Was Ambuscade too popular?

[Catmato]

I've had good luck soloing Normal on NIN. I don't know if it's the trust setup or what the deal is, but I never get adds after the first set. My trusts are: Ulmia/Joachim/Koru/Kupipi/Cherukiki. I know that's a lot of support, but the only NIN gear I have is the ambuscade set from last month, so I kind of need it.

For the fight: I provoke, hit the antlion, and run to the opposite corner from spawn. I usually miss the first set of buffs but that hasn't really hurt. I fight with my ass firmly in the corner for the entire fight. When the adds spawn, a WS, a provoke, and a warcry keeps them all on me. After the adds are dead, they never respawn. I'm not sure what triggers the respawn, but fighting this way has been incredibly safe. It can get a little hairy after gravity pull -> quake blast, but with a 12 second Ni recast there's little problem recovering (no, I don't have San).

Honestly I think the difficulty this month is perfect.

[Castanica]

I think some people have realized that gallantry means they can grind half as much to get the sets. Get some now then get the rest with gallantry next month while farming for that months set

No, it's just not fun. the first one was fun because it was easy enough that you could do it on any job but they have been messing it up every time since.

The grinders in groups complained about the solo players getting in their way, now they don't do it and neither do the solo players.

[OmnysValefor]

No, it's just not fun. the first one was fun because it was easy enough that you could do it on any job but they have been messing it up every time since.

The grinders in groups complained about the solo players getting in their way, now they don't do it and neither do the solo players.

I agree it's just not fun but not that it's hard. Taurus/Demon weren't hard (quadavs weren't hard, they were just RNG), Dragon wasn't hard, Antlion wasn't hard. But it's all such a boring grind. It takes longer to get the KI than to lose it.

[Diavolo]

The first ambuscade was rewarding and fun, I was doing runs on my undergeared mule char and making decent progress solo.
The second ambuscade was really dang annoying, I struggled to do the minimum I could and I had to group or put a lot of effort in.
The 3rd ambuscade? I haven't even bothered, way to make good content and ruin it.

You should give it a try. I thought the first month was so straightforward it got stale quickly, last month's was really annoying and this month's seemed just about right for content of this nature.

[Olor]

Yeah thanks to the tips people gave here I am reliably soloing easy and even winning a normal here and there, either with groups or with my two-hours (or both).

One thing that is kind of sad is that being in a group seems to make it way harder, mostly because you can't tailor the group perfectly to your strengths and people are not as predictable as trusts. Like, I know Amchuchu is gonna do sickle moon or whatever after my ruinator, and King of Hearts will reliably magic burst off of our skillchain. And I will probably get enough tp to ruinator again for a second weaponskill and detonation, which KoH will magic burst again. None of my other trusts will interrupt me.

And because I am whittling the mob down stupid slow, it will not pop adds until my pet has enough charges to do multiple AOE weaponskills and grab/kill all the adds.

I had fun doing a couple runs with groups but they were way harder and could go way more off the rails if people were not on their game. I stand by my view that this month's battle is hellish/unfair for whms, there is just too much going on for it to be fun. It's too bad because this content hugely favours whm trusts over human whms with the constant constant constant debuffs. Only kupipi can keep up. You shouldn't need a yagrush for 119 content.

[Urmom]

No, it's just not fun. the first one was fun because it was easy enough that you could do it on any job but they have been messing it up every time since.

The grinders in groups complained about the solo players getting in their way, now they don't do it and neither do the solo players.

Yeah no. It's not a single reason for everyone. I know for a fact some people were tired of it from the beginning but still want the stuff so if they can do it with less of a grind will do so. Just as some have no use for the gear this time. And some actually have more use for this gear than last month. Some people have finished the capes they want etc. Personally first month was boring as heck for me. Put some autos on it afk till maneuvers start to run down. With OD 2 pups and a cor was killing VD in like 2-3 minutes

[Urmom]

How do you reset ja? Just wait on timer or is there a way to do it faster other than Cor luck or w/e?

Depends. If you want to use sps (which should allow you to do a higher difficulty as unleash is just amazing with bertha) then yes wait or cor or reive or mmm or abyssea. Regular jas well just the time it takes to farm more vermin and get back it might be up but if not job change at the moogle in mhaura and bam non sp jas are back. Run wild and bestial loyalty to use HQ pets make rather large differences.

[detlef]

Easiest way to reset JA is MMM. It takes 2 hours to accumulate the 3 C.C. points you need to get a Revitalizer.

[OmnysValefor]

Gotta admit, "Here's one or two fights, spam it a bunch." is getting really tiresome.

It would be much cooler if each month added a few fights and kept the old ones, and opened up HTBFs as a source of hallmarks/gallantry as well.

[Urmom]

Gotta admit, "Here's one or two fights, spam it a bunch." is getting really tiresome.

It would be much cooler if each month added a few fights and kept the old ones, and opened up HTBFs as a source of hallmarks/gallantry as well.

Add a ultra hard difficulty for hallmarks/gallantry lol