Ambuscade Volume 1 - November 2018

Last question from me.. using WS when aura isn't on will or will not extend the timer for the aura being down? Just would suck to WS and then a split second later have it come up.

Does not extend it.

Alright so, kinda goes without saying, but the boss having less than a million HP does make conduit strats work very easy.

You can get the boss and the zahak down with conduit then the plds/rngs after it wears.

WHM can keep cureskin on you full-time for the same effect.

No idris required and cor doesn't need regal necklace either. One summoner can also pull it off.

woohoo im on TV~

Good CP source.

12 JP per run.

Seeing a lot of stupidity around Aeolian Edge. To be clear, literally any job can do the magic AOE

Any job in the entire game can do sub dnc and cyclone

BLM can do it. SCH can do it. DRG can do it. SMN can do it. WHM can do it.

It does NOT have to be THF DNC BRD COR

I had a solid group on D, 5 min clears. I was whm. After buffs I threw out a handful of cures. A brd/whm could have done my job.

Second run , after the team engaged I told them I was going afk to get a snack while they win.

(I didn’t, but I could have)

All depends on how conscientious your aura-killers are. If they are dependable, then yeah, you really don't need a WHM.

If you go PUG or have ppl who are prone to not paying attention, then you'd better be prepared for Pleiades Ray.

(this is on D btw. VD you really want a WHM for cureskin/head seize/barfira/baramnesra).

Been spamming this (on D) with BRD BRD COR GEO DRK and I'm on pld self healing. Easy 3 minute wins.

Second COR or another DD would be better but our whm switched to a bard, had a Carnwenhan and was busting out some decent Mordant Rimes.

My group usually has BRD and COR on aura duty with aeolian edge and circle blade respectively while the bruiser is up.

You save 2-3 minutes on the fight with ideal setup and then meet the great equalizer in Mount Zhayolm waiting on repops.

Very first post:

D is very easy and very fast, may as well let people use this opportunity to play whatever they want so they don't have a reason to start drama if they don't get to play DD in serious events.

Exactly. I don't even care if we have 2 melee BLM, like eiryl mentioned previously. D is so easy this month and I'm glad most pickups have had the braincells to handle mashing aoe ws.

Finally get to attempt some VD tonight. I talked to quite a bit of people in game and many seems to resort to smn zerg for VD or stick with D, unwilling to try VD with melee setup. However efficient Melee VD is very doable and I feel many of the mainstream strat(cor full time circle blade, brd full time aeolian edge, DD on boss) is not extremely optimized for VD.

Like last month, the slower pt kills the more dangerous it can be. Headseize can be risky and the less NM uses it the better. So ideally, it's better to aim for max dps.

Cor is a stronger/faster aeolian edge job than brd and fell cleave is a stronger physical aoe ws than circle blade. So I feel its more ideal for cor to do aeolian edge and another job can do fell cleave for better dps and aura removal speed.

Further more, cor doesn't need to full time aoe ws, they can do savage blade for DD and only switch to aeolian when aura is up.

If everything is done correctly even with 3 song brd it's possible to clear in 3:20-3:25 without sp including buff time. Main NM barely get to head seize when it dies so fast. No head seize = near impossible to wipe to it imo.



*apologize for low resolution/fps since Im a cave person that plays FFXI on a toaster.

*I missed quite a bit of savage 2nd hit due to the lack of 2nd madrigal. With 4 songs it should be easier to land ws.

*I swapped to dagger for AE in 2:08 then quickly swap back to sword for savage. So really no reason to lock into a much weaker ws that's not savage when aura isn't up.

Afania the reason you have BRD use AE is so you can bring a DD that doesn't even need to AOE WS. Last few runs I've done I'm 100% killing the mega boss while BRD does AE for me.

Had anybody else noticed that main boss ignores hate completely when it's using hundred fists?

Imo Fell cleave hitting all mob at once is not really dps decrease because it's pretty damn strong to begin with. Also triggers pld SP early to save time.

Brd ae doesn't seem very reliable/fast from my experience too, I'm not sure if ws needs to do certain amount of damage to remove aura.

Tank said head seize hate reset = very hard to get hate back. That's all I know.

Does it HF in D? I tanked D the other day and didn't notice weird hate mechanics.

It doesn't. It can heal them (they have a magic shield) too so it's rather irrelevant for AE. BRD can focus purely on keeping aura down, so DD gets to focus entirely on damage.

Well I guess I need to bribe brds to build a good melee set then >.> Ate Pleiades Ray 10x in VD another day :(

Yeah, hate resets only happen on VD.

Head seize seems to be a normal 100% hate reset. If you spike VE (one of those rare instances where RUN is better off subbing WAR), it's possible to get hate back pretty quickly.

The one during Hundred Fists is a bit different. Seems to completely disregard person at top of hate list for 10-15 seconds, and your DD's can get wrecked pretty quickly if they aren't swapping to -DT.

It's a pretty easy month... unless you're tanking on VD, then it's kinda stressful. ^^;

I actually didn't mind tanking it, not hard to do the tanks part. I tried healing it today for my other account and urgggh that was stressful. "WHY IS EVERYONE DROPPING TO 1 HP ONE AFTER ANOTHER. Trying to keep cureskin on the tank making sure to remove debuffs. and you go to cure 1 person and in the middle of that cure someone else drops to 1HP.

I actually thought healing it was super easy, took in my new tribox that barely has capped FC/cure potency and did fine, lol.