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Im level 70... he destroyed me.. wat should I do?
Flik said:
What did you do?
My fight:
Used Taco
Double Paeon, while sleeping to 100%
Used Wing
Used Getsul Ring
Used Pamama au Lait
Waited for full HP
Engaged
Used Soul Voice
Double Paeon again
Elegy
Requiem
Melee to 300%
Spirits Within
Melee a little more
Dead Maat
I went in with pretty much full melee gear and destroyed him. My sword and evasion were capped.
Main/Sub: Joyeuse/Elegant Shield
Range: Normal instruments for songs, Frenzy Fife for melee
Head: Optical Hat
Neck: Spike Necklace
Ears: Melody +1
Body: Minstrel's Coat
Hands: Light Gauntlets
Ring1: BQ Ring
Ring2: Getsul Ring
Back: Amemet +1
Waist: Ocean Sash
Legs: AF
Feet: AF
I realize you probably won't have some of this equip, and there are some things I could have had but didn't, but really . . . It was a pretty easy fight. Just make sure to Soul Voice Paeon and beat him down.
Also, although I didn't bring any, you can Remedy his Elegy and Requiems. If you want one piece of gear that will make your melee easier, get your Joyeuse. It's the best weapon you'll ever have as bard, and worth the time to get.
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I found bard maat to be very easy. I forgot to eat food, and went for defense gear. Being taru my spirits within sucked, so I used burning blade whenever I got 100 TP, it did as much as spirits would have. Soul Voice Requiem tears him up, make sure you have the highest requiem and the +2 instrument. Make sure you can requiem and elegy first thing after you use soul voice, and before soul voice wears off.
Stouter said:
I killed him long before my Soul Voice even wore off. ^_^
You're right, race does play a part in brd Maat strategy though. As a hume, with the gear I had, I still had over 1300 HP with no SJ, and it's easier to go with str/atk gear if you're not taru.
Its all about style.
First buy that carapace armor, it makes you look like a real brute, and has good armor to boot! That will intimadate maat. Get a real sharp sword, some people prefer a dagger, i used s Spark
raiper+1. CUT HIM GOOD. if he buffs himself with a song, use a finale macro, but it has to have bird faces, and lots of flair, like:
/p <call13> FINALE~! ((ºA º)), how you like that, bitch?
same goes for your WS, sword, boot up the fast blade.
/p <call4> I CUTCHA not once, BUT TWICE, HIYAHHHHH.
After seeings such terryifying macros, maat should SURLY SUBMIT!
First buy that carapace armor, it makes you look like a real brute, and has good armor to boot! That will intimadate maat. Get a real sharp sword, some people prefer a dagger, i used s Spark
raiper+1. CUT HIM GOOD. if he buffs himself with a song, use a finale macro, but it has to have bird faces, and lots of flair, like:/p <call13> FINALE~! ((ºA º)), how you like that, bitch?
same goes for your WS, sword, boot up the fast blade.
/p <call4> I CUTCHA not once, BUT TWICE, HIYAHHHHH.
After seeings such terryifying macros, maat should SURLY SUBMIT!
Follow the bearded one... as twisted and weird as it seems...
Things to look out for :
1. Double paeon yourself at the beginning and near the end of soul voice.
2. Requiem and Elegy Maat and start and near end of soul voice.
3. Dispel Maat's buffs that actually benifit him : str etudes, dex etudes, march, mambo, minuet, minne, etc... you can leave ballad and whatever useless buffs on him.
Its not that hard of a fight once you see how Maat fights.
Things to look out for :
1. Double paeon yourself at the beginning and near the end of soul voice.
2. Requiem and Elegy Maat and start and near end of soul voice.
3. Dispel Maat's buffs that actually benifit him : str etudes, dex etudes, march, mambo, minuet, minne, etc... you can leave ballad and whatever useless buffs on him.
Its not that hard of a fight once you see how Maat fights.
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Is this how svina took down smn Maat? How did his macros go again?Sparky said:Its all about style.
First buy that carapace armor, it makes you look like a real brute, and has good armor to boot! That will intimadate maat. Get a real sharp sword, some people prefer a dagger, i used s Spark
/p <call13> FINALE~! ((ºA º)), how you like that, bitch?
same goes for your WS, sword, boot up the fast blade.
/p <call4> I CUTCHA not once, BUT TWICE, HIYAHHHHH.
After seeings such terryifying macros, maat should SURLY SUBMIT!
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the funny thing is I ate, I slept, I used a levle 70 sword and all carapace, I guess im just freakin unlucky as usual.
and about joyeuse, no one will help me get a TOD
and about joyeuse, no one will help me get a TOD
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You don't need any *help* to get a ToD, just camp out there (or get yourself dragged along to help someone *else* get a Joyeuse, that's how I got ToD for my own, which I promptly got the next morning, then a friend of mine used my ToD to get one for his RDM that evening).
Joyeuse isn't really needed for BRD Maat. The point is to let Requiem (SV Requiem 6 +2, natch) kill him and to stay alive in the meantime. Soul Voice stacked Paeon 4 +2 and Paeon 5 +2 is uber (30 HP/tick ... or maybe it's 28 HP/tick, I dunno if Paeon 5 has bumped up 1 HP/tick by level 70). Skip the Ebony Harp +1 and you're losing a whopping 8 HP/tick (+2 per song times two songs, times two again for Soul Voice). Use Paeon 3 instead of Paeon 5 and you're losing 4 (or 2, if Paeon 5 hasn't increased yet) HP/tick. Throw on some au laits or at least Selbina Milk for good measure, and you're getting back about 100 HP every 10 seconds. If he has SV Carnage Elegy +2 on him, he probably won't be hurting you much faster than that (except when he uses WS), particularly if he stops to buff himself.
Maat's Finale sucks, because you have to spend time rebuffing yourself, and in that time you're neither doing melee damage nor able to react to a WS with medicine. However, that's only if his Finale hits a Paeon. The more buffs you have on, the greater the odds that his Finale will hit something else. Even if you don't care about regenerating HP, use some sort of HP regen drink *anyway* to give yourself a Regen buff. And while regenerating MP is *completely* pointless for a BRD without use of sub, use Pineapple Juice to give yourself a Refresh buff too. Hell, you could even chug a Reraiser - not like you'll actually *want* to reraise in the fight, and it's one more non-Paeon buff for him to hit.
I don't know if Finale'ing Maat's buffs will inspire him to rebuff himself sooner or not, but regardless, you want him to spend as much time buffing himself as possible (because if he's buffing, he's neither hitting you for damage nor getting WS TP by hitting you for damage ... though he's still getting WS TP by you hitting him, of course). So just Finale him whenever he buffs, whether it's a dangerous buff or not.
And, of course, wear suitable equipment (enough +accuracy to hit him decently: Life/Gleeman Belt is good, Optical Hat is good if you have one, skip snipers since they have -def; otherwise, wear armor with good defense such as carapace; don't worry much about CHR - Elegy and Requiem and Finale all land easily and Lullaby either won't land or will be unreliable under the best of circumstances), have your weapon of choice and evasion both skilled up to 190 or so (more, if you like - 200 is good for WS options for Sword and Staff), recast your buffs and debuffs before Soul Voice wears off ...
If you want to sleep up TP, it's up to you. Honestly, I wouldn't bother. Reputedly Maat becomes meaner the longer the fight goes on, and you're spending a lot of time sleeping TP for a relatively non-damaging WS. If you were a melee capable of pumping out a hugely damaging WS it'd be worthwhile, but you're a bard, and you're not, so screw it. Bring an Icarus Wing and self-skillchain the first time you have 100% TP.
Dagger: Cyclone > Cyclone
Sword: I forget if you can use EX WS against Maat (you do technically have a sub, it's just set to level 0). If you can, sub WAR or PLD or DRK and Red Lotus Blade > Vorpal Blade. If you can't, Fast Blade > Burning Blade.
Staff: If you can use EX WS, sub WAR, MNK, WHM, or PLD, and Earth Crusher > Earth Crusher. If you can't, Full Swing > Full Swing. Earth Crusher's better at 100%, plus it can't miss (unlike Full Swing). Full Swing can be quite impressive at 300% though.
Do NOT use a club. We suck at clubs and we get sucky melee-damage clubs to use. This should be obvious advice.
Joyeuse isn't really needed for BRD Maat. The point is to let Requiem (SV Requiem 6 +2, natch) kill him and to stay alive in the meantime. Soul Voice stacked Paeon 4 +2 and Paeon 5 +2 is uber (30 HP/tick ... or maybe it's 28 HP/tick, I dunno if Paeon 5 has bumped up 1 HP/tick by level 70). Skip the Ebony Harp +1 and you're losing a whopping 8 HP/tick (+2 per song times two songs, times two again for Soul Voice). Use Paeon 3 instead of Paeon 5 and you're losing 4 (or 2, if Paeon 5 hasn't increased yet) HP/tick. Throw on some au laits or at least Selbina Milk for good measure, and you're getting back about 100 HP every 10 seconds. If he has SV Carnage Elegy +2 on him, he probably won't be hurting you much faster than that (except when he uses WS), particularly if he stops to buff himself.
Maat's Finale sucks, because you have to spend time rebuffing yourself, and in that time you're neither doing melee damage nor able to react to a WS with medicine. However, that's only if his Finale hits a Paeon. The more buffs you have on, the greater the odds that his Finale will hit something else. Even if you don't care about regenerating HP, use some sort of HP regen drink *anyway* to give yourself a Regen buff. And while regenerating MP is *completely* pointless for a BRD without use of sub, use Pineapple Juice to give yourself a Refresh buff too. Hell, you could even chug a Reraiser - not like you'll actually *want* to reraise in the fight, and it's one more non-Paeon buff for him to hit.
I don't know if Finale'ing Maat's buffs will inspire him to rebuff himself sooner or not, but regardless, you want him to spend as much time buffing himself as possible (because if he's buffing, he's neither hitting you for damage nor getting WS TP by hitting you for damage ... though he's still getting WS TP by you hitting him, of course). So just Finale him whenever he buffs, whether it's a dangerous buff or not.
And, of course, wear suitable equipment (enough +accuracy to hit him decently: Life/Gleeman Belt is good, Optical Hat is good if you have one, skip snipers since they have -def; otherwise, wear armor with good defense such as carapace; don't worry much about CHR - Elegy and Requiem and Finale all land easily and Lullaby either won't land or will be unreliable under the best of circumstances), have your weapon of choice and evasion both skilled up to 190 or so (more, if you like - 200 is good for WS options for Sword and Staff), recast your buffs and debuffs before Soul Voice wears off ...
If you want to sleep up TP, it's up to you. Honestly, I wouldn't bother. Reputedly Maat becomes meaner the longer the fight goes on, and you're spending a lot of time sleeping TP for a relatively non-damaging WS. If you were a melee capable of pumping out a hugely damaging WS it'd be worthwhile, but you're a bard, and you're not, so screw it. Bring an Icarus Wing and self-skillchain the first time you have 100% TP.
Dagger: Cyclone > Cyclone
Sword: I forget if you can use EX WS against Maat (you do technically have a sub, it's just set to level 0). If you can, sub WAR or PLD or DRK and Red Lotus Blade > Vorpal Blade. If you can't, Fast Blade > Burning Blade.
Staff: If you can use EX WS, sub WAR, MNK, WHM, or PLD, and Earth Crusher > Earth Crusher. If you can't, Full Swing > Full Swing. Earth Crusher's better at 100%, plus it can't miss (unlike Full Swing). Full Swing can be quite impressive at 300% though.
Do NOT use a club. We suck at clubs and we get sucky melee-damage clubs to use. This should be obvious advice.