BRD Maat

Marajade

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Any tips? Already working on skilling Sword for Spirits within, and i have Evasion/Accuracy gear.
 
Thats exactly what i'm gonna yell at him

I'm gonna make a bunch of Ollie Williams /says for my macros just for the fight.
 
I did this awhile ago. Evasion gear helps(I went that route). I did it with the SV paeon 2x method and just out lasted him. SV Paeon is very nice regen and SV elegy slows him down like Turtle. As my plan was endurance so I used def food. Add in the standard Maat items (tp wing, sleep for tp, hi pots, etc.) and you'll do fine.

Lastly he does finale you and he can take away your songs and food so take care of that.You can use dummy drinks(like juice) so he finales that instead of your songs.

All the best.
 
Make sure you stick elegy and requiem as soon as you cast soul voice, and again right before it wears. SV requiem will take off more HP than your melee damage.
 
Whats the BRD "give up" condition on him?
 
If there's a tricky one like "sing a bunch of buffs while in combat" or "dispel such and such many of his buffs", nobody knows it. BRDs just beat him down to low health.

And I second the previous recommendations - SV 2x Paeon, defense/evasion gear, defense food, reasonably skilled up weapon, SV Elegy for survival and SV Requiem for most of your damage output. Don't believe Lullaby can land on him, or if it can it's extremely unreliable so you shouldn't even waste your time trying.

Rebuff and redebuff before SV wears (so check the SV recast and start doing that at the 1:58:00 point when you still have a minute left).

Finale his buffs, and put up some dummy buffs of your own for him to Finale (in hope it'll hit those rather than Paeons) - a Regen effect from a Selbina Milk (or something more expensive, if you want the Regen effect itself to be useful), a useless-in-itself Refresh effect from a Pineapple Juice, a Reraise effect from a reraise scroll or something (you don't want *to* reraise when fighting him - if you die, just give up and try again later - but it's one more thing his Finale might hit).

Don't sleep TP, just run in there, SV, buff, and engage. He gets meaner as the time limit counts down in my experience with him, so the faster you get going the less mean he is. Bring a dozen or so Hi-Pots (you probably won't use them all, but better to be safe). Icarus Wing is nice, but optional.

Try to be level 70, though it's not quite as necessary for BRD as for some other jobs.

If for some reason you have a Joyeuse as a fresh 70 BRD who hasn't beaten Maat yet (unlikely but it can happen), the battle is very easy.
 
The above stated methods are the "normal" methods, and they do work. However, i went a slightly different path: Packing up in all attack gear, i sang Minuet x2, slept to 300 and just kicked the ever living crap out of Maat, klobbrntank style.

I don't really advise it though, you'd have to take a lot of Meds, aside from the fact that you needa get a lot of +acc/atck gear, but if you've got fantastic friends who are willing to loan you some, perfect. It seems safer to my eyes (although i went 1/1 so i really don't have much experience), cause the fight's way faster and i didn't have to rely on Maat and Paeon to get by.

Course this was 3 years ago, i'm sure it could be done easier now with the tonnes of new gear...

In any event, if you need any sort of help, let me know, and good luck ^^

Cheers
 
Beat him. 300% Spirits within for 600 was a nice help, lol.
 
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