Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Ragnarok!!
Spoilers!!!
The final(?) Treasure of Aht Urhgan update happened last night! It was a great update. While nothing useful came out for any of my jobs directly from equipment the two handed changes sound like they were great. New missions and quests to look forward too.
I logged on as quickly as I could and started the rank quest right away. You have to wait an hour to start the actual quests. So, I started the missions. Two bcs and a bunch of cutscenes. Lots of fun in both bcs. I ended up doing the first bc twice. The first time we did it with four with no problem, but Nivlakian had to leave for sleep. We are going to have to repeat the missions for him. Someone asked me for help after they heard that we did it with four, so I went and helped them.
After winning that fight I convinced them to do the final bc with me. We failed. Three of them went to bed and I got three others and we attempted the fight again! We won! Hurray Ragnarok has been prevented.
Here is the basic strategy we used for the first bc. After buffing our kiter aggro'd Amnaf and used the pillars in the map to kite around the gears that spawn. The red mage sleeps Amnaf and melee assist Naja. The gears have low hp, so they die very fast. After the gears are cleared engage Amnaf until she teleports. Rest up, do the same thing again, but with triple gears. Rest up and follow Naja to Amnaf's final form. Soulflayer time. Engage and kill her. She is very easy. Watch for -ga. She has cursed spikes always, so don't bother removing curse. Be ready to erase bio from tribulation.
A few cutscenes later and you get to fight Raubahn and Alexander. Pull Raubahn so Razhfad doesn't aggro. He doesn't link. Raubahn will reraise twice and you will be fighting him back to back. His sword weaponskills and eyes on me spell go through shadows. Eyes on me can be and should be stunned whenever possible. It hurts quite a bit. The first two times you fight him he is pretty easy. A taru war died to eyes on me and a weaponskill real fast when we won. When you fight him the third time he is immune to physical and his evasion seems to jump up or focus just wore off. If you have a tank get hate and take it down with a black mage. I used formless strikes on him in this form too. This is the only time I have found the ability useful.
After that rest up and engage Razfahd. Around 50% hp there will be a cutscene and you get to a chance to rest up before engage Alexander! Alexander loves to spam banishga III, diaga III, and other abilities that wipe shadows and do a lot of damage. The abilities seemed to be too fast and numerous to stun, but banishga can be stunned. It also has a tp move that heals around 1000hp. Light carol doesn't seem to be worth it. Increase your damage output as much as possible with march and minuet. Other abilities to note, divine judgement 1200+ damage aoe, void of repentance terror on person with hate, radiant something 300 to 500 damage. Everything except normal melee attacks wipe shadows or goes through them excluding holy II and banish V. I was getting melee hit for 200-300 as monk.
The basic strategy we used on Alexander included mnk, blu, war, blm, whm, brd. We had melee spread out around it so we don't all get hit by aoe at the same time. Melee traded hate as much as possible and we just wore it down. Magic users brought hi-ethers and yagudo drinks. We couldn't have won without mp items. I filled my inventory with hi-potions. I didn't have much space, but they definately helped for a free quick 500hp after a divine judgement. Blm stunned whenever it was up, it looked like we needed it, or banishga III was being casted. Placement is very important. If melee are not all being hit at the same time by aoe support should only have a challenging time keeping up with healing. If you wipe you can recover. Have everyone die as quickly as possible away from Alexander so it doesn't use its healing tp move. It does not regen hp while not engaged and you can tractor in the bc because you are fighting in Nyzul. Make sure someone with tractor dies away from Alexander so they can tractor anyone who gets drawn in and dies before running away. Five minutes later go back at it.
Divine judgement is awesome looking. I didn't get a good screenshot of it. When Alexander uses it it spams omega in the chat log along with some other text as lasers shoot out around it. Very nice looking. These last two missions were great. They really help make up for the relative ease of all the other ones. I didn't have time to get all my new items for winning, but I look forward to getting them soon.
The final(?) Treasure of Aht Urhgan update happened last night! It was a great update. While nothing useful came out for any of my jobs directly from equipment the two handed changes sound like they were great. New missions and quests to look forward too.
I logged on as quickly as I could and started the rank quest right away. You have to wait an hour to start the actual quests. So, I started the missions. Two bcs and a bunch of cutscenes. Lots of fun in both bcs. I ended up doing the first bc twice. The first time we did it with four with no problem, but Nivlakian had to leave for sleep. We are going to have to repeat the missions for him. Someone asked me for help after they heard that we did it with four, so I went and helped them.
After winning that fight I convinced them to do the final bc with me. We failed. Three of them went to bed and I got three others and we attempted the fight again! We won! Hurray Ragnarok has been prevented.
Here is the basic strategy we used for the first bc. After buffing our kiter aggro'd Amnaf and used the pillars in the map to kite around the gears that spawn. The red mage sleeps Amnaf and melee assist Naja. The gears have low hp, so they die very fast. After the gears are cleared engage Amnaf until she teleports. Rest up, do the same thing again, but with triple gears. Rest up and follow Naja to Amnaf's final form. Soulflayer time. Engage and kill her. She is very easy. Watch for -ga. She has cursed spikes always, so don't bother removing curse. Be ready to erase bio from tribulation.
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Nivlakian and I standing over our conquest. |
A few cutscenes later and you get to fight Raubahn and Alexander. Pull Raubahn so Razhfad doesn't aggro. He doesn't link. Raubahn will reraise twice and you will be fighting him back to back. His sword weaponskills and eyes on me spell go through shadows. Eyes on me can be and should be stunned whenever possible. It hurts quite a bit. The first two times you fight him he is pretty easy. A taru war died to eyes on me and a weaponskill real fast when we won. When you fight him the third time he is immune to physical and his evasion seems to jump up or focus just wore off. If you have a tank get hate and take it down with a black mage. I used formless strikes on him in this form too. This is the only time I have found the ability useful.
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Azure lore eyes on me hit me for more than 1000. |
After that rest up and engage Razfahd. Around 50% hp there will be a cutscene and you get to a chance to rest up before engage Alexander! Alexander loves to spam banishga III, diaga III, and other abilities that wipe shadows and do a lot of damage. The abilities seemed to be too fast and numerous to stun, but banishga can be stunned. It also has a tp move that heals around 1000hp. Light carol doesn't seem to be worth it. Increase your damage output as much as possible with march and minuet. Other abilities to note, divine judgement 1200+ damage aoe, void of repentance terror on person with hate, radiant something 300 to 500 damage. Everything except normal melee attacks wipe shadows or goes through them excluding holy II and banish V. I was getting melee hit for 200-300 as monk.
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Alexander terrorized me! |
The basic strategy we used on Alexander included mnk, blu, war, blm, whm, brd. We had melee spread out around it so we don't all get hit by aoe at the same time. Melee traded hate as much as possible and we just wore it down. Magic users brought hi-ethers and yagudo drinks. We couldn't have won without mp items. I filled my inventory with hi-potions. I didn't have much space, but they definately helped for a free quick 500hp after a divine judgement. Blm stunned whenever it was up, it looked like we needed it, or banishga III was being casted. Placement is very important. If melee are not all being hit at the same time by aoe support should only have a challenging time keeping up with healing. If you wipe you can recover. Have everyone die as quickly as possible away from Alexander so it doesn't use its healing tp move. It does not regen hp while not engaged and you can tractor in the bc because you are fighting in Nyzul. Make sure someone with tractor dies away from Alexander so they can tractor anyone who gets drawn in and dies before running away. Five minutes later go back at it.
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Ragnarok Preventer. |
Divine judgement is awesome looking. I didn't get a good screenshot of it. When Alexander uses it it spams omega in the chat log along with some other text as lasers shoot out around it. Very nice looking. These last two missions were great. They really help make up for the relative ease of all the other ones. I didn't have time to get all my new items for winning, but I look forward to getting them soon.
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