smn in promvion?

[sudo]

I'm thinking of going in as a smn but just wondering what worked for other ppl who tried smn for the bcnm fight at the end.

[anaya]

SMN performs very well in Promyvion. Astral Flow completely rapes the boss. Bring Hi ethers and Yagudo drink, wait till boss is about ~50% HP, and Astral Flow three times. Does about 450 each time. Very very very useful.

[sudo]

sounds awesome but what avatar are you using?

does it have to be elemental weakness of the boss?

Since their elemental weakness changes every time how can you tell which one to use or just blast away with whichever and hope for the best?

[anaya]

I used Fenrir in all the ones i've been to, but i've had it resist twice and do only ~200 or so as opposed to the normal ~450-500. I didn't notice that the bosses have an elemental orb inside them that denotes the element of the mob, and its weakness till a while after I had done them, so paying attention to that could help with it being resisted. (if its thunder orb, use titan etc.) Good Luck!

[Vikki]

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[tazirai]

Use leviathan there. The Empty are weak to water based attacks.

[sudo]

is it always weak to water though?

But a more pressing question:

Several ppl posted on other boards that smn can't drink poison potions and astral flow at the same time. This just doesn't make any sense to me.

Someone want to dispel this myth for me?

[tazirai]

Originally posted by sudo
is it always weak to water though?

But a more pressing question:

Several ppl posted on other boards that smn can't drink poison potions and astral flow at the same time. This just doesn't make any sense to me.

Someone want to dispel this myth for me?

no need to be dispelled because something about what people say , and what you actually try cant alwasys be nullified.

of coure you can drink any potion and astral, just not at the same momentin time.
Drink potion>wait for the timer to vanish>astralflow.... easy.


And yes they are always weak to water.

[sudo]

yay thanks tazirai, you're the best

Ya I never really understood what those other guys are talking about. I always drink potion (ether for solo fight), wait 2 sec for animation to complete then astral flow like normal. I just couldn't get an answer out of the other ppl.

It's kind of like they don't even know what they are talking about or just want to see others fail.

[Miriamel]

Water spells get resisted heavily at least in the Mea BC. We concluded it's based on Water and switched to thunder and ice damage. Shiva did about 500 DMG to it, I have yet to try Ramuh.

[Sheila]

For the BC battles I like to use Astral at the start. Usually our battles don't last very long in the first place. The astral flows can be let off at the start, while letting the pet temporarily do some tanking too.