Tough Nut To Crack ~ Duo!

A 60 ISNM I've duo'd many many times. Extremely easy with practice and patience.

So what are you after?

For 2000 IS you're looking for quite a few money drops, such as Dark spirit pact, Strike Subligar, Bard Songs and some Black mage scrolls.

(A nice view of the map)

Who are you fighting?

A Wamouracampa called Watch Wamoura. Uses basic Wamoura moves, most dangerous would probably be Vitriolic Spray which is a strong AoE burn that does 30hp/tic. This wamoura also has another special property, when in it's "Curled" form it is extremely resistant to all forms of damage, but it will take regular damage from DoTs and can be aspired. The plus side to it's curled form however is that it will move at a "gravity" like speed. It can easily be Gravitied to slow it down even more, and bind works if you need some breathing room. It's second form called "uncurled"; because, well you'll see when you fight it. It's second form is a bit nastier, moving at constant flee speed and having a rather high attack. So this sounds preety hard/impossible by now..? Well there's one special fact that makes this monster extremely easy to duo. It has a special type of hate that changes targets, regardless of actions every 3-6 seconds (This only occurs in "Uncurled form"). Because of this if you space yourself out during uncurled form you can be safe, because before he reaches you it will turn to attack your duo partner, just falling short of reaching them. After a set period of time/damage (After doing this run many times it looks like it is after a certain % it will change, and if that certain % is not met withing an amount of time it will go to curled form). It will change from curled to uncurled after about a min or two, not exactly timed by us, but relatively fast.

So how do I win?

Don't get hit? Well it's really that easy (at least this time)! I think the key to this strategy is just patience and good positioning. This fight takes place on a relatively large map, consisting of a straight path and circular dome (See first picture! :O). What I mean about good positioning is... kinda like playing "Monkey in the Middle" with the Wamoura. You want it to run back and forth, while you nuke it without running the risk of getting hit. Remember you can only nuke while it's uncurled because, when curcled it take almost 0 damage from everything.


With the following plan it's very unlikely to lose, even with a wipe (provided you have RR!).

Recap~
- Run in and DoT and Aspir as needed.
- Stay positioned in the "Monkey in the Middle" line. Ex: O= players X = monster
O - - - - X - - - - O
-Nuke it while it's uncurled and keep your distance. Gravity and bind works and may help you control it better.
-When recurls, go back to standard DoT and aspir for mp.
-Continue until dead!

*Note this was done as SCH/RDM and RDM/BLM always, both offer a good combination of Mp efficiency and decent magic damage. Using this combination is NOT necessary in my opinion, 2 BLMs, 2 RDM or 2 SCH can probably do this as well*

This may also require a moderate amount of practise, me and megas wiped a few times our first two or three times because of poor positioning. However we still won due to my RR.

Extra note: These screenshots are SUPPAAR old, like summer of 08.

P.S HART MEGAS

~Aro