Fighting Maat

[Babekeke]

People keep saying to sleep him, like he has 0 resistance...

I know my RDM IS quite gimped, and I levelled it in abyssea to 90, with only the magic skills of a level 75 BLM. All because RDM AF3 hands were the first thing I completed and I wanted to wear them. However....

I'm now 0/2 on him. First time I had ~260 enfeebling magic, with +~50 INT and ~20 M. Acc (and of course Pluto's staff).
Sleep was resisted. I was being really cocky, and thought i9t would be a walk in the park so didn't buff up at all and tried to sleep him before he buffed. Easy win for Maat.

So I got my enfeebling up to 310 skill (+10 from hands +16 from merits) thinking that's about the same as the E-Peen RDM75s so I should be set now. I took the time to buff myself this time, but also allowing Maat to buff himself. He didn't use blink, so I went straight in with sleep. BAM! resist! Same with Break and gravity.
Someone please tell me, what the heck am I doing wrong?!?

I'm now at 337+26 (363) and wondering if it's even worth risking another test yet, or if I'm going to have to cap it ><

[Supersun]

Whoever said Maat was easy to enfeeble was lying.

I've heard plenty of horror stories of Elvaan Rdms getting terribly resisted and having a nightmarish loss ratio.

Throw everything you can at him. Even those Int potions you can buy off the Auction house help.

Just remember though. Essentially if Maat feels like making you lost, you likely will. The Rdm Maat fight will always depend on some level of luck of whether you get resisted or not and if he feels like being a jerk with chainspell.


Also, E-peen rdms at 75 were like in the 350 range :P

[Neisan_Quetz]

I was 1/4 at 70 mainly because I panicked one run and rushed 2 more before calming down and getting it right (Didn't even die the first run, timed out from being overly nervous, second run I got para'd and lost vert and 2h). Idr exactly what I had but my skill was capped for 70 + Pluto's and I think sleep was only resisted in 2 runs.

I had M.C. Bracelets if it matters, used INT potions in 1-2 of the fights not sure if it was one I won though.

[Seriha]

Perhaps as a contributor to Maat oddities, when I recently took my 90 NIN to him to kill off toward Cap, he'd evaded roughly 50% of my attacks. Now, this was with capped 354 Katana and all the benefits of higher DEX and what gear I had available to that level that would've completely crushed a level 70 NIN's potential. If he's rocking over 450 EVA for NIN, him having a bloated MEVA for RDM doesn't seem unheard of. Then again, he may have some small aspect of level correction applied to him that we'll unlikely ever really know.

[Neisan_Quetz]

Whatever level he is he acts as if he's level 70, at least spell wise. I really think it's just the computer is a cheating bastard sometimes.


Friend did Maat fight the other day at 90 on Nin and he gave up before one WS.

[Seriha]

I still beat him in under 90s (1:21, I think, no food/meds), sure, just the amount of times I missed surprised me.

[Babekeke]

Perhaps as a contributor to Maat oddities, when I recently took my 90 NIN to him to kill off toward Cap, he'd evaded roughly 50% of my attacks. Now, this was with capped 354 Katana and all the benefits of higher DEX and what gear I had available to that level that would've completely crushed a level 70 NIN's potential. If he's rocking over 450 EVA for NIN, him having a bloated MEVA for RDM doesn't seem unheard of. Then again, he may have some small aspect of level correction applied to him that we'll unlikely ever really know.

I was exactly the same with 90 NIN (used capped, merited dagger) but when I did THF, I spammed bolts during perfect dodge, and none of them missed... Marksmanship only ~280. I don't see how Maat has better Eva on NIN than on THF? Come to think of it, I missed more as 90 NIN than I did as 80 DRK using merc kris too lol. Iono