How are players supposed to beat maat these days?

The fight for the Blu hat was tough even in the old days. One of those few AF fights that you needed others to help out with.

Just have him/her use THF and have your friend successfully steal, with 3 attempts per testimony and if you use a reraise item, then that's 6 attempts without having to "gear up" <---although getting steal+ gear (AF) wouldn't hurt and while your friend works on his/her AF gear, you can go after the NM that drops the Thief's Kote which gives steal+3, you could also buy/farm the rabbit's charm for ur friend while s/he is working on the AF gear.

I just took a mule to fight maat a few months ago, had BST at 70, decided I didn't want to bother with the fight, instead I leveled her THF to 70 and stole successfully on first attempt (although my other character took like 9 steals to win...)

Also, getting to maat in a few days, I have to agree with some poster a few pages ago, that's just too fast, your friend didn't have the time needed to master a job of any sort. Takes more than powerleveling to play this game, you have to get used to all the attacks and the best way to fight as the job you are, something that is learned as you level, but if you're just plowing through, you don't actually learn much about your job. I have a similar problem with a friend that plays ff14 with me, he just wants a sword and shield so he can be a knight (yes Im aware that isnt a real job/class.) So I tried to explain that tanking is a big responsibility and how he needs to play, such as focusing on maintaining hate and taking the hate away from others. Yet, he just plays it like some offline single-player hack-n-slash. Then he constantly wonders why he is being kicked out of parties nearly every single dungeon. He even convinces himself that he gets kicked out cause the rest suck at playing the game and that they could learn a lot from watching him play. I've even had to yell at him cause he won't listen, so I told him that I will not party with him until he does research online on how to tank (since he won't listen to me) and that he needs to understand that only people who don't do their job get kicked out of dungeons, not people who are doing too well (like he thinks he is.)

Sry to rant like that. lol

Only problem I have with thf is the whole horror stories of people taking 50 attempts and such.

Only took me 6 attempts to give up. But that was because trying to steal the testimony must have taken me 5-6 hours each time. THF doesn't have the luxury other jobs do to keep killing mobs. They get 12 attempts an hour thanks to the steal timer.

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Originally Posted by dasva

Only problem I have with thf is the whole horror stories of people taking 50 attempts and such.

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That's because even with all of the steal+ gear in the world and the correct positioning the old man doesn't like to have his butt grabbed just by anyone at anytime sometimes.

Of course there are horror stories out there for probably any job.
Had a guy in an LS I was in that almost paid someone else to do their sam maat fight for them because they kept on messing up on their self light.

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Originally Posted by dasva

Only problem I have with thf is the whole horror stories of people taking 50 attempts and such.

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I hear ya, that would be horrible, it's a coin flip. I was annoyed as hell when it took my other character 9 or so tries cause that was back in the day when each testimony was 1 try only, so I had to get many THF testimonies, which is such a pain to get. Didn't help that my first attempt I forgot to get reraise on me...

I would still go the THF route (I have another character, got her RDM up to 70 and decided I didn't want to do the maat fight, so I leveled her THF to 70, Im halfway through her AF quests, once done, let's hope I get lucky...)

Also, the NM that drops the Thief's Kote dropped 2 THF's testimonies if I remember correctly, so that's an ?easy? way to get more testimonies if your friend fails the first few tries (assuming he tries the steal route)

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Originally Posted by Pixela

How is a player supposed to beat maat now?

There is almost no equip on the auction house, let alone level 70 gear. You can get weapons with sparks but not armor.

Am I missing something here? Friend started playing a few days ago and they can't gear up to beat maat.

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Sometimes there is pre/lv 70 gear, but yes, the AH caters to only the lv 99 equipment and lower level crafted armour generally.

But the solution is already in the game.
True crafted is the best in some slots, but really, there's plenty of gear enough to beat Maat. There's BCNM, KSNM, standard NM's, there's Allied notes, Conquest points, artifact armour, assault equipment, or just buy the materials, and find a crafter to make it, and go leech someone in dynamis for the relic accessory.

There's tonnes of gear out there, players just need to take 5 seconds away from their power grind to notice and learn it's not all Adoulin, and FFXIclopedia is excellent for the old content, and Bg wiki is great for the newer stuff.

Most of beating maat is just luck, second is having your skills capped, but it's all a matter of pride, after all, who didn't feel proud inside when they beat maat the first time?

But if you can't beat maat on a given job, go power grind ninja, monk, or samurai to 70, skill it up, and just ruins maats day. Ninja and Samurai esp are easy. (I know ninja is, I beat him at 66 with it, and monk at 66 on another character which was a taru long before the HP boost... Not done samurai yet so that's based off what I hear.)

So the answer is already there.
Have your friend go seek it, and you should help them do so.