Random Question Thread IX: Mathology 101

[Windfoxster]

I started with Cactrot Rapido, pretty good NM for a starter. Have to be focus on your debuffs wearing and blink at the same time. I won't recommend nuking it for a starter but yea, it is a good NM.

[rog]

Eh, rapido is a bit hard for a starter, since you need to tank it nearly flawlessly.

[Dontkare]

Just tried Contaminated Colosseum. Got him to 66% before he started resisting gravity to the point that it would wear off right as I cast it. I don't know what else to do.

[Raen Ryong]

I wouldn't try a BCNM etc just yet; your beginning few solos are likely to be slow before you get comfortable, and imposing a time limit on that will just make you panic/make stupid mistakes/try to rush it too much until you find that "groove" to play in.

Any of the Middle Lands standard lottery spawn NMs in Kuftal Tunnel etc should be quite simple for a beginner. Fenrir Prime is also quite easy and you don't really have much to lose in the event of a failure.

[Windfoxster]

Eh, rapido is a bit hard for a starter, since you need to tank it nearly flawlessly.

Well, it put your PDT/Recast gear to a test and your decision to make a choice when debuffs start wearing suddenly. Can keep trying again or Fenrir's prime is good too as mentioned above.

Edit: BCNM is a really bad choice to start out. Not only it doesn't make you learn much and waste your seals.

[Kipling]

Hm. @ People above.

Did you sleep to 100 and start off with jin and then wing and jin again? Or what?

[Dooom]

Hm. @ People above.

Did you sleep to 100 and start off with jin and then wing and jin again? Or what?

While I did my nin maat at 75, I started *all* my DD-based maat's by sleeping to 100 at start and using an i-wing mid-fight, self-SCing if possible. It's much easier/less annoying to farm up the money for meds than another test, generally, so I took whatever little advantages I could to ensure a win.

[Kipling]

While I did my nin maat at 75, I started *all* my DD-based maat's by sleeping to 100 at start and using an i-wing mid-fight, self-SCing if possible. It's much easier/less annoying to farm up the money for meds than another test, generally, so I took whatever little advantages I could to ensure a win.

Well I figured I should do this to self sc, but a few people mentioned online how if I make him mijin too early it could be bad?

[Windfoxster]

Hm. @ People above.

Did you sleep to 100 and start off with jin and then wing and jin again? Or what?

Yea, probably some people just TP and WS as per normal. As for me, i went for the safety route like what you stated. Refarming testimony sucks so i don't mind spending the extra gil on medicines even at level 75.

[Dooom]

I suppose that could be the case, I've no idea what triggers his Mijin. Generally though, I found quite a few of the Maat "guides" on places like wiki to be pretty poor (I lost mnk maat 'cos of some awful advice from one such guide), so I'm not sure how much faith I'd put in them. Killing him quicker is probably safer than letting the fight drag on.

[Kipling]

Ugh, that is what I thought. I'll try it, thanks.

[rog]

Just tried Contaminated Colosseum. Got him to 66% before he started resisting gravity to the point that it would wear off right as I cast it. I don't know what else to do.

All you have to do is run. It's easy to kite because it stops to use extremely bad breath fairly often.

Well, it put your PDT/Recast gear to a test and your decision to make a choice when debuffs start wearing suddenly. Can keep trying again or Fenrir's prime is good too as mentioned above.

I suppose if the aim is to just get better, and not to actually kill it, it would be a pretty decent nm. Hell, I suppose the 20 some tries it took me to kill it really improved my solo/tanking ability.

Hm. @ People above.

Did you sleep to 100 and start off with jin and then wing and jin again? Or what?

Personally all i did was walk in, utsu, engaged, ran up to it, and casted utsu every so often. I wsd once, but other than that did nothing but utsu. No potions, sleeping tp, etc. I did it at either level 69, or 70, can't say for sure, either way, it seemed rather impossible to lose to me.

[FailureMidgard]

While I did my nin maat at 75, I started *all* my DD-based maat's by sleeping to 100 at start and using an i-wing mid-fight, self-SCing if possible. It's much easier/less annoying to farm up the money for meds than another test, generally, so I took whatever little advantages I could to ensure a win.

You're talking to the guy who feels 1 blink band to help with all non-nin maat fights was too expensive!

[Kipling]

You're talking to the guy who feels 1 blink band to help with all non-nin maat fights was too expensive!

Hey, help me open the pressure door!

[BerenTebogo]

RDM w/o Novio nuking: Elemental earring or morion +1?

[Rehn]

Where's a good place to do Trial 618 katana? 100 mobs of the bird family under ice/earth/dark/water weather.

[Byrthnoth]

RDM w/o Novio nuking: Elemental earring or morion +1?

Blahblahblah depends on the target etc. Morion +1 almost always

[Kipling]

All you have to do is run. It's easy to kite because it stops to use extremely bad breath fairly often.

I suppose if the aim is to just get better, and not to actually kill it, it would be a pretty decent nm. Hell, I suppose the 20 some tries it took me to kill it really improved my solo/tanking ability.


Personally all i did was walk in, utsu, engaged, ran up to it, and casted utsu every so often. I wsd once, but other than that did nothing but utsu. No potions, sleeping tp, etc. I did it at either level 69, or 70, can't say for sure, either way, it seemed rather impossible to lose to me.

Weird, just tried it again and his hits never miss me. I think I evaded once, but my timers can't keep up with how accurately he always connects.

[Dooom]

Where's a good place to do Trial 618 katana? 100 mobs of the bird family under ice/earth/dark/water weather.

Marsh Mures outside Nashmau is the first thing which comes to my mind, will have both dark and water weather at times. Possibly these? Not many pops, but at least earth weather is relatively frequent. Or even Apkallu? Though be careful of hate build.

[Rehn]

Thanks, I will try that if my plan doesn't work. I checked and it seem bats count as "birds", so figured syncing down a little and camping out in Fei'yin might be doable also.