100% to 0% Rani Brew strategy

[Greatguardian]

Rani is fairly easy to take down as long as you don't rely on magic. Casting times make timing your spells properly a royal pain.

If we're talking specifically about NIN, I'd use a Martial Dagger (Kamome offhand) with Ultimate/Gales/Razed Ruins atmas. Switch between Evisceration and Aeolian Edge depending on what Rani is doing. Evisceration while she's casting, Aeolian Edge when she's using a JA, and whichever is dealing more damage when she's doing neither.

I've taken down Rani fairly easily with Apoc/GH/RR Mnk just using Victory Smite. I never used any stunners or special subtle blow gear. To be honest she died fairly quickly. The most important part of the brew is your atma selection. With all other stats being thrown to 999, you get a fairly huge boost from the stats you find primarily on atmas, like Crit Damage+ and Elemental Attack+.

Either way, as long as you're attentive about not healing her, she should absolutely not last more than 30-60 seconds with a brewed DD on her if they're using solid atmas.

[Alderin]

Rani is fairly easy to take down as long as you don't rely on magic. Casting times make timing your spells properly a royal pain.

If we're talking specifically about NIN, I'd use a Martial Dagger (Kamome offhand) with Ultimate/Gales/Razed Ruins atmas. Switch between Evisceration and Aeolian Edge depending on what Rani is doing. Evisceration while she's casting, Aeolian Edge when she's using a JA, and whichever is dealing more damage when she's doing neither.

I've taken down Rani fairly easily with Apoc/GH/RR Mnk just using Victory Smite. I never used any stunners or special subtle blow gear. To be honest she died fairly quickly. The most important part of the brew is your atma selection. With all other stats being thrown to 999, you get a fairly huge boost from the stats you find primarily on atmas, like Crit Damage+ and Elemental Attack+.

Either way, as long as you're attentive about not healing her, she should absolutely not last more than 30-60 seconds with a brewed DD on her if they're using solid atmas.

The first time I saw the big girl looked to be a pretty straight forward fight, as mentioned in my original post. Took her down to about 60% then the NIN just brewed her down. Since I had my chat filters on, I couldnt see what WS's he was using. I have however been able to pull quite a lot of damage on Blade: Yu alone while brewing Shinryu. Is the difference between Aeolian Edge and Blade: Yu (depending on atma selection) that different? I mean they are both single hit are they not? I would have figured that due to the C+ rating that NIN has for dagger, that using Katana regardless of capped stats while brewed would be comparable?

I could be totally wrong here, as I havn't used Aeolian edge while brewing - and have heard of THF's doing some huge numbers with it, but didn't even look at it with Katan because of skill ratings between Katana vs. Dagger. So I guess my question in all of this - Is Blade: Yu comparable to Aeolian Edge when NIN is weilding a dagger?

I do understand that Elemental Weapon skills are based on MAB and the damage does not rely on the DMG of the weapon - so in effect I could get out a bronze dagger and it would do the same as a twilight knife in regards to an elemental weapon skill? I apologise for the seemingly newb question - Elemental weapon skills to me have not really been used an aweful lot with the jobs I have levelled currently before Abyssea.

I have also considered making a "Brew" gear set, with various elemental boosts etc. Do you think, from your experience this would be worth it?

I guess I have the 2nd experience of seeing the failed attempt and watching 3x brewers finally take her down is in the back of my mind - and don't want the same case to occur after farming the popset and buying the brew.

Thanks for your response.

[Nacht]

I could get out a bronze dagger and it would do the same as a twilight knife in regards to an elemental weapon skill?

Yes

I have also considered making a "Brew" gear set, with various elemental boosts etc. Do you think, from your experience this would be worth it?

Not really. If you can find a martial knife, then that would be your best weapon and you should use it. However, gear won't have a big impact on brew damage. If you already have the gear, then sure, make a macro, but you shouldn't really go out of your way to get a full set.

Basically if you're paying attention, you can just switch between Jin (or Hi if you have it) and Yu. It's simple enough, if its using a TP move, you use Blade: Yu. If it's casting (which will give a lot more room to spam physical WS) you can use Blade: Jin. Rani tends to alternate between the two, casting and tping. I might actually have the absorb order mixed with pantokrator though, but healing it once isn't going to kill you.

Don't be too cautious. One guy in my linkshell was only using WS during TP and casting. Not sure why he was being that cautious, but he ended up failing to finish Rani during the brew. Mobs have a very predictable timing for casting. There's generally the same amount of time between casts. So after she casts, you can use maybe 3? elemental WS, before she has a chance to cast again. I don't really know the exact timing for her. You also have to factor in the meteors at certain %s.