Ambuscade Volume 1 - November 2018

This really really depends on pt as previously mentioned. I main healed VD another day and pulled my hair out for constant Pleiades Ray + Head Seize too.

And in a pt with aura removed right away and NM die before head seize even happen whm can pretty much afk.

Not all aura remover has good ws cycle time is probably the main reason.

I would just lower the difficulty to D if I notice aura isn't removed fast enough, D is very easy and doable by pretty much anyone.....

A bump for whoever (tyalangan?) wants to make the new thread.

Trollbuscade for Oct 2020

You can take almost any job to be the AE/CB slaves, so, try to be inclusive, instead of asking for triple cors.

Pretty simple one this.

Need to Silence the Zahak as soon as it's pulled, if it does Nullsong it's a wipe.

DD's get on the MB, Bruiser.

Tank calls out Auras on other trolls when they see them, then DD have to respond with an AoE physical or magic WS. If it's a RNG Troll that has aura need a physical WS, if it's a PLD Troll then magic WS

If aura is left on for too long MB gets a nasty AoE attack that buries you in status ailments and Stuns, avoid it.

Recommend RUN as tank since it has native Stoneskin. This is because MB has a move which puts the tank to 1 HP and resets hate, need Stoneskin to prevent an add killing you immediately. Possible work-arounds are PLD/RDM or having a SCH healer who can keep Accession Stoneskin up, seem to recall doing that last time this one came around.

If you kill the Bruiser before killing his adds it's a guaranteed win.

Isnt a super simpler solution to just give stoneskin from WHM's cures under Solace?

Stoneskin from spell has worse potency than cureskin and overwrites cureskin, nor can cureskin overwrites it. No thanks.

Still semi burnable.

Conduit clears boss and leftover to kill dahak and one add, then normal BPs to deal with the rest.

2 SMN RUN GEO

Alternative places to get KI is HP mount zhayolm then going south to Halvung, or use VW warp Mount Zhayolm and head a bit to the west.

How do you tell what the aura is?

They don't change, so there is nothing to distinguish

What BP is used for the burn?

Volt Strike.

After few corrections, time dropped to around 4 mins from start to end.

Boss > dahak > 2x RNG during conduit, dont burn on pld either because it can block and at half HP it will use invincible

For those of us that aren't super leet yet, is there any difference in strategy for E/N?

VE-D all the same

tl:dr

Tank tanks, 1 person spams aoe physical, 1 person spams aoe magical. get tp from the boss. That's literally it. Boss dies, kill adds.

D honestly isn't any harder than N, just more cures.

What's the difference between D and VD?

A Zahak, but really nothing else.

Head Snatch becomes Head Seize (99% throat stab vs 90% throat stab)

Cleared N but D was kind of a mess. Got it to 50% but after a point, they stopped losing their auras to WSs after a certain point, and absorbing elemental damage.

Absorbing elemental damage sounds like Arcane Stomp may have been used? I can't remember if it is aoe though.

Means you were too slow on the aura killing, so you get slowed down, for being slow

Not really just the difficulty of the mobs and how quickly the regen happens on the boss. On easy you can just attack the boss and take him down ignoring the regen, doing that on Normal will be near impossible solo so this month E and N is pretty much the dividing line between Solo/Starting Group Play. If your going with a group I'd certainly do a minimum of Normal.

When low manning it, does anybody have any tips? On VE we have no issues, but on E or higher we have problems. Our tank can keep hate or keep pace with WSing but if doing both we fall behind. We've tried using a trust tank but hundred fists destroyed them. And if the debuff move goes off, the poison basically kills everybody in less than a minute. We are using a DNC for elemental WSs and RUN for tank. Tried switching the RUN to DRG with the trust tank. Any thoughts would be appreciated

Melee BLM & COR using dahak TP battery, ~3m30s

Edit: Does water damage prevent the dragon from using TP moves?

There's quick notes in JP if anyone can read them. Gonna assume that it does indeed look like enwater keeps zahak's tp at zero.

They aren't doing anything else to lower tp.

To confirm - running the note at 0:36 through OCR translation gives
"Dahak has the property to decrease TP when water attribute damage is inflicted, so use accession on rdm/sch and apply water"

Just to add to the SMN strat, treat the boss like you would Schah--get to unleashing on him soon as it's pulled. Only difference is it's not as much a consequence waiting for GEO to get frailty on. I waited too long a couple times and it got a horrible -dt where BPs went to sub 10ks. ***'s just as easy as last time it was up.

If youre worried about your GEO fast cast set, you can reduce this problem by casting indi-frailty and just head to boss once RUN has enmity stablished. Due to enmity mechanism there, you dont need any action for the bubble to have effect (at least afaik).

Also, i sugest to use odyllic subterfuge before burning to prevent the amnesia to land on pets, what could be a problem if you arent close enough to finish the boss with aura. You could be extra safe and just use elemental sforzo to force the boss to face to the oposite side of the pets as its added effect TP move are conal. But personally i save sforzo so i can change to COR after the fight and try for a Wild Card to save couple mins.

Actually take your time getting bubbles up, as long as you need, time isnt a factor until the mega boss takes damage, if he doesnt take damage it doesnt matter how long you take, make sure your tank, your geo, nobody, hurts the mega boss at all dont use dia or stuff like that to activate the geo bubble. The only people who should hurt the boss at all is the smn's when they 1hr it then you literally have 0 chance at failure cuz the boss wont do sh-it til it takes dmg. Also dont have avatars out when you pull as you might catch hate and they may auto attack the boss before you are ready and screw you over by hurting it.
Note: The mega boss must be the 1st mob to die then the dragon.

they did monk roll for subtle blow too.
Also they used geo malaise, and blu did magic debuff as well, to hit those 20k aeolians.

Odd that theres two threads for ambu, but here's what I posted in the other regarding the JP setup with Xolla.

Setup:
RUN WAR BLU COR RDM GEO

GEO uses Indi-Frailty, Geo-Malaise, and Entrust-Fury
BLU uses Tearing Gust (magic defense down)
WAR is there for Warcry/Savagery TP Bonus
COR does SAM roll and MNK roll (Subtle blow)

Everyone other than the WAR and BLU will spam Aeolian Edge/MB.

BLU and WAR target the main boss, it has about 570k HP.
The adds have about 200k HP.
On pull, RDM does Frazzle/Enwater and engages dahak with COR, GEO does dispelga followed by Dia II.
RUN will use gambit and flash as expected.
BLU and WAR skillchain is:
Full Break > Upheaval > Savage Blade(BLU) > Upheaval
BLU and GEO should magic burst off of this as much as possible.
WAR should use Fell Cleave afterwards.
If done correctly, they will all die at the same time.

Its pretty straightforward for VD for my group.

Setup:
MNK COR BRD RUN WHM GEO

Geo silences a dahak. Indi-Fury, Geo-Frailty, and entrust-STR.
BRD uses Honor/Victory/minuet V/Madrigal.
COR uses MNK and SAM rolls.

COR does Last Stand, uses AE when aura is up.
MNK is doing its thing. Uses VS and Spinning Attack when aura is up.
BRD uses Savage it to death.
RUN using Unda and White Damaging Zahak.

we melted Dahak before it does any TP move. Boss > adds. it took us about 4-5 mins.

Why last stand when BRD is there breaking SC?

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Don't see a reason for MNK roll if 4 people are engaged.