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Been reading about this ENM, and it says it's soloable by a 75 BLM and/or RDM. I'd like to know if any BLM's around here have tried/succeeded to solo this ENM, and any strats they know to be helpful.

I have a fairly extensive, Nuke/Enfeeb setup.

What SJ is best for this? what food would you reccomend using, and of course what strats have you tried in the past? :)

Thanks.
 
Meth and I duo this ENM regularly, never solo'd though. I'm sure it can be done, though. You will have to kite and nuke, so the good enfeebling set is a must, and /RDM is preferrable for gravity especially. You'd probably want to bring some refresh drinks and be prepared to use your 2 hour. Antidotes for their poison move and reraise are also important.

If I were going to try to solo it, the first time, I'd food/buff/rr up and ES Sleep II the big one. Gravity the little one and nuke it down before the big one wakes up. Manafont here if necessary. As long as you can get the little one down before the big one wakes up, you can win. Plan on a death here after the big one wakes up. Heal up and wait for ES timer to be back up (or close to it) and open with gravity. Kite back to the beginning, using bind where necessary, and nuke down. ES Sleep if you get in a bad spot with MP (he will most likely not sleep without ES).

Not a short battle, but entirely possible. GL!
 
Lin's strat is the way my static used to take this ENM down. Solo may not be worth the risk, especially with just how much easier a second person makes it.
 
Women trying to solo when they should be at the cooking guild ;)
 
Grandphoenix said:
Women trying to solo when they should be at the cooking guild ;)
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You can shut the hell up... geez, you sound like Myrrh D:

I'lltry your strat, Linh, thanks :).. May try and Dual Box mine and a friend's char, though Idk how well that'd work out. lol
 
For solo, you'll need to have HQ staffs and most the basic and some of the other equipment for BLM.

Elemental Obis(s) and the right elemental day is preferred.

Need to be able to kill one without using your 2hrs(Baby), before Sleep II wears off on the bigger.

Notable: Good Dark Skill setup to Aspir these correctly, it is your friend. Enfeebling, Bind is God. Don't waste AMII less its going to kill it, and always sub /RDM. Keep Shell and its JA Shell Dispelled, will more less half your total DMG.

Shouldn't need a +Elemental Skill build really..if you're 8/8 elemental magic and 5/5 on both potencys, that should be more than enough. But I wear AF1 Hands fulltime in that ENM just to ensure my resist rates are floored.

Even then I do not have Zmitts to use so thats out of the question, otherwise I'd Zmitts and Merciful Cape.

Pick up a Novio make it even easier(I lawls at this because its rare as hell to obtain less you have a good Sea LS). I seen your gear the other day, seen you lacked a HQ staff you was wearing, you'll definatly want Thunder/Ice if you haven't already. Otherwise your gear seemed uber.

If you can kill the one, the other will be cake. Just die after its dead, raise up rest full reset yourself...Elemental Seal Silence him and go to work on it, manafont at your own leisure. Unless you're tarutaru, I doubt you'll have enough MP to continue unto the other one, even with Manafont active/able to use. As you're lacking I think 300-400 MP less then a Taru does.
 
Only HQ staff I'm missing is Earth.

Enfeeb set:
HQ staff
Bugard +1
Igqira Tiara
AF body
Oracle Gloves
snow ring
diamond ring
Phantom tathlum
Igqira pants
Enfeeb earring
Rostrum pumps
Loquascious earring
enfeeb torque
p.rope
prism cap

Nuke set:
HQ staves
Wise strap
AF Head (may get Demon +1 not sure yet)
Genie Weskit
Z.mitts
Ele torque
Phantom tathlum
Moldy/Abyssal earring
HQ Errant legs
Yigit feet
P.Rope
Prism Cape

Food: Cream puff, have around 41~43 INT

Dark set is average, torque/af pants
 
ES sleep II gives you 1:30 minutes to kill the first one. To kill fast you'll need AM2 and Manafont, and /rdm for gravity. Once dead die and reraise. Repeat with caution for the second one.

For rdm solo, ES sleep II the first one then chainspell nuke and die > reraise. Nuke the second one. But it's not reliable enaugh to ounter cure V with blizzard3.
 
pchan said:
ES sleep II gives you 1:30 minutes to kill the first one. To kill fast you'll need AM2 and Manafont, and /rdm for gravity. Once dead die and reraise. Repeat with caution for the second one.

For rdm solo, ES sleep II the first one then chainspell nuke and die > reraise. Nuke the second one. But it's not reliable enaugh to counter cure V with blizzard3.
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When i did this ENM that was the biggest problem (we went RDM+MNK) you need to be able to put out serious damage in a short time when the smaller of the two is at low HP, because he spams cure on himself, i can't say i noticed the bigger mob using cure half as much.
 
Xzerper said:
If you can kill the one, the other will be cake. Just die after its dead, raise up rest full reset yourself...Elemental Seal Silence him and go to work on it, manafont at your own leisure. Unless you're tarutaru, I doubt you'll have enough MP to continue unto the other one, even with Manafont active/able to use. As you're lacking I think 300-400 MP less then a Taru does.
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I agree, the first one is the priority. I would plan on using Manafont on the first one for this reason so I could get away with AMII to bring him down as quickly as possible.

I would not use ES for silence, I would save it for a sleep in case things got a little crazy. Yeah, it sucks ass that he cures himself (Cure V, no less), but its better IMO to have that ES sleep ready in case you're really needing some HP or MP.
 
Linhjah said:
I agree, the first one is the priority. I would plan on using Manafont on the first one for this reason so I could get away with AMII to bring him down as quickly as possible.

I would not use ES for silence, I would save it for a sleep in case things got a little crazy. Yeah, it sucks ass that he cures himself (Cure V, no less), but its better IMO to have that ES sleep ready in case you're really needing some HP or MP.
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Yar.

to the OP: Hands slot, most the time, that area is not under control from any areas...so try grabbing Mst.Cst.Bracelets(Master Caster's) +7 Enfeebling magic and 1 INT 1 MND. Would help ya better than Oracles if you needed to Bind at all.

Thats if the effect is active anyways. ^^ Otherwise it looks like you have a good setup. =P
 
Thanks everyone! :D Gonne try this today, I'll let everyone know how it turns out!
 
I would manafont on the first one too, so you make sure your spells go off ok. He hits hard so he will eat your stoneskin in one hit, two if its maxed.
 
You know, I have had this question come up three times recently. I do believe it's possible and not too hard, just never tried.

Me and Linh haven't been keeping up with it recently and I like to merit / farm up there sometimes on BLM. I will give it a try next week and post results.
 
Tried it once, died, and didnt do it again. Its too much a pain in the ass to climb the cliff.
 
It is possible, but it is a bit unreliable, you can't really make mistakes. If you make a mistake it is best to just die, raise up and try again(this is if you didn't blow your 2hr).

Same as what everyone else suggested Sleep2 the big with ES. Gravity the second one and start going to town. Don't forget to use bind it is a big help. Around 50% he will start to use Cure V, this can really mess you up. I try to save my AM2 nukes for this time. A few things to remember, make sure you dispel shell and unbehist Armor(sp). Going on thunders day is really helpful. Don't manafront until your ugga is active.

Once small one is dead, you can die to the big one, RR back up and kill. You can also gravity and bind him at one side and run to the other and rest up, so you don't have to die.

This is a good BC to polish up your solo skills. Even if you lose keep trying you will get it!
 
Hmm yes I have been soloing this ENM. Firstly, I have to say one thing, the day you enter is very important. If you got resist, you are so going to die. Regarding how i solo, i follow another BLM on the 7th heaven that Omniyoji show me. Basically
1) Use a sprinter boot, buff up and rest to full
2) aggro and start running to entrance.
3) Keep spamming ELEMENTAL SEAL SLEEP II (cant be slept without elemental seal) on the big one.
4) Gravity the small one (expect to get hit once)
5)Start nuking the small one while running to the enemy starting area. Make sure you use your bind. The video on youtube, he did Freeze II, Thundaga III, Manafont (contradict to what someone above say), Burst II, Blizzaga III (the enemy die on here in the video), I need an additional thunder IV.
6) If you cant kill it before the big one come chasing you, you can warp off
7)If you manage to kill it, remember to aspir the small one! Gravity, bind and rest
8) Rest till full then slowly nuke it down. Relax and you will have enough time.
9) Luck really play an important role and if possible do the change equipment trick help alot so you will not get stuck in the nuke animation.
 
imo its too much trouble for poor rewards, even me + pchan as rdm+BLm we went like 4/5 on success( we were cure V'ed bs), but never got anything worth, and it takes way too long to go up there><
 
Done this numerous times on both rdm and blm, lost maybe... three times. I really wouldn't open up with ES sleep as some people have suggested; anything you can do to give you more time is key, such as bind. If the big guy wakes up before the little guy is dead, it's pretty much over. Oftentimes they have shell (either through TP move or the spell), so you need to dispel that too.

All in all, it's not terribly difficult, but you definitely have a time limit; if you don't have an extremely good nukeset, I can't see you winning it consistently.

lol at the poster above me
 
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