Mysterious Map - close calls

so far I have 15 alexandrite and have solo'd all these maps after my disastrous 1st attempt at my 1st map - basically instagibbed by the bombs (u know which ones lol)

anyway after that I proceeded with caution and can solo all these, till I got to that malboro enemy, the punk stuns u in place, cant do anything and then bad breath lol

I main a WHM and esuna came in handy...lotsa running around, dotting, esuna-ing, a few stone 2s for good measure and finally managed to kill it with 5sec left on the clock :eek:

anyone else solo these and have close calls? share your battles :cool:

Haven't had much trouble as a WHM. Fight usually consists of: summon choco, protect, stoneskin, cleric stance, and spamming holy until everything dies. If it's just one mob, I dot and stone 2 them. Can't say I've had to experience the insta-gib bombs yet, though. I have 21 alexandrites currently.

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Originally Posted by bloodSp3c

anyway after that I proceeded with caution and can solo all these, till I got to that malboro enemy, the punk stuns u in place, cant do anything and then bad breath lol

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Having done that myself as WHM, it's easy to beat by just Esuna the bind and move out of the bad breath.
It's not a stun :)

Shield Bash ftw havent had a problem with that. But I fought a giant that summoned adds. It didnt come close to killing me bout i had about 20 adds I had to kill and beat the last one at 4 seconds.

I've managed to solo all of my maps except for one, the second time I got the two ogres, they hit me with a 90k about 10 seconds after I started it, once I got logged back on it was over, the map was lost for the day.

I almost died from those biast enemies. I would have never made it if my chobo wasn't set to heal. He actually died in battle and I barely managed to bring him back in time.

Since I actually was prepared for the Morbol map from seeing the issues on the forums I didn't have a problem there. But I DID have a near-fatal issue with the Monocular Biclops and the Peapuks it spawns... barely survived even with healderpchoco. That's been the only one that I've had issues with, and only found it once so far. I've got... like 10 Alex.

I never have close call things

Since you can run away to cancel aggro when you got overwhelme : D and snip it down one by one, mob by mob, easy peasy

Make sure you kill the dangerous target first (or trap first)

How we do it; FC party for roulettes, then do all maps :) Simple.

It's always a close call when I solo the cyclops with adds (I am paladin). With no consistent aoe damage moves it barely fits in the time limit.

Level up your Chocobo Until it get Cure and set it as to heal only. Level up Warrior to 50 and iLevel 90. You can pretty much solo everything. I got a few close call to the bomb that exploded, but still live through it because of Warrior with ton of HP. Marlboro, you can keep stunning bad breath.

Ooh, let me in on this.

LOLDRG, cyclops. Dunno why I used my i93 drg.

I died.

Suddenly
Wild person appeared!
Wild person used Change Job!
Wild person used Raise!

Beat it with 2 mins remaining.
Still eternally grateful.
My only regret is that I forgot his name :<

Whoever you are, I'm eternally grateful to you. I'll probably remember if I see you.

Solo most on PLD, only one that has made me worry was one map with the giant + 20 puks. Killed the giant and the puks got me down to near 1.4k...mercy stroke put me back in a comfortable range.

I have a rank 10 attack chocobo, and it's AoE comes in handy sometimes as well. It does tend to get owned fast when it doesn't get out of biast cone aoe x4 though.

i found the solution for morbol: it's simple , when it make you don't move, just do asap esuna and run before all dot's.

I'm pretty sure there is a trick to the giant with the 20 adds. Not sure but maybe you can kill them with his circle aoe attack maybe? Need to test though. I assume they wouldn't drop all those adds on you with absolutely no assistance.

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Originally Posted by Makado

I'm pretty sure there is a trick to the giant with the 20 adds. Not sure but maybe you can kill them with his circle aoe attack maybe? Need to test though. I assume they wouldn't drop all those adds on you with absolutely no assistance.

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They have really low health. Just every other class has a reliable aoe they can burn them with.

Solo'ing the Alexandrite maps is a gamble. If you like gambling and the risk of losing it all, go ahead.

All it took was my first loss at a Biclops to realize that maybe soloing these wasn't the best option.

Now I make sure I always have a friend or two with me. Survivablity is almost always ensured with friends.

Make some friends, and if you have friends, ask them if they'd help you. If they're good friends and not busy, they'll likely help you out. You should help them too with their own maps as well. I know I do.