Impossible to solo final Rhapsody od Vana'diel fight

[Nyclia]

Why the hell does Square Enix let you solo through the whole Rhapsody of Vana'diel storyline, when they make the final fight that impossible to solo with less till non existing player support?! Is that a bad joke?

[Shirai]

With the right combo of trusts this fight is actually quite soloable for many jobs.
You just need to make sure that your own gear also has a decent iLevel before attempting this fight, otherwise your trusts are going to be flattened as fast as you are.

[Zarchery]

A few people have soloed. It's difficult, but not impossible.

The last 5 fights of Seekers of Adoulin were difficult solos too.

[Ulth]

I've solo'd it on thf. Really the only danger of failing is timing out. Your helper npc knows arise and has auto reraise. All you need to do is pump out enough damage to kill it in the 30 minutes they give you.

[dasva]

The fights were designed to ramp in difficulty... so I'm guessing they intended you to share the last bits of story in an MMO with ya know other people. Of course if you've been keeping up you can still just brute force solo with trusts anyways

[Rubicant82]

I had it down to ~5% more than once solo, just couldn't get that last little bit of dmg before timing out.
Then a friend and I solo'd it with ease.

[Daisansha]

Here is a video of it being solo'd without trusts for you to take pointers from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ios_MNToPs. Didn't have any idea what was going to happen going into it, 20/20 hindsight is don't put up buffs you don't mind the enemy having as he can absorb them (took forever for me to kill him since he took my shock spikes).

[Riggs]

I agree with the op, why let us go through all ROV solo only to make the last boss so hard to beat. Off course some jobs can solo it if you have top notch gear but many of us just play this game for fun these days. I went in solo as thf with my best gear level 119 af, relic dagger and delve dagger off hand and i lasted maybe 10 seconds. I don't have an ls anymore like i'm betting 50% of this game. Tried to look for a group and nothing, just gave up and logged out.

[Stompa]

I agree with the op, why let us go through all ROV solo only to make the last boss so hard to beat. Off course some jobs can solo it if you have top notch gear but many of us just play this game for fun these days. I went in solo as thf with my best gear level 119 af, relic dagger and delve dagger off hand and i lasted maybe 10 seconds. I don't have an ls anymore like i'm betting 50% of this game. Tried to look for a group and nothing, just gave up and logged out.

The good news is that SE made it so you get all of the best Rhapsodies Key Items, BEFORE the last fight. The last fight gives you +10% cap and access to Aoenic weapons, and a few other things. But the main big boost Rhapsodies KI were from the earlier fights and cutscenes.

So you can still solo the most useful KI rewards, and just wait with the final 10%cap and Aeonic weapon access until you can get a few people together. I actually admired the way SE gave us a lot of nice Rhapsody KI in the final stages of the RoV story, these were really great KI and all from the easy battle / cutscenes. The only KI they gated behind the last boss was the Aeonic weapons and cap10% etc. which isn't anything to worry about.

I know a lot of people who would help you with the last fight, if they heard you /shouting for help. It is a fun battle, and you should keep /shouting until some real community-minded FFXI player helps you out. Don't give up!

[Angemon]

Have you never played other FF games? That is part of the fun... Why would you want a final boss that you can kill in one hit? I guess I don't get gamers these days lol