Since no one seems to have posted yet: Final LB fight

[Garenos]

The Tarutaru on that fight is Crawlerbasher. Ourshell member.

Ourshell ~ Your favorite social shell ^^

By the way, I read someone saying people wont return to help others with that fight. I disagree. Crawlerbasher and our whole Linkshell helps me since I joined Final Fantasy XI. So, I think people can return and do things to help each other.

Edit: Rofl. CB just posted before me.

[Dragoy]

Since I and many others just used the test moogle to raise our jobs to 99, we couldn't do the quest, but some people thought ahead (thank you) and did the quest.

In case you (or others reading) don't know, you can simply delete the character from the test-server, and re-copy it at the application page.


As for the fight, since I had tried something at over 95 because this quest was not accessible yet, I first created a completely new character and went over but couldn't enter (I think I didn't actually have the Soul Gem, even though the cutscene made it look like I did).

I then copied my real character again and went there as a Ninja and was completely and utterly destroyed. I know I'm not the bestest so it might be no surprise but yeah, I'm not liking this. :V
For what it is worth, Jubaku, Hojo, Kurayami all seemed to work quite well, but didn't help me from getting one-hit-deded (one-hit in this case being Asuran Fists for 1674 points of damage). That was actually from the second round, on the first, I was hit for 176 + additional 165, and a Tornado Kick right after for 1367.

This with no test-server modifications to the character at all, and well, as I said I'm not the bestests but maybe it can be of some comparison that I have soloed Kukulkan (as well as the Voidwatch counterpart, Ushumgal, can't remember the Atmacites though), Eccentric Eve, and many more as NIN/DNC using the Atma of the Razed Ruins and the Atma of the Gnarled Horn. This? Not likely if it stays like this. Not a fan. xd

Might try as Red Mage later, as Red Mage is what I beat Maat the first time.
That would only make sense, but then again, I think my blood is rusty...

[Neisan_Quetz]

Stole it with collaborator obviously!

[Dfoley]

I assume it cant be dispelled? Otherwise wtf was the red mage doing ;-p

[Crawlerbasher]

A whm with barfira would help a lot, specially if its merited. (Like my whm is, I've always find that barspell to be very useful in certain fights)

[Theytak]

I need to get some sleep, but now I want to see if I can solo this on pup... or how long I'd last...

[Dreamin]

many other ways to approach this as well if you dont have PLD or THF or other ways that people think.

One way is to go the mage vs dd approach - basically kite+nuke.
Or if you want to go in to fight it with DD, can always just bind+gravity it when it 100 fists and run just out of range and reengage when 100 fist is down.
Or bring in 6x MNK/DNC, drain samba + all 100fists.
Or bring in 6x SMN.
etc. etc.

Probably can be solo if you play it right but it's good to have party fight as an option for those that rather to do this as a party fight.

[Garota]

Personally, I wish the limit break 99 quest would have involved a battle with an NPC who has more of an established reputation in FFXI. Instead, they have you fight Atori-Tutori, Black Belt Quest NPC & Lv90 to 95 quest. To be honest, would have been neat to beat the living hearts and stars out of a Magian Moogle.

[xbobx]

Absolutely stupid idea and proof SE knows nothing about their game.

I can see it now, people will find a easy way to do with with certain jobs, and if you don't have that job and a good LS good luck.

Why do they keep doing stupid things.

[Vold]

Absolutely stupid idea and proof SE knows nothing about their game.

I can see it now, people will find a easy way to do with with certain jobs, and if you don't have that job and a good LS good luck.

Why do they keep doing stupid things.

That's why there's a test server. If people weren't so quick to skip right to new max level and such and just overall treat everything more like a preview than testing then we might not get so called stupid things more often.

Also, I don't even know why that person(or I guess that person hangs around these parks so I'll just call them Crawler) in the video said "PLD is a must" because it looks like that PLD got bleeping dropped faster than Paper Mike Tyson. So I'm going to presume that NIN(or I guess PLD so long as it doesn't tank HF) + THF is going to be the way to go for PD tanking HF unless that encounter becomes vastly easier in the live version. Or any number of set ups really, like SMN PTs. I can't imagine they would restrict so many jobs on this LB quest though so I expect it to adjust itself somehow. For all we know HF isn't a sure thing and can be avoided entirely.

All I know is if nothing else, congrats RDMs and THFs, your spells and PD is now extremely useful.