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I post in from my LS forum, uneddited so ignore any LS chat/banter or whatnot, hope this helps any RDM, stupid fight
EDIT: There is some really bad grammer in there, sorry
EDIT: There is some really bad grammer in there, sorry
Long post:
Firstly to anyone who did advise and I threw a "that wont work" feedback, I hope I didnt ever sound rude, it was more, "I've tried that" more than anything, not frustration, its what some players have once said, its hard to understand the fight, or you wont understand the fight til you have experienced it yourself. The ammount of initial loses were due to being stubborn, not wanting to spend gil, believing I could do it without, but there are dozens of great/respectable players, like you guys on the LS who had to go though lengths to win, so what makes me special? Nothing, swallowed my pride and got to work. I glanced at the prospect that people were winning because they were nuking Maat with Aero3, obviously one doesnt do that with just their mp alone, so I took a initial 'nuke' run before working a strategy
This sounds more like a guide, but it is what I did, maybe I will turn it into a guide but that fight is so random... But to all you RDMs like Xyphere, apparantly Maat is going to be softer on RDMs on the next patch, so you may not need this.
Clear Time: 7mins 6seconds (yea yea leave me alone guys haha)
Equipment:
Weapon: Rank6 Sando sword (help yourself to a better one)
Full AF
Forest Rope
Emfeebling Torque (I forget to macro my elemental torque
)
RDM lv70 Earring (latent -30% magic reduction)
blah blah
Consumables
Mithran Chiefkabob (ate)
Vile Elixer +1 (used)
Vile Elixer
Pro Ether x 5 (used 1/5)
Hi Potion x 2
X Potion
Ability Preperation
Fast Access in magic List - Aero 3, Shock spikes, Blink, Stoneskin, Aquaveil, BaFire, Cure 4, Cure 3 (rest were normal macros)
The Battle
Buff up, pretty much everything that lasts long, rest mp, than recast refresh along with the short buffs (phalanx, haste etc). Drink a ether now if you dont want to wait
Once you are from a targeting distance of Maat, draw your sword, cast Diaga (which is bullshit imo). Trust in your melee to remove his Blink, at this point he is going to be casting random spells and meleeing you, as soon as his blink is off attempt a sleep. If he manages to sleep, remove all his status enhancements and weaken him, if he doesnt sleep, do the same but continue to keep stoneskin and blink on. Eventually it will come to a cycle of buffing and curing to the point where he is winning, so long as shell aint on him, begin a offense on him, basically aero3 (water3 is the cool time is not finish) him and ensure you are not dying. Sooner or later spells need to be recasted too.
When your mp is around 100, attempt another sleep, if this lands YOU ARE INDEED LUCKY. Drink Pro Ether to get your mp up to shape, fully heal and buff yourself and remove his status, try and do all this within 15seconds, dont count, just dont waste time. Repeat the aero, nuke and stay healthy, again on 100mp repeat the sleep and recoop.
Sooner or later or NEVER, sleep is not going to work, taking your mp down to around 75 with little hope. Im guessing at this point the player wont have stoneskin on. Activate chainspell, stoneskin, blink, phalanx, convert, bafire (whatever), cure4 once
Now its time really damage him, during the following sequence, you WILL get his HP below 50% and he will use chainspell and his endless 9999mp. Cast in the following order. Aero 3 Aero 3 blink, Aero 3 Aero 3 Blink, Aero 3 Aero 3 Blink etc Throw in a cure 4 somewhere there too. Once mp is low, drink that vile Elixer +1 with no hesitation (200mp, dont quote me) anc continuing the cycle, drink whatever you have to after to continue the cycle. Towards the end ensure a stoneskin gets in there too. Your chainspell is up, his is still on, be ready to cure, and drink whatever you need to.
After chainspell it feels similar to the start of the fight, the difference is no matter how good/fast you are, Maat is better and likely you are worm out no matter how fast you try to stay healthly, I only needed to once but I think roating cure 4 and cure 3
is useful til his chainspell is out.
Now more to the point of how I won personally, my HP is very low, I failed to keep up with the curing (does that sound farmiliar all those that PT with me?) and I noticed my TP at about 150%, thought fuck it I dont care how weak it is, threw a Spirits Within WS in... he gave up. I was down to about 60HP and had about 200mp, I was lucky because he chose to poison 2 me and the last spell and not fire 3 me.
On a last note, I have read RDMs out there are getting hit by Asura Dreams and other dangerous WS, in all my attempts (just read the sig) he has only EVER used Combo, tackle and one inch punch... wtf? lol.. In that particular fight, he used tackle a few seconds before I won
Average melee damage 40ish and average aero3 damage: 303, I wish I remembered to equip my torque
Irrelivant nonsense?
I only have one theory on how he gave up (condition of a RDM) which might explain why its been done so fast. During the majority of the fight I was dishing out spells, enhancements and abilities, at the last minute I used a WS, maybe I RDM needs to incorporate all there skills to make Maat give up?
Maybe someone should try (dont spend gil, just your time) Enhancement, debuff, chainspell, convert, a small nuke, and a WS (icarus wing maybe?) Of course it has to be fast, and keeping healthy would be vital. Dunno why I write this like a guide (on this forum at least), but thats that, I dont even want to do that again for fun, he beat me enough times for the fun bit, lets go get my sword now lol
Firstly to anyone who did advise and I threw a "that wont work" feedback, I hope I didnt ever sound rude, it was more, "I've tried that" more than anything, not frustration, its what some players have once said, its hard to understand the fight, or you wont understand the fight til you have experienced it yourself. The ammount of initial loses were due to being stubborn, not wanting to spend gil, believing I could do it without, but there are dozens of great/respectable players, like you guys on the LS who had to go though lengths to win, so what makes me special? Nothing, swallowed my pride and got to work. I glanced at the prospect that people were winning because they were nuking Maat with Aero3, obviously one doesnt do that with just their mp alone, so I took a initial 'nuke' run before working a strategy
This sounds more like a guide, but it is what I did, maybe I will turn it into a guide but that fight is so random... But to all you RDMs like Xyphere, apparantly Maat is going to be softer on RDMs on the next patch, so you may not need this.
Clear Time: 7mins 6seconds (yea yea leave me alone guys haha)
Equipment:
Weapon: Rank6 Sando sword (help yourself to a better one)
Full AF
Forest Rope
Emfeebling Torque (I forget to macro my elemental torque
)RDM lv70 Earring (latent -30% magic reduction)
blah blah
Consumables
Mithran Chiefkabob (ate)
Vile Elixer +1 (used)
Vile Elixer
Pro Ether x 5 (used 1/5)
Hi Potion x 2
X Potion
Ability Preperation
Fast Access in magic List - Aero 3, Shock spikes, Blink, Stoneskin, Aquaveil, BaFire, Cure 4, Cure 3 (rest were normal macros)
The Battle
Buff up, pretty much everything that lasts long, rest mp, than recast refresh along with the short buffs (phalanx, haste etc). Drink a ether now if you dont want to wait
Once you are from a targeting distance of Maat, draw your sword, cast Diaga (which is bullshit imo). Trust in your melee to remove his Blink, at this point he is going to be casting random spells and meleeing you, as soon as his blink is off attempt a sleep. If he manages to sleep, remove all his status enhancements and weaken him, if he doesnt sleep, do the same but continue to keep stoneskin and blink on. Eventually it will come to a cycle of buffing and curing to the point where he is winning, so long as shell aint on him, begin a offense on him, basically aero3 (water3 is the cool time is not finish) him and ensure you are not dying. Sooner or later spells need to be recasted too.
When your mp is around 100, attempt another sleep, if this lands YOU ARE INDEED LUCKY. Drink Pro Ether to get your mp up to shape, fully heal and buff yourself and remove his status, try and do all this within 15seconds, dont count, just dont waste time. Repeat the aero, nuke and stay healthy, again on 100mp repeat the sleep and recoop.
Sooner or later or NEVER, sleep is not going to work, taking your mp down to around 75 with little hope. Im guessing at this point the player wont have stoneskin on. Activate chainspell, stoneskin, blink, phalanx, convert, bafire (whatever), cure4 once
Now its time really damage him, during the following sequence, you WILL get his HP below 50% and he will use chainspell and his endless 9999mp. Cast in the following order. Aero 3 Aero 3 blink, Aero 3 Aero 3 Blink, Aero 3 Aero 3 Blink etc Throw in a cure 4 somewhere there too. Once mp is low, drink that vile Elixer +1 with no hesitation (200mp, dont quote me) anc continuing the cycle, drink whatever you have to after to continue the cycle. Towards the end ensure a stoneskin gets in there too. Your chainspell is up, his is still on, be ready to cure, and drink whatever you need to.
After chainspell it feels similar to the start of the fight, the difference is no matter how good/fast you are, Maat is better and likely you are worm out no matter how fast you try to stay healthly, I only needed to once but I think roating cure 4 and cure 3
is useful til his chainspell is out.
Now more to the point of how I won personally, my HP is very low, I failed to keep up with the curing (does that sound farmiliar all those that PT with me?
) and I noticed my TP at about 150%, thought fuck it I dont care how weak it is, threw a Spirits Within WS in... he gave up. I was down to about 60HP and had about 200mp, I was lucky because he chose to poison 2 me and the last spell and not fire 3 me.On a last note, I have read RDMs out there are getting hit by Asura Dreams and other dangerous WS, in all my attempts (just read the sig) he has only EVER used Combo, tackle and one inch punch... wtf? lol.. In that particular fight, he used tackle a few seconds before I won
Average melee damage 40ish and average aero3 damage: 303, I wish I remembered to equip my torque
Irrelivant nonsense?
I only have one theory on how he gave up (condition of a RDM) which might explain why its been done so fast. During the majority of the fight I was dishing out spells, enhancements and abilities, at the last minute I used a WS, maybe I RDM needs to incorporate all there skills to make Maat give up?
Maybe someone should try (dont spend gil, just your time) Enhancement, debuff, chainspell, convert, a small nuke, and a WS (icarus wing maybe?) Of course it has to be fast, and keeping healthy would be vital. Dunno why I write this like a guide (on this forum at least), but thats that, I dont even want to do that again for fun, he beat me enough times for the fun bit, lets go get my sword now lol
) .
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