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

[Doombringer]

just repeated this fight for a ls member, we went with 5 characters (including 1 mule) and won. no rarab tails. 5 characters. granted a few of us were 99. but... 5....





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Does anyone know of any groups that are actually willing to take jobs along to the fight other than BST MNK or SMN or a handful of mages? Because this is actually starting to take the piss.

Learn to read

I did my attempt

PLD (Koenig Shield + Pearl Gear)
DNC (Me with Af3+2)
THf (lolaurore)
2x WHM
MNK

[Luvbunny]

Does anyone know of any groups that are actually willing to take jobs along to the fight other than BST MNK or SMN or a handful of mages? Because this is actually starting to take the piss.

It's pretty much those jobs that are most wanted, Monk Hundred Fists are all the shouts. If you have none of those jobs, pray you have LS members who actually willing to help you or hope you get lucky for random shout party. The other alternative is just level monk to 95 and get a decent hand to hand to 300s which should be easy if you do it since last Thursday.

And the fosilized bone is rather hard to farm as well from IT mobs to lvl 95 - you can't expect to duo zerg like abyssea. Welcome to the dark ages of FFXI again, from now one everything would be "BARANCE"d so that hamster wheel type of activities will be the norm.

[Jaden]

Learn to read

I did my attempt

PLD (Koenig Shield + Pearl Gear)
DNC (Me with Af3+2)
THf (lolaurore)
2x WHM
MNK

Sorry, but I didn't actually ask what you did it on whenever you did it. I inquired as to groups that are intending to do the fight in the near future who are willing to try the fight with different set ups, as I am looking to partake in such a group.

Unless you're actually painfully shy and that was your attempt at a friendly invite for me to join you and your group at a re-run of the fight which somehow backfired on you and, I'm sorry to say, came across as you being a little rude to me, may I suggest you also learn to read?

[Jaden]

It's pretty much those jobs that are most wanted, Monk Hundred Fists are all the shouts. If you have none of those jobs, pray you have LS members who actually willing to help you or hope you get lucky for random shout party. The other alternative is just level monk to 95 and get a decent hand to hand to 300s which should be easy if you do it since last Thursday.

And the fosilized bone is rather hard to farm as well from IT mobs to lvl 95 - you can't expect to duo zerg like abyssea. Welcome to the dark ages of FFXI again, from now one everything would be "BARANCE"d so that hamster wheel type of activities will be the norm.

I guess I'll see if I get lucky. By the time I level something else to the standard to survive the fight I'm worried everyone else will have done it!

The bone is the one item I haven't been able to get yet, proving to be a bit of a pain. (Also, so glad I'm not the only person who like to exclaim "BARANCE!")

[Khajit]

Wow, that's quite the attitude.

Even some of the worst gimps on my server have beaten the fight now. It's one thing if you never got to attempt because you aren't invited despite it being easy enough to win with whatever semi random jobs. It's entirely another to claim it's impossible to beat when people so renowned at being gimp that nearly all pickups now refuse to let them in misc "endgame" events have beaten it.

JADERATTLESNAKE beat the fight and there's a youtube tribute to how shitty and retarded he is. You could outdamage his lv 99 characters with lv 60 or even possibly level 30 character in a fight. He thinks utsesumi stacks with itself so you can charge up bonus shadows.

[Jaden]

It's one thing if you never got to attempt because you aren't invited

That's what I want, that chance to attempt the level cap that everyone wants to do. Just getting a little frustrated that I can't get a crack at it where I've only got a couple of jobs levelled so far (THF and RNG 95, play time is still less than a fortnight). Seems wrong to need such a specific set-up to complete a quest that everyone essentially has to do to progress further!

So I just wanted to pop on the board to say if anyone sees me hanging around Jeuno and wants to give me a hand (getting the bone first lol) having a go at the fight even thought I'm not a BST then any tells will be more than appreciated! Trying to find new combinations of jobs and set-ups to take these quests on is all part of the fun right? (Let's have a nice sense of community spirit and help each other out too, huh? Like I said, I'm still fairly new).

Also where I'm not that familier with the game and the community, I don't really care about the forum politics or who's arguing with who to be honest. All just noise going over my head!

[Concerned4FFxi]

I never said the damage limit from the tail was a bad idea, i said making him run away was dumb.

[Logandor]

I actually solo'd the items with almost no problems. The fang and stones drop like rice pattys in D.Wardi off of monkeys in the far north of the map. I fought two monkeys and one crab and those dropped no problem. Then I saddled up and ran out to R. Pass entering from the glacier end. I grabbed page 6 from the book, reraise and regain and went to town on the bats and then the eye mobs. Got the bone third monster into my page and was all done. Granted that was better luck then what I had the previous farms because there is almost no one farming items any more.
As for the actual fight I did do different set-ups most were shout parties. They did not want a thf so I went as a whm 91. I did all the buffs and even stone skin cures. Problem I noticed out of all three times was hate control because as much cures as I was giving to our main man in two of the three attempts could not keep hate & the taru came full board on me. Now I was not spamming cures because he was a pld; he could throw some on him self to regain hate or what ever it is plds do for hate control. (I don't know I am not a pld player.)
Now I am still looking for a party to get this fight done and over with and even working on my pup while searching. I am not bitching or crying because the fight is hard. Crap I wanted a challenge. XD I like it the way it is but I just wished that people would be more open to the fact that even throw together parties that don't want to listen to people with plans is going to end in disaster.
Yes I did read to look over the old CoP fights, yes I did read over where others are having troubles as well, and heck yes I read over people who had won for the ones struggling to shut up and grow some. I well understand that but here is something else for those people to think of. What about the people who don't have a linkshell any more due to people who tried this fight and quit because they didn't like the fight? They are kinda in a bit of a fix sense their friends that did stay and did win the fight and won't help them out. What about returning players who came back after hearing the game got a challenge for the last level cap but their linkshells are long gone and friends long sense moved to 14?
Now this ain't to be rude or to even be taken that way but how many on here said they would be willing to turn around and help other people out on their server and not actually do it now because they thought it was a total waste or time or too difficult to turn around to help others? I am just curious about this...

[Reiterpallasch]

Dunno why everyone is crazy about having MNKs to hundred fists with. Most people should know by now that it actually gimps your damage if you're doing it right :/

That's what I want, that chance to attempt the level cap that everyone wants to do. Just getting a little frustrated that I can't get a crack at it where I've only got a couple of jobs levelled so far (THF and RNG 95, play time is still less than a fortnight). Seems wrong to need such a specific set-up to complete a quest that everyone essentially has to do to progress further!

Any particular reason you don't just go THF? Fast attacking 1handers are great. Can't find anyone going with that setup? Make your own.