Abyssea - Vunkerl Discussion

[Phil]

We've only done the Ixion mob 1 time in ls, but it seemed really really easy regardless of how many we had on it. I think 6 would be just fine, pld whm or rdm brd rng rng rng should be fine. Thundaga IV doesn't hurt too badly and with addle on it's a joke to get away from, same with spear, although it can use that in succession.

Rampart Stance has a tad bigger range than the old Ixion, and has some sort of soft hate reset. Pretty sure it's not a full hate reset. But yea I don't see why you couldn't easily 6 man or less it with good players.

[fredjanx]

MNK/NIN x2 + WHM + RDM + BRD + BLM should be able to win np.
Just make sure that hate is always on the mnks

[Taint]

I'm pretty sure this is incorrect. I think it's a 4-hit attack.

Anyway, the easiest way to do Bukhis is to have a pld tank him down by the water while putting your blms, rngs, schs, w/e on the bridge. AOE moves won't hit them up there.

Did he just say PLD!!!!

We stun Scythe, Ray and Aga3s. Tank him with 2WARs or a WAR/DRK. The biggest threat is losing your buffs but with good stunners he is quite easy. We had one fight where he started resisting stun at around 30% that turned into quite the cluster, but you can kite him easily in a circle on that island. Pulling him to 00 would make him duoable with a couple RDMs but the pull itself would be quite annoying.

[NynJa]

aga3's are a joke with 2k+ hp...with the built up stun resistance its best to save it for whats worth stunning. Since Apoc ray isnt gaze based (I've had my back to it BEFORE it started the TP move and it still landed), that's definitely worth stunning. Scythe/Triclip iirc were too fast to stun, unless you luck out and pre-stun, not that its a big deal. Pick up a HP atma instead of double DD atmas. Lithic ray's not that big of a deal, easy to remove dia and stona.

[Kirschy]

Has anyone had any success doing the Ixion mob with say, 6 or less?

Fight it is a complete joke if I recall. Killed it a while ago DRK + SAM + mages. Hit my DRK for around ~200-250s normal. Resists Stun, but Thundaga IV and other TP moves weren't breaking 1k /w MDT. Thundaga IV never broke 400 /w MDT on. Lightning Spear is about ~1.3k w/o MDT. When it does the Damsel Memento it gains a medium-potency para for about ~60-90 seconds or something. Elegy/Slow land.

[Villian]

It's weaker than DI, doesn't do wrath or kick. 0/2 on getting atma on it thou.

Edit: it's not that it's weaker but players are hella buffed so it seems easier.

[Byrthnoth]

We did it with 6ish, the hardest part is deciding if/where to pull it. We pulled it up top to a hallway leading away from the tigers, which was pretty much the wrong move. I'd just fight it at the pop if I was going to do it again. Lightning Spear is a very wide conal move, but he doesn't move once he starts readying it so you can just run behind him if you're quick and no one needs to get hit.

[FailureMidgard]

It's weaker than DI, doesn't do wrath or kick. 0/2 on getting atma on it thou.

Edit: it's not that it's weaker but players are hella buffed so it seems easier.

Wow it doesn't kick? Real DI was 6mannable at 75 in ~20minutes, but ya, I guess it isn't surprising that this one is easier with Atma/Cruor buffs.

[Staren]

Has anyone low manned Ketea and is willing to share a strategy? Got the pop trying to get the brd instrument from the t2 vnm.

[Devinry]

Has anyone low manned Ketea and is willing to share a strategy? Got the pop trying to get the brd instrument from the t2 vnm.

If you are trying to get the instrument from the T2, you might want to avoid killing Ketea and keep the crimson demilune so your next colorful gets locked in that form for endless T2 spamming. Unless you already got the intrument from the T2, in which case, grats.

[Kidnoftle]

Has anyone low manned Ketea and is willing to share a strategy? Got the pop trying to get the brd instrument from the t2 vnm.

It's not bad. I did it mnk whm rdm rdm with only a couple problems and that was more from not knowing what to expect. It has perma ice spikes that proc para fairly frequently, the para is about 30% proc. It casts high tier blizzard and blizzaga. Its harmless until it uses rapid molt which makes it go into open mouth form. In open mouth form it has 50% DA and hits for about 800 in no pdt. If it sinuate rushes you in open mouth form with no shadows up it will probably kill you. Depending on how many you have you can go NIN/MNK WHM RDM/NIN. The nin/mnk does their thing (eva rate is decent, def not above 50% but decent enough) until it rapid molts, then basically just gank and train cures. It will take a fuck ton of dmg from magic in open mouth form (do note that, iirc, magic heals it in closed mouth form) which means you can basically take it down 30-40% in 2-3minutes. If the Mnk/Nin dies then just have the rdm/nin hold it. It doesn't have any regain as far as I could tell on our 4 kills.

[Byrthnoth]

We never enfeebled it and it never used Rapid Molt. Take from it what you will.

[Chojja]

Has anyone low manned Ketea and is willing to share a strategy? Got the pop trying to get the brd instrument from the t2 vnm.

Rdm/nin and blm/whm duo, spend closed mouth portion trying to trigger yellow, mouth opens and chainspell it. Nice to do fight in general vicinity of a martello. /whm because paralyga and bindga are annoying and potentially fatal if grav wears

[Kidnoftle]

We never enfeebled it and it never used Rapid Molt. Take from it what you will.

Fair enough, but once you get the hang of the fight I would prefer to keep it in open mouth form and just save myself 10min of visitant

[Hanyoko]

Entered the zone and fought some ephemerals for azure/pearl then went to camp the Funguar NM. It was nearly firesday. Poped the nm and fought it then worked on normal mobs to pass the time/get more pop items. Saw Sippoy up roaming the area (2-3 am firesday)... It did a few laps on patrol then depoped before well before 10.

At the time there was only 2 other people in the zone besides my group. I did the /sea right when I saw it was up.

[DantesTheBannedPLD]

I got a question, i've read info about Iktomi on wiki, and it says "Duoed by RDM/NIN and BLM/NIN. NM has no movespeed +, so simple kite. Kite in the open area at H-11 (near conflux #5)" and i believe the people who wrote this were high or some shit lol, i almost killed it 21% (first try).

Clearly as some movement speed i have 12% (No atma) and it was catching up a lot... Can anyone give me some Actually info on this prick lol? does he have movement speed or not, or were the people who wrote this forgot to mention they had that one movement speed atma or whatever..

[Thorny]

No movement speed, easy solo. Suck less.

[DantesTheBannedPLD]

lol just killed, but no sam .... Yeah i should probably suck less, you're totally right!

[Holyman]

I got a question, i've read info about Iktomi on wiki, and it says "Duoed by RDM/NIN and BLM/NIN. NM has no movespeed +, so simple kite. Kite in the open area at H-11 (near conflux #5)" and i believe the people who wrote this were high or some shit lol, i almost killed it 21% (first try).

Clearly as some movement speed i have 12% (No atma) and it was catching up a lot... Can anyone give me some Actually info on this prick lol? does he have movement speed or not, or were the people who wrote this forgot to mention they had that one movement speed atma or whatever..

You can pin it easily south to conflux #5 , there is tree branch near crawler NM pop spot , pin it there .

[cdgreg]

You can pin it easily south to conflux #5 , there is tree branch near crawler NM pop spot , pin it there .

Ya what he said, that open area sucks, pull it a bit further and use the downed tree. Also atma mvt speed does not stack with your gear so that wouldn't matter.