Antican Ambuscade V1

1. To proc Malaise fast enough are you placing malaise on MB then when cactuar runs in to bubble are you quickly doing a fast hate grab on geo (dia/bio) > konzen > LS all within like 2-3 seconds? I would assume you would have to be quick tagging on geo.
2. Are you successfully trioing D (or VD)? If so are you indi-wilt to tank as Sam?

Ya, adds definitely need to die lol.

Because of the zone hate in Ambuscade, the GEO doesn't need to tag the Cactuar. And yeah, I place Malaise on the Antica and wait for the Cactuar to come in and needles.
I can do D, but not VD; trusts die to 10k needles. Yeah, I'm doing Wilt and Entrust Haste. Ecliptic Attrition Malaise for Cactuar, then Blaze of Glory Frailty for Antica.

How did you handle adds? I did this on vd but adds were a pain.

I went /RUN on SAM to grab hate on adds with Pflug and Vallation and used a Hybrid set with 45% PDT. Between that and Wilt, I wasn't getting hit very hard, but that was on D.
It's not actually uncommon for 0 adds to show up on D using Konzen > Leaden method. Unfortunately, VD seems to always spawn adds before the Cactuar runs in for the first needles. Tried meriting Shikikoyo so the COR could have 3k TP without damaging the Antica, but he still summoned adds while at 100% HP before the first needles.

Ya, I went /run too but the GS I use uses Pflug and Vallation auto, so need to stop that lol.
I killed the three adds but his AoE tp moves were too strong because of that.

I am a returning player was going to try to duo box Easy. Could I duo War + Whm with Trusts? 119 gear on war and on pld

My options are Pld or War with duo box Brd or Whm.

Of course. Kind of annoying though, build tp on the boss and ws the cactus when it stops to needle. Cactus has like... 50k hp on easy takes me 2 ws to kill it with that method.

Could also ignore the cactus and just kill each add as they pop if you want, needles is pretty much irrelevant. (it will raise the attack of the boss though)

Is squall random damage? We will not touch this damn thing during sand trap and the squall will do heavy damage all the time -_-. Is it a latency issue?

Squall usually does more DMG depending on the number of adds spawned and or killed. And obviously during Mighty Strikes. You can basically negate the hell out of it by just going /nin for shadows. Also worth mentioning that his mevasion is crazy low (D and lower) and that enfeebling him is definitely worthwhile.

Óo will look into /nin..does wilt ) barrier work on this ?

They do. Shadows also work

Should've bumped this a day or so ago, but still about 13 hours to gear up your smn before all the prices double on a conduit month

Primary strat is conduit.
MultiCOR zerg after leaden the cactus. (true flight too, just cors get rolls so)
SCH + BLM(s)
Or simply zerging with melee.

All pretty viable strats. 2 years of power creep and 30 master levels, it'll fall over dead in 20 seconds.

assuming they didn't add some new moronic ability as well

Just did several VD with RUN WHM BRD COR WAR SAM (SAM went DRK for the first fight or two), pretty straightforward and no new f-you moves. Sub-5min wins on VD once we got the hang of the fight and remembered how it works.

Buffed up and tanked it in the middle, DDs get TP to kill Cactaur when it stops and boss summons adds. Might take a couple tries to kill Cactaur if you don't wipe it out on first WS volley, COR can do some QD/ranged attacks too while it's running. Once the Cactaur is dead, no more Antican adds will spawn. DDs kill off the Antican adds, then everyone kill boss. Boss can use Mighty Strikes multiple times, may be worth kiting for 30sec then back to killing.

Nice to see a relatively easy month again, and likely works fine with multiple different strats.

Worth noting that I think you need to kill the boss first. I had killed the adds first and boss was just mega buffed and hitting RUN for 600 and one-shotting DD with this AoE move called "Debris Storm".

When I killed the adds first, I simply couldn't keep anybody alive and they are using sitting at 40-50% DT.

Just tried this with PLD COR WAR BRD GEO White, we zerged it without killing the Sabotender, took around 2 minutes time. Our initial setup with SAM instead of WAR failed, where Tachi: Jinpu lacked the buffs, so Warrior saved the day, hopefully get round to posting a video later.

Edit: @Belkin same, the boss wiped us with Debris when took adds down first.

Best place to farm KI?

Kind of the only place - QSC the Fount warp

Sorry which warp would that be?

https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Further_Founts
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Waypoint#Proto-Waypoints

Thank you

Can't see how to zerg when 12(or is it 15?) adds are making the damn NM move about, I really hate the pathing/collision of this game.

Gotta kill the cactaur faster to prevent more adds. If you kill it quick, it should just call one (or zero) set of adds and it's manageable for the tank to hold them. Even two sets is prob OK, more than that is gonna overwhelm you. I was RUN/BLU, gave em a quick Jettatura/Blank Gaze and had to move around to position a bit, but overall that wasn't a major issue.

We didn't really have major issues dying even with killing the adds first on VD. The boss did hit a bit harder, and occasionally did KO someone after hate reset - but it wasn't unreasonable for me with 3x Flabra runes up (and Cocoon/Phalanx). Honestly, the scarier times were getting Eagle Eye Shotted by an add while tanking multiple mobs.

Perhaps killing each add = more power up to the main boss? And if it only gets to summon one set... not a problem since there are only so many dead adds. I'm not sure.

Updated video for this months run. Solo video is a new strategy from last time this was around. Party strategy shown is same from Jan 2020 and still works well. Great month for many jobs.

What’s the next fastest way if you don’t have fount warp?

You don't need to finish the second quest to get the fount - Just do the first quest(5 min) and be on the second to unlock that fount. total time should be around 10 min.

Voidwatch Teleport

Yeah did some more fights tonight. A few on D (which is really easy, should be able to kill cactaur before any adds are spawned, then just fight boss), and more on VD. Real key seems to be killing the Sabotender quickly, to prevent too many adds from coming out.

Messed around and let it summon lots of adds and then killed them off, and the Consul got really strong. But when it summons like one set of 3 adds, you can absolutely kill some (even all) and IMO it's fine. Maybe a good balance is to leave like 1-2 adds up until after Consul dies if you're worried about Consul getting powered up? I could survive fine on RUN even with all the adds dead, but hate reset+petrify does mean that the Consul has time to one-shot a WHM or something if you're unlucky.

We were just using a pretty standard RUN WHM COR BRD DDx2 setup. Fast kills, great points.