SE really?! really 99 cap boss this hard?!?!

[Crawlerbasher]

1/2 on the fight went 6x bst/nin

We set our pets on to it and then kited it around when it 2hr.
After that we all ganged up on it pets and master a like.
Dawn masulim is a must for bst in this set up.

Would not want to do that fight again, for no one, its a royle pain in the butt.

[svengalis]

I went 1/1 on RDM Maat on my Elvaan alternate. He's not that hard. Most people who have trouble with that battle probably don't have capped magic skills nor any experience with the kite/nuke strategy.

He's talking about back in 2001-05 when it took more the a month to reach 75. Most people back then had capped magic and played a lot better then the ff XI crew of today. I fought rdm maat like 20 times at least before I gave up. I asked ls mates who had beat rdm maat to beat him for me and they wouldn't do it. Now you can say I suck all you want but if the fight wasn't to hard then SE wouldn't have nerfed him.

[svengalis]

Even Monk burn isn't guaranteed. Setup 4 Monks (2 99s a linkshell member and myself and 2 95s) SMN with PD and RDM (wife who needs). 0/2 on this setup...it seems his defense/attack power varies from BCNM to BCNM.

If you had 4 monks with perfect defense and lost you guys did it wrong. I went 0-4 with random setups last night. We then switched to 3 monks 2 smn and whm. Went in got enfire buffs from fenrir all monks engaged smn PD we all 2 hour within mind he's dead. The only problem with this fight for your standard party setup is the time limit.

[svengalis]

Replace one of the Monks with a BRD, and You'll win pretty easily.

Have SMN use Ifrit's Enfire
BRD Soul Voice March or Minuet (if they're using Hundred Fists, Then Minuet)
SMN then uses PD > Everyone rape

The enfire really is the key, nearly doubles your damage because of his per hit cap.. My group was pretty meh, But we won by the skin of our teeth. Zerging is a bit difficult, But it doesn't even require MNKs.

WAR with Ridill/Joy/Axe/etc Would work, Even M.Sword
DRG or SAM with a Quint Spear
DRK with Bahamut's Zagnel

So even two handed jobs have the opportunity to be useful, Especially if you can get a BRD for Soul Voice March. MNK, THF, Etc work wonders cause they have all 1 handed weapons with high skill in them, So they don't need much maint.

I mean, the fight is a little rough, But i think everyone has a chance to win, Pretty much any jobs can work so long as they aren't DERPBROS. Even PLD/NIN can work in the Zerg, Dual Wield/etc. Use Vorpal Blade, Joyeuse Offhand.

Don't need brd or whm for this fight 3 mnks with fresh 2hours and smn will win everytime and will do it in under 4 minutes.

[RAIST]

Just logged in to check our server: 2867 people on line.... 1301 on jobs level 96-99, 688 of those are already level 99.

That's not accounting for people like myself and 2 othe friends that got the win last night on jobs that were level 91-93 and haven't even hit 96-99 yet.

And no.. we didn't MNK or SMN or BLM burn it. We didn't use 2 hours. The only "exceptional" thing we did was the old sleep-pots/op neck for TP before the fight thing and had a really good PLD tank. All else was just a standard COP crag fight sort of strategy with the olde rarerab tail. 1/1 on win for us... 6:47. Not a spectacular win time, but was a straightforward fight for us.

Really people....making this harder than it needs to be.

Oh, and our party that went 1/1 last night was SCH, BST, THF, DRK, MNK, PLD (half were 91-93)... and no one used their 2-hours.

[Niklz]

Suffering through Maat back in the day should have hardened your skin for something like this.

[Ravenmore]

Suffering through Maat back in the day should have hardened your skin for something like this.

Rdm maat was the only one that was a that hard. I went 1/1 on drg in late 2005 my rdm friend went 1/9 the same month I got my win. Any DD job was not that hard, whm easy, pld easy, thf easy to annoying if you tried just stealing. My "slow" friend went 1/2 on mnk only cause he timed out Buffing, yeah thats right he spent the whole time at the start buffing didn't even hit maat.

[Neisan_Quetz]

I really can't call a fight you can win using multiple strategies as hard.

I seriously think you have to fall asleep or fulltime pink or something to lose multiple times to this.

[Vazerus]

This fight was pretty easy:
2x RDM/SCH (gimp skillz since we don't use it, ever)
1x BLM/RDM
1x BLU/RDM

RDM: sabateur bio III and poison II
Olde Rarab Tail
RDM: Chainspell nuke, convert, nuke
BLM: Bewm
BLU: Azure Lore skillchain

Won without running out of mp, although we did all convert once aside from the BLU.

[SNK]

Too bad you beat a nerfed version. So I'M not impressed.

Anyone who beat this on a standard setup is LUCKY, not skilled. It means you didn't get the back to back light skill chains plus another Asuran on top of it with-in 5 seconds on your tank. Lucky. Not skilled.

No, We just weren't stupid enough to rip hate off the tank when we did it. Good Teamwork and being patient is what made the win for us.

Oh and the PLD who tanked for us had a 95 Aegis along with a full -38% PDT in gear on. He pretty much wore straight up turtle-tanking gear instead of thinking that he was gonna be able to eat anything he threw.

RDM/SCH threw up Stoneskin AoE on us, BLU kept headbutting him during his two hour and the WHM constantly kept Barfira up along with Regen on our tank that it was probably the smoothest 1st time BC fight I'd done in a long time.

The more I thought about this fight, I could probably do it on my PLD as well and I don't have an Ochain or an Aegis. If people are pissing & crying this hard over this then please by all means keep crying or as some people have said already.... suck less. :|