Level 70 Limit break woes

[Varlan]

So I finally got a character to 50 and then I found out that every 5 levels we have to jump through a bunch of hoops in order to move on in the game. Okay. I guess I can live with this, but these quests are serious pains in the butt. I survived them all, but now I'm at the fight with a guy named Maat and I can't get past it. It's getting to be extremely annoying. The last two times I never even got a hit on him. It's extremely frustrating, and it wouldn't even be that bad if we didn't have to go to some far away place to get a damn testimony (with a group no less) so we can fight him again. The event doesn't even take the old testimony out of your inventory which lead me to believe that I could simply fight him again.

There should be a certain level of tedium involved in a game, I'll admit that, but this is a whole new level of tedium. I'm not really sure what I hope to accomplish with this post, but I'm so damn frustrated I'm seriously considering giving the game up. I guess I'll see how I feel about it tomorrow, but right now I'm just not happy about this situation.

That fight is just cheap. I can't even take the hits because he's pounding on me for almost 120 points of damage per shot. Ugh. Too frustrated right now.

[FrankReynolds]

Go to www.ffxiclopedia.com and look up maat. People have posted a walk through for beating him on each job.

[Neisan_Quetz]

Build a better PDT set.

[Yukichibi]

The RDM genkai is well known to be the most difficult of all jobs of the game.
Go look on the wiki or on youtube, you ll find strategies and videos to help you.

[Dmer]

Sounds to me by your wording that you are trying to melee him as RDM. That's not gonna work. That fight is a magic based one. Make sure all your magic skills (except divine which is useless on a RDM) are maxed. Enter the fight at the start of darksday (this increases the accuracy of your Sleep spells). Use all your buffs and enfeebs (except DoTs). Alternate sleeping and nuking. Try to keep him silenced and paralyzed. Use Bind and Gravity and run away from him when sleep recasts are down.

RDM is one of the toughest Maat fights.

[Olor]

yeah, and if that doesn't work, level bst to 66 buy a decent jug, set it on him, stand back and win.

[Neisan_Quetz]

You could melee him on rdm and still kill him, it's just generally faster to CS Aero IV.

[Seriha]

As others have noted, RDM Maat is one of the harder incarnations. I've always felt just running in and CS nuking him a bit on the risky side, but some swear by it. The alternative to that is to sleep nuke, maintaining distance after each one to keep getting hit to a minimum. This also carries its own risks, like Sleep and Sleep II being resisted.

The melee side is definitely the hardest way at 70. There's not much in terms of PDT gear to choose from, RDMs evade like big red barns, and it doesn't help Maat's more like a 70 MNK and RDM rolled into one instead of just a RDM. Even going toe-to-toe, you may occasionally want to pause and sleep him to reapply buffs or halt his Chainspell. And no matter how good you think you're doing, he may just decide it's time to spam Asuran Fists and kill you.

Either way, your frustration isn't uncommon for a first-timer. Just keep at it, and if you have questions, ask.

[Feynman]

Maat is from a time when the level cap of the game was 75. The Maat fight was the last test of you ability to play your job. Most people die many times the first time they take on Maat, regardless of the job. I haven't fought Maat on RDM so no real advice.

I feel like the way the game has change doesn't give much chance to learn your job the way you used to so Maat has become even more difficult for new players I'd imagine. The only recommendation I'd have is what some more knowledgeable people have already pointed out. RDM's strength is in their enfeebles. Keep him slept and hit him hard with magic. Don't get discouraged; the Maat fight was designed to test you to your limits. Now the new limit breaks that come after Maat....those are just insulting. You essentially just buy your break using merits. I'd rather do something challenging.

[Olor]

Honestly from what I hear about rdm Maat it would probably be easier to just burn BST to 66, buy a couple panzergalahads a dawn mulsim or two (just in case), and win. I went 1/2 on BST Maat, lost at 61, but really was dumb and engaged and got hit by asuran fists. If you call bst, wait on timer, and set pet on Maat it is ridiculously easy. My pet didn't even get to 40%