Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Contaminated Colosseum - Duro?

Bored so I thought I'd post up this duo, it's not that hard but it can get quite stressful when your in close and an Extremely Bad Breath starts charging.





So, what are you after?
For 30 KS your looking at a chance to get a Cassie earring, Orichalcum Ingot, or even a Damacus Ingot.



(Here I am kiting while falkinn rested to 500mp, more than enough to finish oscar)


Who are you fighting?

A EVIL malboro by the name of "Evil Oscar". He uses basic malboro moves along with his own Extremely bad breath ~ which causes DEATH ! He also has additional effect : Weight on regular attacks.

So how do I win?

Don't get hit? Well it's not as easy as it sounds. This fight can be moderatley difficult to duo for 2 mages. This is because Oscar builds resistance to Bind and Gravity, and is immune to sleep and stun. This is actually soloable by SCH, RDM, THF but may require meds. The purpose of this duo strategy is to have the use of no meds (while useful) while still maintaining a good shot at winning.

This Fight in particular involved SCH/RDM and BLM/WHM (for erase incase of getting weight'd). The strategy is fairly simple, go in and gravity and nuke it while kiting up and down the large path. The key is to kill it quickly, before resistance to bind and gravity gets too high to the point where it's almost fully resisted.

If your going to duo this I suggest you 2hr (As I did on this run) and if you solo it as SCH your going to have to to be able to dish out enough damage.

The nm has around 10,000 hp and the fight has a cap of 30min, so it's not really hard to beat it if you're prepared.

So basically: Go in, gravity while the BLM opens with a nuke then start the kite, nuking as you run down the path. If you see Extremely Bad Breath GTFO of there, it has a pretty long casting time so you don't really have to worry. The only time to worry is when you get hit by gravity and then a unlucky Extremely Bad Breath. You can tell when it's about to fire it off because it will mention in the chat log "Oscar begins to breath in the foul air around him" and after it mentions this 3 times it will fire it off once your in range.

I feel 2hr'ing is key to this, for a duo because of the risks of resists.





Extra tip


If you're scholar, and are planning on doing this having desert boots is extremely useful, since you're partner (BLM or another SCH) will eventually run out of MP. It's very usefull to kite it and gravity with the boots on and sandstorm incase of a resist. This is risky, but when your down to life or death that +12% movement speed can be the difference between a win and a loss.

Doing so, will hopefull give your partner the time to rest. If you're going to solo this, make sure you can do enough damage to kill it in one MP pool, because resting is not as viable.



Once you win you might get lucky and get the.... Pineal Hat!!!!






Aro~



P.S HART FALKINN<3

Monday, December 1, 2008

AWAKENING

Hello, and if you're reading this, you probably are either very awesome, or very bored.

This will be the blog (lolblog) of me (Arosan and Megas).

We reside on the server siren and are FFXI hoars.

We will be documenting our ideas, plans, strategies, and such on this nice little site. If you like it great if you don't can't blame ya.

Info : Arosan ~ 75 DRK SCH Megas ~ 75RDM ??PLD ??DNC >_>

(He can edit that D:<)

So why is this blog shared?

Well me and Megas do everything together and almost all of our strategies involve duo'ing, and if you can duo why solo?

Hope you enjoy this lolblog and we will try and update on a biyearly schedule >_>!


~Aro