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    Summoner solo/duo/small group vs Abysea NM Compendium

    Dear fellow summoners, if you could share your stories, tips and strategy on soloing Abysea NMs for others. Keep the format short and simple but hopefully quite helpful for other aspiring summoners out there. Thanks and happy sharing!!

    I will start with some of mine, hope y'all can add more

    Just to add additional notes: although summoner solo is rather fun, hate management is a big issue, especially if you are dealing with NM with hate decay or hate reset. If you plan to duo trio with another jobs, beast master would be the best combo, and a black mage if you are planning to farm plus 2. Can also bring another job for red or blue proc but only going in and out to do just that. Beast + Smn + Blm are a very nice trio to put together if you just want to plus 2 items. The same can be said with Beast + Blm duo but BST may consume some pet food and dawn mulsum.

    You can also use Selenian Cap augmented with Pet Damage Taken -10% and Staff Trial 3041 for another additional -12% if mp is not an issue. Basically doing what most beast master do with their damage reduction gears for pet.

    What to bring: 3-5 Dawn Mulsum for emergency, make sure to get at least healing salve 1 for temp items, clear salve 1-2, and all the mp + hp recovery temp items - things can turn bad, best to be prepared.

    Atmas to have:
    The basic set: Ducal Guard (quested), Mounted Champion, Minikin Monstrosity, Razed Ruin, Gnarled Horn, Stronghold, Future Fabulous, Ultimate

    The elemental damage set: Atma of the Cosmos + Banisher (dark), Atma of the Claw (Earth), Atma of Smoldering Sky + Lone Wolf (fire), Atma of the Beyond + Undying (ice), Atma of the Beyond + Sellsword (light), Atma of the Lion + Blinding Horn (thunder), Atma of the Noxious Fang + Tusked Terror (water), Atma of the Gales (wind)

    What to merits:
    This is up to you, most summoners pick 2 of the tier 2 merit BP of their favorite avatars. Most NMs are weak vs water, ice, wind, thunder. To have wind + ice or thunder + water would be nice since its complementary. Or if you want to have a happy medium, you do your first pick with 5 merit, second pick 3 merits, and last pick 2 merits. Your last two merited BP will deal less damage but at least you have a few more handy. Most people pick Heavenly Strike due to Atma of the Beyond + Ultimate for big damage, but the same set up can also be used with Grand Fall (Noxious Fang + Ultimate), Wind Blade (Gales + Ultimate).

    In general, NM that has hate reset move should be fight with caution due our not having Snarl JA. Mob that spam different elemental magic is also problematic and need to time to BP to stun it. NM that does mostly physical TP moves are easier to handle. NMs that has added effect of poison, bio and amnesia are also problematic.

    DISTANCE is your best friend. DO NOT try to melee, or getting too close to NMs, stay as far as possible and only go near to use BP but always try to be at the very far edge as possible. Most of these mobs has huge AOE range, and some very annoying auras, it will kill taru summoners rather easily if you are not careful and get hit within its AOE moves. Magic AOE is extremely deadly. Getting hit by multiple ga spells during NM's chain spell while getting poisoned and paralyzed aura is not fun, if you get petrified or doomed then it's reraise time.

    Always have your buffs ready, with aqua veil, blink, and stoneskin. Very important to have aqua veil handy in case things go bad and NMs going after you as you are trying to resummon. Subjobs is up to you, but I prefer white mage or scholar. In abyssea - MP should not be a problem, white mage subs give more bang for your buck, with bar spells, cure 4, and reraise. Why Scholar and not Red Mage? Some of these NMs required that you can land dispel, Scholar sub with Dark Arts will raise your dark magic skill considerably to 350s which let you land dispel. Also if you plan to come with blue/ninja, and blm/bard, you do want to sub scholar for dispel to cover dark magic proc.

    SUMMONING MAGIC - what does it do exactly?
    It affect the duration of your Blood Pact ward and its effectiveness, and made it possible to reach their maximum time allowed. ALSO it affect your Avatar Physical and Magical Accuracy by a great deal, a summoner with low level summon magic can still land Predator Claw for those OMG nice numbers, but you will miss a lot by a great deal and your PC won't land all three hits so the number can seems so random with lots of lows and few highs. This one is a royal pain to skill ups, but doing a lot of these small groups NMs hunting will get you a great deal of skill ups.
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    Amhuluk - Abysea Misareux
    Avatar used: Garuda for wind resist
    BP Rage: Predator Claw
    Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Sanguine Scythe if MP is no issue.
    Notes: Extremely easy, healing salve 1 and 2 helps if things get worse, bring dawn mulsum for emergency. Dual with beast master will speed up kill, trio with blm will most likely get you those plus 2 drops.

    Asanbosam - Abysea Misareux
    Avatar used: Garuda
    BP Rage: Predator Claw
    Atma used: same as above. Since you are nearby, just try to claim this NM and kill it for another KI for Amhuluk. Easy fight, heal avatar as needed.
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    Sedna - Abysea Vunkerl
    Avatar used: Ramuh for water resist, also can use Leviathan
    BP Rage: Chaotic Strike, Thunderstorm, Spinning Dive
    Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Sanguine Scythe if MP is no issue.
    Notes: Extremely easy, healing salve 1 and 2 helps if things get worse, bring dawn mulsum for emergency. Sedna can't even hurt Ramuh much if you are choosing the Razed Ruin + Ducal + MC combo. If you are bringing blm to proc, take care of hate reset, trio with beast and blm is safer - Sedna hate reset is notorious if you don't have dual pet jobs, it will go after your black mage with vengeance - make sure the BLM has Apoc atma. Yellow proc is rather tricky due to the NM spam its tp moves and magic, dispelling aqua veil is recommended.
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    Ironclads family - Abysea Vunkerl, Atthowa, Misareux
    Avatar used: Leviathan is best here, can also use Ramuh. All Ironclad very weak to Grand Fall. Garuda works too.
    BP Rage: Chaotic Strike, Thunderstorm, Grand Fall, Predator Claw
    Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Noxious Fang for extra water damage
    Notes: Take care with their stun moves, hate resets, and encumbrance. Great to collect those plus 2 on your own. Rather slow to solo, best to duo with other summoners. Unfortunately I found that dancer, thf, monk, plus white mage combo can kill it faster. Duo blms as well. Leviathan is for all magical BP, while Garuda if you wanna go all out physical offensive.
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    Iratham - Abysea Tahrongi
    Avatar used: Ifrit for fire and ice resist.
    BP Rage: Flamming Crush, Meteor Strike
    Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh
    Notes: soloing can be rather long 20mnts or more. Especially if you are going for all out defensive due to Ifrit unable to heal itself. Best to duo with other summoners or beast master and split the plus 2 drops. If you are going all offensive, ducal guard is a must, and make sure have healing salve 1+2 and 4-5 dawn mulsum for emergency, as well all your mp recovery temp items.
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    Bennu - Abysea Altepa
    Avatar used: Garuda for wind resist or Shiva, Bennu is weak to ice
    BP Rage: Predator Claw - Heavenly Strike
    Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Atma of the Beyond for ice damage, Atma of the Ultimate.
    Notes: This one is best to duo with another summoner. Garuda and Shiva will make a perfect combo for this. Have summoner with garuda to go all out defense with the other summoner use shiva for all out damage. Summoner + Beast + Blm can also make a nice trio if you are looking for yellow proc. Best NM to farm if you want to get Coin of Ardor x 3 from yellow proc for SMN Doublet +2
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    Dragua - Abysea Altepa
    Avatar used: Garuda and Titan for earth resist and petrify resist - Dragua is weak to wind
    BP Rage: Predator Claw, Wind Blade
    Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, Atma of the Gales for wind damage, Atma of the Ultimate.
    Notes: This one is not to solo, best to trio + yellow proc job. If one of the summoner is fully meriting Wind Blade, have that person set their atma to minikin, gales, ultimate for big damage. The other two summoners should have ducal + razed ruin, and third atma of your choosing: mounted champion, minikin, gnarled horn, sanguine scythe. Bring a good amount of mp recovery. Take care of its AOE attack, since it can be very deadly to a taru summoner. Also beware of its petrification move. Predator Claw may do random amount of damage, keep at it even if you see low damage number. Wind Blade is more consistent if you fully merited and use Atma of the Gales + Ultimate.
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    Battlerigged Chariot - Abysea Altepa
    Avatar used: Ifrit or Leviathan for fire resist
    BP Rage: Flaming Crush - Spinning Dive, Grand Fall
    Atma used: Ducal Guard, Razed Ruin, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh
    Notes: Not hard to solo, this is not the version to pop Rani, take care of the spikes, should be fine with Ifrit or Leviathan, spikes doing 5-10 damage. May need to resummon, just run back and forth near dominion area, take care not too close to bombs or dolls - magic aggro. Be prepared to get 0 drops unless you can get a thief friend to TH for you.
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    Itzpapalotl - Abysea Attohwa
    Avatar used: Leviathan for fire resist, can use Ifrit but may need to resummon
    BP Rage: Grand Fall
    Atma used: Ducal Guard, Noxious Fang, Mounted Champion or Stronghold or Minikin for refresh, can also use Ultimate
    Notes:Very easy with Leviathan, but NM's dia move can slowy do damage to Leviathan's hp, bring dawn mulsum if you are not planning to resummon. Easily solo, if you need yellow proc, make sure the blm do it after its hp around 80% or so and your avatar is kept alive throughout the fight. A trio of summoner + blm + thief could also works if you want to maximize the drops, just make sure the thief not to draw too much hate and only there to bring TH. Drop coin of ardor for SMN Doublet +2
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    You rock Luv. Thanks for this.
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