How to beat RDM Maat (Hume)

[Arrowney]

Hey now! Here’s a video of RDM Genkei 5. Sorry for the quality of it. I didn’t have enough hard drive space for an AVI clip this long, so I hooked up my computer to my VCR to tape it. You can still make out what everything says though. Enjoy!

*Note – This file is a 59MB Divx file. You need a Divx player to be able to view it. Here is a link to download it. http://www.divx.com

Link to Genkei 5 video –
Arrowney Vs. Maat Video

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Here are some tips to help out anyone who is doing this and having trouble.

I prepared for the battle by having the following medicine: Vile Elixer, Vile Elixer +1, Pro-Ether, 2 Remedys, and Melon Pies (You could chose Rolanberry Pie or Pumpkin Pie as well, so it's your choice whether to want more INT or more MP. I went with more INT with the Melon pie.). You won’t have to use most of these most likey, but you also don’t want to run out of MP, or have paralyze prohibit your casting. You also want equipment to boost your enfeebling, elemental, and INT skills. Here’s a list of what I have on:
Mythic Wand, Darksteel Buckler, Phantom tathlum, Warlock Chapeau, Enfeebling Torque, Moldavite Earring, Phantom Earring, Warlock Tabard,Warlock gloves, 2 Electrum Rings (for the start of the battle, and for convert. Astral Rings would be better), 2 Zircon Rings (for Aero III). Red Cape +1, Royal Knight’s Belt, Warlock tights, and Warlock boots.
I also had 2 macro bars just for the Maat fight. Make sure to make ones for equipping items and using medicines.



1) The key to winning this battle is making it short. If you take too long (over 6 mins I found), Maat WILL do his WS, and it WILL kill you everytime. You can make the battle significantly shorter by starting the battle off by casting stoneskin, blink, and refresh…then running to Maat. If you give Maat the chance, he will use every buff he has, you must keep his casting to a minimum.
2) Distance is very important. If you stand in one place the whole battle, Maat will interrupt most of your casting with little pot shots, not to mention take off your stoneskin and blink a lot faster. Having Maat cast spells is what gives you time to cast yours.
3) Start the battle off with Diaga to make his Blink disappear. From then until his Dia effect wears off, cast Dispel, Paralyze, and keep Dispelling. Also cast Stoneskin when needed. If you’re far enough away, hopefully you can pull off a Stoneskin while Maat gets paralyzed while casting his spells.
4) After Maat’s Dia effect wears off, try like hell to put him to sleep, with Sleep II, and Sleep spells. This gives you time to Blink, Stoneskin, CureIV if needed. At this point you want to cast keep casting Aero III until he chain spells. You have to sleep him to use Convert somewhere in there. Aslo remember, everytime Maat is asleep, make sure you have full stoneskin, and full blink up. He’ll chainspell after the third or fourth AeroIII, so be ready with sleep spells after that.
5) With Maat asleep during his chainspell, all you need to do now is fully prepare for your chainspell onslaught, with full blink, full stoneskin, and use any potions you have to for enough MP and full HP to kill him. Also take this time to get as far away from Maat while still in casting range of him. It takes about 6~8 aeros to kill maat, so make sure you don’t run out of MP.
6) If Maat wakes up, or 30 seconds have gone by, use your chainspell and nuke the fu** out of him. With your blink and stoneskin up, that should buy you enough time to cast enough Aeros before Maat can break your defenses.

Well, that’s that. I wanna thank all the members of Crystal Shards on Ragnarok for their help and support. Special Thanks to Tygo and Sassinak ~ 2 of the best Red Mages around

[dirtyclown]

my hat's off to you. i've never seen anything like that the entire time i've played this game. i look forward to fighting him now that i've seen the fight in action. i have a while to prepare for genkai 5 still, but i'll be even more prepared for it. thank you.

[Beener]

Funny you should post this now, i just fought him for the first time and got totally ownt. I got trigger happy with aero and by the time i thought to sleep him i had 12 mp :sweat:

at that point i threw in the towel, not gonna use my elixers and stuff on a fight i had already lost. i'm deifinitely gonna try your way next time, the other methods seem gimicky.

'preciate the help, arrowney

Edit: meant to ask, how much max MP did you have at the start? i couldn't see it.

[Arrowney]

I'm glad I can help you guys out
My max stats were HP/896 - MP/607. I know it doesn't seem like alot of MP, but I couldn't think of what to equip to boost it. Everything I chose to wear seems to me to be the best configuration. I did alot of research for this battle and that seems to be as good as it gets.

[Altruist]

Every rdm I ever talked to who has passed this fight does one key thing, stoneskin. Stoneskin is what keeps you alive, I didn't cast diaga, I didn't sleep him, I just started off throwing dispel and paralyze at him. I don't think paralyze ever stuck.

Wait till shell is gone, then chainspell / nuke for the win. BTW keep stoneskin up during your chainspell.

[Patchinko]

Nice job! I thought it was pretty impressive. It will definately help having seen how the fight progresses in advance.

I can't wait to do the fight... maybe I will try to beat your time.

[Arrowney]

Wait till shell is gone, then chainspell / nuke for the win. BTW keep stoneskin up during your chainspell.

Also you wanna make sure he doesn't have stoneskin on before you start nuking. One time when I started casting my dispels, shell was the first to come off. After this I thought I could start with the nuking...but stoneskin was still on ><;

Second...my total time isn't anything special. I hear that tarutarus have an exceptionally easier time with this fight with the amount of MP they have. Supposedly it can be done in under 2 minutes

[Chucklez_1]

thanks a bunch arrowney for the great input! I have a few questions tho:

1) Were you simply lucky that the paralyze and sleep landed easily on him on that video or was it consistent with the chances of landing those spells on the previous tries that you did?

2) Will Aero III tend to land on its highest damage capability (depending on your day and equipment) all the time?

3) Will Asuran Fist trigger AFTER his chainspell or is it random?

[Arrowney]

1) Yes, luck plays a big factor with sleep and paralyze. With the sleep spells, you get 2 attempts to sleep him every time you try, with sleep II first, and sleep I. If sleep I lands, you can prolong his sleep by casting sleep II on him again. Most of the times the sleep spells didn't land, I could usually run away from him far enough to where he'd start casting a spell, then with that time he is casting, I'd start to cast stoneskin, then try the sleeps again.
I didn't see any difference with the sleep spells working better on darkday either. One time he resisted 8 sleeps on darkday, go figure :confused: But yeah, having sleep and paralyze work is based on luck. It's the spells you have and need to use as rdm, but it's luck whether they work or not. Some do say that you don't need to sleep and paralyze him at all, but I didn't find any easy way to beat him without it.

2) Out of all the times I fought him on windday, there was at least one Aero III that did more damage then the others. In the video, you'll see all my Aeros did 350 damage, but the second to last one did 380 something.

3) It's random on whether he uses his weapon skill before or after chainspell. You might also get lucky and he might not use Asuran Fists at all, but another WS instead. Only one time out of the many did he try One inch Punch on me, followed by 2 Asuran Fists :mad:

[Patchinko]

I noticed you didn't have a Wind Staff. Did you have an Enfeebling Torque?

[Chucklez_1]

thanks Arrowney. Then I'll have to make sure I have /equip Darkstaff on when I cast Sleep/Sleep II.

Patchinko, the rdm was wearing an enfeebling torque. The list of the equipment/item worn and used are listed in the first post.

[Jonnyram]

Congrats!
Your video makes your strategy look flawless, somehow. I hope it's as easy as that when I come round to doing it

[Shiia]

Double post sux -_-;

[Shiia]

Really depends... I fought maat with full int gear with enfeeble torque. I had +39 INT by the time I ate food. Bind, Gravity and sleep never got resisted (it was drk's day), with mythic wand+1 as weapon My aeroIII did 356 damage as a hume. I bet stat also plays a big role in here. I know enfeeble skill determins how well it lands but still... of all the sleeps and binds I have done and none of them gets resisted you start to question about this fact

P.S. Just to let you guys know, I beat him without using chain spell. I used, Paralise, sleep, bind, gravity and simply kited him... reason why I didn't use chain spell was uh... I couldn't /dies forgot I used 100fists with my monk on the last exp session...

P.P.S. By looking at your movie you did similar thing as I did. I added bind and paralised him every time I landed a sleep just for reasurance when Maat woke up. I continued doing what you did adding gravity in the process till he gave up. Instead of using cureIV, I used Hi-potion and Vile elixir.

[MMan530]

What is more important overall in stats? As a level 65 hume rdm, I have 727 mp (some of this will go away due to sub) and +32 Int. I think I could put some gil into raising my int, but don't really want to lose my generous amount of MP either. Does anyone have a recommended amount of MP vs. Int vs. Mnd?

As far as enfeebling, it sounds like people don't really have a tough time with this. Would it be ideal to fight Maat on Iceday with the Ice Ring and Ice Staff? I *think* that you'd be able to get a more effective Aero with this combo over fighting on Windsday- just speculation though. You'd receive a hefty +25 to your elemental skill.

Thanks for posting the information!