps from the fight up to youtube later this morning.

lost @17%, 1 pld dc and it went buck wild. bibiki seashell is useful for tanks, intimidates.

[Finalnub]

Don't recall seeing this so if anyone is interested Capricornus is soloable by RDM/NIN straight tank style if you have good gear. You're pretty fucked if you run into Yacumama though.. /nin anyway. RDM/BLU may be able to solo Yacumama

[Renzy]

It definitely appears true for some T2's, but for some it's not so. I think Urd only ever uses Trance 3 times. First at 80%, and then I forget the next two %'s. Meanwhile, when I was watching someone fight Capricornus, I saw it use Mighty Strikes about 7+ times under 10% HP alone (he started killing it pretty slowly). It seemed to be based on time elapsed rather than HP, based on this and also the fact that it used it at 1% HP more than once.

We killed Capricornus yesterday and it didn't use Might Strikes once, so i'm pretty sure it's just random.

Don't recall seeing this so if anyone is interested Capricornus is soloable by RDM/NIN straight tank style if you have good gear. You're pretty fucked if you run into Yacumama though.. /nin anyway. RDM/BLU may be able to solo Yacumama

While Capricornus is an easy duo for 2 RDM/NIN, I would be impressed to see a RDM/NIN solo it

[Kimiko]

Don't recall seeing this so if anyone is interested Capricornus is soloable by RDM/NIN straight tank style if you have good gear. You're pretty fucked if you run into Yacumama though.. /nin anyway. RDM/BLU may be able to solo Yacumama

Yeah, once you lose hate control. It's pretty much going to wipe anything in it's path. On the bright side, this includes random low levels who get too close (level 7 newbie decided to watch from up close, got smoked by a bubble shower for 1.5k'ish).

Also, any tactical reports on Orcus would be appreciated. We accidentally popped him this evening in West Sarutabaruta and got smoked pretty quick.

[Renzy]

Also, any tactical reports on Orcus would be appreciated. We accidentally popped him this evening in West Sarutabaruta and got smoked pretty quick.

We used PLD/RDM to tank it (shadows are pointless) and SMNs for DD, very easy fight

[Kimiko]

The video from Krabkatoa is on YouTube now. This is the short, edited version of the fight, I'll be posting the full unedited footage up on my site later this evening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xXB8wa58_o