icesharc
12-16-2004, 07:34 AM
Last night I fought maat for I think the fifth time. I dont mind fighting him a lot because prior to this fight I have never spent a single gil on him, infact, farming the testimonies provides 100xp a kill and rubies nearly evertime. Its not a horrible way of farming, the rubies go for 15k a piece, sell fast, and I can get two or three an hour. I acctually think the maat fight is a lot of fun, it acctually requires strategy.
Since I didnt mind fighting maat multiple times, I decided to try and make a point. I hear so many RDM complain about millions of gil required to buy gear and medicines, so I went on a mission to show it can be done w/o any such things.
Here's my character info:
-Hume
-lv69
-equipment
-Warlock hat, tabard, leggings
-Custom Boots
-Spirit Torque
-Phantom Earing
-Moldavite Earing
-Phantom Tathlum
-Zircon x 2 (electrum for convert)
-Dark Staff
-Ryl. Knt Belt
-Red Cape
As I said all pervious attempts cost me no money at all, but this time I just wanted to try to kill him so I used a melon Pie +1. I managed to get Maat down to probably 15% of his HP when I hit 49mp. I have no doubt that one more Aero III would have killed him. I calculated my damage around 2,300-2,400 so he was near giving up. I did make a few mistakes however. Paralyze/bind/blind I found to be pretty much useless. Bind may have worked better if I used it while he was running toward me, but then a sleep 1 just worked better. Right after I did chainspell I accidently did a sleep2 instead of aero3. And when I ran out of mp at the end I didnt try to sleep, i just tried a low lvl nuke, i did aero regular, If I had done maybe a lvl 2 spell I probably would have been ok. Another thing, all previous attempts I had a wind staff, but this time my friend was offline and couldnt borrow it, I think i did about 339 damage aero 3's and with the wind staff i was in the 370's, that alone would be enough to allow me to win. Also, after the convert I forgot to swap back the INT rings, however I saw no increase in resists or decrease in damage, so for the next fight I would use rolenberry pie instead.
The next fight I was pretty sure I had him beat, but I forgot one important thing, my stoneskin dropped real early, he did a diaga to wipe out blink and ate stoneskin, causing me to take some damage, I completely forgot about converting and I didnt realized I had only 1/2 the mp I needed until I was out. He was at about 1/2 life maybe lower and I was able to do one cure IV and One Aero3 after my convert.
So with all that information I find it highly likely that you can do maat without any medicine at all. I could spend a million gil on the Marine Gloves and wait till lvl 70, the ocean rope along with MP added for that lvl will no doubt give me enough MP to do maat without the aid of even food. So for all you RDM's out there, don't worry, maat is fun and low cost, so long as you dont mind fighting him a few times to figure things out.
Since I didnt mind fighting maat multiple times, I decided to try and make a point. I hear so many RDM complain about millions of gil required to buy gear and medicines, so I went on a mission to show it can be done w/o any such things.
Here's my character info:
-Hume
-lv69
-equipment
-Warlock hat, tabard, leggings
-Custom Boots
-Spirit Torque
-Phantom Earing
-Moldavite Earing
-Phantom Tathlum
-Zircon x 2 (electrum for convert)
-Dark Staff
-Ryl. Knt Belt
-Red Cape
As I said all pervious attempts cost me no money at all, but this time I just wanted to try to kill him so I used a melon Pie +1. I managed to get Maat down to probably 15% of his HP when I hit 49mp. I have no doubt that one more Aero III would have killed him. I calculated my damage around 2,300-2,400 so he was near giving up. I did make a few mistakes however. Paralyze/bind/blind I found to be pretty much useless. Bind may have worked better if I used it while he was running toward me, but then a sleep 1 just worked better. Right after I did chainspell I accidently did a sleep2 instead of aero3. And when I ran out of mp at the end I didnt try to sleep, i just tried a low lvl nuke, i did aero regular, If I had done maybe a lvl 2 spell I probably would have been ok. Another thing, all previous attempts I had a wind staff, but this time my friend was offline and couldnt borrow it, I think i did about 339 damage aero 3's and with the wind staff i was in the 370's, that alone would be enough to allow me to win. Also, after the convert I forgot to swap back the INT rings, however I saw no increase in resists or decrease in damage, so for the next fight I would use rolenberry pie instead.
The next fight I was pretty sure I had him beat, but I forgot one important thing, my stoneskin dropped real early, he did a diaga to wipe out blink and ate stoneskin, causing me to take some damage, I completely forgot about converting and I didnt realized I had only 1/2 the mp I needed until I was out. He was at about 1/2 life maybe lower and I was able to do one cure IV and One Aero3 after my convert.
So with all that information I find it highly likely that you can do maat without any medicine at all. I could spend a million gil on the Marine Gloves and wait till lvl 70, the ocean rope along with MP added for that lvl will no doubt give me enough MP to do maat without the aid of even food. So for all you RDM's out there, don't worry, maat is fun and low cost, so long as you dont mind fighting him a few times to figure things out.