| Re: My PM6-4 Experience as a Paladin Just went on another few runs, this time I managed to procure an Evasion set up. I had a Scorpian Harness, two Bat Earrings, Wind staff, some level fifties evasion headband, and Jack-o-Lanterns. All in all I had +67 evasion, and it did seem to have a noticable effect. Unfortunately it wasn't enough, but I feel this time it was more the players creating the challenge than the game. Anybody who says Omega has bad evasion must have fought him on some certain day, because this thing is pretty accurate.
With an Evasion set up I took a lot less damage from the Mammets. The same tanking strategy works wonders every time, but I usually get hit more than 75 times before we're done, and this time I never got hit more than 50. This is definately the easiest part.
Omega still proved to be a giant problem. It's extremely hard to keep hate using a staff, and backwards tanking to avoid Counter makes it worse. The healer MUST ALWAYS have Paralyna on hand, because all your hate keeping abilities are on long timers and will reset if it's stopped by paralyze. Luckily, flash wont reset its timer if interuppted through paralyze. Our problem the first run was a Whm that dropped a Curaga II right at the beginning for some reason. The second time we wiped at 40%, reraise up and get ready, then it goes sour again. It starts off with a Missile Volley from the other side of the ship, then moves in close to finish me off. When I died the White Mage was at full MP. We gave up after that.
I'm definately getting closer to winning. It's extremely hard to do this with a pick-up party, so we're trying to convince people we trust to help out. Even with a Ninja, this is something the entire party has to be 100% into.   |