Maat problems

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70 DRK/thf and 1tnl.

why 1 tnl? cuz Maat has whooped my ass 5 times.

i've got all the standard gear for a 70 DRK (thick set, Bomb core, Amemet+1, Woodsman's x 2)
for the fight i used all the recomemded items.

my first 2 fights in went in having never received any advice on how to defeat Maat as a DRK. i did them "my way".

that didnt work out too well, so i went out and did the research. couple of friends also tried to give me advice, but they all said the same thing, they would copy/paste the guide from mystery tour.

every fight goes the same way

go in naked and gear up inside
sleep TP
guillotine
wing
guillotine
Maat is down to less than 40%
Maat uses blood weapon and criticals for 225+ and add effect drains for 225+ (i can never get out of range of all the hits)
i can never enough HP spamming hi-potions
i loose

i've tried a few variations: defense food instead of sushi, phalanx rings instead of woodsman's, SC-ing instead of 2 Guillotines, absorbing STR or VIT as very first attack

in addition to mystery tour guide, i also use a blink bland and an HP regen drink.

so keeping in mind that i have read the guide, does anyone (specially DRKs) that can give me any insight on the Maat fight?

what gear did you use? defense or accuracy?
what day did you fight?
SC or Guillotine x 2?
defense, attack, or accuracy food?

oh and let me gripe about Maat's DRK abilities

why is it that Maat's blood weapon drains the same amount as his attack? every single fight: crit for 225 drain 225?! 450 in one attack wtf? im pretty sure my bloodweapon has never drained more than 100 HP even on critical hits.

my wepon bash ALWAYS does 20 dmg, no matter how strong or weak the enemy is, how is it that Maat's hits me for 150? and why can he use it twice in the same fight?

I wish my DRK abilities were as powerful as Maat's.
 
Here's what I did:

-Enter arena only wearing a Sniper's Ring. There's a rumor that Maat's stats are influnced by your gear. I figured +5 acc for him was an okay trade for -10 def.
-Equipped my normal gear (thick set, amemet, sniper and woodsman, etc) except for Opo Necklace and Blink Band.
-4 Sleep Potions to 100% tp
-Eat a Bison Steak
-Use Blink Band
-Put on normal neck gear and chaos burgeonet (enhances souleater)
-Go up to Maat, turn away from him and engage
-Souleater, Last Resort, Guillotine
-Stun (he immediately pops Blood Weapon), Vile Elixir +1 (souleater eats a ton of hp), Icarus Wing (100 tp), Blood Weapon (in case he doesn't die), Guillotine.

He died though. Here's a screenshot of my chatlog from the fight, if it helps
http://www.animelyrics.com/sbacon/ffxi/maatmashed.jpg
 
How is your enfeebling skill? Try sleep/bind during his BW.
 
Rappa,

that snipper's ring idea sounds good. Now if i could only find someone to loan me a snipper's for a little while.

Bison steak? this next try i was eye-ing and expensive meat (attack) dish. i had only done sushi and DEF food until now. none of my guillotines had done more than ~850 damage. and the one thing ppl always said was "dont use souleater" since thats one of my favorite skills.

Vile Elixer+1? i know that chages your max HP/MP but does it also top you off (as in full heal)?


Alanon,

my enfeeble is (|Too weak|). only magic capped is Darkness. its the only one i ever really use. i do get lucky sometimes and actually sleep something, but it usually only work to get the monster attention on me and allow the BLM or BRD to cast sleep in peace. somehow i boubt that it would work on Maat, or that i would actually have enough time to cast a sleep 2 and not get interupted.
 
Yes yes use Souleater. Souleater + Last Resort + str food + 2 Guillotines = win. If you don't use them all, you won't do enough damage for him to submit. Vile Elixir+1 gives you (don't quote me on this) about 400-500 hp back (and mp which isn't relevant). You could probably get away with just a Vile Elixir. Don't put anything on whatsoever for defense. You're a drk, your mission is to pummel him into submission before he can touch you (blink band almost always negates his first few attacks though blink isn't 100% effective, thus the Vile Elixir[+1] so you don't die). Bring Hi-Potions in case you need to get one or two more hits in after your Guillotines. It doesn't hurt to be overprepared.
 
Rappa,

thanks for the advice, im gonna try again tonight.
ive spent at least 500k on Maat fight so far, gil is not an issue. only thing i didnt spring for was a stone skin torque. 400k for an item ill only use 1 time seemed a wee-bit excesive.
 
Vile Elixir gives you back 25% of your max HP and MP, so if your HP are 1000 the elixir gives back 250 points. The Vile Elixir +1 gives back 50% (and costs more than double, heh). They are both rare so you can only have one of each at any time.

Good luck!
 
enter naked with only 2 Scorpion Ring+1 lowers his eva and ACC after that suit up with youe opo neckalce and get tp gear up and do your fight bring Vile elixir +1 blink band will help cant help u more im not a DRK but this is what i did for mine and it works
 
I have a drk friend that did it

I think he did souleater-last resort-blood weapon-guil X 2.

Edit: I don't see how'd bloodweapon helps during then, but whatever, he won with flying colors, so who cares.
 
after 6 tries and more than 700k in items

Maat gives up immediatly after the 2 Guillotines. (1200+ and 1000+)
didnt even use any of the 15 hi-potions or the vile elixir

he didnt even hit me (he tried, but missed)

difference this time? instead of dealing dmg AND trying to keep my health up i just went for all out dmg, like Rappa recommended.
at end of fight, even though Maat didnt thouch me, i was down to 400 hp. which means i did 700 worth of dmg to myself with souleater (no AF helm).

now to see if i cant get any gil back on the leftovers.
 
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